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According to an American regulator, hundreds of employees of the accounting firms have shared answers to exams with each other for five years.
The Wirecard scandal has an impact on the fees that Dax companies pay to their auditors: EY has to give its top place to PwC. Meanwhile, Deloitte strongly increases. FINANCE analysis. The fees for auditing in the Dax40 have stagnated in the past financial year. Overall, the six auditors active in the top German stock exchange league accounted for 441.9 million euros for auditing and other services, as shown by an exclusive FINANCE analysis. The …
The PCAOB Made a Triple Sweep of Big 4 Cheaters in the Netherlands
To date, the largest fine levied by the PCAOB against a registered audit firm was 2024’s $25 million extracted from the pockets of KPMG Netherlands for widespread answer-sharing. In recent years the PCAOB has made it their mission to crack down on this thing that happens at literally every firm because something something capital markets (nevermind that many of the firms fined for this so far boasted flawless PCAOB inspections with zero deficien…


PCAOB fines Dutch units of Deloitte, PwC, EY for exam misconduct
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) has fined the Netherlands member firms of Deloitte, PwC, and EY a total of $8.5m (€7.2m) for cheating in internal exams. The audit watchdog issued separate settled disciplinary orders against these firms for breaching its rules and quality control standards related to their internal training programmes and monitoring systems. Over a five-year period from 2018 to 2022, the PCAOB found that all…
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