{"id":29311,"date":"2020-01-23T11:32:02","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T11:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rbcwealthmanagement.com\/en-uk\/podcasts\/the-signs-were-there\/"},"modified":"2023-11-07T22:20:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T22:20:32","slug":"the-signs-were-there","status":"publish","type":"rbcwm_podcast","link":"https:\/\/www.rbcwealthmanagement.com\/en-uk\/podcasts\/the-signs-were-there","title":{"rendered":"The signs were there\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Company accounting information has been coming under pressure recently with a plethora of reviews of the audit market implying a low degree of confidence amongst investors in the quality of the reported accounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week\u2019s guest believes this focus is unwarranted because, as the title of his book, now in its second edition, declares \u201cThe signs were there.\u201d What he means is that the astute consumers of information in company accounts can see the trends emerging which will undermined a companies\u2019 profitability or even solvency at some stage in the future. 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