All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Audit & Forensic Accounting

With the market reaching below a 12,000 DOW, fraudsters will be ever more vigilant in attempting to "bait" their prey into investing in ever more "profitable" endeavors.  With these unscrupulous agents everywhere, it is important to have a "Fraud Examiner" (Forensic Accountant) available for analyses...

In today's highly competitive business environment, decision makers admit that a company's health greatly depends on profits and cost management, rather than just a growing sales turnover. Administering and auditing the area of Telecommunications is becoming a significant challenge and is clearly a...

In particular in the financial services industry, the control functions (audit, compliance, risk management and credit) are the key to the long-term success of the enterprise. Greed has made many CEOs forget this fact and ultimately completely disgrace themselves. The list is long......

Internal  audit,  risk measurement  and  compliance  are  getting more  and  more  intermeshed. The  realization  is  increasing  that  effective  internal  audit  is  relevant  for  improving operational ...

The rating agencies -- including Moodys -- have long been under scrutiny relative to their "computer glitches."  We are learning that these are not so much "glitches" as they are conflicts of interest between the rating agencies and the clients they rate.  The exorbitant fees paid by the clients...

Is everybody on your team covering your--you know what? Are you the kind of leader who spends quality time with your staff, listens, even asking about their family? Where are the blind spots in your business?

Securities fraud, weak supervision at a major participant in the securities industry sound familiar? Perhaps Moodys is another Salomon Brothers for the Sage of Omaha to sort out. As a 19% stakeholder, it seems to be his destiny. This would be a public service as the true destiny for the...

Anti-fraud techniques within a company cannot be effective in preventing fraud if management is not committed to a fraud-free culture within the company.

Did General Motors' purchasing relax its standards for oversight and for credit allocation for FUCI Metals, because FUCI was set up as a minority business enterprise? Or, was GM in on it from the beginning, but lost control of it?

Valuation of a target company when question of acquisition arises do not necessary depends on the contemporary valuation models. There has been number of cases of recent acquisition cases where the value paid by the acquirer defied all valuation logic. This phenomenon does not necessarily implies...