Received wrong accounts

[pmeswani]

Company accounts wouldn't be covered under Data protection would they?

Any information that identifies a person or their personal or commercial details is deemed confidential until otherwise agreed, irrespective of any previous arrangement.

So even if you have submitted your Company Accounts in previous years, any information that forms as part of this years accounts remains confidential until such a time that the Director / Company Secretary has accepted and signed the document and has submitted the document to Companies House.

After the Accounts have been submitted to Companies House, the information is deemed to be in the Public Domain. It is not presumed that any information that is yet to be submitted to Companies House is in the Public Domain.

That is how I understand it.

[diesel]

stalker

No they messed up my accountants and one time sent me a pre-addressed letter for posting to companies house with the some other business address! And that was after being assured from my personal manager (Brookson gofer) my accounts, letters etc had all been checked and assured there were no errors

[thunderlizard]

a breach in the DPA.

Company accounts wouldn't be covered under Data protection would they?

[SueEllen]

my money is on the accountant must be Brooksons!

stalker

[diesel]

Accountant sent me my year-end accounts yesterday by email. Except they didn't. They'd attached a different company's accounts instead.


And no, I won't name and shame.

my money is on the accountant must be Brooksons!

[SueEllen]

Possibly. But it depends on whether data breaches are a habit for the Accountant or not.

You will never know.

The fact that the accountant acted quickly and apologised means that it is more likely to be an honest mistake.

Companies, in my experience, who don't take Data Protection seriously never act that quickly. They only act when you threaten to report them to the Information Commissioner, or after you actually have and they have received a letter from them.

[pmeswani]

That's OTT

Possibly. But it depends on whether data breaches are a habit for the Accountant or not.

[SueEllen]

It does beg the question of whether the accountant has sent you wrong information in the past though. Personally, I would report your accountant to their respective professions and also consider going to the ICO to inform them of a breach in the DPA.

That's OTT

[pmeswani]

Before doing so, I'd email your account manager and ask for an explanation of how this happened and if your accounts were sent to someone else then proceed accordingly.

I only hope the Accountant is an honest one.

[Clippy]

It does beg the question of whether the accountant has sent you wrong information in the past though. Personally, I would report your accountant to their respective professions and also consider going to the ICO to inform them of a breach in the DPA.

Before doing so, I'd email your account manager and ask for an explanation of how this happened and if your accounts were sent to someone else then proceed accordingly.

[pmeswani]

It does beg the question of whether the accountant has sent you wrong information in the past though. Personally, I would report your accountant to their respective professions and also consider going to the ICO to inform them of a breach in the DPA.

[Alan @ BroomeAffinity]

If you acknowledge its an honest mistake and that you're not going to name and shame, what's the point of posting this up? Accountants are human and mistake can be made.

[Flubster]

Accountant sent me my year-end accounts yesterday by email. Except they didn't. They'd attached a different company's accounts instead.

Ok, honest mistakes happen, but this kind of thing really shouldn't happen. Makes you wonder who's got mine. They've apologised for the mix up (they sent me another email before I'd even opened the first, so deleted the original straight away without reading it).

And no, I won't name and shame.