Accounting fraud

The 2014 scandal prompted a boardroom house-cleaning and an overhaul of the U.K. grocer’s supplier relations.

Michael Lynch, the former chief executive officer of Autonomy Corp., stepped down Friday as an adviser to U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May after he was charged with fraud by the U.S.

The commodity-trading firm is being investigated by three Singaporean agencies more than three years after a whistle-blower questioned the company’s accounting.

The Nissan chairman was arrested in Japan for alleged financial violations and faces removal from his job.

Samsung Group’s biotechnology unit is facing a potential criminal investigation and delisting after South Korea’s financial regulator said that the company “intentionally” violated accounting rules surrounding an initial public offering.

The retailer provided South African officers with information about transactions involving more former executives who may have contributed to its accounting crisis.

A study suggests that a background in audit can be a double-edged sword in the C-suite.

About one-quarter of perpetrators of financial reporting misconduct experience a net benefit, even after getting caught.

Sacha Romanovitch will not stand for re-election for a second term and will step down after a successor is appointed before the end of this year.

Luke Johnson should have read his own aide-memoire. A month after the Patisserie Holdings Plc chairman published an advice column on spotting fraud, his finance chief has been arrested in an accounting scandal that threatened to shut the cake baker’s 200-plus stores.

Patisserie Holdings Plc finance chief Chris Marsh was arrested as U.K. fraud prosecutors opened a probe into an accounting scandal that threatens to shutter the cake baker’s 200-plus stores.

Testifying at the accounting fraud trial of two former executives, the U.K. retailer's chief talked of his genuine shock when he was first shown a report that described howthe company had overstated income by 246 million pounds ($326 million).

Text message recipients were told there was impending, unspecified bad news coming before the accounting scandal unfolded.

U.K. cake baker Patisserie Holdings Plc suspended its chief financial officer after uncovering “significant, and potentially fraudulent, accounting irregularities” and a demand for more than a million pounds in back taxes.

The troubled bed retailer plans to close up to 700 stores.

A legal fight kicks off to recover some of the billions of dollars investors lost after the South African retailer’s financial scandal.

The former head of the scandal-scarred retailer blames fellow executives and auditing firms for his company's near collapse.

The retailer's former chief financial officer pointed the finger at ex-CEO Markus Jooste and auditors including Deloitte for the company’s accounting scandal.

The retailer's former chief, Markus Jooste, has agreed to appear at a hearing next week in South Africa, provided it's not about his company's accounting scandal.

As Noble Group’s troubles mounted, the role of Singapore’s regulators has come under scrutiny.