CRR Case Summaries and Entity-specific Press Notices

The FRC publishes, on a quarterly basis, summaries of its findings from recently closed reviews that resulted in a substantive question to a company (‘Case Summaries’). In addition, it publishes the names of companies whose reviews were closed in the previous quarter without the need for a substantive question. No Case Summary is prepared for such reviews.

Case Summaries, which are available for cases closed in the quarter ending March 2021 onwards, are included in the table below. As, currently, the FRC is subject to existing legal restrictions on disclosing confidential information received from a company, the Case Summaries can only be disclosed with the company's consent. Where consent has been withheld by the company, that fact is disclosed in the table.

From March 2018 until March 2021, the FRC published the names of companies whose reviews were closed in the previous quarter but did not prepare Case Summaries. However, on an exceptional basis, specific cases may be publicised through entity-specific Press Notices, which can also be found in the table below.

The FRC’s reviews are based solely on the company’s annual report and accounts (or interim reports) and do not benefit from detailed knowledge of the company’s business or an understanding of the underlying transactions entered into. They are, however, conducted by staff of the FRC who have an understanding of the relevant legal and accounting framework. The FRC’s correspondence with the company provides no assurance that the annual report and accounts (or interim reports) are correct in all material respects; the FRC’s role is not to verify the information provided but to consider compliance with reporting requirements. The FRC’s correspondence is written on the basis that the FRC (which includes the FRC’s officers, employees and agents) accepts no liability for reliance on its letters or Case Summaries by the company or any third party, including but not limited to investors and shareholders.

Key

  1. Only a certain number of CRR’s reviews result in substantive questioning of the Board. Matters raised may cover questions of recognition, measurement and/or disclosure.
  2. CRR’s routine reviews of companies’ annual reports and accounts generally cover all parts over which the FRC has statutory powers (that is, strategic reports, directors’ reports and financial statements). Similarly, CRR’s routine reviews of companies’ interim reports will generally cover all information in that document. Limited scope reviews arise for a number of reasons, including those conducted when a company’s annual report and accounts or interim report are selected for thematic review or reviews that have been prompted by a complaint. In accordance with the FRC's Operating Procedures, for Corporate Reporting Review, CRR does not identify those companies whose reviews were prompted by a complaint.
  3. The FRC may ask a company to refer to its exchanges with CRR when the company makes a change to a significant aspect of its annual report and accounts or interim report in response to a review.
  4. Case closed after 1 January 2021 but performed under operating procedures that did not allow for the publication of Case Summaries.
  5. From the quarter ended June 2023, the FRC started identifying the auditor of the annual report and accounts, or the audit firm that issued a review report on the interim report, that was the subject of the CRR review. This information was also back-dated for closed cases publicised from the quarter ended September 2022. Cases marked N/A relate to those published prior to September 2022 or interim reviews that did not have a review opinion.’

Case Summaries

CRR Case Summaries and Entity-specific Press Notices (Excel version)

1638 case summaries
Entity Cerillion plc
Balance Sheet Date 30 September 2024
Exchange of Substantive Letters (1) No
Scope of Review (2) Limited
Quarter Published December 2025
Auditor (5) PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Case Summary / Press Notice N/A
Entity Citigroup Global Markets Limited
Balance Sheet Date 31 December 2024
Exchange of Substantive Letters (1) No
Scope of Review (2) Full
Quarter Published December 2025
Auditor (5) KPMG LLP
Case Summary / Press Notice N/A
Entity Compass Group PLC
Balance Sheet Date 30 September 2024
Exchange of Substantive Letters (1) No
Scope of Review (2) Limited
Quarter Published December 2025
Auditor (5) KPMG LLP
Case Summary / Press Notice N/A
Entity Computacenter plc
Balance Sheet Date 31 December 2024
Exchange of Substantive Letters (1) No
Scope of Review (2) Full
Quarter Published December 2025
Auditor (5) Grant Thornton UK LLP
Case Summary / Press Notice N/A
Entity Croda International Plc
Balance Sheet Date 31 December 2024
Exchange of Substantive Letters (1) No
Scope of Review (2) Limited
Quarter Published December 2025
Auditor (5) KPMG LLP
Case Summary / Press Notice N/A
Entity easyJet plc
Balance Sheet Date 30 September 2024
Exchange of Substantive Letters (1) No
Scope of Review (2) Limited
Quarter Published December 2025
Auditor (5) PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Case Summary / Press Notice N/A
Entity Elementis plc
Balance Sheet Date 31 December 2024
Exchange of Substantive Letters (1) No
Scope of Review (2) Limited
Quarter Published December 2025
Auditor (5) Deloitte LLP
Case Summary / Press Notice N/A
Entity Elixirr International plc
Balance Sheet Date 31 December 2024
Exchange of Substantive Letters (1) No
Scope of Review (2) Full
Quarter Published December 2025
Auditor (5) Crowe U.K. LLP
Case Summary / Press Notice N/A
Entity Epwin Group Plc
Balance Sheet Date 31 December 2024
Exchange of Substantive Letters (1) No
Scope of Review (2) Full
Quarter Published December 2025
Auditor (5) RSM UK Audit LLP
Case Summary / Press Notice N/A
Entity FirstBank UK Limited
Balance Sheet Date 31 December 2024
Exchange of Substantive Letters (1) No
Scope of Review (2) Full
Quarter Published December 2025
Auditor (5) Forvis Mazars LLP
Case Summary / Press Notice N/A
Entity Foresight VCT plc
Balance Sheet Date 31 December 2024
Exchange of Substantive Letters (1) Yes
Scope of Review (2) Limited
Quarter Published December 2025
Auditor (5) Deloitte LLP
Case Summary / Press Notice

This company was selected as part of our thematic review of investment trusts, venture capital trusts and other closed-ended entities and, as such, only disclosures included in the scope of the thematic were reviewed.

Assumptions underpinning the fair value of investments

We asked the company for additional information about the significant unobservable assumptions applied in the valuation of the company’s unquoted investments. The company satisfactorily provided this information and agreed to expand its disclosures in this area in future sets of accounts.

Entity Funding Circle Holdings Plc
Balance Sheet Date 31 December 2024
Exchange of Substantive Letters (1) Yes
Scope of Review (2) Full
Quarter Published December 2025
Auditor (5) PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Case Summary / Press Notice

Consolidated statement of cash flows and related notes

We asked the company for further information about additions to property, plant and equipment in the year that were described in the notes to the accounts as non-cash in nature but included in the Consolidated statement of cash flows. The company explained that the additions in the year were cash transactions and agreed that footnote references to non-cash transactions would be removed in the next annual report and accounts.

Entity Genuit Group plc
Balance Sheet Date 28 February 2025
Exchange of Substantive Letters (1) No
Scope of Review (2) Limited
Quarter Published December 2025
Auditor (5) Ernst & Young LLP
Case Summary / Press Notice N/A
Entity GSK plc
Balance Sheet Date 31 December 2024
Exchange of Substantive Letters (1) No
Scope of Review (2) Full
Quarter Published December 2025
Auditor (5) Deloitte LLP
Case Summary / Press Notice N/A
Entity Haleon plc
Balance Sheet Date 31 December 2024
Exchange of Substantive Letters (1) No
Scope of Review (2) Limited
Quarter Published December 2025
Auditor (5) KPMG LLP
Case Summary / Press Notice N/A