REGULATORY ATTEMPTS to introduce audits for Japanese listed companies' quarterly earnings have been welcomed from accountants.

REGULATORY ATTEMPTS to introduce audits for Japanese listed companies' quarterly earnings have been welcomed from accountants. The Financial Services Agency (FSA) believes that requiring the figures to be audited will help improve transparency and raise corporate disclosures and auditing requirements to international standards.

Japanese stock exchanges have forced companies to disclose unaudited quarterly earnings since the April to June quarter of last year.

"Auditing quarterly reports would definitely give us the ability to more closely