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The Second Six: Ready to Step Up? The largest of the Group B accounting firms are facing new challenges and enjoying new opportunities.   |
BusinessWeek
November 22, 2004
Nanette Byrnes |
Auditing The Auditors J.D. Power & Associates is now evaluating the very audit firms that are supposed to protect investors from improprieties. |
The Motley Fool
March 30, 2004
Rich Smith |
Auditors Are Getting Skittish Post-Enron, auditors are firing their clients, and getting fired by them. |
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? |
BusinessWeek
December 27, 2004
Amy Borrus |
Auditors: The Leash Gets Shorter Providing tax services to audit clients will no longer be allowed. |
Entrepreneur
June 2005
C.J. Prince |
Booting the Big 4 Tired of sky-high fees and skimpy service? Smaller audit firms can give you the personalized and professional attention you're seeking. |
CFO
September 1, 2005
John Goff |
Fractured Fraternity Oh for the days when auditors were counselors and not pricey overseers. In fact, some CFOs say dealings with external auditors have become a lot like encounters with the Internal Revenue Service: shrill, chilly, and frustrating as hell. |
The Motley Fool
February 18, 2004
Selena Maranjian |
Big Four Auditors Losing Clients The big names carry less prestige in the wake of scandal. Many big companies are no longer paying big accounting firms to audit their books. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Do Accountants Who Act as Consultants Take Greater Care or Cut Corners? New Wharton research challenges the idea that lucrative consulting contracts routinely lead auditors to look the other way when preparing financial audits, a key allegation in the scandals at WorldCom, Tyco and Enron. |
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. |
CFO
December 1, 2002
Joseph McCafferty |
Fault Lines Did its auditor, Grant Thornton, cause the downfall of tiny Carnegie International? Or is Carnegie seeking a scapegoat? |
Bank Systems & Technology
May 24, 2007
Nancy Feig |
Survey Finds Technology Spending to Increase A survey of bank executives find most planning to increase technology spending. |
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
June 28, 2011
Matt Koppenheffer |
Chinese Auditors: Where Were You Yesterday? The auditors of small Chinese companies are finally starting to get tough. Is it too little too late? |
CFO
May 8, 2006
Russ Banham |
Party of Three With corporate reputations -- as well as their own -- on the line, finance managers are increasingly relying on outside advisers to help with internal controls. |
AFP eWire
December 10, 2007 |
Nonprofit Sector Sees Significant Increase in Governance Changes Majority of charities have put in place new governance and accounting policies since the implementation of the Sarbanes-Oxley accountability law. |
CFO
April 1, 2010
Tim Reason |
Auditing Your Auditor After nearly a decade of turmoil, companies have gained the advantage in negotiating with their auditors. |
CFO
May 1, 2010
Sarah Johnson |
You Complete My Audit The relationship between accounting firms and their corporate clients has been shaky over the past decade, to say the least, but amid the tumult of Sarbanes-Oxley and thorny auditor-client issues lie long-lasting relationships, some that have endured for more than 50 years. |
The Motley Fool
July 11, 2011
Matt Koppenheffer |
10 Hilarious Chinese-Stock Red Flags You Need to Know Want to avoid getting taken for a ride on a Chinese-stock scam? Here are 10 key red flags to look out for. |
CFO
May 1, 2008
Alix Stuart |
Auditor Angst Want faster, cheaper audits? Your auditor humbly suggests you avoid last-minute data dumps and other less-than-helpful practices. |
CFO
February 1, 2003
Alix Nyberg |
Auditor Independence: Separation Anxiety Many tax services may be "inappropriate" work for auditors to perform for their audit clients, says the SEC. |
The Motley Fool
November 17, 2006
S.J. Caplan |
A Brave New World for Bean Counters? Accounting firms advocate a radical overhaul of the financial reporting system. Will it be an investor's utopian dream or are they seeking to insulate themselves from the fury of shareholders burned by fraud? |
AFP eWire
January 21, 2008 |
Barely Half of All Charities Require Board Member Contributions A new survey by accounting firm Grant Thornton LLP reveals that just slightly more than half of charities require their board members to make financial contributions to their organizations. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
January 10, 2005
Nanette Byrnes |
Green Eyeshades Never Looked So Sexy Raises, perks, long sabbaticals -- auditors can write their own ticket these days. |
CFO
April 1, 2004 |
Bolting from the Big Four Smaller firms are picking up audit clients at the expense of the Big Four... Stock options fall out of favor... a proposal to synchronize accounting and tax reporting... analysts say good-bye to stock ratings... etc. |
BusinessWeek
April 11, 2005
Joseph Weber |
Tough Questions For AIG's Auditors Regulators are probing if PricewaterhouseCoopers let the financial shenanigans slip through. Already, institutional shareholders, who sued AIG last fall when its stock began a 21% plunge, are considering roping the auditing firm into a class action. |
CFO
October 1, 2004
Kate O'Sullivan |
Can We Talk? Ironically, as the amount of communication between auditors and top executives has increased, the content of these conversations has become much more restricted. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act is partly the reason. |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 4, 2013
Martha Lagace |
Are the 'Big Four' Audit Firms Too Big to Fail? For over a decade, there have been articles and op-eds in the popular and business press arguing that the auditing industry, currently dominated by Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young, KPMG, and PwC, is a tightening oligopoly, increasingly insulated from the risks of failure. |
CFO
September 1, 2004
Alix Nyberg |
Raising Red Flags As they identify control weaknesses, companies find a common one: inadequate finance staffs. |
CFO
October 1, 2011
Sarah Johnson |
Making Audits More Audible New rules would require auditors to speak up about possible problems, and describe in more detail what they do and don't look at. |
Foundation News & Commentary
Jul/Aug 2005
Andras Kosaras |
Thinking About an Audit? Read This First What kinds of grantmakers get audits and how should a foundation choose an auditor if it opts for this process? |
CFO
February 1, 2012
David M. Katz |
The Cost of Confidence Two proposals aim to increase auditor independence, but may cause problems for CFOs. |
The Motley Fool
August 22, 2011
Ilan Moscovitz |
Hercules Offshore Is Better Than You Think Hercules tends to generate much more free cash flow than net income, suggesting that the company's stock might be much cheaper than many investors realize. |
Chemistry World
May 25, 2011
James Urquhart |
Engineered bacterium to take on petrochemicals producers US sustainable chemicals company Genomatica has demonstrated a commercially viable approach for turning sugar into 1,4-butanediol -- a globally important petrochemical intermediate - using a metabolically engineered strain of E. coli. |
BusinessWeek
April 23, 2007
Jason Bush |
Business In Russia Just Got Riskier Former Yukos auditor PwC could face criminal charges in a politically tinged case. |
CFO
March 1, 2012
Sarah Johnson |
FASB Change Targets Intangibles Tests A simplified rule could save companies money. |
