1.   Attorneys for the two men said they left voluntarily and had no prior knowledge of the accounting fraud.

2.   A lot, judging from a case alleging accounting fraud filed Thursday by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

3.   In the process, he discovers a major accounting fraud in the firm.

4.   In the typical accounting fraud case, the auditors say they were fooled.

5.   It was also, investors later learned, engaged in a huge accounting fraud to inflate its profits.

6.   Nitec management also claimed in court that the accounting fraud had masked serious operating problems.

7.   Shareholder lawsuits alleging accounting fraud have been on the rise in recent years, according to a study released Tuesday.

8.   That is similar to other accounting frauds.

9.   The company is already under investigation for the accounting fraud that led to its collapse late last year.

10.   The executives, along with others, are being sued by Leslie Fay stockholders over an accounting fraud that sent the company into bankruptcy.