Accounting scandals are business scandals that arise from intentional manipulation of financial statements with the disclosure of financial misdeeds by...
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corporate collapses and scandals have involved some type of false or inappropriate accounting (see list at accounting scandals). The following list of...
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Convicted of Multi-Crore Accounting Fraud". NDTV.com. "SEC Charges India-Based Affiliates of PWC for Role in Satyam Accounting Fraud". Securities and Exchange...
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company's accounting practices. One statement in the letter said: "I am incredibly nervous that we will implode in a wave of accounting scandals." Watkins...
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Creative accounting is a euphemism referring to accounting practices that may follow the letter of the rules of standard accounting practices, but deviate...
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treatments and their restrictive scope. Accounting standards were largely written in the early 21st century. Accounting scandals such as Worldcom and Enron illustrate...
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Arthur Andersen (category Accounting scandals)
by Arthur Andersen alumni Accounting scandals Conspiracy of Fools Corporate abuse David J. Lesar Timeline of the Enron scandal Moore, Mary Virginia; Crampton...
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Enron (section 2001 accounting scandals)
planned accounting fraud, known since as the Enron scandal. Enron became synonymous with willful, institutional fraud and systemic corruption. The scandal brought...
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Accounting scholarship is an academic discipline oriented towards the profession of accounting, usually taught at a business school. Since accounting...
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collapsed or were broken up in the 1980s due to poor performance, accounting scandals, and antitrust regulation. In contrast, conglomerates have remained...
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Krispy Kreme (section IPO and accounting scandals)
out then-CEO Livengood and then-COO John W. Tate to blame for the accounting scandals, although it did not find that the executives committed intentional...
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corporate and accounting scandals, including those affecting Enron, Tyco International, Adelphia, Peregrine Systems, and WorldCom. These scandals cost investors...
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MCI Inc. (category Accounting scandals)
Sullivan, controller David Myers and general accounting director Buford "Buddy" Yates used fraudulent accounting methods to disguise WorldCom's decreasing...
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creative accounting." —Ian Griffiths in 1986, describing creative accounting From the 1980s to the present there have been multiple accounting scandals that...
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several fields including financial accounting, management accounting, tax accounting and cost accounting. Financial accounting focuses on the reporting of an...
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strengthen accounting regulations, beginning by severing ties with the Financial Reporting Enforcement Panel (FREP), a quasi-official accounting watchdog...
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Lernout & Hauspie (category Accounting scandals)
on 8 August 2000 of a major financial scandal involving fictitious transactions in Korea and improper accounting methodologies elsewhere. In April 2001...
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The CINAR scandal was a major accounting scandal in Canada that came to light in March 2000 at CINAR, one of the world's most successful children's television...
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The WorldCom scandal was a major accounting scandal discovered in June 2002 at WorldCom, then the second-largest long-distance telephone company in the...
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McKesson Corporation. It is widely considered one the largest financial scandals of the 20th century. McKesson and Robbins was taken over in 1925 by Phillip...
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investigations in a number of nations. The 1MDB scandal has been described as "one of the world's greatest financial scandals" and declared by the United States Department...
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Repo 105 (category Accounting scandals)
that the firm "substantially assisted... a massive accounting fraud" by approving the accounting treatment, seeking $150 million. The suit was eventually...
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PCAOB-registered public accounting firms; conduct investigations and disciplinary proceedings, and impose sanctions, against registered public accounting firms and...
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collapsed in 2002 amid revelations of accounting irregularities, making it at the time one of the largest accounting scandals in the United States. Ebbers blamed...
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35 day month (category Accounting scandals)
month" was the basis of "$2.2 billion in accounting fraud" regarding "events regarding an accounting scandal that started in 2002" at Computer Associates...
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an exciting time in the world of IT auditing as a result of the accounting scandals and increased regulation. IT auditing has had a relatively short...
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supersedes SAS 82, was issued partly in response to contemporary accounting scandals at Enron, WorldCom, Adelphia, and Tyco. The standard incorporates...
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investing – Buying and selling real estate for profit Saving account – Type of bank accountPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets Securities...
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[citation needed] After Peregrine went into bankruptcy following 2002 accounting scandals, certain lines of business purchased from Harbinger and Extricity...
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Financial scandal may refer to: Corporate scandal Accounting scandals, or corporate accounting scandals, political and business scandals Disclosure of...
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