SEC resolves two financial fraud cases
The SEC this week announced financial fraud cases against a pair of companies and their former executives accused of various accounting failures that left investors without accurate depictions of company finances. “We are intensely focused on whether companies and their officers evaluate judgmental accounting issues in good faith and based ...
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