Board to Hold Forum in Boston on Auditing In The Small Business Environment
Washington, DC, August 15, 2006 – The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board will host a forum in Boston, Massachusetts, to help bring important information concerning the PCAOB to the small business community. The Forum on Auditing in the Small Business Environment is a program for registered accounting firms in the small business community to learn more about the work of the Board, specifically the PCAOB inspections process and the impact of new auditing standards.
The forum will be held at the Hyatt Harborside at Boston's Logan International Airport on Friday, September 8, 2006. The program will be hosted by Board Member Bill Gradison and staff from the offices of inspections, enforcement and standards-setting.
The program will focus on educating smaller registered accounting firms about the Board’s work. Attendees have the opportunity to earn continuing professional education credits. This program will feature a representative from a small registered public accounting firm that has gone through a PCAOB inspection.
Invited participants are auditors from smaller registered public accounting firms. The program is limited to this group in the small business environment because they are most directly impacted by the Board’s oversight responsibilities. The goal of such a format is to ensure that there is ample opportunity for discussion of PCAOB issues facing small business communities between representatives of this sector and Board members and its staff.
In addition to Boston, the Board plans to hold three more forums in Philadelphia, New York City and Chicago.
While there is no fee charged to participants for these events, pre-registration is required.
More information, including the forum agenda, is available here. For forum registration questions please send an e-mail by clicking here or call (202) 207-9061.
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The PCAOB is a private-sector, nonprofit corporation, created by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, to oversee the auditors of public companies in order to protect the interests of investors and further the public interest in the preparation of informative, fair, and independent audit reports.
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