Month: August 2011

Auditor independence is a key provision in the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002. In the wake of the Enron, Worldcom and other scandals the Act focused in part on auditor independence and audit quality, creating the Public Company Accounting Oversight …

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The FSA has banned the former CEO and CFO of a collapsed hedge fund from the securities business and imposed significant fines on each as a result of their manipulative and deceptive conduct as the fund collapsed. Michael Weiger Visser …

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