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Category: Accounting

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PCAOB: Audits Getting Sloppier

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The overall quality of audit work has been poor for years and is only getting worse, according to a recent report from the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. The report detailed the preliminary findings of the PCAOB’s annual inspect...

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Three Areas of Consideration for China-based Companies: Disclosure Rules Raise the Stakes in U.S.-China Conflict

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According to recent reporting, the Chinese government is asking companies to abide by the age-old advice: “If you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” Reuters disclosed on July 24 that Beijing is threatening to pull...

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Auditors Swept Up in SPAC Regulation

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Like other trendy investment vehicles that skyrocketed in popularity and then faced a sharp decline, special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) are seeing yet another indication that they are subject to the laws of financial gravity. New...

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Thorny Tax Developments Await U.S. Companies

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Back in October 2021, more than 130 member jurisdictions of the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development negotiated the framework for new international tax rules affecting multinational companies. Rather than using the tax rat...

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First Inspections Find Massive Holes in Chinese Audits

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Regulators have released the results of their first inspections of audits of U.S.-listed Chinese companies, and they’re not pretty. Analyses revealed “unacceptable deficiencies” in audits performed by KPMG’s Chinese arm and PricewaterhouseC...

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