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- Audit committees focus on operational risk: FBI targets corporate corruption banking group proposes self-regulation for risks management transparency linked to ethical workforce financial restatements increase sharply
- AUDIT COMMITTEES ARE EXPECTING INTERNAL AUDIT departments to make strategic, operational, and business risk a higher priority as demands of compliance with the U.S. Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 have eased in the past year, according to the 2008 State of the Internal Audit Profession Study by PricewaterhouseCoopers PwC LLP. The...
- Research articles 2008-06-01
- EMAK Worldwide Appoints New Independent Auditors
- LOS ANGELES -- EMAK Worldwide, Inc. (Nasdaq:EMAK), a leading marketing services firm, announced today that the Audit Committee of its Board of Directors has appointed Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company's independent auditors to replace PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, effective immediately. The engagement will commence with the review of the Company's...
- Research articles 2006-07-11
- The Sarbanes-Oxley act of 2002: reviewing the corporate governance scorecard.(Turning Point)
- IN JULY 2002, A MILESTONE FOR corporate governance reform in the US, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, became law. However, its legislative effects on the American business community have only become noticeable over the past year, as mandatory corporate compliance with regulatory provisions came into effect. As a...
- Research articles 2005-12-22
- A price worth paying? - Auditing Sarbanes-Oxley.(Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
- America's response to Enron and other scandals was the Sarbanes-Oxley law. It is costing plenty--but is it working? THE Sarbanes-Oxley statute, which the United States enacted in an atmosphere of extraordinary agitation in 2002, is one of the most influential--and controversial--pieces of corporate legislation...
- Research articles 2005-05-21
- AuthentiDate Announces Decision to Replace Auditors
- SCHENECTADY, N.Y. -- AuthentiDate Holding Corp. (NASDAQ: ADAT) announced that it has dismissed PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as its independent registered public accounting firm. The Company stated in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it has had no disagreement with PricewaterhouseCoopers over the last two fiscal years on any...
- Research articles 2005-04-20
- Mamma.com Inc.: Auditors to Cease to Act and Replacement Auditors to be Identified-2004 Audited Financial Results Likely Delayed.
- MONTREAL, CANADA, Feb 16, 2005 CCNMatthews via COMTEX Mamma.com Inc. ("Mamma.com" or the "Company") (NASDAQ:MAMA) today announced that it has been unable to reach an agreement on the terms of the audit engagement with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP ("PWC") for the year ended December 31,...
- Research articles 2005-02-16
- A word from accounting's powers that be
- The mind-set of financial reporting should ideally evolve from "minimum compliance" to "investor driven." This was an overarching theme from preparers, auditors, regulators, standards setters, and users of financial reports who made presentations at the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants' AICPA National Conference on Current SEC and PCAOB Developments...
- Research articles 2005-02-01
- Parmalat auditors find 3.6 bln eur spent on non-commercial ops: report
- MILAN AFP ? The audit firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers has uncovered 3.6 billion euros of funds spent by Parmalat Finanziaria on operations "not linked to its commercial activities", the financial daily Il Sole 24 Ore reported. The newspaper cited extracts of the PWC report being prepared by the auditors for Enrico...
- Research articles 2004-01-28
- BREAKING THE MARKET'S DEPENDENCE ON INDEPENDENCE: AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE "INDEPENDENT" OUTSIDE AUDITOR
- INTRODUCTIONA cornerstone of financial reporting by public companies is the requirement that their annual financial statements be audited by independent outside auditors. As a result of the rising tide of financial misstatements by public companies, however, there have been serious concerns as to whether outside auditors adequately carried out their...
- Research articles 2004-01-01
- Thailand's New Capital Accord to Bring about Changes in Cultures.
- By Parista Yuthamanop, Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 8--The need for financial institutions to set up operational risk management systems under the new Bank for International Settlements capital accord re...uires institutions to better manage information and change ...
- Research articles 2003-08-08
- Indonesia Telecom misses deadline to refile results.
- Jul 17, 2003 (The Asian Wall Street Journal - ABIX via COMTEX) The US Securities & Exchange Commission SEC needs to make a decision on PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia's continuing presence on the New York Stock Exchange. The south-east Asian telco has not filed revised...
- Research articles 2003-07-17
- Preparing to publicize financial controls
- UNDER FINAL RULES ENACTED by the Securities & Exchange Commission in late May 2003, most senior managers of public companies will have to report and certify the adequacy of their companies' internal financial controls and financial reporting procedures to prevent financial abuse and fraud. These new certifications must be included...
- Research articles 2003-07-01
- Fiscal report reveals SPL clubs on brink of bankruptcy; Motherwell
- ANOTHER SPL club could plunge into administration this summer as Scotland's top flight is sucked further into the red, weighed down by more record losses. David Glen imparts this information with the air of a man who has done it before. That is because he has. The...
- Research articles 2003-04-20
- Nasa
- Owen Barwell ACMA has been appointed senior financial advisor at Nasa. Barwell will work in the administrator's office and will be responsible for implementing a programme of financial management reform. For the past seven years, he has been a management consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting in Washington DC and London.
- Research articles 2002-09-01
- Nasdaq, Microsoft and PricewaterhouseCoopers launch pilot program to make financial documents easier to analyze, distribute and share; New financial reporting language leverages power of web.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-6 August 2002-NASDAQ: Nasdaq, Microsoft and PricewaterhouseCoopers launch pilot program to make financial documents easier to analyze, distribute and share; New financial reporting language leverages power of web C1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:08062002 New York, NY -- Setting...
- Research articles 2002-08-06
- German Travel Firm Denies Manipulation of Financial Statements.
- By Allan Hall, Evening Standard, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 6--The owner of UK holiday operator Thomson today denied allegations from a former senior management figure that it had manipulated its financial statements, writes Allan Hall from Berlin. Hans-Joachim Selenz,...
- Research articles 2002-08-06
- Robert Herz named FASB chairman
- ROBERT H. HERZ, CPA, C.A., A SENIOR PARTNER WITH PricewaterhouseCoopers, has been named the new chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board FASB. His term begins July 1 when he succeeds outgoing Chairman Edmund L. Jenkins, who is retiring June 30 after completing a five-year term. Herz, 48, is...
- Research articles 2002-06-01
- Big Five developments. (news front)
- The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has slapped KPMG for engaging in "improper professional conduct" because it purported to serve as an independent accounting firm for an audit client at the same time that it had made substantial financial investments in the client. In addition to censuring the...
- Research articles 2002-04-01
- Regulation Fair Disclosure (Reg FD) ... and Beyond. (Financial Reporting).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- Enacted by the Securities and Exchange Commission just over a year ago, Regulation Fair Disclosure, known as "Reg FD," seems to be accomplishing its promise for fair and equal disclosure of companies' financial information by requiring public companies to disclose all material information to the general...
- Research articles 2002-01-01
- The Ambulance Chasers.
- The bust of the dotcom bubble has helped to create a boom in another industry: shareholder class-action lawsuits. Companies listed on the tech-heavy Nasdaq have had more lawsuits filed against them than on all the other exchanges combined. A new study by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP...
- Research articles 2001-07-01
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