- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By Kyle Brasseur2020-12-03T15:50:00
Former KPMG inspections leader Thomas Whittle was sentenced to two years of supervised release for his role in the Big Four firm’s cheating scandal that saw three of his colleagues and co-conspirators receive time behind bars.
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2022-06-29T13:44:00Z By Kyle Brasseur
It is impossible to ignore the SEC’s $100 million fine against EY for employee exam cheating is double the amount the regulator penalized KPMG for its separate cheating scandal. Especially since the latter resolution appears to have served as a starting point for the SEC’s ruling on the former.
2022-04-06T14:56:00Z By Kyle Brasseur
Scott Marcello, the former vice chair of audit at KPMG during the Big Four firm’s infamous cheating scandal, was fined a record $100,000 by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board for his supervision failures.
2021-07-30T14:28:00Z By Kyle Brasseur
David Britt and Thomas Whittle have been indefinitely barred from practicing as accountants before the Securities and Exchange Commission for their roles in the KPMG cheating scandal.
2025-02-28T15:45:00Z By Ruth Prickett
Compliance teams should expect more support from their organization’s internal audit functions. That is the clear message from the Institute of Internal Auditors, the global body of national affiliated internal audit institutes, which has just put into action its new Global Internal Audit Standards.
2024-09-16T19:45:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
Chinese authorities banned PwC’s Chinese unit from performing audits in the country for six months, labeling the subsidiary’s flawed audit work as complicit in the failure of giant property developer Evergrande.
2024-06-12T01:46:00Z By Kyle Brasseur
Erica Williams was reappointed to a second term as chair of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board after an ambitious first three years in the role that have seen the agency work to update many of its standards deemed outdated.
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