Commission braced for battle with big audit firms

The European Commission has set itself on collision course with the largest audit companies with its proposed regulation that will radically overhaul the management and structure of the service sector, despite controversial plans for joint auditing being dropped. A rule stipulating that banks and other large institutions must use joint audits – strongly opposed by the larger audit firms – was scrapped in the draft regulation published Wednesday (30 November).It nevertheless ...

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