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By Aaron Nicodemus2022-10-05T16:35:00
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) penalized four audit firms for failing to disclose who led specific audits for their firms and whether any other firms were involved in those audits.
The lapses were discovered by the PCAOB during a sweep, where the regulator collected information regarding potential violations from multiple firms at the same time. The PCAOB found the four firms failed to file Form AP within 35 days after the date an audit report is first included in a document filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
All four firms have since filed their Form APs, but only after the PCAOB took action, the regulator said Tuesday in a press release.
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2023-09-27T20:21:00Z By Kyle Brasseur
A Colombian affiliate of Big Four audit firm Deloitte agreed to pay $900,000 as part of a settlement with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board addressing alleged quality control lapses that occurred during the 2016 audit of a bank.
2022-12-27T18:13:00Z By Kyle Brasseur
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board announced several notable enforcement actions last week, including sanctions against six firms for allegedly violating agency reporting requirements.
2022-10-18T19:39:00Z By Kyle Brasseur
Jonathan Taylor, an audit partner at accounting firm Spielman Koenigsberg & Parker, agreed to pay a record $150,000 fine handed down by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board for misleading its investigators over the course of multiple inspections.
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Precision Toxicology has agreed to pay $27 million to settle allegations first brought by whistleblowers in three cases, that the company billed the federal government for unnecessary drug tests and paid kickbacks to doctors, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said.
2024-10-22T16:08:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
Fund management company WisdomTree will pay $4 million to settle allegations by the Securities and Exchange Commission that it improperly invested in fossil fuel and tobacco companies in environmental, social and governance (ESG) funds despite promising to avoid them.
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A Vietnamese alcohol company has agreed to pay $860,000 to settle allegations by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) that its business with North Korea involved U.S. financial institutions.
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