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Quality auditing standards

Fresh thinking around auditing standards could raise audit quality, says Katharine Bagshaw.

The belief that proposed changes to auditing standards will improve audit quality is strong, but there is rarely much evidence to support it. Audit quality is hard to describe, still less define or measure, and the debate is muddled by a number of different assumptions:


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