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	<title>Sequence Inc. Fraud Files Blog &#187; Auditing &amp; Regulations</title>
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		<title>Audit Malpractice Defense: Four Key Issues</title>
		<link>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2012/01/audit-malpractice-defense-four-key-issues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 03:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Coenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When a major fraud is discovered in a company, one of the key targets of litigation is usually the independent auditors. Two well-publicized cases in which management or shareholders suing the auditors after fraud was uncovered involve Koss Corp. (auditors Grant Thornton) and Navistar International Corp. (Deloitte &#38; Touche). Plaintiffs look to the auditors for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Auditor Malpractice: How to Sue an Audit Firm and Win</title>
		<link>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2012/01/auditor-malpractice-how-to-sue-an-auditing-firm-and-win/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Coenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Reuters printed an interesting and enlightening interview with Steven Thomas, the managing partner of Thomas, Alexander &#38; Forrester &#8230; an attorney known for suing large auditing firms for malpractice&#8230; and winning! Recent big wins include $520 million and $130 million judgments against BDP Seidman, on behalf of Espirito Santo and Batchelor Foundation, respectively. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IFRS and Fraud: More Challenges, More Risks</title>
		<link>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/12/ifrs-and-fraud-more-challenges-more-risks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/12/ifrs-and-fraud-more-challenges-more-risks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Coenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My article in the AICPA Corporate Finance Insider Newsletter Reasonable accountants can disagree about whether a move to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) will improve financial reporting. One key concern is that principles-based financial statements are much more susceptible to fraud. Rather than relying on strict rules, management’s judgment will guide much of the reporting. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>J2 Global Communications Trying to Hide Accounting Errors</title>
		<link>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/11/j2-global-communications-trying-to-hide-accounting-errors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/11/j2-global-communications-trying-to-hide-accounting-errors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:37:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Coenen</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/?p=8335</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[J2 Global Communications (NasdaqGS: JCOM ), better known as eFax, is under fire. Yesterday, Sam Antar tore into the company for an accounting gimmick that the company (and its auditors) had to know was wrong. The issue involves revenue and deferred revenue. In the 10-Q for the first quarter of 2011, J2 reported an upgrade [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Compliance Week: Koss Embezzlement and Small Company Internal Controls</title>
		<link>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/11/compliance-week-koss-embezzlement-and-small-company-internal-controls/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/11/compliance-week-koss-embezzlement-and-small-company-internal-controls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Coenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s Compliance Week article, &#8220;SEC Pursues Small Company Over Lax Internal Controls,&#8221; [subscription required] discusses the SEC settlement with Koss Corp over the $34 million embezzlement by former Vice President of Finance Sujata (Sue) Sachdeva. The article explains the settlement, which is essentially a clawback of some of Michael Koss&#8217;s compensation: Michael Koss, who remains [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accounting Firm Sued In Ponzi Scheme Case</title>
		<link>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/11/accounting-firm-sued-in-ponzi-scheme-case/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/11/accounting-firm-sued-in-ponzi-scheme-case/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Coenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest Post by Brian Mahany Here is a new twist. A hedge fund sues an accounting firm for its failure to uncover a Ponzi scheme operated by one of the hedge fund’s traders. That might sound farfetched, but its not. New York accounting firm Rothstein Kass was sued by two hedge fund managers in San [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Financial Statement Fraud: Olympus Makes It Look Easy</title>
		<link>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/11/financial-statement-fraud-olympus-makes-it-look-easy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/11/financial-statement-fraud-olympus-makes-it-look-easy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 12:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Coenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is a company to do when it wants to hide losses? Manipulation of the financial statements is the obvious first choice. It’s not hard. Sure companies have “internal controls,” which are supposed to include policies and procedures which ensure that financial information is properly recorded. But companies of all sizes have problems with their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Groupon IPO: Investors Beware the Unaudited Financial Statements</title>
		<link>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/10/groupon-ipo-investors-beware-the-unaudited-financial-statements/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/10/groupon-ipo-investors-beware-the-unaudited-financial-statements/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 02:44:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Coenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s crunch time for Groupon (GRPN). The roadshow for the company&#8217;s Initial Public Offering went live last week, and Groupon&#8217;s offering will happen this week. Demand for the shares is apparently through the roof. The company was hoping to sell 30 million shares at $16 to $18 each, but word is that Groupon is now looking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green Mountain Coffee: Accounting Irregularities and Other Concerns</title>
		<link>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/10/green-mountain-coffee-accounting-irregularities-and-other-concerns/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/10/green-mountain-coffee-accounting-irregularities-and-other-concerns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 01:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Coenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago, David Einhorn bashed Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (NASDAQ:GMCR) in a 110-slide presentation called &#8220;GAAP-uccino&#8221; at the Value Investing Conference, sending the company&#8217;s shares down. The stock opened at $91.66, and closed at $82.50 the day of his presentation. Over the next two weeks, the stock closed as low as $61.59, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exposing Auditors&#8217; Work</title>
		<link>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/10/exposing-auditors-work/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/10/exposing-auditors-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 02:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Coenen</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/?p=7956</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately, there has been talk of more requirements for auditors:  more disclosures, more discussion, more information on who is doing the audits.  Would a narrative by the auditors add more meaning to audit reports? One problem with audits is that they don’t provide a whole lot of information to users of the audit reports. The [...]]]></description>
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