Thornton had served as the PCAOB’s acting COO since July 2025.

Securities and Exchange Commission chair Paul Atkins has begun searching for new members and a new chair of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board only days after forcing the PCAOB chair to ...

Public Company Accounting Oversight Board Chair Erica Williams is stepping down after Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins asked her to resign. Her last day will be July 22, ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) -The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has tapped a longtime official of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board to lead the audit watchdog, after the agency's head ...

PCAOB board member Christina Ho speaking at the FEI CFRI virtual conference Public Company Accounting Oversight Board member Christina Ho plans to resign by the end of January as a shakeup is expected ...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has removed four of the five board members of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) and has approved substantial changes to the agency ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am the Jenkins Professor of Accounting at NC State University. A recent study published in Contemporary Accounting Research ...

Bill Gradison, a member of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board since its creation in 2003 under the landmark Sarbanes-Oxley Act, is as eager as everybody else to hear whether the U.S.

The American Law Institute’s annual Accountants’ Liability conference was held on May 14 and 15, 2026, in Washington, D.C.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) is a congressionally created nonprofit that regulates audits in US capital markets. From Washington, it oversees auditors of public companies and ...

Sometimes landmark court cases turn out to be little more than bumps in the road. Today’s Supreme Court ruling against the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board is one of those times. We will, of ...