IN BRIEF In the course of fulfilling its mandate to protect investors, the PCAOB has conducted inspections of public firm ...

IN BRIEF Public company auditing is a complex and challenging area of accounting practice. The following revisits the authors ...

The PCAOB’s inspections of audit firms in 2020 will continue to focus on areas that have been challenging for firms in recent years, George Botic, CPA, the PCAOB’s director of Registration and ...

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has issued a release to provide information to audit committees about its inspection process and how they might use the inspection reports to question ...

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board released a document Thursday describing its main objectives, focus and scope when inspecting audit firms this year. According to the PCAOB staff ...

The terms audit and inspection are often (and mistakenly) used interchangeably, but each of these programs play a unique and important role in safety management. While both involve identifying hazards ...

This is the question posed by Lou Gerstner in his book of the same name. Lou was the CEO charged with orchestrating the business turnaround of IBM. I too have participated in a business turnaround, ...

MDR, MDSAP, and FDA audits demand rigorous preparation, lifecycle traceability, and risk-based compliance for global market ...

During the pandemic, virtual inspections of restaurants and domestic food manufacturers became standard. Remote audits of foreign inspection practices are part of that new normal. USDA’s Food Safety ...