Among his come-ons: giving hires a chance to publish their softwaredevelopment ideas as well-distributed trade books--and paying them a fat bonus for their labors up front.
According to AICPA rules for auditor independence, PwC can support softwaredevelopment and implementation for its audit client if that system is not the financial accounting software that produces the books and records the firm will audit.
In many cases, EU-funded projects are duplications of other projects or efforts to re-invent the wheal-the writing of books and manuals and the development of software that can be purchased for a few hundred dollars in the marketplace.