By Jaclyn Jaeger2021-02-25T20:14:00
Hubert Barth, head of EY’s Germany practice for the past five years, will step down and take on a “new role at the European level” as the firm seeks to restore its tarnished reputation following its missteps leading up to the collapse of Wirecard.
2023-04-03T16:46:00Z By Kyle Brasseur
Big Four audit firm EY will be prohibited from taking on new public interest clients in Germany for two years following an investigation into its work at collapsed payment processor Wirecard.
2021-02-01T20:00:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
Continuing fallout from the Wirecard scandal has led Germany’s finance minister to oust the top two officials at the country’s financial regulator, the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin).
2020-12-11T17:05:00Z By Dave Lefort
A former EY partner is reportedly relinquishing his position as Deutsche Bank’s head of accounting temporarily after German prosecutors launched an investigation into his role as a lead auditor for Wirecard.
2025-10-15T19:16:00Z By Ruth Prickett
Auditors are supposed to keep businesses honest, but how much regulation is the optimum for the auditors – and how onerous and punitive should the enforcement regime be? A new consultation by the U.K. regulator, the Financial Reporting Council, opened on Oct. 1 and has put the vexed question of ...
2025-10-07T20:32:00Z By Jaclyn Jaeger
Emerging technologies, like artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced data analytics, can improve audit quality in significant ways. As the regulatory overseer of public-company audits, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) has a critical role to play by ensuring that its audit standards evolve as the audit profession evolves.
2025-07-21T14:13:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
Continuing a Trump administration practice of firing independent regulators, the head of the Public Accounting Oversight Board has been sent packing.
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