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• RBS chiefs named in Enron court papers (31 Dec 2004)
• Hollinger delays its 2003 report (31 Dec 2004)
• Buffett firm helps with SEC probe (31 Dec 2004)
  
• Best Buy drops Ernst & Young after firm paid Best Buy director (30 Dec 2004)
• Goodyear to Resolve Accounting Issue (30 Dec 2004)
• Accounts change is 'field day for fraud' (29 Dec 2004)
  
• Ernst & Young Settles Over Bank Failure (29 Dec 2004)
• KPMG told Fannie Mae of ‘weaknesses'  (29 Dec 2004)
  
• South Koren Regulator to Directly Audit Accounting Firms (29 Dec 2004)
• From 2005, more than 90 countries will either permit or require their quoted companies to present their accounts according to international financial reporting standards (28 Dec 2004)
  
• Uncovering the Billion-Dollar Secret (28 Dec 2004)
  
• Global's auditors may lose licenses over suspected Indonesia accounting cover-ups (27 Dec 2004)
• Review of WorldCom Bankruptcy Fees Continues (27 Dec 2004)
  
• Ernst & Young in $125m settlement on failed bank  (27 Dec 2004)
• UK Watchdog probes Severn Trent 'fraud' (26 Dec 2004)
  
• Ernst & Young to pay $125 million to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp over the collapse of a suburban Chicago bank three years ago (24 Dec 2004)
• $1 Billion Lancer Hedge Fund Collapse Brings Fight Between Law And Accounting Firms (23 Dec 2004)
  
• Online Accounting: Some Hope (23 Dec 2004)
• CEO, CFO and KPMG All Out at Fannie Mae (23 Dec 2004)
• Hypocrisy in accountancy profession: IFAC Guidance Focuses on Ensuring Quality and Capability of New Entrants to the Profession (22 Dec 2004)
  
• Hyundai Merchant Marine Fined for Accounting Fraud (22 Dec 2004)
  
• CIMA council rejects merger as ICAEW 'takeover' (22 Dec 2004)
• Deloitte revenues surge thanks to IFRS (21 Dec 2004)
  
• BearingPoint Warns on Controls: More problems for the former consulting arm of KPMG (21 Dec 2004)
  
• Listed companies in the European Union will soon be forced to treat stock options as an expense (21 Dec 2004)
  
• Fannie Mae CEO’s halo tarnished (21 Dec 2004)
• Connections in high places: KPMG partner joins UK royal household (20 Dec 2004)
  
• UK City regulator to get tough on key industries (20 Dec 2004)
  
• US Tax Practitioners Face New Ethical Standards (20 Dec 2004)
• City accountant stole £9m to gamble (20 Dec 2004)
  
• BearingPoint admits accounting concerns (20 Dec 2004)
• UK Audit liability deal seen as victory for big boys (20 Dec 2004)
  
• PCAOB Said to Be Investigating KPMG Audit of Fannie Mae (20 Dec 2004)
  
• US Senator Kerry slams Bank of England on BCCI (19 Dec 2004)
• Tangled balance sheets? Fannie Mae can rebound (18 Dec 2004)
  
• Ex-Cutter & Buck president admits to falsifying records (18 Dec 2004)
• £70m legal challenge over Accident Group (17 Dec 2004)
• Findings of the Financial Reporting Review Panel in respect of the accounts of Alertbind Limited (17 Dec 2004)
  
• Auditors: The Leash Gets Shorter (17 Dec 2004)
  
• US Regulators probe KPMG audit of Fannie Mae  (17 Dec 2004)
• US Watchdog damns Fannie Mae books (17 Dec 2004)
• EU to Give Audit Watchdogs Greater Power (17 Dec 2004)
• Big four auditors too powerful, says EU (17 Dec 2004)
• Ernst & Young Prevails in Fruit of the Loom Litigation (16 Dec 2004)
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• Parmalat sues 45 banks over crash (16 Dec 2004)
  
• UK Auditor liability limit 'will face many hurdles' (16 Dec 2004)
• Accounting fraud uncovered at Hyundai Merchant (16 Dec 2004)
  
• Hyundai Merchant Marine Rigs Accounting Again (16 Dec 2004)
• Could the Big Four really carry out their threat to resign the audits of large UK banks and insurance companies? (16 Dec 2004)
  
• UK Auditing progress or grovelling to Big Firms (16 Dec 2004)
  
• Greenbrier Ex-Chair Charges Wrongdoing (16 Dec 2004)
• $210m settlement in AOL fraud inquiry (16 Dec 2004)
  
• AOL settles bubble accounting charges for $510 million (16 Dec 2004)
• Scottish law bodies determined to maintain self-rule (16 Dec 2004)
  
• UK Auditors face stiff penalties  (15 Dec 2004)
• UK Ministers to limit auditors' liability (15 Dec 2004)
• PCAOB Unveils Proposed Rules on Tax Services by Auditors (15 Dec 2004)
  
• US Public accounting firms will be prohibited from providing certain tax services (15 Dec 2004)
  
• PCAOB Proposes Ethics and Independence Rules Concerning Independence, Tax Services, and Contingent Fees (15 Dec 2004)
  
• NAPF urges UK audit shake-up (14 Dec 2004)
  
• Accounting bag of tricks produces another scheme in Kmart case (13 Dec 2004)
• Kmart case exposes another trick in the book of creative accounting (13 Dec 2004)
  
• Kmart not alone in allegations of improper booking (13 Dec 2004)
  
• Courts director transferred £3.9m into personal pension (12 Dec 2004)
• Never mind the numbers, look at the date (12 Dec 2004)
  
• Big Four dumping small companies (10 Dec 2004)
  
• Big four auditors get 95% of business of South African listed firms (10 Dec 2004)
  
