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PCAOB Gives Chinese Audit Firm the Boot Over Rules Violations

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The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) revoked the registration of a Chinese audit firm on Nov. First, on multiple occasions, the accounting firm failed to timely report the participants in its issuer audits on PCAOB Form AP, in violation of PCAOB Rule 3211, Auditor Reporting of Certain Audit Participants.

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The Talent Shortage Has Gotten So Bad Clients Are Now Doing Their Own Audit Documentation

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auditing requirements because in numerous audits over numerous years Deloitte China asked clients to select their own samples for testing and to prepare their own audit documentation. MAN, when they said there’s a critical shortage of auditors and audit supervisors they weren’t kidding. public company audit clients.

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Friday Footnotes: PwC Scandal Somehow Gets More Scandalous; Deloitte Denied in Court; Withum Embiggens in Florida | 11.8.24

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PwC accused of interfering in Australian tax leaks probe [ Financial Times ] PwC has been accused of interfering in Australia’s political and regulatory affairs after documents revealed the Big Four accounting group warned its local firm against co-operating with investigations into a damaging tax leaks scandal without permission.

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Friday Footnotes: The Profession’s Ethics Dilemma; Co-Pilot Called Out in Court For Calculations; Audit Uncovers File Called ‘Twilight Zone’ | 10.18.24

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SEC’s Dropped Auditing Charges Shows Damage of Jarkesy Decision [ Bloomberg Law ] The Securities and Exchange Commission’s recent decision to drop misconduct charges against a handful of auditors proves the SEC v. They’ve already sifted out the riff-raff, these are the good ones.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Feds Raid PwC; Big 4 Wants to Be Like Grant Thornton!? | 11.4.24

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” Australian federal police officers have commenced a search for documents at the headquarters of PwC Australia in response to the damaging tax leaks scandal. In a letter to auditors on Wednesday, ASIC announced it would soon commence a new data-driven surveillance of auditor independence and conflicts of interest.

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The PCAOB Did Not Appreciate Being Left Out of a Foreign Audit Firm’s Use of Foreign Auditors

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Because Smythe is registered with the PCAOB, their rules require that a registered public accounting firm and its associated persons comply with the Board’s auditing and related professional practice standards. Expect more of these fines to come, the PCAOB made use of other auditors one of its many nitpicking pet issues last year.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: ‘Auditors Are Not Lawyers’; Big 4 Break Up? | 7.31.23

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Related: PwC settled ‘false LPP’ penalties days before bid to suppress emails [ Australian Financial Review ]: The Tax Office signed a confidential settlement with PwC in March involving the firm’s false claims for legal professional privilege over 150 documents related to tax advice to a multinational client.

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