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July 12, 2010 "To 404(b) or Not to 404(b)?"
CFO Magazine
June 28, 2010 "The.Supreme Court's PCAOB Decision: A Win for Investors"
The Huffington Post
June 22, 2010 “CAQ Funds 3 Academic Research Studies on Auditing”
WebCPA
June 17, 2010 “Sarbanes-Oxley Gains Some Acceptance, Survey Finds”
The New York Times
June 16, 2010 “Audit Groups Lobby Against Sarbox 404(b) Exemption for SMBs”
IT Business Edge
June 6, 2010 “Supreme Court Expected to Rule Soon on PCAOB's Constitutionality”
Journal of Accountancy
May 10, 2010 "Accounting Groups Object to Brown Amendment"
WebCPA
May 6, 2010 "PCAOB Investor Advisory Group Assesses Building Fraud Center, Audit Transparency"
BNA Daily Report for Executives   
April 22, 2010 "Groups Ask Senate Not to Weaken SOX”
WebCPA
April 13, 2010 "What Is the Auditor's Role in Finding Fraud?"
CFO.com
April 2, 2010 "CAQ Governing Board Member Harvey Goldschmid to serve on RiskMetrics’ Governance Council" Directorship
March 29, 2010 "PCAOB Proposes Rules on Audit Committee Communications"
WebCPA
March 10, 2010 “PCAOB Offers Small Business Auditing Forums”
WebCPA
March 1, 2010 “Restatements Continue to Drop; All Hail SOX”
Compliance Week
February 24, 2010 “SEC Reaffirms Its Commitment to IFRS”
Jim Hamilton’s World of Securities Regulation
February 5, 2010 "Two steps back"
The Deal
February 2, 2010 “Mark-to-Market Didn’t Hurt Banks During Financial Crisis”
BNET
January 20, 2010 “Showdown at top court over PCAOB”
The Bottom Line
January 12, 2010 “PCAOB Offers Q&As on Special Reporting, Succession”
WebCPA
January 5, 2010 "The New Decade: Fresh Start or More of the Same?"
Financial Executive magazine
December 17, 2009 “PCAOB Revises Audit Risk Assessment Proposals”
WebCPA
December 7, 2009 “US High Court Questions Constitutionality of Accounting Board"
Dow Jones
December 3, 2009 “Audit group opposes SOX small-business exemption”
Pensions & Investments
November 20, 2009 “US House Panel Approves A Toned-Down Accounting Proposal”
Dow Jones Newswires
November 16,2009 “AICPA, CAQ: Banking Regulators Should Not Set Standards”
WebCPA
November 11, 2009 “Chanos Condemns ‘Monstrous Idea’ That Banks Love”
Bloomberg
November 4, 2009 “CAQ Wants Congress to Preserve SEC Oversight of FASB”
WebCPA
October 6, 2009 "SEC: No more SarbOx delays for small firms"
Reuters
September 30, 2009 "Survey: Investors Gaining Confidence In Markets"
Time
August 25, 2009 “SEC taps Kroeker as permanent chief accountant”
Pensions & Investments
August 19, 2009 "The Great Fair Value Debate"
Directorship
August 3, 2009 "Barney Frank: 'We Will Never Legislate Accounting'"
WebCPA
July 31, 2009 “PCAOB Announces Formation of Investor Advisory Group and Seeks Nominations”
PCAOB
July 30, 2009 PCAOB Passes Engagement Quality Review Standard 
 JournalofAccountancy
July 27, 2009 “Goelzer Named PCAOB Acting Chairman”
WebCPA
July 16, 2009 "CAQ Awards Funding for Audit Research Projects"
Accounting and Compliance Alert
July 9, 2009 "Big challenges await next PCAOB Chair"
WebCPA
June 8, 2009 "Sarbanes-Oxley Auditing Board Chairman Olson Resigns"
Bloomberg
May 18, 2009 “Panel Says SEC Needs to Mandate Adoption of IFRS as Soon as Possible”
BNA Daily Report for Executives
May 13, 2009 “CAQ Offers Investors Lessons on Auditing”
Compliance Week
May 1, 2009 "No more mark-to-market guidance: PCAOB"
Reuters
April 14, 2009 “Messenger, shot”
The Economist
April 2, 2009 “Mark-to-Messy Accounting Change”
Forbes
April 2, 2009 "New FASB Rules: Back to Square One?"