• Delphi (Deloitte & Touche client) admits $20 million accounting flaw (10 Dec 2004)
• The Warranty Windfall (10 Dec 2004)
• Accounting ruling hands UK law firms 30% tax hike (9 Dec 2004)
• Equitable victims look to Europe (9 Dec 2004)
  
• Equitable case goes to EC (9 Dec 2004)
  
• Auditing the auditors (9 Dec 2004)
  
• Getting Dumped: In the first nine months of 2004, Big Four accounting firms resigned from 157 US accounts (9 Dec 2004)
  
• Ernst & Young in AIG inquiry (9 Dec 2004)
• SEC probes auditor's link to fund trustees: Potential conflicts of interest cited (9 Dec 2004)
• Deloitte outlines global expansion plans (8 Dec 2004)
  
• EU backs end to auditor self regulation (8 Dec 2004)
  
• Ernst & Young faces SEC probe (8 Dec 2004)
  
• Ernst & Young faces SEC investigation for its role in designing and then auditing a financial product allegedly used to inflate client profits (8 Dec 2004)
  
• Ingles Accounting Subject of SEC Inquiry (7 Dec 2004)
• NY Judge Orders Review of WorldCom Bankruptcy Fees (7 Dec 2004)
• KPMG faces $5m fees cut in WorldCom Fees (7 Dec 2004)
  
• Ernst & Young in violation of SEC auditor-independence standards alllegations (7 Dec 2004)
  
• Wembley's auditors Ernst & Young in mystery resignation (7 Dec 2004)
• Ingles Accounting Subject of SEC Inquiry (6 Dec 2004)
• Ernst & Young quits Wembley contract ahead of  bribery trial in the US (6 Dec 2004)
• Five Settle SEC Charges in KMART Accounting Fraud (6 Dec 2004)
  
• Allied Domecq suspends one of its top executives for alleged 'personal financial irregularities' (5 Dec 2004)
  
• Dealings with pension fund's auditor raise ethical issues: Ernst  & Young in conflicts of interests allegations (4 Dec 2004)
  
• OFT to carry out follow-up review of UK liability insurance markets (3 Dec 2004)
  
• KPMG bemoans UK tax avoidance clampdown (3 Dec 2004)
• US Judge tosses some claims against Qwest (3 Dec 2004)
  
• Barclays Capital and Standard Bank London - are ensnared in a growing financial scandal in Singapore (3 Dec 2004)
• SEC Charges 8 in $24 Million Kmart Fraud from 2001 (3 Dec 2004)
  
• SEC says Kmart (audited by PwC) inflated profit (3 Dec 2004)
• Ex-Kmart execs charged in $24 million fraud (3 Dec 2004)
• EARLY DAY MOTION IN UK PARLIAMENT: GOVERNMENT URGED TO INVESTIGATE BIG ACCOUNTANCY FIRMS, BANKS AND LAW FIRMS FOR PEDDLING TAX AVOIDANCE SCHEMES (2 Dec 2004)
  
• EARLY DAY MOTION IN UK PARLIAMENT: GOVERNMENT URGED TO TARGET TAX DODGING COMPANIES  (2 Dec 2004)
• Revolving Doors: SEC Aide to Join PwC  (2 Dec 2004)
• UK government likely to announce a clampdown on accountancy firms that offer "dodgy" tax avoidance schemes to big business (2 Dec 2004)
• Friends in High Places: Giuliani firm buying Ernst & Young unit (2 Dec 2004)
  
• Lessons from Enron fade (2 Dec 2004)
  
• Exposure Draft for the UK Operrating and Financial Review (OFR) (1 Dec 2004)
  

• Pension hit adds to woes at Severn Trent (30 Nov 2004)
• Lessons learnt from Enron (30 Nov 2004)
  
• American Express Fires Ernst & Young (30 Nov 2004)
• Tax revenues boost Deloitte's worldwide growth and fees of $16.4 billion (30 Nov 2004)
  
• PwC Revenues Rise to $17.6 Billion Gross (30 Nov 2004)
  
• More Fees for corporate undertakers: Courts furniture chain collapses (30 Nov 2004)
• Enterprise Inns departs from UK accounting rule (30 Nov 2004)
  
• Ernst & Young may settle case with Equitable (30 Nov 2004)
  
• Equitable prepared to settle EY claims (29 Nov 2004)
  
• Time Warner, regulators disagree on who's to blame in accounting mess (26 Nov 2004)
  
• BearingPoint (formerly KPMG Consulting) admits to $92.9 million accounting error (26 Nov 2004)
• New rules for UK audits watered down by lobbyists (26 Nov 2004)
• UK Listed companies keep auditors at arm's length (25 Nov 2004)
  
• Northern Rock hit by worry over new accounting regime (25 Nov 2004)
• American International Group agreed to pay $126m (£67m) to settle allegations of accounting fraud (25 Nov 2004)
  
• Adecco takes a 100 million Euros hit on its accounts (25 Nov 2004)
  
• Impregilo Shares Sink on False Accounting Probe News (25 Nov 2004)
• Suspect Impregilo accounts raise fears of new Italian scandal (25 Nov 2004)
  
• IMPREGILO SUSPENDED FOR EXCESSIVE FALL (24 Nov 2004)
• Whose lawyer are you now? When clients can be charged with obstruction for lying to their own counsel, the lines become blurred (24 Nov 2004)
  
• Investors sue Deutsche Telekom (24 Nov 2004)
• Tax and a tale of modern morality (24 Nov 2004)
• AIG settles over accounting probe (24 Nov 2004)
  
• Nortel Networks plays down likelihood of delistings over accounting scandal (24 Nov 2004)
• Severn Trent runs check on staff conduct (23 Nov 2004)
  
• Time Warner Reportedly Nears $750 million AOL Accounting Settlement (23 Nov 2004)
• PwC reports global fees of $16.3 billion (23 Nov 2004)
• PCAOB set to limit auditors' tax work (23 Nov 2004)
  
