SEC Suspends Big Four Accountants Over US-Listed Chinese Firms

A Securities and Exchange Commission judge has suspended the Chinese units of the world's four largest accountancy firms for refusing to hand over auditing data on China-based companies which are listed in the US. According to a 112-page ruling, SEC Administrative Law Judge Cameron Elliot censured the Chinese affiliates of KPMG, Deloitte Touche, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ernst and Young (EY) after stating that the companies "wilfully" failed to give US regulators the audit work papers of certain Read more [...]

Faribault’s District One Hospital had no adverse health events in 2013

Faribault’s District One Hospital officials were pleased not to be listed in the Minnesota Department of Health’s Adverse Health Events in Minnesota report in 2013 after recording one adverse event in 2012. District One officials want to put the adverse health event documented by the MDH in 2012 — a foreign object left in a patient after surgery — behind them and work to remain out of the report in future years. “District One Hospital Read more [...]

EpiCentre complex listed for sale

Uptown Charlotte’s EpiCentre entertainment complex has been put up for sale, according to a listing by the real estate firm offering it to potential buyers. The Dallas office of commercial real estate firm HFF is offering the 305,000-square-foot complex for sale, according to HFF’s website. Uptown boosters have viewed the complex as a key to drawing visitors to the center city. A summary of the offering says HFF has been exclusively retained to handle the sale. The summary Read more [...]

Foothills home sells for $3.7M, highest listed sale since ’08

A luxury home in the Catalina Foothills has sold for $3.7 million, the highest closing price in the Tucson metro market in more than six years, according to Russ Lyon Sotheby’s International Realty, which represented the buyer and the seller.The five-bedroom, seven-bathroom home, is located on 6.73 acres in a private development in the foothills, but the location and the buyer and seller were not disclosed. The sale included the adjacent parcel of land and closed jointly this month, Read more [...]

£3 million Hyde Park mews house gutted in fire

The grade-two listed Victorian terrace was left a shell after the blaze, which is believed to have started in the basement. An 18-month programme of works on the house was weeks away from completion.More than 50 firefighters battled through the night to bring the fire under control, having to rip off the roof using axes and sledgehammers to douse the flames.Two neighbours were treated for smoke inhalation and one man was treated for leg injuries by ambulance teams at the scene, with adjacent houses Read more [...]