• Extra services still providing lucrative sideline for UK auditors (31 Dec 2003)
• Police arrest five Parmalat officials, including two Grant Thornton auditors (31 Dec 2003)
• Two Grant Thornton auditors named in the Parmalat warrant (31 Dec 2003)
• Ex-Parmalat CEO Ordered to Stay in Prison (31 Dec 2003)
• Aberdeen Asset defends payment of non-audit fees to KPMG (31 Dec 2003)
• Parmalat's Bonlat now in hands of Ernst & Young (31 Dec 2003)
• Time for auditors to give up the consultancy role (31 Dec 2003)
• Parmalat Auditors Never Noticed (31 Dec 2003)
• Parmalat chief 'misappropriated €800m': report (30 Dec 2003)
• Tanzi 'has admitted diverting €500m' (30 Dec 2003)
• Ernst & Young executives ordered to testify in bankruptcy case (30 Dec 2003)
• SEC accuses Parmalat of fraud (30 Dec 2003)
• Singapore company unaware of Parmalat Cuba deals (30 Dec 2003)
• Tanzi admits taking Parmlat funds (30 Dec 2003)
• Grant Thornton Auditors Ask To Be Heard In Parmalat Probe (30 Dec 2003)
• PARMALAT: TANZI FULLY AWARE AND RESPONSIBLE OF FRAUD (30 Dec 2003)
• When the Parmalat yogurt hits the fan (29 Dec 2003)
• Grant Thornton's Image Threatened by Parmalat (29 Dec 2003)
• Grant Thornton says to sue paper in Parmalat case (29 Dec 2003)
• PARMALAT: 8.221 BILLION EURO DEBT ACCUMULATED AS OF 2002 (29 Dec 2003)
• Prosecutors question Parmalat founder (29 Dec 2003)
• Crooked deck of business cards (29 Dec 2003)
• 30% of Accounting Firms Censured (29 Dec 2003)
• SEC turned timid as corruption became more complex (29 Dec 2003)
• How business and political corruption harms people (28 Dec 2003)
• Parmalat Founder Detained in Fraud Case (28 Dec 2003)
• Parmalat underscores the ethics of capitalism (28 Dec 2003)
• Who Gets Parmalat's Milk And Cookies? (28 Dec 2003)
• Parmalat goes bankrupt as new scandal emerges (28 Dec 2003)
• Two years after the fall, here come the Enron trials (27 Dec 2003)
• Parmalat founder held in Milan (27 Dec 2003)
• Their tax advice? Go cheat: Accounting firms push layoff ploy (27 Dec 2003)
• Grant Thornton denies helping Parmalat to cook books (27 Dec 2003)
• Grant Thornton denies role in Parmalat cover-up (27 Dec 2003)
• Grant Thornton says it had no role in Parmalat accounting fraud (27 Dec 2003)
• Grant Thornton cries fraud in Parmalat case (27 Dec 2003)
• Parmalat scandal taints Grant Thornton (27 Dec 2003)
• The role of auditors questioned once again (27 Dec 2003)
• KPMG resigns Hollinger audit (24 Dec 2003)
• Crisis worsens for Black's Telegraph empire as auditors quit Hollinger (24 Dec 2003)
• Corporate Ethics And The Magi’s Law (24 Dec 2003)
• What is Parmalat's problem? (24 Dec 2003)
• Italy's Parmalat Collapse Felt in U.S. - $1.6 Billion Says Moody's (24 Dec 2003)
• Accounting gap sends Parmalat to bankruptcy (24 Dec 2003)
• UK accountancy firms in the Parmalat scandal (24 Dec 2003)
• Parmalat account hole now seen 7 bln euros (24 Dec 2003)
• Parmalat Seeks Bankruptcy Protection (24 Dec 2003)
• Parmalat embraced  offshore accounts, currency swaps and off-balance sheet accounting (24 Dec 2003)
• Italian government to bail out Parmalat (24 Dec 2003)
• Bank of America claims fraud in Parmalat case (24 Dec 2003)
• Bank Claims Fraud in Parmalat Case (24 Dec 2003)
• SEC probes 'disclosure' by Amylin Pharmaceuticals (24 Dec 2003)
• Transforming the audit business (24 Dec 2003)
• SEC Settles Civil Fraud Action Against Vivendi Universal, S.A., Its Former CEO, Jean-Marie Messier, and Its Former CFO, Guillaume Hannezo (23 Dec 2003)
• Parmalat forged accounts, says bank (23 Dec 2003)
• Major financial scandals of last two decades (23 Dec 2003)
• Conrad Black, the media tycoon behind the Daily Telegraph refuses to testify (23 Dec 2003)
• Londis rebels in call for DTI inquiry (23 Dec 2003)
• Enron banks are back in the Parmalat spotlight (23 Dec 2003)
• CIBC to Pay $80 Million, Executives to Pay More than $600,000, to Compensate Fraud Victims (23 Dec 2003)
• Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce agreed to pay US$80-million over Enron deals (23 Dec 2003)
• PWC will pay $5.5 million to settle DPL lawsuit (23 Dec 2003)
• PWC settles $54 mn travel billing case (23 Dec 2003)
• PwC to pay $55m to settle case against overcharging (23 Dec 2003)
• Italy amends bankruptcy laws for Parmalat rescue (23 Dec 2003)
• Italy fears Enron-size crisis following disappearance of Cayman Islands assets (23 Dec 2003)
• Former Parmalat CFOs Under Investigation (23 Dec 2003)
• Parmalat founder and two ex-directors investigated (23 Dec 2003)
• Parmalat 'falsified its accounts' (23 Dec 2003)
• Prosecutor tells of 'false accounting' at Parmalat (23 Dec 2003)
• Bills for Tyco CEO’s Manhattan apartment reach $11 million              (23 Dec 2003)
• Auditor liability issue is kicked back into long grass (22 Dec 2003)
• Crisis-hit Parmalat readies for administration move (22 Dec 2003)
• Banks' exposure to Parmalat (22 Dec 2003)
• Time running out for Parmalat (22 Dec 2003)
• Capture of the State: Blair adviser joins KPMG (22 Dec 2003)
• Hollinger facing £11 million lawsuit (22 Dec 2003)
• Grant Thornton and Deloitte & Touche under scrutiny for Parmalat audits (22 Dec 2003)
• Grant Thronton defends role at Parmalat (22 Dec 2003)
• Parmalat faces going into administration (22 Dec 2003)
• Parmalat in fraud inquiry (22 Dec 2003)
• Parmalat's money hole may gape wider (22 Dec 2003)
• Parmalat's missing milk billions (21 Dec 2003)
• UK  Watchdog Ready to Investigate Italian Food Group's Finances (21 Dec 2003)
• PARMALAT, CONTROLS DIDN'T WORK (21 Dec 2003)
• The mystery over Parmalat's missing billions (audited by Deloitte and Grant Thornto n (20 Dec 2003)
• Read Parmalat's accounts
• KPMG defends its role at Enron (19 Dec 2003)
• Parmalat admits that documents purporting to show it had e4bn (£2.8bn) of cash and securities were forgeries (19 Dec 2003)
• 4bn-euro (£2.8bn; $4.8bn) hole in Parmalat's accounts (19 Dec 2003)
• DTI inspectors report on Transtec cost £3,581,056 (19 Dec 2003)
• New regulatory regime for UK accountants will cost £12 million (19 Dec 2003)
• Class action expert calls on UK and European investors to hold major companies to account by embracing US-style litigation (19 Dec 2003)
• Ernst & Young depart Dynacq as SEC probes company accounts (19 Dec 2003)
• Deloitte charging £380 an hour  as Railtrack liquidators (19 Dec 2003)
• UK firms plead poverty and want more liability concessions but Deloitte doubles its profits (19 Dec 2003)
• Ahold's interim CFO says cleanup done (19 Dec 2003)
• LG Card debts exceed assets by $2.7 billion (19 Dec 2003)
• UK government is passive about restatement of company accounts (18 Dec 2003)
• UK government does not give a damn about the fees charged by receivers of  The Accident Group (18 Dec 2003)
• Federal Reserve Board finesCredit Lyonnais $100 million (18 Dec 2003)
• EU May Fight Global Standards on Derivatives Accounting (18 Dec 2003)
• Halliburton oil overcharge blamed on accounting (18 Dec 2003)
• KPMG mulls quitting post as Hollinger group auditor (17 Dec 2003)
• No reform of the Caparo judgement but more liability concessions for UK auditors (16 Dec 2003)
• UK government proposes the biggest anti-consumer legislation of all times - more liability concessions to auditors and directors (16 Dec 2003)
• Post Enron reforms: UK appoints a part-time £100,000 a year regulator (16 Dec 2003)
• Accountants and lawyers win as BCCI trial costs set to hit £100m (15 Dec 2003)
• Bank of England chiefs would testify in BCCI case (15 Dec 2003)
• US regulator to  focus on whether auditors are uncovering fraud at public companies (15 Dec 2003)
• New Zealand report on the misconduct of a Ernst & Young partner (14 Dec 2003)
• US legislator's role in the accounting scandal (14 Dec 2003)
• Senator Oxley took the cash and blocked accounting reform (13 Dec 2003)
• Some U.S. Companies Will Adopt Int'l Accounting Standards (13 Dec 2003)
• KPMG 'obstructed US tax inquiry' (13 Dec 2003)
• SFI, owner of the Slug & Lettuce chain, censured for accounting errors (13 Dec 2003)
• Read the company's annual accounts
• Accounting - Scam or Fraud? (13 Dec 2003)
• Goodyear Skids on New $100 million Accounting Woes (12 Dec 2003)
• Ex-Tyco Exec Says Auditor OK'd $96 million Special Bonuses (12 Dec 2003)
• Capture of the State: Accountancy firms funded California governor (12 Dec 2003)
• Corporations involved in major scandals and the money made by their accountants (11 Dec 2003)
• 10 years, still no payout from receivers (11 Dec 2003)
• SEC SUES FORMER EXECUTIVES OF NICOR ENERGY FOR ROLE IN FINANCIAL FRAUD (11 Dec 2003)
• Nicor Inc. "cooked the books" to boost executive bonuses (11 Dec 2003)
• MyTravel posts £910m loss (11 Dec 2003)
• 5 ex-HealthSouth execs sentenced (11 Dec 2003)
• FSA  notice of SFI Group Plc (Slug and Lettuce) (11 Dec 2003)
  
