FRC announces international conference on the importance of culture
23 Apr, 2021
The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has announced it will be holding an international conference in June entitled 'Audit Firm Culture: Challenge. Trust. Transformation.'.
The conference will explore the link between audit firm culture and audit quality, with the objective of accelerating the pace of change for cultural transformation in the audit profession.
The conference will consist of five lunchtime virtual webinars, which will take place from 21 June 2021 to 25 June 2021, and will be of interest to audit professionals, audit committee chairs, academics, international regulators, culture change experts, directors and other stakeholders. The topics to be covered include the link between audit quality and audit firm culture, developing an auditor’s mindset of professional scepticism and challenge, the role of the audit committee, how to assess and measure culture and the role of the regulator in supervising culture.
The press release and information on how to register for the webinars are available on the FRC website.