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U.S. Banker
January 2002 |
Trust Big Accounting Firms? Arthur Andersen, the huge accounting firm, hides behind legal technicalities to excuse itself for approving Enron's financial statements. Rather than working for shareholders and investors as it is supposed to, Andersen seems to have done whatever Enron's management wanted it to...   |
CFO
October 1, 2002
CFO Staff |
And Justice for All? CFOs facing civil or criminal trials today might wish they had settled or done their time already... More than 80,000 U.S. employees of Arthur Andersen, which closed its doors on August 31, hit the job market this summer... etc. |
U.S. Banker
April 2002
Mark Bruno |
Broken Affair? Banks, as most companies, have enjoyed close relationships with their accountants for decades, and have been becoming more and more dependent on them for a variety of services, often far removed from auditing their books. Now those relationships are being called into question... |
The Motley Fool
November 11, 2004
Tom Taulli |
Huron Builds on Failure The best thing that ever happened to Huron was the implosion of Enron and Arthur Andersen. With its recent IPO, the consulting firm will be able to hire more billable consultants to maintain its growth rate. |
CFO
July 1, 2005
Kate O'Sullivan |
Bittersweet Victory Bittersweet vindication for Andersen alumni... Here's Looking at You... CFOs on the Move... |
BusinessWeek
January 12, 2004 |
Professional Services: Auditors Applaud, Consultants Cope New regulations will boost both the hours put into audits and the fees paid. Low-cost competition and fewer new technologies will hold back consulting. |
CFO
February 1, 2003
Ed Zwirn |
The Second Six: Ready to Step Up? The largest of the Group B accounting firms are facing new challenges and enjoying new opportunities. |
BusinessWeek
September 3, 2007
Nanette Byrnes |
The Comeback Of Consulting It's once more a huge business for Big Four auditors like Deloitte & Touche, thanks partly to Sarbanes-Oxley rules. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Do High Consulting Fees Compromise the Independence of CPA Firms? Key components of the audit process---the independence and objectivity of auditors---may be eroding, according to some industry observers. |
CFO
January 1, 2004
John Goff |
They Might Be Giants It's been nearly two years since Arthur Andersen went under and Sarbanes-Oxley was passed. Have the Big Four audit firms changed since then? |
Inc.
October 15, 2002
Christopher Caggiano |
A Strategic Misalliance What happens when the ideal partnership turns into a potential ethical nightmare? |
BusinessWeek
January 10, 2005
Nanette Byrnes |
Green Eyeshades Never Looked So Sexy Raises, perks, long sabbaticals -- auditors can write their own ticket these days. |
The Motley Fool
March 30, 2004
Rich Smith |
Auditors Are Getting Skittish Post-Enron, auditors are firing their clients, and getting fired by them. |
Salon.com
February 7, 2002
Terry Greene Sterling |
Arthur Andersen and the Baptists Enron's auditor is no stranger to accounting disasters -- including one of the largest religious foundation bankruptcies in the history of the U.S.... |
The Motley Fool
June 1, 2005
Rich Smith |
Andersen Innocent? Think Again. Despite the reversal of its conviction, Arthur Andersen is still far from coming out clean. |
CFO
September 1, 2002
Andrew Osterland |
No More Mr. Nice Guy A new CFO survey suggests why new rules for auditors may be a wise idea. |
CFO
April 1, 2006
Alix Nyberg Stuart |
The People Who Count With too few accountants to go around, companies are grabbing people wherever they can find them. |
CFO
July 1, 2003
Kris Frieswick |
How Audits Must Change Auditors face more pressure to find fraud. |
CFO
October 1, 2002
Julia Homer |
How Did We Get Here? Much of what happened in the 1990s also happened in the 1980s. Here's hoping we don't do it again. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2002
John S. McClenahen |
Goodbye To GAAP? Probably not. But Enron's collapse makes changes in financial regulation likely... |
CFO
August 1, 2002 |
TGIM A funny name for the erstwhile PwC Consulting... WorldCom gets caught in a storm... executives are asked to swear; securities suits target nontechs... etc. |
Entrepreneur
October 2002
C.J. Prince |
