July 16, 2004

Yahoo! News - Watchdog to Probe Mayflower Auditing

LONDON - An accounting watchdog said Wednesday it will probe the auditing procedures at Mayflower Corp. PLC, a collapsed British engineering company with operations in the United States.

Mayflower was declared bankrupt and handed over to an external administrator, professional services firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, in March with debts of almost $356 million.

Early analysis of the British company's collapse has revealed accounting irregularities, a string of bad acquisitions and, crucially, a failure by the company to comply with regulations that require a certain number of independent directors to sit on its board.
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Sometimes you just don't know what is going on inside your customers' business that may effect your receiving payment: A failure by the company to comply with regulations that require a certain number of independent directors to sit on its board was the crucial cause of collapse? Oops - I forgot to count the number of independent directors on their board when I decided to extend them credit?

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