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Corporate audit committees may want to pose this question the next time they meet: Who's conducting our audit? Compliance Week reports that more and more auditing firms--including Big Four firms--are outsourcing audit work overseas. The firms are quietly sending some low-risk tasks associated with audits to contractors where labor is less expensive.

Some auditing firms have discussed this practice openly in a recent academic paper, but CW was unsure whether the companies' clients are aware of the practice. Audit firms are required to disclose any sharing of confidential client information with a third party. The question is, do those standards apply when the information is sent overseas?

For more:
- read the Compliance Week article

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