The Internal Audit Code of Practice aims to create an internal audit industry standard and boost the ‘status, standards, scope and skills’ of internal...
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View articleTomTom CFO Marina Wyatt joins the board of Shanks Group as a non-executive director Read More...
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View articleAudit Commission finds there have been improvements in the standard of financial reporting at local bodies Read More...
View articleGovernment must ensure firms are paid when they conduct a public interest report to hold local authorities accountable Read More...
View articleCommission staff take up new roles at E&Y, after the firm swept up east and south-east audit contracts Read More...
View articleA parliamentary committee heard evidence of pitfalls and gaps in a local audit draft bill Read More...
View articleEric Pickles lines up former BDO chief Jeremy Newman to wind down Audit Commission Read More...
View articleMarcine Waterman will take on the controller of audit role, succeeding chief executive Eugene O'Sullivan, from 1 September Read More...
View articleThe tender process for farming out Audit Commission work hasn’t opened up the market Read More...
View articleFRC publishes paper urging auditors to consider the original philosophy and principles of auditing - scepticism Read More...
View articleBDO, Grant Thornton, Mazars and Littlejohn pickup last of the Audit Commission contracts Read More...
View articlePlans to change DA Partnership into an employee-owned independent firm are scuppered by disappointing contract wins from the Audit Commission Read Mor...
View articleGrant Thornton picks up four Audit Commission contracts - DA Partnership picks up just one deal Read More...
View articleLittle drama from local government's move to IFRS, but was it worth the hard work in the first place? Read More...
View articleThe House of Lords will grill internal markets commissioner on their proposals for changes to audit Read More...
View articleLocal government has coped well will the "significant challenge" of global accounting standards, watchdog concludes Read More...
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