Jeff Johanns
Lecturer, Department of Accounting | The University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business
Austin, TX, UNITED STATES
Former PricewaterhouseCoopers partner with more than 30 years in public accounting
Areas of Expertise (3)
Corporate Governance
Accounting
Auditing Standards
Biography
Jeffrey Johanns joined the McCombs School of Business as an accounting lecturer in 2012 after working for more than three decades in public accounting and private industry as a PWC partner and U.S. assurance risk management leader. He is a CPA licensed in the state of Texas, and his past clients have ranged in size from Fortune 500 public companies to private start-ups.
He teaches auditing, financial statement analysis, and managerial accounting and writes regularly for Texas Enterprise and LinkedIn.
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University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign: B.Sc., Accountancy 1977
Media Appearances (5)
10 Questions Shareholders Should Ask at Annual Meetings
Big Ideas online
2018-04-16
Sorry, CFOs. Here are the tough questions shareholders should ask at the annual shareholders meeting to make their attendance a useful investment of time.
Wells Fargo Auditors Could Soon Deliver Another Blow to the Bank
MarketWatch online
2018-02-28
Wells Fargo’s cumulative regulatory and internal-control-related issues create a major challenge for its external auditor. KPMG is required to audit and issue an opinion on the effectiveness of the bank’s internal control over financial reporting as of the end of each fiscal year.
Audit Committees and SARBOX: Can They Do Better?
LinkedIn Pulse online
2015-02-20
It’s common knowledge that improving corporate governance was one of the principal goals of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SARBOX). Thirteen years later, it’s time to step back and examine whether today’s audit committees are functioning at the highest spirit of SARBOX’s ambitions...
How 4 Key Stakeholders Must Change to Ensure Sustainable Audit Quality
LinkedIn Pulse online
2014-11-10
The pursuit of audit quality continues. And it should. The audit function is critical to investors’ confidence in the capital markets. Across the spectrum of stakeholders, there’s no shortage of debate and input on the best approach to audit quality. The process of continuous improvement, however, must start from a sustainable framework in which the fundamental responsibilities of each key participant are clearly defined and accepted—and all participants understand the parameters of their respective role...
Audit Deficiency or Audit Failure? Let's Be Clear
LinkedIn Pulse online
2014-10-19
I just read another article about audit quality that includes this quote from the PCAOB chief auditor (the quote was originally published in The Wall Street Journal): “When we look at an audit, the rate of failure has been in the range of around 35 to 40 percent.” What, exactly, does this mean? It depends on your point of view—and your purpose in using the term failure...
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