Do You Have Something To Tell The PCAOB?
By Francine • Jan 28th, 2010 • Category: Food for ThoughtDear Madame:
Thank you for your recent submission to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB). We appreciate your taking the time to contact us. This automated response confirms that the PCAOB has received your communication.
The PCAOB’s mission is 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. Because the members of the public are an important source of information for the PCAOB in the fulfillment of its mission, we will review carefully your information. You should know, however, that it is the PCAOB’s policy to conduct its investigations on a confidential basis and, so, this may be the only follow-up that you receive.
The PCAOB conducts its investigations on a confidential basis to preserve the integrity of its investigative process as well as to protect persons against whom unfounded charges may be made or against whom the PCAOB determines that enforcement action is not necessary or appropriate. The PCAOB cannot disclose matters relating to investigations unless and until the matter becomes a public proceeding under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the PCAOB’s rules.
If you have any documents or other information that pertains to this matter, you may forward that information to the PCAOB by mail or facsimile. Our mailing address is: PCAOB Complaint Center, 1666 K Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006 and our facsimile number is (202) 862-0757. You also may communicate with the PCAOB via e-mail at tips@pcaobus.org or by calling (800) 741-3158. For more information you may visit our PCAOB Center for Enforcement Tips, Complaints and Other Information website at http://www.pcaobus.org/Enforcement/Tips.
We appreciate your interest in the work of the PCAOB.
Very truly yours,
Marion E. Koenigs
Associate Director, Division of Enforcement and Investigations Public Company Accounting Oversight Board ________________________ PCAOB Center for Enforcement Tips and Complaints
1666 K ST NW #800 | WASHINGTON DC 20006
TEL: 800-741-3158 | FAX: 202-862-0757
EMAIL: TIPS@pcaobus.org
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Francine McKenna (@retheauditors) has more than twenty years of experience in consulting and professional services including tenure at two Big 4 firms, both in the US and abroad. For more info, check the "About" page.
Hello Francine,
Now you really have me wondering what you submitted for consideration by the PCAOB. Is that posted somewhere and I just don’t know how to get there?
Sara McIntosh
@Sara McIntosh
Ha, ha… Any tips to PCAOB or SEC are completely confidential. If I did tip them on something I would never tell. I’m sure some of the firms are wondering too.