https://www.theguardian.com/business/nils-pratley-on-finance/2018/jan/15/blame-the-board-for-the-carillion-collapse-it-was-deluded
Chairman Philip Green should have spent less time wondering about the
long-terms risks from Brexit and more time addressing the upfront and
present dangers from cost over-runs on three big jobs: new hospitals in
Liverpool and Smethwick plus the Aberdeen bypass.
The walk-on role played the auditors, KPMG, will go under the
Financial Reporting Council’s microscope in due course. But the hard
fact is that Carillion
directors were boasting in March last year of having “substantial
liquidity with some £1.5bn of available funding” yet the company ran out
of money 10 months later.
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