Federal Regulators Find Problems at 4 Big Auditors
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The new regulatory body for the auditing industry said that its inspections of the Big Four accounting firms had found "significant audit and accounting issues."
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Four big banks face a U.S. Securities  and Exchange Commission probe of their auction-rate bond  operations, a securities filing shows.
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A flurry of companies may miss the deadline to comply with new regulations brought in after the corporate scandals of 2002, but the key for investors will be to judge how serious the underlying problems really are.
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The regulator said broad problems raised questions about the reliability of the mortgage finance company's management.
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The push by the commissioner of Internal Revenue for quick completion of audits of big corporations - a move criticized by many longtime agency auditors - has led to a sharp drop in the
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Sales flagged as the company struggled with operational and accounting issues in the fourth quarter.
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Four Canadian mutual fund firms have found themselves on the hot seat with the Ontario Securities Commission after an investigation into alleged trading violations in the industry.
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Wall Street equity analysts have had their share of problems in recent years, from regulatory heat to budget cuts to a loss of star power and prestige.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday said it is investigating 14 companies for possible fraud or insider trading violations in connection with loans made to risky borrowers, and investments spun off of those loans
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Vulnerable areas of CPA funds spark questioning
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Even after US regulators put Fannie Mae&#39;s books under a microscope, an auditor found irregularities in how its third quarter filing was handled.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Auditor General Sheila Fraser continued to weave a tale of financial mismanagement Wednesday, singling out the Public Works Department, Via Rail and a variety of private ad agencies for criticism at the federal sponsorship inquiry.
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In its first-ever inspections of the Big Four accounting firms, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board identified âsignificant audit and accounting issuesâ and concerns about the firmâs quality-control systems.
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A new report says that the department responsible for collecting billions of dollars from oil and gas companies that drill on federal lands is plagued with ethical lapses.
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Initial reviews of the nation&#39;s largest accounting firms have turned up numerous rule violations and shoddy recordkeeping practices, as regulators embarked on a new effort to regularly examine auditors&#39; work.
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Enterprise software makers and the companies they serve have done much gnashing of teeth in the last year over meeting the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (Sarbox). But Sarbox is only one of many regulatory challenges that organizations are struggling to meet, AMR Research's John Hagerty stresses.
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Some of the nation's biggest companies face a deadline Monday for completing internal financial control reviews, an effort that has created intense friction between corporate managers and auditors.