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The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board released a document Wednesday offering information about the main areas its inspectors are looking at during its visits to auditing firms this year.

A recent academic study lends support to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s regulatory oversight of auditing firms, suggesting it gives investors greater confidence in companies, in turn leading to more capital available to businesses.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and a group of 27 other major corporations and business trade associations have sent a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission urging the SEC not to finalize the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s proposed changes to audit reports.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board released a report Friday calling attention to high deficiencies among auditors of brokers and dealers.

Accounting and financial firms and business groups are sending comment letters to the Securities and Exchange Commission ahead of a deadline Friday for approving a new standard from the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board on expanding the scope of audit reports.

SEC Chair Jay Clayton calls for nominees for open board spots.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board will award one student each from 167 institutions to encourage audit careers.

Anders CPAs celebrates charitable ‘Christmas in July;’ MaloneBailey launches podcast series; and more news from CPA offices across the country.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has imposed a $1 million civil penalty against PricewaterhouseCoopers and censured the firm for its audits of Merrill Lynch.

The Center for Audit Quality and the Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society are celebrating the 15th anniversary of the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act with a series of videos featuring commentary from several accounting, finance and auditing experts.