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The new auditors will be chosen by Tesco's audit committee, which is chaired by new non-executive Byron Grote.
The auditors will be tasked with discovering whether or not taxpayer's money was wasted or misplaced through incompetence – and whether or not it is now retrievable.
Customers will be able to monitor the program's progress at the company's Web site, where reports from independent auditors will be posted twice a year.
Officials at the European Commission and Britain's Financial Services Authority have already expressed disquiet at the deal, fearing that big companies will have too little choice and that auditors will be free to raise their fees.All is not necessarily lost for Andersen's American business.
Investors and bankers may learn not to trust companies that report mysteriously spectacular profit growth; auditors will be warier of bosses' pressure to sign dodgy accounts; rating agencies and regulators may be more nervous about companies that do not come clean about all their activities.
In the latest of a series of proposed financial regulation changes, Michel Barnier, EU internal market commissioner, is proposing that auditors will be forced to rotate after a maximum of six years with any particular company – and will then have to wait ("cool off") for four years before the same client can re-engage them.
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Moreover, because the law mandates secrecy on some crucial elements of the board's mandate, notably the discipline of auditors, it will be hard for the public to evaluate what the board is doing for some time.
Auditors' reports will be as open to the public as company accounts are.Among HAP's members, there are some global giants of relief such as World Vision, CARE International and Oxfam; groups with a religious inspiration like Christian Aid, and some state agencies, mostly Nordic.
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