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Audit partner rotation questioned

Survey: audit committees want 7-year rotation period

Accountancy Age, Accountancy Age 30 Jun 2009

Most audit committees in the UK would like to extend the five-year rotation period for their lead audit partner.

The ICAEW surveyed 121 FTSE 350 audit committee chairs and found that 78.5% of respondents wanted to hang onto lead audit partners for longer, or at least have the flexibility to do so.

Just over half expressed interest in a seven-year rotation period, while 24% opted to retain the five-year period but be able to extend it to seven if required. 21.5% said they would maintain the five-year period.

Mandatory rotation rules were introduced in line with the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation in the United States following the Enron scandal, which also bought down the company's auditors Arthur Andersen.

Regulators worried that if audit partners grew too close to clients over time, it might cloud the auditors judgement if problems emerged.

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