UK: Establishing the Accounting Standards Endorsement Board

The position of chairman of the new UK Accounting Standards Endorsement Board (UKEB) has been advertised on the Public Appointments website: see here. The advertisement, and role description it contains, is useful in that it sets out what role the UKEB will have and its place within the new regulatory framework following the UK's departure from the European Union.

Further information about the new framework was provided earlier this year in the explanatory memorandum accompanying the International Accounting Standards and European Public Limited-Liability Company (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019: see here (pdf). These Regulations, in chapter 3,  give the Secretary of State delegated powers to adopt and endorse IFRS for use in the UK and the process that must be followed. The Secretary of State is also given, by chapter 4, the power through regulations to delegate this decision-making function to another body. We now know that this body will be the UKEB.