Few accountants but no bankers on the New Year's honours list
Last year’s Christmas honours list saw a few accountants in line for gongs and knighthoods, while unsurprisingly, the 966 names included no bankers whatsoever.
Top of the list is arguably Sandy Crombie, chief executive of Standard Life, although strictly speaking the now-Sir Sandy is an actuary rather than a formally qualified accountant.
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credit crunch
Why like that - few accountants? Because few only good give advise.
And no bankers? credit crunch.
All explanatory.
Liability of bank auditors ??????
Seems to have gone rather quiet on the 'Bank Auditors Liability' front
What is the exposure of auditors on HBOS, RBS etc....
Total WHITEWASH ..........
How about this for a total whitewash
http://www.kpmg.co.uk/news/detail.cfm?pr=3348
Frankly if the FSA wasn't such an incestuous disaster something would have been done about KPMG liability as auditors
It is no good having FSA people resign - that is the easy option to get off the hook
how about adopting the line of
That should focus the mind and be a wake-up call for these incompetents