Practice
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PwC Settles Anicom Suit for $21.5 million
NEW YORK (Reuters) – PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP agreed to pay $21.5 million to settle lawsuits by Anicom Inc. shareholders and creditors…
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Ernst & Young to sell vulnerability management tool
ESsecurityOnline, a security software company owned by Ernst & Young, is wading into the security management market with a vulnerability…
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Tyco's former general counsel says auditor knew of loans
The former general counsel for Tyco International Ltd., indicted for falsifying documents to conceal $14 million in loans, said in…
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Every 10th Public Comapny in US Restated their Accounts
One in 10 publicly traded companies made financial restatements because of accounting irregularities in the past five years, the U.S.…
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Ex-CIA boss to regulate US auditors
Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) chief William Webster has been appointed as chairman of a new body set up to…
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SBP Announces its Panel of Audit Firms
KARACHI (October 24 2002) : The State Bank of Pakistan on Wednesday has announced to induct 36 Chartered Accountant (CA)…
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Grant Thornton Launches Business Risk Niche
Chicago (Oct. 22, 2002) – Capitalizing on the fear of corporate scandals across corporate American, Grant Thornton Monday unveiled its…
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PwC, UBS sued for $100 mln over HPL scandal
DALLAS, Oct 17 (Reuters) – Three HPL Technologies Inc. (HPLA) shareholders slapped accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers and UBS Warburg with a…
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Judge fines Arthur Andersen $500,000
A federal judge fined accounting firm Andersen $500,000 and sentenced it to five years probation for obstructing justice in a…
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Auditing Guidance Free Electronically in 2003
In an effort to make International Standards on Auditing (ISAs) more widely available to the world's accountants the International Auditing…