The PCAOB found that each company failed to adhere to quality control standards necessary to meet professional standards.

The board offers advice to public company auditors about Form AP, upcoming standards on quality control and confirmation, and in the form of free PCAOB-led forums.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board staff released a new publication aimed at helping firms complete Form AP.

Enforcement activity was more muted in the second half of the year, due to a Supreme Court decision and multiple lawsuits ...

Nine affiliates of KPMG agreed to pay a total of nearly $3.4 million for alleged violations of audit and quality control ...

The audit watchdog imposed fines as high as $700K on nine KPMG member firms for failing to disclose other accounting firms ...

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) has introduced a new knowledge check to help auditors evaluate their understanding of AS 2310, The Auditor’s use of confirmation. This new ...

Available data suggests a connection between politics and PCAOB enforcement activity. The auditor-watchdog agency concluded ...

The Brattle Group's report compares the 2024 data with data from 2022, 2023, and 2018-2021, noting the heightened activity.

PwC Israel, a member firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited, has three offices in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa ...

Monetary penalties imposed by the PCAOB during Biden’s presidency were over six times higher than those seen during the first ...

In 2023, Canadian Accountant reported that KPMG, the fourth largest of the Big Four worldwide, was the second largest firm in ...