Atul K. Shah is a Chartered Accountant and member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He has a PhD in Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics. He is also a Professor in Accounting and Finance at Suffolk Business School, Ipswich, UK.

‘Professor Shah has produced an unconventional, emotional and invaluable post-mortem of the ethical dimensions of the HBOS scandal. It calls on our business schools to help students cope with the deep moral challenges they are likely to face in an increasingly amoral business world. En-route, he holds up Paul Moore as the exemplar of what is needed. But the whole establishment, is implicated.’ — Andrew Phillips (Lord Phillips of Sudbury)'In The Politics of Financial Risk, Audit and Regulation: A Case Study of HBOS, Atul K. Shah examines the HBOS collapse of 2008, and uses it as a platform to more broadly critique the ways in which finance is regulated by governments and the audit profession and conducted in practice, its uneasy relation to politics and authority and the manner of its teaching in tertiary educational institutions globally.' — Dr. Prabhu Sivabalan is an Associate Professor at the UTS Business School (LSE Review of Books)

• Foreword by Ian Fraser1. Introduction2. About HBOS3. The Politics of Risk Management4. The Chemistry of Audit Failure5. Regulatory Failure6. Findings and Implications for Finance Teaching and Research

Atul K. Shah is a Chartered Accountant and member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He has a PhD in Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics. He is also a Professor in Accounting and Finance at Suffolk Business School, Ipswich, UK.

‘Professor Shah has produced an unconventional, emotional and invaluable post-mortem of the ethical dimensions of the HBOS scandal. It calls on our business schools to help students cope with the deep moral challenges they are likely to face in an increasingly amoral business world. En-route, he holds up Paul Moore as the exemplar of what is needed. But the whole establishment, is implicated.’ — Andrew Phillips (Lord Phillips of Sudbury)'In The Politics of Financial Risk, Audit and Regulation: A Case Study of HBOS, Atul K. Shah examines the HBOS collapse of 2008, and uses it as a platform to more broadly critique the ways in which finance is regulated by governments and the audit profession and conducted in practice, its uneasy relation to politics and authority and the manner of its teaching in tertiary educational institutions globally.' — Dr. Prabhu Sivabalan is an Associate Professor at the UTS Business School (LSE Review of Books)

• Foreword by Ian Fraser1. Introduction2. About HBOS3. The Politics of Risk Management4. The Chemistry of Audit Failure5. Regulatory Failure6. Findings and Implications for Finance Teaching and Research

Atul K. Shah is a Chartered Accountant and member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He has a PhD in Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics. He is also a Professor in Accounting and Finance at Suffolk Business School, Ipswich, UK.

‘Professor Shah has produced an unconventional, emotional and invaluable post-mortem of the ethical dimensions of the HBOS scandal. It calls on our business schools to help students cope with the deep moral challenges they are likely to face in an increasingly amoral business world. En-route, he holds up Paul Moore as the exemplar of what is needed. But the whole establishment, is implicated.’ — Andrew Phillips (Lord Phillips of Sudbury)'In The Politics of Financial Risk, Audit and Regulation: A Case Study of HBOS, Atul K. Shah examines the HBOS collapse of 2008, and uses it as a platform to more broadly critique the ways in which finance is regulated by governments and the audit profession and conducted in practice, its uneasy relation to politics and authority and the manner of its teaching in tertiary educational institutions globally.' — Dr. Prabhu Sivabalan is an Associate Professor at the UTS Business School (LSE Review of Books)

• Foreword by Ian Fraser1. Introduction2. About HBOS3. The Politics of Risk Management4. The Chemistry of Audit Failure5. Regulatory Failure6. Findings and Implications for Finance Teaching and Research