Thursday, April 05, 2007 The Securities and Exchange Commission is sending its accounting staff to work with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board on additional revisions to the auditing standard that has been criticized by public companies and legislators for creating costly audits of internal controls. At a Wednesday SEC hearing, staff members of the Office of the Chief Accountant asked the commissioners for permission to work with the PCAOB to address several concerns that were raised during the current public comment period on the revised Auditing Standard No. 2 — which both regulators loosely refer to as AS5. Saying the staff will be "fine-tuning" AS5, the commissioners voted unanimously on all the staffers' requests. Labels: 404, as5, pcaob, sec, sox Previous articles PCAOB: Board to Consider Proposing an Auditing Sta...
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