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In Split Decision, SEC Approves New Audit Quality Control Standard QC 1000

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On September 9, 2024, three of the SEC’s five Commissioners voted to approve the new PCAOB Quality Control Standard QC 1000 A Firm’s System of Quality Control. The new standard will substantially revise and refine public...more

DLA Piper

SEC Approves PCAOB Rule Amendment That Expands Individual Auditor Enforcement Liability

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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved a proposed amendment to Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) Rule 3502. The amended rule expands enforcement liability for associated persons who...more

Troutman Pepper

PCAOB Proposes Massive Expansion of the Auditor's Role

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On June 3, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) proposed sweeping new auditing standards (PCAOB Release No. 2023-003) that would require auditors to consider a company’s noncompliance with laws and...more

Cooley LLP

Blog: SEC removes Duhnke as PCAOB Chair

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On Friday, the SEC announced that it had “removed” William D. Duhnke III from the PCAOB and designated Duane M. DesParte to serve as Acting Chair, effective Friday. Duhnke has been serving as Chair since January 2018. The SEC...more

Cooley LLP

Blog: SEC preparing proposals to implement recommendations regarding emerging market listings

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For over a decade, the PCAOB has been unable to fulfill its SOX mandate to inspect audit firms in “Non-Cooperating Jurisdictions,” or “NCJs,” including China. To address this issue, in May, the Senate passed the Holding...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

GC Insights: SEC Office of Chief Accountant Issues Statement Reminding Management, Auditors, and Audit Committees of Continued...

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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a Statement of the Chief Accountant of the SEC, Sagar Teotia, outlining activities and concerns of the Office of the Chief Accountant (OCA) in responding to the impacts of...more

Cooley LLP

Blog: How have companies adapted to CAMs?

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In this report, Critical Audit Matters: Public company adaptation to enhanced auditor reporting, Intelligize examines data from a survey, conducted by SourceMediaResearch/Accounting Today, of 171 compliance specialists at...more

Cooley LLP

Blog: Deloitte looks at first round of CAMs

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AS 3101, the new auditing standard for the auditor’s report that requires disclosure of critical audit matters, is effective for audits of large accelerated filers for fiscal years ending on or after June 30, 2019. And that...more

Smith Anderson

PCAOB Provides Guidance on Critical Audit Matters

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On July 11, 2019, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) issued two companion pieces providing “insights” into the PCAOB’s requirements for the presentation of critical audit matters (CAMs) in the auditor’s...more

Cooley LLP

Blog: PCAOB offers help for audit committees about CAMs

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The PCAOB has just released a new resource for audit committees about critical audit matters, designed to “inform audit committees as they engage with their auditors on the new CAM requirements.” The new auditing standard for...more

Cooley LLP

Blog: Tips on CAMs at PLI panel

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An article in the Federal Securities Law Reporter reports on some tips gleaned from a discussion of, what else, “critical audit matters” on a PCAOB panel at PLI’s 34th Midyear SEC Reporting and FASB Forum. The new auditing...more

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Blog: New PCAOB guidance on auditor communications regarding CAMs

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The PCAOB has just published new guidance on auditors’ communication of critical audit matters in the auditor’s report. The guidance includes some new FAQs related to how auditors should describe their principal...more

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Blog: CAMs may be coming, but in the EU, KAMs have already arrived

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As you may recall, auditors of large accelerated filers will be required to report on CAMs—critical audit matters—in their auditor’s reports for fiscal years ending on or after June 30, 2019 and in auditor’s reports for all...more

WilmerHale

PCAOB Continues Outreach Efforts With CAMs Webinar

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Yesterday, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board hosted the first of three opportunities for auditors to attend a webinar on the implementation of the upcoming critical audit matters (CAMs) disclosure requirement. The...more

Cooley LLP

Blog: CAQ discusses lessons learned from “dry runs” on critical audit matters and related questions for audit committees

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As you may recall, auditors of large accelerated filers will be required to report on CAMs—critical audit matters—in their auditor’s reports for fiscal years ending on or after June 30, 2019 and in auditor’s reports for all...more

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Blog: CAQ publishes new resource on critical audit matters

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In October 2017,  the SEC approved the PCAOB’s new auditing standard for the auditor’s report, AS 3101, The Auditor’s Report on an Audit of Financial Statements When the Auditor Expresses an Unqualified Opinion, which will...more

Cooley LLP

Blog: Boilerplate Cams In Auditor’s Reports? That Would Be A Bummer, Man

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In what were surely unprepared remarks to the American Institute of CPAs conference on SEC and PCAOB developments, as reported by Bloomberg BNA, SEC Chair Jay “the Dude” Clayton commented on the impact he expects the new form...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

SEC Approves New PCAOB Auditing Report Standard

On October 23, 2017, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) unanimously approved (the “Approval Release”) the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s (“PCAOB”) proposal to adopt a new auditing standard, AS 3101,...more

McGuireWoods LLP

SEC Approves New PCAOB Standard

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Recently, the SEC approved the PCAOB’s new auditor reporting standard, AS 3101, The Auditor’s Report on an Audit of Financial Statements When the Auditor Expresses an Unqualified Opinion. Hailed as the most significant change...more

WilmerHale

SEC Approves Enhanced Auditor Reporting Model

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On October 23, 2017, the Securities and Exchange Commission approved the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s revised auditing standard, AS 3101, governing the contents and form of the audit report. As noted by SEC...more

Bracewell LLP

SEC Approves PCAOB's New Rules on Auditor Reports

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The Securities and Exchange Commission has approved the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s (PCAOB) proposed Auditing Standard 3101, The Auditor’s Report on an Audit of Financial Statements When the Auditor Expresses...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Compliance into the Weeds-Episode 51, the PCAOB and Compliance

In this episode, Matt Kelly and I take a deep dive into the Public Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB). We consider the role of the PCAOB in both audit standards and internal controls for compliance. What is goodwill, goodwill...more

Kilpatrick

Big Changes Coming to the Form and Substance of Auditor’s Reports

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In early June, the PCAOB adopted a new auditing standard (AS No. 3101) that will fundamentally change the format and substance of the audit reports provided by outside auditors to their public company clients. This is big...more

Dechert LLP

PCAOB's New Auditor Report Standard for US Public Companies: Increasing Transparency or Chilling Productive Discussion?

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The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) adopted a new auditor reporting standard on June 1, 2017. If approved by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the new standard would impose additional...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Accounting Oversight Board Adopts New Model for Auditor Reports

On June 1, 2017, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) adopted changes to its rules governing the content and organization of auditor reports required to accompany audited financial statements in filings made...more

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