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January 12, 2004
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How Parmalat Went Sour Here's the skinny on Europe's enormous financial scandal   |
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January 26, 2004
Gail Edmondson |
The Milk Just Keeps On Spilling At Parmalat Evidence is emerging that many investment bankers in Italy, Germany, and London harbored doubts about Parmalat's numbers for years, suspicious of its superheated growth. Why did many big banks keep floating its debt? |
The Motley Fool
March 30, 2004
Rich Smith |
Auditors Are Getting Skittish Post-Enron, auditors are firing their clients, and getting fired by them. |
The Motley Fool
January 15, 2004
Bill Mann |
Parmalat's Tanzi Is "Depressed" You're in jail for stealing hundreds of millions of dollars. What do you do? Tell the judge you're sad. |
The Motley Fool
August 10, 2004
Rich Duprey |
Parmalat on the Offense The bankrupt Italian food and dairy giant files lawsuits against bankers over collapse. |
CFO
December 1, 2002
Joseph McCafferty |
Fault Lines Did its auditor, Grant Thornton, cause the downfall of tiny Carnegie International? Or is Carnegie seeking a scapegoat? |
CFO
February 1, 2003
Ed Zwirn |
The Second Six: Ready to Step Up? The largest of the Group B accounting firms are facing new challenges and enjoying new opportunities. |
BusinessWeek
November 22, 2004
Nanette Byrnes |
Auditing The Auditors J.D. Power & Associates is now evaluating the very audit firms that are supposed to protect investors from improprieties. |
AFP eWire
January 21, 2008 |
Barely Half of All Charities Require Board Member Contributions A new survey by accounting firm Grant Thornton LLP reveals that just slightly more than half of charities require their board members to make financial contributions to their organizations. |
BusinessWeek
August 22, 2005
Nanette Byrnes |
The Little Guys Doing Large Audits Cheaper, more attentive second-tier accounting firms are scoring clients off the Big Four accounting firms. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Do Accountants Who Act as Consultants Take Greater Care or Cut Corners? New Wharton research challenges the idea that lucrative consulting contracts routinely lead auditors to look the other way when preparing financial audits, a key allegation in the scandals at WorldCom, Tyco and Enron. |
AFP eWire
December 10, 2007 |
Nonprofit Sector Sees Significant Increase in Governance Changes Majority of charities have put in place new governance and accounting policies since the implementation of the Sarbanes-Oxley accountability law. |
BusinessWeek
June 21, 2004
Edmondson & Kline |
Can Parmalat Be Saved? If creditors support Enrico Bondi's plan, the Italian milk company Parmalat could be out of bankruptcy by November, less than a year after the implosion that rocked financial markets around the world. |
BusinessWeek
March 1, 2004
Gail Edmondson |
Parmalat: A Corporate Version Of "Clean Hands"? Every day, Italian investigators unearth fresh, worrisome details about the $17.8 billion Parmalat bankruptcy, Europe's worst-ever financial fraud. Plenty of heads may roll, but now Italy must get serious about good governance |
Bank Systems & Technology
May 24, 2007
Nancy Feig |
Survey Finds Technology Spending to Increase A survey of bank executives find most planning to increase technology spending. |
BusinessWeek
January 12, 2004 |
Professional Services: Auditors Applaud, Consultants Cope New regulations will boost both the hours put into audits and the fees paid. Low-cost competition and fewer new technologies will hold back consulting. |
Entrepreneur
June 2005
C.J. Prince |
Booting the Big 4 Tired of sky-high fees and skimpy service? Smaller audit firms can give you the personalized and professional attention you're seeking. |
Entrepreneur
March 2004
Steve Cooper |
It Figures 3/04 Public companies going private... abandoning e-mail... etc. |
CFO
January 1, 2004
John Goff |
They Might Be Giants It's been nearly two years since Arthur Andersen went under and Sarbanes-Oxley was passed. Have the Big Four audit firms changed since then? |
BusinessWeek
February 2, 2004
John Rossant |
Italy's Coming Credit Crunch As a wave of corporate paper comes due, cash-strapped companies are in peril |
BusinessWeek
September 3, 2007
Nanette Byrnes |
The Comeback Of Consulting It's once more a huge business for Big Four auditors like Deloitte & Touche, thanks partly to Sarbanes-Oxley rules. |
