Something not organic about Hain's revenue

The organic food maker Hain Celestial Group announced that their financials for 2015 and Q1 2016 will be delayed as the company was evaluating their accounting for revenue. Not just that they also stated that the company also is looking into their internal controls...

One more lawsuit for PWC

PricewaterhouseCoopers is facing another lawsuit for $5.5 billion from a defunct mortgage company: Taylor, Bean and Whitaker’s creditors and investors. They claim that the firm failed to uncover fraud at failed Colonial Bank of Montgomery in Alabama. The fraud was...

Vacationing on forged checks

The accounting firm JCCS’s employee Natalee Crumley was charged with two felony counts of forgery and writing and cashing unauthorized checks from JCCS’s business clients. Crumley  has been an employee of JCCS as a bookkeeper for two years. Apparently, she has been...

Consolidations

Someone recently asked me whether I knew about consolidations. That gave me an idea, why not write about what I know about consolidations, so here we go. Consolidations means combining multiple entities financials into one combined financial. Two questions come up...

Oracle’s lawsuit woes go on

First lawsuit against Google, then with HP; now an ex employee. Oracle lost the first two lawsuits, question is would third time be a charm! Svetlana Blackburn, a senior finance manager at Oracle has filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the company alleging that she...

Fake hog fraud!

Recently AgFeed a company based in China that merged with a US company in 2010 settled its civil accounting frauds case filed by the SEC for $18M. The company was charged with reporting fake revenue from its China based operations to help inflate their stock price....

Tesco fiasco

Newly appointed CEO Dave Lewis started his tenure at Tesco by suspending four executives after discovering some serious accounting irregularities. The company came to know of the issue when an informed employee went to the company’s general counsel to report the...