They also say the board lacks adequate management representation.
John F. Fort, 61, said he saw many letters of that kind, called "management representation letters," that were sent to the company's outside auditors.
"Female management representation at Wal-Mart super centers, Sam's and logistics and, therefore, total company are worse than prior year," he wrote in the memorandum, which was turned over to the plaintiffs.
The report pointed to "a firm culture that allows, or tolerates, audit approaches that do not consistently emphasize the need for an appropriate level of critical analysis and collection of objective evidence, and that rely largely on management representations".
"Despite management representations to the contrary," the report says, "employee performance reviews demonstrated that Bank of America used defined goals and metrics to evaluate performance-based production in its document execution group".
The report said its inspections indicated "a firm culture that allows, or tolerates, audit approaches that do not consistently emphasize the need for an appropriate level of critical analysis and collection of objective evidence, and that rely largely on management representations".
In a confidential part of the report, the board said its inspections indicated that "a firm culture that allows, or tolerates, audit approaches that do not consistently emphasize the need for an appropriate level of critical analysis and collection of objective evidence, and that rely largely on management representations".
In a presentation this month, Allied highlighted what it described as weaknesses in the Validus proposal, including the fact that Transatlantic would own a minority of the new company and that its management's representation on the board was uncertain.
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