Tuesday, March 11, 2008

The Accountancy Regulators -- Motion Is Not Progress


My last post, critical of the proposal from the SEC’s Committee on Improvements to Financial Reporting for a “judgment framework” for accounting and audit decision-making, generalizes across the lack of substantive debate on the difficult state of financial reporting and the auditors’ threatened assurance franchise.

More public meetings are on the calendar – specifically, the US Treasury’s Advisory Committee on the Auditing Profession meets on March 13 (here), the CiFIR itself meets the next day (here), and the US Chamber of Commerce's Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness holds its next annual summit on March 26.

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