Pricewaterhouse finally acts on Satyam

by admin on January 27, 2009

in Featured,General,Tax and Ethics

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CXO Today is reporting that Pricewaterhouse India has finally acted on the errant partners from its Hyderabad office:

Former Satyam auditors – PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) have said that S. Gopalkrishnan and Srinivas Talluri have been suspended of all their duties and functions as PWC partners till the investigation into the Satyam scam is completed.

I’m surprised it has taken PwC this long to get its act together. The partners concerned are accused of major crimes and should have been suspended the moment they were taken into custody. Should we be surprised?

Francine McKenna noted that when she tried to prise information out of PCAOB and PwC’s US offices she got a polite but firm ‘no comment.’ As she said at the time:

So, as well as having no defense at either the Indian, US, or international level to this damning development, Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP US and the US regulator have no PR spin either.

Spin is more than I would expect but a statement to shore up public opinion surely needs to be made? Or perhaps the rot is too deep even for PwC’s PR machine to figure?

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UPDATE: The FT is reporting that Sam DiPiazza, global head of PwC has rushed to Mumbai

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That's cool.

The partners concerned are accused of major crimes and should have been suspended the moment they were taken into custody.

The partners concerned are accused of major crimes and should have been suspended the moment they were taken into custody.

I wonder does Francine McKenna aware that each member firm of PwC is an independent firms of the global network of firms which carry the PwC name , therefore the Indian firm of PwC is wholly owned by Indian partners. Accordingly, generally the authority to respond to any question would lie with the Indian member firm of PwC.Accordingly, maybe the US firm of PwC was following strict cross country protocol established over 100 years + being in existence in both India & US and not because they lack fire power in terms of PR machinery.

@mohit - of course she knows that. Yet PWC, same as other Big 4 claim global brand status as though they're ONE firm. They can't have it all ways.

I wonder does Francine McKenna aware that each member firm of PwC is an independent firms of the global network of firms which carry the PwC name , therefore the Indian firm of PwC is wholly owned by Indian partners. Accordingly, generally the authority to respond to any question would lie with the Indian member firm of PwC.Accordingly, maybe the US firm of PwC was following strict cross country protocol established over 100 years + being in existence in both India & US and not because they lack fire power in terms of PR machinery.

I wonder does Francine McKenna aware that each member firm of PwC is an independent firms of the global network of firms which carry the PwC name , therefore the Indian firm of PwC is wholly owned by Indian partners. Accordingly, generally the authority to respond to any question would lie with the Indian member firm of PwC.

Accordingly, maybe the US firm of PwC was following strict cross country protocol established over 100 years + being in existence in both India & US and not because they lack fire power in terms of PR machinery.

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