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    • Monday, 18 July, 2022
      Grant Thornton fined for ‘serious failings’ in Sports Direct audits

      Auditor and former partner receive severe reprimands over their handling of financial inspections

    • Sunday, 26 June, 2022
      Patisserie Holdings PLC
      Patisserie Valerie settles with Grant Thornton over £200mn claim

      Administrators end lawsuit that alleged negligence in audits of café chain

    • Tuesday, 5 April, 2022
      Grant Thornton’s UK profits rise by more than a third

      Accountancy firm says revenue jump driven by ‘exceptionally buoyant’ demand for M&A advice

    • Sunday, 7 November, 2021
      Accountancy
      Audit ‘challengers’ in watchdog’s bad books as they take on Big Four

      Sanctions and investigations against Grant Thornton and other mid-tier accountants overshadow gains

    • Monday, 1 November, 2021
      Grant Thornton fined over audit failings at outsourcer Interserve

      Sanction of £700,000 is second reprimand in six weeks for UK’s sixth-largest accounting firm

    • Friday, 15 October, 2021
      FT CollectionsGreensill Capital
      Grant Thornton to charge more than £20m for Greensill administration

      Firm’s fee forecast now represents close to 5 per cent of its entire UK annual revenues

    • Monday, 27 September, 2021
      Grant Thornton fined £2.3m for Patisserie Valerie audits

      Firm showed ‘serious lack of competence’ in its work on collapsed UK café chain, says Financial Reporting Council

    • Friday, 18 June, 2021
      Grant Thornton loses Supreme Court hedge accounting case

      Firm told to pay £13m in damages over advice to Manchester Building Society

    • Wednesday, 26 May, 2021
      News in-depthAccountancy
      UK plan to shake up audit market faces major setback

      Smaller accounting businesses set to shun proposal to share FTSE 100 work with Big Four firms

    • Tuesday, 6 April, 2021
      Grant Thornton says most UK staff want to stay away from office after pandemic

      Nine out of 10 at Britain’s sixth-largest accountant wish to work predominantly from home

    • Thursday, 7 January, 2021
      Grant Thornton sued for £200m over Patisserie Valerie audits

      Lawsuit set to be one of largest brought against mid-tier accounting firm in London courts

    • Friday, 28 August, 2020
      Blow for Grant Thornton as court rejects £22m appeal

      Accountant loses battle to overturn judgment that it failed to spot fraud at AssetCo

    • Wednesday, 8 July, 2020
      Grant Thornton fined £3m for Conviviality audit failures

      Accounting firm severely reprimanded by FRC and made to commit to improvement of ethical controls

    • Friday, 12 June, 2020
      Accountancy
      Grant Thornton staff face redundancy as pandemic bites

      Accounting firm to cut jobs despite rejecting use of government furlough scheme

    • Tuesday, 7 April, 2020
      Grant Thornton audit profits fall by 90%

      Accountancy firm says 150 of its 4,500 UK staff have agreed pay cuts during coronavirus outbreak

    • Tuesday, 31 March, 2020
      Accounting & Consulting services
      Grant Thornton offers UK staff voluntary sabbatical or dramatic pay cut

      Latest example of how professional services firms seek to mitigate impact of coronavirus

    • Tuesday, 10 December, 2019
      Grant Thornton fined £650,000 by FRC over inadequate audit

      Accounting watchdog criticised for not naming company where errors were identified

    • Thursday, 31 October, 2019
      Lex
      Grant Thornton: mob-handed Premium content

      Refreshing the upper echelon with fresh talent has advantages

    • Thursday, 31 October, 2019
      Grant Thornton partners take pay drop as firm delays its accounts

      Auditor extends its financial year end by six months as it recovers from tough year

    • Tuesday, 8 October, 2019
      Accountancy
      Grant Thornton cuts partner numbers as it seeks improvement

      About a dozen senior staff will leave accounting firm as it restructures after hard year

    • Monday, 15 July, 2019
      Frasers Group
      Sports Direct jangles City nerves after auditors’ queries delay annual results

      Accounts hold-up sends retailer’s shares down as much as 16%

    • Monday, 8 July, 2019
      LombardMatthew Vincent
      Will Imperial’s £200m buyback make Woodford kick the habit?

      Tobacco group’s change in dividend policy gives investors option to hold or sell

    • Friday, 21 June, 2019
      Grant Thornton CEO keen to move on from calamitous year

      David Dunckley admits audit firm is under scrutiny after series of controversies

    • Monday, 3 June, 2019
      Grant Thornton International Ltd
      Grant Thornton changes head of audit for second time in a year

      Fiona Baldwin will take up role after several high profile accounting controversies

    • Monday, 11 February, 2019
      Financial fraud
      Cartoon, February 11

      Mega Files: the role of auditors

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