PCAOB roundtable on oversight of non-US accounting firms
29 Mar 2003
The US Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has announced details of its 31 March roundtable on registration and oversight of non-US public accounting firms.
The roundtable will be divided into two sessions. The first (2:00-4:00pm) will address the appropriate scope of the Board's oversight of non-US public accounting firms. The second (4:15-5:00pm) will cover registration of non-US public accounting firms. The SEC Commissioners will attend. Confirmed participants include:
- European Commission
- Wirtschaftspruferkammer (German Chamber of Accountants)
- Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO)
- Department of Trade and Industry (United Kingdom)
- Financial Services Agency (Japan)
- Canadian Public Accountability Board
- Embassy of Australia
- Federation des Experts Comptables (FEE)
- Ernst & Young (Brussels, Belgium)
- PricewaterhouseCoopers (Toronto, Canada)
- Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (Santiago, Chile)
- Pennsylvania Public Employees' Retirement System
- State of Wisconsin Investment Board