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Shortfalls were plugged through altered or entirely fictitious accounting entries, backed by falsified documents.
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The board is being given incredible powers, among them the right to paw through the financial documents of clients of any accounting firm auditing the books of publicly held companies.
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Debevoise deployed 100 lawyers and 110 support staff who billed 582, 000 hours, while Deloitte put 1, 300 staff members on the job, who worked 949, 000 hours searching 40 million bank documents and reviewing 127 million accounting records.
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All accounting entries of a grantee must be supported by appropriate source documents, recorded in books of original entry, and posted to a general ledger on a monthly basis.
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The report says Cadbury reprogrammed its accounting system so employees could submit false invoices, purchase orders and other documents that made it seem as if a new plant were operating, even though it couldn't have been doing so legally.
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During the Enron fraud (2002), many documents were destroyed to cover up the financial misdeeds of executives and their accounting firm, Arthur Andersen.
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Chase not only needs to turn over the documents, it owes the public, Madoff investors and shareholders a complete accounting of its role in the largest Ponzi scam in history.
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Since March, it has issued 132 summonses to eight accounting, law and investment banking firms demanding they turn over customer lists, opinion letters and other documents.
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Its lawyers displayed documents they said were found in publicly-accessible garbage, one of which spoke of "faulty accounting at best" in Disney's dealings with Pooh royalties.
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Andersen was convicted for shredding documents even as the Securities and Exchange Commission opened an investigation into the finances of one of its big accounting clients, Enron, which collapsed into bankruptcy in Dec. 2001.
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