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Auditing firms appear to be making headway on fixing some of the problems identified by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board will continue its inspection focus on public companies in the financial, real estate and information technology sectors.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board is also offering insights on improving audit committee communications and a video on the new confirmation standard.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board sanctioned Raines & Fischer and three of its partners for attempting to deceive inspection staff and other violations.

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The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board posted a disciplinary order sanctioning Weinstein International CPA and its sole partner for audit and quality control failures.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board introduced two pieces of guidance to help auditing firms apply its new quality control standard.

The American Institute of CPAs is still concerned about the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board's new firm and engagement metrics standard, despite some modifications from the original proposal.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board voted to adopt new requirements to report on various metrics for the firm and its engagements.

PricewaterhouseCoopers has been focusing on auditing under a new PwC US assurance leader, Deanna Byrne, who began the job in July.