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- a generic term for all the activities conducted by accountants, for example, bookkeeping and financial accounting. Accounting involves the classification and recording of monetary transactions; the presentation and interpretation of...
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- Accounting firm backs baseball's youth program
- The Reviving Baseball in the Inner Cities RBI program will get $1million a year from KPMG as part of the accounting/consulting firm's new sponsorship agreement with Major League Baseball. It is the first time the program, designed to increase youth participation in baseball and softball in urban areas, has a...
- Research articles 2007-06-27
- A group of auditing firms including Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young, PricewaterhouseCoopers, KPMG, BDO International and Grant Thornton collaborated on a report that insists liability standards should be eased for accounting firms and that compan
- A group of auditing firms including Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young, PricewaterhouseCoopers, KPMG, BDO International and Grant Thornton collaborated on a report that insists liability standards should be eased for accounting firms and that companies and investors should face higher charges for forensic audits, which are more likely to...
- Research articles 2007-02-01
- Judge blasts pressure put on KPMG over legal fees
- NEW YORK -- A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the U.S. Attorney's office unfairly pressured the KPMG accounting firm not to pay the legal expenses of former partners who have been charged with selling abusive tax shelters. It marked a stinging rebuke to federal prosecutors here and the Justice Department's...
- Research articles 2006-06-28
- KPMG admits unlawful conduct by some ex-partners
- WASHINGTON -- The specter of felled Arthur Andersen LLP hovers in federal prosecutors' calculations as they negotiate with another accounting titan, KPMG, over sales of dubious tax shelters. The Big Four accounting firm acknowledged Thursday that there was unlawful conduct by some former KPMG partners and said it...
- Research articles 2005-06-17
- KPMG agrees to pay SEC $22.5 million to settle
- WASHINGTON AP -- KPMG LLP, the U.S. unit of Big Four accounting firm KPMG International, has agreed to pay $22.5 million to settle federal regulators' charges that it allowed Xerox Corp. to manipulate its accounting. The Securities and Exchange Commission in January 2003 sued KPMG and certain of...
- Research articles 2005-04-20
- Pure Cycle Corporation Announces Change in Independent Registered Public Accounting Firms
- THORNTON, Colo. -- Pure Cycle Corporation (NASDAQ Smcap:PCYO) today announced it has retained Anton Collins Mitchell LLP ACM as its independent registered public accounting firm, effective for the fiscal year ending August 31, 2005. ACM replaces KPMG LLP. The decision to change independent registered public accounting firms was made...
- Research articles 2004-12-17
- Profession needs rotation of auditors.
- Rotation of auditors should be good for the accounting profession and good for the public interest. KPMG formerly Peat Marwick Mitchell has been the "independent accountant" for General Electric for over 100 years. Deloitte & Touche has been the "independent accountant" for General Motors for over 85 years - those...
- Research articles 2004-10-25
- KPMG hit with record 10 million dollar SEC fine over Gemstar audits
- WASHINGTON AFP — The US Securities and Exchange Commission said that accounting firm KPMG had agreed to pay a record 10 million dollar sum to settle its "improper" audits of Gemstar-TV Guide International. The 10-million-dollar sanction represents the biggest payment ever made by an accounting firm in an SEC...
- Research articles 2004-10-20
- KPMG to pay record 10 million dollars over 'audit failures'
- WASHINGTON AFP — The US Securities and Exchange Commission said that accounting firm KPMG had agreed to pay a record 10 million dollars to settle its "improper" audits of Gemstar-TV Guide International. The 10-million-dollar sanction represents the biggest payment ever made by an accounting firm in an SEC investigation....
- Research articles 2004-10-20
- Sarbanes-Oxley Crunch Stirring Up Accounting
- The substantial demands of complying with a key provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act are stretching the Big Four to their limits and spilling over work to other accounting firms. "My sense is that the Big Four are out of capacity, and that's forcing them to shed some clients to handle...
- Research articles 2004-10-18
- The list accounting firms.(Directory)(Illustration)
- ACCOUNTING FIRMS Ranked by number of CPAs in county; alphabetically in the event of tie Fairfield County Rank Name, address, Managing Number Number of...
- Research articles 2004-08-16
- Veteran Virginia banking, finance executive dies at 60.
- By Tom Shean, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 24--When the parent of Virginia National Bank was building a statewide banking organization in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Joseph G. Robbins advised the Norfolk-based banking company on merger-related ...
- Research articles 2004-06-24
- Alaska Airlines
- Alaska Airlines named Andrew Harrison as managing director of internal audit. Harrison joins Alaska from KPMG Seattle, one of the nation's largest public accounting firms. At KPMG, Harrison was a senior manager, directing the auditing and oversight of the public accounting of several large corporations in the Pacific Northwest, including...
- Research articles 2004-02-01
- Amityville-based Napco Security Systems experiences financial
- The dominoes have been tumbling around Napco Security Systems Inc. An international tax problem, a delayed annual-report filing, a blown SEC deadline and a Nasdaq delisting notice have pushed Napco investors on a gut-twisting ride in recent weeks. On Sept. 29, the maker of access security...
- Research articles 2004-01-09
- Accounting chain reaction hits Napco Security Systems
- The dominoes have been tumbling around Napco Security Systems Inc. An international tax problem, a delayed annual-report filing, a blown SEC deadline and a Nasdaq delisting notice have pushed Napco investors on a gut-twisting ride in recent weeks. On Sept. 29, the maker of access security...
- Research articles 2004-01-09
- Levitt tells Big 4: put investors first!(Arthur Levitt)(Transcript)
- NEW YORK -- In a meeting in late November with the partnership of Big Four firm KPMG, former Securities and Exchange Commission chair Arthur Levitt said that auditors must make the investing public their top priority. "First and foremost, auditors must put investors first," he said. "For too...
- Research articles 2003-12-15
- Back to basics; Accountancy and law.
- The aspirations of accountancy firms in the law are faltering KPMG was the last of the big accountancy firms to enter the legal arena, and is the first to throw in the towel. On November 7th the firm announced it would cut its ties with...
- Research articles 2003-11-15
- Allegations Still Challenge Reputations of Nation's Largest Accounting Firms.
- By Ameet Sachdev, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 7--Early last year, auditor KPMG LLP was ready to make public its doubts about Spiegel Inc.'s ability to continue as a business. But the Downers Grove-based retailer, according to a subsequent SEC...
- Research articles 2003-10-07
- Raleigh, N.C., Telecom Firm Founder Has Tax-Shelter Lawsuit Dismissed.
- By Chris Serres, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 30--Peter T. Loftin, founder and former chairman of Raleigh telecommunications company BTI, will have to prove he suffered financial damages before he can sue the nation's fourth-largest accounting...
- Research articles 2003-09-30
- Fortune-telling for businesses, big four style.
- Aug 04, 2003 (CA Charter - ABIX via COMTEX) The number of big accounting firms is decreasing. The sector is currently dominated by fours firms - PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Ernst & Young and KPMG. Tony Harrington, CEO of PricewaterhouseCoopers, is expecting more regulation....
- Research articles 2003-08-04
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