Because PwC is its auditor, IBM itself had banned PwC Consulting from its premises.According to its IPO filing, PwC Consulting had revenues of $5 billion in the nine months ending March 2002, down from $5.6 billion the year before.
Grant Thornton was the long-time auditor of Parmalat itself and had remained auditor of Bonlat, a Parmalat subsidiary.
Questions are now being raised about the thoroughness of auditors, advisers and the HP board itself in scrutinising the company.
Among the other notable debts are almost $2 million owed to Arthur Andersen, Enron's auditors, and $44.2 million in debts to Dynegy itself.
Clearer communication about the department's evolving strategy "could help avoid information gaps" as market conditions and the program itself change over time, the auditors said.
For one, BCCI retained the auditors as legal consultants to help defend itself against a money-laundering indictment, the report states.
Charney has been at the centre of the downhill spiral that American Apparel has found itself in since Deloitte quit as auditors in 2010 after raising doubts about the reliability of the retailer's accounts.
DVI has hired BDO Seidman as its new auditor and is shopping itself around with the help of UBS Securities, subsidiary of UBS AG.
It was only because it found itself outgunned politically that it left the auditors to make the hard decision.In this section Bush, hero or hypocrite?
It may be that the investigation Tesco has commissioned into itself – led by another of the Big Four auditors – finds that the scandal was not systematic at all, but more the fault of a few rotten apples.
In January, the company released a series of reports detailing the results of supplier audits, and opened itself up access to an independent team of auditors from the Fair Labor Association to review its ongoing performance in these matters.
