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Emanuel presses for another Sarbanes-Oxley exemption
in Sox First, on November 3, 2009
... Mary Schapiro had granted yet another reprieve, giving small firms until next year to start paying auditors to scrutinize their internal controls. But in her press release at the time, Schapiro sai...
Seen that? - Live at the Bike
in Internet Poker, on October 31, 2009
...le packed Copacabana Beach on Saturday for South America's Live Earth concert, waving Brazilian flags and dancing at the global music festival's only free concert to raise awareness about clim...
No autographs, say auditors
in Sox First, on October 18, 2009
...ompany's top honchos have to certify that the accounts are fair and true. But as WebCPA reports, auditors are now saying it will increase costs and risk of litigation. Grant Thornton has even warne...
Should ratings agencies go the way of Arthur Andersen?
in Sox First, on October 3, 2009
...hur Andersen? The giant accounting firm ceased operation in 2002 after authorities learned that its auditors had shredded documents related to Enron's fraudulent schemes and were probably complici...
Obama flags bailout for newspapers
in Sox First, on September 21, 2009
President Obama has flagged his concerns about the direction of news and has dropped a big hint that the US Government could help prop up the declining newspaper industry. But will it do any good? In an interview with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and The Blade, Obama said fact based reporting...
GE cooks the books
in Sox First, on August 9, 2009
...res GE's locomotives shenanigans to Enron's barges deal and raises questions about GE's auditors KPMG. Echoes of Arthur Andersen. Accounting commentator J. Edward Ketz says the Securiti...
Helps come for visually challenged in the form of smart cane
in The RFID Weblog, on August 6, 2009
...orks in sync with navigational system kept inside a bag worn by users so that RFID tags attached to flags sticking out of the ground can be easily detected.
A speaker is attached on the strap of the...
Self Foot Examination Against Needless Diabetic Amputations
in Daily Diabetic, on June 4, 2009
.... Insist that your primary care physician carefully examine your feet in order to identify any red flags before it's too late," says Dr. Perlstein, going on to say that "self foot exams&...
More on the Satyam-PWC scandal
in Sox First, on May 27, 2009
...addressed. As Angur points out, the company was able to inflate its profits by $1.6 billion and its auditors at PwC didn't pick up the problem. Francine McKenna at The Auditors blog really gets...
BlackBerry OS 5.0 - erste Vorschau
in BlackBerry World, on 23.04.09
...g von Mails gibt es ebenfalls Neuigkeiten: Die Anwender können jetzt ihre E-Mails mit Flags versehen (wie die Labels bei Google-Mail) und mit Ordnern arbeiten (wie schon lange in Yahoo Mail).
Weiter...
GM death watch
in Sox First, on March 6, 2009
... written, 2009 will go down as the year of the dead man walking. The New York Times reports that auditors Deloitte say GM's survival is in serious doubt, and that's even with $30 billion of...
Blind over-optimistic analysts
in Sox First, on February 28, 2009
...some outlandish possibilities. The failure to do such worst-case planning, even after plenty of red flags, probably made the after-shocks to the financial system from the collapse of Lehman Brothers H...
Madoff madness
in Sox First, on February 4, 2009
...Exchange Commission's incompetence over fraudster Bernard Madoff and why it ignored all the red flags. Now whistleblower Harry Markopoulos, who warned regulators more than a decade ago about Madof...
Google deklariert alle Webseiten als Malware
in Das Open Source Weblog, on 01.02.09
© Mykl Roventine
Nicht immer ist ein Computervirus für auftretende Probleme verantwortlich. Manchmal verwandeln sich auch die Mechanismen, die eben zum Schutz vor solchen Problemen entwickelt wurden, selbst zum Problem.
So erlebt es momentan der Suchmaschinen-Marktführer Google . Wer heute...
Satyam: do we need a global Sarbox
in Sox First, on January 21, 2009
...ad intentionally overestimated, to $1.4bn, the value of the company's assets. The company's auditors PricewaterhouseCoopers have been replaced. A good rundown of the story from the New York T...
