All audit supervision articles

  • Blog

    PCAOB fines Grant Thornton over audit, partner failures

    2017-12-20T15:15:00Z

    The PCAOB has extracted a $1.5 million settlement from Grant Thornton over allegations of audit and quality control failures around engagement partner performance.

  • Blog

    PCAOB revises proposal on supervising outside audit work

    2017-09-27T17:45:00Z

    The PCAOB is asking for a new round of public comment on a revised proposed standard that seeks to raise the bar on how audit firms supervise outside auditors.

  • Blog

    PCAOB proposes new rules for supervising outside audit work

    2016-04-12T13:30:00Z

    The PCAOB is changing the rules on how audit firms must manage the outside auditors they hire to help with audit work. The board has proposed for public comment a new standard and amendments to existing standards to direct auditors on how they must evaluate and supervise the work of ...

  • Article

    Regulators explore what’s wrong with audit supervision

    2016-04-12T12:45:00Z

    Image: Audit supervision in general and auditing firm staffing levels and management structure in particular are under scrutiny as an old question surfaces: How can audit firms improve the quality of their own systems? “There is this inference that we keep finding engagements where we think the auditing standards aren’t ...