Audit standards

The Government Accountability Offices is asking for feedback on a set of proposed changes to Government Auditing Standards, commonly known as the Yellow Book, the first revision since 2011.

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.

Cindy Fornelli, executive director of the Center for Audit Quality, talks in this video about how the changing requirements could affect the work of auditors.

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 American Institute of CPAs’ Auditing Standards Board has added some new requirements.

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.

The new standard is the culmination of the efforts to clarify the various standards for performing attestation engagements.

The board member submitted his resignation to the SEC on Friday, Dec. 23, almost two years before the end of his appointed term.

Investors and regulators will benefit from a new Public Company Accounting Oversight Board regulation requiring firms to disclose the lead engagement partner on an audit, according to a new academic study.