Name: In Conversation: Annual Enforcement Review by Financial Reporting Council
Duration: 10 min 44 s
Description: In our latest In Conversation podcast, Kate O’Neill, Director of Stakeholder Engagement and Corporate Affairs, is joined by Elizabeth Barrett, Executive Director of Enforcement & Executive Counsel, to discuss the latest Annual Enforcement Review, the ongoing End-to-End Enforcement review, and how this will shape the future of Enforcement at the FRC.

Join Kate O'Neill, Director of Stakeholder Engagement and Corporate Affairs, Mark Babington, Executive Director of Regulatory Standards, and Dhruve Shah, Deputy Director of Professional Body Supervision, as they run through some of the early themes and feedback from the FRC's SME audit market study. 

SME Audit Market Study: What we've been hearing

In this ‘In Conversation’ podcast, Kate O’Neill, Director of Stakeholder Engagement & Corporate Affairs, Sarah Rapson, Executive Director of Supervision, and Elizabeth Barrett, Executive Counsel and Executive Director of Enforcement, discuss the Financial Reporting Council’s (FRC) end-to-end enforcement process review, as referenced in our 3-Year Strategy. They discuss the reasons for launching the review now, the key issues the review is considering, and the importance of this work to stakeholders - including plans for upcoming roundtables.

Discussing the FRC's end-to-end enforcement process review

In this FRC ‘In Conversation’ podcast episode, Adam Mohamed, Head of Communications, discusses the recently launched digital reporting ‘Viewer’, a new free tool designed to improve access to structured company reporting data, with Phil Fitz-Gerald, Director of Digital Reporting and Taxonomies, Jennifer Guest, Head of XBRL UK Taxonomy Development, and Carl Palfrey, Lead Business Analyst at the Companies House.

Listen to hear how the Viewer unlocks vast repositories of digital data and enables investors, businesses and the public to easily access and analyse company information.

Transforming access to company data

In this podcast episode, Kate O'Neill, Director of Stakeholder Engagement and Corporate Affairs, and Project Directors, Ramana McConnon and Peter Kitson, discuss the crucial role audit plays in enhancing trust, confidence and transparency in financial statements.  

What is an Audit?

In this podcast episode, Kate O'Neill, Director of Stakeholder Engagement and Sarah Rapson, Executive Director of Supervision discuss the 2025 Annual Review of Audit Quality. The report explores the inspection and supervision results of audit firms across  the UK Public Interest Entity (PIE) market while also highlighting the introduction of the audit firm metrics.

FRC publishes annual audit firm inspection results

The Financial Reporting Council has revised Technical Actuarial Standard (TAS) 300 to bring greater clarity to practitioners and to ensure it continues to be fit for purpose. Join David Young, Stakeholder Engagement Manager, Andrew Bennett, Senior Actuarial Project Director, and Mark Harris, Actuarial Project Director, as they discuss what revisions in TAS 300 v2.1 mean in practice.

TAS 300: Revising the Technical Actuarial Standard for Pensions

In our latest In Conversation podcast, Kate O’Neill, Director of Stakeholder Engagement and Corporate Affairs, is joined by Elizabeth Barrett, Executive Director of Enforcement & Executive Counsel, to discuss the latest Annual Enforcement Review, the ongoing End-to-End Enforcement review, and how this will shape the future of Enforcement at the FRC. 

In Conversation: Annual Enforcement Review

Richard Moriarty, CEO, joins Kate O'Neill, Director of Stakeholder Engagement and Corporate Affairs, to discuss what the FRC has accomplished so far this year, take stock of the current political and economic environment, and give updates about the progress of some of its larger projects such as the Future of Audit Supervision Strategy, End to End Enforcement Review and SME audit market study. 

In Conversation with Richard Moriarty, CEO

In this In Conversation podcast episode, Kate O'Neill, Director of Stakeholder Engagement and Corporate Affairs, is joined by Tara Trousdale, Finance Director, Rob Amponsah, Senior Marketing and Digital Communications Manager, and Kristianne Russell, Stakeholder Engagement Manager, to discuss the FRC's Annual Report and Accounts 2024/25. They explore how the FRC successfully reduced the report's length by 30% over the last three years while transitioning to new reporting requirements, the collaborative approach to avoiding repetition and enhancing accessibility, and reporting with the same transparency and clarity expected from regulated organisations.

Building the FRC's Annual Report and Accounts 2024/25

In this first instalment of the FRC's new podcast series on the UK Corporate Governance Code 2024, Kate O'Neill, Director of Stakeholder Engagement and Corporate Affairs, explores how the revised Code encourages Boards to support consistent cultures in their companies with Lauren Tynen, Senior Corporate Governance Policy Associate, and Anneke Thordsen, Audit Market Supervision Project Director.

In Conversation: Annual Enforcement Review

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