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SubscribePCAOB: Audits Getting Sloppier
The overall quality of audit work has been poor for years and is only getting worse, according to a recent report from the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. The report detailed the preliminary findings of the PCAOB’s annual inspect...
Read MoreAuditors Swept Up in SPAC Regulation
Like other trendy investment vehicles that skyrocketed in popularity and then faced a sharp decline, special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) are seeing yet another indication that they are subject to the laws of financial gravity. New...
Read MoreFirst Inspections Find Massive Holes in Chinese Audits
Regulators have released the results of their first inspections of audits of U.S.-listed Chinese companies, and they’re not pretty. Analyses revealed “unacceptable deficiencies” in audits performed by KPMG’s Chinese arm and PricewaterhouseC...
Read MoreSEC Taking an Interest in Accounting Enforcement
The implosions of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank this month may have come as a surprise to KPMG LLP, one of the so-called Big Four accounting firms. Both banks collapsed within two weeks of KPMG signing off on their audits. In the w...
Read MoreAudit Failures Lead to SEC Action Against Deloitte-China
Some auditors in the Chinese affiliate of Big Four accounting firm Deloitte have apparently been taking a unique approach to their work. Rather than evaluating their clients’ financial reporting, they let the clients audit themselves, accor...
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