Accounting Firm Not Liable to Bank for Errors in Audit

A recent Illinois Federal District Court case considered whether an accounting firm was liable to a bank for errors in its audit of the borrower. The court’s holding – that the lender was required to consider the audit report as a whole, including the footnotes – is important to both auditors and lenders. Read Douglas Conover's article about this case.
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