Congratulations to Jon Pyzoha, who has been named the incoming chair (and current vice chair) of the American Accounting Association’s auditing section standards committee.
Professor Pyzoha and the committee recently wrote a comment letter to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), which oversees audits of public companies, for the PCAOB’s newly proposed standard, A Firm’s System of Quality Control and Other Proposed Amendments to PCAOB Standards, Rules, and Forms. The committee members on the author team include Professors Dana Hermanson (Committee Chair, Kennesaw State University), Colleen M. Boland (University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee), Matthew S. Ege (Texas A&M University), Noel Harding (UNSW Sydney), and Kyleen Whitehead-Prewett (University of Arkansas at Little Rock).
That comment letter has not only been submitted to the PCAOB, it has also been accepted for publication in Current Issues in Auditing. Comment letters have a significant impact on the PCAOB’s oversight of auditors, the quality and integrity of audit processes, and the information used by decision-makers in our capital markets.