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• Bend Over, Citigroup, It's Time for a Checkup

  —Jr Deputy Accountant

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  Citigroup Inc's Vikram Pandit endured a brutal capital raising episode this week in an effort to win the bank's freedom from close government oversight, but the bank's CEO may have won less than he hoped.
  
  In a blow to [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 7:12pm EST
  by Jr Deputy Accountant

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• PCAOB Reproposes Risk Assessment Standards; 75-Day Comment Period

  —FEI Financial Reporting Blog

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  Earlier today, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board voted to repropose a suite of seven auditing standards relating to risk assessment and the auditor's response to risk, including risk of fraud. The reproposal includes changes made in response to comments received on the original proposal and other refinements. There will [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 11:26am EST
  by Edith Orenstein

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• Limiting Executive Compensation and Lessons Learned from Abroad

  —theRacetotheBottom

  As BofA pays off its TARP money, allowing it to avoid the oversight of the Pay Czar and to pay compensation essentially without limits, and Goldman opts to pay compensation that, on the present course, will equal more than $700,000 for every employee, it is clear that the US has [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 11:00am EST
  by J. Robert Brown

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• Helge: Regulation of the Charitable Sector Through a Federal Charity Oversight Board

  —TaxProf Blog

  Terri Lynn Helge (Texas-Wesleyan) has posted Policing the Good Guys: Regulation of the Charitable Sector Through a Federal Charity Oversight Board, 19 Cornell J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 101 (2010), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Recently, public confidence in the charitable sector has eroded due to a barrage of media...' [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 4:00am EST
  by Paul Caron

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• Ready for the fight: PCAOB seeks a bigger handout

  —Sox First

  On Friday, I did a blog entry looking at a case starting in the Supreme Court this coming week questioning whether the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) is constitutional. If the case gets up, it could end Sarbanes Oxley.But the PCAOB seems confident it will survive and with it, [...]

  Posted: December 06, 2009, 3:23am EST
  

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• TIGTA Submits Semiannual Report to Congress

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  The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration yesterday submitted its Semiannual Report to Congress: I am pleased to submit this Semiannual Report to Congress, highlighting the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration’s many accomplishments in promoting its mission to provide oversight of the IRS and protect the integrity of Federal... [...]

  Posted: December 05, 2009, 6:10am EST
  by Paul Caron

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• Sarbanes Oxley on trial

  —Sox First

  Amazing that seven years after it was signed into law, people are still pushing to wipe out Sarbanes-Oxley. On Monday next week, the Supremes will hear arguments that seek to dismantle Sarbox by wiping out the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB).The case, as detailed here, involves a small accounting [...]

  Posted: December 04, 2009, 1:41am EST
  

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• The PCAOB Wants an Increase in its Allowance

  —Jr Deputy Accountant

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  Compliance Week:
  
  Amid some uncertainty about its own future, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board approved a five-year strategic plan and an increased budget for 2010 calling for more staff to beef up audit inspections and enforcement.
  
  The [...]

  Posted: December 03, 2009, 8:00pm EST
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• PCAOB, Awaiting Supreme Court, Approves Budget

  —FEI Financial Reporting Blog

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  As the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board awaits Dec. 7 oral argument before the Supreme Court on a case challenging the constitutionality of the PCAOB - Free Enterprise Fund and Beckstead and Watts v. PCAOB and United States of America - the PCAOB board approved a $183 million budget yesterday, [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 12:09pm EST
  by Edith Orenstein

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• Schapiro Weighing Options on PCAOB Chair Pick

  —CPA.BLOG

  Bloomberg is reporting that Securities and Exchange Chair Mary Schapiro is close to a decision in picking the new chair of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.

  Kurt Schacht, managing director of the CFA Institute's Centre for Financial Market Integrity, is under consideration to lead the board, according to' [...]

  Posted: November 30, 2009, 5:48pm EST
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