accounting errors

If you pay attention to the Business section of the newspaper, then you're no doubt aware of how many public companies have been restating their earnings as of late. You can thank the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 for that, which was passed in the wake of accounting scandals at such companies as ...

Were the accounting errors at General Motors - publicly announced shortly after the Delphi unraveling - accidental in nature, or was something more evil behind the manufacturer's need to restate several years of financial results? The Detroit Free Press notes that in its investigation of filings ...