By Kyle Brasseur2023-12-19T15:00:00
The U.K. Financial Reporting Council (FRC) announced it closed its investigation into Big Four firm PwC’s audit work at collapsed real estate investment trust Intu Properties.
In January, the regulator launched its probe into PwC’s audits of Intu’s financial statements for the years ended December 2017 and 2018.
The probe was dropped after the FRC found “the relevant person(s) should no longer be liable for enforcement action,” it said in a press release Tuesday.
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Crowe U.K. was assessed a penalty of £144,000 (U.S. $181,000) by the U.K. Financial Reporting Council for failures in its audit of Aseana Properties Limited’s financial statements for the year ended Dec. 31, 2019.
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Grant Thornton UK was assessed a penalty of £40,000 (U.S. $51,000) by the Financial Reporting Council for alleged procedure failures affecting the firm’s audit of a local authority’s pension fund.
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Legal experts are unconvinced record fines against audit firms imposed last year by the U.K. Financial Reporting Council will necessarily improve audit quality.
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