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Tag: PCAOB Inspections
The PCAOB Will Be Further Up Auditors’ Asses in 2024
Although hiring a former PCAOB staffer and using their insider knowledge to improve your inspection […]
The SEC Has Charged Marcum’s Former National Assurance Services Leader With Being Ass at His One Job
The SEC’s rock-hard justice boner for Marcum continues, this time it’s charges against the firm’s […]
Turns Out the Secret PCAOB Inspection List Isn’t Intangible Property for the Purposes of Wire Fraud After All
Financial Times reported today that two of the people in the middle of KPMG’s 2018 […]
EY’s Getting Ready For Bad Grades From the PCAOB For Overseas Colleagues’ Work (Allegedly)
Apparently someone inside EY blabbed to Financial Times about the current state of EY audit […]
China Tells Its State-Owned Orgs Don’t Use Big 4 Audit Firms
Some time last year PCAOB inspectors visited China and while details of their visit were […]
PCAOB Chair Williams Reminds Us For the 1,000th Time She Is Sick of Auditors’ Bullsh*t
Another day, another scathing speech from PCAOB Chair Erica Williams. Today it’s from prepared remarks […]
The PCAOB Is Not Impressed with the Quality of Firms’ 2021 Audits
The PCAOB should be dropping the first batch of 2021 inspection reports soon, and as […]
Supposedly PCAOB China Inspections Went Well, the Environment Was Not Necessarily Considered
People who presumably aren’t paid by the Chinese government to say “everything is great!” have […]
Idiot Who Backdated Work Papers Will Never Work in This Town Again
The PCAOB is busy sniffing out poor audit behavior to remind everyone to be on […]
Supply Chain Disruption and Risks Around Remote Work Among PCAOB Inspection Focus For 2022
In a spotlight released by the PCAOB just a few days ago [PDF] the auditors […]
The Moment I Knew I Was Done With Public Accounting For Good
When did you decide you were done with public accounting? Not the moment you decided […]