Tag: Audit & Accounting

EY Fined Record $100M for Cheating by Auditors on Ethics Exams

In the largest penalty ever imposed by the Securities and Exchange Commission against an audit firm, Ernst & Young must pay $100 million and undertake “extensive remedial measures to fix the firm’s ethical issues” to resolve charges that its audit professionals cheated on exams required to obtain and maintain Certified Read More

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FASB Proposal Attempts to Clarify Fair Value Measurement Rules

The Financial Accounting Standards Board proposed a new standards update yesterday that hopes to clarify guidance on rules on how entities should measure the fair value of equity securities, particularly when they are subject to contractual restrictions preventing their sale. In August 2018, FASB issued final guidance on Fair Value Read More

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U.K. Audit Regulator Scolds KPMG for Subpar Banking Audits

The Financial Reporting Council, Britain’s audit regulator, admonished KPMG once again for conducting poor audits. The FRC says the Big Four firm’s banking audits are not up to acceptable standards for the third year in a row. And KPMG isn’t alone as a target of the regulator’s criticism: Out of Read More