Deloitte's $260M Adding Error Has WA Demanding Money Back
Deloitte's $260M Adding Error Has WA Demanding Money Back By Daniel Rao Somewhere inside Deloitte's 219-page case for merging three of Western Australia's universities, two numbers were added together and the answer came out $260 million wrong. Not a rounding error. Not a modelling judgment call. Addition. And nobody — not the consultants who wrote it, not the department that commissioned it, not the minister who defended it — noticed until a stranger on Reddit did the sum. Now the Western Australian government wants its money back. The state paid Deloitte $166,000 for a feasibility study on merging the University of Western Australia, Curtin University and Murdoch University. government spokesperson told Guardian Australia the state was "extremely disappointed" and that its Department of Energy and Economic Diversification had written to Deloitte to expedite the cost recovery process. The errors, the spokesperson said, were being found now — after the repor...