Auditor Swap: General Electric and KPMG Officially Call It Quits
A love affair that spanned more than 110 years is coming to an end. General Electric announced today that it and KPMG are going their separate ways after this year. And GE’s new external auditing paramour is Deloitte. Here’s the statement GE released on Monday morning: GE (NYSE:GE) announced today that, following a thorough and […]
Longtime KPMG Client General Electric Looking to Mess Around with Another Audit Firm
109 years. That’s how long KPMG has been General Electric’s auditor. When that engagement started, the rotund William Howard Taft was in the White House, there were 46 states in the U.S., and the start of World War I and Babe Ruth’s professional baseball career were still five years away. But the spark in the […]
Auditors Tell PCAOB They’d Rather Not Report on the Already Reported On
Back in August of 2013, the PCAOB floated a few new auditing standards that would bring major changes to audit reports: The Auditor's Report on an Audit of Financial Statements When the Auditor Expresses an Unqualified Opinion, which would supersede portions of AU sec. 508, Reports on Audited Financial Statements, and The Auditor's Responsibilities Regarding […]
When CEOs and Audit Committee Members Are BFFs, Financial Statements Are Ps of S
Welcome to the latest edition of Accumulated Deprecation, Greg Kyte's monthly column. Go here to read more of Greg's posts. Dutch people are assholes. In the United States, under SarBox, a 100 percent independent audit committee's good enough, but a group of Dutch researchers1 don’t even want CEOs and audit committee members to be friends.2 […]
The PCAOB Has Added “Information For Audit Committees” To Its Website
Audit committees play a vital role in the capital markets' investor protection framework through their oversight of the audit engagement and the company’s financial reporting process. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as amended, enhanced the scope of the oversight role played by the public company audit committee, by, among other things, making audit committees of listed […]