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Facebook accused of fake audience numbers
September 7th, 2017
Social-media company tells advertisers it can reach more than 100 million U.S. adults younger than 35, but census only counts 76 million Facebook Inc. claims its ads have the potential to reach more people than recent U.S. census data ...
Big Four accountant EY will replace KPMG as auditor of mining giant BHP Billiton
August 28th, 2017
Big Four accountant EY has snared a lucrative victory, replacing KPMG as mining giant BHP Billiton’s auditor. BHP conducted an audit tendering process during the year in the wake of regulations forcing firms to rotate their statutory accountants. As ...
Investment adviser charged with defrauding professional athlete and his wife
August 23rd, 2017
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged investment adviser Jeremy Drake with defrauding two clients, a high profile professional athlete and the athlete’s wife, by deceiving them about the investment advisory fees they were paying. The SEC alleges that ...
Individuals and their companies ordered to pay millions in restitution for defrauding investors
August 21st, 2017
Federal Court Orders Jeffrey Slemmer, Christian Dorrian, Adam Roth, and Their Florida-Based Companies to Pay over $5.4 Million in Restitution and a Penalty in CFTC Precious Metals and Diamonds Anti-Fraud Action Slemmer Enterprises, Dorrian Enterprises and Roth Investment Group ...
KPMG agreed to pay Millions for audit failures
August 17th, 2017
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that KPMG has agreed to pay more than $6.2 million to settle charges that it failed to properly audit the financial statements of an oil and gas company, resulting in investors being ...
Sanctions against senior auditor and PwC
August 16th, 2017
The Financial Reporting Council (FRC), UK’s independent regulator responsible for promoting high quality corporate governance and reporting to foster investment, has issued today an announcement to inform that: PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) and Nicholas William Edward Boden, Senior Statutory Auditor ...
PwC to pay $1 Million to settle audit violations
August 3rd, 2017
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board announced that it censured and imposed a $1 million civil penalty against PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP for violations in its examination and audit of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Incorporated’s compliance with the Securities ...
Ukraine withdraws PwC bank audit licence over $5.5bn hole at PrivatBank
July 21st, 2017
Ukraine’s central bank said on July 20 that it had withdrawn the bank auditing rights of PwC after the international accounting firm failed to identify alleged improprieties that led to a $5.5bn capital shortfall at the country’s largest lender ...
Former Audi manager charged. The reason?
July 7th, 2017
The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday said it has charged a former Audi manager with directing employees at the company, a division of Volkswagen AG, to design software to cheat U.S. emissions tests in thousands of Audi diesel cars. ...
PwC under investigation over BT audits
June 29th, 2017
The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has issued today an announcement to inform that investigation opened into the audit of the financial statements of BT Group plc. According the announcement: Following completion of initial enquiries, the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) ...
