The Financial Reporting Council’s (FRC) first director of local audit is facing increasing pressure to back the slashing of requirements amid a persisting council accounts backlog.
Neil Harris has demanded ‘higher standards and higher expectations of local authorities and auditors’ but has also acknowledged a ‘need for more proportionality and better risk focus for local audit’.
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