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Tag: Independence
Anti-PE Firms Talk About How to Compete When Everyone Else is Selling Out
INSIDE Public Accounting ran a little pulse survey last month and asked 84 managing partners […]
Audit Firms’ Tone at the Top Sounds Like a Brown Note, Says SEC Chief Accountant
In a statement released today (“Fostering a Healthy ‘Tone at the Top’ at Audit Firms“), […]
Shout-Out This Person Whose Jumping Ship Made It Into EY’s PCAOB Inspection Report
As mentioned in today’s Monday Morning Accounting News Brief and first spotted on Canadian Accountant, […]
Why Are EY Clients So Stupid Sexy?
TLDR: Boning clients and/or treating them to too many football games is an independence violation […]
PwC Admits the Next PCAOB Inspection Report Won’t Be Great
In an audit quality report released last week [PDF], the once flawless PwC admits its […]
Kill the Audit Industry, Says Ex-Auditor
In the WaPo opinion pages yesterday one Duncan Mavin, who got his start in the […]
Did the SEC’s Acting Chief Accountant Have EY in Mind When He Wrote This?
The Australian Financial Review reported today that EY had hoped to temporarily share the EY […]
Here’s the Deck EY Put Together to Sell the Audit/Consulting Split to Staff
Australian Financial Review has published slides shown to EY staff in a July global webcast […]
EY Is Leaving $10 Billion in Consulting Fees On the Table If It Doesn’t Split, Says Global Chairman Carmine Di Sibio
In comments to Financial Times, EY Global Chairman and CEO Carmine Di Sibio says splitting […]
Big 4 Conflicts of Interest Are in Regulators’ Crosshairs, EY Tops the Independence Naughty List
There’s a story in the New York Times today about how EY “devised an elaborate […]
Robot Auditors Won’t Have a Problem Giving Clients Bad News
Here’s something that won’t surprise anyone: A study from the University of Missouri found that […]