More "Modernizing" of Auditor Independence, Part 3

More SEC auditor independence enforcement actions but many more potential enforcement actions that will likely not be brought.

On Wednesday evening, in Part 2, I wrote about how one PwC partner, Brandon Sprankle, apparently was “patient zero” for the most recent auditor independence plague at PwC.

I told you that Sprankle is the kind of Big 4 partner that investors, the public, and journalists never know anything about unless he breaks the law and gets caught.   That’s because p…