The PAIB Committee submitted its Comment Letter for the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC)’s Discussion Paper, Towards Integrated Reporting: Communicating Value in the 21^st Century. The PAIB Comment Letter provides the perspective of a preparer of internal and external business reporting. Among other recommendations, it highlights the need for how-to guidance for preparers to help them develop or redesign their internal processes to ensure readiness, and suggests that materiality needs to be defined in relation to investors and wider stakeholders.

The International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) is pleased to provide a series of recommendations for consideration by the G-20 at its meeting on November 3-4, 2011 in Cannes, France.

The Private Sector Taskforce of Regulated Professions and Industries was established in May 2011 at the request of the Presidency of the G20. The 2011 report provided the G20 with an analysis of the development of financial policy and regulation, with the aim of facilitating economic stability in the world’s capital markets. The benefits of regulatory convergence were identified, as well as the inefficiencies and associated costs created by regulatory gaps.

IFAC's comments on the FSA (UK) Guidance Consultation: Code of Practice for the relationship between the external auditor and the supervisor submitted on March 25, 2011.