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Or will they try tough love in their audit?
EDF's auditors draw attention to this in their audit report.
Revenues in their audit and tax divisions flatlined, forcing them to seek new business lines to keep growing.
The document, an investigative order that is normally kept confidential, said officials at Pricewaterhouse, the world's largest accounting firm, might not have been "independent in fact or appearance" in their audit work for Pinnacle.
Rolls-Bentley and the other ELF volunteers were inspired in their audit by the self-styled "conscience of the art world", the feminist activist group Guerrilla Girls, who started highlighting sexual and racial inequality in the arts in 1985 – while dressed in gorilla masks.
But the Laiki examiners, in their audit reports, argue not only that the loans made no financial sense and were not sufficiently collateralized or guaranteed but also that they were part of a quid pro quo that reflected a "broader cooperation" between Laiki's former chairman, Andreas Vgenopoulos, who auditors say signed off on the loans, and Mr. Sallas.
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This was never a scandal on the same scale as Arthur Andersen's role in the collapse of Enron, but it certainly showed that accounting firms did not start failing in their auditing functions only recently.
In an effort to contain costs and provide defenses against litigation, accountants have increasingly lobbied for precise, almost mechanical accounting standards and have developed routine operating procedures to reduce variability in their audits.
Ciesielski adds that Schipper, who seems to be miffed by the auditors' abysmal oversight, then asked if the auditors should have caught the misdating anyway in their audits of footnote disclosures (option footnotes have been a fixture of financials since 1996), as the footnotes could have uncovered contracts with incorrect dates.
Low-risk drinkers did not reveal a significant reduction (P > 0.05) in their AUDIT-C scores in either the intervention or the control conditions.
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