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Lessons Learned from the Department of Labor Audit Quality Study

Auditing firms that perform two or fewer employee benefit plan audits have a higher rate of deficient audits, 70%, than firms that perform 100 ...

DOL Audit Quality Study: Lessons Learned and Takeaways - AICPA

In this report, we look at several items in the DOL Audit Quality Study that warrant discussion & will help EBP auditors prepare for the ...

Lessons Learned from the DOL Audit Quality Study for Employee ...

The findings provide valuable insights that can help improve the quality of EBP audits. Here are some key lessons and takeaways from the DOL ...

Top 5 Key Insights from DOL's Employee Benefits Audit Quality Study

1. Encouraging Reduction in Deficiency Rates · 2. Size Matters: Audit Firm Size and Quality · 3. Peer Review Anomalies · 4. Significance of Quality ...

DOL Audit Quality Study - U.S. Department of Labor

This assessment focuses on IQPAs' financial statement audits of employee benefit plans covered under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act ...

DOL report points out deficiencies in employee benefit plan audits

The DOL's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) found that 70% of audits fully complied with auditing standards or had minor deficiencies.

Key Takeaways From the Latest DOL EBP Audit Quality Report

Employee benefit plan sponsors should review the findings from the DOL study and evaluate the qualifications and experience of the plan's audit ...

Assessing the Quality of Employee Benefit Plan Audits

In 4 of the 6 audit strata, a substantial number of CPA firms received an acceptable peer review report, yet had deficiencies in the audit work that EBSA ...

DOL Finds Major Deficiencies in Employee Benefit Plan Audits - KLR

The U.S. Department of Labor recently conducted an Audit Quality Study that exposed deficiencies in 30% of employee benefit plan audits.

2023 DOL Audit Quality Study | Peer Review Issues | DE PA MD

Some benefit to AICPA EBPAQC Membership – Audits performed by members of the AICPA's Employee Benefit Plan Audit Quality Center had a ...

Genuine Learning Blog: DOL Audit Quality Study Report - YouTube

In November 2023, the DOL issued their Audit Quality study that found that 30% of ERISA audits from 2020 (prior to the adoption of SAS 136) ...

Department of Labor Study of Employee Benefit Plan Audit ... - NJCPA

A: The accounting profession has already begun addressing quality issues identified by the DOL. Actions to date include: • The AICPA is reviewing all audits ...

DOL's Employee Benefits Audit Quality Study: 5 key takeaways

The number of plans audited by an audit firm continues to correlate to audit quality. Those audit firms that audit 100 or more plans ...

THE AUDIT QUALITY REPORT FOR BENEFIT PLANS IS IN AND ...

The EBSA's report determined that “CPAs who performed the fewest number of employee benefit plan audits annually had a 76% deficiency rate” ...

Lessons Learned from the DOL and an EBP Audit Update on ASU ...

... Employee Benefit Plan Audits www.erisaCPAaudit.com; 2. DOL EBSA Audit Quality Study •Released May 28, 2015 •Reviewed 400 plan audits from ...

DOL Releases Audit Quality Study - Torrillo & Associates

Findings · There is a clear link between the number of employee benefit plan audits performed by a CPA and the quality of the audit work ...

Employee Benefit Plan DOL Update - AICPA & CIMA

The current focus of OCA's audit quality inspection programs and the good ... Thumbnail for Lessons from the DOL Study · Thumbnail for Peer Review Part I.

DOL Audit Study | ERISA Limited Scope Audit |

As I discussed in my last blog, DOL Audit Quality Study: Employee Benefit Plan Auditors Are not Making the Grade, the report is not favorable to ...

U.S. Department of Labor Announces Plan for New Audit Quality ...

For this new study, the DOL Employee Benefits Security Administration Office of the Chief Accountant is currently in the process of developing its methodology ...

DOL's Employee Benefits Audit Quality Study: 5 Key Takeaways

Of the 307 plan audits reviewed, 30% contained major deficiencies with respect to one or more relevant generally accepted auditing standards ...