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

By: re: The Auditors » Blog Archive » Maintaining Independence Can Be A Sticky Wicket

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 16:31:45 +0000

[...] businesses in the wake of the Enron scandal and the regulatory scrutiny that then turned upon perceived conflicts of interest between the firms’ auditing core and their consulting interests. Only Deloitte held on to its [...]

By: Auditors and Consulting: Claims Of No Conflict Strain Credibility

Auditors and Consulting: Claims Of No Conflict Strain Credibility — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:27:07 +0000

[...] firms are focusing on growth in their global consulting businesses but the conflicts that drove three out of four of the firms to sell them after Enron are a bigger problem than ever before. Deloitte was the only firm that held on to its [...]

By: re: The Auditors » Blog Archive » Auditors and Consulting: Claims Of No Conflict Strain Credibility

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:51:41 +0000

By: eben

eben — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 16:11:56 +0000

thanks

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 [...]