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No autographs, say auditors
in Sox First, on October 18, 2009
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Earlier this year, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board came out with a proposal requiring engagement partners to personally sign corporate audit reports. The PCAOB writes: "A...
LA's analysis of Google Apps
in The CIO Weblog, on September 10, 2009
..., to see the sorts of questions that are being raised by the non-technical councilpersons providing oversight on the project, and the reasoned, rational responses offered by ITA. Those are common ques...
Nanotech Products Cross Millennial Threshold
in Nanotechbuzz, on August 25, 2009
...in the inventory will reach close to 1,600 within the next two years. This will provide significant oversight challenges for agencies like the Food and Drug Administration and Consumer Product Safe...
Changes for Immigration Detention in the US
in Global Mobility Report, on August 9, 2009
... to overhaul the nation's much-criticized immigration detention system by strengthening federal oversight and centralizing a 32,000-bed system, officials said. The goal in three to five years is t...
MFA on Obama's Private Fund Investment Advisers Registration Act of 2009
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on July 16, 2009
...vision of systemic risk by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve and the Financial Services Oversight Council, and to provide such information to the Board and Council. The reported informatio...
Banks to face more stress tests
in Sox First, on June 9, 2009
... the panic, not to fix the banks. More a political ploy than anything else. Now, the Congressional Oversight Panel has put out a report saying that the stress tests need to be repeated. Basically, ...
PCAOB chairman Mark Olson quits. What now for Sarbanes-Oxley?
in Sox First, on June 9, 2009
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The big news around now is the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board announcement that its chairman Mark Olson is resigning "to establish new priorities". Whatever that may mean. ...
iPhone price reduction rumors missing the enterprise
in The CIO Weblog, on May 19, 2009
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Considering the burgeoning demand for the device among corporate users, this seems like a terrible oversight, and while Apple's consumer focus to the exclusion of business is almost legendary, it...
Gorton: LimeWire Is Secure
in P2P File Sharing, on May 11, 2009
...ent investigation, Lime Group chairman Mark Gorton has sent a letter to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform stating that LimeWire 5 is "the most secure file-sharing sof...
TARP fraud investigations
in Sox First, on April 21, 2009
...are being bailed out. And the problem is that the US Government is making it worse with its lack of oversight and not even knowing all the parties involved. Even more alarming is that this follows re...
ACTU Issues Warning About Nanomaterials
in Nanotechbuzz, on April 18, 2009
... fact sheet warning of the health risks of nanomaterials.
"The ACTU is pushing for closer oversight of the rapidly growing industry, which contributes to more than 800 products including bedshe...
IPOs: don't blame Sarbox
in Sox First, on April 15, 2009
...E's head of listings Scott Cutler said recently. In this scandal-ridden environment, maybe more oversight is turning out to be another selling point." No doubt the complaints will continue. ...
Bailout funds sink without a trace
in Sox First, on April 6, 2009
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Last week, I did a blog entry bemoaning the lack of oversight into the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) bailouts. Some of the banks have not been able to say where the money has gone. Now, ...
G20 and FASB: the banks win again
in Sox First, on April 4, 2009
...;s going to be implemented. Another problem is whether there will be different levels of regulatory oversight in different countries. We just don't know yet. The other worry is the G20 suggesting...
Bailouts total $3 trillion with no oversight
in Sox First, on April 2, 2009
In testimony to the US Senate Finance Committee, the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program Neil Barofsky there were $3 trillion worth of bailout programs, the equivalent of an entire agency or three just to stop the US financial system from going up in smoke, and ...
Executive pay and shareholder greed
in Sox First, on March 23, 2009
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The International Herald Tribune reports that Barack Obama is about to give itself increased oversight of executive pay at banks and Wall Street firms. The new rules, it's said, are likely t...
Accounting reshuffle
in Sox First, on March 19, 2009
... Lucas have introduced a bill. according to this report , which would create a Federal Accounting Oversight Board to replace the FASB. Guess whose pocket board members would be in?
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TARP shortchanged taxpayers $78 billion
in Sox First, on February 8, 2009
...s that it's likely to mean taxpayers' money is going down the drain. Now the Congressional Oversight Panel has put out a report showing that the bank bailout program short-changed US payers...
