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Letter of Credit Defined

Conditional bank commitment issued on behalf of a customer to pay a third party in accordance with certain terms and conditions. The two primary types are commercial letters of credit and standby letters of credit.

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Satyam chief admits huge accounting fraud

Published January 7, 2009, 9:55 pm, San Jose Mercury News

Satyam Computer Services, a leading Indian outsourcing company that serves more than a third of the Fortune 500 companies, significantly inflated its earnings and assets for years, the chairman and co-founder said Wednesday, roiling Indian stock markets and throwing the industry into turmoil.

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McGraw-Hill Hires Groves for New S&P Ombudsman Post (Update4)

Published January 7, 2009, 2:56 pm, Bloomberg

Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) -- McGraw-Hill Cos. named former Ernst & Young Chief Executive Officer Ray Groves ombudsman for its Standard & Poor’s credit-rating unit, as it seeks to regain the confidence of investors, regulators and lawmakers.

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Cedar Bluffs working on audit issues

Published January 7, 2009, 2:14 pm, Papillion Times

WAHOO - The Cedar Bluffs village board is trying to find a way to move forward following the recent release of an audit report from the Nebraska Auditor of Public Accounts.

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On the Job Training: Can Obama's Huge Infrastructure Program Really Work?

Published January 7, 2009, 2:06 pm, Knowledge at Wharton

President-elect Barack Obama's infrastructure plan has drawn considerable debate, but mostly over the details -- the size of the stimulus program, how to structure the plan to create the most jobs in the shortest time, and how to administer such a large program to limit corruption and pork-barrel projects. The bigger questions remain unanswered, including to what extent new jobs will actually be ...

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Satyam Chairman Resigns After Falsifying Accounting (Update1)

Published January 7, 2009, 1:16 pm, Bloomberg

Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Satyam Computer Services Ltd. Chairman Ramalinga Raju resigned after saying he falsified earnings and assets, prompting a collapse in the stock of India’s fourth-largest software-services provider.

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Fraud

Published January 7, 2009, 12:10 pm, Express India

Marketmen have been baying for blood for weeks. To be sure, ever since investors thwarted Satyam Computer Services from buying the controversial Maytas twins last month, the Hyderabad-headquartered software firm has stumbled from one calamity to the next, leaving in its wake good governance, disgraced directors, cancelled contracts and vanishing valuations. But chairman B Ramalinga Raju's faxed ...

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Blog: Huge fraud at Indian tech firm rocks markets

Published January 7, 2009, 12:10 pm, Los Angeles Times

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Satyam Chief Admits Huge Accounting Fraud

Published January 7, 2009, 5:52 am, New York Times

A leading Indian outsourcing company massively inflated its earnings for years, the chairman said.

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Indian software company chief quits in accounting scandal

Published January 7, 2009, 2:48 am, International Herald Tribune

Satyam Computer Services, a leading Indian outsourcing company that serves many of the world's biggest companies, massively inflated its earnings for years, the chairman said, throwing the industry into turmoil.

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Clash continues in US over fair value

Published January 7, 2009, 12:16 am, Accountancy Age

A conflict has emerged between the the US standard setter FASB and one of its own advisory board over measures to soften the principles of fair value accounting.

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