• American International Group Inc. (audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers)  reaches agreement with US  authorities to settle allegationsof  accounting fraud (23 Nov 2004)
  
• The Audit Expectations Gap:The Role of Auditing Education (23 Nov 2004)
  
• New account rules cost Shell $5bn (23 Nov 2004)
• Severn Trent denies charging too much (23 Nov 2004)
  
• PCAOB Releases Additional Guidance for Audits of Internal Control (23 Nov 2004)
  
• Bank of England hits at global accounting firms over derivatives (23 Nov 2004)
  
• Whistleblower Complaints Are Up, but Why? (23 Nov 2004)
  
• PCAOB Wants Auditors to Blow the Whistle (22 Nov 2004)
  
• Ex-DaimlerChrysler worker sues automaker (21 Nov 2004)
• Fraud probe puts Severn on slide (22 Nov 2004)
  
• UK Water giant Severn Trent accused of £75m accounting fraud (21 Nov 2004)
• The SEC's New Perspective Toward Auditing Firms (21 Nov 2004)
  
• The inside story of Parmalat, the biggest, most brazen corporate fraud in European history (21 Nov 2004)
• Brussels adopts watered-down derivatives accounting rule (20 Nov 2004)
• US federal regulators resolve to become more aggressive in investigating accounting practices at Fannie Mae (20 Nov 2004)
  
• Canadian Regulators halt insider trading at MDC Partners amid accounting problems (20 Nov 2004)
• Citigroup probe into Arafat accounts (19 Nov 2004)
  
• Qwest in settlement talks for big bucks (19 Nov 2004)
• Ireland Revenue launches major investigation into tax fraud by the insurance industry (19 Nov 2004)
• UK Non-audit fees being squeezed (19 Nov 2004)
• PCAOB Unveils Aggressive Agenda -- Tax Services Top List (18 Nov 2004)
  
• Tories' privatisation adviser struck off  (18 Nov 2004)
• Money Laundering: The man from Miami (18 Nov 2004)
• Former KPMG consultant pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges (18 Nov 2004)
  
• 8 years later Ex-Deloitte man punished over casino audit  (17 Nov 2004)
• Deloitte accountant struck off for car scam (17 Nov 2004)
  
• Former Medi-Hut execs get prison for phony accounting (17 Nov 2004)
  
• UK Ministers back down over OFR legal term (17 Nov 2004)
  
• Former Nortel manager says he reported accounting irregularities years ago (17 Nov 2004)
  
• Fannie Mae Warns of Possible $9B Loss - KPMG under spotlight (16 Nov 2004)
• UK government silence on the Enron scandal (16 Nov 2004)
  
• Pitching for consultancy work: Warning of international accounting chaos (16 Nov 2004)
  
• Lord Black is charged with fraud (15 Nov 2004)
• SEC FILES FRAUD CHARGES AGAINST CONRAD BLACK, F. DAVID RADLER AND HOLLINGER INC (15 Nov 2004)
• Review of Training and Education in the UK Accountancy Profession (28 page PDf file) (13 Nov 2004)
  
• Deloitte Sued for $2 Billion by Japanese reinsurers (12 Nov 2004)
  
• The West is no less corrupt (11 Nov 2004)
• SunTrust audit finds accounting errors (11 Nov 2004)
• SOX auditor talks CIO accountability, red flags (10 Nov 2004)
• UK investigations into the Accident Group continue (9 Nov 2004)
  
• EL Paso Advisory firms call for dismissal of PwC  because of restatements (9 Nov 2004)
• FRC to have 80 staff and £10m to regulate Uk financial reporting and auditing (8 Nov 2004)
  
• Revelation, chapter one (8 Nov 2004)
• Fraud rife across corporate Australia (8 Nov 2004)
• US audit firms scrambling to meet audit rules (7 Nov 2004)
  
• Time Warner to Restate AOL Accounting, Sets Aside $500M for Gov't Probes (5 Nov 2004)
  
• Pemstar looking into financial irregularities at Mexican plant  (5 Nov 2004)
• Ernst & Young UK Annual Revenues reach £828m (4 Nov 2004)
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• Enron and Merrill Lynch staff face jail (4 Nov 2004)
• Ernst & Young's disciplinary hearing for its audit of Equitable Life postponed (4 Nov 2004)
• Time Warner sets up $500m legal war chest (4 Nov 2004)
  
• Time Warner readies for accounting fall out (4 Nov 2004)
• Dismay at BAE as fraud office comes calling (4 Nov 2004)
  
• Two arrested after police raids in BAE investigation (4 Nov 2004)
  
• Police raids rock BAE Systems (3 Nov 2004)
  
• Citigroup: Parmalat Claims ''Unfounded'' (2 Nov 2004)
• KPMG auditor faces showdown in Shaik trial (2 Nov 2004)
• PwC Chairman's pay soared 18% to £1.75m (2 Nov 2004)
• PwC UK reports income of £1.56 billion and pay per partner of £511,000 (2 Nov 2004)
• Read the 2004 PwC Annual Report
• UK Consultation on implementing EU prospectus directive (2 Nov 2004)
• PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), says it will continue aggressively to seek non-audit work from its audit clients (1 Nov 2004)
  
• US Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has a budget of $152.8 million (1 Nov 2004)
• Nothing Learnt: Big business fights SEC regulation (1 Nov 2004)
• University of California reaches $222.5 million Enron settlement (1 Nov 2004)

