[IP] more on sox, auditing, finding improprieties
Begin forwarded message:
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: January 12, 2006 10:22:04 AM EST
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: ip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: sox, auditing, finding improprieties
ip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
From: Daniel Berninger <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: December 22, 2005 9:01:51 AM EST
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Jack Bogle seeks to spark "The Battle for the Soul of
Capitalism"
Dave,
I wrote a review of the new book by Vanguard founder Jack Bogle's for
clients that may be of interest to readers of IP.
"The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism" argues most of the forces that
produced the scandals among Enron, Worldcom, et al remain in place.
This means investors should expect another wave of scandals even
as the bad actors of the first wave go to trial.
Bogle believes the cycle will continue until investors get much
more active in holding CEO's and the financial intermediaries
accountable.
in principle, auditors are looking for inconsistencies between
different information sources (which might be indication of fraud or
other improprieties). auditing internal corporate books somewhat
assumes that there are at least some that represent independent
sources and therefor might have inconsistencies. modern IT technology
can be leveraged to generate a complete consistent set of corporate
books. in face of being able to leverage IT technology to generate
complete consistency isn't going to be overcome by asking for more
information from the same source (more doesn't necessarily imply
independent)
looking for inconsistencies between independent sources then would
imply that sources of information from non-corporate sources would
have to be checked against corporate books (as opposed to assuming
that inconsistencies might exist in purely internal corporate books,
no matter how much the volume of information is specified).
that also somewhat has led to leveraging other sources of information
about possible fraud or improprieties ... like inside informers.
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