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The chair of Dexus told a parliamentary inquiry Friday that this initial reaction to an Allens report into a whistleblower’s allegations about ethical failures at KPMG was “why didn’t you come and talk to us?”.
Macquarie Group chairman Glenn Stevens will face the latest parliamentary joint committee hearing Friday into KPMG ethic's scandal, joining executives from Westpac, Optus and Dexus.
A class action over the collapse of Arrium is bound to its pleading that the asset value of all the steelmaker's business units was impaired by a total of $2.8 billion, a judge has ruled in the second week of trial.
A mid-trial fight has erupted in a class action over the collapse of steelmaker Arrium, with the company's auditor and directors saying the case had swerved, and the plaintiff accusing the respondents of "playing games".
KPMG told Ashurst that a whistleblower had not provided sufficient detail for the firm to determine whether his disclosures were protected under the whistleblower regime, despite having covertly downloaded information on his complaints from his computer.
KPMG has told a judge there is no evidence that Arrium's share price would have changed even if it had recorded a $2.8 billion impairment, urging the judge to reject the shareholder class action's "intuitive" case on loss.
Former directors of steelmaker Arrium have rejected shareholder class action claims that the company's collapse was foreseeable, calling claims they had their heads in the sand “arrant nonsense”.
The fallacy that shareholders must precisely prove the amount of loss caused by a listed company's breaches has finally been exposed by the Full Federal Court, a trial judge has been told in a class action over the collapse of steel maker Arrium.
KPMG has confirmed that former chief operating officer Eileen Hoggett kept confidential Lendlease documents in a locker at the firm's Sydney office, after fresh inquiries substantiated whistleblower allegations.
Macquarie Group is conducting a review into the appointment of KPMG as its auditor, as the accounting giant reels from a whistleblower's accusations of client data breaches.