The phrase "auditors directors" is not correct in written English as it lacks proper punctuation or conjunction to clarify the relationship between the two nouns.
You might use it if you intend to refer to directors who are auditors or auditors who are directors, but it needs clarification.
Example: "The auditors' directors met to discuss the findings of the recent audit."
Alternatives: "directors of auditors" or "auditors who are directors".
Healthy and resilient financial markets depend on the accountability of every one of its key actors -- managers, auditors, directors, analysts, lawyers, ratings agencies, standards setters and regulators.
The shock was magnified because the guardians of shareholder and public interest -- auditors, directors, bankers and lawyers -- did not prevent, and in some cases enabled, the chicanery at companies like Enron and WorldCom.
And Sarbanes-Oxley is also having its intended effect as a combination of changes at the auditor, director and officer level has improved the quality of financial reporting, resulting in fewer restatements.
For example, brokerage firms can vote their clients' shares on important issues like election of auditors and directors and proposals to increase the number of shares authorized for issuance, and even on matters concerning compensation that are not related to stock options.
It also pays out $1 million a month to lawyers, auditors, outside directors and regulatory overseers.
In this paper, we examine the growing number of behavioral studies of how financial reporting, auditing, and other corporate governance regulations affect earnings management and accounting choice-related decisions of managers, auditors, and directors.
The breakdown in checks and balances encompassed the company's auditors, lawyers and directors, they say.
Accounting experts said that auditors worked for directors, not management, and that the Councilor firm was obligated to inform the board of any adverse findings.
Its exit was the culmination of a series of scandals that involved allegations of destruction of sensitive documents, corruption in Africa, boardroom leaks in London, backbiting between auditors, investigators and directors in the City and the humiliation of UK regulators.
Edward Carson, the most eminent lawyer of the day, the auditors informed the directors of the Savoy that they had a fiduciary duty to sack Ritz, Escoffier, Echenard and one other member of the staff.
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