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China Accounting Scandals Put Big Four Auditors on Red Alert

The string of accounting problems and stock plunges at publicly traded Chinese groups has sparked deep concerns across the world’s biggest audit firms, putting the so-called Big Four on alert from worries that their reputation could be brought down along …

Mood on Main Street: Agents on Hardest Hit Small Businesses

Agents across the country — except in Texas and neighboring states — agree that construction and related trades have been hardest hit by the recession. Restaurants appear to be the second hardest hit. In terms of lines of insurance, the …