SEC Suit Could Boot Chinese Companies from U.S. Stock Exchange, Cons...

12/04/12

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SEC Sues Auditing Firms: The Securities and Exchange Commission is suing Chinese affiliates of the Big Four accounting firms Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers as well as BDO for failing to produce documents related to fraud investigations at nine China-based companies. Charges were filed against the auditors as part of a larger investigation into the Chinese companies themselves, following a string of "so-called reverse mergers" that led to billions of...

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