The International Accounting Education Standards Board (IAESB) 2017-2021 Strategy and 2017-2018 Work Plan, approved by the Board at its November meeting, has now been approved by the Public Interest Oversight Board. The Strategy puts accounting education standards development at the center of the board’s work for the next five years, to ensure the accounting profession has the skills it needs to meet the ever-changing demands of business and the public sector.
Bob Dohrer, International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB) Member and Chair of the IAASB Data Analytics Working Group, provides an update of the IAASB’s data analytics project, including the highlights of the feedback received on the request for input issued September 2016 Exploring the Growing Use of Technology in the Audit, with a Focus on Data Analytics as well as the activities performed to date and the vision for the Working Group in its way forward. Also refer to the Feedback Statement issued on the responses received from the aforementioned request for input here.