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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 […]
Following is the text of the statement made by Shri Prem Chand Gupta, Minister of Corporate Affairs, at the Press Conference held here this evening:
Satyam, and now, Wipro Technologies and Megasoft, join the 300 companies that have been blacklisted by the World Bank Since 2000. The list includes four other India-based vendors.
The ministry of corporate affairs ordered investigation into the Satyam scandal by the Serious Frauds Investigation Office (SFIO), a multi-functional investigating agency that has representations from the ministry of home affairs, Enforcement Directorate and the Intelligence department.
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 […]
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has said that the concerned partner who signed on Satyam Computers’ balance sheet will be held responsible and not the audit firm Price Waterhouse.
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 […]
