Former KPMG partner urges royal commission into consulting industry following damning report into PwC scandal
by Henry Belot from World news | The Guardian on (#6CQKF)
Whistleblower tells Senate inquiry into federal government's use of consultants that self-regulation is failing' across the industry
A former KPMG partner turned whistleblower has urged the federal government to consider a royal commission into the consulting industry and to formally ban firms that breach legal and ethical standards.
In late 2021, Brendan Lyon told a New South Wales parliamentary inquiry that he was pressured to amend his work, which found the state's budget was $10bn worse off than Treasury claimed.
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