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The new publication aims to help auditors deal with the CAMs section that will soon be required under a new auditing standard.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, with a new set of board members this year, approved a strategic plan for 2018-2022 on Thursday, along with a fiscal year 2018 budget.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board is planning extensive changes in how it inspects firms and interacts with financial statement preparers.

Johnson Lambert and EisnerAmper hire leads of new service offerings; KPMG names principal-in-charge of the Washington tax practice; and other recent hires, promotions and personnel news from firms across the country.

The official passed along confidential lists of which audit clients would be scrutinized.

The firm relied on technical reports done by an affiliate during three consecutive audits of a Canadian gold-mining company.

The financial services exec ran the accounting regulator from 2006 to 2009.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has entered into a cooperative agreement with the Audit Oversight Body of Austria to do joint inspections and oversight of auditing firms that are subject to both U.S. and Austrian jurisdiction.

Martin Baumann has been appointed as the new chair of the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board.

The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board finalized slightly fewer enforcement actions against accountants in 2017, slipping from 79 in 2016 to 75 last year, according to a new report.