Stakeholders in the audit sector are raising concerns about the independence of auditors when the majority of the officials ...

Auditor independence has long been a foundational element of audit quality, and recent findings from the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) underscore the importance of auditor ...

Lordstown Motors Corp., a manufacturer of electric vehicles focused on the commercial fleet market, settled SEC charges for “misleading investors about the sales prospects of Lordstown’s flagship ...

Media coverage provides sobering lessons about what happens when government oversight lacks true independence. Look to Minnesota, where a catastrophic failure of oversight allowed an estimated $9 ...

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board imposed sanctions for the first time ever against an accounting firm, Warren Averett LLC, over auditor independence violations because it's a member of an ...

A handful of high-profile legal flaps in recent weeks should serve as a wake-up call to public companies that they need to make their own determinations about whether their audit is being delivered by ...

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