Big Shots Are your chances of landing a big accounting firm following Enron down the drain? |
CFO
September 1, 2007
Kate O'Sullivan |
Back to the Big Eight? Five years after Sarbanes-Oxley, smaller auditing firms are catching up with the Big Four. |
CIO
June 1, 2003
Christopher Koch |
Postcards from an Ethical Wasteland When it comes to ethics, former Arthur Andersen consultant Barbara Toffler says culture is more powerful than individuals. |
Entrepreneur
November 2005
Jane Easter Bahls |
Shred Away? If your company doesn't have a document retention policy in place, ask your lawyer how to create one - then be consistent in following it. |
Financial Advisor
May 2007
Karen DeMasters |
Leader Of The Pack Arthur Anderson refugee Mark Felderman has built a financial advisory firm that's a billion-dollar boutique success. |
The Motley Fool
June 17, 2005
Tom Taulli |
Andersen, Part Deux? It looks as if Andersen isn't the only accounting firm with troubles. But should KPMG suffer the same fate? |
CFO
December 1, 2008
Alix Stuart |
Subprime Suspects Just about everyone, it seems, is being held to blame for the financial meltdown. But what role auditors played, if any, is far from clear. |
HRO Today
April 2008
Andy Teng |
Leading the Charge Into a New Era As chairman of HR Business Process Outsourcing Buyers Group, the most important organization in the HR outsourcing industry, LeAnne Andersen is helping the industry mature in a way that serves employers and providers alike in a rapidly evolving marketplace. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
The Changing Role of the CFO Companies are once again demanding hardcore accounting, financial reporting and risk-management skills. This represents a shift back to the roots of the CFO position... |
BusinessWeek
January 12, 2004
Joseph Weber |
Auditors Asleep At The Wheel. Sound Familiar? Parmalat's collapse seems like deja vu all over again. That's because two of the tainted parties are accounting firms: Grant Thornton and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. One red-faced party is Italy's government, whose effort to build safeguards didn't work. |
Knowledge@Wharton
January 29, 2003 |
Lawyers and Accountants Can Expect Curbs and Compromises in New SEC Rules Recent rules adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to curb the kind of legal and accounting shenanigans that toppled companies like Enron and Arthur Andersen are not as strong as the SEC first indicated they might be. But do they still have enough teeth to work? |
| CFO |
Material Whirl A stock-transfer scam forces a big nonoperating charge... new evidence that banks put the squeeze on credit customers... the inside dope on earnings management attempts... etc. |
BusinessWeek
February 5, 2007
Amy Barrett |
Andersen Was Never This Rewarding Ex-CEO Berardino is improbably recast as an AIDS fighter at biotech startup Profectus. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
You Say IASB, I Say FASB, You Say... A description of efforts to harmonize U.S. and international accounting standards, and shifts in the accounting profession caused by recent scandals. |
CFO
April 1, 2003
Julia Homer |
They ARE Out to Get You So far, relatively few executives have gone to jail for white-collar crimes. That may be about to change. |
CFO
February 1, 2003
Abe de Ramos |
Standards Bearer The chairman of the IASC, Paul Volcker, shares some caustic comments on stock options, corporate boards, and the relative merits of GAAP. |
Salon.com
July 13, 2002
Katharine Mieszkowski |
Capitalists without a clue Once all-seeing captains of industry, America's CEOs are now playing the Sgt. Schultz dumbo card, braying "I know no-thing, no-thing!" |
U.S. Banker
April 2002
Robert A. Bennett |
We've Learned Nothing Despite the Enron-Andersen scandal, little has changed, at least so far... |
InternetNews
March 12, 2009
Sean Michael Kerner |
Cisco Maps Out New Plan for Managing Networks Former Oracle exec Jesper Andersen leads Cisco's effort to rework network management. |
National Defense
May 2005
Dorn McGrath |
Misconduct Unrelated to Federal Contracts Could Lead To Suspension or Debarment Front-page stories on Enron, Arthur Andersen and WorldCom should make evident that failure to fully integrate corporate compliance throughout the company could prove fatal to government business. |
