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Revelations of rampant cheating at KPMG echo the broader decay in culture at the top of business in Australia; at the Big Four firms which advise both our largest corporations and government, indeed the firms to which government itself is being outsourced. Michael West speaks with Jeffrey Knapp.
It was hardly the venue for violence, the Joint Parliamentary Inquiry into Regulation of Audit in Australia. The Committee transcripts have now dropped and we can report on an extraordinary day in the history of audit, the day when, finally, there were calls for violence.
Why the secrecy? Most of the Big Four’s audit inspections are blacked out; huge chunks redacted by the corporate regulators. In what other field of society would multiple breaches of the law be tolerated? asks Michael West.
“A dark pit of non-disclosure and secrecy”. A “serial lawbreaker” rewarded with lavish Australian government contracts. Forensic accountant Jeffrey Knapp takes the long-handle tech giant Oracle
Should the Government award contracts to tax cheating multinationals? The subject is likely to be covered when the Parliamentary Inquiry into the Big Four accounting firms kicks off late this year, the Big Four themselves being the ringmasters of global tax chicanery
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