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The Monetary Reporting Council has expanded its investigation into the auditing of Babcock World’s myth by PWC.
The accounting watchdog will now seek for PWC’s work auditing Babcock’s 2019 and 2020 accounts. It changed into already investigating its work on the 2017 and 2018 accounts. The old investigation changed into opened following a usual audit quality review performed by the FRC.
A spokesperson for PWC acknowledged the corporate changed into entirely cooperating with the FRC: “Audit quality is of paramount significance and we dwell committed to our ongoing programme to provide a enhance to audit quality and to the initiating of consistently excessive-quality audits. The FRC’s annual reports of our audit work, insurance policies and procedures show hide a continued pattern of enchancment in our work and we exhaust their insights, along with our hold reports, to continuously make stronger how we carry excessive-quality audits,” they added.
In December, Babcock announced it would perhaps perchance contain to restate its outcomes for the half-yr to 30 September 2020 after it reviewed the profitability of its contracts and the carrying cost of its resources. The adjustments totalled £855m.
The FRC’s newest auditing review comes the week after its listening to into KPMG’s auditing of Carillion started. KPMG chief govt Jon Holt acknowledged it changed into “particular” that the regulator had been misled in its dealings with KPMG.
Babcock World has historically labored in the rail and energy contracting markets. Earlier this month, it agreed to sell its overhead powerlines commercial to M Community Products and services for around £50m. Babcock’s rail outfit has passed thru indispensable restructuring nowadays, which contributed to a £6.3m loss for the division in its final pickle of accounts.
