their remuneration as auditors should be separately approved and shown in the accounts of a company. The auditors thus have a crucial role in protecting shareholders, as K T Merchant has recently pointed out in his writings ("Payments to Auditors", June 5, pp 1119-20) and speeches at annual general meetings of companies.
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