South Africa: Auditors Bemoan New JSE Requirements

Johannesburg — AUDITORS are up in arms over new JSE requirements compelling them to have registered specialists in International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) if they are to audit listed companies.

"We really fail to see why it must be auditors who must be IFRS specialists and not listed companies themselves," Garth Coppin, an audit partner at Ernst & Young, said yesterday.

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