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Enhancing Financial Transparency and Accountability: A Case Study of Satyam Computers & Enron Corporations

Corporate Law : Explore the lessons from Satyam Computers and Enron scandals, their impact on corporate governance, and the role of transparency. ...

March 21, 2024 363 Views 0 comment Print

Satyam & PNB Scandals: A Wake-Up Call for India’s Enforcement & Investigating Agencies

Finance : Explore Satyam and PNB scandals in India's corporate world and how government agencies like CBI, SFIO, and ED played a pivotal rol...

September 15, 2023 1839 Views 1 comment Print

When The Numbers Didn’t Add Up: The Satyam Scandal Explained

Company Law : Satyam fraud case serves as a cautionary tale that highlights the importance of corporate governance and the responsibilities of t...

February 8, 2023 10293 Views 0 comment Print

Reminiscences of Corporate Governance from Satyam Fraud

Company Law : Satyam Case is a tale of irony in the name of the company. The word ‘Satyam’ means truth whereas the Satyam Case is about the ...

July 28, 2020 9087 Views 2 comments Print

SAT Order – PWC Satyam Case

CA, CS, CMA : It is ripe time for ICAI to take initiative and show leadership in conveying and educating the investors, regulators and other sta...

September 13, 2019 6138 Views 0 comment Print


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TDP alleges Andhra CM's son got money from Satyam

CA, CS, CMA : The gloves are off in the fight between the Union Government and Opposition on who is helping scam-tainted Satyam Computer Service...

February 19, 2009 285 Views 0 comment Print

Price Waterhouse heads for a disgraceful exit at SATYAM

CA, CS, CMA : Tainted Satyam auditor Price Waterhouse heads for a disgraceful exit as the new board of the IT Company is believed to have initia...

February 18, 2009 306 Views 0 comment Print

Satyam bidders will not get to see Accounts before bidding

CA, CS, CMA : The suitors seeking to take over the scam-hit Satyam Computers will not be able to go through the restated financial statement or ...

February 15, 2009 261 Views 0 comment Print

IT officials served notice to Raju for evading taxes

CA, CS, CMA : The cup of woes for B Ramalinga Raju seemed to be full as income tax officials drove down to the Chanchalguda jail on Thursday and...

February 15, 2009 501 Views 0 comment Print

Inside the secret world of auditing : Business Today

CA, CS, CMA, Finance : PwC’s unqualified opinions of Satyam’s financial statements were materially false and misleading… as an accounting expert wh...

February 14, 2009 420 Views 0 comment Print


ICAI may quiz E&Y over Maytas evaluation?

January 18, 2009 387 Views 0 comment Print

As part of its investigation into the Satyam Computer case, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) is likely to question Ernst & Young (E&Y) on the valuation exercise it undertook  on the two Maytas companies.

Taxman probes Satyam exemptions

January 18, 2009 441 Views 0 comment Print

Though happy with the fact that troubled IT major Satyam Computer Services had paid income tax on unreal profits — as claimed by its chairman B Ramalinga Raju — the income-tax department is planning to re-examine the exemptions the company had claimed under the income tax regulations.

PwC may be quizzed by US regulator

January 18, 2009 261 Views 0 comment Print

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), which is facing a multiple-agency probe within the country for its “unreliable” audit of Satyam Computer Services leading to a Rs 7,000-crore accounting scandal, holds a further risk of being quizzed by US accounting regulator in India, said Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) president Ved Jain.

Ramalinga Raju had 50 bank accounts in 2002

January 18, 2009 330 Views 0 comment Print

The Income Tax (I-T) department has recalled a 2002 investigation report against the promoters of Satyam that had details of a probe conducted by I-T sleuths on family members and associates of B Ramalinga Raju in Hyderabad.

ICSI seeks report from Satyam’s company secretary

January 18, 2009 369 Views 0 comment Print

The Institute of Company Secretaries of India has sent a letter to the company secretary of Satyam Computer Services, seeking a report on corporate governance, sources said.

Despite difference of opinion Satyam Board passed Maytas deal

January 18, 2009 237 Views 0 comment Print

The unanimous approval of Satyam’s erstwhile board to the Maytas deal was not unanimous in letter and spirit, the minutes of the infamous December 16 meeting revealed on Saturday. 

Auditors failed to detect major risks in Satyam

January 18, 2009 297 Views 0 comment Print

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.

Companies having links with Satyam under SFIO scanner

January 18, 2009 471 Views 0 comment Print

The net is being cast wider with every company that has done a transaction  with Satyam now coming under the scanner of the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO), which got permission to probe Satyam’s transactions with as many as 250 companies. All the companies will have to divulge information regarding the nature of their business with […]

Satyam wouldn’t be audited by KPMG

January 18, 2009 267 Views 0 comment Print

KPMG on Thursday said it will not do any auditing work for Satyam, hours after ICAI cried foul over appointment of the company by new board of Satyam.

Price Waterhouse gave wrong PAN to Satyam

January 17, 2009 1864 Views 0 comment Print

The Satyam saga gets murkier. Now it has come to light that its auditor, Pricewaterhouse, furnished the company with a “wrong” PAN. Confirming this Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has said it would take “disciplinary action” against the auditors and may even consider cancelling its licence.

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