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Category: Audit
Marcum Took On Too Many Clients and Totally Wrecked Their Quality Control, Says the PCAOB in Disciplinary Order
About an hour ago the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) announced a settled disciplinary […]
UK Audit Regulator Chair Says Cheap-Ass Firms Should Pay Their Junior Auditors Better
Financial Reporting Council chair and stereotypically European named Jan du Plessis has told the Financial […]
Kill the Audit Industry, Says Ex-Auditor
In the WaPo opinion pages yesterday one Duncan Mavin, who got his start in the […]
KPMG Gets Sued, Accused of Allowing Pirate-Like Activity at Credit Suisse
Discountenanced Credit Suisse stockholder Gregory Stevenson is suing 29 of Credit Suisse’s current and former […]
The PCAOB Finally Releases China Inspection Results for KPMG and PwC, It Ain’t Good
For those of you short on time and/or attention span, here’s Public Company Accounting Oversight […]
Tiny Rhode Island Town Settles Its Billing Beef With Marcum Over Out of Scope Services
The little 7,997 person town of Charlestown, RI has settled its issues with Marcum after […]
The King’s KPMG Gets Fined for Rookie Mistakes
Another day, another Financial Reporting Council fine for KPMG. This time it is related to […]
KPMG Gets Sued Because Their Longtime Client Went Down in Flames
We knew this was coming. Bloomberg has reported that Silicon Valley Bank auditors KPMG have […]
Just Be Glad You Didn’t Have FTX As a Client
Not long after the November collapse of crypto exchange FTX one of the first questions […]
EY Hasn’t Finished That Independent Review Into Procedures to Prevent Another Cheating Scandal
TL;DR: After getting fined by the SEC for cheating on CPE and ethics exams in […]
Head Regulator Said He’ll Break Out the World’s Smallest Violin For Auditors Crying About Tougher Regulation
Financial Times has reported that Financial Reporting Council head Sir Jon Thompson — who last year […]