BDO Pares Back Clients, Reforms Audit Practice to Boost Quality

BDO USA P.C. has launched a multiyear shake-up of its audit practice in a bid to repair a track record that lags its peers and bolster the performance of its audit teams.

In the past few years BDO, among the six largest audit firms in the country, has restructured its audit practice, shrunk its book of public company clients, and launched a new learning program meant to train entire audit teams. It’s also aiming to frontload more work for its auditors to ease the burdens of the busy annual report filing season.

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