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Is Beckstead & Watts a Real Firm?

\We kid, we kid. We're sure it's a real firm but they don't seem to have time for professional services these days. B&W is the audit firm plaintiff in Free Enterprise Fund and Beckstead and Watts, LLP v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board that was heard before the SCOTUS earlier this month.

We were pointed to the B&W website which you might notice, is entirely devoted to its case against the PCAOB. As far as we can tell, there isn't any indication that the firm provides, you know, professional services. The page does link to the 2006 Accounting Today article that mentions Brad Beckstead as one of the "100 Most Influential People" because he serves as "the symbol of the very opposition to reform the law" but there's no mention of his superstar auditing abilities. E

ven stranger is the firm's latest PCAOB report which could indicate that the firm is indeed open for business except the report states that the firm doesn't have any professional staff or issuer audit clients. So can we assume that the firm's purpose of being is to serve as the poor audit firm that is taking on the PCAOB? We admire the gusto but what happens when the case is over? Seems like a lot of trouble just for spite.

2006 Top 100 Most Influential People.pdf Beckstead & Watts PCAOB Report 6.29.09.pdf