{"id":122,"date":"2018-05-14T16:00:49","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T16:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alignin.com\/press\/?p=122"},"modified":"2018-05-14T16:00:49","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T16:00:49","slug":"ge-pressured-to-fire-auditor-after-109-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alignin.com\/press\/2018\/05\/14\/ge-pressured-to-fire-auditor-after-109-years\/","title":{"rendered":"GE pressured to fire auditor after 109 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2018\/04\/24\/investing\/ge-annual-meeting-kpmg-accounting\/index.html?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT0dZNU9UWXhZemhoT0RFMyIsInQiOiJNcDlkMVhCRm5YemZ4ZkRcLzgzRXdyUjFmVkxzTXB6Rk9oU21LR3VxKzlPYjl5OHV2YUwwRzQ2MTNTNUtiYXFSd2Ewb2RJUG4ybTdOcmtLZzRcL3d3dFJSTStkd2Q2TWxOSWhmZlwvRDZhR2hZem1SNU5nTTlLbTNwMUpuWlloU2EzTlFRYnJPQXZqQk14WGJOb0FLcW1BSVE9PSJ9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ISS recommends against GE keeping auditor KPMG <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Auditor KPMG faces accounting investigation<\/p>\n<p>An advisory firm recommended that shareholders of General Electric Co (GE) vote against keeping accounting firm KPMG as the company\u2019s auditor because of \u201cconcerns about GE\u2019s previously undisclosed liabilities and accounting practices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ISS (Institutional Shareholder Services) said that GE shareholders must beware that a &#8220;long-tenured auditor can become too close to a client,&#8221; while a new auditor can &#8220;uncover problems previously unidentified.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISS recommends against GE keeping auditor KPMG Auditor KPMG faces accounting investigation An advisory firm recommended that shareholders of General Electric Co (GE) vote against keeping accounting firm KPMG as the company\u2019s auditor because of \u201cconcerns about GE\u2019s previously undisclosed liabilities and accounting practices.\u201d ISS (Institutional Shareholder Services) said that GE shareholders must beware that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alignin.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alignin.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alignin.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alignin.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alignin.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alignin.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"https:\/\/alignin.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alignin.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alignin.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alignin.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}