BusinessWeek
March 24, 2009 “Lighten Up Capital Requirements Not Accounting”
CNBC.com
March 17, 2009 “Shareholder Value: Time for a Longer View?”
BusinessWeek
March 12, 2009 “The mark-to-market melee”
MarketWatch
March 11, 2009 "Elvis Lives, and Mark-to-Market Rules Fuel Crisis" -
Bloomberg
March 3, 2009 "SEC's Walters: Fair value accounting is crisis 'whipping boy'"
MarketWatch
February 27, 2009 "Ten Must-Do's for the Audit Committee"
Directorship
February 26, 2009 “US bill unveiled to oversee all broker-dealer auditors”
Forbes.com
February 25, 2009 “Accounting magic: Suspend one rule and watch banking woes disappear”
Daily Finance
February 18, 2009 "Trade Groups Urge Geithner Not to Tamper With Fair Value"
BNA Daily Report for Executives
February 9, 2009 "Goldman Sachs CEO Wants Mark-to-Market Rule to Stay"
Bloomberg
February 5, 2009 "SEC Pushes Back IFRS Roadmap"
CFO.com
January 30, 2009 "Deloitte CEO: Mark-To-Market Not To Blame For Crisis"
Dow Jones
January 28, 2009 The Icahn Report features Cindy Fornelli's views on "Improving Transparency, Regaining Investors' Trust"
January 15, 2009 “Kanjorski, Citing Madoff, Seeks Auditor Inspections”
Bloomberg
January 13, 2009 “CAQ Reiterates Accounting for Restructured Mortgages”
Compliance Week
December 16, 2008 "SEC Official Says Report Will Show Fair Value Not Cause of Bank Failures"
BNA Daily Report for Executives
December 12, 2008 "CAQ Offers View on Testing Journal Entries to Spot Fraud"
Compliance Week
December 10,2008 "Fair-value concept maligned for being bearer of bad news"
Kansas City Business Journal
December 8, 2008 "Fair value: fair to investors" by Cindy Fornelli - Worcester Business Journal 
December 1, 2008 "The fair value fallacy" by Cindy Fornelli and Jeff Mahoney
Financial Week
November 25, 2008 "U.S. audit watchdog approves 9 pct budget increase"
Reuters
November 22, 2008 "Meltdown 101: What is mark to market accounting?"
Associated Press
November 21, 2008 "Bank regulators should ignore GAAP, says ex-SEC chief accountant"
Financial Week
November 16, 2008 "Fair value stalwarts say ease capital rules instead"
Financial Week
November 14, 2008 "CAQ Tells SEC to Protect Fair Value"
WebCPA
November 10, 2008 "How to Fix Financial Reporting"
Business Week
October 30, 2008 "PCAOB Picks 11 New Advisory Members"
CFO.com
October 30, 2008 "Fair-value accounting: Here to stay"
Fortune
October 28, 2008 "Don't Blame Mark-to-Market Accounting"
The Washington Post
October 22, 2008 "The Crisis over How to Audit in a Crisis"
CFO.com
October 21, 2008 "U.S. audit regulator seeks changes to risk standards"
Reuters
October 21, 2008 "Blaming the Bean-Counters: Accounting rules did not cause the financial crisis; changing them won't end it" - The Washington Post
October 15, 2008 "Don't Suspend Fair Value, Cox Urged"
CFO.com
October 15, 2008 Groups tell SEC calls for fair value suspension "not in the public interest"
Joint letter from The CAQ, CFA Institute, Consumer Federation of America, and Council of Institutional Investors, to the SEC
October 10, 2008 CAQ's Cindy Fornelli One of the Top 100 People in Accounting
Accounting Today
October 9, 2008 Don't Write Mark-to-Market's Obituary Just Yet
Bloomberg
October 1, 2008 Changes to accounting rules meet resistance
Financial Post
October 1, 2008 CAQ's Cindy Fornelli discusses "mark-to-market" accounting on Fox Business Network
FoxBusiness.com
September 30, 2008 Government to clarify accounting rules for banks
Associated Press
