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The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) is seeking a new chair for a three-year term that would begin June 1. Dave Landsittel, the current COSO chairman, plans to step down after serving in that capacity for the past four years. The board chair serves in a part-time, stipend position. COSO is a joint initiative of five private-sector organizations, including the AICPA, dedicated to providing thought leadership on enterprise risk management, internal control, and fraud prevention. COSO’s frameworks are used often in the United States and also are well known in corporate governance circles in Europe and Asia.
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Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. […], maker of the single-serve Keurig brewing machine, fell to the lowest in seven months after hedge fund managing director Whitney Tilson said there may be potential for accounting fraud at the company. Green Mountain fell 10 percent to $58.19 at 1:07 p.m. in New York, after dropping to $56.19, the lowest intraday price since March 10. The shares lost 22 percent in the week before today after David Einhorn, the president of Greenlight Capital Inc., said the company has a “litany of accounting questions” and needs to improve its transparency. [