Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 20 May 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Mr. Dargan Fitzgerald:

Well, I'm not sure it was too limited in terms of the ... in terms of the requirements on audit at the time. However, I mean, I do understand that ... that ... that the crisis has caused a re-evaluation of the benefits of external auditing and I do feel that external auditing, as an activity - and that the profession of those who are involved with it - has responded, at least to some extent, since the crisis, particularly in terms, as I just mentioned, of ... of ... through new auditing standards for audit reports for public interest entities making qualitative commentary on the risks and judgments that are included and involved in the financial reporting of public interest entities. So, I think that ... I think that the commentary in relation to possible shortcomings of both financial reporting and auditing need to be very carefully taken on board and I think many of those have already been acted on in terms of the financial reporting and auditing profession.

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