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David Umansky, his spokesman, has said there was a "philosophical difference of opinion" over the audits.
The FRC is investigating the accountants RSM Tenon, now part of Baker Tilly, and KPMG over the audits of Quindell, the Aim-listed insurance claims handler which is being investigated by the Serious Fraud Office.
The accounting watchdog Financial Reporting Council (FRC), which was criticised by MPs for being "chronically passive" over the audits of Carillion by firms including KPMG, is still investigating the circumstances of its failure.
It has also imposed penalties on three senior statutory auditors - Kevin Engel, David Barnes and Joanne Kearns - following their admissions of misconduct over the audits.
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Another major concern is that corporate control over the audit process means companies are able to dictate the extent of the audit.
The standoff between United States and Chinese regulators over the auditing issue has raised concerns among multinational corporations that operate in both countries.
Mr. Jacobs denied that there was any dissent over the audit committee's preliminary report among board members of Royal Dutch Petroleum and Shell Transport and Trading, the two companies that make up Shell.
"The parliament administration has for months taken an aggressive and hostile attitude over the audit, amounting to nothing short of deliberate harassment," he said in a statement.
A dispute over the auditing of bad loans sold to the government by four of Mexico's leading retail banks after the 1995 banking crisis is reopening one of the murkiest chapters in the country's recent financial history.
[C2.] 4 Banks Fight Mexican Government A dispute over the auditing of bad loans sold to the Mexican government by four leading retail banks after the 1995 banking crisis is reopening a murky chapter in the country's recent financial history.
This is not the first time that Andersen has been in trouble: last year, it was fined over its audit of another Texan company, Waste Management, and it also had to settle a suit over the audit of Sunbeam, a Florida-based company.If this were simply a case of one accounting firm doing wrong, that would be regrettable but containable.
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