Diligent annual profit slides 40 percent as restatement costs mount; shares hit four-month high

By Paul McBeth Feb. 28 (BusinessDesk) - Diligent Board Member Services, the governance app software developer, reported a 40 percent slump in annual profit as the cost of restating its accounts overshadowed revenue gains after a series of accounting blunders. Net profit fell to US$6.4 million, or 5 US cents per share, in calendar 2013 from US$10.7 million, or 9 US cents, a year earlier, the New York-based, NZX-listed company said in a statement. Revenue surged 66 percent to US$64.8 million from a revised down year-earlier figure. General an...