Bailout transparency problems continue
in Sox First, on January 31, 2009
...the remaining TARP funds." The report also says there continue to be problems with hiring for oversight of the program. And more alarmingly, the GAO warns that it is still too early to say wheth...
Fixing the financial system
in Sox First, on January 12, 2009
...sible only for disclosure of information to investors on new and existing securities, together with oversight of mutual funds. He says there is also a need to establish a new department to facilitate...
Cox defends his legacy
in Sox First, on December 25, 2008
...as defended his regime in a way that would just leave the public gob-smacked. The culture of slack oversight allowed US financial institutions and rogues like Bernard Madoff to plunge the United Stat...
PCAOB to auditors: turn up the heat
in Sox First, on December 9, 2008
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The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has put auditors on notice. in the wake of the economic meltdown, they need to exercise extreme scepticism. The PCAOB has put out a report tellin...
Fixing broken boards
in Sox First, on December 8, 2008
...;s performance demonstrated its directors had no integrity. The purpose of any board is to provide oversight and guidance for managers. Instead, the directors became cheer leaders and looked the othe...
Auditors slam bailout
in Sox First, on December 3, 2008
...gulators, which in the case of the largest institutions have bank examiners on site, to conduct any oversight or monitoring related to CPP requirements. However, unless Treasury does additional monito...
Rubin's self-serving "innocence"
in Sox First, on December 1, 2008
...9; Mr. Rubin said. He said success would have been based on having 'the right people, the right oversight, the right technology.' "The decision has been blamed in part for Citigroup'...
Auditors can't beat fraud
in Sox First, on November 25, 2008
...e things as a financial statement audit. Even if many think it is. And there's lots of room for oversight. Essentially, auditors look for errors, stuff that is in line with accounting standards. ...
Gouging with the bailout?
in Sox First, on November 24, 2008
...g a lifeline to bad banks? These are the implications of a letter from the Project on Government Oversight group to Congress. The note raises key issues like where the hell did Treasury find billi...
CTO of the United States
in The CIO Weblog, on November 8, 2008
...usly disconnected government information systems, to find ways to use technology to broaden public oversight and make government processes more visible to the average citizen. Heavy hitters such as Er...
Competing for bailouts
in Sox First, on October 27, 2008
..., while giving the rewards to another ... If the big banks want our help, we should demand stricter oversight, particularly of the unregulated derivatives markets. Our cash should come with a bright l...
Is Microsoft showing Google the legislative ropes?
in The CIO Weblog, on October 20, 2008
...a partnership deal, Google avoided (or must have thought it would avoid) all the ensuing anti-trust oversight complications, while still bouying Yahoo and staving off a Microsoft deal. In any event, M...
Corporate governance takes a back seat
in Sox First, on October 20, 2008
...k taking? And besides compensation, Congress should be looking at a host of other issues like board oversight, increased shareholder power through, for example, access to proxy and and a stronger duty...
Onkyo Takes Another Swing at Wireless iPhone Headphones
in The Gadgets Weblog, on October 10, 2008
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So, I have complained before about my iPhone, which I generally love, and its gross oversight in not having a bluetooth AD2P profile. So, I bought a pair for Bluetooth headphones and a blueto...
AIG's dodgy accounting
in Sox First, on October 8, 2008
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Alarming stuff coming out with the House of Representative's Committee on Oversight and Government Reform probe into the debacle that is American International Group. A good summary from Bu...
Past hang up and drive
in The Parenting Weblog, on October 1, 2008
...rfect but texting while driving is completely unacceptable. I'm not one for a lot of government oversight of personal behaviors but your personal rights stop when your actions impact on my safety....
Can the bailout fix things?
in Sox First, on September 29, 2008
...ofit-spinning ways of old. After years of lax regulation, Wall Street firms will face much stronger oversight by regulators who are looking to tighten the reins on many practices that allowed the Stre...
The fall of the investment banks
in Sox First, on September 22, 2008
... of rescue facilities and tools. The other reason for the move is to subject the firms to increased oversight, but given the lack of enthusiasm of the Fed for regulating banks going into this crisis, ...
