The Professional Oversight Board contributes to the achievement of the Financial Reporting Council's own fundamental aim of supporting investor, market and public confidence in the financial and governance stewardship of listed and other entities by providing:

• independent oversight of the regulation of the auditing profession by the recognised supervisory and qualifying bodies
• monitoring of the quality of the auditing function in relation to economically significant entities
• independent oversight of the regulation of the accountancy profession by the professional accountancy bodies
• independent oversight of the regulation of the actuarial profession by the professional actuarial bodies and promoting high quality actuarial work.

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