PCAOB Inspection Reports at 5: What Can We Learn
The compliance and audit community have pored over PCAOB inspection data on audit firms for five years now. What does the data tell us, really? This week Compliance Week begins a special series looking at the insights that the inspection process can give—starting with how much value the disclosure of ...
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