Overhaul ahead for audit market

Penny Sukhraj interviews Competition Commission inquiry chair Laura Carstensen

The chair of the UK's Competition Commission has said that while it did not conduct a 'root and branch' analysis of the audit market, its latest preliminary findings relating to the dominance of the Big Four audit firms may result in an overhaul of the audit as it currently stands.

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