Accounting body tells members to make annual pledge to be ethical

Chartered Accountants ANZ will force members to make an annual pledge that they will obey their obligation to behave with integrity and competence as part of a push by the professional body to restore trust in the sector.

A series of 14 actions and recommendations in a publication sent to members on Wednesday will also ask the government to push through stalled audit reforms and clarify the extent of the corporate regulator’s power to police audit firms.