元器件交易网讯  3月20日消息，据外媒报道，惠普收购的Autonomy公司前CEO迈克·林奇(Mike Lynch)发公文信，指责惠普在账目问题上误导股东。

　　他信中声称，公司被惠普诽谤，导致2012年惠普减计88亿美元。

　　Autonomy在1996年成立于英国，是一个跨国企业软件公司。公司使用的组合技术来自剑桥大学。它使用自适应模式识别技术，以贝叶斯推理与传统的搜索和数据挖掘方法为中心，开发了一个多样化企业搜索和知识管理应用程序。

　　惠普在Autonomy的2010财报的审计中发现了重大账目问题。宣布减计的同时，惠普控告Autonomy夸大公司财务指标,误导投资者和潜在买家。

　　Autonomy的辩护人林奇声称该公司的财务状况是“依照国家有关规定和会计实践”，声称“完全否认所有不当行为的指控。”林奇反驳说，惠普的诉讼本质上是一种误解，这源于美国企业和一些国际公司会计准则之间的差异。

　　林奇要求股东质疑惠普CEO惠特曼的言论和减计的问题，还有声称收购后不合理管理该公司。林奇在信中写道，“我今天给你们写信，对惠普处理这件事的方式表示严重担忧，并提出一些问题，惠普管理人员必须回答”。

　　林奇称Autonmy高管否认这些问题的证据，然而，惠普向媒体泄露信息，散播会计欺诈的言论。他相信惠普在收购之前就确切知道公司的销售额。

　　（元器件交易网董蕾 译）

　　外媒原文如下：

　　Former chief of HP acquisition Autonomy Mike Lynch has fired off a missive, accusing HP of misleading shareholders about its accounting problems. In his letter, the executive claims that the company was smeared by HP in the days leading to HP's $8.8 billion write-down in 2012, and asked the shareholders to "help put things right."

　　Autonomy Corporation was a multinational enterprise software company founded in the UK in 1996. The company used a combination of technologies born out of research at the University of Cambridge. It developed a variety of enterprise search and knowledge management applications using adaptive pattern recognition techniques centered on Bayesian inference in conjunction with traditional search and data mining methods.

　　At issue is whether the accounting practices Autonomy used in reporting its finances were entirely above the board. HP alleges that an executive from Autonomy approached them after HP acquired the company, informing them that Autonomy's financial reporting was flawed and misleading. In announcing the write-down, HP accused Autonomy's former executives of a deliberate effort to inflate the company's financial metrics in order to mislead investors and potential buyers.

　　In 2012, Lynch defended autonomy, claiming that the company's finances were "handled in accordance with applicable regulations and accounting practices," and states that he "utterly reject[s] all allegations of impropriety." Lynch countered that much of HP's complaint is essentially a misunderstanding stemming from differences in accounting standards between American firms and some international firms.

　　Lynch is asking the shareholders to question HP executives about the claims made by CEO Meg Whitman, and others, about the writedown, and claims of impropriety managing the company after the acquisition. "I write to you today to raise serious concerns about the way HP has conducted this affair, and to put forward a number of questions that HP management should answer," Lynch asks in the letter. 

　　Lynch claims that Autonomy executives were denied evidence of problems, while at the same time, HP was leaking information to the media to bolster its accounting fraud claims. He also believes that HP knew exactly and accurately how many sales Autonomy had before it acquired the company, despite claims to the contrary.

　　A statement by HP following Lynch's open letter notes the response by the company to the irregularities surrounding the acquisition of the company. "As HP has previously reported, it uncovered numerous accounting irregularities at Autonomy before its acquisition by HP. HP reported those irregularities to appropriate civil and criminal regulators in the US and UK. HP continues to co-operate in ongoing investigations by those regulators."