Tyco's former outside auditor, Richard Scalzo, testified that he had raised some of the biggest disputed bonus payments at a board audit-committee meeting, where he discussed their accounting treatment.

ECONOMIST: The Tyco mistrial

Aided by Mr Radler, a tight-knit group of business cronies and a shamefully acquiescent audit committee, Lord Black's systematic long-term looting of the companies he controlled became increasingly frenzied.

ECONOMIST: Conrad Black's story

It said that following a Wales Audit Office report in 2009, the assembly audit committee - the predecessor to the public accounts committee - concluded the Welsh government and the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales needed to encourage better collaboration with universities.

BBC: University merger plan: Cardiff Met's watchdog threat

He has put a new director, Gordon Paris, a former Toronto-Dominion banker, on the audit committee to investigate all pay arrangements.

FORBES: Magazine Article

The audit committee tapped high-powered legal talent more than a week ago to help investigate the allegations, according to a person familiar with the situation.

WSJ: Best Buy Probe Concerns an Alleged Relationship of CEO Brian Dunn, Use of Assets

At first, her role on the Hewlett-Packard board, where she sat on the audit committee, was a quiet one.

NEWYORKER: The Kona Files

Barbara Thomas Judge, 66, a corporate lawyer who did three years as an SEC commissioner in her mid-30s, threw herself into learning about nuclear energy after a headhunter recruited her 12 years ago to chair the audit committee of the U.K. Atomic Energy Authority.

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