# PCAOB Audit Firm Inspections & Enforcement Actions Scraper (`scrapers_lat/pcaob-inspections-enforcement-scraper`) Actor

Scrape PCAOB audit-firm inspection reports (firm ID, inspection year, jurisdiction, network, Part I.A deficiency rate, audits reviewed) and enforcement orders (respondent, order date, sanction type, release number, PDF). Optional PDF detail extraction. JSON, CSV or Excel.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/scrapers\_lat/pcaob-inspections-enforcement-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Scrapers Lat](https://apify.com/scrapers_lat) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $12.48 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

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# README

## PCAOB Audit Firm Inspections & Enforcement Actions Scraper

Structured, ready-to-analyze data on **PCAOB audit-firm oversight** — the U.S. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board's inspection reports on registered audit firms and its enforcement (disciplinary) orders against firms and individual auditors. Built for short-sellers, D\&O underwriters, private-equity and M\&A diligence teams, audit committees, and compliance and research desks who need this record in a spreadsheet or feed instead of a PDF archive.

Two datasets in one actor — pick **Firm inspection reports** or **Enforcement / disciplinary orders**.

### What you get

#### Firm inspection reports

One row per PCAOB inspection report, including:

- **Firm name** and **PCAOB firm registration ID**
- **Inspection year** and **report date**
- **Jurisdiction** (firm country) and **global network** (KPMG, Deloitte, PwC, EY, BDO, Grant Thornton, and others)
- **Part I.A deficiency rate** — the share of reviewed audits with at least one deficiency
- **Total audits reviewed** and an estimated **deficiency count**
- Direct **link to the inspection report PDF**

#### Enforcement / disciplinary orders

One row per PCAOB order, including:

- **Respondent** — the audit firm or individual auditor
- **Order date** and **sanction / order type** (settled, adjudicated, termination of bars)
- **Release number** (e.g. `105-2026-009`)
- Direct **link to the order PDF**

#### Optional PDF detail add-on

Turn on **Fetch Report / Order PDF Details** to also pull, straight from each source PDF:

- **Order summary** text
- **Monetary penalty (USD)** where one is imposed
- **Bar / suspension / revocation** flag and the list of **sanctions** (censure, civil money penalty, bar, suspension, revocation)
- **Full report text** and page count for search and manual review

### Filters

- **Firm / respondent name** keyword
- **Years** (inspection year or order year)
- **Jurisdictions / countries**
- **Global network** (inspections)
- **Inspection cadence** — annually vs. triennially inspected (inspections)
- **Sanction / order type** (enforcement)
- **Minimum Part I.A deficiency rate** — isolate the worst-quality audits (inspections)

### Output

Every record is delivered to the dataset and can be exported as **JSON, CSV, or Excel**, or pulled through the Apify API. See the **Overview** table view for the key columns at a glance.

### Example input

```json
{
  "searchType": "enforcement",
  "sanctionTypes": ["Settled Disciplinary Order"],
  "years": ["2025", "2024"],
  "includeDetails": true,
  "maxRecords": 100
}
```

### Notes

- Data is the public record published by PCAOB on pcaobus.org. No account or API key required.
- Free Apify plans are capped at 10 records per run.

# Actor input Schema

## `searchType` (type: `string`):

Inspections = PCAOB firm inspection reports (deficiency findings on registered audit firms). Enforcement = PCAOB disciplinary orders against firms and individual auditors (fines, bars, censures).

## `firmName` (type: `string`):

Optional keyword. Filters to records matching this audit firm or respondent name (for example 'KPMG', 'BDO', 'Deloitte', or an individual auditor's name). Leave empty to return every record in the selected category.

## `years` (type: `array`):

Filter by year. For inspections this is the inspection year; for enforcement it is the order year. Four-digit years, for example '2025', '2024'. Leave empty for all years.

## `jurisdictions` (type: `array`):

Filter by the firm's country, exactly as PCAOB records it (for example 'United States', 'China', 'India', 'United Kingdom'). Leave empty for all jurisdictions.

## `globalNetworks` (type: `array`):

Inspections only. Filter to member firms of a global network, exactly as named by PCAOB (for example 'KPMG International Cooperative', 'Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited', 'BDO International Limited').

## `inspectionTypes` (type: `array`):

Inspections only. Keep only firms on this inspection cadence.

## `sanctionTypes` (type: `array`):

Enforcement only. Keep only orders of these types.

## `minDeficiencyRate` (type: `integer`):

Inspections only. Keep only inspection reports whose Part I.A deficiency rate is at least this percentage (0-100). Use it to isolate the worst-quality audit engagements.

## `includeDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Add-on. For every record, fetch the actual PDF (inspection report or disciplinary order) and extract its text: the order summary, any monetary penalty and bar/suspension language for enforcement, and the full report text for inspections. Turn off for a faster, cheaper, metadata-only run.

## `maxRecords` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of records to return.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Optional. PCAOB is reachable without a proxy; enable one only if your network needs it.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchType": "inspections",
  "includeDetails": false,
  "maxRecords": 10
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "firmName": "",
    "maxRecords": 10
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("scrapers_lat/pcaob-inspections-enforcement-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "firmName": "",
    "maxRecords": 10,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("scrapers_lat/pcaob-inspections-enforcement-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "firmName": "",
  "maxRecords": 10
}' |
apify call scrapers_lat/pcaob-inspections-enforcement-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,scrapers_lat/pcaob-inspections-enforcement-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/Ik8fv6I1MrZ4MYjAv/builds/ebq8bo2xXNdlRspeH/openapi.json