Comments on: Auditor Independence and Management Consulting – Deja Vu All Over Again

By: re: The Auditors » Blog Archive » Arthur Levitt and AIG – Gone Over To The Dark Side, Artie?

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:53:34 +0000

[...] enough Mr. Levitt has a long and contentious history with PwC. It all goes back to reforms he wanted to make to how the audit firms did and didn’t do [...]

By: re: The Auditors » Blog Archive » Layoffs – What’s Your Excuse?

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:39:32 +0000

[...] I joined to bring a more consultative approach to what was already a very successful start up, an independent provider of internal audit and accounting /finance staff augmentation services to Fortune 500 companies. [...]

By: Problèmes comptables pour une firme de consultation spécialisée dans la résolution de problèmes comptables? | Hélène Bouchard M.Fisc., CGA, CFE

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:40:52 +0000

[...] tax fees than from the audit itself. I thought that Sarbanes-Oxley was supposed to prevent the Arthur Andersen syndrome from happening [...]

By: re: The Auditors » Blog Archive » Those who can’t "do", "teach" (or audit, perhaps…)

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:51:35 +0000

[...] couldn’t have said it better myself. Or maybe I already did, here and here. Let’s hope Sir Michael has learned the lessons of Rand Blazer, one of his former KPMG [...]

By: re: The Auditors » Blog Archive » The Club to Resolve Auditor Quarrels (CAQ)

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:12:22 +0000

[...] have been hired as Directors. The last time the auditors put on a big lobbying push, it was to squelch the push by former SEC Commissioner Arthur Levitt, pre-Enron, to eliminate the conflicts of interest inherent in the firms performing audits and [...]

By: re: The Auditors » Blog Archive » How Satyam Supported PwC’s Schizophrenic Strategy To Reenter The Systems Integration Business

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:41:42 +0000

[...] the debates in early 2000, prior to Enron, as the Big 6 accounting firms sought to overcome the commoditization of the [...]