Friday, May 09, 2008

PCAOB Ponders Global Auditing Standards


With accounting standards well on their way to globalization, auditing standards likely could be next. In a recent speech to the American Accounting Association, PCAOB board member Bill Gradison said the Board will move the issue of multiple auditing standards “to the front burner” this year. In its 2008 strategic plan, the PCAOB said the time has come to “examine the implications for the PCAOB’s mission of multiple auditing standards and varying audit environments across global capital markets and consider how the Board should respond.”

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