It also said it had commissioned an independent audit by one of the "big four accounting firms".
Second, the scrutiny given to the conduct of major accounting firms likely has had an impact.
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Sloan Foundation, said accounting firms should serve as a model for all of corporate America.
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Several overtime lawsuits are pending against some of the major accounting firms doing business in California.
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How could Dodd-Frank think it was addressing Fin Reg without addressing too-big-to-fail in accounting firms too?
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Then real life auditors from big accounting firms tried the experiment, and logged similarly biased results.
Not so long ago, all of the big accounting firms were full-bore tax shelter merchants.
They are regulated by the SEC and bank authorities and audited by major national accounting firms.
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The audits from small accounting firms in the Caribbean are probably as worthless as the referenced CDs.
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Sarbanes-Oxley established heightened standards for the boards and management of both public companies and public accounting firms.
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The big four accounting firms have grown to be like big, bad global corporations dominating too much.
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What these figures don't show, unfortunately, is the amount they pay other accounting firms for non-audit business.
The Big Four public accounting firms all provide services to growth companies that might one day go public.
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Once one of the elite five big accounting firms, it could no longer do audits for public companies.
The Big Four global accounting firms make money whether clients survive and thrive or flail and fail.
The accounting firms also have huge international networks of offices, dwarfing those of even the biggest law firms.
It tries to hold countries accountable by using accounting firms to audit results.
The Senate bill would establish the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board to conduct regular inspections of public accounting firms.
For example, one of the biggest growth areas for accounting firms is providing family office services to the ultra-affluent.
And big accounting firms will refuse to audit financial statements if the company or creditors fail to provide data.
Kadet, who was in private practice for more than 32 years working in international taxation for major international accounting firms.
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In July 2002 America's Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley act to disentangle conflicts of interest at (among other places) accounting firms.
If one of the big four international accounting firms collapsed, some large quoted companies might be stuck without an alternative.
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He brought in outsiders, the Big Four international accounting firms, to clean up the scandal-wracked, too often corrupt finances of the Vatican Bank.
FASB, would hand the responsibility for its funding to the Treasury, which would levy compulsory fees on companies and accounting firms.
Further, why, out of all the accounting firms in the world, did the pension choose an accountant that was not independent?
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How much overlap exists between the two sets of rules--Sarbanes-Oxley and FDICIA--should determine how much accounting firms will charge for an audit.
Engineering services and accounting firms are among the disciplines expressing the most interest in this year's batch of graduates, according to NACE.
The global network structure of the largest public accounting firms sells a brand image of strength, confidence, and cross-border seamless service delivery.
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The accounting firms have traditionally been considered pretty boring and mundane.
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