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Audit Committee Self-Evaluation Form For Your Use
Audit committee self-evaluation form for your use, click on the following: Audit Committee Self-Evaluation Form David Tate Esq 10302014 Dave Tate, Esq. (San Francisco/California)
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Comments for Audit Committees about the PCAOB May 2015, Audit Committee Dialogue
This blog post includes a short video discussing the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s May 2015, Audit Committee Dialogue, and below the video you will find a link to the Audit Committee...
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New Audit Committee Standard of Care – External Auditor Assessment Tool From...
Several influential organizations have issued External Auditor Assessment Tool, A Reference for Audit Committees Worldwide. Here is a link to a PDF of the Tool auditor_assessment_tool_worldwide. The...
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PCAOB Issues Concept Release On Audit Quality Indicators – Important For...
The PCAOB has released a concept release on audit quality indicators. You can find the release HERE, and the relevant PCAOB page HERE. These will be important for audit committees, external auditors,...
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SEC Issues Concept Release – Audit Committee Disclosures About The External...
This is my third new post about new proposed audit committee duties and responsibilities relating to the evaluation and retention of the external auditor, and the audit committee’s evaluation of the...
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Tate’s Excellent Audit Committee Guide – Completed Initial Edition – 115...
Click on the link at the bottom of this post for a pdf of the completed initial edition of Tate’s Excellent Audit Committee Guide 08042015. The guide is for boards and audit committees of public...
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Tate’s Excellent Audit Committee Guide – 122 Pages – Updated August 7, 2015
Please click on the following link for the August 7, 2015, edition of Tate’s Excellent Audit Committee Guide (122 pages), Tate’s Excellent Audit Committee Guide 08072015. Enjoy. Dave Tate, Esq. (San...
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Tate’s Excellent Audit Committee Guide Sept. 2, 2015 Updated (139 pages)
The following link is to my Audit Committee Guide, updated September 2, 2015, to include additional internal audit materials and links, 139 pages in total. Please read and pass this material to anyone...
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Fraud: Is Your Nonprofit Ripe for the Picking?
Fraud has always been a concern for nonprofit organizations, and it’s not going away. A recent Association of Certified Fraud Examiners report shows the median loss is more than $100,000. Click on the...
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CalCPA Seminar – SSARS 21 – December 15, 2015, Interesting and Not Always...
I attended a CalCPA San Francisco Chapter SSARS 21 seminar this morning, presented by Mark Dauberman. Mark gave an excellent presentation. SSARS 21 is effective for periods ending on or after December...
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The Yates Memo: What Is It and What You Need to Know
Click on the following for the article: www.wsandco.com Dave Tate comment: here’s a very good discussion by Priya Cherian Huskins of Woodruff Sawyer about the recent, September 2015, Yates memo and...
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Guest Post: Access to Internal Investigation Records by Shareholders | The...
Mary Gill Courtney Quirós In many instances when allegations of wrongdoing surface at a company, the appropriate course for the company’s board will be to Click on the following link for the article:...
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Ethical imperatives for every board | Listed Magazine
I recently moderated an address by Andrew Fastow, the former CFO of Enron, and followed up by delivering a keynote on the role of the board in ethics, tying in aspects of Mr. Fastow’s speech. What f...
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California Corporation Books And Records Statutes – Important For...
The press tends to cover litigation and court cases that present sensational facts or issues. Have you ever seen a news release that discussed California corporate bookkeeping and records rights and...
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Click on my updated Audit Committee Guide – 172 pages – includes SSARS 21...
Below I have provided a link to a pdf of my updated Audit Committee Guide, 172 pages, includes a SSARS 21 discussion, dated Oct. 24, 2015. Please do pass the guide to anyone who would be interested....
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Audit Deficiencies – What’s The Effect – Not Often Openly Discussed – An...
If you tune into PCAOB developments you are probably aware that the PCAOB publishes some of the results of its investigations of auditing firm audits of public companies. The PCAOB looks at auditor...
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