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| 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.   |
CFO
October 1, 2011
Sarah Johnson |
Making Audits More Audible New rules would require auditors to speak up about possible problems, and describe in more detail what they do and don't look at. |
FDIC FYI
July 24, 2002 |
Enhancing Financial Transparency Participants in the conference discussed the strengths and flaws inherent in the U.S. financial reporting process and suggested ways of modifying not only the reporting mechanism, but also the accounting standards that underlie financial statements, audit opinions, credit ratings and analyst reports. |
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. |
CFO
September 1, 2002
Andrew Osterland |
No More Mr. Nice Guy A new CFO survey suggests why new rules for auditors may be a wise idea. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
You Say IASB, I Say FASB, You Say... A description of efforts to harmonize U.S. and international accounting standards, and shifts in the accounting profession caused by recent scandals. |
BusinessWeek
September 22, 2003
Paula Dwyer |
A Talk with William McDonough The new accounting oversight board's chairman says the profession should see the PCAOB (Public Company Accounting Oversight Board) as "its mentor-cum-ally." |
CFO
July 1, 2003
Kris Frieswick |
How Audits Must Change Auditors face more pressure to find fraud. |
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. |
CFO
August 1, 2004 |
The Enforcer If audit firms don't voluntarily improve their processes, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) chairman William McDonough promises he'll make them. |
BusinessWeek
December 27, 2004
Amy Borrus |
Auditors: The Leash Gets Shorter Providing tax services to audit clients will no longer be allowed. |
BusinessWeek
September 26, 2005 |
Report From A General In The SEC's War On Fraud The Securities & Exchange Commission chief accountant Donald T. Nicolaisen talks about the reliability of financial reports, scandals and accounting standards. |
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? |
CFO
October 1, 2007
Michelle Leder |
Rewriting the Rules Everything you thought you knew about accounting is about to change. Is there any reason to smile? This is the third of a three-part series examining the state of accounting five years after passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. |
BusinessWeek
January 10, 2005
Nanette Byrnes |
Green Eyeshades Never Looked So Sexy Raises, perks, long sabbaticals -- auditors can write their own ticket these days. |
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. |
Knowledge@Wharton
June 18, 2003 |
Board Members Feeling the Heat of Public Scrutiny Should Bone Up on Finance, Accounting What you don't know can't hurt you. That old adage may be true some of the time, but not for people serving on boards of directors and audit committees in the wake of recent scandals that have tarnished the reputation of corporate America. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
A Rescue Plan to Save the Beleaguered Accounting Industry A new book called Building Public Trust: The Future of Corporate Reporting does not break much new ground, but it does an admirable job of tying together a number of topics that have challenged the accounting industry and providing a framework for financial reporting in the future. |
Salon.com
January 28, 2002
Michael Drummond |
Class-action warrior When corporations run amok and accountants are shredding documents, who ya gonna call? Try lawyer Bill Lerach... |
HBS Working Knowledge
September 8, 2003
Ann Cullen |
A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform Do the markets need an investor's union? Should company audits be overseen by stock exchanges? If you want to restore investor confidence, think radical reforms, say professors Paul Healy and Krishna Palepu. |
Job Journal
August 10, 2008 |
Career Snapshot: Accountant Working behind the scenes, accountants keep business and personal finances organized. |
CFO
August 1, 2007
Kate O'Sullivan |
The SEC Rules Five years after Sarbanes-Oxley, the SEC is flexing its regulatory muscle as never before. |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 4, 2013
Martha Lagace |
Are the 'Big Four' Audit Firms Too Big to Fail? For over a decade, there have been articles and op-eds in the popular and business press arguing that the auditing industry, currently dominated by Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young, KPMG, and PwC, is a tightening oligopoly, increasingly insulated from the risks of failure. |
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. |
CFO
May 1, 2008
Alix Stuart |
Auditor Angst Want faster, cheaper audits? Your auditor humbly suggests you avoid last-minute data dumps and other less-than-helpful practices. |
Inc.