October 2004

• PwC appeal against £1.7 million damages to Keele University is dismissed - case details (31 Oct 2004)
• Some reflections on morality of accountants, bankers and lawyers (31 Oct 2004)
• BDO Stoy Hayward designs a scheme way for companies to provide workers with mobile phones courtesy of the taxman (31 Oct 2004)
• REVOLVING DOORS: Treasury star joins KPMG (31 Oct 2004)
• Auditors cast doubt on Rover's Chinese bail-out (31 Oct 2004)
• Called to account over the introduction of international accounting standards ((31 Oct 2004)
• Court documents say a former Ernst & Young partner destroyed key documents to cover up malfeasance (30 Oct 2004)
• Former Ernst & Young partner pleads guilty to falsifying records and blocking a regulatory investigation into NextCard (30 Oct 2004)
• Bank of America and auditors Grant Thornton take legal action against Parmalat (30 Oct 2004)
• Grant Thornton Strikes Back Against Parmalat Lawsuit (30 Oct 2004)
  
• UK Companies Bill Receives Royal Assent (29 Oct 2004)
• UK Ministers waive new corruption rules for industry (29 Oct 2004)
• London 'a haven' for money launderers (29 Oct 2004)
• Corruption and Money Laundering in the UK (33 page PDF file) (29 Oct 2004)
• Threat from Equitable Life chairman (29 Oct 2004)
• Former finance director and chief exectuive of Transtec charged with making false statements (29 Oct 2004)
• EU Proposals Target Accounting Scandals (29 Oct 2004)
• EU Commission proposes collective board responsibility and more disclosure on transactions, off-balance sheet vehicles, offshore entities and corporate governance (29 Oct 2004)
• European Commission proposal for amending the Accounting Directives - Frequently Asked Questions (29 Oct 2004)
• FSA publishes consultation paper on International Accounting Standards (29 Oct 2004)
• Pragmatic” pensions accounting for UK banks (29 Oct 2004)
• Pragmatic” pensions accounting for UK banks (29 Oct 2004)
• EU Commission proposes collective board responsibility and more disclosure on transactions, off-balance sheet vehicles and corporate governance (29 Oct 2004)
• European Commission proposal for amending the Accounting Directives - Frequently Asked Questions (29 Oct 2004)
• FSA publishes consultation paper on International Accounting Standards (29 Oct 2004)
• Governments for Hire: Accountancy donors rally behind Bush campaign (28 Oct 2004)
• US Accountants’ contributions to politicians
• US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS EXPECTED TO COST NEARLY $4 BILLION (28 Oct 2004)
• Non-audit work now forms bulk of E&Y business (28 Oct 2004)
• Ernst & Young offers olive branch to Equitable Life (28 Oct 2004)
• Ernst & Young chairman hints at deal to settle Equitable Life case (28 Oct 2004)
• Accounting salaries set for double-digit growth (28 Oct 2004)
• E&Y reports 11% global growth and income of US$14.5 bn (27 Oct 2004)
• Expect more selfish games as UK accountants hit merger trail (26 Oct 2004)
• Canadian Shareholder activists want auditors accountable (26 Oct 2004)
• Rethink over UK  money laundering rules (25 Oct 2004)
• ICAEW green report attacked by environmentalists (25 Oct 2004)
• KPMG fined record $10m over Gemstar (25 Oct 2004)
• Cosy relationship" between banks and the "big four” accounting firms (25 Oct 2004)
• UK regulator urges tighter accounting ethos (24 Oct 2004)
• Taxing the Boundaries of Corporate Social Reporting (23 Oct 2004)
• Price Waterhouse (PwC) loses House of Lords Appeal: Firm will pay Keele University £2 million for negligent advice (23 Oct 2004)
  
• Tax evasion by ‘pin-stripe Mafia costing UK society up to £85 bn (22 Oct 2004)
• KPMG Sanctioned for Improper Conduct (22 Oct 2004)
• SEC probes Boeing's pension accounting (22 Oct 2004)
• QWEST operated "fraudulent scheme . . . orchestrated to meet the company's outrageously optimistic revenue projections", says the SEC (22 Oct 2004)
• KPMG and Four Auditors sanctioned for mproper professional conduct as auditors for Gemstar-TV Guide International (21 Oct 2004)
• SEC Charges Qwest Communications International Inc. with Multi-Faceted Accounting and Financial Reporting Fraud (21 Oct 2004)
• UK Companies Bill – Third Reading (20 Oct 2004)
• Investors in Parmalat sue banks and auditors (20 Oct 2004)
• UK auditors fail to get immediate further liability concessions (19 Oct 2004)
• SEC probes six firm's pension accounting (19 Oct 2004)
• Big Four accountancy firms  blackmailing governments to limit paying for negligence (17 Oct 2004)
• Deloitte is refusing to testify in the Ahold case (16 Oct 2004)
• Ahold reaches final settlement with SEC (15 Oct 2004)
• US state insurance commissioner sues  Ernst & Young LLP over the financial woes of Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities (15 Oct 2004)
• EU presses ahead with audit reforms (15 Oct 2004)
• Marsh & McLennan accused of price fixing, collusion (15 Oct 2004)
  
