Forensic accounting: A method for timely flag raising

Financial crime is not a new phenomenon in the corporate world of Bangladesh. According to a report of the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), scams in 14 banks cost Tk.225.02 billion in the past decade, which is about four-fifths the project cost of Padma bridge and two-fifths that of Sonadia...

Never been a worse time to be a journalist

"I've never known a time when it was as bad as it is now," says Beata Balogova, the Vice-Chair of the International Press Institute (IPI) and Editor in Chief of the Slovak Spectator Sme. "In terms of what's going on with journalists, we're in a very unique period," she adds.Balogova...