Yesterday, February 27, 2020, the IFIAR Board made the difficult decision to cancel or postpone all in-person IFIAR meetings in March, and to cancel the April 2020 Plenary Meeting in Zurich (and all other side-meetings), in response to the rapidly evolving Covid-19 virus situation globally. The Board is of the view that the prudent approach, in line with many other organizations, to take this action for the health and safety of all.

Members will be contacted shortly with regard to alternative arrangements for the Annual General Assembly Meeting and we will seek alternative methods for providing Members with the information and updates they would have received at the Plenary.

In February 2020, IFIAR released its eighth annual survey of inspection findings arising from its member regulators’ individual inspections of audit firms affiliated with the six largest global audit firm networks. While encouraged by the downward trend, IFIAR urges the GPPC networks and their member firms to continue efforts to achieve improved audit performance as the current inspection findings rates remain high.

Please click here to access the 2019 Inspection Findings Survey and related documents.