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MARCH 6, 2019

“We found the results to be consistent with the argument that managers can successfully hide adverse information by writing complex financial reports, which leads to stock price crashes when the hidden bad news accumulates and reaches a tipping point,” he said, according to Phys.org reports last week. In the U.K.,

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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

It’s common sense that a corporation would want its C-Suite to have some knowledge of accounting practices, and one could assume that a lack of understanding of corporate accounting may heighten the risk for misstatements on financial reports.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

s Financial Reporting Council is reportedly stepping down from the position amid continued scrutiny that the FRC lacks effectiveness to prevent corporate accounting scandals and industry failures. Reports in Reuters on Friday (Nov. The head of the U.K.’s Sir John Kingman, a civil servant asked by U.K.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Reports in Reuters on Sunday (November 11) said the U.K. Parliament will commence an inquiry into the nation’s corporate auditing market, which is currently dominated by the Big Four accounting firms Deloitte, PwC, EY and KPMG, adding new pressure on an industry already being probed by other policymakers.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Massachusetts-based Audit Analytics looked at disclosures from more than 9,000 U.S.-listed listed companies since 2005, finding firms that had to reissue their financials due to errors. For many, the mistakes were discovered when corporate finance teams were changing accounting paperwork to comply with the new U.S.

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JUNE 11, 2020

. “[Corporates] are not only looking at compliance, but how to forecast the cost of [the] coronavirus, how to deal with the different impacts on audits, what needs to be audited, and what will be the impact of financial reporting that a corporation needs to put out,” noted Hampton.

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AUGUST 21, 2018

auditing giant KPMG was hit with yet another fine from the nation’s Financial Reporting Council (FRC). Reports in Bloomberg said KPMG was hit with $2.7 million in fines for its audits of Ted Baker in 2013 and 2014 after the company admitted misconduct to the FRC. government.

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