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Tag: PCAOB

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Audit Failures Lead to SEC Action Against Deloitte-China

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Some auditors in the Chinese affiliate of Big Four accounting firm Deloitte have apparently been taking a unique approach to their work. Rather than evaluating their clients’ financial reporting, they let the clients audit themselves, accor...

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Breaking Down the PCAOB’s Five-Year Strategic Plan

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Since Erica Williams became chair of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board in January, the organization has taken a proactive stance towards its mission of holding corporate auditors accountable. To that end, the PCAOB released what...

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U.S. and China Finally Have an Audit Agreement, or Do They?

Traditional computing via abacus meets corporate accountability

If you’re confused about where things stand in the squabble between U.S. regulators and Chinese authorities over auditing standards, you’re probably not alone. About a year ago, Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler sounded...

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Chinese Companies Delist from U.S. Exchange as Audit Conflict Persists

Frosted leaf symbolizing frozen accountability for foreign companies

Hundreds of thousands of people from the United States travel to Taiwan in any given year, according to the island nation’s tourism bureau. For the average U.S. tourist, a stopover there during a tour of Asian countries wouldn’t seem unusua...

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Sarbanes-Oxley Turns 20

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Audiences were packing multiplexes across the country to see “Spider-Man” – the Tobey Maguire one, not Tom Holland’s subsequent version. Temperatures were rising outside and in the dance clubs, courtesy of rapper Nelly and his chart-topping...

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