• U.S. says KPMG is withholding tax-shelter info (11 Dec 2003)
• KPMG moans about UK tax changes - says they are  unfair to employees (11 Dec 2003)
• US Justice Department accuses KPMG of Withholding Data in Tax-Shelter Probe (11 Dec 2003)
• How a foe of accounting reform changed his tune (10 Dec 2003)
• Freddie Mac (Arthur Andersen client) pays $125 million civil fine to settle allegations of management misconduct (10 Dec 2003)
• Freddie Mac faces $125 million penalty (10 Dec 2003)
• Read the Report on corporate misconduct
• US Board Proposes Rules on Oversight of Non-U.S. Accounting Firms, Registration Deadline (10 Dec 20030
• Deloitte sues directors of LeisureNet                (9 Dec 2003)
• Global Crossing posts losses of US$25 billion for 2000-2002 (9 Dec 2003)
• Bonuses paid to Tyco chiefs 'not authorised' (9 Dec 2003)
  
• Ernst and Young auditor found guilty of breaching the institute's code of ethics (9 Dec 2003)
• UK government statement on accountancy reforms (8 Dec 2003)
• Ernst & Young partner censured over PPCS audit in New Zealand (8 Dec 2003)
• SEC Begins Probe into Ernst's Business Pacts               (8 Dec 2003)
• Enron Examiner Cites Auditors and Banks in frauds (8 Dec 2003)
• Wealthy Suing Accountants Over Rejected Tax Shelters (7 Dec 2003)
• Resistance to business regulation paved the way for accounting scandals (7 Dec 2003)
• KPMG finds loopholes to favour fat cat pensions (6 Dec 2003)
• Distribute wealth from individuals to corporations, says the ICAEW (5 Dec 2003)
• Canada adopts  new auditor independence rules (5 Dec 2003)
• KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers helped certain Enron officers breach their financial duties (5 Dec 2003)
• Enron report slams KPMG (5 Dec 2003)
• Leading banks knew of Enron fraud (5 Dec 2003)
• PricewaterhouseCoopers failed in its bid to be sole auditor to BHP Billiton (5 Dec 20030
• UK government announces weak company law reform (4 Dec 2003)
• Read the proposed Comapny Law Bill
• Corporations Squeal: SEC budget to be trimmed to $811 million (3 Dec 2003)
• Consultant fee ‘is a waste of public money’ (3 Dec 2003)
• SEC May File Securities-Fraud Charges Against Invesco (2 Dec 2003)
• Enron creditors to sue law firms, Arthur Andersen and former executives (2 Dec 2003)
• Chairman of Skandia quits (2 Dec 2003)
• Boss of scandal-hit Skandia quits: financial misconduct suspected (1 Dec 2003)
• Read 156 page company report
• Dishonest accounting records in $55-million Green Gables suit (1 Dec 2003)
• Conrad Black took $93 million in dividends, an amount that exceeded the newspaper's pre-tax profits by 37 percent (1 Dec 2003)
• Conrad Black, chairman of Hollinger International Inc.,probed over a $265 million loan (1 Dec 2003)
• Companies are less willing to take legal services from a firm connected to their auditor (1 Dec 2003)
• Ernst & Young, KPMG and others to face more lawsuits on abusive tax shelters (30 Nov 2003)

