PCAOB

Mandatory change of auditing firms and engagement partners doesn’t necessarily foster greater professional skepticism, according to new research.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board announced six settled actions against non-U.S. accounting firms late last month for failure to report certain disciplinary or regulatory actions against them in their home country.

The head of the practice and four partners are leaving for violations of the Big Four firm’s Code of Conduct.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has disciplined the former chief executive officer and chairman of Deloitte’s Brazil firm for failing to cooperate with a PCAOB investigation.

Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, want to make the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s actions against auditing firms and auditors more transparent.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has sanctioned a former partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers Auditores Independentes in Brazil for audit failures involving Sara Lee Corporation.

Cindy Fornelli, executive director of the Center for Audit Quality, talks in this podcast about her organization's recent celebration of its first decade and the trends in audits and investor confidence in the financial markets.

A new study questions the usefulness of proxy advisory services in helping corporate boards of directors and investors decide whether to keep or change auditing firms.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has added information on secondment arrangements to its instructions for auditing firms filing the new disclosures.

The Ernst & Young global network’s member firm charged with audit failure, noncooperation, and violations of quality control standards.