Audit

Environmental, social and governance reporting is one of the most talked-about opportunities for accountants in years, but what will it look like for your firm?

A sampling of important frameworks, acronyms and more.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Ron Wyden want the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board to do more to regulate audits of cryptocurrency companies in the wake of recent high-profile bankruptcies.

The system will include an analysis of up to 20 stablecoins based on the quality of attestations on the reserves backing them.

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PricewaterhouseCoopers is seeing better results on its inspections by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.

The International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board is asking for feedback on a new section of a proposed auditing standard that would cover group audits of less complex entities.

The venture capital firm will work with Ernst & Young on some of these audits and will increase budget allocations to help investee companies put governance guardrails in place.

A civil liberties group is taking the board to court for penalizing an unidentified auditor.

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