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Accountants, Careers in Arrears, Conduct, Discipline 16 October 2019

Sacked liquidator tells CAANZ money was hers

Ex-liquidator Amanda Young told a CAANZ hearing disputed monies were owed to her. Former Jirsch Sutherland partner and liquidator Amanda Young has told a CAANZ disciplinary tribunal that almost $200,000 she took from liquidation accounts was owed to her. In June the Disciplinary Tribunal of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CAANZ) heard the application of the association’s Professional Conduct Committee (PCC) for an interim…

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Gebie Services liquidators repel challenge to examination summonses

Accountants, Liquidators, Public Examinations 31 March 2017

Gebie Liquidators repel challenge on summonses

Down in South Australia, Heard Phillips principals Andrew Heard and Anthony Phillips recently fended off a challenge to summonses requiring a range of parties for examination including RSM director Matthew Gordge. The summonses were issued in early February as part of investigations into the affairs of Gebie Services, to which Heard and Phillips were appointed liquidators in June 2016 following an application to the Federal Court…