Accounting fraud

A Houston-based company, FMC Technologies, has agreed to pay a $2.5 million penalty to resolve charges that it overstated profits in one of its business segments, the Securities and Exchange Commission said Thursday.

Three former Tesco Plc executives charged with accounting fraud will go on trial in September 2017.

Comedian Harry Shearer is suing the company that owns the rights to “This is Spinal Tap,” claiming that it has shortchanged the film’s creators through fraudulent accounting.

Big Four firm Ernst & Young has agreed to pay more than $11.8 million to the Securities and Exchange Commission for failing to detect fraud in its audits of an oil services company.

The Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday charged energy services provider Lime Energy Co. and four executives for their roles in accounting fraud.

An academic study demonstrates that earnings management is pervasive across U.S., European and Asian companies, whether they’re using U.S. GAAP or International Financial Reporting Standards.

The owner of a Houston-based business has pleaded guilty in a scheme that involved $13 million in false invoicing.

The oil and natural gas services company Weatherford International will pay a $140 million penalty to settle accounting fraud charges.

Three former Tesco Plc executives will plead not guilty to allegations of accounting fraud, their lawyers said as the men appeared in a London court for the first time since being charged.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s probe into Exxon Mobil Corp. includes scrutiny of why it didn’t write down the value of oil fields during a global collapse in prices that prompted billions in write-offs by rival drillers, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Eddie Antar, the founder of the electronics chain Crazy Eddie, which collapsed amid accusations of accounting fraud, has died at the age of 68.

Even at 91, former American International Group Inc. Chairman Maurice “Hank” Greenberg isn’t ready to quit fighting.

Three former Tesco Plc executives were charged with fraud and false accounting by the U.K. Serious Fraud Office, after a multi-million dollar shortfall discovered two years ago led to a criminal investigation of the grocer’s finances.

American Realty Capital's former CFO has been charged with orchestrating an accounting fraud that overstated a key metric by roughly $13 million in 2014, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office.

The Sarbanes-Oxley provision requiring senior financial officers to adopt a code of ethics tended to reduce the number of earnings restatements by their companies, according to a new study.

The SEC gave out its second-largest whistleblower award ever to a former Monsanto financial executive .

The SEC charged California-based Enviro Board Corp.and two of its executives with using baseless financial projections and other misleading statements to defraud investors.

PricewaterhouseCoopers has reached a settlement in a multibillion-dollar lawsuit involving the 2009 collapse of Taylor Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp.

Executives are worried about whether their companies are doing enough to protect themselves against financial crimes such as money laundering and fraud in the wake of the release of the Panama Papers.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP failed to spot for seven years a multibillion-dollar fraud that led to the demise of Taylor Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp., a lawyer for the lender’s bankruptcy trustee told a Miami jury on Tuesday.