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T.Clarke (CTO) AGM 2018

…NG Bailey, Lorne Stewart and Rotary (in the London market). Question: Any impact from Carillion? No direct Carillion impact hence the reason the Board previously put out a RNS statement…

Response to Market Study on Statutory Audit Services

…has come under fire. The key requirement is for better standards of audit following the recent disasters of Carillion, Conviviality, Patisserie Valerie and others. A more competitive audit market should…

FRC New UK Stewardship Code and FCA response to DP19/1 Consultation

…recent problems with Carillion, Conviviality and Thomas Cook, etc. However, we have spotted some useful points they make in the depths of their report. For example, this neat matrix of…

ShareSoc-UKSA Response: Law Commission Review of Intermediated Securities – Call for Evidence

…all too clear to see in the recent governance disasters (Carillion, Royal Mail, Thomas Cook, Persimmon, etc) and the egregious levels of CEO pay which, to a large extent, are…

Standard Life UK Smaller Companies and FRC Meetings

…company turned out to be misleading – for example the recent debacle at Carillion was mentioned by one attendee, but I can think of numerous other examples. The speakers covered…

Audit Quality and the Caparo Judgement

…is time the curse of Caparo was broken”. Here is some of what it said: ….the joint inquiry into Carillion by the parliamentary Work and Pensions Committee, and Business, Energy…

UNILEVER (ULVR) AGM 2018

…were answered. There was a question about KPMG whether they should be reappointed because of the work which they have done at Carillion and the audit chair confirm that he…

Open Season on Auditors?

…of other problem cases in both large and small companies – Carillion, Interserve, BHS, BT, Rolls-Royce, Mitie, RSM Tenon, Connaught, Autonomy, Quindell, Globo and Blancco Technology are just a few…

Insolvency Regime Changes – A Step Forward

…of Fraser (see my past blog posts on that subject where I called for reform of pre-pack administrations), Carillion, BHS, et al. It aims to tackle issues around company director…

UKSA / ShareSoc policy papers, submissions and campaigns

…Chris Shaw at BEIS re Carillion BEIS CW Joint submission from UKSA and SS February 2018 FRC consultation on updated Corporate Governance Code FRC PP with input from CW Joint…