Compliance Week caught up with Tom Seidenstein, chair of the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB), to talk about the independent organization’s current and future efforts to improve audit quality, the biggest challenges to audit confidence today, and what emerging issues might be around the corner.

Jaclyn Jaeger is a freelance contributor to Compliance Week after working for the company for 15 years. She writes on a wide variety of topics, including ethics and compliance, risk management, legal,...