Lessons from Siemens
in Sox First, on January 20, 2009
...ing for business. There was also the issue of success fees. The lawyers write: "These FCPA red flags went undetected because, in part, Siemens rejected suggestions to create a company-wide list o...
Iraqi's Demonstrate Against America And Israel In Baghdad
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 9, 2009
...s what's fueling the public demonstrations in several cities in Iraq where American and Israeli flags have been burned.
Click here to read about the growing movement against America in Iraq .
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The Madoff lawsuits roll in
in Sox First, on December 25, 2008
...airfield Greenwich Group and Massachusetts Mutual being sued by investors for ignoring those red flags. This is just the beginning. There will be many more and it might well clog up the court syst...
The Madoff scandal: now for the auditors
in Sox First, on December 23, 2008
Yesterday, I did a blog entry on how the Madoff scandal had out accountants in the gun. The view now is that no-one could have pulled off a scam as big as this, and kept it going for so long, without some outside help. Now The Wall Street Journal reports that investigators have jumped on a ...
Madoff fallout continues to spread
in Sox First, on December 22, 2008
...KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers, supposedly the experts in this area, could have overlooked the red flags. Meanwhile TPM Muckraker reports that the Securities and Exchange Commission is now in a co...
Power Play Golf Keeps Growing
in Eagle Par Birdie, on December 20, 2008
What's that? Two Pins??
In my younger days as a broadcast journalist, I spent a number of years with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
As its name implies, it's a large company, spanning the country. And every summer, those of us working in Toronto would hold our annual golf ...
Madoff: why the SEC dropped the investigation
in Sox First, on December 18, 2008
...who once worked for a Madoff rival, detailing his concerns about Madoff and raising a series of red flags. Trader's Narrative raises more red flags which are amazingly simple. Like for example t...
Will there be more Madoffs?
in Sox First, on December 16, 2008
... protect investors because it was all too hard, and one that allowed him to get away with complicit auditors. And the other point too is that Madoff would never have been able to get away with it for ...
The Madoff debacle: how did people get sucked in?
in Sox First, on December 14, 2008
...h little volatility. As Walter Hamilton at the Los Angeles Times notes, that in itself raised red flags. But then, hindsight is a wonderful thing. It's easy to write that when you see things thr...
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...
Auditors slam bailout
in Sox First, on December 3, 2008
The Government Accountability Office has raised questions about the transparency of the US Government's $700 billion rescue package for profligate banks. In its report , the GAO says nobody really seems to be tracking how the money is being spent. "The banking regulators indicated t...
Auditors can't beat fraud
in Sox First, on November 25, 2008
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Some 12 months ago, I did a blog entry suggesting that it might be easy to pull the wool over auditors' eyes when it comes to fraud.
Now a piece in CIO Today, Investigations or Audits: Fr...
G20 undermines accounting independence
in Sox First, on November 18, 2008
...s a different funding system. Accounting standard setters share one thing in common with judges and auditors: they not only need to be independent, they need to be visibly independent. Unfortunately,...
Climb Sydney Harbour Bridge
in Wandalust, on October 10, 2008
...The iconic Sydney Harbour bridge was a the backdrop for the new Guinness world record for the most flags flown from a bridge in the 10th birthday celebration of Bridgeclimb, a company set up to enab...
The Euros Close In
in Eagle Par Birdie, on September 21, 2008
...more than King and Country, too. They're sold by the media to the general public as being about flags, nations, cultures, what have you.
They're really about something that binds us all. It m...
Red Flags to Watch for When Looking For Work at Home Jobs
in Home Based Business, on August 16, 2008
...it! So how can you protect yourself? For starters, check out this great article which lists 7 red flags to watch out for!
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Practice Ranges: A Right Way and A Wrong Way
in Eagle Par Birdie, on August 5, 2008
... has a long and deep tee area, covered in closely mown grass that can last a full season. There are flags galore set at different yardages with plaques in the ground to indicate their distances.
A f...
SEC is wrong on short selling
in Sox First, on July 29, 2008
...vored "nationally recognized" credit-rating agencies. It is the agency that watched while auditors became corporate consultants, selling the kind of services that audits should detect and re...
