{"id":18356,"date":"2016-04-01T23:56:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T23:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lis-demos.co.za\/irba2025\/?p=18356"},"modified":"2026-03-11T23:56:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T23:56:47","slug":"the-irba-turns-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lis-demos.co.za\/irba2025\/the-irba-turns-10\/","title":{"rendered":"The IRBA turns 10"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>01 Apr 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ten years ago, to the day, the Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors (IRBA) came into existence. As an organization, we have developed and grown into an entity we are proud of, and continue to earn the respect of our global counterparts and local stakeholders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We wish to thank you, as a valuable stakeholder, for your support over the past ten years, which has contributed to South Africa\u2032s number one ranking for its auditing and reporting standards in the Global Competitiveness Survey for six out of the ten years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We look forward to our continued collaboration as we continue to maintain our standards, serve investors and the community, and protect the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Bernard Peter Agulhas<br>Chief Executive Officer<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>01 Apr 2016 Ten years ago, to the day, the Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors (IRBA) came into existence. As an organization, we have developed and grown into an entity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2025-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The IRBA turns 10 - IRBA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The IRBA turns 10 - IRBA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"01 Apr 2016 Ten years ago, to the day, the Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors (IRBA) came into existence. As an organization, we have developed and grown into an entity [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.lis-demos.co.za\/irba2025\/the-irba-turns-10\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"IRBA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-04-01T23:56:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-03-11T23:56:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Mashudu Munasi\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Mashudu Munasi\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lis-demos.co.za\\\/irba2025\\\/the-irba-turns-10\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lis-demos.co.za\\\/irba2025\\\/the-irba-turns-10\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Mashudu Munasi\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lis-demos.co.za\\\/irba2025\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1705c71eb92653e324b2470b6654509a\"},\"headline\":\"The IRBA turns 10\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-04-01T23:56:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-03-11T23:56:47+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lis-demos.co.za\\\/irba2025\\\/the-irba-turns-10\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":121,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lis-demos.co.za\\\/irba2025\\\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Latest News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lis-demos.co.za\\\/irba2025\\\/the-irba-turns-10\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lis-demos.co.za\\\/irba2025\\\/the-irba-turns-10\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lis-demos.co.za\\\/irba2025\\\/the-irba-turns-10\\\/\",\"name\":\"The IRBA turns 10 - IRBA\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lis-demos.co.za\\\/irba2025\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2016-04-01T23:56:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-03-11T23:56:47+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lis-demos.co.za\\\/irba2025\\\/the-irba-turns-10\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lis-demos.co.za\\\/irba2025\\\/the-irba-turns-10\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lis-demos.co.za\\\/irba2025\\\/the-irba-turns-10\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lis-demos.co.za\\\/irba2025\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"The IRBA turns 10\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lis-demos.co.za\\\/irba2025\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lis-demos.co.za\\\/irba2025\\\/\",\"name\":\"IRBA\",\"description\":\"Upholding Trust, Ensuring Integrity.\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lis-demos.co.za\\\/irba2025\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lis-demos.co.za\\\/irba2025\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lis-demos.co.za\\\/irba2025\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"IRBA\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lis-demos.co.za\\\/irba2025\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lis-demos.co.za\\\/irba2025\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lis-demos.co.za\\\/irba2025\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/01\\\/IRBA-Logo-1-scaled.