Auditors Urged To Improve Engagement Quality Reviews

“A PCAOB report released Friday instructs audit firms to take steps to ensure that engagement quality reviews detect the audit deficiencies they are meant to identify.
Although firms’ methodologies reviewed by the PCAOB were generally consistent with the requirements of Auditing Standard No. 7, Engagement Quality Review, the report says a number of audit deficiencies should have been identified by the engagement quality reviewer.”