- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By 
Tammy Whitehouse2018-12-12T15:45:00
The PCAOB saw some improvement in the audit of management review controls during its 2018 inspections, but it’s still an area of focus into 2019.
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Auditors walk a fine line in reporting adverse internal controls, straddling regulators when they fail to flag weaknesses but punished in the market when they do.
Adverse auditor attestations on the state of internal controls at public companies made a bit of a comeback in 2018 after a brief retreat, according to a coming report from Audit Analytics.
The PCAOB has disciplined two former Big Four auditors—one over an audit of internal control and the other over inspection issues.