August 2005
Amy Gunderson |
Can't Find an Accountant? Sarbanes-Oxley has so overwhelmed accountants that companies are having trouble getting their books audited. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Do High Consulting Fees Compromise the Independence of CPA Firms? Key components of the audit process---the independence and objectivity of auditors---may be eroding, according to some industry observers. |
CFO
February 1, 2003
Tim Reason |
Prove It The SEC's new policy is to target audit firms, not only individual accountants. |
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. |
CFO
May 1, 2003
Arthur Levitt |
You Are the Guardians Former SEC chairman Arthur Levitt offers some pointed advice on how to restore confidence in corporate accounting. |
CFO
September 1, 2008
Vincent Ryan |
Death by Committee? As SEC and Treasury Department committees on financial reporting and auditing near their conclusions, it looks like the former may be more fruitful than the latter. |
CFO
October 1, 2007 |
The Battle for Influence Letter to the editor: The SEC Rules... Far from Settled... Still Hitting the Ceiling... etc. |
Knowledge@Wharton
January 29, 2003 |
Lawyers and Accountants Can Expect Curbs and Compromises in New SEC Rules Recent rules adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to curb the kind of legal and accounting shenanigans that toppled companies like Enron and Arthur Andersen are not as strong as the SEC first indicated they might be. But do they still have enough teeth to work? |
Reason
January 2006
Brian Doherty |
You Can Be Too Careful How the U.S. government's new corporate accounting rules impede efficiency and stifle innovation. |
CFO
September 1, 2002
David M. Katz |
The Insiders Do internal auditors have a bigger role to play in ensuring the integrity of financial reports? |
CFO
March 1, 2003
Tim Reason |
Two Weeks in January The SEC put much of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act into effect by passing a slew of new rules. Here's what was proposed and what was disposed. |
CFO
July 1, 2007
Scott Leibs |
Five Years and Accounting This story is Part 1 in a three-part series on how corporate finance has changed since the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was passed. |
CFO
November 1, 2002
Andrew Osterland |
Board Games Boards are supposed to monitor top executives, but too often give them carte blanche. That's why regulators are writing stricter rules for the corporate-governance game. |
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. |
CFO
January 1, 2009
Alix Stuart |
Which One When? A roundup of key accounting deadlines, developments, and detours to watch for in 2009. |
CFO
March 1, 2011
Laton McCartney |
Where There's Smoke, There's Fraud Sarbanes-Oxley has done little to curb corporate malfeasance. Therefore, CFOs should implement a range of fraud-prevention measures. |
Financial Advisor
March 2008
Alan Lavine |
Apples To Apples Expect a pop in equity valuations, increased liquidity and lower trading costs as foreign companies list stocks in the United States using International Financial Reporting Standards. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2002
John S. McClenahen |
Goodbye To GAAP? Probably not. But Enron's collapse makes changes in financial regulation likely... |
CFO
January 10, 2007 |
In Whose Best Interest? How Accounting Firms Would Change Their Industry... Why Performance Scorecards Still Fail... The Uninspired American Employee... M&A and Option Backdating... The CFO as Investor-Relations Professional... etc. |
Real Estate Portfolio
May/Jun 2002
William D. Sanders |
Working Toward Improved Disclosure Every publicly traded real estate company shares the responsibility to provide clear, transparent financial information to investors... |
CFO
July 1, 2003
Julia Homer |
Lifting the Fog How audits must change. |
CFO
March 15, 2004
Craig Schneider |
A World of Trouble Even with an extended deadline for Sarbox compliance, questions about offshoring have companies on edge. |
HBS Working Knowledge
November 10, 2003 |
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency? Readers respond: Legislation is a problematic way to achieve the golden mean in normative behavior... Investors are always free to vote on the adequacy of a company's financial transparency with their dollars... The more transparency there is, the better... etc. |
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? |
IDB America
June 2001
Daniel Drosdoff |
What do you mean by "profitable"? Why Latin American companies and societies have much to gain from adopting a new set of international accounting standards |
