Brett Coster wrote: >For me, the big thing is Andersen coming a cropper. I'm biased in that, as a >contract techwriter, I've seen Andersens come into a project in one area, >say providing due diligence, and then work the system over the next few >months to end up with the whole lot. I've never much been struck by their >ethics. Apologies to any Androids out there on the list. > One can only hope it raises a big flag in other parts of the Andersens empire. Their practice in some parts of the world has extraordinary stretching of ethics. The Indonesian practice in particular has huge conflicts of interest, but still manages to retain most of the big audit positions, even after the examples of the Malaysian practice's bending the rules until clients went bust and the auditor made huge fees coming and going.
Russell C.
