About an hour ago the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) announced a settled disciplinary […]
Tag: SEC
SEC Fines Friedman For Piss-Poor Auditing So They Remember to Exercise Professional Skepticism Next Time
Last week the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Friedman LLP with with improper professional conduct […]
Big 4 Firms Are Fighting Engineers Over the Right to Bill Clients For Climate Disclosure Audits
Interesting piece over at the Wall Street Journal this morning about environmental disclosures or, more […]
Which Firm Had the Most IPO Audit Clients In Q1 2021?
The SPAC bubble didn’t burst during the first quarter of 2021. Of the 407(!) initial […]
Which Firm Had the Most IPO Audit Clients In Q4 2020?
Audit Analytics has released its analysis of a very lucrative fourth quarter of 2020 for […]
FASB and PCAOB Do a Poor Job on Diversity and Inclusion
I’ve spent a good portion of my career monitoring the accounting and auditing standard-setting world […]
Which Firm Had the Most IPO Audit Clients In Q3 2020?
There was an explosion of initial public offerings in the U.S. in the third quarter, […]
Here Are 6 Reasons Why the SEC Whistleblower Program Is Successful
In response to the 2008 financial crisis, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Act in July 2010, […]
SEC Employees In DC Will Be Working From Home for the Time Being
While some accountants are wondering why their firms haven’t told them to just work from […]
Senators to SEC Chair Jay Clayton: What the Hell Is Going On At the PCAOB?
It seems we weren’t the only ones who were disturbed by the Wall Street Journal […]
PCAOB Fined RSM US $15,000 for Taking Its Sweet-Ass Time to File a Form 3
Say a PCAOB-registered accounting firm is a defendant or respondent in an administrative or disciplinary […]
Elon Musk Made It Clear He Gives an Immaterial Number of F*cks About the SEC
ICYMI, Elon Musk appeared on 60 Minutes on Sunday, and while it wasn’t quite as […]