Another fine for a big 4 for audit misconduct

The Financial Reporting Council fined Ernst & Young £1.8 million for their shoddy audit work of distributor Tech Data. This is what happened. In 2013, Tech Data revealed that there were material errors in their financials for 2011, 2012 and part of 2013. The...

PWC breaks the penalty record again!

A few month’s ago UK’s Financial Reporting Council (FRC) levied the then largest ever penalty on PWC, for 5 Million Pounds, related to misconduct over its audit of Connaught Plc, a FTSE 250 company that went into administration in 2010. Now PWC is fined 5.1 Million...

Alexion Pharmaceutical CEO and CFO resign

As the internal accounting probe of the sales numbers of Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. nears completion, its CEO David Hallal and CFO Vikas Sinha have unexpectedly resigned. Mr. Hallal for personal reasons and Mr. Sinha to pursue other opportunities. Wonder what the...

Weatherford update

Weatherford International announced the sudden exit of it’s CEO Bernard Duroc- Danner. The move though sudden is not unexpected. Recently the company settled with SEC on deceptive accounting charges. The company had overstated its results to meet its earlier announced...