The quality of KPMG's audit work has returned to the spotlight after two banks — Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank — failed within days of the auditor signing off on their accounts.
"Common sense tells you that an auditor issuing a clean report, a clean bill of health, on the 16th-largest bank in the United States that within two weeks fails without any warning, is trouble for the auditor," said Lynn Turner, former Chief Accountant of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
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