Audit standards

The board voted to approve a new budget for fiscal 2024, and revealed it surpassed last year's record amount of fines.

Pentagon officials nonetheless claimed significant progress in tracking its assets and correcting hundreds of deficiencies in its accounts.

The audit overseer hit at least nine different firms, with fines totaling approximately $4 million.

The board has revised its standard-setting, rulemaking and research agendas for the year ahead after a series of unprecedented changes this past year.

The outcomes of this project will provide a clear-eyed vision of how we move the profession forward and collectively elevate the value of internal audit in the years ahead.

George Botic succeeds the commission's longest-serving member, Duane DesParte, whose second term ended Tuesday.

A lawyer questions whether expanded regulatory enforcement powers will lead to better-quality audits.

The PCAOB released a report that found 42% of auditing firms got at least one quality control criticism related to engagement quality reviews.

The standard reflects the many changes in technology, communications and business practices since an interim standard was first adopted decades ago.

The document aims to help auditors and accountants set up a quality management system at their firms ahead of a 2025 deadline.

The commission appointed a CPA who has served as director of the board's Division of Registration and Inspections.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board sanctioned a Deloitte member firm in South America for violating quality control standards.

The board issued a proposal to amend its rule for an individual auditor's or firm's contributory liability for knowingly or recklessly contributing to violations.

The Securities and Exchange Commission charged the former national assurance services leader at Marcum LLP with failing to address and remediate a number of deficiencies in the New York-based auditing firm's quality controls.

The institute's Auditing Standards Board issued an exposure draft for some proposed changes in the attestation standards for quality management and is asking for comments.

These are the first sanctions ever against a firm over independence violations because it's a member of an alliance where another firm did work for the same client.

The board continues its aggressive approach to oversight, announcing several hundreds of thousands of dollars in penalties on several auditors in a single week.

The head of the board views the recently proposed standard for sustainability reporting assurance as a way to make those reports more verifiable.

Several prominent trade groups are objecting to the board's proposed changes in auditing standards related to noncompliance with laws and regulations.

The board is looking for nominations for new members of its Investor Advisory Group and its Standards and Emerging Issues Advisory Group.