George Pugh
George Pugh & Co
George Pugh is the President of George Pugh & Co, a NJ-based consulting firm. He has over twenty-five years of consulting experience in the public utility industry. He is a Certified Public Accountant, has an MA from The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of The Johns Hopkins University, and an MBA from Rutgers University.
Prior to that, Mr. Pugh was a Naval Intelligence Officer, brokerage auditor at PricewaterhouseCoopers, and lending officer at HSBC and NatWest. He consulted for Stern Stewart on the Finanseer modeler, mapping financial data into the firm’s proprietary Economic Value Added framework and wrote algorithms to provide the program with optimization and goal-seeking capability. He used this program to support The Deerpath Group’s $1.1 billion debt placement for the Midland Cogen Venture (MCV Project).
Mr. Pugh has consulted with JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, Putnam Investment, Scudder, CFSB, UBS, Goldman and Alliance Capital providing both analytic support and GAAP analysis. He used neural networks and discriminant analysis to forecast changes in credit risk, and ratings and current projects emphasize industry-wide, cross-company analysis.
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| 1983 - present | President George Pugh & Co |
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| 1980 - 1982 | Assistant Vice President NatWest USA |
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This article is based on “Control Overrides in Financial Statement Fraud” by Robert Tillman and Michael Indergaard of St. John’s University, available at http://www.theifp.org/research%20grants/tillman_final_report.pdf The study examines 834 companies that filed financial restatements between 1997 and...
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