November 2003

• New Zealand High Court slams valuation of software by PwC as tax avoidance (30 Nov 2003)
• No more than 10 fraudsters at Ahold (28 Nov 2003)
• Deloitte & Touche offers a $32 million settlement for a class action lawsuit  for Manhattan Investment Fund fraud (28 Nov 2003)
• Andersen gave birth to new breed of managers (28 Nov 2003)
• Under public pressure from human rights activists PwC pulls out of Burma (28 Nov 2003)
• Corporate capture of the State: Former KPMG partner made industry adviser (27 Nov 2003)
• Spiegel Fires KPMG (27 Nov 2003)
• £2m black hole leaves ScS (Ernst & Young client) sitting uncomfortably (27 Nov 2003)
• Ex Morgan Stanley manager charged with fraud (27 Nov 2003)
• AOL Executive Accused Of Fraud (27 Nov 2003)
• Morimoto Corp. finds accounting fraud by former managers (27 Nov 2003)
• WESTLB will have to raise its provision for TV rental firm Boxclever by  £150m (27 Nov 2003)
• WestLB may have to restate its accounts by £150 million (27 Nov 2003)
• Ex-HealthSouth executive is 15th to plead guilty (27 Nov 2003)
• Security Trust Company shut down by US regulators (27 Nov 2003)
• UK government  sets out low key accounting reforms (26 Nov 2003()
• Former SEC chairman asks auditors to put investors first                 (25 Nov 2003)
• Big Firm barons sleep easily as UK audit ethics proposals turn out to be a sham (25 Nov 2003)
• Andersen helped Enron in fraud, misled board, court probe says (25 Nov 2003)
• Law firms helped with Enron frauds (25 Nov 2003)
• Deloitte devised Mothercare executive pay scheme and then audited it (25 Nov 2003)
• Deloitte role in pay bonanza for Mothercare duo (25 Nov 2003)
• Freddie Mac acknowledges $5bn earnings gaffe (25 Nov 2003)
• Freddie Mac Inflated Earnings by $5B (25 Nov 2003)
• Enron's creditors seek permission for more lawsuits against Andersen and law firms (25 Nov 2003)
• Four years after the event the UK profession to look at the Wiggins audits by Kidsons (25 Nov 2003)
• Yamaichi Securities auditors agree to return audit fees (25 Nov 2003)
• Refinements to South African accounting, auditing are being assessed (25 Nov 2003)
• Accounting changes in South Africa 'not spelled out to public' (24 Nov 2003)
• N.Y. attorney general vs. financial Goliaths (24 Nov 2003)
• US Accounting Oversight Agency Targets Abusive Tax Shelters (24 Nov 2003)
• Kmart's former chief financial officer was unsatisfied with PwC's work (24 Nov 2003)
• PwC shows no remorse in defending audit firms (24 Nov 2003)
• Change in Safeway accounting shows declining sales (24 Nov 2003)
• $14 billion suit blasts top execs at Safeway (24 Nov 2003)
• Samsung Offices raided over suspicion of inflated earnings (24 Nov 2003)
• US report does not favour mandoatory audit firm rotation (24 Nov 2003)
• Read the Report
• UK regulator set for a half-hearted crackdown on audit practices (24 Nov 2003)
• See draft auditing (whitewash) standards
• Hollinger reveals earnings overstated by $17M (23 Nov 2003)
• Hollinger audit committee quits (23 Nov 2003)
• Insider doubts over UK accounting watchdog (23 Nov 2003)
• Big Four Firms Feel Heat of Senate Tax Shelter Probe (22 Nov 2003)
• $102.7 million judgment  against Ernst & Young  for negligence in bankruptcy proceedings (21 Nov 2003)
• Ernst & Young found negligent in bankruptcy case (21 Nov 2003)
• US to consider a Bill for limited expensing of executive share options (21 Nov 2003)
• End to auditor conflicts of interest that arise when accounting firms sell tax shelter services, says US Senator (21 Nov 2003)
• Testimony by Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
• Tax shelters were  developed by KPMG and/or for KPMG, says Deutsche Bank
• PwC also implicated in aggressive tax shelters, says Quellos Group CEO
• Not us guv ,says HVB America Vice-President
• KPMG, Grant Thornton, BDO sued for selling abusive tax shelters, says US Revenue
• Chairman of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board warns accountancy firms
• Federal Reserve warns baks and financial service companies
• If we cap auditors' liability, why not food producers' too? (20 Nov 2003)
• Insolvent Abuse: the Enterprise Act will not help (20 Nov 2003)
• PwC LLP publioshes its first annual UK report (20 Nov 2003)
• Read the financial details
• Grant Thornton face $3.3 million US lawsuit (20 Nov 2003)
• Large Size of Travel Rebates Adds to Questions About Ernst & Young position (20 Nov 2003)
• Accounting  firms securing millions in contracts through old-boy network s (20 Nov 2003)
• Companies Deeply Dissatisfied With Accounting, Legal, and Consulting Providers (20 Nov 2003)
• Lieberman assails Bush over proecting accounting firms and corporations (20 Nov 2003)
• Accounting and Consulting Providers Get C+ From Companies (20 Nov 2003)
• KPMG sweating out Hollinger International filing (20 Nov 2003)
• Hollinger (KPMG client) scandal deepens with SEC subpoena (20 Nov 2003)
• Big firms push tax shelters, panel says (20 Nov 2003)
• Deloitte, PwC both claim to be the biggest in the world (20 Nov 2003)
• SEC probes payments at Hollinger Intl (19 Nov 2003)
• KPMG collected an estimated $180 million in fees from just four tax avoidance strategies (19 Nov 2003)
• US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investiogations Report: The Tax Shelter industry: The Role of Accountants, Lawyers and Financial Professionals, including Four KPMG case Studies (19 Nov 2003)
• Tax shelter industry based not on economic substance but on greed, says Lieberman (19 Nov 2003)
• How some of the tax shelters work (19 Nov 2003)
• How the BLIPS tax avoidance system works (19 Nov 2003)
• Major accounting firms sell abusive tax shelters, says Debra Peterson (19 Nov 2003)
• Tax avoidance industry is doing real damage, says Law Professor Calvin Johnson (19 Nov 2003)
• KPMG defends its role in selling tax shelters, Philip Weisner speaks (19 Nov 2003)
• PwC admits wrongdoing in selling abusive tax shelters, PwC's Ricahrd Berry Jr speaks (19 Nov 2003)
• Ernst & Young admits to marketing aggressive tax shelters, says Mark Weinberger (19 Nov 2003)
• Big Four Firms Feel Heat of Senate Tax Shelter Probe (19 Nov 2003)
• UK raises small company audit threshold from Jan 2004 (19 Nov 2004)
• Creative Accounting: Accountancy firms disagree about how to measure their own revenues (19 Nov 2003)
• BDO sued over promotion of  tax shelters (19 Nov 2003)
• PwC sued over dot-com propectus (19 Nov 2003)
• UK government to push ahead with more audit exemptions for companies (18 Nov 2003)
• PwC plead poverty but the UK income reaches £1.5 billion (18 Nov 2003)
• PwC global revenue for 2003 reaches $14.7 billion (18 Nov 2003)
• Rewards for failure: Enron bankruptcy likely to give $1 billion windfall to accountants and lawyers (18 Nov 2003)
• Enron bankruptcy costs expected to hit $1 billion (18 Nov 2003)
• Accounting Firms Must Reform, says US regulator (18 Nov 2003)
• Accountancy firms are the designers, maketeers and engines of tax avoidance (18 Nov 2003)
• U.S. Audit Cop Warns Accountants on Tax Shelters (18 Nov 2003)
• KPMG signed off on plans that funneled $32 million in improper fees to Hollinger xecutives (18 Nov 2003)
• How about responsible taxes? (17 Nov 2003)
• Some tax discrepancies in the accounts of major UK companies (17 Nov 2003)
• Deloitte loses remuneration advisory role at BSkyB (17 Nov 2003)
• Money laundering: How the accountancy bodies protect their members (17 Nov 2003)
• Read a commentary on it (need to register)
• Further Commentary
• How big accoutancy firms debased audits (17 Nov 2003)
• Hollinger International CEO steps down after company found US$ 32.15 (£19 million) unauthorised payments (17 Nov 2003)
• KPMG may be responsible for $85 billion  tax shelters (17 Nov 2003)
• SEC begins a formal investigation into the relationship between  Wachovia Corp. and  KPMG (17 Nov 2003)
• KPMG promoted dubious charitable deductions and complicated transactions to generate phony paper losses for clients (17 Nov 2003)
• US Senator attacks Mass Marketing of Abusive Tax Shelters (17 Nov 2003)
• US Senate probes KPMG tax shelters (17 Nov 2003)
• Despite scandals accountancy firms rake in profits (16 Nov 2003)
• Twenty-four largest malpractice settlements by accountancy firms (15 Nov 2003)
• Hollinger International discovers accounting irregularities (15 Nov 2003)
• SEC Investigating Wachovia-KPMG Link (15 Nov 2003)
• Dynegy agreement 'stunned' auditor (15 Nov 2003)
• Were Andersen ideas behind suspected Dynegy scheme? (15 Nov 2003)
• Accountancy Students urged not to copy major firms and think ethically (15 Nov 2003)
• Enron's ghost haunts India (15 Nov 2003)
• SEC charges Gateway executives in accounting fraud case (14 Nov 2003)
• SEC statement
• SEC Says Three Former Gateway Heads Booked Sham Sales
• Gateway settles SEC accounting probe
• Former KPMG man lifts the lid off abusive tax shelters (14 Nov 2003)
• Deloitte & Touche and Convergys face sex discrimination case (14 Nov 2003)
• Ernst & Young rake in £811.6m in the UK (14 Nov 2003)
• US Senate hears the role of Ernst & Young in tax avoidance schemes (14 Nov 2003)
• Accountant talks about pressures for tax avoidance (14 Nov 2003)
• Reform of Accounting Education in the Post Enron Era (13 Nov 2003)
• KPMG SPLITS LEGAL ARM (13 Nov 2003)
• It's time to deal with corporate crime (13 Nov 2003)
• Trial begins for accountant in offshore-tax scheme (13 Nov 2003)
• Cablevision Probe Grows (13 Nov 2003)
• Filing by Deloitte might help Adelphia's ex chief (12 Nov 2003)
• Warranty chief quits after Ford investigation (12 Nov 2003)
• Cablevision (KPMG client) finds $15 million in improperly booked expenses (12 Nov 2003)
• Tyco devised phony addresses to hide the actual location of luxury executive apartments (12 Nov 2003)
• Tyco's former chief executive had a special company account to borrow company money without paying interest (12 Nov 2003)
• Ethically challenged Tyco gets religion (11 Nov 2003)
• Professional firms make a killing from Worldcom bankruptcy (11 Nov 2003)
• Legal networks that will need careful handling by Big Four (11 Nov 2003)
• Financial Reporting Review Panel - a toothless tiger to waken (11 Nov 2003)
• Three UK plcs face accounts probes (10 Nov 2003)
• Make sure accountants tell truth: Will they? (9 Nov 2003)
• Rich shaken by accounting scandals (8 Nov 2003)
• Ex-Enron chief hands over papers (8 Nov 2003)
• Former HealthSouth chief arrested for $2.7 billion accounting fraud (7 Nov 2003)
• Directors and auditors (Ernst & Young) blame others for HealthSouth debacle (7 Nov 2003)
• Food bank sues auditors, says they missed embezzlement (7 Nov 2003)
• Court approves first settlement in Enron-Andersen lawsuits (7 Nov 2003)
• ' The quality of audits has declined markedly over the last few years, say UK Finance Directors (6 Nov 2003)
• PwC criticised for Transtec audit failures but rewarded with a government consultancy contract (6 Nov 2003)
• UK Fraud office says ex-SSL executives charged (6 Nov 2003)
• Six called to account over SSL(audited by Arthur Andersen) (6 Nov 2003)
• How Arthur Andersen defended its role
• Capture of the State: Accountant becomes post regulator in the UK (5 Nov 2003)
• Durex executives charged with fraud                 (5 Nov 2003)
• Ex-HealthSouth CEO accused of fraud (5 Nov 2003)
• Former U.S. Attorney General patrols WorldCom scandal (5 Nov 2003)
• Accounting scandals undermine public confidence (5 Nov 2003)
• Companies Finagle With Earnings Reports (5 Nov 2003)
• The Accounting Cycle: Do We Want to Be Ethical? (4 Nov 2003)
• Accounting firms scarred by scandals are still trying to duck blame (3 Nov 2003)
• Audit firms still likely to bend rules (2 Nov 2003)
• Fannie Mae makes US$1.2 billion restatement to its earnings (1 Nov 2003)

October 2003

• Enron executive pleads guilty and pays $8m (31 Oct 2003)
• Goodyear Expects $100 Million Hit After Earnings Restatement (31 Oct 2003)
• United Companies' creditors, auditors Deloitte and Touche reach settlement (31 Oct 2003)
• Deloitte faces US charge of audit failures at United Companies (30 Oct 2003)
• PwC may face Transtec disciplinary action but past suggests a whitewash (30 Oct 2003)
• UK accountants moan about new money laundering laws (30 Oct 2003)
• Ahold Scandal gives $117.2 Million in fees to accountants and lawyers (29 Oct 2003)
• How Accountants Help Defraud Local Governments (29 Oct 2003)
• U.S. Willing to Limit Oversight of Foreign Auditors (29 Oct 2003)
• PwC receive consultancy windfall from UK government (28 Oct 2003)
• US authorities target Big accountancy firms for selling abusive tax shelters (26 Oct 2003)
• PwC slated over Transtec audit failures (25 Oct 2003)
• PwC slammed over TransTec (24 Oct 2003)
• Press Release
• Law Firm Announces Investigation into Improper Tax Shelters Promoted by Major Accounting Firms and International Banks (24 Oct 2003)
• US Senate Finance Committee hears stories of how tax shelters are bought and sold (22 Oct 2003)
• US Senator Carl Levin  proposes a  Bill to prevent corporate auditors from providing tax shelter services to their audit clients (21 Oct 2003)
  
