Mboweni welcomes MP support for bill aimed at auditing profession

CAPE TOWN - Finance Minister Tito Mboweni on Wednesday welcomed political parties’ support for a new bill that aims to strengthen the body that regulates the auditing profession.

The African National Congress and opposition parties in the National Assembly approved the Auditing Profession Amendment Bill, citing the need for tougher regulation in the wake of a spate of scandals that have involved top audit firms in the country.The bill will now go before the National Council of Provinces for its concurrence before being sent to President Cyril Ramaphosa to be signed into law.

Mboweni said this put some top accounting and auditing firms in a bad light, calling into question whether the books of companies, government departments, and municipalities they were responsible for auditing were indeed in good order.“Once doubt is cast on the accounting and auditing profession, then you know we are in serious trouble,” he said.

Among the more controversial provisions of the bill is to give the Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors powers to search and seize documents.

Gaye_Davis Nonsense, the most corrupt profession in South Africa. In every big corruption scandal in South africa , a saica member is involved, I can mention steinhoff , vbs, sabc, eskom the list is endless.

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