Nortel Restates, Execs to Repay $8.6 Mln
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Nortel Networks Corp. NT.TO NT.N  took steps to close the books on its protracted accounting  scandal on Tuesday, releasing its long-awaited audited 2003  results and announcing that 12 senior executives would repay  $8.6 million in bonuses.
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NEW YORK - It certainly sounds like bad news when a company fires seven executives for financial malfeasance, lays off 3,500 employees and advises investors that it expects sluggish market growth for the year. But for Ontario-based Nortel Networks, it&#39;s ...
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Nortel Networks Corp. NT.TO NT.N  took steps to close the books on a protracted accounting  scandal on Tuesday, releasing long-awaited restatements of  results from 2001 through 2003 and announcing that executives  would pay back millions of dollars in bonuses.
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TORONTO (CP) - Nortel Networks stock fell to its lowest price in more than a year Wednesday after the troubled telecommunications equipment maker again delayed its much-anticipated financial restatements, this time until mid-November.
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TORONTO -- The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday filed civil fraud charges against a former CEO and three other former top executives of Canadian telecom equipment maker Nortel Networks Corp.
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Nortel Networks Corp. NT.TO, one of  the world's biggest telecom equipment makers, again delayed the  release of its long-awaited restated financial results on  Wednesday, moving its target by about two weeks to  mid-November.
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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK - Nortel has again pushed back restatements of earnings and also will not disclose its third quarter results until later this year, the company said Wednesday.
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Nortel Networks Corp. NT.TO delivered  long-awaited preliminary results for the first half of 2004 on  Thursday that showed estimated first and second quarter  earnings between nil and 1 cent per share, and North America's  biggest telecom equipment supplier said it would cut about  3,500 jobs.
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Boston Communications Group Inc.   BCGI.O, which sells billing systems to mobile phone   companies, said on Thursday it would restate certain past   financial results to reflect charges for stock-based   compensation costs.
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Aug. 23, 2004  Problem-plagued Nortel Networks Corp. announced plans Thursday, Aug. 19, to eliminate an additional 3,500 jobs and fire seven more senior executives as the company labors to reinvent
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NEW YORK -- Nortel Networks Corp. reported a loss of 6 cents per share in the third quarter and predicted lower sales for 2004 than in 2003 on Tuesday, providing some of its first concrete figures for the
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TORONTO - Nortel Networks warned Thursday its third-quarter revenue will be below the $2.6 billion US preliminary unaudited revenues it reported for the second quarter.
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Telecommunications maker Nortel Networks (NYSE: NT) won&#39;t have to lay off as many people as expected. The Canadian company announced Thursday that it plans to lay off 3,250 employees - about 250 less than
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Canadian telecom equipment maker Nortel Networks Corp. said Wednesday that it won&#39;t be able to file financial restatements to correct accounting irregularities by the end of October, as originally expected.
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TTAWA, Aug. 19 - Nortel Networks, the troubled Canadian telecommunications equipment maker, has fired seven more financial managers as it continued to sort out the accounting scandal that led to the dismissal of its president this year.
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(InfoWorld) - U.S. and Canadian stock regulators filed fraud charges on Monday against several former executives of Nortel Networks, accusing them of twisting accounting practices to make it seem that the company was meeting Wall Street expectations. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged Frank Dunn, Nortel's former CEO and CFO, Douglas Beatty, the former CFO and controller, Michael Gollogly, the former controller and MaryAnne Pahapill, the former assistant controller. Meanwhile, the Ontario Securities Commission announced it would hold a hearing on May 1 to consider sanctions against Dunn, Beatty and Gollogly. The charges come as Nortel struggles to recover from the scandal. The company had fired or accepted resignations from all four managers by 2005, but is still repairing the damage to its financial records and its reputation. On March 1, Nortel said it would post yet another round of financial restatements and delay the filing of its 2006 annual report. The defendants all disregarded accounting practices and disclosure requirements in their effort to manipulate the books at the Canadian telecommunications equipment maker, the SEC said in charges filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. "The fraudulent conduct at issue here was egregious and long-running," said Linda Thomsen, director of the SEC's division of enforcement, in a statement. "Each of the defendants betrayed Nortel's investors and their misconduct gave rise to billions of dollars in shareholder losses." According to the SEC, between late 2000 and January 2001, Dunn, Beatty and Pahapill changed Nortel's revenue-recognition policies so they could appear to meet financial forecasts. And from July 2002 through June 2003, Dunn, Beatty and Gollogly created an illegal pool of reserve funds they used to fabricate profits, meet earnings targets and award bonuses. Then, in the second half of 2003, Dunn and Beatty tried to cover their tracks by explaining the company's $948 million restatement as an accounting error caused by internal control mistakes, the SEC said. That restatement was actually caused by the secret fund. Although he did not address the charges, one of the defendants quickly denounced the SEC for charging executives of a company outside U.S. borders. "I am disappointed that, after three years, the [SEC] has brought charges on the same day in respect of the same matter as the Ontario Securities Commission," said Dunn in a statement. "I think it would have been appropriate, under the circumstances, if the authorities in the United States had deferred to the Ontario Securities Commission in what is really a Canadian matter, and had acknowledged that the Canadian authorities are fully capable of addressing these important issues." However, the SEC insisted that it had jurisdiction since Nortel's stock trades on U.S. exchanges. "The action we take today sends a strong message that officers of U.S.-filing foreign corporations will be held to the same standards of accountability that are required of all participants in the U.S. financial markets," Thomsen said. Â
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NORTEL Networks plans to slash its workforce by 3500, or ten per cent, as it struggles to recover from an accounting scandal that toppled three top executives and led to a criminal investigation and lawsuits.