- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By Jeff Dale2024-03-21T17:50:00
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) imposed collective fines totaling $150,000 against three partners at KPMG China for violations of standards related to their audit work at education service provider Tarena International.
Choi Chung Chuen, Ma Hong Chao, and Dong Chang Ling agreed to be censured and pay penalties of $75,000, $50,000, and $25,000, respectively, the PCAOB announced in a press release Wednesday.
Choi and Ma will be barred from working at a registered public accounting firm for a year, at which point they can petition the board to return after completing continuing professional education. Dong will be limited from acting in certain roles on issuer audits for a year and be required to complete continuing professional education.
2024-09-16T19:45:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
Chinese authorities banned PwC’s Chinese unit from performing audits in the country for six months, labeling the subsidiary’s flawed audit work as complicit in the failure of giant property developer Evergrande.
2024-03-29T15:39:00Z By Kyle Brasseur
Big Four audit firm PwC was assessed a $2.75 million penalty by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board for failures in its auditor independence processes related to a 2018 engagement.
2024-02-07T12:51:00Z By Kyle Brasseur
China-based technology company Cloopen Group Holding won’t pay a fine in settling with the Securities and Exchange Commission over an alleged accounting fraud scheme perpetrated by two of its former senior managers.
2025-07-02T18:31:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
Emerging enforcement priorities of the U.S. Department of Justice’s health care fraud division align with the Trump administration’s emphasis on prosecuting transnational criminal organizations and ending opioid trafficking.
2025-07-01T23:26:00Z By Oscar Gonzalez
Since President Donald Trump took office, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has yet to keep up the level of enforcement it had under previous chair Lina Khan. The agency, however, returned to antitrust action in the case of fuel stations, just in time for the July 4th holiday.
2025-06-25T16:29:00Z By Oscar Gonzalez
In May, three commissioners for the Consumer Product Safety Commission were abruptly fired by President Donald Trump and sued for their jobs shortly after. A federal judge has ruled that the commissioners should be reinstated, although it’s unclear whether that ruling may itself be reversed.
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