SEC enforcement

General Electric Co. warned that it’s likely to face Securities and Exchange Commission allegations of accounting misdeeds, setting back CEO Larry Culp’s effort to put the company’s rocky past behind it.

The commission filed settled actions against two public companies and two former executives for improper reporting of quarterly EPS.

GSX Techedu is the latest case of a U.S.-listed Chinese company facing greater scrutiny on accounting issues amid rising tensions.

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

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.

The U.S. Supreme Court limited the power of the Securities and Exchange Commission to recoup illegal profits from wrongdoers, putting new curbs on one of the agency’s most potent legal weapons.

The short version of Hertz Global Holdings Inc.’s bankruptcy story goes something like this: Global pandemic obliterates the travel business and lands an iconic 102-year-old company in court to seek protection from creditors.

Who are the casualties of the SEC’s aggressive enforcement?

SEC charges revolved around how the insurer decided if clients were dead.

The complaints paint a picture of increasingly desperate measures undertaken by MiMedx’s top two officers to hit sales goals year after year.

The Justice Department investigation into the allergy shot would eventually cost the drug maker nearly $500 million.

The SEC settlement offers a rare glimpse into the steps that were taken to make sure more than $140 million paid to Nissan's ex-chairman wasn’t disclosed publicly.

PricewaterhouseCoopers agreed to settle SEC charges for engaging in improper professional conduct with 15 audit clients.

The fifth largest accounting firm had problems with at least 15 audit clients.

The Securities and Exchange Commission obtained a court order against three individuals who allegedly defrauded more than 230 investors.

The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board finalized slightly fewer enforcement actions against accountants in 2017, slipping from 79 in 2016 to 75 last year, according to a new report.

Michael F. Maloney, the chief accountant at the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Enforcement, is leaving the SEC in February.

The commission has given over $162 million to 47 different recipients.

Stephanie Avakian and Steven Peikin will helm the agency’s largest unit together.

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it had awarded more than $5.5 million to a whistleblower.