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In view of the Satyam scandal, software exporter HCL Technologies today said it has appointed KPMG as an independent auditor to review its balance sheet in addition to its statutory auditor Price Waterhouse. Price Waterhouse was the statutory auditor for Satyam Computer Services Ltd. “We have appointed an additional accounting firm (KPMG) to independently review […]
Sources in the Hyderabad police said the CB-CID police have arrested Satyam’s two Pricewaterhouse auditors S Gopal Krishnan and Srinivas Talluri last night. Pricewaterhouse had not responded to the arrest, at the time of filing the report.
The Satyam scandal continues to reverberate, with a host of competing companies aiming to pick up some U.S. business and some big firms facing questions about why they did business with the Indian outsourcer.
“Satyam Scam has raised basic questions about the depth and devotion in statutory audit conducted by one of the big four audit firms, the PWC. In India the professional depth and devotion of small and medium size audit firms are of quite high level but unfortunately their potential remains heavily under utilized. One of the […]
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has decided to serve show cause notice to the auditors of the tainted Satyam Computers, ICAI central council member K Raju said on Monday.
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 […]
