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The Motley Fool
May 24, 2011
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Waving the White Flag on Chinese Small Caps Chinese small caps have been blowing up left and right. There may be some attractive looking valuations, but I'm steering clear.   |
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? |
The Motley Fool
May 26, 2011
Cindy Johnson |
VanceInfo Technologies Shares Popped: What You Need to Know VanceInfo Technologies popped 14% in intraday trading today after its closing price dropped 15% over the first three days of the week. |
The Motley Fool
June 29, 2011
Travis Hoium |
Add A-Power to Nasdaq's Naughty List A-Power's auditor and two directors quit this week putting shares on the shelf. |
The Motley Fool
April 13, 2011
Matt Koppenheffer |
China Small Caps: Whom Can You Trust? Is there any way for investors to venture into the wild world of Chinese small caps? |
The Motley Fool
October 21, 2011
Dan Radovsky |
China Questions Big Four Auditors The Chinese government wants the big auditing firms to double-check their work. |
BusinessWeek
June 16, 2011
Dune Lawrence et al. |
The War Over Chinese Stocks in North America Short sellers are targeting some of the more than 150 Chinese firms that have entered U.S. and Canadian markets via reverse mergers. |
The Motley Fool
January 18, 2011
Matt Koppenheffer |
Chasing China? Beware. Be ready to get your hands dirty if you venture into the world of Chinese small caps. |
The Motley Fool
May 23, 2011
Matt Koppenheffer |
Camelot Information Systems Shares Plunged: What You Need to Know Shares of Chinese IT services company Camelot Information Systems were getting battered today, losing as much as 11% intraday trading on heavier-than-average volume. |
The Motley Fool
June 21, 2011
Matt Koppenheffer |
Beware of Muddy Waters' Elephant Gun John Paulson's Paulson & Co. hedge fund has dumped its entire stake in Sino-Forest, a Chinese forestry company that was the latest target of short-side research firm Muddy Waters. |
The Motley Fool
July 21, 2011
Tim Hanson |
How Chinese Investors Invest in China Interestingly, little-to-no fraud has been exposed at Chinese public companies trading in China. This could be a solution to staying away from the Chinese market. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
November 15, 2010
Andrew Bond |
China Is Still Safe for Investors Recent micro and macroeconomic issues in China should not scare investors away. |
CFO
July 1, 2003
Kris Frieswick |
How Audits Must Change Auditors face more pressure to find fraud. |
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 15, 2011
Cindy Johnson |
AutoChina International Shares Plunged: What You Need to Know AutoChina International Ltd. dropped 10% in intraday trading today after another China-based firm announced its auditor and CFO had resigned. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
January 13, 2011
Dune Lawrence |
Worthless Stocks from China When a retiree in Texas discovered that some Chinese companies listed in the U.S. are frauds, he unleashed an army of short-sellers. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
June 2, 2011
Tim Hanson |
Can Private Equity Save Chinese Stocks? Should we be placing small bets on all Chinese companies and hoping private equity rides to the rescue of at least some of them? |
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
February 1, 2012
David M. Katz |
The Cost of Confidence Two proposals aim to increase auditor independence, but may cause problems for CFOs. |
CFO
August 1, 2004 |
The Enforcer If audit firms don't voluntarily improve their processes, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) chairman William McDonough promises he'll make them. |
The Motley Fool
March 30, 2004
Rich Smith |
Auditors Are Getting Skittish Post-Enron, auditors are firing their clients, and getting fired by them. |
| 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. |
The Motley Fool
June 24, 2011
Matt Koppenheffer |
Chinese Small Caps Get Even More Hilarious The latest train wreck from this decidedly shaky slice of the market. |
BusinessWeek
December 27, 2004
Amy Borrus |
Auditors: The Leash Gets Shorter Providing tax services to audit clients will no longer be allowed. |
BusinessWeek
August 22, 2005
Nanette Byrnes |
The Little Guys Doing Large Audits Cheaper, more attentive second-tier accounting firms are scoring clients off the Big Four accounting firms. |
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. |
CFO
September 1, 2010
Tim Reason |
Fees Still Falling, but Not as Dramatically The latest analysis of audit fees shows continued good news for most companies, but not all. |
CFO
September 1, 2002
David M. Katz |
The Insiders Do internal auditors have a bigger role to play in ensuring the integrity of financial reports? |
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. |
BusinessWeek
May 5, 2011
James Sterngold |
A Wall Street Scion's Expensive Education Jesse Glickenhaus defends a losing investment in a mysterious Chinese fertilizer company. |
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... |
CFO
May 1, 2004
Lori Calabro |
Looking Under the Hood New attestation standards for internal controls put more power in the hands of auditors. |
CFO
May 1, 2008
Kate O'Sullivan |
Can This Relationship Be Saved? Auditors and CFOs aren't the friends they once were, but they are working out their differences. |
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
April 26, 2011
Travis Hoium |
Longtop Financial Technologies Shares Plunged: What You Need to Know Shares of Longtop Financial Technologies went on a wild ride today and are currently down 11% on high volume. |
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? |
The Motley Fool
October 7, 2011
Matt Koppenheffer |
What About All the Fraud in China? Chinese stock fraud was all the rage earlier this year. Should investors still be worried now? |
The Motley Fool
December 23, 2011
Dan Newman |
Who Will Save Us From Chinese Fraud? Muddy Waters Research's head, Carson Block, gives Chinese companies something to fear. Since Block's first success with Orient Paper, he has taken aim at RINO, Duoyuan Global Water, China MediaExpress, and Sino-Forest. |
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
January 10, 2012
Sean Williams |
A Perfect World? In Name Only Fraud allegations shake Chinese small caps yet again. |
The Motley Fool
December 8, 2010
Toby Shute |
Welcome to the Chinese Investment Minefield Interested in the huge opportunities here? You're not alone. |
BusinessWeek
September 22, 2003
Paula Dwyer |
A Talk with William McDonough The new accounting oversight board's chairman says the profession should see the PCAOB (Public Company Accounting Oversight Board) as "its mentor-cum-ally." |
CFO
March 15, 2006
David M. Katz |
A Tough Act to Follow What CFOs really think about Sarbox -- and how they would fix it. Included are the results of an exclusive survey of finance executives on the topic. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
February 7, 2011
Brian D. Pacampara |
China MediaExpress Shares Popped Again: What You Need to Know Shares of Chinese advertising specialist China MediaExpress surged as high as 15% in intraday trading Monday after providing a more detailed response to the swarm of negative reports recently. |
The Motley Fool
December 30, 2011 |
Roundtable: 1 Thing That Surprised Me in 2011 Learn from the year that was from our four analysts. |
Entrepreneur
April 2007
David Worrell |
Ready to Report It may get a little easier for some small-businesses to play by the Sarbanes-Oxley rules. |
