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VMware pays SEC $8 Million for Misleading Financial Reporting

VMware pays SEC $8 Million for Misleading Financial Reporting

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s bread-and-butter enforcement actions focus on accounting fraud.  The SEC has a long history in uncovering fraudulent financial reporting schemes.  In the early 2000s, Wall Street was shaken by a number of scandals involving financial reporting fraud which eventually resulted in passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.  This Act transformed the auditing profession and to this day is the most important reform...