Accounting error that travelled through years!

Tui Travel a tour operator, a company formed in 2007 from the merger of German group Tui AG’s travel division and First Choice, disclosed that the company had overlooked £117 million of small cash discounts given to British holidaymakers. The finance director of...

Settlement with Delphi Corp’s former treasurer

The complaint against John Blahnik, the former treasurer and vice president of treasury, mergers and acquisitions at  Delphi Corp. was that he had participated in 3 fraudulent schemes, filing materially false and misleading financial statements on the company’s Forms...

KB Homes comes home happy

Finally an SEC investigation that did not lead to any enforcement action. After completing their investigation the SEC did not recommend any enforcement action for KB Homes. The SEC had launched a probe last year into possible accounting and disclosure violations by...

How to live lavishly on company funds!

What would you do with $30 million? Well Sujata Sachdeva, the VP of Finance and Principal Accounting Officer at Koss Corporation bought  designer clothes, furs, purses, shoes, jewelry, household furnishings, cars, did home improvement and renovations. The only...

KPMG Accounting Malpractice verdict

On August 26,2010;  a New Jersey appeals court found sufficient evidence that KPMG was negligent in its audits of the books of Papel Giftware Inc. KPMG audited the books of the ceramic company, the acquirer, Cast Art Industries LLC., and its financial backers relied...