• Study shows auditors still willing to lie for clients (21 Oct 2003)
• Qwest cleans books:Financial audit finds $2.5B in overstated revenue for 2000-01 (20 Oct 2003)
• US$2.5 billion restatement at Qwest but former auditors did not co-operate (19 Oct 2003)
• Sued for £200 million but  Deloitte fined £1.5m over Barings audits (18 Oct 2003)
• US auditing firms will not get liability concessions (17 Oct 2003)
• Does anyone love accountants - not many, says a poll (16 Oct 2003)
• Auditing: Unresolved conflicts (16 Oct 2003)
• For SEC chief Levitt Appointed Fellow in Ethics and Leadership (16 Oct 2003)
• Auditors/Accountants are silent on fraud but public blows the whistle (16 Oct 2003)
• Two more charged in Enron-Merrill Nigerian deal (16 Oct 2003)
• Capture of the state: former UK Minister joins PwC (16 Oct 2003)
• Sprint ousts Ernst & Young As Auditor (15 Oct 2003)
• KPMG client Zhone Technologies restates 2002 accounts (14 Oct 2003)
• Qwest's re-audit may clear books, not air (14 Oct 2003)
• Grand jury probes Qwest, vendor transactions (14 Oct 2003)
• Woori Bank restates its profits by $200 million (14 Oct 2003)
• Deutsche Bank boss faces fraud probe (14 Oct 2003)
• Coke pays off whistleblower on alleged accounting irregularities (14 Oct 2003)
• Deloitte accused of contributing to the worst insurance failure in U.S. history (13 Oct 2003)
• State says Deloitte hid truth on failing insurance company (13 Oct 2003)
• Grand jury looking at Qwest deals and $2.47 billion earnings overstatement (13 Oct 2003)
• Swiss say no to US corporate governance law (13 Oct 2003)
• Newest Enron book hits bookstores (12 Oct 2003)
• Ernst & Young global revenue is US$12 billion (12 Oct 2003)
• Big firms delivering useless audits, says former ICAS President (need to register with site) (12 Oct 2003)
• Former Enron officer charged with fraud, manupulated earnings SEC says (12 Oct 2003)
• Accountancy Firms called to account for failing to pass on discounts (11Oct 2003)
• Grant Thornton investigated by US government (11 Oct 2003)
• Ex-Qwest CEO to Settle in 'IPO Spinning ' (11 Oct 2003)
• Fresh fraud charge in Enron case (10 Oct 2003)
• Ernst & Young global CEO to retire after divorce proceeding revelations (10 Oct 2003)
• Ex-Enron Accountant cooperates and pays fine (10 Oct 2003)
• FBI Probe Linked to Enron Collapse? (9 Oct 2003)
• E&Y facing fresh £300m negligence claim (9 Oct 2003)
• UK 'Rules avoidance industry' flourishes: £9 billion consultancy market is the biggest in Europe (9 Oct 2003)
• US Audit Board OKs Inspection Rule s (8 Oct 2003)
• Two Tyco executives accused of taking $600m (£361m) (8 Oct 2003)
• KPMG finds new ways of selling non-auditing services (8 Oct 2003)
• CMA Canada and CIMA (UK) strike a new deal (8 Oct 2003)
• PWC recommends Gazprom how to control progress in costs reduction program (8 Oct 2003)
• Faulds chairman accused of illegal payout (7 Oct 2003)
• Big-Four firms audit 78% of all US Public companies and 99% of all public company sales (7 Oct 2003)
• Read the full 146 page report
• PwC lists World´s Most Respected Companies but is silent on auditor independence and accountability (7 Oct 2003)
• Corporate scandals lead Times to look inside boardrooms (6 Oct 2003)
• EU Commission adopts IAS without key standards (5 Oct 2003)
• SembCorp Logistics fires PwC and KPMG over accounting irregularities (4 Oct 2003)
• PwC push for more privatisation in India (4 Oct 2003)
• SEC charges fifth KPMG partner in Xerox audit case (4 Oct 2003)
• Scandal poised to push Ahold to €4.5bn loss (3 Oct 2003)
• British Energy administration to generate huge fees for KPMG (3 Oct 2003)
• Deloitte loses Touche in name change (2 Oct 2003)
• Nine prohibited non-auditing services  courtesy of Sarbanes-Oxley (2 Oct 2003)
• Thanks to Scandals, Acctng Department Gets More Exposure Within Company (2 Oct 2003)
• Most big companies want Big 4 auditors (2 Oct 2003)
• Dozen resign in Prudential investigation (2 Oct 2003)
• Ex-Deloitte partner settles North Face case (2 Oct 2003)
• SEC v. KPMG LLP on Xerox audits: Phase Two (2 Oct 2003)
• SembCorp Log suing external auditor PwC India                  (2 Oct 2003)
• Judge to let ex-Tyco execs use disclosures to auditors (2 Oct 2003)
• Sun Microsystems to take $1 billion hit for deferred tax adjustments (2 Oct 2003)
• Their Anti-Social Colours: ICAEW in EU money laundering law protest (1 Oct 2003)
  
• UK Institutional investors oppose more liability concessions to audit firms (1 Oct 2003)
• BearingPoint (formerly KPMG Consulting) runs Iraq economy (1 Oct 2003)
• BearingPoint (formerly KPMG Consulting) to make Iraq a free-market laboratory (1 Oct 2003)
• BearingPoint (formerly KPMG Consulting)  falls on internal control "weaknesses" (1 Oct 2003)
• Accounting at BearingPoint (formerly KPMG Consulting Inc) Questioned (1 Oct 2003)

September 2003

• Receivers (PwC) run up a bill of £1.25m at the Accident Group (30 Sep 2003)
• Tyco trial tests the waters (30 Sep 2003)
• Former Rite Aid Exec Goes on Trial (30 Sep 2003)
• ENRON LAWSUIT TARGETS DEUTSCHE BANK (30 Sep 2003)
• New Enron Management Sues Investment Banks (30 Sep 2003)
• Arrest of the former E&Y partner is "a bellwether day for the Corporate Fraud Task Force" (29 Sep 2003)
• SEC Presses Ex-Enron Chief Lay for Documents (29 Sep 2003)
• PwCresigns audit of Royal Bank of Canada over conflicts of interests (28 Sep 2003)
• The Accident Group placed in liquidation (27 Sep 2003)
• Freddie Mac restates earnings by $4.5 billion (27 Sep 2003)
• Ernst & Young former partner arrested in US (26 Sep 2003)
• Former Ernst & Young partner arrested for alleged NextCard fraud (26 Sep 2003)
• FBI nabs ex-partner at auditor Ernst & Young (26 Sep 2003)
• Dot-Com Audit Leads to Arrest of former Ernst & Young partner (26 Sep 2003)
• Enron Sues Institutions That Aided in Its Deals (25 Sep 2003)
• Former Ernst & Young Audit Partner Arrested for Obstruction Charges and Criminal Violations of Sarbanes-Oxley Act (25 Sep 2003)
• PwC Suffers Decline in Tax Services (25 Sep 2003)
• PwC resigns Royal Bank audit over non-audit work (24 Sep 2003)
• Bean counting bums: the centre of corruption (24 Sep 2003)
  
• Tyco auditors knew of Kozlowski's pay, lawyers say (23 Sep 2003)
• US Accounting Industry Reforms Show Progress (23 Sep 2003)
• ING sues J.P. Morgan, Deloitte in "Ponzi" case (22 Sep 2003)
• PricewaterhouseCoopers fined $50,000 for destroying documents (20 Sep 2003)
• Grant Thornton draws line on Sarbanes-Oxley (19 Sep 2003)
• Hopeless ACCA can't find a chief (19 Sep 2003)
• Corporate Services pair get three years jail (19 Sep 2003)
• SEC and United States Attorney Charge Former Homestore Executives With Scheme To Inflate Advertising Revenue (18 Sep 2003)
• KPMG, PwC, Ernst & Young sued for overbilling (17 Sep 2003)
• Report Blasts KPMG for Role in Spiegel's Collapse (13 Sep 2003)
• Who's winning with Sarbanes-Oxley? (12 Sep 2003)
• Attacking corporate crime (12 Sep 2003)
• The Fallacy of Bush's Corporate U.S.A. Inc. (12 Sep 2003)
• Statoil falls under bribery cloud (12 Sep 2003)
• American International Group Inc. (AIG) pays $10 million to settle false financial earnings allegations (12 Sept 2003)
• Malaysian Lawyers, accountants face death penalty for aiding terrorists (11 Sep 2003)
• First Enron ex-official is jailed (11 Sep 2003)
• PwC fined over a sex discrimination case (10 Sep 2003)
• Chairman of Public Accounting Oversight Board warns of 'grave' consequences for breaking the law (10 Sep 2003)
• Sacked staff's £8m claim against Deloittes (10 Sep 2003)
• Accounting Firms enagged in brobery and corruption (10 Sep 2003)
  
• Their Anti Social Colours: ICAEW attacks lawyers on money laundering (9 Sep 2003)
  
• Non-audit fees fall at accounting firms (9 Sep 2003)
• Bank of America to probe alleged fraud (8 Sep 2003)
• SEC Charges Former Logicon Executive With Aiding and Abetting Financial Accounting Fraud at Legato Systems (8 Sep 2003)
• Court rules PwC must pay £1.6m in damages to Keele University (7 Sep 2003)
• SEC probes Impath (6 Sep 2003)
• PwC to resist non-audit restrictions (5 Sep 2003)

