[Global Financial Insights] PCAOB’s Updated Quality Control Standard Approved by SEC and More

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1. PCAOB’s updated Quality Control Standard approved by SEC

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) has adopted a new “Quality Control” standard, QC 1000, A Firm’s System of Quality Control to enhance the quality control standards for audit firms. The PCAOB requires all registered public accounting firms to implement QC 1000 to identify specific risks to their practice and design a quality control system with appropriate responses to guard themselves against those risks.

The aforementioned standard requires the annual evaluation of the audit firm’s quality control systems and the result of such evaluation shall be reported to the PCAOB by the firm’s key personnel. Furthermore, the audit firm issuing audit report to more than 100 issuers shall also be required to establish an External Quality Control Function (EQCF) which shall be composed of one or more persons who shall exercise independent judgment to the firm’s quality control system.

Considering the fact that the effective quality control system shall protect investors’ rights and the improvement in the audit firm’s quality control would result in the issuance of more informative, accurate, and independent audit reports, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) through its press release dated 9th September 2024, approved the aforementioned new quality control standard adopted by PCAOB along-with the related amendments to the standards, rules and forms.

It is hereby important to note that, the QC 1000 and the related amendments to other PCAOB standards, rules, and forms will be effective from 15th December, 2024.

Source: Securities and Exchange Commission

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