Source : THE AGE NEWS
Troubled travel business Corporate Travel Management has warned the market its financial accounts will not be available until August.
The firm, which has overcharged the British government by an estimated £118 million to £128 million ($220 million to $240 million), said it is still in the process of completing accounts which are central to efforts to repay its overcharged client, the UK government.
In April, the Australian company said overpayments had extended into 2025 and the company would have to restate its financial accounts for every year going back to 2019.
At the heart of the issue was Corporate Travel Management’s contract with the UK government to house asylum seekers within the UK on barges in a bid to save taxpayer money.
While the company is in the process of refunding customers, “the finalisation and implementation of the UK remediation arrangements remain subject to completion of the FY25 accounts”, it said in a market update on Thursday.
In the ASX update, Corporate Travel Management said its FY25 and 1HFY26 financial statements were “substantially advanced but not complete”.
Shares had been suspended from trading on the ASX since August 2025 after the discovery of significant overcharging and accounting errors in its UK/Europe operations.
“With issues continuing to arise even at this late stage, we see the pathway to a re-listing narrowing,” said RBC Capital Markets. “We also view recent negative media attention on the audit sector as another unfortunately timed headwind.”
“We fear the bar for Deloitte (Corporate Travel Management’s auditor) to sign-off on accounts may have now materially risen,” the group said.
Acting Group CEO Ana Pedersen said: “We recognise the delay is deeply frustrating for shareholders and acknowledge the uncertainty it has created.”
The company sacked its CEO Michael Healy in December, as news of the scandal unfolded.
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