PCAOB

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board levied sanctions and $150,000 in penalties against L&L CPAs and three of its auditors.

The Center for Audit Quality wants the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board to postpone sending two of its newly approved standards, on quality control and auditor responsibilities, to the SEC for final approval.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has levied a $400,000 fine against MaloneBailey and sanctioned the auditingfirm for pervasive quality violations.

These investment vehicles present obstacles that require a deep understanding of the real estate industry and robust financial expertise.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board updated its standard-setting, research and rulemaking agendas to reflect recent progress on modernizing the its older standards and rules.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board approved two new standards, on systems of quality control and the general responsibilities of the auditor.

Two recent cases show how a lack of rigorous oversight and real consequences is impacting the profession.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board sanctioned three auditors from Florida's Liggett & Webb.

The company appointed Semple, Marchal & Cooper after the permanent suspension of its former auditor.

The board released a report highlighting special auditing considerations in the commercial real estate market.

BF Borgers CPA PC and its founder, Benjamin Borgers, will be permanently suspended from practicing and appearing as accountants before the SEC.

The Securities and Exchange Commission hit the fast-rising auditing firm with $14 million in fines, and charged it with deliberate, systemic failures to comply with PCAOB standards.

A staff report from the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board recommends digging into the factors underlying firm deficiencies.

The PCAOB Investor Advisory Group is accepting public nominations for the most decision-useful CAMs or KAMs of 2023.

Seventeen percent of comment forms in 2021 and 2022 contained auditor evaluation deficiencies, according to the PCAOB.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board plans to host a series of five in-person forums this year, with different members of the board visiting cities including Chicago, Los Angeles, Denver, Miami, and Jersey City.

A new report shows that, increasingly, the respondents in Public Company Accounting Oversight Board enforcement actions are firms, rather than individuals.

The board imposed its largest-ever penalty of $25 million against KPMG's firm in the Netherlands, in addition to $2 million in fines against Deloitte's firms in Indonesia and the Philippines.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board voted to propose an extensive set of new reporting requirements to impose on auditing firms.

The PCAOB found multiple deficiencies in every audit it reviewed from BF Borgers over the past two annual checks.