Accounting and auditing enforcement activity declined sharply in 2025 at both the Securities and Exchange Commission and the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) -The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has tapped a longtime official of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board to lead the audit watchdog, after the agency's head ...

Enforcement activity against accounting and auditing firms declined sharply last year under the second Trump administration, ...

According to a new report from The Brattle Group, enforcement activity involving auditors declined substantially in 2025, ...

While enforcements typically decline during administrative transitions, the SEC’s accounting and auditing actions touched a ...

Enforcement actions hit nine-year and four-year lows, respectively, during a year of agency leadership transitions. LOS ANGELES, March 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Accounting and auditing enforcement ...

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and the Securities and Exchange Commission curtailed enforcement actions ...

When the Supreme Court decided Sec. & Exch. Comm’n v. Jarkesy, 603 U.S. 109 (2024) last summer—holding that the SEC could not impose civil penalties without giving respondents the option of defending ...

House Financial Services Committee ranking member Maxine Waters, D-Calif., left, and chair French Hill, R-Ark. The House Financial Services Committee passed a budget bill Wednesday that eliminates the ...

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) announced yesterday that the effective date for QC 1000, A Firm’s System of Quality Control, would be delayed until December 15, 2026, though ...