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Advertising Age, August, 2006

Byline: Bradley Johnson

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Follow the money at Interpublic Group...straight down 42nd Street to the offices of PricewaterhouseCoopers. The troubled ad firm last year spent more on auditing fees than all but one of the 150 largest U.S. public companies, according to an Ad Age analysis of data from sibling newspaper FinancialWeek and IPG. Pricewaterhouse, IPG's auditor since 1952, last year pocketed $83.6 million in audit and audit-related fees as IPG worked through restatements and other financial issues. 2005's 10 biggest auditing spenders among the 150 largest U.S. companies-plus IPG:

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