September 30, 2008 CAQ Urges Congress to Reject Calls for Mark-to-Market Accounting Suspension
TheCAQ.org
September 27, 2008 Panel Suggests Ways Auditing Firms Can Stem Fraud
The New York Times
September 26, 2008 U.S. Treasury panel can't agree on auditor shield
Reuters
September 25, 2008 Bernanke is right on fair value rules
Financial Times
September 8, 2008 Capping Catastrophe
WebCPA
September 2, 2008 Battle over US liability limit heats up
Accountancy Magazine
September 1, 2008 US auditors renew calls for liability limits
Financial Times
August 28, 2008 U.S. SEC mulls 2014 for international accounting rules
Reuters
August 25, 2008 Appeals Court Rules PCAOB Is Constitutional – WebCPA
August 22, 2008 Sarbanes-Oxley Audit Panel Upheld by Appeals Court
Bloomberg
August 22, 2008 SEC Looks for Comments on New Audit Standard
WebCPA
August 19, 2008 08.19.2008 Reforms That Favor Non-Financial Data
Compliance Week
August 15, 2008 Investors’ Confidence in U.S. Capital Markets Drops
Wall Street & Technology
August 14, 2008 Auditors seek early scrutiny
Financial Times
August 5, 2008 SEC Holds Panel on Subprime Accounting
WebCPA
August 1, 2008 SEC Advisory Committee Finalizes Recommendations
WebCPA
July 31, 2008 Survey: Investor confidence remains strong, but falling
Washington Business Journal
July 29, 2008 Big-Company Audit Fees Ease Up, According to Exclusive Compliance Week Analysis
Compliance Week
July 28, 2008 Easing SOX Rules: Don't Mess With A Good Thing
Financial Week
July 24, 2008 CAQ Concludes Financial Reporting Tour
WebCPA
July 22, 2008 FASB's Herz calls for changes to revenue-recognition rules
Financial Week
July 7, 2008 Mission of the CAQ: Enhance Audit Quality
Directors & Boards
July 2, 2008 Could the Lawyers Kill the Auditors?
CFO.com
July 7, 2008 No lack of ethics at big firms
Accounting Today
June 30, 2008 CAQ Warns of Audit Liability Risks
WebCPA
June 27, 2008 Audit Group Faults Treasury Advisory Panel On Litigation Risk
Dow Jones Newswires
June 24, 2008 Low odds for NYSE effort to ease SarbOx
Financial Week
June 23, 2008 Regulators Support Group to Monitor Global Accounting Switch
Bloomberg
June 17, 2008 Education Needed for Move to IFRS
WebCPA
June 17, 2008 PCAOB to Push Auditors
Compliance Week
June 16, 2008 CAQ to Host June 27 Webcast on Auditors' Responsibility When Illegal Acts are Suspected
June 13, 2008 SEC Staff Recommends Oil Reserves Reporting Changes
Dow Jones
June 11, 2008 PCAOB-Registered Firms Required to Submit Annual Reports
WebCPA
June 9, 2008 EC seeks limited auditor liability to boost sector
Reuters
May 30, 2008 U.S. Treasury panel mulls audit liability reforms
Reuters
May 30, 2008 Treasury Panel May Propose Liability Reforms For Audit Profession
Bloomberg
May 15, 2008 US Auditors Worry About XBRL Costs
Accountancy Age
May 13, 2008 Speak Now and Quickly, or Forever
WebCPA
May 2, 2008 PCAOB Chief Olson Discusses Board's Public Policy Role, Priorities for 2008
BNA
May 1, 2008 Auditor Angst
CFO.com
May 1, 2008 U.S. audit watchdog eyeing hard-to-value securities
Reuters
April 30, 2008 FEI finds continued decline in SOX Section 404 costs
PR Newswire
April 22, 2008 For the PCAOB, It's "Independence Day”
CFO.com
April 22, 2008 Post-SOX Audit Quality Has Improved
SOX Compliance Journal
April 12, 2008 Rapid rotation threatens audit quality
Accountancy Age
April 11, 2008 PCAOB's Gradison: Let's Get Cracking on Convergence
CFO.com
April 11, 2008 Audit-Rules Convergence Plays Catch-Up
CFO.com
April 9, 2008 How Long Should It Take to Restate?