Skymarket: Windows Mobile 7 的"AppStore"
in Wangtam, on 2008-09-02
iPhone 的兴起，AppStore 的成功，让后继者趋之若鹜。 先是 Google ，现在微软也蠢蠢欲动了。Long Zheng 发现了微软开始准备推出一款集中的应用 Marketplace，代号为 SkyMarket，相当于把 Windows Mobile 平台上的应用软件集中性的列出，让用户自由挑选，同时方便开发者发布这些软件，收取费用。当然，这些信息是出现在 Windows Mobile 7 相关招聘信息中的，实际发布日期尚未确定：
Court upholds Sarbanes-Oxley
in Sox First, on August 25, 2008
...has upheld the constitutionality of Sarbanes-Oxley, and in particular the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. You can read the ruling here . The ruling is a blow to the Free Enterprise Fund w...
Product Alert: Gold Medal Spaghetti Sauce Mix
in Allergies, on August 6, 2008
...d not declare the presence of milk. Subsequent investigation indicates the problem was caused by an oversight in the company's development process.
Source: FDA ...
PCAOB to get smashed?
in Sox First, on July 16, 2008
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The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, the centerpiece of the sarbanes-oxley legislation , is under serious legal threat, reports Bloomberg's Jane Bryant Quinn . The legal chal...
Ford Model T Celebrates 100th in Fabulous Birthday Bash
in Classical Drives, on July 14, 2008
...ty and ruggedness is better than anything I could add, partly because I've never driven one; an oversight I hope to correct at the 100th Anniversary Celebration....
Trouble handling risk
in Sox First, on July 3, 2008
...fy risk and nearly half said the audit committee had been assigned too much responsibility for risk oversight. And IT risk was regarded as the biggest hot spot. Another way of looking at it is that c...
Global corruption and water
in Sox First, on June 27, 2008
...on hot spots. Transparency International has a number of recommendations including more regulatory oversight although it is hard to see how this is going to change. And that means billions more will ...
Iraq and the missing $190 million: the Waxman letter
in Sox First, on June 19, 2008
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Some striking revelations from Congressman Henry Waxman. chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform . In this letter to the US Department of Defense's Inspector ...
Bringing accounting firms to account
in Sox First, on June 11, 2008
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The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has brought in new rules that will require public accounting firms to file annual reports. They will also be required to come clean on things like...
Carl Icahn 称 Yahoo 应以每股 34.375 美元出售给微软
in Wangtam, on 2008-06-08
激进投资者 Carl Icahn 日前表示，Yahoo 应当以每股 34.375 美元的身价将自己出售给微软。
Carl Icahn 称，雅虎应当接受这一价格，并与微软合作。 Carl Icahn 今天在发送给 Yahoo 董事会的一封信中表示，如果他控制了 Yahoo 董事会，他将中断有关备选交易的谈判 ━━━━ 除非能够给股东带来每股至少33美元的收益。
这封信对杨致远施加了更强大压力，要求他或者与微软达成交易，或者走人。 Carl Icahn 表示 ，两家公司合并是微软和 Yahoo 与 Google 竞争的唯一途径。
如果不能与微软达成交易， Carl Icahn 计划...
BootStrapMe again heralded as key link
in BootStrapMe, on June 6, 2008
...n added to it in the "Update" section and in a fresh post from today. This was a terrible oversight on my part. Your blog is outstanding. Hope all is well.
Ben is, of course, too kind, but...
Forget the Body. I'm Ready to Drive Now!
in Classical Drives, on June 4, 2008
...ately added one to a blog and promised more, then forgot. Viewer Mark Britten reminded me of this oversight in his comment, and so I'm happy to offer another photo from the collection. This, as ...
PCAOB targets mortgage securities
in Sox First, on May 2, 2008
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Here's a warning to all audit firms: the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has signalled that it will target securitized mortgage loans and collateralized debt offerings when it...
PCAOB's fifth birthday
in Sox First, on April 27, 2008
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In case you missed it, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board had its fifth birthday last week on April 25. So to help celebrate, Sarah Johnson at CFO.com reviews its short life life ...
Auditors and independence
in Sox First, on April 23, 2008
...out compromising links BEFORE you do any work for them. As expected, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has brought in the new Rule 3526 requiring the audit firm "to describe in wri...
PCAOB and the new independence rule
in Sox First, on April 20, 2008
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The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board is looking at a new independence rule designed to force auditors to come clean on their links with corporations. The PCAOB has announced it will ho...
PCAOB punches Grant Thornton
in Sox First, on April 16, 2008
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Accounting firm Grant Thornton has been hauled over the coals by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board for its slack audits. With one client, the so-called experts at Grant Thornton fai...
