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Ernst & Young’s Indonesian member to pay $1 Million to settle audit failure
February 10th, 2017
PCAOB Announces $1 Million Settlement with Indonesian Member of Ernst & Young Network for Audit Failure, Noncooperation, and Violations of Quality Control Standards Also, two audit partners were sanctioned for their roles in the audit failure The Public Company ...
Deloitte Brazil will pay an $8 million civil penalty
December 6th, 2016
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board today announced that Brazil-based Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Auditores Independentes will pay an $8 million civil penalty, the largest ever imposed by the PCAOB, to settle charges including issuing materially false audit reports and attempting ...
Accounting Watchdog Says Most Brokerage-Firm Audits Need to Improve
August 19th, 2016
Federal inspectors found deficiencies in more than three-quarters of the audits of broker-dealers they reviewed last year, down from the previous year but still at a high level, the government’s audit-industry regulator said Thursday. The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board ...
Moore Stephens Wins Key Ruling on Audit Opinions
May 24th, 2016
Moore Stephens’ Hong Kong firm won a victory in a New York federal appeals court on a case that could have a far-reaching impact on class-action lawsuits involving audit reports. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ...
SEC announced penalties on two Accounting fraud cases
April 20th, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced a pair of financial fraud cases against companies and then-executives accused of various accounting failures that left investors without accurate depictions of company finances. In one case, technology manufacturer Logitech International agreed ...
SEC: Grant Thornton Ignored Red Flags in Audits
December 3rd, 2015
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that national audit firm Grant Thornton LLP and two of its partners agreed to settle charges that they ignored red flags and fraud risks while conducting deficient audits of two publicly traded companies that ...
Audit Regulator Finds 28 Deficient Audits By KPMG in Annual Report
November 11th, 2015
PCAOB says Big Four firm’s deficiency rate of 54% is up from 46% a year ago Audit regulators found 28 deficient audits at KPMG LLP in its latest annual inspection of the Big Four accounting firm, an increase from ...
Key areas of risk in the 2015 audit cycle
October 13th, 2015
Professional skepticism and internal control over financial reporting are two key areas for auditors that have attracted the focus of regulators in recent years. These areas are among those addressed in one of two risk alerts published Monday by ...
Can auditors expand assurance to meet investors’ needs?
August 4th, 2015
A company’s audited financial statements are among the many pieces of information investors consider when they evaluate where to allocate resources. But news releases, company presentations, additional information in annual reports, and non-GAAP key performance indicators and financial metrics ...
SEC Imposes Sanctions Against China-Based Members of Big Four Accounting Networks for Refusing to Produce Documents
February 9th, 2015
The Securities and Exchange Commission today imposed sanctions against four China-based accounting firms that had refused to turn over documents related to investigations of potential fraud. The China-based firms are members of large international networks associated with the “Big ...
