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...Last month KPMG said it would not be “appropriate” for it to pursue legal claims against Pat Val auditor Grant Thornton — possibly the only way shareholders and creditors can get any money back — because...
...But it could be done by shunting money around or recording false payments, particularly if the auditor — here, Grant Thornton — was incurious....
...An individual is also under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office and the Financial Reporting Council is set to examine the auditing of the group’s financial statements by Grant Thornton....
...The Big Four firm has said it will need a second administrator to pursue claims against Grant Thornton on behalf of creditors, entailing extra expense, as Grant Thornton (former auditor to Pat Val) also...
...Last week, the Financial Reporting Council, the bean counters’ overseer, announced an investigation into Grant Thornton, Patisserie Valerie’s auditors....
...Pat Blake, a wine trader, said his only concern was with the practicalities of Brexit....
...“But you can’t work with ex-pats in the long term, you’ve got to train up local people,” says Mr Azkargorta....
...The OCI has appointed Grant Thornton, the international professional services firm, to carry out a review of how it handled the tickets it was allotted for the Games....
...“I get the boardroom issue,” says Pat Milligan, president of Mercer’s North America region, before saying that she believes that the effort and energy expended on it could have had a much bigger impact if...
...In the place of mulleted perma-enthusiast Pat Sharpe, a team of luxuriantly wigged QCs have watched Tchenguiz charge gleefully through the courts, snatching up legal goodies....
...He started his career at Grant Thornton, the accountancy firm, before becoming UK controller of GE Capital Bank in 1991....
...David Dunckley, a partner at Grant Thornton, said: “The number of failing UK companies is still high, but the figures seem to be reaching a plateau....
...But until we know which growth scenario we are on, they are right to sit pat. (b) That the euro area’s sovereign debt problems get worse in the near term....
...Pat Boyden, of PwC business recovery services, said he expected the number to increase to between 130,000 and 150,000 this year partly because of the introduction of debt relief orders, a new form of bankruptcy...
...Mike Warbuton, senior partner at Grant Thornton, says: “If you make a gift to your wife and she isn’t domiciled in the UK, the government won’t treat the gift as a remittance of funds if she brings it into...
...Come the start of the next tax year, Roman Abramovich, the Chelsea football club owner, Mohamed Fayed, Harrods’ owner, and scores of less well-known ex-pats, who are not “domiciled” in the UK, but have been...
...Julia specialises in private client financial planning with regard to investments, matrimonial issues, personal injury, and international and ex-pat finances....
...almost to a standstill at the last fence, and who still ran out the winner by two and a half lengths and one and a quarter lengths from Kingscliff and Azertyuiop, is trained by Tom Taaffe, whose father Pat...
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