CFO.com
April 2, 2008 Treasury Blueprint Already Getting Bad Reviews
WebCPA
April 1, 2008 CAQ launches new Member Spotlight featuring BKD, LLP
March 24, 2008 U.S. Audit Quality Doesn’t SOX
WebCPA
March 19, 2008 Audit Quality Getting Better
WebCPA
March 18, 2008 A Vote of Support for Sarbanes-Oxley
Portfolio.com
March 18, 2008 Financial statements still a tough read, say audit committee members
Financial Week
March 12, 2008 CAQ Urges SEC to Use Proposed 404(b) Delay Wisely
WebCPA
March 7, 2008 Fixing the Financial-Reporting Supply Chain
CFO.com
March 4, 2008 Center for Audit Quality Reports on First Year
WebCPA
February 28, 2008 PCAOB Proposes Engagement Quality Standard
WebCPA
February 27, 2008 SOX's outside reach a model for foreign markets
Politico
February 26, 2008 New US audit standard aims to fix problems quickly
Reuters
February 22, 2008 Auditors up scrutiny of write-downs, firm survival
Reuters
February 14, 2008 A chat with Paul Sarbanes, co-author of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
The Virginian-Pilot
February 13, 2008 After Losses, Auditors Take A Hard Line
The Wall Street Journal
February 8, 2008 Corporate Auditors Focusing on Cash and Securities
The New York Times
February 7, 2008 Levitt committee mulls audit choice changes in U.S.
Accountancy Age
February 5, 2008 Auditor Road Show: "What Are You Thinking?"
CFO.com
February 4, 2008 A loophole that's lost its luster
FinancialWeek
February 2, 2008 SEC Grants Small Firms Reprieve From Audit Rule
The Wall Street Journal
January 29, 2008 Oversight Board OKs New Audit Standard
Associated Press
January 21, 2008 Lenders may fail to win relief on reporting losses
FinancialWeek
January 14, 2008 Top auditors seek freedom in shake-up
Financial Times
January 3, 2008 Crunch time puts the squeeze on auditing profession
Financial Times
January 2, 2008 Auditors apply extra scrutiny
Financial Times
December 21, 2007 Audit Watchdog Clarifies SOX 404 Requirements
WebCPA
December 13, 2007 GPPC issues paper focusing on determining fair value of financial instruments under IFRS under current market conditions
December 12, 2007 Letter to the Editor of The Wall Street Journal on "The Other Market Crisis" (delisting of foreign companies from U.S. markets)
by Cindy Fornelli
December 5, 2007 PCAOB Proposes Relying on Global Inspectors
CFO.com
December 4, 2007 Treasury Committee Can Help Improve Audits
WebCPA
November 30, 2007 Small Firm Audit Deficiencies Examined
WebCPA
November 28, 2007 U.S. accounting overseer is looking for friends overseas
Financial Week
November 27, 2007 Report Card for Auditors
WebCPA
November 16, 2007 CAQ to Host Nov. 29 Webcast on PCAOB Insights on Smaller Firm Inspections
November 15, 2007 "Auditors must press management to take a hard look at the real value of assets" (Letter to the Editor of Financial Times)
by Cindy Fornelli
November 14, 2007 "SEC Gets IFRS Filing Advice"
WebCPA
November 9, 2007 "Mind the GAAP"
by James S. Turley- The Wall Street Journal
November 2, 2007 "Auditors Get Tough"
by Rachel Beck - Associated Press
October 30, 2007 "Sarbanes-Oxley unlikely to change"
by Martin Kady II - The Politico
October 17, 2007 "With New, United Voice, Auditors Stand Ground On How to Treat Crunch"
by David Reilly - The Wall Street Journal
October 15, 2007 U.S. Treasury panel weighs in on audit profession
