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Report into Carillion's finances delayed

Open-access content Monday 13th January 2020 — updated 10.01pm, Tuesday 26th May 2020
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13 January 2020 | Herpreet Kaur Grewal 


An investigation into the financial statements of Carillion is expected to be completed by summer 2020 - six months later than expected, according to the Financial Reporting Council. 


On 29 January 2018 the FRC announced the start of an investigation in relation to KPMG's audit of the financial statements of Carillion plc for the years ended 31 December 2014, 2015 and 2016, and additional audit work carried out during 2017.  

 

It provided updates on the progress of the investigation in May 2018 and January 2019. In February 2019 the FRC announced the opening of an investigation in respect of the audit of certain matters relating to the financial statements of Carillion plc for the year ended 31 December 2013.

 

In a statement the FRC said: "Our investigation of the audits is well advanced. An extensive review has been undertaken of a substantial volume of material, including the audit work papers, documents produced by Carillion and third parties, e.g. internal auditors and external advisers, and emails and other correspondence. We have also conducted a series of detailed interviews. An independent expert is now considering our analysis in order to provide an expert opinion on whether there were breaches of auditing standards. We are also taking advice from external counsel and we continue to cooperate to the fullest extent permissible with other regulators pursuing parallel investigations.

 

"The scale and complexity of this case is exceptional, with a huge volume of documents and information that has had to be reviewed and analysed. The investigation encompasses a four-year period, and numerous significant audit areas, including the accounting for construction and services contracts, pensions liabilities, goodwill and going concern. All of the accounting years and each of the audit areas identified remain under active consideration. The FRC, therefore, currently expects to complete the first stage of its investigation by summer 2020, rather than by January 2020."

 

The FRC added that it was also investigating the conduct of Richard Adam and Zafar Khan, former group finance directors of Carillion and members of the ICAEW, in connection with the preparation of Carillion's financial statements during the same period, as well as an additional investigation into KPMG in connection with the FRC's audit quality review into aspects of the audit of Carillion for the year end 2016. It said that these investigations have "inevitably impacted on the audit investigations and their progress".

 

Carillion plc was a British multinational FM and construction services company that went into liquidation in 2018.

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