PCAOB May 29, 2026
PCAOB Establishes Inspections Modernization Council
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board is forming a new advisory panel as the regulator looks to modernize how it inspects the work of public company audit firms.
Auditing July 7, 2025
PCAOB Shares Good Practices for Auditors on Engagement Acceptance
This edition of "Audit Focus" highlights key reminders for auditors of small public companies or brokers and dealers on engagement acceptance and why it's a critical part of the audit process.
Auditing June 25, 2025
PCAOB Permanently Bars Repeat Rule-Breaker
Michael Studer, CPA, was permanently barred on June 24 and his firm, Michael T. Studer CPA PC, had its PCAOB registration revoked after the accountant was found to be a repeat violator of U.S. auditing rules and standards.
Auditing June 25, 2025
PCAOB Doles Out $8.5M in Total Fines to Most of the Big Four’s Dutch Affiliates for Exam Cheating
The Netherlands-based affiliates of Deloitte, PwC, and EY were found to have violated U.S. auditing rules and quality control standards related to internal exam cheating and inefficient monitoring of their quality control systems.
PCAOB June 23, 2025
PCAOB Gets New Life—For Now—Thanks to the Senate’s Nonpartisan Referee
Republican lawmakers' plan to fold the PCAOB into the SEC hit a snag last Thursday when it was determined in the Senate that the provision in the GOP tax-and-spending bill violates the "Byrd Rule."
Auditing June 13, 2025
PCAOB Docks Heaton & Co. $35K, Partner $25K for Multiple Audit Failures
The Utah-based firm and its founder/partner Kristofer Heaton were fined on June 12 for audit documentation, engagement quality review, and quality control failures involving five audits.
Auditing May 21, 2025
PCAOB’s Latest ‘Audit Focus’ Explores Challenges of Auditing Accounting Estimates
Auditing accounting estimates is the topic of the latest edition of "Audit Focus," a series of PCAOB publications that aims to provide easy-to-digest information to auditors.
Auditing May 15, 2025
PCAOB Shares Insights From Chats With Audit Committee Chairs
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board released a new publication on May 15 that highlights the results of conversations that board staff had with audit committee chairs of U.S. public companies and broker-dealers last year.
Auditing May 12, 2025
PCAOB Gives Auditors More Video Resources on New Quality Control Standard
The PCAOB has posted a brand-new set of staff presentation videos designed to help audit firms and auditors implement four areas of their quality control system under QC 1000, A Firm’s System of Quality Control.
PCAOB April 30, 2025
PCAOB Chair ‘Deeply Troubled’ By GOP’s Plans to Shutter U.S. Audit Regulator
Draft legislation being considered by the House Financial Services Committee proposes to eliminate the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and fold its responsibilities into the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Auditing April 29, 2025
PCAOB Adds New Datasets for Audit Firm Inspection Reports
The new downloadable datasets, which contain public inspection information from reports on audit firms going back to 2018, are machine-readable and can be used to analyze PCAOB inspection findings.
Auditing April 28, 2025
AICPA Comments on Proposed Defunding of PCAOB
The House Financial Services Committee has released draft language to defund the PCAOB and transfer its activities to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Auditing April 23, 2025
PCAOB Punishes NYC-Based CPA Firm and Managing Partner For ‘Substandard Audit Work,’ QC Violations
Accounting firm Adeptus Partners was fined $75,000 and managing partner Howard Krant was sanctioned $50,000 on April 22 for breaking the rules during the audits of two technology companies.