August 2003

• US Court of Appeal  ruled that BDO Seidman must turn over names of clients who purchased certain tax shelters from the firm (31 Aug 2003)
• Polaroid's shareholders sue KPMG over audits (28 Aug 2003)
• Vivendi's $1.5 Billion Tax Hangover (26 Aug 2003)
• KPMG faulted for Polaroid audit (25 Aug 2003)
• Equitable investors fight watchdog ruling (24 Aug 2003)
• KPMG Faulted on Handling of Polaroid Financial Reports (23 Aug 2003)
• SureBeam dismisses 2nd auditor in 11 weeks (23 Aug 2003)
• Accident Group 'inflated profits' (22 Aug 2003)
• CORPORATE AUDITORS UNDER SIEGE (22 Aug 2003)
• Research About Audit Quality (22 Aug 2003)
• SureBeam Fires Deloitte Amid Accounting Issues (22 Aug 2003)
• Corporate accounting, corruption scandals cost NY $2.9B (21 Aug 2003)
• Rica Foods CEO to pay fine in SEC settlement (21 Aug 2003)
• Deloitte under fire for Axa accounting blunder (21 Aug 2003)
• KPMG seeks to block release of Polaroid files (21 Aug 2003)
• FirstEnergy restates its financial statements (21 Aug 2003)
• Insolvency excesses may come home to roost (21 Aug 2003)
• Ernst & Young and PwC on the Burma 'Dirty List'  (20 Aug 2003)
• US Accountants May Face Tougher Penalties (20 Aug 2003)
• Female accountants face glass ceiling (20 Aug 2003)
• SEC is looking at Metris financial statements (19 Aug 2003)
• Qwest cites 'progress' in audit, restatement (19 Aug 2003)
• SEC bans PwC auditor at MicroStrategy for two years (18 Aug 2003)
• SEC settles case with audit firm:PricewaterhouseCoopers eyed on MicroStrategy accounting (18 Aug 2003)
• WorldCom Mess Taints KPMG: KPMG may regret ever offering tax advice (18 Aug 2003)
• Commentary on South Africa's Draft Public Audit Bill                 (16 Aug 2003)
• SEC probing Wachovia-KPMG relationship (15 Aug 2003)
• R J Reynolds defies SEC investigation  (15 Aug 2003)
• Accident Group employees likely to remain unpaid                  (15 Aug 2003)
• Accident Group owes £100m (14 Aug 2003)
• Wachovia discloses new SEC probe (15 Aug 2003)
• £65M PENSION CUTS AT KPMG  (14 Aug 2003)
• SEC toughens oversight of auditors (14 Aug 2003)
• Poachers and gamekeepers: SEC names PwC partner as new chief accountant (14 Aug 2003)
• WorldCom Employed Elaborate Tax Strategy: $19 bn involved - KPMG implicated (14 Aug 2003)
• PwC partner barred for Tyco audits (14 Aug 2003)
• Digital Video Systems, Inc., Settles Lawsuit Against Ernst & Young; Recognizes $350,000 Income (13 Aug 2003)
• No Charges Against PwC Tyco's Auditors (13 Aug 2003)
• SEC Bars PwC Partner Who Audited Tyco (13 Aug 2003)
• Former Tyco Auditor Permanently Barred from Practicing before the Commission (13 Aug 2003)
• WorldCom workers knew of "pseudo" phone numbers (13 Aug 2003)
• Regulators settle with Pwc's Microstrategy partner (11 Aug 2003)
• R.J. Reynolds Faces SEC Probe of Expense Accounting (11 Aug 2003)
• Ernst & Young  moving its tax return preparation business to India (11 Aug 2003)
• US crackdown on accountants (11 Aug 2003)
• SEC is moving swifter and harder against executive wrongdoing (10 Aug 2003)
• Ahold obtains extension of deadline for delivery of financial statements (9 Aug 2003)
• Call to improve checks on auditors (8 Aug 2003)
• SEC Completes Review of Tyco Financial Statements (8 Aug 2003)
• PwC settles lawsuit over signing bonuses (7 Aug 2003)
• 'Spineless' auditors could kill off the profession (7 Aug 2003)
• State pays KPMG to run trains (7 Aug 2003)
• UK audit leak slams AMP to low (7 Aug 2003)
• Henderson rapped over 'failings' (6 Aug 2003)
• Millennium Chem. finds accounting errors (6 Aug 2003)
• More Accounting Flaws Uncovered at AMC (6 Aug 2003)
• NZ Dispute over shareholder powers to sue auditors (6 Aug 2003)
• WestLB suffers more losses (6 Aug 2003)
• Two ex-Dynegy execs plead guilty in fraud case (5 Aug 2003)
• SRI/Surgical enters SEC settlement on accounting (5 Aug 2003)
•   ' Sox' not the answer to corporate crime (5 Aug 2003)
• Audit confirms Xcel falsified records (5 Aug 2003)
• Failure of auditing to deliver accountability (4 Aug 2003)
• Citigroup to add $5 bln assets under acctg rule (4 Aug 2003)
• Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary accused of falsifying accounts (4 Aug 2003)
• Retiree Association Questions Accuracy of Financial Reports for Retiree Health Plans by Johns Manville, a Berkshire Hathaway Company (4 Aug 2003)
• SEC investigating Gaylord Entertainment over revised financial statements (1 Aug 2003)

July 2003

• US Public Accounting firms: GAO Study (31 Jul 2003)
• AOL accounting inquiry widened (31 Jul 2003)
• Indian Chartered Accountants want a level playing field (30 Jul 2003)
• 354 US public companies have restated their earnings (30 Jul 2003)
• Read the press release (30 Jul 2003)
• Read the Full Report (30 Jul 2003)
• Andersen affiliates offer Enron settlement (30 Jul 2003)
• SEC bars two former Coopers & Lybrand accountants (30 Jul 2003)
• Accountant's role examined by the Irish Institute (30 Jul 2003)
• SEC bans two former California Micro Devices auditors (29 Jul 2003)
• Irish Institute censures Deloitte & Touche over audits (29 Jul 2003)
• US Audit board aims to allay EU concerns (28 Jul 2003)
• UK economic downturn brings more fraud to light (27 Jul 2003)
• SEC Study on Adoption by the U.S. Financial Reporting System of a Principles-Based Accounting System (26 Jul 2003)
• Equitable can sue Ernst & Young for £2.6bn (25 Jul 2003)
• The Accident Group: the scandal continues (25 Jul 2003)
• US Court Orders Accountant to Name Shelter Investors (25 Jul 2003)
• Creative Accounting and corporate collapse (25 Jul 2003)
• A guide to accounting for derivatives (25 Jul 2003)
• Fair value of liabilities: A Financial Economics Perspective (25 Jul 2003)
• UK financial directors support rise in small company audit threshold (24 Jul 2003)
• Members of Parliament call for investigation nto The Accident Group (24 Jul 2003)
• Freddie Mac deals broke rules (24 Jul 2003)
• Freddie Mac Fudged Accounts (24 Jul 2003)
• Former Freddie Mac CEO induced errors (24 Jul 2003)
• Amdocs Ltd earning projections under SEC investigation (24 Jul 2003)
• AOL profit up, SEC finds accounting incorrect (24 Jul 2003)
• RSA Security Inc reaches settlement with SEC over its 2001 earnings (24 Jul 2003)
• Large auditors oppose rotation in India (24 Jul 2003)
• PwC pays $1 million to settle a SEC probe (23 Jul 2003)
• Embattled Ernst & Young rings in big changes (23 Jul 2003)
  
