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PCAOB Finds Problems with KPMG Audits
December 7th, 2016
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board released a report Tuesday on its 2015 inspection of KPMG LLP, finding problems with 20 of the 49 companies whose audits by the firm were inspected. The PCAOB also reviewed the firm’s audit ...
PCAOB Enters Into Cooperative Agreement with Italian Audit Regulator
November 30th, 2016
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board today announced that it has entered into a cooperative agreement with the Italian audit oversight regulator Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa (CONSOB). The agreement allows for cooperation between the PCAOB ...
PCAOB Annual Report on Inspections of Broker and Dealer Auditors Continues to Show High Levels of Independence Findings and Audit Deficiencies
August 19th, 2015
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board issued an annual report PDF on its interim inspection program for auditors of brokers and dealers registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission that identified high levels of independence findings and audit deficiencies, ...
PCAOB Cracks Down on Fraud
June 12th, 2014
A new PCAOB standard will require auditors to probe more deeply into related-party deals, unusual transactions and executive pay. Citing “decades of financial reporting frauds,” the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board yesterday issued new rules aimed at tightening auditor ...
KPMG to settle charges by paying a $50 million penalty
June 19th, 2019
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged KPMG LLP with altering past audit work after receiving stolen information about inspections of the firm that would be conducted by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB). The SEC’s order also ...
Grant Thornton fined $1.5 Million
January 4th, 2018
PCAOB Announces $1.5 Million Settlement with Grant Thornton for Quality Control Violations and Audit Failures. The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board today announced a $1.5 million civil penalty and censure against Grant Thornton LLP for violations of quality control ...
PwC to pay $1 Million to settle audit violations
August 3rd, 2017
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board announced that it censured and imposed a $1 million civil penalty against PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP for violations in its examination and audit of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Incorporated’s compliance with the Securities ...
KPMG US removes head of audit for ‘improper’ warnings
April 12th, 2017
The firm said it learned in late February, from an internal source, that an individual who had joined KPMG from the PCAOB subsequently received confidential information from a then-employee of the PCAOB, and shared that information with other KPMG ...
Former Deloitte Brazil Chairman and CEO fined
March 31st, 2017
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board today announced sanctions against the former Chairman and the former Chief Executive Officer of Brazil-based Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Auditores Independentes for violations related to failures to cooperate with a Board investigation. In today’s ...
Former lead partner of PwC Brazil fined for Audit failures
March 22nd, 2017
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) today announced sanctions against a former partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers Auditores Independentes in Brazil for audit failures and violations of PCAOB rules and standards. Wander Rodrigues Teles was the lead partner for PwC ...