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    2. Question of The Week -- October 22, 2020

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      Question of The Week -- October 22, 2020
      The Wall Street Journal reported this past week that 4 recent large financial scandals were all previously audited by Ernst Young --"While it wasnt possible to pinpoint why EY has had so many recent audit clients with financial scandals, certain elements of EYs business strategy might help explain the cluster of blowups. EY had ties with executives and board members at some of its troubled audit clients. In some cases ...
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    3. String of Firms That Imploded Have Something in Common: Ernst & Young Audited Them

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      String of Firms That Imploded Have Something in Common: Ernst & Young Audited Them
      This year, $2 billion is missing at a German fintech company, $300 million of sales has been found to be fabricated at a Chinese coffee chain and $5 billion in undisclosed debt has been uncovered at two related companies listed in the U.K. Together, the incidents cost shareholders of the companies roughly $30 billion...
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    7. LAX Chief to Step Down Following Scrutiny Over Side Job on Corporate Board

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      LAX Chief to Step Down Following Scrutiny Over Side Job on Corporate Board
      The chief of Los Angeles World Airports will step down at the end of this month following questions from The Times about whether she received proper approval to accept a paid board position at an outside company. In what could amount to a violation of city ethics rules, Deborah Flint accepted a board of director job with Honeywell International without getting formal approval, records show...
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    9. New Nissan Pay Problems Point to Conflicts at the Top

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      New Nissan Pay Problems Point to Conflicts at the Top
      TOKYO An outside law firm investigating problems at Nissan, the troubled Japanese automaker, this summer discovered some potentially explosive information. Hari Nada, a powerful Nissan insider who was behind the ouster last year of Nissans chairman, Carlos Ghosn, over compensation issues, had been improperly overpaid himself, the firm found...
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    10. Tesla CEO Elon Musk Answers SolarCity Investors Who Say He Was a ‘Conflicted’ Fiduciary

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      Tesla CEO Elon Musk Answers SolarCity Investors Who Say He Was a ‘Conflicted’ Fiduciary
      Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said he was involved in some discussions about the $2.6 billion acquisition of SolarCity in 2016, though he recused himself from a board vote approving the initial offer. Musk made the disclosure when he was questioned under oath by lawyers for pension and investment funds that claim he duped investors into backing the buyout of the solar-energy company that was founded by his ...
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    11. WeWork Reportedly Hired the Parents of a High-Ranking Exec as Real Estate Brokers, Among Other Potential Conflicts of Interest

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      WeWork Reportedly Hired the Parents of a High-Ranking Exec as Real Estate Brokers, Among Other Potential Conflicts of Interest
      WeWork, in its public offering documents, disclosed a slew of related-party transactions involving CEO Adam Neumann, his wife, and various family members. But the company didn't disclose a collection of deals involving the family members of other company officials, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal...
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    13. Warburg Pincus Landed a $1 Billion Deal with a Twist — One Brother is on Warburg's Energy Team, Another is an Exec at the Company it Backed.

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      Warburg Pincus Landed a $1 Billion Deal with a Twist — One Brother is on Warburg's Energy Team, Another is an Exec at the Company it Backed.
      ...ancing arrangement were not disclosed. It was not the first time a private-equity firm has managed a possible conflict of interest stemming from a relationship between brothers. In 2017, Blackstone told The Wall Street J...
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    16. Too Many Conflicts on Super Fund Boards, PC Finds

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      Too Many Conflicts on Super Fund Boards, PC Finds
      The PC's Karen Chester does not agree industry super funds are deliberately different from other funds and have 'delivered superior returns on average'. Eddie Jim by Joanna Mather Superannuation funds are not doing enough to manage conflicts of interest, especially those that may arise around the boardroom table , the Productivity Commission says...
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    1. Based upon the potential for a conflict of interest resulting from the Company's ownership of limited partnership interests in the Purchaser, the Independent Directors unanimously voted to recommend that the Board express no opinion and remain neutral with respect to the Offer.
      In How Wall Street Enabled A Controversial Power Grab At A Wannabe Berkshire Hathaway
    2. There is not a short supply of narcissism amongst executives and they will take pains to preserve their own power, which may be a conflict of interest with the wider shareholder base.
      In Clash of the Egos: When Boardroom Bust-ups Derail Deals
    3. Delivery Hero's own market position as well as Prosus' position as the largest shareholder in Delivery Hero in itself gives rise to a conflict of interest.
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