Friday, February 23, 2007

FRC Publishes Further Update on Corporate Reporting & Governance Developments


The Financial Reporting Council (FRC), the UK’s independent regulator responsible for promoting confidence in corporate reporting and governance, has today published a summary of major developments in corporate reporting and governance in the last three months along with expected developments in the next quarter.

Principal developments during the last quarter include:
  • progress on the ‘Choice in the audit market’ project
  • publication of ‘Promoting Audit Quality’, an FRC discussion paper inviting comments from stakeholders on the quality of audit in the current legal and regulatory structure
  • publication of an amendment to the UK accounting standard on pensions (FRS 17)
  • publication of an EU Commission consultation document on the implementation of the third country auditor regime required by the 8th Directive.


See full Press Release.