KPMG’s Re-Audit of Ventas Teaches Us Boning Doesn’t Necessarily Ruin an Audit
Colin buried this in ANR this morning: Health-care real-estate investment trust Ventas Inc. ( VTR ) said a re-audit didn't result in any changes to its financial statements. KPMG LLP audited Ventas's 2012 and 2013 figures after Ventas said in July that it dismissed Ernst & Young "as a result of an inappropriate personal relationship" […]
Sex and Professional Ethics, Round 2
In case you need to be caught up, the controller at Ventas and the audit partner at EY were banging. So Ventas fired their controller, and Ventas fired EY, and EY fired the audit partner. EY also said that putting the sausage in the ham wallet was a flagrant violation of professional standards. Over the […]
Clarifying Sex and Auditor Independence After the EY and Ventas Affair
With all that went down with Ventas and EY1, I needed a little clarification on our independence rules, so I took the initiative to send the following email to the AICPA: Dear AICPA Ethics Hotline, I understand that earlier this month Ernst & Young was fired by Ventas, Inc. due to an inappropriate relationship between […]
Why Is Everyone So Tight-Lipped on the Ventas EY Audit Partner Situation?
As we found out recently, the engagement partner at EY was (probably, allegedly) banging the (now former) Chief Accounting Officer and Controller at the client (Ventas). Well, we don't know if they were necessarily getting it on at the client's but you get the idea. Due to that "inappropriate personal relationship," Ventas fired EY — […]
Ventas Fires EY as Auditor Over Independence Violation
And by “independence violation” we mean “they were probably banging”