Premium Insights and analysis Consultation critical to getting law right Editors' Picks There is little point in creating or revising laws if the core problem is not the law itself but a failure of authorities to do the job for which they get handsomely paid.
Premium Insights and analysis Sustainability assurance standard coming soon, says global auditing chief March 7, 2024 By Tom Ravlic Economy & Industry Tom Seidenstein, chair of the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board, is in Australia to see what has changed since 2020.
‘Paradigm shift’ on sustainability standards for accountants and auditors October 20, 2023 By Tom Ravlic Economy & Industry The Australian Accounting Standards Board and the Auditing and Assurance Standards Board’s annual reports focus on sustainability standards.
ANAO happy with resourcing, Grant Hehir says attrition issues par for the course September 15, 2023 By Melissa Coade Federal Inter-agency poaching has increasingly challenged the ANAO to hold on to its ranks of specialist staff, says Grant Hehir.
Premium Insights and analysis Australia’s too-many oversight bodies are what enabled the PwC matter June 9, 2023 By Scott Hamilton and Stuart Kells Community & Social Robodebt and PwC are just the start of the uncomfortable truth that our oversight and integrity bodies are not very effective.
Premium Columnists Dot your Is and cross your Ts — the ANAO lives for detail July 8, 2022 By Tom Ravlic Editors' Picks It is not simply good enough to have a process that is deemed okay by convention or authorised verbally. Document everything!
Some audit work insufficient, inspection report finds December 1, 2021 By Tom Ravlic News ASIC finds some Australian auditors are still having trouble doing the sums on asset values and impairment of certain kinds of assets.
Data integrity examined in face of cyber threats September 7, 2021 By Tom Ravlic Communications & Technology The Auditing and Assurance Standards Board takes a close look at the issues auditors must examine when checking the integrity of data.
Premium Columnists Being ’embarrassing’ doesn’t seem to matter to the government July 13, 2021 By Tom Ravlic Editors' Picks Good auditors are like wombats and any documents that look like the record-keeping equivalent of Swiss cheese will prompt more digging. But to what end?, writes Tom Ravlic.
