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10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending August 9, 2025
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Compliance Tip of the Day: Key M&A Enforcement Actions
AI Today in 5: August 5, 2025, The AI at the SEC Episode
From the Editor’s Desk: Compliance Week’s Insights and Reflections from July to August 2025
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending July 19, 2025
Daily Compliance News: July 18, 2025, The Don’t Alter Docs Edition
Daily Compliance News: July 16, 2025, The Corruption Comes to Cannes’ Edition
Five Tips for a New Public Company Director
Compliance Tip of the Day: New FCPA Enforcement Memo - What Does it Say?
Compliance into the Weeds: Changes in FCPA Enforcement
The LathamTECH Podcast — Where Digital Assets Slot Into a Shifting Fintech Regulatory Landscape: Insights From the US, UK, and EU
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending May 17, 2025
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What auditors and underwriters should know - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has launched a Cross-Border Task Force to investigate fraud involving foreign-based companies, with a focus on market manipulation...more
The SEC just fired a warning shot across international waters. On September 5th, the agency announced the launch of a new Cross-Border Task Force aimed squarely at rooting out fraud by foreign companies—and the professionals...more
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) delayed the adoption of a final rule with respect to its June 2023 proposal (Proposal) to increase auditors’ responsibility to evaluate and disclose a public company’s...more
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) has delayed final action on its controversial June 2023 Noncompliance with Laws and Regulations (NOCLAR) standards proposal. The PCAOB website now indicates that the next...more
The PCAOB’s recent information release, SPOTLIGHT Auditor Responsibilities for Detecting, Evaluating, and Making Communications About Illegal Acts, is a critical guide for compliance professionals. The SPOTLIGHT sets out the...more
Regarding compliance, one area that requires heightened attention is the role of auditors in detecting, evaluating, and communicating illegal acts. Recently, the PCAOB issued a document entitled SPOTLIGHT Auditor...more
Of course, it’s not just the SEC that will feel the impact of a new administration. Even quasi-regulators like the PCAOB are impacted. Hence, the PCAOB’s recent decision to put its pending rulemaking that would broaden the...more
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Last week, the SEC approved the PCAOB’s new quality control standard – QC 1000 – that establishes a risk-based quality control framework for independent auditors to follow....more
On September 9, 2024, three of the SEC’s five Commissioners voted to approve the new PCAOB Quality Control Standard QC 1000 A Firm’s System of Quality Control. The new standard will substantially revise and refine public...more
For nearly two decades since its enactment in 2005, PCAOB Rule 3502 prohibited any “person associated with a registered public accounting” firm from taking or omitting to take an action knowingly or recklessly in a way that...more
Yesterday, the SEC approved, by a vote of three to two, a new PCAOB quality control standard, QC 1000, A Firm’s System of Quality Control, and related amendments to its standards, rules and forms. According to the press...more
Stay on top of ever-evolving ESG requirements and emerging trends - With the SEC’s newly issued rules surrounding ESG disclosures and the continued growth of regulations rolling out in the EU, Canada, Asia and elsewhere...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved a proposed amendment to Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) Rule 3502. The amended rule expands enforcement liability for associated persons who...more
Yesterday, the SEC held its third open meeting of the 2024 calendar year, at which the commissioners considered several proposals regarding auditors and the audits of public companies. Two of the proposals may be of...more
Yesterday, the SEC held an open meeting to consider a number of PCAOB proposals addressing the “general responsibilities of an auditor conducting an audit as well as technology-assisted analysis and contributory liability...more
The annual ALI-CLE Accountants’ Liability Conference occurred in Washington, D.C. on May 16 and 17, 2024 and was co-hosted by Junaid A. Zubairi, Chair of Vedder Price’s Government Investigations and White Collar Defense...more
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In this statement, SEC Chief Accountant Paul Munter discusses the importance of setting the tone at the top. According to Munter, “academic research has ‘long stressed the crucial role that tone at the top, set by...more
On Friday, SEC Enforcement charged audit firm BF Borgers CPA PC and its owner, Benjamin F. Borgers, with “massive fraud” involving “deliberate and systemic failures” to comply with PCAOB standards in auditing and reviewing...more
On March 6, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) held a virtual roundtable to discuss its June 6, 2023 proposed rule: Amendments to PCAOB Auditing Standards Related to a Company’s Non-Compliance with Laws and...more
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SEC Chief Accountant Paul Munter has posted a new Statement. What’s on his mind? Apparently, he is disturbed that, in recent inspections of audits, the PCAOB has reported a “troubling” increase in deficiency rates—meaning...more
Ideagen AuditAnalytics has just released its 2024 Report on Critical Audit Matters, a 3-Year Review, covering the years 2020 to 2022. Under the auditing standard for the auditor’s report (AS 3101), adopted in 2017, CAMs are...more