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Ratings agency crackdowns
in Sox First, on May 1, 2009
...ll be appointed for only a single term of office, and they can be dismissed in case of professional misconduct. This is not before time but it does leave one wondering why it's taken so long. The...
Sorority Gets Probation at Oklahoma State After Hazing Incident
in The Universities Weblog, on November 8, 2008
... at OSU, founded in 1919, has 150 to 200 members. It has no previous allegations of hazing or other misconduct, officials said. Oklahoma State banned one fraternity from the campus for 15 years in 200...
GM and Deloitte settlement over lying to investors
in Sox First, on August 9, 2008
... that agreed to pay $38.25 to settle a $325 million class action settlement of investor claims of misconduct by Delphi, the biggest auto parts supplier in the US. Given the state of the US economy ...
Audit liabilty - the PwC case
in Sox First, on July 12, 2008
...39;s committee has the right to sue PwC. claiming it knowingly assisting in the AHERF officers' misconduct by issuing clean audit opinions before the company collapsed in bankruptcy in 1998. PwC ...
WVU Board Supports President Mike Garrison
in The Universities Weblog, on June 1, 2008
In an emergency session on Friday, the west virginia University Board of Governors "found nothing to suggest that President Mike Garrison influenced the awarding of an unearned Executive M.B.A degree to Mylan Inc. executive Heather Bresch." This, according to an article in the Pitt...
IBM suspension fallout
in Sox First, on April 22, 2008
...een that happen, let me know. I have not ... If I were not to have suspended IBM, the fruits of the misconduct would have gone directly to the contractor on whose behalf the misconduct occurred."...
Nonprofits ethics: now nearly as bad as business and government
in Sox First, on March 31, 2008
...ing fast. The study found that more than half of nonprofit employees observed at least one type of misconduct. The level of ethics in nonprofits is now nearly as bad as it gets in business and govern...
White collar crime professionals
in Sox First, on December 10, 2007
...mus University in their paper White Collars, Dirty Hands: A Grounded Neo - Institutional Theory of Misconduct in Professional Service Firms . The paper found that auditors are much less likely than ...
Ethics danger signals
in Sox First, on November 29, 2007
...mented programs are doing more reporting. The bad news, according to a new survey, is that ethical misconduct is on the rise and has now reached pre-Enron levels. During the past 12 months, more than...
Autopsy on Woman Who Died in Phoenix Police Custody Ruled Death by Hanging
in The Aviation Weblog, on November 9, 2007
..., supporting the department's position that "officers acted appropriately and there was no misconduct during this tragic incident."
Gotbaum had been arrested on a disorderly conduct ...
Oral Roberts University Over $50 Million in Debt
in The Universities Weblog, on November 1, 2007
...rustees could try and sift through the accusations of financial improprieties by Roberts and sexual misconduct by his wife, Lindsay Roberts. Richard and Lindsay have denied the charges. But a lawsuit ...
Buried treasure, corporate pirates and Sarbanes-Oxley
in Sox First, on October 9, 2007
...rn the funds to the corporation? Finally, it is also unclear from the language of the statute whose misconduct will trigger the disgorgement, and even what is the nature of the misconduct that will se...
Scandal at Oral Roberts University
in The Universities Weblog, on October 8, 2007
...hey claim that "they were let go after bringing an internal document containing allegations of misconduct by the Roberts family to the attention of the board of regents," blogger Richard Ba...
Siemens fined, more to come
in Sox First, on October 5, 2007
...l. . "Today's decisions are important steps in clarifying and coming to terms with the misconduct which occurred in the past. Siemens accepts full responsibility in this matter. We have no ...
Fraud and SOX failure
in Sox First, on June 13, 2007
...e fraud . The report found an eye-popping 56 percent saying they had personally observed financial misconduct in the past year. And there's every indication it might get worse with close to half...
Green light for cross-border fraud
in Sox First, on May 25, 2007
...l, language and legal differences; planning the initial response to an incident of alleged fraud or misconduct; having an investigative team with the right expertise; and the availability and accessib...
Does the punishment fit the crime? Securities fraud and home invasion
in Sox First, on May 18, 2007
...ew castles, retirement accounts." Indeed as she suggests, the harsh punishments for corporate misconduct might reflect something else: our interest in protecting where we park our money is now o...
Jobs unlikely to face criminal charges over options backdating
in Sox First, on April 23, 2007
...ed the backdating of his own grant or covered it up. That means there's no official evidence of misconduct. As the writers point out, a decision not to prosecute would have enormous significance ...
Jones, Henry first to hang from NFL gallows
in End Zone Buzz, on April 10, 2007
...layers have been arrested and jailed in recent years for incidents involving drugs, guns and sexual misconduct. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has made it his mission to clean up a league that seems...
Dell's accounting problems: the tip of the iceberg
in Sox First, on March 30, 2007
...roubles this week went from bad to worse when it announced it had found irregularities and signs of misconduct in its accounting. As a result, Dell won't file its annual report on time this year. ...
Clawbacks: how to recover the money
in Sox First, on March 23, 2007
... there is simply no defending the retention of bonuses or stock awards by executives whose fraud or misconduct causes a financial restatement," they write. The writers set out the areas director...
Can we teach ethics?
in Sox First, on June 21, 2006
...t;At the end of the semester, the number of students in a simulated trading room who were caught in misconduct or misusing information for insider trading was significantly higher than at the beginnin...
Pay clawbacks
in Sox First, on May 30, 2006
Interesting piece worth looking at in Fortune this month on the limitations of Section 304 (forfeiture of certain bonuses and profits) of Sarbanes-Oxley .
KPMG's tax shelters: prosecution under fire
in Sox First, on March 31, 2006
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So is the US Government guilty of "prosecutorial misconduct" in the KPMG tax shelter case? Certainly that's the line in this report quoting Stanley Arkin, an attorney representing ...
The SOX balancing act
in Sox First, on December 18, 2005
...me those market risks also are prepared to suffer the consequences of corporate fraud or management misconduct. Corporate fraud is not a risk that any investor would assume willingly, or should be exp...
Spinning ethics
in Sox First, on December 13, 2005
...the amount of unethical activity going on inside companies, with 74 per cent of employees reporting misconduct, compared with 76 per cent five years ago. Level pegging too for levels of serious miscon...
Australia Finally Say Yes to Betfair
in The Gambling Weblog, on November 3, 2005
...aradise.
However, despite Betfair's assurances and strict controls they have in place to avoid misconduct - by partnering with jockey clubs and opening up relevant flows of information - the Aust...