by Rachelle Younglai - Reuters
October 9, 2007 A Nice and Needed Primer
By Howard Wolosky, Editor-in-Chief, Practical Accountant
October 4, 2007 Letter to the editor of the Wall Street Journal regarding the Treasury Department's Advisory Committee
By Cindy Fornelli
September 24, 2007 "New at the Top" Profile of CAQ Executive Director Cindy Fornelli
by Judith Mbuya - Washington Post
September 19, 2007 A Confidence Builder (Letter to the Editor of Crain's Detroit Business)
By Cindy Fornelli
September 18, 2007 How Small Companies Can Use AS5
By Tammy Whitehouse - Compliance Week
September 10, 2007 CAQ to host October 4 webcast on implementation of the new internal control auditing standard for smaller public companies
August 23, 2007 Letter from U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer Asking Auditing Firms to Assist the Nation's Mortgage Crisis by Encouraging Their Clients to Modify Subprime Loans at Risk of Default (pdf)
August 21, 2007 Sarbanes-Oxley Marks Five Years - Former SEC deputy director weighs in on key changes to the accounting profession.
By Sukanya Mitra, AICPA CPA Insider
August 17, 2007 SarbOx Controversial, But Seen Doing The Job
By J. Bonasia, Investor's Business Daily
August 8, 2007 Sarbanes-Oxley gains are too significant to ignore
By Cindy Fornelli - Letter to the Editor: Financial Times
August 6, 2007 What's Next? Investor Thoughts on Sarbox Costs
By Alan Rappeport, CFO.com
July 31, 2007
(SOX Event) 		Investors Oppose SOX Reform
WebCPA.com
July 30, 2007
(SOX Event) 		SarbOx authors defend US corporate reform law
By Rachelle Younlai • Reuters
July 30, 2007
(SOX Event) 		Sarbanes-Oxley Gets Praise From Sarbanes And Oxley
By Judith Burns • Dow Jones Newswire
July 28, 2007 Investors Oppose Rolling Back Sarbanes-Oxley Act - Survey (pdf)
By Judith Burns • Dow Jones Newswire
July 23, 2007 SOX spillover - Transparency spreads from public to private companies
by Fritz Esker • New Orleans City Business
July 19, 2007 Letter to the Editor - Current Debate is More Nuanced Than it Appears
July 13, 2007 Simplify Financial Reports
By AARP North Carolina
July 8, 2007 Engaging Chat Over Breakfast on Audits
By Drew DeSilver • Seattle Times
June 18, 2007 Audit Group Endorses Ending Quarterly Earnings Guidance
By Judith Burns • Dow Jones Newswire
May 21, 2007 Commentary: Investor confidence is easy to shake, hard to restore
By Cindy Fornelli • WebCPA.com
May 18, 2007 Just Days Away: The Fate of 404
By Sarah Johnson • CFO.com
May 14, 2007 Letter to the Editor by Cindy Fornelli responding to Sen. John Kerry's column on small businesses and Sarbanes Oxley
Worcester Business Journal
May 14, 2007 Five Questions for Cynthia M. Fornelli, Executive Director at Center for Audit Quality (pdf)
By Shawn Zeller • CQ Weekly
Apr. 18, 2007 Will the SEC Embrace a Softer Sarbanes-Oxley?
Reprinted with permission from Knowledge@Wharton, the online research and business analysis journal of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Mar. 27, 2007 Audit Center to Embark On Roundtable Tour
Bill Carlin • WebCPA.com
Feb. 1, 2007 AICPA Joins Forces With Top Firms To Launch Center for Audit Quality (pdf)
Daily Report for Executives • The Bureau of National Affairs
Jan. 30, 2007 Accountants Form Group To Improve Audit Quality (pdf)
By Judith Burns • Dow Jones Newswires