This article was originally published on September 5, 2014. Updated January 29, 2024 with additional […]
Tag: Ventas
In 2014, real estate investment trust Ventas revealed its chief accounting officer had an “inappropriate personal relationship” with a partner at its audit firm, EY. This led to an independence violation on the part of the auditor that required a second audit firm, KPMG, to reaudit Ventas’s 2012 and 2013 financial statements.
Sex and Professional Ethics, Round 2
In case you need to be caught up, the controller at Ventas and the audit […]
Clarifying Sex and Auditor Independence After the EY and Ventas Affair
With all that went down with Ventas and EY1, I needed a little clarification on […]
Why Is Everyone So Tight-Lipped on the Ventas EY Audit Partner Situation?
As we found out recently, the engagement partner at EY was (probably, allegedly) banging the […]
Ventas Fires EY as Auditor Over Independence Violation
And by “independence violation” we mean “they were probably banging”