• Dutch Weighs More Ahold Charges (15 Oct 2004)
• SEC CHARGES ROYAL AHOLD AND THREE FORMER TOP EXECUTIVES WITH FRAUD; FORMER AUDIT COMMITTEE MEMBER CHARGED WITH CAUSING VIOLATIONS OF THE SECURITIES LAWS (14 Oct 2004)
• MyTravel investors pay for blunders (14 Oct 2004)
• Conrad Black launches third Hollinger lawsuit (14 Oct 2004)
• Auditors will exert even less effort and more scandals are sure to follow (13 Oct 2004)
• KPMG Pays $115 Million to Settle Suit (12 Oct 2004)
• American judge dismisses $1.25bn Hollinger suit (9 Oct 2004)
• SEC Charge Former Peregrine Execs, Andersen Partner in Accounting Fraud (8 Oct 2004)
• Krispy Kreme Doughnuts (PwC client) accounting to be investigatednnounced by the US SEC (8 Oct 2004)
• No UK ban on the sale of non-auditing services by auditors to audit clients (8 Oct 2004)
• Parmalat Files Suit Against Bank of America (7 Oct 2004)
• KPMG to pay $115 million to settle a lawsuit stemming from the collapse of a Belgian software company, Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (7 Oct 2004)
• SEC Files Civil Fraud Charges Against Six Former Senior Officers of Peregrine Who Orchestrated Massive Accounting Fraud (7 Oct 2004)
• Eight former executives of Peregrine Software (audited by Arthur Andersen ) charged with conspiracy to commit fraud (7 Octo 2004)
• Corporate governance: EU Commission urges Member States to ensure a strong role for independent directors (6 Oct 2004)
• Directors’ pay – EU Commission sets out guidance on disclosure and shareholder control (6 Oct 2004)
• Corporate Governance Lessons from Europe's Enron  (6 Oct 2004)
• Parmalat : All you need to know about the collapse of the Italian dairy giant (6 Oct 2004)
• Protesters vent anger at Parmalat hearing (6 Oct 2004)
• Former Enron exec admits lying about cash flow (6 Oct 2004)
• Enron deals were sham, court told (6 Oct 2004)
• Canadian Public Accountability Board gives the Big Four 180 days to improve their procedures (6 Oct 2004)
• BAE faces 'slush fund' allegations (5 Oct 2004)
• BAE chief linked to slush fund (5 Oct 2004)
• Read the BAE documents
• Smaller auditing firms find niche (4 Oct 2004)
• South Carolina regulators  mull disciplinary action against KPMG over sales of allegedly abusive tax shelters (4 Oct 2004)
• Unacceptable Accounting Practices (4 Oct 2004)
• Exemptions to audit rules still leave UK SMEs at disadvantage (4 Oct 2004)
• Going concern accounting principle is an orngoing concern (3 Oct 2004)
• Judge Ready to Start Parmalat Hearings (3 Oct 2004)
• Shareholder Lawsuits Launched Against Hilfiger (1 Oct 2004)
• European Commission launches broad strategy to prevent financial and corporate malpractice (1 Oct 2004)
• Criminal inquiry into US loan firm Fannie Mae (1 Oct 2004)
  

  September 2004

• SUAL and Rusal in what official sources claim were tax evasion schemes, using transfer pricing, tolling, and tax shelters (30 Sep 2004)
• Delphi is subject of SEC accounting probe (30 Sep 2004)
• Head of the Canadian inquiry looking into the federal sponsorship scandal says auditors at Ernst & Young "watered down" their report (30 Sep 2004)
• Ernst & Young questioned on `watered down' report (30 Sep 2004)
• Big Four accountancy firms return to consulting on the cards (29 Sep 2004)
• SEC urged to flesh out performance goals (29 Sep 2004)
• Creative Accounting Reconsidered (29 Sep 20040
• The super-rich are fleecing us by avoiding taxes, and it should be a matter of public record (28 Sep 2004)
• Tax inquiry hits Hilfiger shares (28 Sep 2004)
• Hilfiger shares plunge amid US tax probe (28 Sep 2004)
• Fannie Mae Accounting inquiry raises questions (28 Sep 2004)
• Puzzling punishment: As part of its punishment for conducting a conflicted audit of PeopleSoft, Ernst & Young will be hosting a statewide symposium on auditor independence (27 Sep 2004)
• California board imposes a 30-day suspension of Ernst & Young's license to practice in California and a three-year probation (27 Sep 2004)
• US Congress plans hearings on Fannie Mae accounting (27 Sep 2004)
• E&Y confirms return to consultancy (27 Sep 2004)
• Deutsche Bank officials questioned over allgeation of false accounting (27 Sep 2004)
• More US companies  flee Big Four accountants (26 Sep 2004)
• ClearOne Delays Filing Restated Reports (26 Sep 2004)
• Three key execs leave Cablevision after an accounting investigation (25 Sep 2004)
• Bank of England set for bruising battle over BCCI (25 Sep 2004)
• Fannie Mae's elastic accounting: KPMG under fire (25 Sep 2004)
• Dynegy restates its accounts by $265 million (24 Sep 2004)
• UK Parliamentary Committee wants ministerial powers to introduce secondary legislation to be accompanied by parliamentary scrutiny (24 Sep 2004)
• Fannie Mae ignored accounting principles (24 Sep 2004)
• Fannie Mae probe faults accounting; SEC to investigate (23 Sep 2004)
• Ernst & Young put on 3 year California probation for violation of auditor independene rules (23 Sep 2004)
• Ernst & Young suffers setback in Equitable case (23 Sep 2004)
• UK Accountants and solicitors are square up tax avoidance disclosure regulations clash (23 Sep 2004)
• Computer Associates in $225 million settlement, CEO indicted (23 Sep 2004)
• Does Scandal Pay? (22 Sep 2004)
• US Ernst & Young may have violated conflict-of-interest rules while doing tax work in China for US audit clients (22 Sep 2004)
• New Mexico Accountancy Board puts Ernst & Young on notice for possible action over violation of auditor independence rules (22 Sep 2004)
• Havens that have become a tax on the world's poor (21 Sep 2004)
• SEC considers civil action against American International Group Inc. alleging violations of federal securities laws (21 Sep 2004)
• Lib Dems would scrap the UK Department of Trade and Industry (21 Sep 2004)
• Scottish Accountants' group agrees to sign up to UK watchdog (21 Sep 2004)
• Computer Associates  May Be Close to Settling Fraud Charge (21 Sep 2004)
• Big Four Seen Shedding Small US Clients (21 Sep 2004)
• First criminal case from Enron scandal to begin (21 Sep 2004)
• South Korea's Hynix involved accounting fraud in 1999 (21 Sep 2004)
• US Mortgage giant Fannie Mae (audited by KPMG) manipulated earnings to facilitate bigger bonuses to executives (20 Sep 2004)
• E&Y, Cap Gemini Settle Travel-Billing Lawsuit for $20M (20 Sep 2004)
• SEC raps KPMG on audits (20 Sep 2004)
• Qualcomm accounting change: it records royalties before receiving them (18 Sep 2004)
• Update on some US Accounting Scandals (18 Sep 2004)
• UK government keeps critics off the Committee to discuss the Companies Bill (17 Sep 2004)
• Companies Bill Committee Stage - 1st Sitting
• Conservative Party gorvels to the Big Four on liability
• Public consultation did not set out an overwhelming or universally accepted case for urgent reform of auditor liability
• Companies Bill Committee Stage - 2nd Sitting
• Companies Bill Committee Stage - 3rd Sitting
• Companies Bill 2004 - Report Stage
• Australians will have to play by US auditing rules (17 Sep 2004)
• Delta Auditor Issues Doubt on Airline's Future (17 Sep 2004)
• Despite Early Protests, Foreign Firms Flock to the US PCOAB (17 Sep 2004)
• Cash dwindling at Hollinger Inc (16 Sep 2004)
• "There is more than mere suspicion here", says Hollinger judge (16 Sep 2004)
• Sadly, it's a case of business as usual as Britain fails to declare war on company scandals (15 Sep 2004)
• Debt-laden Regent Inns (Ernst & Young client) has an accounting and hole and breaches its banking covenants (15 Sep 2004)
• For 2002 and 2003, Ernst & Young received £150,000 in audit fees and £485,000 in consultancy fees - see note 6
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• Samil Accounting in Nonstop Disgrace (PwC implicated) (15 Sep 2004)
• Doughnut accounts (PwC client) 'have hole in middle' (14 Sep 2004)
• PwC Balks at Completing Krispy Kreme Review (14 Sep 2004)
• Law Society goes to war on accountants’ privilege (14 Sep 2004)
• Proceedings of the UK Parliamentary Committee to dicuss the Companies Bill 2004 (1st Sitting) (14 Sep 2004)
  