SOX and backdating
in Sox First, on April 11, 2008
...ants and exercises as much as a month after the transaction supposedly occurred. This was no simple oversight. Fried found evidence that they did it deliberately. Fried argues that backdating occurre...
BBT3 Week 6 Update: Waffle House Dreams
in Internet Poker, on April 10, 2008
...er Tournament series at Full Tilt last week. This author would like to extend his apologies for the oversight as I have fallen for the biggest cliché in poker blogging.
Not writing if I'm not win...
Private Equity in China Set to Grow? But, Define "Private"
in China Venture News, on March 16, 2008
...private investors into projects targeted for development , while maintaining a degree of government oversight on how the private funds get invested.
Of course, that begs the question of exactly ...
What do you look for in a CIO?
in The CIO Weblog, on March 14, 2008
Paul Murphy has been posting excerpts from his book in process, "The Board Member's IT Brief," regularly on his blog, and today's entry covers a subject near and dear to our hearts here: Hiring IT Management.
Paul's primary directive in this matter is to "pick someone w...
SEC-PCAOB arm wrestle
in Sox First, on February 27, 2008
...s the relationship between the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board? What are the tensions? Can they actually work together to protect the markets? Som...
Wikileaks and court stupidity
in Sox First, on February 21, 2008
...esident Richard Nixon calling in the "White House plumbers" on the Project on Government Oversight blog . "POGO understands how difficult it can be to obtain information documenting f...
Bad apples and bad trees
in Sox First, on February 20, 2008
...t mechanism. The threat of liability in these circumstances can cause firms to engage in cumbersome oversight protocols, or over-deterrence. When firms know what type of conduct is
likely to expose th...
Criminalizing capitalism: Sarbanes-Oxley and the latest crisis
in Sox First, on February 15, 2008
...de up of guesses and estimates. And let's not forget the role of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. Set up post-Enron to compel firms to make more pertinent and timely disclosures to ...
I can hear the sirens singing
in The CIO Weblog, on February 11, 2008
...h similarly failed projects. The mismanagement of the implementation by the vendor, and the lack of oversight by ALF management, are hardly unusual in this industry... I'm not sure that the fact t...
Boards clueless on IT
in Sox First, on February 6, 2008
... their role and that of IT. Just as every company needs an audit company, boards need some sort of oversight committee for IT....
Société Générale mystery and fallout
in Sox First, on January 27, 2008
French investigators might now be looking into how rogue trader Jerome Kerviel ran up billions of dollars in losses at Société Générale but there are broader questions to answer at Société Générale and European banks in general. Like how many people actually knew what was going on. Was K...
Rewarding Blackwater
in Sox First, on January 20, 2008
Prosecutors might be facing serious difficulties prosecuting Blackwater security guards involved in a September shooting that killed at least 17 Iraqis. Part of the problem is immunity granted to Blackwater employees and then there are questions whether a US law that applies to civilians employ...
Those of you waiting for a call from Microsoft
in The CIO Weblog, on January 17, 2008
... position back into its proper slot in the Operations department after a brief foray back under the oversight of Sales, Marketing, and Services CFO Alain Crozier. Tony Scott's pedigree is a go...
Corporate governance 101: flattery will get you everywhere
in Sox First, on January 15, 2008
How is it that despite all the focus on corporate governance and diversity, corporate boards all look and sound the same? Why do some directors get more board seats than others, and as a result have more influence over corporations and broader society? A study from the University of Michigan'...
Fed's rescue plan: too little, too late
in Sox First, on December 19, 2007
...anks should have been doing all along. The fact that the Federal Reserve, the most august financial oversight body in the world, actually has to put this in writing shows how far lenders strayed from ...
Phone companies and the surveillance state
in Sox First, on December 18, 2007
...anch and the largest telecommunications companies work in virtually complete secrecy - with no oversight and no notion of legal limits - to spy on Americans, on our own soil, at will," repor...
The Long Arm of Corporate Social Responsibility
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on December 17, 2007
Sustainability Blog , like many others, seem to think the practices of corporations, socially responsible or otherwise, are like the news on TV - we just watch it happen. There is another popular opinion that CSR is just a bunch of propaganda and marketing. I don't entirely agree with eith...
