Accounting & Auditing Update

As audit firms disclose who performs public company audits, gender diversity is emerging as the first major concern regarding audit engagement leadership.

The PCAOB has issued more guidance to auditors about how they should comply with requirements to add new information to audit reports.

Audit regulators are inviting feedback on a slimmed-down strategic plan, giving stakeholders a chance to influence how to regulate public company auditing.

A significant deficiency in internal control over financial reporting will not automatically constitute a critical audit matter that auditors will have to disclose under a new auditing standard, but it could suggest auditors will disclose a CAM related to the underlying accounting, said the Center for Audit Quality.

The PCAOB is preparing to issue new proposals in the fourth quarter on auditing accounting estimates and using the work of specialists.

PwC has been ordered to pay the FDIC $625.3 million as a result of a long-running accounting fraud that caused the 2009 failure of Colonial Bank.

Corporate filings flagging doubt over a company’s ability to continue as a going concern reached a low in 2016, according to the newest research.

The PCAOB has censured the partner who oversaw audits at Koss, where a top finance executive went prison on charges of embezzling more than $30 million.

A group of international regulators and financial institutions is proposing a new mechanism to set standards for auditing in global capital markets.

The PCAOB has extracted a $1.5 million settlement from Grant Thornton over allegations of audit and quality control failures around engagement partner performance.

The SEC is cleaning house at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, appointing five new board members to take over the reins beginning in January.

Auditors have some new guidance from the PCAOB about how to begin revising their audit reports to reflect new requirements that take effect this year-end.

In a largely symbolic gesture, an investor panel voted to recommend to the PCAOB that it collect audited financial statements from registered audit firms.

The PCAOB is asking for a new round of public comment on a revised proposed standard that seeks to raise the bar on how audit firms supervise outside auditors.

The PCAOB is preparing to issue a final standard to overhaul the audit report and to propose new rules on auditing accounting estimates and using the work of specialists.

Auditors are scrutinizing the risk of management bias in arriving at accounting estimates, but not so much when it comes to the risk of measurement imprecision.

U.S. Senators are asking how KPMG could know Wells Fargo had fake accounts on the books, but not flag it as relevant to the financial statement audit.

The inspection information leak that led to dismissals at KPMG and the PCAOB raises big questions about how to assure fair and transparent inspection results for all Big 4 firms.

Companies and their auditors are following different going concern disclosure rules, leading to a puzzling disclosure from Sears that has left capital market players scratching their heads.

Private company audits soon will reflect new standards around the going concern call, but public companies will be getting their new standards no time soon. Tammy Whitehouse reports.

The disturbing rise of non-GAAP reporting in 2016 has prompted standard setters to take a closer look at whether changes to current rules are in order. Tammy Whitehouse explores.

Now that the calendar has turned to 2017, auditors will be following a new nomenclature with respect to citing auditing standards after a reorganization of the rules has taken effect. Tammy Whitehouse reports.

Audit regulators are on track to finalize by year-end a long-developing overhaul of the standard audit report. Tammy Whitehouse looks at what that means for auditors in the coming year.

The International Federation of Accountants is pitching the G-20 to make a plug for international accounting and auditing standards when they meet in September. Tammy Whitehouse reports.

The SEC has given final approval to a PCAOB rule requiring audit firms to complete a new filing on Form AP to provide the name of the engagement partner on each audit engagement. Meanwhile, Tammy Whitehouse reports, the PCAOB is attempting once again to expand the audit report.