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The questions Satyam must address

Could PWC, SEC and others help me out here? When I read the resignation letter of Satyam’s CEO, it triggered a number of questions for me. Raju insists no one else was involved. 1. Can that be right? ...

Tags: Satyam, Fraud, CFO, Resignation Letter, Raju, Litigation, Operational Accounting, Financial Statements, Business Operations, Finance, Financial Accounting, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-01-08

Zoho can come second and still win

Earlier in the week I spoke with Raju Vegesna, evangelist with Zoho about the upcoming Zoho CRM for Enterprise. Larry Dignan has all the key facts and correctly surmises: Let’s be clear about Zoho’s motives: It wants to take on Salesforce.com’s CRM, which Zoho portrays as bloated. I...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., CRM, Zoho CRM, Com, Raju, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-04-16

Additional Resources

Satyam - Do you believe in Karma?

Ramalinga Raju taken ill from a heart attack Global Services reports that former Satyam CEO, Ramalinga Raju, suffered a heart attack while awaiting trial in jail. Another source, The Times of India, goes into more detail, especially concerning his hepatitis illness...

Tags: Hepatitis, Satyam, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-09-09

Report: Fraud and deception at Satyam was deep

The fraud and deception at Satyam Computer Services in India was so in-depth that it included dual accounting books, thousands of forged invoices, thousands of unnecessary employees and dozens of fake bank statements, according to court records analyzed by the New York Times. ...

Tags: Satyam, Deception, Fraud, Outsourcing, Financial Services, Litigation, Balance Sheets, Financial Accounting, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Financial Statements, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-04-22

A shrinking Satyam

A shrinking SatyamSatyam is in....Satyam is in a pity situation and none can help about it.It is difficult to earn a good tag name after a displaying a cheating profile. Though it is the mistake of the MD, CEO Ramalinga Raju, it has tainted worst at the employees and the...

Tags: Branding, Satyam

Discussion threads 2009-02-22

Clock ticks for Satyam as customers eye exit

Clock ticks for Satyam as customers eye exitWhy customers might stay with SatyamClearly, what has happened with Satyam has been a shock. A shock to Satyam's shareholders, customers and employees, as well as corporate India and beyond.What did happen? That might be some time coming, but it would appear from...

Tags: Outsourcing, Operational accounting, Financial services, SMART Money, Satyam

Discussion threads 2009-01-28

Where to try Madoff and Satyam's Raju? Texas!

60 Years for Texas Ponzi Schemer Texas is not a place where you want to be tried for crimes. Take it from someone who lived most his life there, criminality is very much frowned upon there. I grew up in a rural Texas county that due to...

Tags: Texas, Satyam, Financial Accounting, Finance, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-01-27

Satyam: resignations, appointments and YouTube videos

When we last reported on the $1 billion fraud scandal at Satyam Computer Services in India, brothers Ramaling and Rama Raju, former chairman and former managing director and CEO, respectively, had been arrested and the full board of directors had been let go. Today, that new...

Tags: Board, Satyam, YouTube Video, YouTube Inc., Video, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-01-27

News to know: Mac at 25; Green storage; Android; Zune a misfit toy?

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know vi a email al ert and RSS daily .  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage . Christopher Dawson: The Intel convertible Classmate - 1:1 and beyond Adam O'Donnell: Will...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Storage, Microsoft Zune, Apple Inc., Sam Diaz, Desktops, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-26

Satyam â€" Can anything be trusted in Raju’s resignation letter?

Why he couldn’t have acted alone According to the Financial Times, former Satyam chairman Raju may have been quite busy in the deception he orchestrated. In this article, we learn that: The former chairman of Satyam Computer Services inflated the size...

