US Audit Board Selects Inaugural Slate of Small Firm Advisers

The US audit regulator has tapped a dozen accounting partners and leaders to serve on its new advisory group focused on the needs and challenges of smaller firms.

Among the new advisers are Steven Morrison, the audit quality group leader for top 20 firm CohnReznick LLP, and Brendan Whalen, an audit partner with S.R. Snodgrass, P.C., a top 300 US firm based in Pennsylvania, according to the list released Tuesday by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.

• “We are eager to hear from the participants who have generously volunteered to share their real-world perspectives into the experiences of smaller ...