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For 20 years, the global retailer thrived off deal-making. Now, some of those transactions are back in the spotlight, and not in a good way.

Christo Wiese says the retailer’s overview of a forensic probe into the company’s accounting irregularities supports his claim against the company.

Steinhoff International Holdings NV plans to dig deeper into the accounting misdeeds that brought the retailing giant to its knees as it seeks to get to the bottom of some $7.4 billion in fictitious or improper deals.

PricewaterhouseCoopers has settled with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation for $335 million over its audits of Colonial Bank, which failed in the midst of the financial crisis.

Regulators in some Asian countries are getting tougher on auditors after landmark defaults, in an increasingly high-stakes game as investors call for earlier warning signs amid expectations for debt failures to mount.

A deeper look at each of the leading firms from this year's ranking.

The laboratory-testing company facing criticism for its corporate governance, will no longer use an auditor for its Luxembourg subsidiaries who was contemporaneously signing off on the accounts of businesses controlled by the company’s largest shareholder.

PricewaterhouseCoopers is supporting calls from the Institute and lawmakers who are asking to lower the penalty threshold for taxpayers.

A number of accounting firms make the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For list, and other practice news from across the country.