Episode 1: Audit Quality Indicators

PCAOB Dialogues

Why do we need audit quality indicators? Should they be scorecards on auditors? How can these indicators be useful to audit committee members, audit firms, and investors? In the first PCAOB Dialogues episode, these questions and more are addressed by Greg Jonas, leader of the PCAOB AQI project, and Mike Cook, audit committee chair. Greg Jonas answers questions from the history and purpose of the project to specific examples of potential indicators. With Mike Cook’s experience in piloting audit quality indicators from his seat on an audit committee, he provides insight into how audit committees can hone in on indicators that may help them do their jobs. As Sam Ross, the moderator of episode, says at the end, please don’t rely on this podcast as a substitute to reading the release. All participants speak for themselves and do not represent the PCAOB as a whole, or the Board or staff.