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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.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board is disciplining Crowe Horwath’s member firm in Hong Kong for refusing to turn over audit work papers.

Starting last month, audit firms must now disclose the names and locations of other auditors participating over a certain percentage of the audit of public companies.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board is continuing to uncover problems with auditor independence during recent inspections of auditors of brokers and dealers.