Chinese authorities banned PwC’s Chinese unit from performing audits in the country for six months, labeling the subsidiary’s flawed audit work as complicit in the failure of giant property developer Evergrande. The move continues a pattern of increased scrutiny of Western firms’ audit work in China, both by regulators in China and the U.S.

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