• Company profits 'flattered by assumptions on returns' (23 Jul 2003)
• SEC probes game makers (23 Jul 2003)
• Three Ex-Rent-Way execs plead guilty of accounting irregularities (23 Jul 2003)
• AOL profit up, SEC says accounting incorrect (23 Jul 2003)
• SEC Begins Investigating Videogame Industry Over Accounting Issues (22 Jul 2003)
• Wanted: An ethical accounting policy (22 Jul 2003)
• Auditors: old myths and new realities (21 Jul 2003)
• Use auditors to hunt unpaid taxes (21 Jul 2003)
• SEC investigates accounting practices of Worldwide Holdings Corp (21 Jul 2003)
• SEC Presses Effort to Curb Ernst & Young' s Audit  Work (21 Jun 2003)
• AOL faces investor lawsuit (20 Jul 2003)
• SEC accuses Ernst & Young of Harry Potter fantasies (19 Jul 2003)
• SEC investigates American Stock Exchange (19 Jul 2003)
• SEC investigates Amex oversight of options trading (19 Jul 2003)
• SEC starts probe of AMEX options trading (19 Jul 2003)
• SEC Investigating Amex on Options Orders (19 Jul 2003)
• Essar Steel overstated profits (18 Jul 2003)
• SEC seeks to ban Ernst & Young from taking new audits (18 Jul 2003)
• Ex-SEC chief sees pressure for better ethics in accounting (18 Jul 2003)
• Coca-Cola defends charges of accounting irregularities (17 Jul 2003)
• Accountants dominate company boardrooms as CEOs (17 Jul 2003)
• Murdoch faces India blackout (16 Jul 2003)
•   Ashtead hit by accounting errors (16 Jul 2003)
• Who Will Audit the Auditors? (15 Jul 2003)
• Sprint to Evaluate Using Outside Auditors for 2004 Audit (14 Jul 2003)
• Deloitte loses £15m Vodafone work (14 Jul 2003)
• KPMG's wrong call on tax havens (13 Jul 2003)
• DTI takes top Scottish accountant to court (13 Jul 2003)
• New questions on Ernst & Young's HealthSouth role (12 Jul 2003)
• Coca-Cola says it's being investigated (11 Jul 2003)
• Big four auditors earn $3.8 billion in India (11 Jul 2003)
• Without any investigation of audit failures, UK government plans to enhance auditors' powers to ask for information (10 Jul 2003)
• Auditors want more liability concessions but no public obligations (10 July 2003)
• UK Big Four accountants' lose consultancy fees of £200m (9 Jul 2003)
• CAEW to obstruct accounting and governance reforms (9 Jul 2003)
• New FRC looks to quadruple budget (9 Jul 2003)
• Peregrine Systems settles Securities and Exchange Commission fraud investigation (9 Jul 2003)
• Ahold and the Dutch offices of  Deloitte & Touche raided (8 Jul 2003)
• Ahold offices raided in criminal inquiry (8 Jul 2003)
• Ernst & Young Sold 'Sprint' Tax Strategy to Many (8 Jul 2003)
• Ernst sold controversial shelter to dozens of people (8 Jul 2003)
• Barclays, the Royal Bank of Scotland and HSBC named in Adelphia lawsuit (8 Jul 2003)
• SEC's Own Accounting Requires Tightening (7 Jul 2003)
• WorldCom to pay $750 record fine (7 Jul 2003)
• SEC appealing loss in case against California Micro's auditors (7 Jul 2003)
• Accounting woes at Cablevision Systems Corp (7 Jul 2003)
• Arthur Andersen rotted from within (7 Jul 2003)
• The public has been let down by an auditing profession, says Ernst & Young partner (5 Jul 2003)
• Ahold seen lowering restated profit total by $880 million ( 4 Jul 2003)
• Auditor must not undertake any non-audit work for the same client, says Indian Companies Bill (3 Jul 2003)
• Ernst & Young moans about SEC retribution (3 Jul 2003)
• Ernst & Young to pays $15 million to settle tax dodges investigation (3 Jul 2003)
• Alstom, the French engineering group fighting for its life (3 Jul 2003)
• Troubled French engineering company Alstom rocked by a fraud scandal (2 Jul 2003)
• Abe Briloff challenges Tyco's goodwill (2 Jul 2003)
• Small firms face big fraud probe, says PwC (2 Jul 2003)
• Keele University wins £1.6m for negligent advice from PwC (3 Jul 2003)
  
• PwC faces £1.6m bill over negligent advice to Keele University (2 Jul 2003)
• Cryo-Cell restsates its balance sheet (2 Jul 2003)
• Ahold accounting scandal widens (1 Jul 2003)
• Another 73 million euro irregularities at Ahold (1 July 2003)

June 2003

• Energis accounts bore 'no relationship to reality' (29 Jun 2003)
• Accountants ripping-off businesses and destroying families (29 Jun 2003)
• Enron insolvency Bill: $500 Million So Far (29 Jun 2003)
• US Rules Require Shareholder Approval of Equity Compensation (28 Jun 2003)
• US to ask auditors to reveal their past crimes (28 Jun 2003)
• Deloitte forced to correct error in Global Security report (27 Jun 2003)
• SEC Sues  for Fraud in the Initial Public Offering of eChapman.com, Inc
• China Construction Bank faked its profit, ran secret accounts and made illegal loans (26 Jun 2003)
• Accident Group owes £11m in unpaid tax (26 Jun 2003)
• UK beancounters are the best paid in the world (26 Jun 2003)
• Pension fund claims Cable and Wireless misled investors (25 Jun 2003)
• Deloitte Touche Bermuda Facing Fraud Claims In United States (25 Jun 2003)
• US Congress to have Freddie Mac accounting hearings (25 Jun 2003)
• US mortgage lender Freddie Mac restates its profits by $1.5bn (£902m) to $4.5bn (25 Jun 2003).
• Five Consumer Groups Attack Ernst & Young (25 Jun 2003)
• Seattle businessman has accuses KPMG LLP of peddling a sham" tax-shelter scheme (25 Jun 2003)
• KPMG's E-Mails Pointed to Concerns Over Tax Shelters (25 Jun 2003)
• KPMG manager sues over reassignment for alleged illegal tax sheler (25 Jun 2003)
• Deloiite auditors received a Range Rover from audit client (25 Jun 2003)
• Former Deloitte partner under investigation about £35,000 car (25 Jun 2003)
• Microtune probe reveals accounting discrepancies (24 Jun 2003)
• PricewaterhouseCoopers and Agway executives sued (24 Jun 2003)
• KPMG sued for sham tax shelters (23 Jun 2003)
• Aqua4 Inc. Settles Lawsuit With KPMG LLP (22 Jun 2003)
• Aggressive accounting helps Goodyear executives get bonuses (22 Jun 2003)
• Nordlandsbanken sues KPMG in connection with the Finance Credit scandal (21 Jun 2003)
• Freddie Mac's accounting probe (20 Jun 2003)
• The SEC former executives of Gemstar-TV Guide International with fraud (19 Jun 2003)
• The public interest responsibilities ofself -regulators in the financial / accounting industry in South Africa by Dieter Gloeck (18 Jun 2003)
• Coopers paid £65m in Barings case (18 Jun 2003)
• Former head  Rite Aid pleads guilty to conspiracy charges  in a $1.6bn accounting scandal (18 Jun 2003)
• Australia targets accountants and lawyers for tax avoidance (18 Jun 2003)
• Texas Passes Accountancy Bill With New Enforcement Provisions (17 Jun 2003)
• Deloitte sued for R25 million in South Africa (17 Jun 2003)
• Ex Peregrine sales executive pleads guilty securities fraud, as authorities spotlighted deals with KPMG Consulting that falsely inflated Peregrine's revenue by more than $30 million (17 Jun 2003).
• Reluctant reformers fall short in New Zealand (17 Jun 2003)
• Suggested auditing controls for NZ seen to lack clout (17 Jun 2003)
• Cronies defend 'do nothing' NZ Reforms (17 Jun 2003)
• Elf trial hit by lawyer's revelations (17 Jun 2003)
• LeisureNet probe into Deloitte audits could extend to the UK (16 Jun 2003)
• Tyco restates accounts again (16 Jun 2003)
• New Zealand audit reform- all hot air and no substance (15 Jun 2003)
• Brokerage sues Ernst & Young for $20 million over Stockwalk collapse (12 Jun 2003)
• Deloitte & Touche negligent in Barings audit, rules judge (12 Jun 2003)
• UK Judge: Deloitte Was Negligent in Barings Collapse (12 Jun 2003)
• Deloitte press release (12 June 2003)
• Ernst & Young received $2.6 million for janitorial work at HealthSouth Corp. (11 Jun 2003)
• Ernst & Young earn £2.4m for inspecting toilets (12 Jun 2003)
• HealthSouth paid auditors for janitorial checks                  (12 Jun 2003)
• Lavatories Now Purview of Auditors? (12 Jun 2003)
• KPMG faces lawsuits for tax advice (10 Jun 2003)
• Ernst & Young finds loophole in US rules to sell consultancy services (10 Jun 2003)
• Freddie Mac annouces departure of directors in accounting scandal (10 Jun 2003)
• Freddie Mac Faces SEC Inquiry (10 Jun 2003)
• Read annual accounts of this Arthur Andersen client (10 June 2003)
• Mounting KPMG Tax Suits Reveal Vast Marketing Push                  (10 Jun 2003)
• Ernst & Young partner held in Hong Kon corruption probe (10 Jun 2003)
• Hong Kong to tighten its oversight of the accounting industry (10 Jun 2003)
• Founder and and former finance chief of Worldcom accused of fraud (10 Jun 2003)
• Regulators to scrutinize the formulas accounting firms use to pay audit partners (10 Jun 2003)
• Scathing Reports Detail WorldCom Faults (10 Jun 2003)
• WorldCom 'was out of control' (9 June 2003)
• Read the 263 page Second Interim Report by Dick Thornburgh, WorldCom's Insolvency Examiner
• Enron scandal fails to curb auditors earning vast sums for advising clients (9 Jun 2003)
• Ryanair's accounting questioned (8 Jun 2003)
• MyTravel in deal with bankers (8 Jun 2003)
• Shanghai hit by tax and accounting scandal (7 Jun 2003)
• Bought out by Big Business: US legislators seek to delay expensing of options for 3 years (6 Jun 2003)
• India to review foreign auditor status (6 Jun 2003)
• HealthSouth shareholder alerted Ernst & Young  five years earlier (6 Jun 2003)
• ImClone Systems will take a $30.3 million charge for taxes withheld by executives who exercised stock options (6 Jun 2003)
• Xerox ex-directors settle $22 million charges (6 Jun 2003)
• First Indian in ICAEW council (5 Jun 2003)
• United Way suing former auditors KPMG (5 Jun 2003)
• Six Former Senior Executives of Xerox Settle SEC Enforcement Action Charging Them With Fraud (5 Jun 2003)
• Financial troubles of Resona Group (4 Jun 2003)
• UK auditors push for even more liability concessions but without any responsibility and accountability (4 Jun 2003)
• Judge signs off on KPMG settlement after setting legal fees (3 Jun 2003)
• SEC investigation into IBM revives accounting woes (3 Jun 2003)
• IBM slips 4% amid regulatory inquiry (4 Jun 2003)
• Levi Strauss investigates allegations of tax and accounting irregularities (3 Jun 2003)
• Third top Enron executive arrested (3 Jun 2003)
• TAG founder slams PWC over text message redundancies (2 Jun 2003)
• Halliburton pays $6m claim (2 Jun 2003)
• Fraud investigation at The Accident Group (2 Jun 2003)
• One in 10 top UK firms in tax probe (1 Jun 2003)
• The Accident Group was late in filing its accounts (31 May 2003)

