ROB ROSE: As PwC exits, can Oceana keep anyone?
This year, the fishing giant has lost its CEO, CFO and now its auditor. And yet director Zarina Bassa says it’s all going swimmingly
02 June 2022 - 05:00
Zarina Bassa, who chairs the audit committee of Oceana, hadn’t expected to open an e-mail on Friday afternoon and see a “Dear John” letter from the fishing giant’s auditor, PwC, announcing it was quitting “with immediate effect”.
Still, it wouldn’t have come as a complete shock to Bassa, herself a former auditor and banker. Oceana had, after all, been in low-level warfare with its auditor for months, and she’d met PwC just the week before she got its letter of resignation...
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