Canadian Chartered Professional Accountants, Top 10 reasons Rod Barr should be fired.


10. Safe guarding assets; Rod Barr concealed a fraud that led to a 1.3 million law suit, I should know. I am the plaintiff.

9. Treatment of members; Rod Barr through Robert Gubbins claims no duty of care to members.

8. Culture of arrogance; during the 2013 AGM Barr boasted of the membership apathy. Barr acts with impunity relying on an apathetic membership.

7. Maintains a criminal lawyer as general counsel, Elizabeth Cowie who is not qualified to litigate civil matters and has been overwhelmed by being appointed privacy office. An institute with the size of membership should have an independent privacy officer with appropriate accreditation.

6. Pirates belong in the Caribbean.

5. Discipline; Barr should have been charged with the other three stooges in the Livent litigation.

4. Should not have been hired in the first place. Barr is booted out of Deloitte Touche for screwing up the Livent audit and then elected president for the regulatory body authorized to discipline Deloitte Touche? Talk about the fox guarding the hen house.

3. Secrecy; Barr refuses to disclose salaries and expenses. In this day and age of transparency and government scandal it is incredible that this policy has been adopted.

2. Unification;

1. Livent; $85,000,000 judgment. What an embarrassment. Gans decision has opened the flood gates for subsequent lawsuits against accountants. Thanks Rod.

 

 

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