The Concern: Ethics

I am grateful to the committee for their recognition of the efforts of those involved in the last year's reporting, and join others around the world in congratulating Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, Barton Gellman, Ewen MacAskill, and all of t…

This case sought to hold auditors PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) responsible for their failure to detect a $2.3 billion fraud that the judge described as “one of the largest and longest-lasting bank frauds in American banking history” and which …

The PriceWaterhouseCoopers’ Oscar mix up has dominated social media the last couple days, with many saying Envelopegate could be a major hit to PwC’s long-term repu…

The following timeline chronicles the progress of investigations and indictments against Dennis Kozlowski, Mark Swartz, and Mark Belnick...

... the accounting firm best known for tallying up the Oscar votes, but now, the City of LA says they spent a lot of time partying in Vegas on your money. CBS's Erica Nochlin joins us with the scandalous details. Pat and Paul this fraud allege…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top U.S. banking regulator said on Friday that PricewaterhouseCoopers will pay $335 million to settle claims of "professional negligence," after saying the auditor should have identified problems leading to the 2009 co…

The auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is being sued by a UK employee who lost half of his skull after taking part in a “pub golf” work event that involved excessive drinking. The employee, 28-year-old Michael Brockie, filed a personal…

‘Disgraceful breach of trust’: how PwC, one of the world’s biggest accountancy firms, became mired in a tax scandal. In the depths of winter 2015, an Australian tax specialist adopted the language of a spy. “For your eyes only,” he wrote, whil…

The receiver for Bridging Finance Inc. is suing Ernst & Young LLP for failing to catch signs of fraud being perpetrated at the failed lender, despite serving as its auditor for several years. Bridging receiver PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc. i…

PricewaterhouseCoopers agreed to pay $267 million to settle a 16-year lawsuit filed by participants in a company pension plan who claimed they were shortchanged because fiduciaries incorrectly calculated lump-sum payments for a cash bal…

In the 12 months to the end of June, PwC UK’s revenues rose 0.4 per cent to£6.35 billion from £6.33 billion in its previous financial year. That is a marked slowdown compared with the past few years, when annual revenue growth has averaged mor…

LOS ANGELES (June 30, 2016)— Earlier today, the Los Angeles City Attorney, on behalf of the City of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP), filed a motion in LA Superior Court seeking permission to file an…

MIAMI (AP) — Accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers squared off Tuesday in court with lawyers for a defunct mortgage company’s creditors and investors over a $5.5 billion lawsuit, which claimed the Big Four firm failed through years of audits…

While the former employee said she was denied opportunities and pushed out to deprive her of benefits, a PwC spokesperson said the decision was based on “legitimate business considerations.” A former principal at PricewaterhouseCoopers repeate…

The class action suit sought compensation for pension plan lump-sum payments whose value had been undercalculated. The parties in a protracted Employee Retirement Income Security Act lawsuit against PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP have reached a pr…

A brief excerpt from the memorandum and order by Chief United States District Judge Keith Watkins: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) stepped in as receiver for Colonial upon its failure. In its capacity as receiver for Colonia…

A brief excerpt from the opinion of Justice Kruger and agreement of the Court's Chief Justice and Justices: In 2010, the City of Los Angeles contracted with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) to modernize the billing system for the City’s Department…