Grant Thornton Survey

of audit executives...thoughts about the threat of shifting regulatory landscape, role of SOX, cloud computing, data analytics and more http://accounting.smartpros.com/x71554.xml

FBI Site

for white collar crime.  Good for fraud awareness and to learn about common frauds.   http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/white_collar/whitecollarcrime

PCAOB and Chinese Reverse Merger Concerns

are detailed in this Journal of Accountancy article http://www.journalofaccountancy.com/Web/20113952.htm

EC audit reform is seen as utopian

according to the new chairman of the PCAOB http://www.vrl-financial-news.com/accounting/the-accountant/issues/ta-2011/ta-6087/ec-audit-reform-%E2%80%9Cutopian%E2%80%9D-dot.aspx

Stepped up enforcement of

the Foreign Corrup Practices Act has emphasized the scrutiny of companies in their involvement with others.  The article shows the top ten settlements in 2010 on enforcement actions from 2010 and years earlier http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/14555334

Ernst Young article on fraud

made the cover of the most recent Fraud Magazinehttp://www.ey.com/Publication/vwLUAssets/Who_owns_fraud_proof/$FILE/Who_owns_fraud.pdf

PCAOB to ramp up inspections

now that the organization is in the clear from the question of whether its existence was constitutional http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-11/u-s-audit-watchdog-to-ramp-up-enforcement-new-chairman-says.html