May 2003

• SEC seeks ban on Ernst & Young (31 May 2003)
• SEC Wants 6-Month Crimp on Ernst & Young (31 May 2003)
• SEC pushes for new-client ban for Ernst & Young (31 May 2003)
• So who exactly owns international standards? (31 May 2003)
• Shell faces case of buried documents (30 May 2003)
• US accounting scandals have cost ordinary people $175 billion in lost savings (28 May 2003)
• AIB sues US banks over Rusnak affair (28 May 2003)
• PWC and Keele University in court case: A complex financial deal likely to leave Keele University worse off (27 May 2003)
  
• Versailles auditors facing a lawsuit (27 May 2003)
• Ahold finds new accounting hole (26 May 2003)
• Enronization, Global Epidemic (25 May 2003)
• Fallen Banker Courted in Jail Cell (23 May 2003)
• HOW CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND GLOBALIZATIONCAN RUN AFOUL OF THE LAWAND GOOD PRACTICES IN BUSINESS:THE ENRON'S DISGRACEFUL AFFAIR (23 May 2003)
• PwC pays $1 million to settle allegations of improper auditing at SmarTalk (23 May 2003)
• SEC Finds PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Engaged in Improper Professional Conduct (22 May 2003)
• Coca-Cola investigates fraud claims (22 May 2003)
• EU proposals on audit of company accounts (21 May 2003)
• WorldCom pays record $500m to settle fraud (20 May 2003)
• Worldcom & capitalism (19 May 2003)
• European Commission issues Recommendation on independence of statutory auditors (16 May 2003)
• French audit reforms persuade Big-Four to play selfish games (15 May 2003)
• Auditors’ liability to bankers (13 May 2003)
• US regulators investigating the finances of Amerco (PwC client) (12 May 2003)
• Auditors' liability to third parties: two recent decisions of the Court of Appeal (11 May 2003)
• Ahold profits inflated by $880m (9 May 2003)
• Ahold admits profits in US overstated by $880m (9 May 2003)
• Consumers stung in ‘sector neutrality’ sham (2 May 2003)
• Ex-Enron Execs Arrested on Fraud Charges (1 May 2003)
• SEC Files Amended Complaint Charging Five Enron Executives with Fraud and Insider Trading Relating to Enron's Broadband Subsidiary (1 May 2003)
• Paltry fines for Polly Peck auditors after 13 years (1 May 2003)

April 2003

• Thinking not ticking: Bringing Competition to the Public Interest audit (30 Apr 2003)
  
• US Board Approves Controls On Foreign Audit Firms (25 Apr 2003)
• PwC accused of 'negligent conduct' by Amerco of US in $2.5bn lawsuit (22 Apr 2003)
• Read the lawsuit
• PwC sued for £1.7bn over rental firm's near-bankruptcy (22 Apr 2003)
• PwC sued for $2.5bn  by Amerco for alleged neglligence (21 Apr 2003)
• University of California sues Ernst & Young for filing misleading reports in the  merger of AOL Time Warner (16 Apr 2003)
• Dutch authorities probe Ahold collapse (16 Apr 2003)
• Criminal probe into 'Australia's Enron' (16 Apr 2003)
• Grundig electronics legend goes bust (14 Apr 2003)
• Doublespeak dogs double-entry - PDF version (11 Apr 2003)
• SEC completes hearing on former PeopleSoft auditor Ernst & Young (10 Apr 2003)
• UK government to increase small company audit threshold (10 Apr 2003)
• Versailles audit firm to be disciplined eventually (7 Apr 2003)
• HealthSouth Fires CEO Scrushy, Auditor Ernst & Young (2 Apr 2003)
• SEC Requires Exchange Listing Standards for Audit Committees (1 Apr 2003)
• House of Commons' Trade and Industry committee's response to government proposals for reforming UK company law (1 Apr 2003)

March 2003

• BDO Dunwoody charged with conflict of interest (31 Mar 2003)
• UK to go it alone and 'cap' auditor liability (27 Mar 2003)
• New £1.3 billion hole in the finances of Equitable Life (27 Mar 2003)
• Regulator failed Equitable policyholders as far back as the '80s (27 Mar 2003)
• £1bn 'black hole' at Equitable Life (27 Mar 2003)
• Amey dogged by restructuring and pension costs (26 Mar 2003)
• Accounts of 16 public bodies under scrutiny (26 Mar 2003)
• Cable & Wirelss settles £1.5bn tax problem for just £380m (26 Mar 2003)
• European Union not keen on auditor liability 'cap' (25 Mar 2003)
• Troubled Amey delays results at auditor's request (25 Mar 2003)
• EU perspective on auditor liability (24 Mar 2003)
  
• SEC chastises the American accounting profession for misleading the public over its standards setting role (24 Mar 2003)
• US Proposals for Regulation of Registered Foreign Public Accounting Firms (21 Mar 2003)
• SEC rejects UK liability disclaimers in audit reports (20 Mar 2003)
• SEC investigates accounting at Household International Inc (19 Mar 2003)
• SEC Charges HealthSouth Corp. CEO Richard Scrushy With $1.4 Billion Accounting Fraud (19 Mar 2003)
• SEC Charges Merrill Lynch, Four Merrill Lynch Executives with Aiding and Abetting Enron Accounting Fraud                  (18 Mar 2003)
• Deloitte holding the public to ransom (18 Mar 2003)
• Bankers charged over Enron (18 Mar 2003)
• Andersen Retiree Names Partners in Lawsuit (18 Mar 2003)
• Safeway accused of making suppliers pay (18 Mar 2003)
• IASB - the plaything of big business (17 Mar 2003)
• ING stuns markets with £6.5bn loss: goodwill blamed (17 Mar 2003)
• Safeway accounting practices questioned (17 Mar 2003)
• Auditors urged to quit tax work (17 Mar 2003)
• Guidance to Accountants for complying with the Proceeds of Crinme Act 2002 (17 Mar 2003)
• Is Ford Going bust (16 Mar 2003)
•  Ashtead ponders replacing PwC as its auditor (16 Mar 2003)
• UK Government: Bean counters' mate (16 Mar 2003)
• Concern about Ford's finances (15 Mar 2003)
• Depreciation doublespeak (14 Mar 2003)
• Hewlett-Packard restates its cashflow from $791m to $647m (14 Mar 2003)
• Watchdog examines Canary Wharf disclosures (14 Mar 2003)
• WorldCom posts $80bn loss (14 Mar 2003)
• AOL Probe Widened to 'Abetting' of Other Firms (12 Mar 2003)
• $1.2bn (£750m) accounting  hole at SK Global (12 Mar 2003)
• Will UK audit reforms cut the mustard? (12 Mar 2003)
• Review of the Regulatory Regime of the Accountancy Profession Legislative Proposals: UK government consultation paper (11 Mar 2003)
• Who killed Arthur Andersen? (11 Mar 2003)
• Germany plans pan-European audit regulator (11 Mar 2003)
• UK government did not look into Enron and Worldcom operations (11 Mar 2003)
• UK government made no inquiries into Arthur Andersen after the Enron debacle (11 Mar 2003)
• UK government to consult on the raising of small company audit threshold (11 Mar 2003)
• Since 1991 only 14 UK companies forced to revise their accounts (11 Mar 2003)
• £5 million accounting hole at Ashtead (11 Mar 2003)
• KPMG pays out $200 million in Rite-Aid and Oxford Health Plans audits (11 Mar 2003)
• Deloitte & Touche links with the UK government (10 Mar 2003)
• $2.5bn accounting hole at  Bristol-Myers Squibb: A PwC client (10 Mar 2003)
• Read the company's statement (10 Mar 2003)
• Read the company's 2001 10K Report (10 Mar 2003)
• Read the company's annual accounts (10 Mar 2003)
• Enron scams fill another 2,000 pages (7 Mar 2003)
• Vivendi posts £16bn record French loss (7 Mar 2003)
• UK government to 'cap' auditor liability (6 Mar 2003)
• Europe opens debate on tax and accounting reforms (6 Mar 2003)
• US audit watchdog backs dual registration of accountancy firms (5 Mar 2003)
• Ahold confirms US subpoenas (5 Mar 2003)
• Ralph Nader takes on accountants                  (5 Mar 2003)
• Ralph Nader to keep an eye on accountants (4 Mar 2003)
• Campaigners force Deloitte to drop Huntingdon Life Sciences audit (3 Mar 2003)
• Former Andersen Ethics Consultant Pens Exposé (3 Mar 2003)
• Britain's Audit Reforms Draw Mixed Reviews (3 Mar 2003)

