RE: [LINK] Doubtful practices relating to IT consulting by big companies

From: Anthony Healy (thealy@magna.com.au)
Date: Thu Aug 30 2001 - 15:11:26 EST


Roger Clark wrote:

> When I did Accountancy around 1970, we studied the
> conflict-of-interest aspects of accounting firms doing consultancy.
> We concluded that it was dreadful, and that precisely nothing would
> be done about it because the self-interest was too high, and it's
> largely self-regulatory (i.e. such regulation as exists is image not
> substance). We wuz right ...

It will be interesting to see what comes of the investigation into the roles
of the HIH auditor, A*thur Anders*n. Five billion down the drain and the
auditor didn't notice anything.

Regards, Tony Healy



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