Article: Accounting firms 'too big' to audit.

Article: SEC Exec stresses public trust at NAA. (Edward ...
Accounting Today;  June 10, 1991 ;     700+ words ... ... Fleischman. He added that some large accounting firms have pressed the ethical limits ... firm is a key factor to maintaining public trust. "The SEC is concerned that members of outside accounting firms must not put themselves in situations ...

Article: Ferguson: Executives Who Violate Public Trust ...
Italian Voice, The;  July 18, 2002 ;     321 words ... ... No. 2 long-distance carrier. "To corporate CEOs and the accounting firms that audit their companies, let me be very clear," Ferguson said. "If you violate the public trust, if you flush down the drain the retirement security of millions ...

Article: Big-name accounting firms drop clients
China Daily;  September 20, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... chief accountant. The Big Four accounting firms, Deloitte, Ernst, KPMG and ... have a responsibility in the public trust." The former clients, including ... new auditors. The Big Four accounting firms audited all but one of the ...

Article: Accounting firms scramble to fill jobs amid ...
Crain's Detroit Business;  November 8, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... among factors that have fueled a staffing crunch at many accounting firms. As a result, executives are scouring sources for workers ... fiscal 2005. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, intended to restore public trust in the accuracy of U.S. businesses' financial reports ...

Article: The ecology of a public trust
CA Magazine;  January 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... the quiet shade of a public trust, well sheltered from ... limits of a vital public trust. We need to manage ... oversight of the public accounting firms, Or society might ... collective stewardship of a public trust. Our generation of ...

Article: PwC's DiPiazza and Eccles propose new accounting model. ...
Accounting Today;  August 5, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... book, "Building Public Trust: The Future of Corporate ... analysts have shaken public trust." The book constitutes ... coordinates them. "Accounting firms need to sensitize ... He explained, "Accounting firms exist to represent ...

Article: Auditors face trial by fire Reforms needed to repair ...
The Journal Record;  May 6, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... interest that undermine public trust in the audit function and ... will be hard to impose: Accounting firms don't like the reforms ... University of Oklahoma, believes accounting firms have become too dependent ... markets," Knapp said. Accounting firms already provide ...