Creative retail accounting

Rebates are proving to be a bane for the retailers. Not because its illegal but because of how most retailers in the recent times like Tesco and Target have had heartburns due to the accounting treatments for that. The next one in line is Dick Smith that collapsed...

Taxing times for Weatherford

After agreeing to pay $250M to SEC, Department of Justice and Department of Treasury Oil, in 2013, to settle charges that it authorized bribes and other kickbacks to foreign officials to win business overseas; Weatherford International has now agreed to pay another...

AIG CEO finally on trial after 11 years!

This week marked the start of the trial of AIG’s CEO Hank Greenberg for his involvement in the accounting scandal that happened in the 2000s at the company. The case has been pushed out for so long as Greenberg’s attorneys appealed a total of nine pre-trial motions,...

Accounting fraud at American Realty

Former finance head of American Realty Capital Partners, now known as Vereit, charged with committing accounting fraud. Brian Block, CFO of the real estate investment company used an inflated metric that didn’t comply with GAAP. The metric in question is adjusted...

Stealing at Grant Thornton

Craig Haver, an ex partner at Grant Thornton New York office was charged with stealing nearly $4M of money from clients. According to the latest reports, Craig had instructed the clients to send money directly to him rather than the firm’s headquarters. This had...