GREECE: ACCOUNTANTS AND AUDITORS IN THE EYE OF THE STORM

BY MICHAEL KOSMIDES, IN ATHENS ACCOUNTANTS and auditors in Greece have found themselves at the centre of the country's ongoing political and economic crisis, and it is a far from comfortable place to be. Depending on who one speaks to, Greek official data had been cooked either when the country entered the Eurozone or when it asked for help; Greece was either saved by default or managed a controlled default; the conditions for the bailout loans by the European Union (EU), the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are either ...


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