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Accounting & Auditing Update

The "Accounting & Auditing Update" is written by Tammy Whitehouse, a veteran business writer who has been a regular contributor to Compliance Week since 2005. Her work has also appeared in industry journals and periodicals including Journal of Business Strategy, Strategy & Leadership, Compensation & Benefits Review, Inc, Buyside, and myriad others. Whitehouse welcomes questions and comments from readers; she can be reached via e-mail at twhitehouse@complianceweek.com.
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IOSCO report gives marching orders to audit committees
Tammy Whitehouse | February 1, 2019
Securities regulators globally have banded together to call on audit committees to take a fresh look at their role in promoting and supporting quality audits.
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IOSCO proposal seeks to set practices for audit committees
Tammy Whitehouse | July 11, 2018
International regulators are developing a broad proposal to call for improvements in audit committee oversight of external auditors.
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IFIAR reports some audit improvement; calls for more
Tammy Whitehouse | March 9, 2018
Audit regulators globally say they’re seeing some incremental improvement in audit inspection results, but not yet enough.
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Global report suggests better leveraging audit committees
Tammy Whitehouse | May 30, 2017
Audit regulators are pondering how audit committees can be better leveraged to raise the bar on audit quality, including whether audit committees should have a more direct line of contact with audit regulators.
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Regulators globally say 42 percent of audits are deficient
Tammy Whitehouse | April 7, 2017
Audit quality is an even bigger concern outside the United States, where inspectors spot deficiencies at major network firms in 42 percent of the audits they check.
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