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• Accounting firms—ranked by total employees in the greater San Fernando Valley

  - 2007-12-10

  Accounting Firms--Ranked by total employees in the greater San Fernando Valley Rank Firm Staffing ...

  Tags: accounting, audit, Ernst & Young LLP, FINANCE, Hunt, Kaplan, Kellogg, KPMG International, Manufacturing, Miller, Taxes, Van, Wolf

• Auditors face great expectations

  - 2007-12-01

  AFTER SPENDING RECENT YEARS FOCUSING ON FINANcial reporting compliance, internal auditors are now being asked to cover a wider range of risks, including fraud, major programs, contracts, and transactions, according to Ernst & Young's Global Internal Audit Survey. They are also being charged with helping to improve their organization's overall...

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• The audit committee in the age of risk: an Ernst & Young survey of audit committee chairs and members at companies around the world offers unexpected revelations around risk management, audit committee composition, continuing education needs and time

  - 2007-03-01

  Audit committees have always played a critical role in the oversight of corporations. However, since the onset of Sarbanes-Oxley several years ago, audit committee activities have become not only intensely visible but highly scrutinized. And while Sa Audit committees have always played a critical role in...

  Tags: audit, Ernst & Young LLP, risk management, survey

• EcuaGold Resources Ltd. Appoints Gordon A. Fear to its Board of Directors.

  - 2007-02-15

  VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, Feb 15, 2007 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- EcuaGold Resources Ltd. (the "Company" or "EcuaGold") (TSX VENTURE:EGR) is very pleased to announce that Mr. Gordon A. Fear has been appointed a director of the Company. Mr. Fear had a 38-year career with Ernst &...

  Tags: audit, board, concession, Ernst & Young LLP, FINANCE

• 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

  - 2007-02-01

  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...

  Tags: accounting, audit, auditing, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Ernst & Young LLP, FINANCE, fraud, investor, KPMG International, Litigation, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, standards

• The Mills Corporation Announces Update on Timing of Financial Statements and Status of Independent Investigation

  - 2006-10-30

  CHEVY CHASE, Md. -- The Mills Corporation (NYSE:MLS) announced today that it now expects to file its Form 10-K in three to four weeks. The Mills' first, second and third quarter 2006 Form 10-Qs are expected to be filed shortly after the 2005 Form 10-K is filed with the Securities...

  Tags: audit, Company, counsel, Ernst & Young LLP, FINANCE, financial, Mills Corp., SEC

• QuStream Announces Change of Auditors.

  - 2006-10-10

  TORONTO, ONTARIO, Oct 10, 2006 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- QuStream Corporation ("QuStream") (TSX VENTURE:QVC) announced that its Board of Directors has approved a change of the Company's auditors from Ernst & Young LLP, to BDO Dunwoody LLP. At the request of QuStream, Ernst &...

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• The power of four; Accounting.

  - 2006-09-16

  The auditing profession is dangerously concentrated WHATEVER you might think if your accounts have ever been qualified, auditors are only human. And humans tend to exploit their power. So it is understandable that Britain's accounting watchdog revealed last week that investors and the finance...

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• Natrol, Inc

  - 2006-07-17

  James R. Peters was elected to the board of directors of Natrol, Inc., the Chatsworth-based manufacturer and distributor of nutritional products. Peters is a certified public accountant and a retired partner in the audit practice of Ernst & Young.

  Tags: audit, Ernst & Young LLP, FINANCE, Manufacturing

• Being prepared.

  - 2006-05-12

  May 12, 2006 (Super Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- In April 2006, Ernst & Young issued the results of its inaugural "Superannuation Funds Internal Audit Survey". The accounting firm reveals that one-third of Australian super funds lack a May 12, 2006 (Super Review -...

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