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  • 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

    Refreshing the upper echelon with fresh talent has advantages

  • Thursday, 31 October, 2019
    Grant Thornton partner pay drops as it delays accounts

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

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  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2019
    Accountancy
    Grant Thornton cuts back partners 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
    Queries by Sports Direct auditor delay results

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

  • Monday, 8 July, 2019
    LombardMatthew Vincent
    Can Imperial’s £200m 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 chief 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 audit head for second time in a year

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

  • Monday, 11 February, 2019
    Financial fraud
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    Mega Files: the role of auditors

  • Monday, 15 October, 2018
    Accounting & Consulting services
    Robert Tchenguiz drops Grant Thornton lawsuit

    Property entrepreneur had said accountancy firm conspired with Serious Fraud Office

  • Monday, 15 October, 2018
    Professional services
    Grant Thornton chief quits after partners complain

    Sacha Romanovitch to leave after memo from colleagues attacks her ‘socialist agenda’

  • Friday, 12 October, 2018
    Food & Beverage
    Patisserie Valerie in rescue fundraising deal

    Executive chairman Luke Johnson to lend embattled café group £20m to stay afloat

  • Friday, 21 September, 2018
    Accounting & Consulting services
    Grant Thornton chief executive faces partner dissent

    Sacha Romanovitch says ‘small cadre’ cannot accept a short-term profit hit at audit firm

  • Wednesday, 12 September, 2018
    LombardMatthew Vincent
    Grant Thornton’s auditor plan makes the grade

    Proposals for independent appointment process bear closer examination

  • Wednesday, 12 September, 2018
    Accountancy
    Grant Thornton calls for public body to select auditors

    Accounting firm proposes radical reform to break the oligopoly of the big four

  • Tuesday, 11 September, 2018
    Retail sector
    Sports Direct told to hand documents to UK watchdog

    FRC had requested 40 sets of papers as part of probe into group’s auditor Grant Thornton

  • Wednesday, 29 August, 2018
    LombardMatthew Vincent
    Audit fines show self-interest is a big problem

    Grant Thornton’s fine highlights how conflicts of interest are endemic

  • Wednesday, 29 August, 2018
    Accountancy
    Grant Thornton fineMd £3m for ‘misconduct’

    Senior partner was on clients’ audit committees and was providing consultancy work

  • Friday, 24 August, 2018
    Accountancy
    Auditors propose temporary client cap for Big Four

    Concession by industry aimed at staving off UK competition investigation

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