I wish they were all clients of the firm, but some of them, unfortunately, were not
COMMISSIONER HUNT: You have the view, according to your statement, that you believe no partner, regardless of location or function, should have any financial interest in an audit client of the firm?
MR. COOK: I guess I’ve grown up with this rule so deeply embedded in my own sense of the right answers that I just don’t feel comfortable with the notion that a partner in a firm in a different location could be talking to a business colleague about an investment in an audit client of the firm and not be bothered by that possibility. (περισσότερα…)