Accounting fraud

Germany’s financial regulator is considering opening a probe into Grenke AG’s accounting practices, wading deeper into the controversy after criticism of its failure to unearth fraud at Wirecard AG.

The U.K.’s Financial Reporting Council sanctioned Deloitte and two of its former partners for their audits of the software company Autonomy prior to its acquisition by HP and levied a record penalty.

Ernst & Young is sending letters to clients admitting it failed to uncover fraud at the payment company sooner.

The COVID-19 pandemic is encouraging various forms of fraud, according to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.

COVID-19 has created new challenges and a remote work environment that heightens the risk of fraud at public companies.

Germany’s blame game over Wirecard AG’s collapse is focusing on the question of why authorities failed to take a harder look at the payments company before it became the country’s biggest accounting scandal in living memory.

The fraud that brought down tiny Commerzialbank Mattersburg im Burgenland AG raises questions for financial regulators and auditors that have uncomfortable echoes of the Wirecard AG debacle in neighboring Germany.

With the recent economic slowdown, companies are under increased pressure to show stability, or even growth, and paint a rosy picture for investors.

PPC Ltd., South Africa’s largest cement maker, plunged deeper into crisis after reporting accounting errors and delaying the release of full-year earnings for a second time.

Mark Frissora will return nearly $2 million in incentive-based compensation to settle a U.S. regulator’s claims that he played a key role in causing the now-bankrupt car-rental company to file inaccurate financial statements in 2013.

Former Wirecard AG executive Jan Marsalek was added to Interpol’s red notice list, sparking a worldwide manhunt for one of the executives allegedly at the center of a multibillion-euro accounting scandal at the fintech company.

New York is seeking to dissolve the National Rifle Association as the state attorney general accused the gun rights group and its current and former senior officials of engaging in a massive fraud against donors.

Under Armour Inc. said a pair of top executives, including founder Kevin Plank, has been named in a federal probe of the company’s accounting, sending shares of the athleticwear maker down.

Former Wirecard AG Chief Executive Officer Markus Braun and two other former officials were arrested as prosecutors said the company knew about massive losses as early as 2015.

Luckin Coffee Inc.’s board will require Chairman Charles Zhengyao Lu to resign, adding to the fallout from an accounting scandal that has battered the onetime market darling.

Wirecard auditors say ‘elaborate’ fraud led to missing billions

Wirecard AG filed for insolvency, the culmination of a stunning accounting scandal that led to the arrest of its CEO and left the German payment-processing firm unable to find over $2 billion missing from its balance sheet.

Britain’s audit industry faces another dent to its reputation as the nation’s accounting watchdog ordered a probe into PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Ernst & Young and Oliver Clive & Co.’s work for defunct London Capital & Finance Plc.

Wirecard AG’s former chief executive officer was detained by Munich prosecutors after 1.9 billion euros ($2.1 billion) went missing from the digital-payment company, in a scandal that has rattled Germany’s financial industry.

Wirecard AG was left fighting for survival after acknowledging that 1.9 billion euros ($2.1 billion) that it had reported as assets probably don’t exist, deepening an accounting scandal that has rattled Germany’s financial industry.