• UK Accounting bodies seek single voice to lobby for the Big Four (14 Sep 2004)
• AABA's proposed international acocunting standard: Reporting Turnover and Tax by Location (13 Sep 2004)
• Proposed EU Directive on Statutory Audit: AABA urges robust comments (13 Sep 2004)
• UK Accounting institutes to merge and pool their resources to terrorise the public (13 Sep 2004)
• Qwest to pay $250 mn to settle with SEC (13 Sep 2004)
• FASB Delays Bond Accounting Rule (13 Sep 2004)
• South Korea's Kookmin Bank chief censured over accounting irregularities (10 Sep 2004)
• Investors to sue Black for £1.7bn (10 Sep 2004)
• New Clauses proposed for the UK Companies Bill 2004 (10 Sep 2004)
• The Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants  will no longer recognise ACCA, CIMA and CIPFA  qualifications  (9 Sep 2004)
• Halliburton agrees $7.5 million settlement with the SEC suspect accounting practices (9 Sep 2004)
• Big Four accountancy firms - planning their own destruction (9 Sep 2004)
• PwC implicated in allegations of N$4 millions frauds at the Namibian  Airports Company (8 Sep 2004)
• Poachers and Gamekeepers: Former UK Inland Revenue chief joins PwC (8 Sep 2004)
• UK Government turns deaf ear to accountants' plea for cap on liability (8 Sep 2004)
• Why the Big Four do not deserve our sympathy (8 Sep 2004)
• Britain refuses to put cap on auditors' liability (8 Sep 2004)
• Higher audit cost of the Big Four firms making US companies go to smaller firms (8 Sep 2004)
• Second Reading of the UK Companies Bill 2004 (7 Sep 2004)
• UK Government Rejects Cap on Auditors' Liability (7 Sep 2004)
• UK government rejects cap of auditor liability: The Official Statement (7 Sep 2004)
• Blackmailing the Public: UK Conservative Party to offer a negotiated 'cap' to auditors but nothing to the victims of audit failures  (7 Sep 2004)
• Blackmailing the Public: Accountants 'may not work' without cap on liability (7 Sep 2004)
• UK Accountancy firms keep non-audit work despite Enron concerns (7 Sep 2004)
• Some 14 years after the events: Equitable Life Auditor Ernst & Young under Investigation (6 Sep 2004)
• Big Four  firms increase their blackmail campaign (6 Sep 2004)
• Blakmailing the Public: Big Four 'will not audit banks' unless liability is limited (5 Sep 2004)
• More cardinal sins: Little has changed since Dickens's day - greedy, overbearing men still come a cropper  as in Hollinger (5 Sep 2004)
• E&Y faces new Equitable claim (4 Sep 2004)
• Judge orders investigation of Hollinger (4 Sep 2004)
• Bristol-Myers in $150 million Settlement With SEC Over Accounting Irregularities (2 Sep 2004)
• AFC Enterprises Files Lawsuit against Arthur Andersen (2 Sep 2004)
• Swift seeks to sue E&Y over merger (2 Sep 2004)
• Hollinger report slams KPMG (2 Sep 2004)
• Special report: Black and 'his' millions  (2 Sep 2004)
• AFC Enterprises sues Arthur Andersen (1 Sep 2004)
• New Colonialism: ICAEW to offer qualification in Mauritius (1 Sep 2004)
• Lawsuit report calls Hollinger a 'corporate kleptocracy' (1 Sep 2004)
• Corporate kleptocracy that mirrors Maxwell's world (1 Sep 2004)
• Greedy Black plundered Hollinger, says report  (1 Sep 2004)
• Black called shots and 'took what he wanted'  (1 Sep 2004)
  

