Accounting fraud

Lawyers for the hip-hop mogul don't want him to testify in a probe of a firm he did business with more than a decade ago.

The hip-hop mogul is in hot water with Wall Street’s top regulator.

The former executive was found guilty of orchestrating an accounting fraud to arrive at the $10.3 billion price Hewlett-Packard Co. paid for the U.K. software maker more than six years ago.

The electronics maker's in-flight-entertainment unit improperly hid payments to consultants in the Middle East and Asia.

The embattled retailer's chairwoman appealed for shareholder support for an ongoing investigation into the smoldering wreckage left by the accounting scandal.

One of Noble Group Ltd.’s largest shareholders has stepped up criticism of the embattled commodity trader, describing losses as “shocking” and warning the billions in red ink will pile more pressure on investors to agree to a controversial debt-for-equity rescue plan that it opposes.

To prosecutors, Hewlett-Packard Co.’s purchase of Autonomy Corp. was akin to buying a Pinto dressed up as a Cadillac.

Steinhoff International Holdings NV lost a case against a former business partner related to how it reported financials for 2016, the first major legal setback for the global retailer as it battles an accounting scandal.

The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners appointed a new CEO and president, Bruce Dorris, succeeding longtime leader Jim Ratley, who will be retiring.

The fraud trial of three former Tesco Plc executives was halted when one of them, ex-U.K. Chief Financial Officer Carl Rogberg, had a heart attack days before the jury was due to begin deliberations.