- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By 
Kyle Brasseur2023-07-12T12:43:00
Audit firm CohnReznick agreed to pay a $20,000 fine levied by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) for allegedly disclosing late a penalty it received from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
The firm was required to notify the PCAOB within 30 days of the $1.9 million settlement it reached with the SEC in June 2022 regarding alleged improper conduct during the course of two client audits in 2017; instead, it disclosed the event in December. CohnReznick was also faulted for not timely disclosing to the PCAOB three of its partners were penalized by the SEC as well.
“Registered firms must report qualifying events … on a timely basis so that such information is available to investors and can be used as part of the board’s oversight of those firms,” said Robert Rice, PCAOB director of enforcement and investigations, in a press release Tuesday.
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