عنوان درس: ارنست و یانگ در ارتباط با فروپاشی Lehman تحت تحقیب قرار گرفت

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New York's attorney general, Andrew Cuomo, has accused one of America's leading accounting firms of helping to hide massive accounting fraud at Lehman Brothers in the years before the bank collapsed in September 2008.

Mr Cuomo says the accounting giant advised Lehman Brothers on obscuring US$50 billion dollars through so-called Repo 105 transactions, which temporarily move liabilities off balance sheet. Ernst and Young has made no comment on the case, but the attorney general wants the firm to repay fees it received, totalling US$150 million dollars, plus damages to investors.

Ernst and Young was the outside auditor for Lehmans from 2001 until the firm's bankruptcy in September 2008. The failure of what had been a leading global financial firm triggered a crisis on Wall Street that tipped the world into deep recession.

Caroline Hepker, BBC News

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accounting firms
شرکت های حسابداری

fraud
تقلب، خلافکاری

collapsed
از هم پاشیده شده

obscuring
در اینجا: پنهانکاری برای جلوگیری از کشف اطلاعات مالی

liabilities
در این درس: بدهی ها، دیون

balance sheet
تراز نامه

made no comment
اظهار نظری نکرد

auditor
حسابرس، ممیز

bankruptcy
ورشکستگی

tipped
در اینجا: کشاند، هل داد،( سبب شد جهان وارد یک رکود اقتصادی شود)