Although he had been with the mortgage lender New Century Financial for only two months, Tajvinder S. Bindra had spent a good part of late 2006 and early 2007 pelting the company’s controller and a member of its auditing firm, KPMG, with questions about the company’s accounting.
Zach Gast of RiskMetrics said better accounting at New Century would have raised flags sooner, perhaps tempering the subprime fiasco.
Frustrated by their responses and staring down a deadline to close New Century’s year-end books, Mr. Bindra, the company’s chief financial officer, told both men that he needed written assurances from KPMG that New Century’s bookkeeping was proper, according to accounts of the discussions.
But KPMG balked. A few weeks later, on Jan. 31, 2007, KPMG and New Century’s own accountants stunned the company’s board by revealing that the lender had incorrectly calculated its reserves for troubled home loans.
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