VEA Vice Chair Nell Minow is quoted in this article about potential conflicts of interest in PwC’s getting lobbying fees from audit clients.
Nell Minow, a corporate governance expert and the vice chair of ValueEdge Advisors, told MarketWatch, “There are serious conflict of interest issues when an auditor has a lucrative side project involving its clients, very much along the lines of the consulting fees that created so much trouble in the Enron era.”
Source: PwC doing double duty as auditor and tax lobbyist – MarketWatch