UK - PricewaterhouseCoopers has been forced to undertake an exhaustive review of its client base after the Financial Reporting Council discovered it was acting as auditor to a company while providing actuarial services to its defined benefit pension scheme.
Under the FRC's strict Ethical Standards, auditors are warned performing both services gives rise to an "unacceptable self review threat" - when a firm effectively reviews work done by themselves o...
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