Later this week, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board will begin hosting a series of forums on auditing in small businesses. The first forum will be April 28, 2011, in Boston; subsequent ones will be held in Las Vegas, New York, Chicago, Seattle, Dallas, and St. Petersburg, Florida.
The forums have been going on for eight years and “are designed to share important information about PCAOB activities with registered public accounting firms operating in the small-business community,” the PCAOB said in a statement. At the same time, they allow PCAOB board members to hear directly from auditors.

