Singapore: Barings Revisited — Auditors and the Detection of Corporate Fraud

Abstract

In recent times, there has been some disquiet within certain sectors of the Singapore business community over the role of auditors in detecting corporate fraud. The cause of this concern can perhaps be attributed partly to the Barings collapse in February 1995 and the subsequent suggestions that the auditors of the Barings subsidiary in Singapore, Barings Futures Singapore Pte Ltd (BFS), may have been negligent in their audit work. More recently, in mid‐1996, a substantial locally listed company, Amcol Holdings Ltd (Amcol), was placed under judicial management amid rumours alleging possible misdeeds by senior executives and directors. The Amcol saga has, once again, focused some attention on the role of auditors and their duty to detect fraud in company accounts.

Citation

Tabalujan, B.S. (1997), "Singapore: Barings Revisited — Auditors and the Detection of Corporate Fraud", Journal of Financial Crime, Vol. 5 No. 2, pp. 190-199. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb025833