The Motley Fool
February 18, 2004
Selena Maranjian |
Big Four Auditors Losing Clients The big names carry less prestige in the wake of scandal. Many big companies are no longer paying big accounting firms to audit their books. |
Entrepreneur
April 2007
David Worrell |
Ready to Report It may get a little easier for some small-businesses to play by the Sarbanes-Oxley rules. |
BusinessWeek
December 27, 2004
Amy Borrus |
Auditors: The Leash Gets Shorter Providing tax services to audit clients will no longer be allowed. |
BusinessWeek
February 2, 2004
Gail Edmondson |
Italy Needs A Renaissance In Corporate And Market Regulation Will public outrage over Parmalat finally bring new rules with sharp teeth? |
CFO
January 1, 2003
Alix Nyberg |
After Andersen Surviving the Demise: Perhaps the saddest aspect of the whole debacle has been its impact on Andersen's respectable employees as they try to move into new jobs. |
Fast Company
March 2004
Ian Wylie |
Parma-Splat! An Opera In Way Too Many Acts Enron and WorldCom introduced us to the high art of massive fraud. But Parmalat and its former chief executive, Calisto Tanzi, have elevated the form to epic tragicomedy. |
CFO
April 1, 2010
Tim Reason |
Auditing Your Auditor After nearly a decade of turmoil, companies have gained the advantage in negotiating with their auditors. |
Bank Technology News
May 2001
Maria Bruno |
E-Mania Takes Community Banks by Storm According to Grant Thornton, community banks must commit to big changes, or else... |
BusinessWeek
January 12, 2004 |
The Rest of the Fallen Heads rolled over bungled launches, loose accounting, and soured deals. |
AFP eWire
March 31, 2005 |
Nonprofits Implement Record-Retention Policies to Sharpen Governance Nonprofits are encouraged to use record retention policies. Suggestions are made to adapt a policy to different types of organizations. |
IndustryWeek
January 20, 2010
Jill Jusko |
Not a Financial Exec? It's not only financial executives who could benefit from an awareness of fraud risks in their organizations. |
Entrepreneur
May 2005 |
It Figures 05/05 Statistics about business stress, revenue gains and more. |
T.H.E. Journal
September 2005 |
Polycom Enhances Grant Assistance Program Polycom Inc. has enhanced its Grant Assistance Program in order to help its customers purchase the video, voice, data, and Web communication solutions they need. |
Global Services
August 30, 2007
Juhi Bhambal |
Companies Future: Only 20% Optimistic Business leaders are losing faith not only in the revival of the U.S. economy but also in their company's future growth. |
The Motley Fool
November 17, 2006
S.J. Caplan |
A Brave New World for Bean Counters? Accounting firms advocate a radical overhaul of the financial reporting system. Will it be an investor's utopian dream or are they seeking to insulate themselves from the fury of shareholders burned by fraud? |
T.H.E. Journal
March 2000 |
Late Breaks - Microsoft Corp. Microsoft Corp. has announced that college and university faculty members are invited to apply for the Microsoft 2000 Instructional Grant Program... |
T.H.E. Journal
May 2004
Douglas Brooks |
How to Write GRANTS: The Best Kept Secret in the School Business How do school districts, buildings or classroom teachers fund the products they need to improve student learning? The answer is through external grants. Here are some vital skills that will help when it comes to writing and applying for grants. |
CFO
June 1, 2008
Scott Leibs |
Principles vs. Practices A new study says chief financial officers think financial statements are too complex for the average investor. |
CFO
March 1, 2004
A CFO Interview |
New World Order IASB chairman Sir David Tweedie says global accounting standards are within reach. |
Civil War Times
January 2007
Richard F. Selcer |
Ulysses S. Grant: The Myth of "Unconditional Surrender" Begins at Fort Donelson At Fort Donelson, Grant learned that negotiating peace can be the most important part of making war. |
AFP eWire
August 2, 2004 |
Grant Applications and Reporting Made Easier The Uniform Grant Guidelines Coalition, is requesting comments from all interested parties about its new proposed guidelines on consistent and uniform definitions and data elements in grant making. |
America's Civil War
Kevin Anderson |
Grant's Battle with the Bottle Examining the controversy surrounding Grant and alcohol. |
