{"id":19009,"date":"2013-01-22T06:40:49","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T06:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=19009"},"modified":"2013-01-22T06:40:49","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T06:40:49","slug":"what-planet-are-kpmg-on-when-it-comes-to-fraud-could-it-be-the-one-the-big-4-dont-audit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/01\/22\/what-planet-are-kpmg-on-when-it-comes-to-fraud-could-it-be-the-one-the-big-4-dont-audit\/","title":{"rendered":"What planet are KPMG on when it comes to fraud? Could it be the one the Big 4 don&#8217;t audit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not sure what planet KPMG are on. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/59c259f6-63c4-11e2-84d8-00144feab49a.html#ixzz2IgSE4wgN\" target=\"_blank\">FT report this morning that<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The total value of large frauds reported by UK corporates fell to \u00a3824m in 2012, its lowest level since 2004, but that may represent a temporary lull because groups continue to be hit hard by malfeasance committed by insiders, an annual survey by KMPG has found.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hang on a minute. Have they heard of PPI, LIBOR rigging, HSBC's\u00a0money\u00a0laundering, and more. Or has all that been\u00a0sanctified\u00a0out?<\/p>\n<p>This appears to be a wilful exercise in turning a blind eye to the fraud the Big 4 audited to me, but I'm\u00a0sure\u00a0they'd disagree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not sure what planet KPMG are on. The FT report this morning that: The total value of large frauds reported by UK corporates<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/01\/22\/what-planet-are-kpmg-on-when-it-comes-to-fraud-could-it-be-the-one-the-big-4-dont-audit\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-4","category-corruption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}