August 2004

• Recent corporate scandals give us reason to question what's been gained after seven decades of accounting regulation (31 Aug 2004)
• A REVIEW THAT DOES NOT GO NOT FAR ENOUGH (31 Aug 2004)
• Candian judge mulls the appoint of inspectors for Hollinger (31 Aug 2004)
• Hollinger was "systematically manipulated" by controlling shareholders who took millions in payments that should have gone to the company (31 Aug 2004)
• Hollinger CEO allegedly colluded with associates to loot the company of nearly all of its profits over the past seven years, or more than $400 million (31 Aug 2004)
• Hollinger executives 'took $400m' (31 Aug 2004)
• Read the Hollinger Report submitted to the SEC , 513 pages
• Insolvency Advisers, including EY and KPMG,  net £35m from TXU collapse (31 Aug 2004)
• Big Four of accounting 'let clients distort facts' (30 Aug 2004)
• UK Treasury stymies auditor cap on liabilities (30 Aug 2004)
• Deloitte audit partners reprimanded in Australia (30 Aug 2004)
• KPMG Reportedly Wrote New Versions of Illegal Shelters (30 Aug 2004)
• PwC and KPMG dragged into Shell lawsuit   (30 Aug 2004)
• Shell's auditors, KPMG and PwC, in firing line as US lawyers prepare class action (28 Aug 2004)
• Big Four auditors get poor grade from the US regulator (27 Aug 2004)
• Big Four auditors rapped for errors   (27 Aug 2004)
• Significant flaws found in Big Four's accounting (27 Aug 2004)
• US Regulator identifies  significant weaknesses in the audits by Big Four firms (27 Aug 2004)
• Read the Reports
• ONE WAY TRAFFIC OF LIABILITY CONCESSIONS TO THE UK AUDITING INDUSTRY: BRIEF HISTORY (26 Aug 2004)
• Yukos' Accounting Division Is Raided (26 Aug 2004)
• Top Enron official pleads guilty (26 Aug 2004)
• A tax shelter factory bared in KPMG memos (26 Aug 2004)
• KPMG Wrote New Versions of Tax Shelters Ruled Illegal (26 Aug 2004)
• Auditing of Shell's global oil and gas reserves was undertaken by one part-time engineer (25 Aug 2004)
• Shell oil  reserves scandal 'began in 1998' (25 Aug 2004)
• South Korea’s largest bank fined $1.7 million for breaking accounting rules (25 Aug 2004)
• US accounting regulator encourages whistleblowers to come forward (25 Aug 2004)
• An overview of the UK Companies Bill before Parliament (60 page PDF file)   (24 Aug 2004)
• Read the latest version of the UK Companies Bill

