Partner Simon Bushell comments in The Times in relation to the collapse of construction group Carillion.
Simon’s comments were published in The Times on 25 January 2018, which can be found here.
“It is the proximity of these two events which has triggered the scrutiny of the FCA,”
“In the context of an infrastructure company, what does goodwill mean? In the end it was meaningless. When signing the accounts, the directors will have relied on advice from the company’s auditors.”
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