chessplayer
- 27 Nov 2007 09:00
Any views on where this stock might be headed?
Its already down by 250 from its high of just a few weeks back and if i knew anything about charts,WHICH I DON,T,maybe it is time to cash a few in
halifax
- 20 Nov 2012 16:27
- 422 of 450
Skinny ask their auditors Deloittes and KPMG.
skinny
- 20 Nov 2012 16:31
- 423 of 450
Deloittes sell themselves as having a strong Fraud & Advisory team!
midknight
- 20 Nov 2012 16:40
- 424 of 450
Lynch, non-exec BBC director, not responding to Peston (yet)!
skinny
- 20 Nov 2012 16:42
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Just had a read here
Fraud and Accounting Investigations
I wonder what their fees were!
halifax
- 20 Nov 2012 16:42
- 426 of 450
Skinny Deloitte audit BLNX as well.
skinny
- 20 Nov 2012 16:43
- 427 of 450
I would have thought the Lynch/BLNX connection was what was made earlier.
halifax
- 20 Nov 2012 16:47
- 428 of 450
Lynch has around 6% shareholding in BLNX , Autonomy has 12% shareholding in BLNX as at August 2012.
skinny
- 20 Nov 2012 16:57
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I do hope this isn't true - I used to quite admire him and Autonomy for that matter.
halifax
- 20 Nov 2012 17:49
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Skinny hope is a fine thing Lynch OBE according to his directorship profile in the BLNX annual report is also on the board of the BBC.
halifax
- 20 Nov 2012 17:56
- 431 of 450
UBS trader sentenced to 7 years, hope UBS are paying for his keep in prison and not us taxpayers?
skinny
- 21 Nov 2012 07:52
- 432 of 450
Autonomy misled HP about finances, Hewlett Packard says
From the above article :-
Mike Lynch told BBC News that the HP allegations were just a way of distracting attention from poor results.
"It's managed the company very badly," he said. "It lost around half the staff before I left and the whole of the management team, and the value of the company has now fallen and they've been forced to write it off."
"Today is the day they're announcing the worst results in the 70 year history of the business and I think there's a little bit of distraction going on here."
skinny
- 21 Nov 2012 07:55
- 433 of 450
This reads like a financial institutional rogue's gallery!
In HP-Autonomy debacle, many advisers but little good advice
Wed Nov 21, 2012 3:52am GMT
(Reuters) - When Hewlett Packard acquired Autonomy last year for $11.1 billion, some 15 different financial, legal and accounting firms were involved in the transaction -- and none raised a flag about what HP said Tuesday was a major accounting fraud.
HP stunned Wall Street with the allegations about its British software unit and took an $8.8 billion writedown, the latest in a string of reversals for the storied company.
chessplayer
- 21 Nov 2012 08:44
- 434 of 450
All these financial institutions involved seems to suggest that the old adage still applies. That is to say " too many cooks spoil the broth !"
mnamreh
- 21 Nov 2012 09:05
- 435 of 450
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skinny
- 21 Nov 2012 15:18
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HP’s Accounting Claims Are Seen as Cover for Bad Deals
Hewlett-Packard Co.’s (HPQ) claims of financial improprieties at Autonomy Corp. have accounting experts questioning whether the allegations are an attempt to divert attention from yet another bad acquisition.
chessplayer
- 21 Nov 2012 15:32
- 437 of 450
Mike Lynch points out, that in the economic downturn, HP axed a great many of Autonomy's top staff. It can hardly be a surprise, therefore, that their performance was sub par.+
ahoj
- 21 Nov 2012 15:46
- 438 of 450
HP has been acting like headless chicken. Once they were one of the most reputable companies in Electronic and telecommunication industry, now they jump from one industry to another, destroying the company.
They are fundamentally great, but the management and their structure are the problem.
skinny
- 21 Nov 2012 15:48
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Not the 1st and certainly, they won't be the last.
skinny
- 30 Nov 2012 06:31
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Insight - How a desperate HP suspended disbelief for Autonomy deal
SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK/LONDON | Fri Nov 30, 2012 6:19am GMT
(Reuters) - For Leo Apotheker, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO, a July 2011 meeting with Autonomy founder Mike Lynch at a chic seaside resort in France was pivotal to his effort to remake a storied technology giant.
In the nine months since taking the helm at HP, Apotheker had tried furiously to find a way to move the lumbering company away from its low-margin computer hardware business and into the lucrative corporate software and services arena. Apotheker was looking for a big, transformative acquisition, two people familiar with the situation said, and after overtures to several companies went nowhere, he set his sights on Autonomy.
skinny
- 12 Dec 2012 08:15
- 441 of 450
How could HP find a $5bln gap in Autonomy’s value?
By Quentin Webb
The author is a Reuters Breakingviews columnist. The opinions expressed are his own
How could Hewlett-Packard find a $5 billion-plus hole in an $11.1 billion deal? The U.S. tech giant claims to have uncovered all kinds of accounting nasties at Autonomy, the British software outfit it bought last year. But HP won’t say quite how the allegations – strongly denied by Autonomy’s ex-boss Mike Lynch – could produce such a colossal writedown. Breakingviews tries a spot of reverse-engineering to see how it could be possible.