The survival of CPA firms could depend on it.
That’s the heretical advice of Jim Peterson (pictured), once an in-house lawyer for Arthur Andersen, now a practicing multinational attorney and columnist for the International Herald Tribune.
He writes:
I say it is time to stop making nice and to discard a 150-year-old piece of conventional wisdom. The concept of auditor independence does not serve the interests of investors.
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