SEC Enforcement Released Its Greatest Hits for FY 2022
The SEC Division of Enforcement cracked a lot of skulls in fiscal 2022, as it brought in a record $6.439 billion in penalties and disgorgement, up from $3.852 billion in fiscal year 2021. Of that total, the $4.194 billion in civil penalties the SEC doled out was also a record, but the $2.245 billion in […]
This Deloitte Veteran Made a One-Pager of His Career Highlights on His Way Out the Door
Over the years, we’ve shared countless firm farewells with you. From viral rants about Beyonce and fake auditors to sappy, totally unnecessary prose about how much they’ll miss the firm, farewell emails are as varied as the soon-to-be-former grunts who write them. Sometimes, they’re just awful, like the tax associate who wrote this actual garbage […]
It’s That Time of Year When the SEC Gets Braggadocious
Now that the SEC is a little more than a month into its new fiscal year, the commission wanted to remind everyone that its enforcement division staff didn’t spend FY 2019 watching porn at work all day long. Yep, the SEC Division of Enforcement 2019 Annual Report is hot off the press, and in it […]
The SEC Put Out Its 2015 Highlight Reel
The SEC's fiscal year wrapped on September 30, so naturally, they wanted to take a victory lap with their enforcements results. Among the accounting and auditing highlights brought up are: Computer Science Corporation's manipulation of "accounting models that artificially increased its profits but had no basis in reality." Deutsche Bank's overvalued derivatives that exposed them […]