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Grant Thornton fined $1.5 Million
January 4th, 2018
PCAOB Announces $1.5 Million Settlement with Grant Thornton for Quality Control Violations and Audit Failures. The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board today announced a $1.5 million civil penalty and censure against Grant Thornton LLP for violations of quality control ...
Volkswagen’s U.S. CEO Leaves Suddenly After ‘Mutual Agreement’
March 10th, 2016
Horn retained dealers’ support even as VW sales fell in U.S. `What could he have done, besides give cars away?’: Analyst Michael Horn, leader of the Volkswagen brand in the U.S., abruptly left the automaker as its American sales ...
Lawyers demand VW buy back half a million vehicles affected by the recent emissions scandal
October 15th, 2015
Lawyers with Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan have escalated their legal battle against Volkswagen A.G., demanding the company buy back half a million vehicles affected by the recent emissions scandal They claim VW hasn’t ...
VW Emissions Probe Zeroes In on Two Engineers
October 5th, 2015
Volkswagen investigation focuses on two men elevated after Winterkorn was made CEO Two top Volkswagen engineers who found they couldn’t deliver as promised a clean diesel engine for the U.S. market are at the center of a company probe into the ...
VW takes 4,000 cars off the UK market
October 2nd, 2015
Volkswagen is suspending the sale of 4,000 vehicles in the UK in the wake of the emissions scandal. The company said the vehicles may be equipped with the device that cheated emissions tests in the US. The move will ...
Enforcement Director Andrew J. Ceresney to Leave SEC
December 9th, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Enforcement Director Andrew J. Ceresney will leave the agency by the end of the year. During his nearly four years as head of the agency’s largest division, Mr. Ceresney implemented approaches ...
Brexit: All you need to know for UK’s EU referendum
June 13th, 2016
What is happening? A referendum is being held on Thursday, 23 June to decide whether Britain should leave or remain in the European Union. This article is designed to be an easy-to-understand guide – if you have any questions ...
Multipolarity: The Next Step After Globalization?
January 14th, 2016
The world economy during the last few decades has experienced “globalization,” a broad and admittedly vague term which refers among other factors to a rise in the ratio of world exports to world GDP, as well as the pattern ...
Money Is Becoming Unmanageable: Hedge Funds Post Losses, Face Outflows
December 3rd, 2015
Some of the money managers who made names (and billions of dollars) for themselves in the past decade are suddenly failing: ” Hedge Funds Brace for Redemptions (Bloomberg) – When BlueCrest Capital Management told investors Tuesday ...
British Accountancy Awards 2015: The winners
November 26th, 2015
A packed house at the Brewery celebrated the best of the profession at the British Accountancy Awards. Nearly 700 guests attended the awards, with regional and national firms recognised for the efforts during the past 12 months. The winners ...