Managers' behavior and fraud: warning signals
in Sox First, on July 25, 2008
...ions. The authors say that these variables need to be incorporated into auditing standards to give auditors enough of a warning sign....
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Limited liability for US auditors coming in?
in Sox First, on June 19, 2008
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Last week, I looked at how European auditors were on the way to getting limited liability . Now it looks like their US counterparts are going to get the same thing with reports that the Securi...
Productivity or Lack of Productivity
in Bizinformer, on June 13, 2008
...able to impulsive decisions to delay now and pay later. I think of these sorts of thoughts as 'flags.' They should serve to signal us that we're about to undermine our own plans and goals....
Computing is Bigger in Vegas
in Bizinformer, on June 12, 2008
... see if I could justify a convention trip on the business tab. No dice. The Institute of Internal Auditors have the next big convention out there in July (with the exception of a June seminar on Acc...
Auditor liability caps
in Sox First, on June 12, 2008
...o, I wrote about some disturbing developments where a European study pushed for liability caps for auditors . There is an issue of moral hazard here. Auditors should be held accountable and not havin...
Bringing accounting firms to account
in Sox First, on June 11, 2008
...nsparency. But CFO.com raises one obvious problem in its great headline: But Who'll Audit the Auditors' Reports? ...
The audit cartel
in Sox First, on June 4, 2008
...r medium-sized firms. They could insist on compulsory retendering or company audits and rotation of auditors. They could invite new players to the audit market. The Securities Exchange Commission or t...
Failed audit in Iraq
in Sox First, on May 25, 2008
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No surprises that US government auditors have found that the contracting practices in Iraq are deficient. And a complete waste of taxpayers' money. The New York Times reports that the us ...
Auditors, independence and distance
in Sox First, on May 21, 2008
... when you read through accounts, you come across a "going concern statement'' from the auditors. It's basically a red flag signalling that the company's state is looking terminal....
Layla Leaves, Is High Stakes Poker and WPT Far Behind?
in Internet Poker, on May 15, 2008
...ing, will the resurgence of live and online poker be enough to get a different station to carry the flags of these shows?
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Yahoo Teams With McAfee To Offer Safer Search
in The Search Engine Weblog, on May 6, 2008
...Search on Yahoo gets more safer with a new tool called SearchScan that scans the results page and flags them if they fit the criteria for harmful pages to your computer. This tools works upon McAfee...
Average 2007 SOX compliance bill: $1.7 Million
in Sox First, on May 2, 2008
...revenues of $4.7 billion. And while compliance costs are actually slipping, that hasn't stopped auditors from cashing in big time. According to the latest Financial Executives International surv...
PCAOB targets mortgage securities
in Sox First, on May 2, 2008
... at off-balance sheet transactions. The PCAOB has fired a shot across the bows of all audit firms. Auditors are on notice: the PCAOB has you in its sights....
PCAOB's fifth birthday
in Sox First, on April 27, 2008
...viewed in just five years, 700 inspections of small and large firms, 17 enforcement actions against auditors and firms and 17 Deloitte & Touche clients that had audit deficiencies in their 2004 au...
Someone's only child
in The Parenting Weblog, on April 25, 2008
... was about.
Soon after I saw the hearse, a funeral perhaps but this was a lot for that. A car with flags, followed by a motorcycle contingent of National Guard and other vets came by and I realized i...
Auditors and independence
in Sox First, on April 23, 2008
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Auditors take note: from now on, you will have to tell audit committees all about compromising links BEFORE you do any work for them. As expected, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board ha...
Tatweer baut ersten Marvel-Superhelden-Themenpark
in kinkaa blog - das Blog zur Reisesuchmaschine, on 22.04.08
... Tourismus-Angebote der vergnüglichen Art. darunter der DreamWorks Animation Park, Six Flags oder auch HIT Entertainment und viele mehr.
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PCAOB and the new independence rule
in Sox First, on April 20, 2008
...e 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 hold an ...
