Wednesday 28 February 2018

Auditing prominent companies

Vince Cable has drawn attention to the lack of competition in the audit market. If Adam Smith were alive today, he would surely suspect a "concert party".

As Private Eye has frequently pointed out, there is also a danger of a conflict of interest when an audit firm provides additional management advice to the company it is auditing - not that I am suggesting this is what happened in the Carillion case.

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