09-08-2021 13:00 via theguardian.com

A post-Covid crash is looming – and Britain's auditors are asleep at the wheel | Richard Brooks

As Covid-related state support for precarious firms winds down, much-needed audit reform remains worryingly remoteLike a tedious household repair job, fixing the accounting for Britain’s largest and most important companies is always put off until it’s too late – and then bodged anyway, with often calamitous results.As Covid-era government support for some of the country’s most precariously positioned companies winds down, accounting for their finances remains trapped in
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