 PwC, as the auditor of the company, was fined in August 2017 for misconduct in the course of approving the accounts for the accounting year 2010/11, failing "to obtain sufficient appropriate audit evidence and [...] to exercise sufficient professional scepticism".In January 2012, the firm warned of losses "due to pricing pressures amid a difficult economy".Raynor, and the firm's chairman Bob Morton, stepped down.