KPMG Australia faces a crisis following a whistleblower’s allegations that partners used confidential client data to win audit work.

Partners are quietly testing the job market as fallout intensifies over the mishandling of a whistleblower complaint, throwing the firm into “chaos”.

The Queensland government, along with other states, wrote to the embattled firm to confirm contracts worth tens of millions of dollars were managed appropriately.

The federal government is reviewing $270 million in KPMG contracts and rethinking large partnership governance as the scandal widens to the entire industry.

The bank is weighing whether to terminate its newly awarded $32m audit contract with KPMG, following allegations the firm used leaked data to win the work.

The firm is accused of using a legacy client’s private board papers as insider leverage to win lucrative new jobs, destroying the core trust professionals trade on.

KPMG Australia faces a crisis following a whistleblower’s allegations that partners used confidential client data to win audit work.

KPMG International has frozen partner departures in Australia to halt a mass exodus and protect peak audit season amid a widening whistleblower crisis.

KPMG secretly extracted documents detailing allegations of data misuse and later shared the material with senior partners and former CEO Andrew Yates.

A federal parliamentary hearing inquiry into data misuse allegations at KPMG has called almost a dozen partners along with senior executives from Lendlease, Ashurst and Allens.

Consulting firm’s Australian arm shared secret client information internally in order to win lucrative audit contracts, a whistleblower has alleged

A major scandal gripping KPMG has rocked the corporate world in Australia, as senior heads roll and new details come to light with each passing day.

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