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The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board issued inspection reports Monday for the six largest auditing firms in a new format with more graphs and charts.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board released a document Tuesday with information for auditors and audit committees about audits involving cryptoassets, such as Bitcoin and other digital currencies.

Under the Senate legislation, if a company can’t show that it is not under control of a foreign government, or the PCAOB isn’t able to audit the company for three consecutive years to determine that is the case, the company’s securities would be banned from the exchanges.

The Senate overwhelmingly approved legislation Wednesday that could lead to Chinese companies such as Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Baidu Inc. being barred from listing on U.S. stock exchanges amid increasingly tense relations between the world’s two largest economies.

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced Tuesday settled charges against three former KPMG audit partners for sharing answers to internal training exams.

When it comes to companies exposed to emerging markets — most notably China — investors should beware the lack of visibility into their books.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board is giving firms a pause until May 11, given the difficulties businesses are facing from COVID-19.

Officials and employees are working from home and doing inspections of U.S. audit firms remotely to protect them from infection.

Leaders of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board issued a joint statement Wednesday about the impact of the coronavirus on audit firms trying to operate in China.

The White House’s latest budget blueprint proposes consolidating the functions and responsibilities of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board into the Securities and Exchange Commission starting in 2022.

A bill stuck in Congress might help improve audit oversight.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board released a video Monday discussing how to comment on its recent concept release on potentially revising quality control standards for audit firms.

The proposed changes could have the potential for expanding future enforcement proceedings.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has released a document providing information from its conversations with nearly 400 chairs of audit committees.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has issued a concept release proposing a new approach to changing its quality control standards, the biggest change since 2003.

The $284.7 million budget is an approximately 4 percent increase over 2019.

The audit overseer also named a new general counsel.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board is planning to issue a concept release on revisions in quality control standards while making extensive changes in its inspections and audit reports.

Chairman William Duhnke said the board is also doing more outreach to audit committees.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board could be making more changes ahead as the audit firm regulator deals with a tumultuous series of transformations in the past two years.