Any NFL Free Agents Left?
in End Zone Buzz, on April 15, 2008
...olphins two seasons after signing with them for $15 million, so that probably raised some red flags, especially considering the personnel the Fins have on the offensive line. Still, the 6'6&q...
Verizion DSL's Spam Filter Failing?
in I got Spam?!, on April 11, 2008
...ges are getting past their filter. Interesting though, that these messages, which bear all the red flags that spam filters are designed to catch, slipped right through. Things that make you go hmm.......
Chinese stock market pains
in Sox First, on April 9, 2008
... Chinese companies follow international accounting rules but there is a shortage of accountants and auditors, and the rules for foreign takeovers are murky and untested. Investors face risks in this ...
SOX-related boardroom changes and share price
in Sox First, on April 2, 2008
...re forced to overhaul their systems of corporate governance. A Raft of changes were introduced. Auditors were required report to audit committees, audit committee had to comprise directors who wer...
Fraud and IPOs
in Sox First, on April 1, 2008
...out misrepresenting information to outside investors. This study sends a message to regulators and auditors. You can't expect investors to stop or monitor fraud. All they want are good returns. B...
Biovail's fraud and SOX
in Sox First, on March 28, 2008
...n effort to conceal the fraud, Biovail's senior officers intentionally misled the company's auditors and the investing public, showing their complete disregard for their responsibilities to sh...
What's caused the explosion in restatements?
in Sox First, on March 22, 2008
...were usually the result of internal mistakes made by their own accountants and the failure of their auditors to catch them. The research, conducted by Marlene Plumlee of the University of Utah and ...
Middle East Internet outage questions
in The CIO Weblog, on March 14, 2008
...ielded some newsworthy information; were the clean breaks, ragged cuts, tension fractures? Russian flags? There must have been something about the cuts that one could draw some conclusions from, e...
Tackling Groupthink: red flags and solutions
in Sox First, on March 11, 2008
...rality where everyone in the group believes their decisions are morally correct. Those are the red flags. What do you do when you see them? There are several steps that need to be taken.
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Companies casual on fraud risk
in Sox First, on March 9, 2008
...ss level or didn't know what was being done. It's also worth noting that a lot of fraud red flags would be going undetected. Only 40 per cent of Fortune 1000 companies surveyed weren't rou...
So, Are The Jets Better?
in End Zone Buzz, on March 5, 2008
...e of the moves. Signing Faneca was a no-brainer, as was getting rid of crap. But there are some red flags out there.
Calvin Pace is probably the least risky of the moves, but it's important to n...
SEC-PCAOB arm wrestle
in Sox First, on February 27, 2008
...rding to Gillan, the SEC really pushed the PCAOB to water down standards, in particular the role of auditors in testing internal controls. The SEC, according to Gillan, wanted auditors to take a back ...
Sponsored Post: SPAM, Viruses and the Blacklisting of Exchange Servers
in I got Spam?!, on February 19, 2008
...net gateway is infected and spamming.
Turns out that users with their own machines, which included auditors and sales reps plugged into the corporate network, not knowing they were infected with a SP...
Société Générale fallout: who's next?
in Sox First, on February 19, 2008
...n attack, either through deliberate targeting or through the failure of IT security staff and auditors who in the interests of saving a nail in their budget are prepared to risk the Kingdom. Société G...
Who exposes corporate fraud?
in Sox First, on February 12, 2008
In their haste to pass Sarbanes-Oxley into law following the spate of scandals headed up by Enron, politicians and regulators neglected to look carefully at the issue of whistleblowers. Who actually blows the whistle ? What drives them to do it? Important questions because the answers tell...
Coast-to-Coast by Rail in a Classic Cadillac
in Classical Drives, on January 24, 2008
...d included (aside from flanged steel wheels) 2-way radios, powerful air-driven horns , signal flags, and whatever other equipment was necessary for safety and efficiency. Apparently CP thought i...
Scam Alert: "Rebate Processors"
in Home Based Business, on January 16, 2008
...only people that will be making any money in this scam is them, not you.
There are several red flags here. First of most reputable home based business and work at home opportunities don't adver...
