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Audits
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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Transitioning from On-Site Audits to Zoom/Teams Audits
Auditors have to continue doing their job of auditing, but with the pandemic, audits now are rarely on-site. Many auditing firms are using remote technology to conduct audits, and companies…
Investigations and Enforcement Blog
The Financial Reporting Council’s Bite Proves Worse than its Bark
The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) is an independent regulatory body in the U.K. and Republic of Ireland (ROI) responsible for regulating auditors, accountants and actuaries. The FRC and its subsidiaries…
Government Contracts Legal Forum
Independent Public Accountants
Partner Nicole Owren-Wiest discusses Independent Public Accountants on an episode of Baker Tilly’s Fed Talks podcast. The episode covers questions about how IPAs are utilized in the government contractor space,…
The SEC Institute Blog
A New Format and Approach for Inspection Reports
In his speech “Seeing Through the Regulatory Looking Glass: PCAOB Inspection Reports” (which includes a delightful number of Alice in Wonderland references!), PCAOB Board Member J. Robert Brown Jr. explores…
UK Finance Disputes and Regulatory Investigations Blog
Regulatory investigations: High Court confirms auditors should decide whether client documents are privileged
By Sarah Neill
In the recent decision of A v B and another [2020] EWHC 1491, the High Court decided that where an auditor is required to provide documents to a regulator, and the…
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
IRS Announces Significant Compliance Project Looking at Private Foundations
Around the time I left the IRS Chief Counsel's Office in 2011, the IRS was engaged in a project to target high net worth families by looking at all aspects…
Cannabis & the Law
Title: Treasury Report Recommends Increased Audits of Cannabis Companies and Highlights Potential Section 280E Relief
By Foley Hoag
On March 30th, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (“TIGTA”) released a report which concluded, based on its estimates, that the IRS could have collected significant additional tax revenue…
Food Safety News
Audits continue, post-harvest wash water is key in COVID-19 battle
Contributed What are auditors doing to protect against transmission or acquisition of SARS-CoV-2? In the midst of the produce industry responses to the supply chain and marketplace disruptions from the…
The CPA Desk
PCAOB and SEC: Possible Merger by 2022?
By PKF Texas
https://youtu.be/AyDrpZtvGMY Jen: This is the PKF Texas Entrepreneur’s Playbook. I’m Jen Lemanski and I’m back once again with Ryan Istre, an Audit Director and one of the faces of our…
Medicaid & Medicare: A Legal Blog
Why Auditors Can’t be Unbiased
Last week on Monitor Mondays, Knicole Emanuel, Esq. reported on the case of Commonwealth v. Pediatric Specialist, PLLC, wherein the Recovery Audit Contractors’ (RACs’) experts were prohibited from testifying because they were paid on…