EC Establishes Corporate Governance Advisory Group

With the latest figures reported, as of April 27, a total of 633 Fortune 1000 firms have reportedly paid more than $3.6 billion for their 2004 audits, compared to $2.2 billion in 2003, according to accounting professors Susan Eldridge and Burch Kealey, who helped develop an automatic text-mining and data extraction technique that makes hundreds of hours of data-collection manageable.

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