PCAOB Proposes Rollbacks to Quality Control Standard Amid Audit Firm Pushback
In a nod to audit firms’ criticisms that the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s (PCAOB) new quality control standard (QC) …
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Soyoung Ho covers regulatory and standard-setting activities of the SEC, the PCAOB, and the AICPA for Thomson Reuters in Washington.
Soyoung previously worked for Forbes and the Washington Monthly.
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