How the blame game has shifted to the auditors

Auditors are coming under the spotlight for all the wrong reasons and it appears that the profession’s public role of giving a ‘true and fair’ view of the state of a company’s finances is far from straightforward, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

It used to be that if you needed a boring, reliable guy around the place you phoned for an auditor. These days, it seems, the sheriff is regularly getting up a posse and hunting such characters down.

For legal actions against firms of auditors come thick and fast, these days.