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Did consulting hero PwC give the same strong advice it gave Bear Stearns in 2006 about best practices for repurchase claims and reserves to its real audit clients JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, and PNC Bank?
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According data from GMI, the corporate governance research firm, more than 80% of major U.S. real estate companies have appointed Audit Committee members with significant real estate sector experience.
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They would do well to appoint independent Audit Committee members with real estate and risk management experience who are prepared to safeguard shareholder value.
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But in the past 36 months, at least one professional real estate investor a month has called me about an audit.
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Though the FTC's strengthened protections would govern private companies, hospitals and insurers would fall under the far looser regulations created in May by HHS. Those rules allow the company to avoid breach disclosures if an audit firm decides that a breach didn't constitute a real privacy risk.
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Furthermore, 60% of the largest companies in the sector have appointed at least Audit Committee member who has BOTH financial expertise AND significant experience in real estate.
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In the end, there is no real way for an outsider to know the truth: investors must put their faith in the audit.
ECONOMIST: Face value
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But the good news is that the SEC seems to be getting the real-time religion, albeit through the back door, and not explicitly in the Consolidated Audit Trail.
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The first stage in an audit involves asking whether the organisation deserves to be considered at all: is it a real not-for-profit agency, committed to the relief of suffering?
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To get at the real picture, CEOs need to cut through several layers of management, talk to mid-level managers, and audit their companies' safety procedures.
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