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The board is recommending a 2026 budget that is 9% below its 2025 budget.
December 19 -
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board appointed Erik Durbin as acting chief economist and director of its Office of Economic and Risk Analysis.
December 18 -
The most influential people in the field, as chosen by their peers.
December 9 -
The Securities and Exchange Commission is planning to encourage greater cooperation between U.S. and international standard-setters.
December 8 -
Public Company Accounting Oversight Board member Christina Ho plans to resign by the end of January as a shakeup is expected at the board.
December 4 -
The company has struggled to meet SEC deadlines amid souring investments, flaws in its financial reporting and an ongoing investigation.
November 20 -
The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board have been lightening the load on audit firms.
October 30 -
CAT expenses are forecasted to drop an additional $20 million given the SEC's order and other cost-saving measures.
September 30 -
Paul Atkins said the proposal will let companies report on a semi-annual basis, though many might still choose to report quarterly.
September 30 -
President Donald Trump said companies should not be forced to deliver earnings reports on a quarterly basis, saying he preferred a six-month schedule he cast as saving businesses time and money.
September 15 -
Paul Atkins warned the SEC might eliminate a rule that allows multinational companies to avoid reconciling their IFRS financials with U.S. GAAP.
September 11 -
James Moloney, a partner at the law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, will head the SEC's division of corporation finance starting next month.
September 10 -
With major mergers, the Top 10 Firms topped the list of new Securities and Exchange Commission Engagements in the second quarter.
August 28 -
To those who might remember this column that ran for more than 20 years, and to those who don't, it took something especially egregious to bring me back.
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Securities and Exchange Commission chair Paul Atkins has begun searching for new members and a new chair of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board only days after forcing the PCAOB chair to resign.
July 28 -
The errors were tied to accounting for engineering scrap and engineering support labor.
July 24 -
House Republicans released a spending proposal that threatens to withhold funding from the Financial Accounting Standards Board unless it withdraws its income tax reporting standard.
July 22 -
The Securities and Exchange Commission has tapped George Botic as acting chair of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board after Erica Williams' departure.
July 21 -
Erica Williams is stepping down Tuesday as chair of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and spoke Monday with Accounting Today about her time at the PCAOB.
July 21 -
Public Company Accounting Oversight Board chair Erica Williams is departing on July 22, after being pushed out by the new SEC chairman after her agency narrowly avoided an effort to eliminate it.
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