Board Announces Standing Advisory Group Meeting
Washington, DC, February 7, 2007 – The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board announced today that it has scheduled a meeting of its Standing Advisory Group for Thursday, February 22, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at The Army and Navy Club, 901 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC.
The group will discuss the Board's recently proposed audit standard to replace its existing standard on auditing internal control over financial reporting. In addition, the group will engage in a panel discussion on forensic audit procedures.
The agenda and other documents for this meeting can be found under Standards, Standing Advisory Group, on the Board’s Web site at www.pcaobus.org. The briefing paper regarding the discussion on forensic audit procedures is now available. The briefing paper regarding the Board's internal control-related proposals will be available shortly before the meeting.
The meeting is open to the public and will be webcast on the Board’s Web site.
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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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