We found ourselves wishing for the good old days of a nice understandable accounting scandal.
Aid endured a major accounting scandal that saw its chief executive eventually convicted for fraud.
The whiff of an accounting scandal sent shares in the Canadian telecoms-equipment firm tumbling.
That, combined with an accounting scandal, caused shares to lose 94% of their value in less than a year.
Enron purchased the naming rights to the Houston Astros stadium just before an accounting scandal bankrupted the company in 2001.
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Rumors of channel stuffing (also circulating last April) didn't help matters either, particularly given Flir's past accounting scandal back in 2000.
Dolan also survived an accounting scandal relating to "channel stuffing, " in which Bristol gave incentives to drug wholesalers to temporarily juice sales.
But the president of the PRI, Humberto Moreira, is embroiled in an accounting scandal in Coahuila, where he was governor until January.
The Olympus Corp. accounting scandal reemerged on the front pages last week with news that Japanese prosecutors formally charged six former Olympus executives.
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An accounting scandal is the last thing investors need right now given the ongoing market correction, but one did make the headlines last week.
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Fannie has quadrupled its earnings per share over the past decade yet still has a cloud hanging over it from Freddie Mac's accounting scandal.
WorldCom's former controller David Myers has pleaded guilty to taking part in an accounting scandal which led to the downfall of the US telecoms firm.
This risk caused the duo to take huge positions in the derivatives market, and was at the centre of an accounting scandal earlier this decade.
Since the accounting scandal came to light, the company's shares have plunged, its board resigned and the US, UK and Japanese prosecutors are investigating the company.
Skeptical, or simply embittered over the reserve accounting scandal, investors price Shell at only 9 times trailing earnings, versus 11 and 12 for its two larger rivals.
To be sure, the telecom equipment manufacturer has been having a rough year, suffering through an accounting scandal, as well as civil and criminal investigations by both American and Canadian officials.
Already bidders are lining up for parts or all of the futures brokerage, which sought bankruptcy protection Monday just one week after its former chief executive was charged with fraud in an unfolding accounting scandal.
In the past decade the storied Maumee, Ohio auto parts maker had survived a misguided acquisition binge, a hostile takeover attempt, an accounting scandal, a bankruptcy filing, a taxpayer bailout of two of its largest customers and the Great Recession.
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The ever adaptable Ding founded NetEase as a software company in 1997 when that area was hot, listed it on Nasdaq three years later as an Internet portal during the dot-com boom, and then, after weathering an accounting scandal, tacked toward gaming.
The man they were referring to was CEO of WorldCom (now MCI) Bernard Ebbers who was convicted of fraud and conspiracy for his role in a massive accounting scandal that led to what was at the time the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history.
The list also includes a stock whose name alone should serve as a warning to anybody clueless enough to invest in it: Miniscribe, the Texas disk-drive manufacturer that imploded in 1989 accounting scandal that provided an early taste of the Enron, Worldcom and Adelphia accounting frauds.
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"Juries have a revulsion for admitted crooks, but as testimony comes in and they see them in person, they get more comfortable with the idea that these are the sorts of people who've partaken in crime and are qualified to testify, " says Kenneth Vianale, a former U.S. assistant attorney who filed a lawsuit charging WorldCom with fraud months before its accounting scandal erupted.
More recently, in 2010, Santos made headlines again after his Banco Panamericano SA was caught in an accounting fraud scandal which required him to make a trip to the capital in Brasilia to ask for help from then-President Lula da Silva.
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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.
These recent accounting problems unveiled by Caterpillar recall the Sino-Forrest scandal that hit billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson.
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"There was a panic reaction, people fear a scandal like Enron or Parmalat as soon as they hear the term 'accounting problems', " said investment analyst Thomas Veillet of Swiss firm Dynacapital.
The fact that so few have acted on their own is perhaps an indication of how permissive accounting rules can cause a race to the bottom that, in the end, can lead to scandal or an atmosphere that permits scandal.
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