Accounting fraud

The seven-country search could plunge the troubled German landlord deeper into crisis.

The former executive team at the Brazilian retailer created false advertising contracts as a way to reduce costs on the balance sheet.

The proposal would toughen the requirements for the auditor's responsibility to consider a company's noncompliance with laws and regulations, including fraud. 

The two men were named by the retailer in 2019 following a forensic probe by PwC that uncovered $7.2 billion of irregular transactions.

The trial of Markus Jooste was halted on day one after he was unable to leave his home country South Africa.

The decision is the harshest regulatory consequence yet for the firm since Wirecard's demise almost three years ago.

Three former executives from Austal USA have been indicted for a fraudulent revenue recognition scam.

Management at the Brazilian retailer told auditor PwC and its audit committee there were no supply-chain financing ops, but gave securities regulators conflicting information.

Public interest petitions had sought the court's intervention after reports alleged accounting fraud and stock manipulation by the conglomerate.

Markus Braun insisted he acted properly when he told markets two months before the company's spectacular demise that a KPMG probe found no wrongdoing — even though the auditor didn't have access to the documents it needed.

In his first public comments about his involvement in an episode that wiped out billions of euros in shareholder value, Braun spoke of a "day of shock and pain."

The Indian billionaire seeks to rebuild investor confidence in the wake of a bruising short-seller attack accusing his companies of accounting fraud.

Billionaire Gautam Adani's companies have suffered a stock meltdown in recent weeks after U.S. short-seller Hindenburg Research accused the conglomerate of manipulation and accounting fraud.

The $4 billion accounting shortfall would typically raise alarm bells for an auditor. Somehow, a PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP affiliate didn't catch it at Americanas SA.

Crowe U.K. replaced the Big Four firm as the auditor of U.K. entities including Adani Energy Holdings after the Indian firm bought them in 2021.

A short-seller accused the the company of "brazen" market manipulation and accounting fraud.

Hindenburg Research had published a 100-page report alleging that its two-year investigation found "brazen stock manipulation and accounting fraud."

Trump, his company and three of his children were sued for allegedly manipulating the value of his assets for years to dupe banks and insurers.

The Indian company may sue U.S. investor Hindenburg Research after the short seller released a report alleging "brazen" market manipulation and accounting fraud.

The 74-year-old bookkeeper wrote herself 175 checks over a decade from a number of the family's companies.