Tags: Employee, Satyam, Prosecutor, Litigation, Government, Financial Services, Operational Accounting, Payroll Solutions, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Finance, Human Resources, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-01-25

More Litigation for Satyam & trouble for their ex-CFO & PWC

What you can learn from a court filing and some news stories This weekend, I read about by my count the fourth class action suit being filed against Satyam, its management and PriceWaterhouseCoopers PWC. This particular filing Satyam court filinghas a very up-to-date and complete chronology of...

Tags: PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Satyam, Litigation, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Financial Accounting, Outsourcing, Financial Services, Business Operations, It Operations, Finance, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-01-11

Will the Satyam incident spur real change?

Indian Media Sees Overly Kind Treatment of Ex-Chairman The Hindu today reported that former Satyam Chairman Ramalinga Raju has been treated with "white gloves". Specifically, the former executive has been given a very different treatment than that encountered by another famous Indian executive involved in a less...

Tags: India, Satyam, Fraud, Indian, Government, Litigation, Vertical Industries, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-01-11

Satyam scandal: Arrests and new board members

Brothers Ramaling and Rama Raju, former chairman and former managing director and CEO, respectively, of Satyam Computer Services have been arrested and the company's full board of directors has been let go as authorities in India begin their investigations of an alleged $1 billion fraud, according to Bloomberg. Corporate...

Tags: Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-01-09

Governance snake oil warning

According to a Tweet message I've seen that is being repeated: The GRC market is believed to boom after the indian enron "Satyam" case came into picture last wednesday. SAP and ORACLE seeks opportunities In an application sales starved market, all vendors will be scrambling for opportunities. ...

Tags: Audit, Governance, Satyam, Audit Profession, Questions, Sales Strategy, Financial Accounting, Litigation, Sales Force Management, Sales, Finance, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-01-09

Trust: the Satyam Partnering Disaster

The images above, taken from Satyam's website, are now worthy of the fail blog. The shock waves rippling through the markets following Satyam's chairman and co-founder Ramalinga Raju's admissions of accounting fraud are world news, being dubbed 'India's Enron'. You...

Tags: Satyam, HCL, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Finance, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-01-09

Satyam management: We're staying; Unveils crisis plan

Satyam management: We're staying; Unveils crisis planA Robinhood?You heard them say all those things they said. Here is what I have to say.Some of you heard of Raju for the first time and its because he fell and the media likes to talk about those who fall; and you can...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Satyam

Discussion threads 2009-01-08

Satyam management: We're staying; Unveils crisis plan

Updated: Satyam on Thursday said its top management team is staying despite the revelation that founder and chairman Ramalinga Raju cooked the books. In a statement, Satyam followed up on a day that included a stunning letter from Raju revealing a $1 billion cash sink hole and...

Tags: Satyam, Head, Corporate Governance, Investment, Telecom & Utilities, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-08

Missing $1 Billion In Cash? Get In Line. The Phone Line.

So we're shocked. Satyam Computer Services is missing $1 billion of cash and bank loans. Chairman Ramalinga Raju says he falsified accounts. Raju just wanted to maintain operating margins. Which does not quite explain why cash is missing. You don't need to make up cash or...

Tags: Bank, Phone, Satyam, Phone Line, Satyam Computer Services, Parmalat, Financial Services, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-01-07

The Satyam saga worsens â€" terribly so

The Enron of India (Probably!) The news today re: Satyam is really bad. It makes the events of last month pale in comparison. To begin, you should read Satyam Chairman Raju’s letter of resignation where he accounts for the accounting sleight of hand he says that...

Tags: Satyam, Andersen, Asset Management, Balance Sheets, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Financial Statements, Financial Accounting, Finance, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-01-07

Satyam fallout: Should customers stick? Full text of chairman's stunning letter

Indian outsourcing company Satyam has cooked books, a $1 billion cash sink hole and its chairman and founder B Ramalinga Raju has fabricated figures. Meanwhile, Merrill Lynch has bailed on being an adviser to the company and shares of the firm were down 90 percent or so in premarket trading...

Tags: Board, Satyam, Maytas, Task Force, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-07