Labor Department leadership says the update is designed to expand retirement plans’ access to highly qualified auditors and audit firms. The U.S. Department of Labor has issued new guidance for ...

This has been a tumultuous year for the concept of auditor independence. Several major, aggressive enforcement actions by the Securities and Exchange Commission have pushed towards the outer limits of ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission voted Friday to adopt amendments to its longstanding auditor independence requirements, relaxing restrictions on relationships between auditors and their clients ...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission adopted changes that relax some conflict-of-interest rules for companies and audit firms, making it easier for them to avoid violating auditor independence ...

Amendments adopted recently by the SEC are designed to aid in the determination of whether an auditor’s lending relationship with certain shareholders of an audit client impairs the auditor’s ...

Auditor independence rules would change under a new SEC proposal designed to permit relationships in situations when independence is not substantially threatened. If adopted, the proposed amendments ...

The fact that the Big Four audit firms are being used both for statutory and software licence audits should raise alarm bells in IT departments. As Computer Weekly has previously reported, the ...

Independence School District Central Offices on Forest Avenue in Independence, Missouri. Missouri State Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick's office said the Independence School District audit was not prompted ...

As Republican Scott Fitzpatrick mounted a campaign for Missouri state auditor, he vowed to go further than his predecessors and audit school districts over how they’re teaching students. Fitzpatrick, ...

Washington, D.C.--(Newsfile Corp. - October 16, 2020) - The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it adopted final amendments to certain auditor independence requirements in Rule ...