Accounting and Auditing Enforcement was Down in 2021, But May Now be on the Upswing
A Cornerstone Research report, Accounting and Auditing Enforcement Activity—2021 Review and Analysis, finds that Securities and Exchange...
Audit Committee Members Think Audit Quality Held Steady During COVID, But Many See Fraud Risk Rising
The Center for Audit Quality and Deloitte’s Center for Board Effectiveness have published the results of their survey of the oversight...
Audit Fees Declined in 2020, But Don’t Get Used to It
Audit Analytics (AA) has released Nineteen Year Review of Audit Fee and Non-Audit Fee Trends, the 2022 edition of its annual analysis of...
Audit Committees and ESG: The Journey in 2022
In Navigating the ESG journey in 2022 and beyond, a January 2022 item in the “On the audit committee’s agenda” series, Deloitte’s Center...
BlackRock and State Street Tell CEOs and Boards What They Expect from Them in 2022
The CEOs of two major asset managers have issued public letters outlining their expectations for portfolio company managements and boards...
The PCAOB Revives its Advisory Committees
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has announced the creation of two new advisory groups — the Investor Advisory Group (IAG)...
KPMG Survey Finds that Fraud, Cyber, and Compliance Threats are High and Companies are Ill-Prepared
KPMG has issued A triple threat across the Americas: 2022 KPMG Fraud Outlook. The report, which is based on survey of 642 senior...
What Should be on the Audit Committee’s 2022 Agenda?
At the beginning of each year, many accounting and consulting firms present their views on the issues that audit committees should focus...
SEC Wants to Hear More About Pay-For-Performance Metrics
On January 27, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued a release reopening public comment on a seven-year-old proposal to require...
Acting Chief Accountant Stresses Auditor Independence and Audit Committee Oversight
On October 26, SEC Acting Chief Accountant Paul Munter issued a statement urging “all gatekeepers in the financial reporting ecosystem...
Slight Increases, Some Stagnation: CAQ and EY Report Cards on Audit Committee Transparency
On November 10, the Center for Audit Quality (CAQ) and research firm Audit Analytics released2021 Audit Committee Transparency Barometer,...
Restatements Decline for the Sixth Straight Year, Notching a New Twenty-Year Low
Audit Analytics (AA) has released its annual report on public company restatements, 2020 Financial Restatements: A Twenty-Year Review. ...
Adverse Management Assessments and Auditor Opinions on ICFR Effectiveness are Down
But Better Controls May Not Be the Reason Audit Analytics (AA) has published SOX 404 Disclosures: A Seventeen-Year Review, its annual...
Sustainability Reporting: (Almost) Everybody Does It
On November 16, the Governance & Accountability Institute (G&A) released 2021 Sustainability Reporting in Focus, its annual report on...
SEC Unveils its PCAOB Make-Over
On November 8, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced the appointment of four new members to the Public Company Accounting...
IFRS Foundation Announces the International Sustainability Standards Board
On November 3, at COP 26, the UN global climate summit in Glasgow, the IFRS Foundation, the parent of the International Accounting...
Deloitte Finds that Too Few Audit Committees are Climate Ready
Deloitte Global has released the results of a September 2021 survey of audit committee members to determine their readiness to response...
Delaware Issues a Warning on the Scope of Audit Committee Risk Oversight
On September 7, the Delaware Court of Chancery denied a motion to dismiss a shareholder derivative action alleging that the board of The...
SEC Revives a Proposal to Require Compensation Claw Backs After Restatements
The SEC has restarted rulemaking that would compel U.S. listed companies to adopt policies requiring recovery, on a no-fault basis, of...