The UK’s Auditing Practices Board (APB) has decided to defer its revision of the International Standard on Auditing (UK and Ireland) 700 (ISA 700) on the auditor’s report on financial statements, which it published for consultation in December 2004. It believes that forthcoming changes to UK company law, the revision of the EU’s 8th directive […]
Read MoreEuropean internal commissioner Charlie McCreevy recognised that the current early stages of adoption of International Financial Reporting standards (IFRS) raised challenges in application and interpretation speaking at a recent European Federation of Accountants’ seminar on IFRS. In particular, he said there needed to be broader arrangements for consistent application at company level, and McCreevy mooted […]
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