PCAOB opens portal on identifying key audit participants
There’s not much to see just yet, but audit regulators have launched a web page that will be the new means for anyone in the capital markets to throw open the curtain and see who’s pulling the levers on individual audit engagements. Tammy Whitehouse reports.
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