Two-thirds of all licensees are paying over $1 million annually in internal compliance costs, including 13 per cent of those with less than 100 staff and representatives,...

Licensees should ensure they pre-vet any advice given, according to Fourth Line, as it is no longer acceptable to conduct retrospective audits....

Former Halifax Investment Services lead auditor, Robert James Evett, has been found to not be a fit and proper person to remain registered as an auditor following his con...

EC Audit was fined $40,000 while Robert Evett was fined $10,000 for auditing standards breaches of Halifax Investment Services....

Class has launched an online tool to help accounting practices to make the decision to work with an audit partner based on automation through technology integrations....

The first auditors in Australia to face criminal prosecution for failing to comply with auditing standards have pled guilty to the three charges against them....

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has cancelled or imposed restrictions on 42 SMSF auditors for failing to maintain their audit experience....

The audit industry has been delivered a reasonably favourable assessment by a key Parliamentary Committee because the Australian Securities and Investments Commission sai...

Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand has proposed a 15-point plan to improve the confidence and quality of audits....

The major financial services regulators need to be comprehensively audited to ensure they are actually delivering value for money in the work that they do reflecting the ...

SuperConcepts’ Graeme Colley explains why self-managed super funds are likely to come under more scrutiny following recent court decisions and how trustees and their clie...

The Australian Taxation Office has said that it’s already referred 37 SMSF auditors to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission since last June, as part of th...

Amid continued debate over the Government’s triennial auditing proposal for SMSFs, the SMSF Association has warned that the change would not produce significant cost savi...

The Institute of Public Accountants says the Government’s proposal to change the annual audit requirement for SMSFs shows it neither understands nor respects the work car...