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Auditors Can Bring Trust, Confidence, and Reliability to Currently Unaudited Corporate Reporting

Expanding the role of auditors beyond financial statements would benefit investors, capital markets Washington, DC – Auditors are uniquely qualified to enhance confidence in a wide range of company-prepared information outside financial statements, according the Center for Audit Quality (CAQ). In a white paper entitled The Role of Auditors in Company-Prepared Information: Present and Future, […]

Survey: Confidence in US Markets and Public Company Auditors Stays Strong

Washington, DC – The percentage of US retail investors expressing confidence that public company auditors are effective in their investor protection roles has climbed to 83%, according to the 2019 Main Street Investor Survey. The annual Center for Audit Quality (CAQ) poll captures the views of US retail investors with at least $10,000 invested in […]

CAQ Announces 2019 Grants to Fund Academic Research in Auditing

Washington, DC – The Center for Audit Quality (CAQ) has awarded five new grants to fund independent academic research on projects of interest to the auditing profession. Over the past 11 years, the CAQ has provided funding for 44 such projects through its Research Advisory Board (RAB) grant program. “Independent academic research can have a […]

NABA, Inc. and CAQ Form Strategic Partnership to build pipeline for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)

This partnership will support Black and African American community college students seeking to continue their education at HBCUs in the accounting and finance fields. Washington DC, May 5, 2022 – Today NABA, Inc. and the Center for Audit Quality (CAQ), a nonpartisan organization serving as the voice of U.S. public company auditors, announced a new […]

CAQ Commentary on SEC Climate-Related Disclosure Proposal

Washington DC, March 21, 2022 – CAQ CEO, Julie Bell Lindsay, reacts to the SEC’s March 21, 2022 open meeting on proposals to enhance and standardize climate-related disclosures in the U.S.

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