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According to SOX rules that mandate auditor rotation, the lead audit partner on an engagement is prohibited from providing those services for a client for greater than five consecutive years. The purp...
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In August 2008, EY agreed to pay more than $2.9 million to the SEC to settle charges that it violated ethics rules by co-producing a series of audio CDs with a man who was also a director at three of...
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On May 20, 2014, the SEC settled an investigation of James T. Adams, the former chief risk officer at Deloitte, for causing violations of the auditor independence rules. It seems that Adams accepted t...
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Is accounting a trustworthy profession? How would you know whether it is or is not?
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