They worry that they are being left out of the "new economy", especially now that they are under pressure to avoid conflicts of interest that come from selling consulting services alongside audits.
He said Ryanair, which only flies to Morocco in North Africa, had conducted its own audits of airport security, alongside European and Irish audits, and revealed that the airline had been concerned about the safety of airports in Egypt where it had been considering opening routes.
Government figures are subjected to various audits already, of course, but alongside checking that things marry up with one another, forensic statisticians also have ways of spotting suspicious patterns in the raw numbers, and thus estimating the chances that figures from a set of accounts have been tampered with.
This week, French lawmakers are scheduled to debate a banking and financial regulation bill that would require risk committees alongside audit committees.
Neil Findlay, the Labour MSP and convenor of Holyrood's health committee, said this reinforced his view there was a strong case for a Holyrood investigation alongside Audit Scotland's.
London-based charity Living Streets has also been working alongside communities carrying out street audits with older residents to see what improvements could be made, as well as campaigning at a strategic level to influence positive legislative and infrastructure changes.
The department, working alongside the Department of Treasury and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, wants routine audits of records, systems, complaints and a compliance-review process.
They said that KPMG audits Celotex, the parent company that produced the insulation on the building, alongside its role as auditor of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC), and Rydon Group, the contractor that refurbished Grenfell Tower.
His clients have included all the big accounting firms, not least in their recent battle against the SEC's attempts to restrict their sales of services such as consulting alongside auditing, which Mr Levitt saw as a possible threat to the independence of audits.
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