PCAOB

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board is reassessing its plans to reestablish its outside advisory groups after the latest bout of turmoil at the audit firm regulator.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is reportedly probing William Duhnke, the recently fired chair of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.

Rep. Patrick McHenry called the move "partisan," and called on the board and the SEC to preserve all relevant documents.

The institute's Auditing Standards Board amended its standards Tuesday to include guidance in two areas.

The SEC abruptly fired William Duhnke as chairman of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. As part of the shakeup, PCAOB board member Duane DesParte will become acting chair, but the SEC plans to replace the entire slate of board members.

The board’s 2020 Annual Report reveals an ongoing drop in registrees, as well as how it responded to COVID-19.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has proposed a rule for implementing a recent law that penalizes foreign companies whose auditing firms can’t be inspected by the PCAOB.

While activity at both regulators declined early in the COVID-19 pandemic, it only recovered at the commission.

The pacts expand the audit firm inspector's reach across Europe.

Mandatory retirement policies at U.S. auditing firms are pushing out experienced partners who are bringing in substantial revenue and audit quality as good as that of younger partners.

The board is planning changes in how it conducts inspections of audit firms, and where it will focus.

The new SAG replaces the board's two previous advisory bodies.

The commission is starting to implement a tough law passed at the end of the Trump administration, aimed largely at Chinese stocks.

Audit committee chairs may not be fully able to grasp certain detailed comments from the PCAOB or respond appropriately on behalf of the company.

The American Institute of CPAs is proposing to revise its quality management standards to take a more risk-based approach targeted at the types of engagements performed by the CPA firm.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board released its annual inspection reports Tuesday for the Big Four firms, along with eight other firms that are inspected each year.

The chairs of corporate audit committees want to hear more regularly from auditors, but they’re also concerned about “over-auditing” and “over-documentation,” according to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.

Financial executives feel that the requirements for documenting their organization’s internal controls are getting to be too much and many of them are behind the curve when it comes to applying technology for internal control over financial reporting, according to a new report.

PricewaterhouseCoopers released an update Tuesday to its annual audit quality report for the firm, pointing to improvements on inspection results from the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board said Tuesday that board member J. Robert Brown will be leaving the PCAOB at the end of this month, the latest in a string of high-profile departures in recent years.