RE: RNS10 May 2024 10:54
Clearly, the auditor and company are not on the same page here. It can't be lost on PKF that the company is suspended pending their audit, and whilst that is not their problem as such, you would expect the situation to warrant a level of priority. To not work on the audit at all for 2 months does seem like rubbing salt into the wound. And if there were to be consequences to GCAT as a result of any such tardiness, would the auditors not carry some liability for that?
Is it possible that the auditors are not happy with the information provided and/or are identifying problems, and won't be pushed by GCAT to sign off something they are not happy with, or work to a particular timescale/pressure in these circs? IF they were contemplating not signing the audit as a hypothetical scenario, for example, because that would be the death knell for GCAT, you would expect the auditors necessarily to take it painstakingly slow because of the consequences of getting it wrong, including for them. All imho and speculative of course!