The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has fined Christopher Anderson, 46, a partner in Deloitte & Touche's Chicago office, $25,000 for his audits of Navistar Financial Corp. He has also been suspended for one year from being associated with a PCAOB-registered accounting firm.

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City council members heard a presentation Monday night about the 2007-2008 fiscal year audit report, which revealed the city is in a good financial position. Heather Acker, a representative from Virchow, Krause and Co. LLP — the firm that has completed the city’s yearly audits for the past 11 years — gave the council an overview of the city’s financial activities and standings throughout 2007-2008 fiscal year.

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Richmond Mayor L. Douglas Wilder called City Auditor Umesh Dalal unprofessional for issuing an audit that found the city has yet to implement security codes on its gas cards that it promised months ago.

It was one of 54 recommendations the auditor made in May 2007, of which the city says it implemented 53. Dalal's audit found only 10 had been put in place.

Asked why the city hasn't issued gas card security codes and still had no definitive vehicle count, Wilder said, "There are a lot of problems associated with it."

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Lisa Cardella-Presto, a certified public accountant and Merced native, will take over as Merced County's auditor-controller in January, the Board of Supervisors decided this week. Cardella-Presto, 35, will replace Stephen Jones as the county's top financial officer. Jones announced plans earlier this year to retire mid-term in January. Cardella-Presto will finish his term, which ends in 2010. If she wants to keep the job past then, she'll have to win the post in an election.