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Curiouser and Curiouser - Anyone got an Abacus?

 BDO's website "people" page states that they have 479 Partners/Owners https://app.box.com/s/2ogp8yi4p821h1ytkaua3wzyc43z41vx The Register of Statutory Auditors states they have 450 "Owners" : i.e. stated to be members of the LLP https://app.box.com/s/wftojnpy4py5j4hzw1ndoni8l8trnhca (NB - deduct the 39 persons from the 489 records for those shown as not being owners) Companies House records state they have only 332 Members/Owners https://app.box.com/s/eyvtf3cehliqp2v44z36smo72g1v3xuh Simple arithmetic does not seem to be BDO's strong poiint.which might, in part, explain why the Directors of Quantexa chose to change auditors in 2018 and then re-appoint BDO ever since. [EDIT 14.11.23] Confirmation that BDO have declared 450 people as being members of the LLP  to ICAEW can be found by reference to ICEAW's "Your Guide to maintaining your firm's record" and links to the forms that quite clearly state that a "Principal is ..... a Member

Request to Secretary of State for an investigation under s432 Companies Act 1985 and complaints to ICEAW against BDO LLP and its members Nicholas Robert Poulter and Owen Pettifor

Copy of Request to Rt Hon Kemi Badenoch MP, Secretary of State for Trade and Business https://app.box.com/shared/static/6lyvok378pr2c50svzn37xv15aailqxe.pdf (PASSWORD PROTECTION REMOVED 12 Nov 2023) Copy of complaint to ICAEW re BDO https://app.box.com/s/k79xg5tyzl37ekqwv9gxzyy20x7w443f (PASSWORD PROTECTION REMOVED 12 Nov 2023)  NB: In common with Deloitte llp (see https://duhloitte.blogspot.com/ ) and so many other ICAEW firms, BDO LLP have not bothered to update Companies House records for the appointment of Quantexa's statutory auditor as a member of the firm on 1st November 2022, but at least they notified ICAEW whose records state that Mr Pettifor is a member of the firm but not a member of ICAEW. Worth running the internal BDO document against the records of Companies House. https://www.bdo.co.uk/en-gb/news/2022/bdo-promotes-33-new-partners-across-the-firm 13.11.23 Update: One should probably pity poor Claire Hudson from this list who hasn't been declared to either