For today’s episode of “What Can We Rag on Big 4 Firms For” we’re going […]
Tag: Audit Quality
PCAOB Inspection Report Day Is No Longer An Embarrassment For Grant Thornton
Once the laughingstock of the firms annually inspected by the PCAOB (and of us at […]
EY Pats Itself On the Back For Not Blowing As Many Audits As Before
Last month the PCAOB teased the results of its 2020 inspection reports by saying audit […]
Deloitte Came Oh So Close to Having a Historically Low Audit Deficiency Rate
If it was any other year, champions of audit quality would be throwing Deloitte a […]
EY Rakes In $40 Billion In Global Revenue, Will Try Not to Suck So Much At Auditing
A day after Deloitte got the Big 4 revenue boasting season rolling yesterday, EY announced […]
PwC Might Do Something No Other Big 4 Firm Has Ever Done Before
After years and years of PCAOB inspections of the Big 4 in which the percentage […]
Important Audit Professional Takeaways from Botta v. PwC Closing Arguments
Closing arguments were held on April 13 in the bench trial of audit whistleblower Mauro […]
The Truth About Public Accounting, Part I: How the Sausage Is Made and Those ‘Best Places to Work’ Surveys
Your biggest busy season assignment is a public company audit. The audit looks well-staffed six […]
EY U.K. Got Slightly Worse at Auditing This Year, According to Latest FRC Inspection Report
Next up in the parade of 2019-20 Financial Reporting Council audit quality inspection reports is […]
PwC U.K.’s Auditing Report Card Gets a Grade of U for Unsatisfactory
Yesterday we began our review of the seven audit quality inspection reports issued recently by […]
Deloitte Sucked the Least In Latest Batch of U.K. Audit Quality Inspection Reports
A couple weeks ago the Financial Reporting Council in the U.K. released the results of […]
Grant Thornton Jumps on the ‘Let’s Form a Panel to Show We’re Committed to Audit Quality’ Bandwagon
Last week we let you guys know about a three-member independent committee EY recently created […]