Recently, a disciplinary tribunal investigating allegations against KPMG of misleading the UK Financial Reporting Council (FRC) about its audit of collapsed construction firm Carillion said that a junior accountant involved in the scheme “should have questioned” managers' instructions after they asked him to forge documents.
The FRC tribunal determined that the junior accountant acted “without the integrity required of an accountant and became a party to the deliberate misleading of the Audit Quality Review (AQR).”
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