{"id":20650,"date":"2013-05-10T08:55:09","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T07:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=20650"},"modified":"2013-05-10T08:55:09","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T07:55:09","slug":"kpmg-under-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/05\/10\/kpmg-under-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"KPMG under investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/3e6973e4-b8bd-11e2-a6ae-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz2SsFPrIZk\" target=\"_blank\">the FT this morning<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Financial Reporting Council said on Thursday it was investigating whether KPMG was independent when it audited car dealer\u00a0Pendragon\u2019s financial statements for 2010 and 2011 as well as looking into a \u201cnon-timely disposal of a shareholding\u201d in a client by a KPMG member.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div>I'd <a title=\"The Pin-Stripe Mafia: How Accountancy Firms Destroy Societies\" href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/05\/08\/the-pin-stripe-mafia-how-accountancy-firms-destroy-societies\/\" target=\"_blank\">refer you to the lecture I put up by Prem Sikka the other day<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And then I'd add that after years of warnings from Prem, Tim Bush, me and others, is anyone surprised by this?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the FT this morning: The Financial Reporting Council said on Thursday it was investigating whether KPMG was independent when it audited car dealer\u00a0Pendragon\u2019s financial<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/05\/10\/kpmg-under-investigation\/\"><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":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kpmg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20650","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=20650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}