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David Prosser: A decade after Enron, auditing needs a shake-up
Thursday 01 December 2011
Ten years ago tomorrow, Enron, which was then the US's seventh largest company, filed for bankruptcy following a shocking accounting scandal that seemed to have completely passed its auditor by. The auditor in question, Arthur Andersen, subsequently disbanded.
David Prosser: A decade after Enron's collapse, the failures of the audit industry have still to be confronted
Thursday 01 December 2011
Outlook Ten years ago tomorrow, Enron, which back then was the US's seventh largest company, filed for bankruptcy following a shocking accounting scandal that appeared to have completely passed its auditor by. The auditor in question, Arthur Andersen, subsequently disbanded.
'Risk control has risen in 10 years since Enron's fall'
Sunday 27 November 2011
This week marks the 10th anniversary of one of the worst corporate scandals in history.
Stephen Foley: Now Hewlett-Packard has decided it will not divest, it must decide that it will invest
Saturday 29 October 2011
US Outlook: The "data-driven evaluation" to which Hewlett-Packard has belatedly subjected the proposed spin-off of its personal computer business, probably did not need to go further than measuring the share-price decline on the day it was announced. It was 20 per cent.
Snooker: O'Sullivan apologises for 'rape' remark
Saturday 29 October 2011
Ronnie O'Sullivan has apologised for claiming he felt "raped" playing in the lower-profile Players Tour Championship (PTC) series.
James Moore: Executive pay system is clearly broken, if not bent
Friday 28 October 2011
One group seemingly immune to the impact of inflation, unemployment, economic stagnation and all the other woes afflicting this country is the men (it's usually men) who sit around the boardroom tables of Britain's biggest public companies. Income Data Services (IDS), which totted up pay, bonuses and various share awards, says FTSE 100 directors pocketed an average 49 per cent rise in the last financial year to bring their annual remuneration to an average £2.7m. Chief executives made do with a 43 per cent rise, poor lambs.
James Moore: Alliance puts a crafty boot into its pension-holders
Friday 28 October 2011
Outlook Alliance Boots has been taking flak for allegedly putting the future returns of its 20,000 pensioners at risk by offering to change the way plans are paid.
Prosecutors fly to Libya to freeze Gaddafi's Swiss assets
Sunday 23 October 2011
Swiss officials have gone into Libya to help the National Transitional Council (NTC) freeze the Gaddafi regime's assets in their tax haven.
Doctors call for code to protect whistleblowers
Tuesday 05 July 2011
Pressure is mounting on Government ministers to introduce tougher laws to protect whistleblowers as health professionals and MPs speak out against a "code of silence" in the NHS.
McDermott: 'I’d be kidding myself if I said it was just a normal game'
Saturday 28 May 2011
Reading’s path to Monday’s Championship play-off final began in a non-descript portable building at their rural Hampshire training ground.
I Am The Wind, Young Vic, London<br/>Little Eyolf, Jermyn Street, London<br/>The City Madam, Swan, Stratford
Sunday 15 May 2011
One Norwegian's minimalism for half-wits, Ibsen taken too far, and a satirical 17th-century romp
Heads Up: The Merchant of Venice
Sunday 10 April 2011
Happy birthday, RSC – and here's your pound of flash
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