Underwriters, rating agencies, financial analysts and auditors all perform important roles in the financial system and serve us well, otherwise the service fees these institutions have generated for decades would be hard to explain.

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Under a system borrowed from Germany, Japanese firms must appoint at least three internal auditors to keep an eye on financial management and guard shareholders' interests.

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Imposing rules of any sort is unpopular with county auditors, polling officers and the other people who rule the roost in the current system.

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In March 1999, auditors warned Keith Mitchell, Grenada's prime minister, that First International had no proper accounting system.

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