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lis-demos.co.za\\\/irba2025\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/01\\\/IRBA-Logo-1-scaled.jpg\",\"width\":2560,\"height\":1057,\"caption\":\"IRBA\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lis-demos.co.za\\\/irba2025\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lis-demos.co.za\\\/irba2025\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1705c71eb92653e324b2470b6654509a\",\"name\":\"Mashudu Munasi\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/f28d2787a411b859536df1ac162dfb0b4604a3a660013c76c9df95e099340563?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/f28d2787a411b859536df1ac162dfb0b4604a3a660013c76c9df95e099340563?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/f28d2787a411b859536df1ac162dfb0b4604a3a660013c76c9df95e099340563?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Mashudu Munasi\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lis-demos.co.za\\\/irba2025\\\/author\\\/damos\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"The IRBA turns 10 - IRBA","robots":{"index":"noindex","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"The IRBA turns 10 - IRBA","og_description":"01 Apr 2016 Ten years ago, to the day, the Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors (IRBA) came into existence. As an organization, we have developed and grown into an entity [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.lis-demos.co.za\/irba2025\/the-irba-turns-10\/","og_site_name":"IRBA","article_published_time":"2016-04-01T23:56:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-03-11T23:56:47+00:00","author":"Mashudu Munasi","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Mashudu Munasi","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.lis-demos.co.za\/irba2025\/the-irba-turns-10\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lis-demos.co.za\/irba2025\/the-irba-turns-10\/"},"author":{"name":"Mashudu Munasi","@id":"https:\/\/www.lis-demos.co.za\/irba2025\/#\/schema\/person\/1705c71eb92653e324b2470b6654509a"},"headline":"The IRBA turns 10","datePublished":"2016-04-01T23:56:00+00:00","dateModified":"2026-03-11T23:56:47+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lis-demos.co.za\/irba2025\/the-irba-turns-10\/"},"wordCount":121,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lis-demos.co.za\/irba2025\/#organization"},"articleSection":["Latest News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.lis-demos.co.za\/irba2025\/the-irba-turns-10\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.lis-demos.co.za\/irba2025\/the-irba-turns-10\/","url":"https:\/\/www.lis-demos.co.za\/irba2025\/the-irba-turns-10\/","name":"The IRBA turns 10 - IRBA","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lis-demos.co.za\/irba2025\/#website"},"datePublished":"2016-04-01T23:56:00+00:00","dateModified":"2026-03-11T23:56:47+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lis-demos.co.za\/irba2025\/the-irba-turns-10\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.lis-demos.co.za\/irba2025\/the-irba-turns-10\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.lis-demos.co.za\/irba2025\/the-irba-turns-10\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.lis-demos.co.za\/irba2025\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The IRBA turns 10"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.lis-demos.co.za\/irba2025\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.lis-demos.co.za\/irba2025\/","name":"IRBA","description":"Upholding Trust, Ensuring Integrity.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lis-demos.co.za\/irba2025\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.lis-demos.co.za\/irba2025\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.lis-demos.co.za\/irba2025\/#organization","name":"IRBA","url":"https:\/\/www.lis-demos.co.za\/irba2025\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.lis-demos.co.za\/irba2025\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.lis-demos.co.za\/irba2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IRBA-Logo-1-scaled.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.lis-demos.co.za\/irba2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IRBA-Logo-1-scaled.jpg","width":2560,"height":1057,"caption":"IRBA"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lis-demos.co.za\/irba2025\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.lis-demos.co.za\/irba2025\/#\/schema\/person\/1705c71eb92653e324b2470b6654509a","name":"Mashudu Munasi","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f28d2787a411b859536df1ac162dfb0b4604a3a660013c76c9df95e099340563?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f28d2787a411b859536df1ac162dfb0b4604a3a660013c76c9df95e099340563?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f28d2787a411b859536df1ac162dfb0b4604a3a660013c76c9df95e099340563?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Mashudu Munasi"},"url":"https:\/\/www.lis-demos.co.za\/irba2025\/author\/damos\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lis-demos.co.za\/irba2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lis-demos.co.za\/irba2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lis-demos.co.za\/irba2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lis-demos.co.za\/irba2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lis-demos.co.za\/irba2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lis-demos.co.za\/irba2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18357,"href":"https:\/\/www.lis-demos.co.za\/irba2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18356\/revisions\/18357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lis-demos.co.za\/irba2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lis-demos.co.za\/irba2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lis-demos.co.za\/irba2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}