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The SEC's "token" enforcement action against Ripple for XRP

A tale of two SEC enforcement actions, Part 2 – Luckin Coffee and GE

A tale of two SEC enforcement actions, Part 1 – GE and Luckin Coffee

The U.S.-China audit showdown, and the decision the Big Four don’t want to make

Looking for red flags in an S-1/ prospectus?

Clayton leaves GE hanging but the company moves forward with Deloitte

Judge smacks down Ernst & Young's aggressive tax strategies for audit client Coca-Cola

Kodak is crashing but executives stay focused on the next new stock options scheme

Everybody called the Presidential race wrong, except Big 4 audit firm professionals

IPO Suspended! Five things to know when Caliber's mortgage IPO train barrels through Texas

Update: Timing is everything in Goldman Sachs' disclosure of its latest 1MDB settlement

Marcum in the Middle: Watchdog Research

More on GE, KPMG, and what's next

The SEC sent a Wells Notice to GE, which means its auditor KPMG has a lot to answer for

Trump, taxes, and banks

The SEC uses comment letters to zero in on the reverse factoring trend

EY, WeWork, and another connection

There's a flurry of things to say about the Snowflake IPO

The other reason to care about Herbalife’s China-bribery settlement

Where in the world did Walt Disney find theme park revenue for its 3rd quarter?

Video/slides from UT-Austin Ph.D. Symposium panel on China listings

The Palantir S-1 is out!

TechCrunch gets a peek at Palantir's confidential IPO filing

News and Views

Update: Cross-post: Where in the world is Marcum Bernstein Pinchuk?

Tesla Scrap

This week in Under Armour: A Wells Notice and a negative outlook with big loss kicker

Our teaching case on KPMG/PCAOB scandal has won an award!

Update: The Wirecard story is going, going, and gobbling up all of the Big 4

SEC's roundtable going in circles about the "China Problem," but it can be solved

Another Tesla Charts Podcast, this time about Jay Clayton's conflicts

Wirecard’s Auditors Are Under Fire

Why did the SEC, and Chairman Jay Clayton, go easy on KPMG?

Are Jay Clayton's conflicts kiboshing SEC Enforcement's BABIP?

There's plenty of stinky cheese to go around in the Kraft Heinz impairment lawsuit

Super Pumped: Everything about Uber except its accounting

Academic Research on the China Listings Problem

For Chinese Companies — “Double Secret Probation”?

Finding fraud: The schemers may change but the schemes are old school

McKenna is on the latest Tesla Charts Podcast

Is Ernst & Young violating auditor independence rules, again?

China frauds, auditors and regulators' obligation to protect investors

Is the Coronavirus going to take down any big companies?

Luckin Coffee: Anatomy of an auditor response to fraud allegations

Congress Gets Involved in Accounting Rules (Again)

Muddy Waters misses the forest for a short tree at eHealth

An update on SEC investigations of Tesla

Bob Iger always gets paid

New Research on Undisclosed SEC Investigations

Elon Musk wants to get paid

Jack Welch: The End of an Era

Is the PCAOB really investigating PwC for its role in the Mattel mess?

It's a rotten idea to fold the U.S. audit industry regulator into the SEC

Live from the archives: Top Ten Things Lawyers Should Know About Auditors

We're talking about goodwill accounting, again, and the conversation is contentious

Live from the Archives: McKenna On Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway, and Kraft Heinz

Walt Disney's auditor, PwC, led its original financial software implementation project

Should companies use Big 4 audit firms to implement enterprise financial software?

The SEC finally posts Square's comment letter file

Preview: The AAA-Audit Section Mid-year Meeting

Play it again... "Modernizing" Auditor Independence, Part 4

More "Modernizing" of Auditor Independence, Part 3

"Modernizing" Auditor Independence, Part 2

The SEC proposes to "modernize" auditor independence rules

Speaking Engagements/Conferences