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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: STEMO on 15 January 2018, 08:27:19

Title: Carillion
Post by: STEMO on 15 January 2018, 08:27:19
Glad to see the government had the balls to let them fail. The public sector contracts will, obviously, be taken in house. But the rest of it will be liquidated, meaning banks and shareholders miss out. That’s the way it should work, in my opinion.
Title: Re: Carillion
Post by: Mister Rog on 15 January 2018, 08:36:01

One wonders just what the hell happened. My guess is downright bad management. Bad deals, arrogance and over confidence. I hope the Board of Directors will NOT be getting big payoffs, but they probably will.

Title: Re: Carillion
Post by: Varche on 15 January 2018, 08:51:32
Cronyism at its best.
Title: Re: Carillion
Post by: jonathanh on 15 January 2018, 09:20:16
my guess is pulling profit forward when the cash to support it was later in the contract cycle.  If the expectations of profit then fall short, there is nothing left.

Title: Re: Carillion
Post by: Lizzie Zoom on 15 January 2018, 12:03:49
As I understand it, as in business generally, it is simply all about cash flow and ensuring you are maintaining your margins throughout your business and are not overstretching your empire.

They have simply got that all totally wrong, and so no matter how the directors of Carillion paint the picture, complicating the story, and how politicians see it, this would have been the cause of the downfall. ;)
Title: Re: Carillion
Post by: redelitev6 on 15 January 2018, 15:12:12
As always , it'll be the small sub-contractor who's going to get shafted
Title: Re: Carillion
Post by: Viral_Jim on 15 January 2018, 15:38:45
When I worked at KPMG (5yrs ago ish), we were their external auditors and I knew a number of people on the team.

This is not a new problem, the business has sailed close to the wind for a number of years.  :-X