UK accounting 監視者 調査/捜査するs KPMG over Rolls-Royce audits

LONDON, May 4 (Reuters) - Britain's accounting 監視者 has opened an 調査 into how KPMG checked the 調書をとる/予約するs of Rolls-Royce, the aero-engine group that agreed in January to 支払う/賃金 671 million 続けざまに猛撃するs ($862.8 million) to settle a transatlantic 贈収賄 調査(する).

The 財政上の 報告(する)/憶測ing 会議 said its 調査 would look at KPMG's audit of Rolls-Royce Group's 財政上の 声明s for the year ended December 31, 2010, and of Rolls-Royce Holdings' for the years ended December 31, 2011 to December 31, 2013.

In January, a 法廷,裁判所 in Britain 認可するd an 協定 between the Serious 詐欺 Office (SFO) and Rolls-Royce, known as a deferred 起訴 協定 or DPA, that 許すd the company to 支払う/賃金 to settle a 贈収賄 調査(する) with British, U.S. and Brazilian 当局.

"The 決定/判定勝ち(する) to 調査/捜査する follows the SFO 告示 on 17 January 2017 of a Deferred 起訴 協定 between the SFO and Rolls-Royce PLC which relates to offences 含むing 共謀 to corrupt and a 失敗 to 妨げる 贈収賄," the FRC said in a 声明.

KPMG said it was important that regulators 事実上の/代理 in the public 利益/興味 should review high profile 問題/発行するs.

"We will co-operate fully with the FRC's 調査, which follows the SFO's 調査s into Rolls-Royce. We are 確信して in the 質 of all the audit work we have 完全にするd for Rolls-Royce, 含むing the 2010-2013 period the FRC is considering," KPMG said in a 声明.

KPMG will stand 負かす/撃墜する as Rolls-Royce's auditor this year after 26 years, the 広報担当者 said. Under new 支配するs, overseen by the FRC, companies are requested to consider changing their auditor every 10 years.

The FRC has 力/強力にするs to 罰金 accountants and 禁止(する) them from practicising.

($1 = 0.7765 続けざまに猛撃するs) (報告(する)/憶測ing by Huw Jones. Editing by Jane Merriman)

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