Sentence examples for audit watchdogs from inspiring English sources

Health and audit watchdogs found a catalogue of problems.

It was one of a series of problems which resulted in the resignation of three senior health board figures after health and audit watchdogs found "significant management failings".

The US audit watchdog has also aired plans for auditor rotation.

The audit watchdog has been accused by MPs of creating a "clear conflict of interest" by appointing a former KPMG manager to review the audit division of the Big Four firm.

The UK's audit watchdog, the Financial Reporting Council (FRC), laid out a series of changes earlier this month to tackle what it admitted was the "underlying falling trust in business and the effectiveness of audit".

The audit watchdog has been entertained by the Big Four accountancy firms an average of once every two weeks, with "hospitality" events including dinners, art exhibitions and even an Australian rules football match.

Stephen Haddrill, chief executive of auditing watchdog the Financial Reporting Council, said as much in January.

The agreement, announced by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, an auditing watchdog based in Washington, fell short of the full access the board wanted to inspect and examine Chinese audits of American-listed corporations.

Two of the most senior executives at the Financial Reporting Council have quietly stood down from its main board in the wake of concerns that the auditing watchdog was too dominated by former Big Four accountants.

"The amount and frequency of these improper expenditures alone warrants and audit," the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, wrote in the complaints.

Sadly the letter was never published, but was sold a few years ago for $16,500.Anne Ammundsen Broadstairs, Kent The insurance predicament* SIR – In your article on lax corporate oversight by the large audit firms ("Dozy watchdogs", December 13th), you suggest that the problem is partly due to the fact that companies pay for their own audits.