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The two auditors of Satyam Computer Services, appointed by PWC to audit the accounts of the company, were not partners of the audit firm at that time, people close to the investigation told.
Big 4 Auditors and their brief details The Big Four are the four largest international accountancy and professional services firms, which handle the vast majority of audits for publicly traded companies as well as many private companies. The Big Four firms are shown below, with their latest publicly available data:
The statutory auditor of Satyam Computer, Price Waterhouse, has said that it found no “significant risks and exposures” during its audit of the scam- hit IT firm.
The founder of the outsourcing giant Satyam may have admitted committing the largest corporate fraud in Indian history when he made up $1 billion out of thin air, but Satyam’s auditor, PricewaterhouseCoopers, could pay the price.
COIMBATORE: Angry shareholders of Satyam may be miffed with the statutory auditors who have come in for sharp criticism following the dramatic revelations of accounting fraud in what is being billed as the country’s Enron. But there is not much clarity on the kind of action shareholders can take against the auditors Pricewaterhouse Coopers under […]
We all are still in disbelief mood as far as cash & bank balance fraud is concerned. Although there is no confirmed news, but the information gathered from some of sources of the investigating agencies (ICAI, SEBI etc.) are as under:
India always got an Overweight Rating as compared to its Emerging Market Peers from FII’s Backed by its good corporate Governance (!!!) But the Biggest scandal(so called event from Satyam) among the indian corporates raised major questions about the auditing practices and principles that they were following at the moment.Moreover these auditing works are carried […]
In the aftermath of the Satyam fiasco, like in any other scam, questions are raised about how to avoid one the next time. In this backdrop, chief financial officers and experts reckon that changing the auditor every four years, as is an international practice, could be the way out. M Damo-daran, former Sebi chief, in […]
Shaken by the alleged “inaction” of Satyam Computer’s auditor Price Waterhouse, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India is planning to push for a cap on the tenure of a company’s auditor. The institute is also looking into the possibility of issuing guidance to its members on “compulsory verification” if a company’s cash and bank […]
Just when The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) probes allegations of fraud against auditors of Pricewaterhouse in the Satyam and Global Trust Bank (GTB) cases, an auditor from the firm who was part of both the audits continues to sit on the all-important council of the accounting regulator, raising many eyebrows. According to […]