February 2003

• SEC likely to reject 'cap' on auditor liability (28 Feb 2003)
• KPMG in conflict of interest row (27 Feb 2003)
• SEC investigates €500m Ahold scandal (27 Feb 2003)
• SEC probe deepens Ahold woes (26 Feb 2003)
• UK government to consult on auditor liability 'cap' (25 Feb 2003)
• SEC Sues Former and Current Qwest Employees for Fraud (25 Feb 2003)
• KPMG faces accusations of falsified financial statements in Chinese Court (25 Feb 2003)
• Investors ditch dutch retailer Ahold (audited by Deloitte) after $500 million accounting hole (25 Feb 2003)
• Qwest  executives gave false agreements  fraudulent internal memorandum to auditors (25 Feb 2003)
• Qwest corporate culture placed meeting Wall Street expectations above the duty to serve shareholders and respect for the law (25 Feb 2003)
• Royal Ahold NV inflated earnings  by at least $500 million (24 Feb 2003)
• Deloitte Settles up With Kentucky For $23 Million (20 Feb 2003)
• Lost chance for accountability (17 Feb 2003)
• Silent UK watchdog is costing millions (16 Feb 2003)
• Scandal of Enron's tax evasion : Andersen and Deloitte & Touche implicated                   (14 Feb 2003)
• Not just a few bad guys at Enron (14 Feb 2003)
• Powering up the shredders at Enron (14 Feb 2003)
• Kensington Group plc did not fully consolidate a SPV (14 Feb 2003)
• Wheels within wheels at Enron (14 Feb 2003)
• Arthur Andersen, Deloitte & Touche, Chase Manhattan, Bankers Trust and Deutsche Bank helped structure 12 tax avoidance schemes for Enron (14 Feb 2003)
• Life with the Lay people: The Enron connection (14 Feb 2003)
• Baltimore  says that it overstated revenues by £1.06m (13 Feb 2003)
• Guardian IT admits accounting errors that could top £19 million (13 Feb 2003)
• Enron bribed tax officials : US Senate Committee on Finance (13 Feb 2003)
• PwC bodge Tesco audit (13 Feb 2003)
• Read the UK Parliament's Report "The Handling of the Joint Inland Revenue/Customs and Excise Steps PFI Project" - Deloitte & Touche named as advisers (12 Feb 2003)
• Sprint Tax Scandal Is Worrying Ernst & Young Staffers (12 Feb 2003)
• MIDLAND METRO gets a going concern qualification (12 Feb 2003)
• Former Tyco bosses in tax shelter claim (12 Feb 2003)
• Ernst & Young and KPMG are being sued by clients for selling tax shelters (10 Feb 2003)
• Ten year after the events, the UK profession carpets Andersen partners over the Wickes audit (10 Feb 2003)
• The illusion of independent audits (9 Feb 2003)
• UK government to introduce the biggest anti-consumer legislation of all times  by 'capping' auditor liability (9 Feb 2003)
• Equitable damages bid against blocked (10 Feb 2003)
• Independent auditing? In your dreams (9 Feb 2003)
• Wealthy Suing Accountants Over Rejected Tax Shelters (7 Feb 2003)
• Ernst & Young selling numerous tax shelters to avoid taxes (6 Feb 2003)
• UK government's audit reforms won't end predatory culture of firms (6 Feb 2003)
• US States Aims to Make 'Accounting Fraud' a Felony (5 Feb 2003)
• AWG accuses Morrison of fraud in £130m compensation claim (5 Feb 2003)
• Major firms and accountancy bodies come under scrutiny (5 Feb 2003)
• Rastogi lawyers discuss plea deal                  (5 Feb 2003)
• KPMG makes £212 million operating profit from accounting and auditing (4 Feb 2003)
• £966,000 accounting hole at Finelot Plc (3 Feb 2003)
• KPMG under fire over  conflict of interests and £400m hospital sell-off  (2 Feb 2003)

January 2003

• Finelot Plc makes £996,000 revision to its acocunts (31 Jan 2003)
• Auditors agree that desire to gain lucrative audit work has made the audit a loss leader (MORI Poll (31 Jan 2003)
• 'Watered-Down' auditing rules  in the US please Big Firms, roil consumers (31 Jan 2003)
• US accountancy firms dilute auditing reforms (31 Jan 2003)
• KPMG fires pension fund trustees (30 Jan 2003)
• New body to ensure integrity of audit firms (30 Jan 2003)
• Stitched up: How the Big Four accountancy firms have PFI under their thumbs (29 Jan 2003)
• SEC Charges KPMG and Four KPMG Partners With Fraud in Connection With Audits of Xerox (29 Jan 2003)
• Report of the Review of the Regulatory Regime of the Accountancy Profession (29 Jan 2003)
• REVIEW OF THE REGULATORY REGIME OF THE ACCOUNTANCY PROFESSION - Word file (Jan 2003)
• Final Report of the Co-ordinating Group on UK Audit and Accounting Issues - pdf file (29 Jan 2003)
• CO-ORDINATING GROUPON UK AUDIT AND ACCOUNTING ISSUES (Word file) (29 Jan 2003)
• Ministerial statement on UK Auditing and Accounting Reforms (29 Jan 2003)
• How Big Four Accountancy Firms have Stitched Up the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) (29 Jan 2003)
• UK government fudges audit reforms (29 Jan 2003)
• Charter suspends staff after finding £6m hole in account s (28 Jan 2003)
• KPMG faces SEC lawsuit over Xerox fraud (28 Jan 2003)
• Off balance sheet financiang at PFI contractors (27 Jan 2003)
• Auditors' liability for payment of dividend and accountants' liability limits (24 Jan 2003)
• Big Four limit audit liability by issuing unauthorised audit reports (23 Jan 2003)
• Suggested UK Code - combining the Higgs and the Smith Reports (23 Jan 2003)
• UK Audit Committes: Combined Code Guidance (The Smith Report) (23 Jan 2003)
• KPMG Prepares For SEC Charges Over Xerox Audit (23 Jan 2003)
• SEC Softens Auditor Independence Restrictions (23 Jan 2003)
• Higgs report on the role of the UK non-executive directors (23 Jan 2003)
• Auditor records must be retained for seven years, says the SEC (22 Jan 2003)
• US accountancy firms to keep lucrative tax work (22 Jan 2003)
• SEC's new rules on auditor independence - little bite (22 Jan 2003)
• Tax bell tolls for big four auditors (21 Jan 2003)
• US company accounting restatements jump to a new record level (21 Jan 2003)
• Enron Probes Now Focus on Tax Deals (21 Jan 2003)
• Smaller auditors are disciplined but the Big firms go free (21 Jan 2003)
• Accountancy Foundation chief  blamed for Network Rail confusion (21 Jan 2003)
• More of the same on non-executive directors : The Higgs Review (20 Jan 2003)
• Robert Smith Report on UK Audit Committees (20 Jan 2003)
• The Auditing Debate: What's the Real Issue? (20 Jan 2003)
• Scandal Sheet Keeps Track of Corporate Accounting Blunders (17 Jan 2003)
• Jail forthe Allied Irish Bank £430m rogue trader - what about the accountants? (17 Jan 2003)
• The Colt Judgement (17 Jan 2003)
• KPMG fined for audit faliures by laugh all the way to the bank (15 Jan 2003)
• Travelers' profits wiped out by £2bn asbestos provisions (15 Jan 2003)
• Big firms have tarnished the whole profession (14 Jan 2003)
• NY Times Discloses Private Financial Details of E&Y (14 Jan 2003)
• Third SEC inquiry hits Raytheon (14 Jan 2003)
• Ernst & Young defends Equitable role (13 Jan 2003)
• PricewaterhouseCoopers charged with violating consumer protection laws (13 Jan 2003)
• Australian insurer HIH acted  illegally (13 Jan 2003)
• Accounting Issues at Enron (12 Jan 2003)
• Accountancy and Society: A Covenant Desecrated (11 Jan 2003)
• AOL adds another $10bn to its record write downs (10 Jan 2003)
• Daily Mail editor's pay rises to £830,000 (10 Jan 2003)
• Cable &Wireless forced to stump up £1.5bn for unreported tax liability (10 Jan 2003)
• SEC Proposes New Audit Committee Requirements (9 Jan 2003)
• $6 million accounting hole at Jomed (9 Jan 2003)
• Black hole at Pilkington:Glass company owes £200m to offshore investors (9 Jan 2003)
• KPMG partner named in 20 page Peregrine lawsuit (8 Jan 2003)
  
• Globalization and the state–profession relationship: the case the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (Jan 2003)
• AABA submission on the DTI’s “Review of the Regulatory Regime of the Accountancy Profession” (7 Jan 2003)
• Ex-SEC Chiefs: Take Standard-Setting Away from Accountants (7 Jan 2003)
• JP Morgan settles Enron suit for $600m (3 Jan 2003) 
• FISHTAIL, BACCHUS, SUNDANCE, AND SLAPSHOT: FOUR ENRON TRANSACTIONS FUNDED AND FACILITATED BY U.S. FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS (3 Jan 2003)
• KPMG criticised for conflict of interest (3 Jan 2003)
• KPMG Ordered to Turn Over Client Documents (3 Jan 2003)
• ICAEW shows its colours - fighting for big firms and no thoughts for ordinary people (2 Jan 2003)