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December 17, 2007

PCAOB to Audit Firms: 'Get Tough on Fraud'

The chief auditor of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) told audit firms they need to do a better job of keeping their clients on the straight and narrow and should push for potentially more expensive, forensic-like approaches to annual reviews of financial statements, Financial Week reports.

 

PCAOB Chief Auditor Thomas Ray, speaking last week, before a meeting of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, said he expects audit firms to do more to find potential fraud on corporate financial statements. “It’s essential that auditors maintain professional skepticism and that they follow up on red flags they find,” said Ray, a former partner with KPMG and Grant Thornton. “Auditors have to evaluate the risk of fraud.”

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IS M/I HOMES ROUND TRIP TRADING AT 968,700 ? IS DELOITTE ANOTHER ENRON? WHO WILL ORDER A REAL ACCOUNTING, (THE CASE AT NFB IS ANOTHER OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE AND SPOILATION THAT THE JUSTICE DEPT SHOULD DEAL WITH NOW!) CASE # 11 MS 2006 , JUDGE JPHN M CZYGIER, WHY DID HE ORDER IT SHUT DOWN? "SPOILATION IS THE destruction, alteration, or mutilation OF EVIDENCE" "M/I HOMES INC 10.90 +0.08 (+0.74%) as of 04:02 PM EST on 12/21/2007 (NYSE Previous Close 10.82 on 12/20/07 Open 11.04 as of 9:31 AM EST Volume 968,700 on NYSE Day Low 10.49 as of 2:03 PM EST" 11.61 as of 9:35 AM EST "PCAOB disciplines Deloitte" " DELOITTE THE ACCOUNTING FIRM FOR M/I HOMES" December 11, 2007 PCAOB disciplines Deloitte "The Public Company Accounting Oversight Boardissued disciplinary orders yesterday against Deloitte & Touche and former Deloitte partner James Fazio for a audit of Ligand Pharmaceuticals." "The audit firm regulator fined Deloitte $1 million and forced it to undertake improvements to its quality control policies. Fazio was barred from being associated with a public accounting firm for two years, after which he may file a petition to allow him to work in the profession again." "The disciplinary action is the first the PCAOB has undertaken against a Big Four firm and one of its partners." "DO NOT DESTROY WITHOUT PRIOR AUTHORIZATION FROM ERIC WITIW, OFFICE OF GENERAL COUNSEL, WASHINGTON D.C.' "M/I SCHOTTENSTEIN HO STEVEN SCHOTTENSTEIN 1994 DESCENDANTS TRUST TAX WORKPAPERS CLM1248061" "Some Progress on U.S. Government's Financial Statements But Significant Problems Remain" "For the 11th year in a row, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) was prevented from expressing an opinion on the consolidated financial statements of the U.S. government--other than the Statement of Social Insurance--because of serious material weaknesses affecting financial systems, fundamental recordkeeping, and financial reporting. "David M. Walker, the Comptroller General of the United States and head of GAO, did note some progress in this year's audit. This year GAO expressed an unqualified opinion on the fiscal year 2007 Statement of Social Insurance, which includes the Social Security, Medicare, Railroad Retirement, and Black Lung programs. This is significant because the statement covers some of the largest numbers in the federal government--tens of trillions of present-value dollars associated with future social insurance expenditures." Overall, however, Walker was not satisfied. In a speech today at the National Press Club, he said, "If the federal government was a private corporation and the same report came out this morning, our stock would be dropping and there would be talk about whether the company's management and directors needed a major shake-up." Walker urged greater transparency and accountability over the federal government's operations, financial condition, and fiscal outlook." Bankers Plead Guilty in Enron Case "Three British bankers who were set to go to trial for their roles in a fraudulent scheme with former Enron Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow changed their pleas to guilty Wednesday." "They were set to go on trial in January, but each pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud in a court hearing before U.S. District Judge Ewing Werlein Jr." The three former executives at Greenwich NatWest, a unit of Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC, became a cause celebre in Britain throughout extradition proceedings that lasted two years. " Bradley Kastan CRD 1030565 lost series 7, is the "broker for the Schottenstein family" moved from Dean Whitter, UBS Paine Webber, Bear Stearns... insider trading, backdating, Mortgage Fraud - "Mortgage Fraud News That scheme resulted in millions of dollars of losses to Countrywide based on fraudulent .... ARYEH M. SCHOTTENSTEIN , age 33, of Oak Park, Michigan, "... mortgagefraud.squarespace.com
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