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    Introduction Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), a nonprofit corporation that established by Congress and created by Sarbanes- Oxley Act, aims to supervise the audit of the public registered companies to make sure their reports conform the requirements of fairness and independence, in order to protect the interest of information users and investors (“PCAOB”, 2015). Actually, there are three major duties that PCAOB serves: setting auditing standards, inspecting registered public accounting

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    Congress created the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) or known as the Board, a nonprofit corporation in 2002 after Sarbanes- Oxley Act. The PCAOB purpose is to keep watch over audits of public companies in order to protect investors. Their responsibilities are broken into three main parts besides registering public accounting firms, the first one which is setting auditing standards by establishing what they need to do for audits, establishing quality controls, ethics, and independence

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    SOX established the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) to regulate the audit industry to oversee accounting professionals who provided independent audit reports for publicly traded companies (SEC). Key responsibilities include: registering public accounting firms and establishing audit, quality control, ethics, independence, and other standards relating to public company audits (SEC). Conducting inspections, investigations, and disciplinary proceedings of registered accounting firms

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    Public limited company and private limited company. _ Difference Company is defined as a legal entity which is allowed by legislation and permits a group of people to run a business. Finance is the basic ingredients of a business. Without cash a business can not run.various sources of finance helps a business to grow and to fulfill it’s need of wages, advertising, expansion, payment of interest etc. Different sources of finance are used depending upon their maturity period. To built a company

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    Public Company Accounting Oversight Board; Will it Protect Investors? The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) was created by Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. This board was created to oversee the audit of public companies, subject to the securities laws, in order to protect the interests of investors (15 USC 7201, 2002). It was created in wake of the recent financial scandals of Enron, WorldCom, and Global Crossing to name a few. This "Act" established by Congress is to create an oversight

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    Business Organisations Task 1: TESCO Plc (public limited company) is a British multinational grocery and general merchandise retailer. It is the third largest retailer in the world measured by its profit, and its second measured by its revenue. TESCO Plc is owned by shareholders who fund the company. The general public can buy shares in the company and then become shareholders; this method allows TESCO to gain funds. The reason I would choose to locate TESCO in the new business park is because

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    Public Company Accounting Oversight Board; Will it Protect Investors?      The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) was created by Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. This board was created to oversee the audit of public companies, subject to the securities laws, in order to protect the interests of investors (15 USC 7201, 2002). It was created in wake of the recent financial scandals of Enron, WorldCom, and Global Crossing to name a few. This “Act” established by Congress is to create an

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    pharmaceutical companies apparently commit fraud, cover up their mistakes, and increase prices of their products for maximum profits. This criticism of pharmaceutical companies is sometimes justified, especially in the issue of neglected tropical diseases (NTD). NTDs are a group of diseases that predominantly affect less-economically developed populations but are eliminated in the developed world. Effective treatment for various NTDs have existed since the last century, but pharmaceutical companies have historically

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    In the case of “Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board” They were trying to determine what powers can reside over Public Company Accounting Oversight Board or also known as the PCAOB. They was disputing the fact that the President as no control over the board member since they are not appointed government officials and are not limited by government limitations. They are in fact in control over by the SEC, which stands for the securities and exchange commissions. In this

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    convert the structure of Facebook from private limited company to public limited company. Facebook values shares at £24 each, and that its shares would began trading in New York on 18th of May 2012. It is seem that Facebook would be worth £66bn at this price. The following will analyse whether Facebook can benefit from the changing between private limited company to public limited company. Ltd is the short for

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