Russell Bedford International - Russell Bedford called a allotment of aboriginal abounding associates of Forum of Firms

Russell Bedford International has been called one of the aboriginal abounding associates of the Forum of Firms afterwards advertisement it has implemented a globally accommodating above affirmation programme, committed to the use of International Standards on Auditing (ISAs), and met added specific belief requirements.

16 added all-embracing networks of accounting firms aswell accomplished abounding affiliate status, the aboriginal accumulation to do so back the Forum was formally accustomed in 2002.

“At Russell Bedford International, we are captivated to accept anesthetized all the Forum’s associates tests and to accept been acclimatized as a affiliate of an absolute accumulation of 17 of the world’s arch analysis networks,” said administrator Geoff Goodyear. “It has taken four years of committed accomplishment and a cogent banking investment to advance and apparatus our globally-coordinated analysis above ascendancy system. I am admiring to say our efforts accept been rewarded. This success should now accompany extensive benefits, in accurate the adeptness to attempt internationally in a narrower bazaar and with greater acceptance of our adeptness to accommodate a top above all-around account to clients.”

The Forum of Firms is an affiliation of all-embracing networks of accounting firms. These firms accomplish audits of banking statements that are or may be acclimated above civic borders. The Forum’s ambition is to advance connected and top above standards of banking advertisement and auditing practices worldwide. It conducts its business through its controlling committee, the Transnational Auditors Committee (TAC), which is aswell a board of the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC). Peter Stefanou, a administrator of Russell Bedford International and managing accomplice of New York based affiliate close RBSM LLP, is an alternating affiliate of the TAC, accepting served back 2004.

In adjustment to accomplish abounding associates status, Russell Bedford International had to authenticate that it had met the Forum’s associates obligations, which crave associates to:

- Maintain adapted above ascendancy standards in accordance with International Standards on Quality Control issued by the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB) in accession to accordant civic above ascendancy standards and conduct, to the admeasurement not banned by civic regulation, approved globally accommodating centralized above affirmation reviews;
- Have behavior and methodologies for the conduct of such audits that are based, to the admeasurement practicable, on ISAs issued by the IAASB; and
- Have behavior and methodologies which accommodate to the IFAC Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants and civic codes of ethics.

Russell Bedford International originally abutting the Forum as a conditional member. As of January 2008, of the 21 Forum members, 17 are abounding associates and 4 are conditional members. The Forum’s actual conditional associates are alive against acceptable abounding associates in 2008.

As a abounding affiliate of the Forum, Russell Bedford International is advantaged to announce Forum associates on its website, on its card and in its publications.

For added information, acquaintance Geoff Goodyear at Russell Bedford International on +44 20 7490 7766. Alternatively, appointment the website at www.russellbedford.com.

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Kempton Bedell-Harper
Marketing Director
Russell Bedford International
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United Kingdom
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About Russell Bedford International

Russell Bedford International was accustomed in 1983 by a accumulation of medium-sized absolute accounting practices. It is now a closely-connected all-around arrangement of accounting and business consultancy firms in key locations about the world, and is represented by some 200 offices in added than 70 countries in Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific.

All Russell Bedford associates are absolute firms alms all-embracing business admonition and casework to bounded and bunch clients. Most accommodate a abounding ambit of casework absolute accounting, auditing, tax advice, accepted business advice and banking consulting. In addition, abounding accept appropriate ability in accurate fields, such as all-embracing taxation.