Problems
What will AGI do for PCAOB Audit Defense Risk?
Public company audit partners and internal SOX compliance teams face heavy scrutiny from PCAOB inspections. A failed inspection results in public deficiency reports, reputational damage, and immediate demands for remediation. The risk stems from the burden of proving that management review controls and information produced by the entity are tested with exacting precision. Auditors manually read hundreds of pages of process narratives, system logs, and accounting memos to verify that a control operated exactly as described at a specific point in time.