By Jaclyn Jaeger2019-10-15T21:03:00
The SEC has ousted Kathleen Hamm as a board member at the PCAOB, replacing her with White House aide Rebekah Goshorn Jurata. The swap, along with a whistleblower report, signal internal strife at the audit regulator.
2019-12-17T21:23:00Z By Lori Tripoli
The PCAOB is accepting public comment on a potential approach to revising the board’s quality control standards in place since 2003 and outdated by modern technology.
2019-11-01T19:29:00Z By Jaclyn Jaeger
The PCAOB, recently under fire for its lack of enforcement, has imposed sanctions on Deloitte Korea and BDO Mexico for altering audit documentation in anticipation of inspections.
2019-10-23T17:10:00Z By Kyle Brasseur
A letter sent by two senators addressed to SEC Chairman Jay Clayton critiques the regulator’s oversight of the PCAOB as showing “questionable judgment and an alarming lack of transparency.”
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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