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Accounting firm Arthur Andersen had already been found guilty in the court of public opinion, and paid a heavy penalty.

Francesca Ciceri reminded Debian users that version 5.0 of the multi-purpose operating system has reach the end of its supported life-cycle. One year after the release of Debian 6.0, the plug has finally been pulled on Lenny.

The trustee supervising the liquidation of MF Global Holdings' brokerage said Friday that more than $1.6 billion in customer cash remains out of his grasp, more than previously estimated.

Valentine's Day is next Wednesday, a day for "coupling." If you started 2011 as a couple but ended it as a single, then there are some tax implications you should be considering before April 15.

Phil Cauthon Kansas Health Institute A Gardner resident and director of the Kansas Cancer Center testified in Topeka urging legislators "not to throw the baby out with the bathwater," as they consider the results of an extensive audit of the Kansas Bioscience Authority.

I found this bug while working as one of the first QA engineers at the MathWorks in the early 1990s.

10,A 2012 /PRNewswire/ --A James H. Quigley , Global CEO of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited between 2007 and 2011, has been appointed a Trustee of the International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation, the oversight body of the International Accounting Standards Board .A The appointment begins immediately and will expire on The IFRS ... (more)

The reversal of an especially controversial accounting reserve that helped trigger payouts under an executive share plan at Nortel Networks Corp.

Xero chief executive Rod Drury and two other founders have sold $5 million of shares to institutions and to Brad Shofer, who joins fellow MYOB founder Craig Winkler among the cloud-based accounting platform's top 20 investors.

If you haven't joined the majority of Americans who e-filed their taxes last year, H&R Block has this message for you: Really, what's your hold up? Forget for a second who created the image below the aforementioned tax preparer who would probably love your extra business and focus on the facts: E-filing has saved more than 28,000 trees, 80,000 ... (more)

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The company that owns the Silver Legacy, Eldorado and Circus Circus casinos, is in major debt, according to an auditing firm.

Independent research by PricewaterhouseCoopers into the IT priorities of Communications Service Providers in Russia has found that 43 percent of CIOs currently spend more than half of their operating budget on "maintenance." That is compared to 60 percent of CIOs in the rest of the Europe, Middle East, and Africa region.

PriceWaterhouseCoopers, along with the California Healthcare Institute and Bay Bio has released a study saying that the California biomedical industry "is on a precipice," and employment has stalled.

The watchdog board for corporate auditors on Wednesday said it has imposed a $2 million penalty, its largest fine ever, on accounting and consulting firm Ernst & Young LLP in a settlement involving past audits of Medicis Pharmaceutical Corp.

The watchdog agency for the accounting industry says it has fined big firm Ernst & Young $2 million for alleged lapses in three audits of a pharmaceutical company.

Interest in U.S. energy companies spiked in 2011 as buyers clamored for more access to oil-rich layers of North American shale, a consulting and accounting firm said Wednesday.

Auditors at Deloitte & Touche had detailed knowledge of the items that comprised Nortel Network Corp.'s controversial accounting reserves in 2003, a former accounting employee testified Wednesday.

Ernst & Young LLP has snapped up Mark Esposito, a startup and venture capital point-man at rival audit firm PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.

The accountants that performed a forensic audit of the Kansas Bioscience Authority said Tuesday that they've given former CEO Tom Thornton's laptop computer and copies of their analysis of the device to the Johnson County District Attorney's office.