Belfast-based shipbuilder Harland & Wolff asked for trading of its London-listed shares to be halted – Radharc Images/Alamy Stock Photo Shares in the troubled shipyard that built the Titanic have been suspended after auditors refused to sign off its accounts, prompting fresh fears for a major Royal Navy contract. Harland & Wolff asked for trading […]
A limited examination by Iowa’s state auditor into the financials in three small Iowa towns where a city clerk accused of financial mismanagement once worked found problems with their bookkeeping and violations of state law. The review released Wednesday by the auditor’s office of financials from 2021 and 2022 in the towns of Lorimor, Woodburn […]
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A state examination of the office that handles criminal prosecutions in St. Louis is being delayed because auditors can’t find former Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, Missouri Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick said Monday. Fitzpatrick said in a news release that auditors have tried for several months to contact Gardner, including trying to serve […]
One of the country’s most influential courts has asked the nation’s top securities regulator for its views on an uncomfortable subject: whether audit reports by outside accounting firms actually matter. The court already ruled that, at least in one case, they didn’t. That case, where an insurer overstated profits and an auditor signed off on […]