The company's stockholders also re-elected four directors for a three-year term. The ratification of the appointment of KPMG LLP as independent auditor for the fiscal year ending 3 February 2007 was also completed. -- BASED ON WEBSITE
The firm Deloitte & Touché LLP is the independent auditor for Twitter. They handle all of the financial statements for this company.
An independent auditor is asked to express an opinion on the fair presentation of financial statements because a company may not be objective with respect to its own financial statements.
to assure the shareholders that the company's accounts gives the true n fair picture of the company's affairs...
PWC
From Exxon's official webpage states: "Independent, registered auditors PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP..." So, PWC is the auditor.
An accountant prepares a company's financial statements and reports. They provide a company with its economic situation. An auditor is usually an independent examiner who reviews a company's financial records.
deloitte
KPMG
In auditing, keeping a independent mental attitude involves "professional skepticism". While an auditor should not assume that everything management says is a lie, he also shouldn't assume that everthing management tells him can be relied upon as true without any need for independent verification by the auditor. An auditor often deals with management, but his duty is not to the audited company's management, but rather to the directors, owners and potential future owners of a company, who will rely on the audited financial statements to make decisions about investment in the audited company.
Deloitte & Touche LLP
PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLC
A public company auditor, in order to be independent, should not audit its own work (as it would if it provided internal audit outsourcing services, financial information systems design, appraisal or valuation services, actuarial services, or bookkeeping services to an audit client).A public company auditor should not function as part of management or as an employee of the audit client (as it would if it provided human resources services such as recruiting, hiring, and designing compensation packages for the officers, directors, and managers of an audit client).A public company auditor, to be independent, should not act as an advocate of its audit client (as it would if it provided legal and expert services to an audit client in judicial or regulatory proceedings).A public company auditor should not be a promoter of the company's stock or other financial interests (as it would be if it served as a broker-dealer, investment adviser, or investment banker for the company).