• Ex-HealthSouth Exec Banned From Accounting (24 Aug 2004)
• US Accounting Standards Board fights for its autonomy (24 Aug 2004)
• Accounting fix aids Toys R Us (24 Aug 2004)
• Clarity sought on how to account for revenue (23 Aug 2004)
• US subpoenas Fannie Mae in accounting probe (20 Aug 2004)
• Scandal-hit Nortel to make worker cuts (20 Aug 2004)
• Parmalat sues auditors for $10bn (19 Aug 2004)
• Deloitte, KPMG Seek Nearly $350M for WorldCom Work (19 Aug 2004)
• Deloitte & Touche investigated over Nortel Networks Corp.'s financial statements (19 Aug 2004)
• UK Accountancy body 'just making noise' about auditor liability (19 Aug 2004)
• Ernst & Young to compensate Korean client SK Global (19 Aug 2004)
• Ramco non-audit fees gush to £332,000 (18 Aug 2004)
• Tax avoidance lawsuit alleges fraud and malpractice against KPMG (18 Aug 2004)
• If you don't like the answers, rubbish the reports: auditing industry's politics on auditor liability (18 Aug 2004)
• Lust for Advertising Revenues: The Times supports audit firm campiagn for liability concessions (18 Aug 2004)
• Parmalat sues Grant Thornton International and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu for $10 billion (18 Aug 2004)
• Parmalat's New Management Sues Auditors Grant Thornton and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (18 Aug 2004)
• Canada begins criminal probe of Nortel Networks accounting (18 Aug 2004)
• UK audit firm campiagn for liability concessions supported by The Daily Telegraph - silence on stakeholder rights (17 Aug 2004)
• Canada Launches probe of Nortel accounting (17 Aug 2004)
• Suit accuses KPMG and Others of Selling Illegal Tax Shelters (17 Aug 2004)
• Advisers to MCI/WorldCom ask court for $613 million (17 Aug 2004)
• Royal Academy chief quits after £80,000 goes missing (16 Aug 2004)
• US Financial accounting board fights for independence (15 Aug 2004)
• No one fears any regulator or retribution: Fewer companies issue warnings (14 Aug 2004)
• PwC expert top One.Tel case witness (14 Aug 2004)
• Tax dodging claim at Swatch (13 Aug 2004)
• Pentagon auditors criticise Halliburton over its accounting of $1.8bn (£0.98bn) (12 Aug 2004)
• Boca investors sue KPMG over late-90s dot com tax shelter scheme (12 Aug 2004)
• New $435 million accounting mistakes at MCI (11 Aug 2004)
• Two Years Later – A Recap of The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 And Related SEC Rulemaking (11 Aug 2004)
• Parmalat on the Offense (11 Aug 2004)
• US t ax case questions PwC influence at IRS (10 Aug 2004)
• Parmalat turns legal guns on Deutsche Bank (10 Aug 2004)
• Italian magistrates investigate bribes allegations at Enipower (10 Aug 2004)
• Ernst & Young chief with income of £1248 million bleats about bankruptcy (9 Aug 2004)
• It just doesn't add up : UK major accountancy firms seem to be getting their own way (8 Aug 2004)
• The UK beancounters' bleat about their liability and social obligations (8 Aug 2004)
• US Accounting firms named in racketeering cases (8 Aug 2004)
• UK Mid-tier firms say cap on liability does not fit (8 Aug 2004)
• US Corporate-crime task force getting good grades so far, but much work remains (8 Aug 2004)
• 20% of South Korean Companies Rig Accounting (8 Aug 2004)
• $136 million Qwest expense tied to 'abusive' tax shelter (7 Aug 2004)
• Practice your Bushism here (6 Aug 2004)
• KPMG promise to campaign for even more liability concessions (6 Aug 2004)
• UBS faces £192m Parmalat claim (6 Aug 2004)
• Former Halliburton employees allege systemic accounting fraud occurred at the company between 1998 and 2001 (6 Aug 2004)
• Good Accounting Practices: Rotation of Auditors (5 Aug 2004)
• UK government appeases accounts by creating exemptions for reporting money laundering (5 Aug 2004)
• Deloitte UK declares profits of £374 million and income of £1,246 million (5 Aug 2004)
• Deloitte chief lands whopping £2.9m (5 Aug 2004)
• Grant Thornton and Doeren Mayhewnailed by the SEC over their role in the audit of fraud-ridden MCA Financial Corporation (5 Aug 2004)
• Grant Thornton to to Pay $1.5 in SEC Settlement over MCA audits (5 Aug 2004)
• Grant Thornton and Doeren Mayhew Settle SEC Administrative Proceeding Relating to Audit of MCA Financial Corporation (5 Aug 2004)
• Grant Thornton ordered to suspend certain joint audits with other auditing firms for a period of five years (5 Aug 2004)
• Bristol-Myers Squibb Company Agrees to Pay $150 Million to Settle Fraud Charges (5 Aug 2004)
• Halliburton to pay $7.5 million fine for not disclosing accounting change (4 Aug 2004)
• Despite the OFT report, Deloitte chief continues to pursue selfish interests (4 Aug 2004)
• UK government to indulge accountants on money laundering (4 Aug 2004)
• Ernst & Young Global defends mass resignations at its Indian arm (4 Aug 2004)
• Bristol-Myers likely to pay $75M to settle accounting irregularities charge (4 Aug 2004)
• Victory for greed: U.S. House last month voted to continue the fiction that stock options are free money (4 Aug 2004)
• SEC Charges Halliburton and Two Former Officers for Failure to Disclose a 1998 Change in Accounting Practice (3 Aug 2004)
• KPMG advises Dixons on director remuneration report (3 Aug 2004)
• UK Auditors rebuffed on bid to cap liability (3 Aug 2004)
• OFT rules out liability cap (2 Aug 2004)
• OFT rejects plea for UK audit cap (3 Aug 2004)
• OFT ruling enrages the UK Big Four accountancy firms (3 Aug 2004)
• The OFT has not found compelling arguments to support claims for a cap on UK auditors’ liability (3 Aug 2004)
• Prosecution Fumbles Lancer Case (2 Aug 2004)
• UK Office of Fair Trading sceptical  on proposed cap on auditor liability  - 31page pdf file (2 Aug 2004)
• PwC named in the Yukos lawsuit  - 27 apge PDF file (2 Aug 2004)
• Ernst & Young denies Equitable audit failures (2 Aug 2004)
• Ernst & Young face fine over Equitable  Life failures (1 August 2004)
• Ernst & Young brought to account over Equitable Life failings (1 Aug 2004)

July 2004

• Some of Britain's companies could find themselves liable for multi-million-pound deficits in their pension funds after a landmark KPMG ruling (31 Jul 2004)
• Reforms but No Fines for Parmalat (30 Jul 2004)
• Parmalat sues Citigroup for its financial meltdown (30 Jul 2004)
• SEC probing Krispy Kreme accounting (30 Jul 2004)
• FASB standard on the accounting treatment for straight convertible bonds and contingent convertibles could reduce corporate earnings by 19% (30 Jul 2004)
• Charter Settles With SEC over alleged accounting irregularities (29 Jul 2004)
• Insurance company attacks new ASB rules (28 Jul 2004)
• Big Four accountancy firms paid £40m for advice to MoD (28 Jul 2004)
• Ahold US unit ex-bosses charged with accounting fraud (28 Jul 2004)

• Bank of England denies recklessness over BCCI procedures (22 Jul 2004)
• Who is Rupert Murdoch?: How one right-wing billionaire uses his business and media empire to pursue a partisan agenda at the expense of democracy (21 Jul 2004)
• Ernst & Young settles $1.5 million healthcare case with US government (21 Jul 2004)
• Bank of England lawyers say BCCI liquidators' case is 'misconceived' (20 Jul 2004)
• KPMG accused of destroying key statements (20 Jul 2004)
• ERNST & YOUNG AGREES TO PAY UNITED STATES $1.5 MILLION FOR SETTLEMENT OF FALSE CLAIMS ACT CASE (20 Jul 2004)
• UK Fraud prosecution agency loses half of its cases (19 Jul 2004)
• South African  Accounting Firms Compelled to Register With US Board (16 Jul 2004)
• Corporate undertakers rub hands: UK Insolvencies rise to decade high (16 Jul 2004)
• Study of FTSE companies shows little environmental accounting (16 Jul 2004)
• Australia Second-tier consultants up the pace for 'fat four' (16 Jul 2004)
• Shell auditors had early reserves warning on its oil reserves (16 Jul 2004)
• UK regulator launches an inquiry into Mayflower's collapse (15 Jul 2004)
• UK Accounting bodies seek merger to better pursue their selfish interests (15 Jul 2004)
• Shell alarm two years before scandal (15 Jul 2004)
• Complete text of the UK Companies Bill 2004 (14 Jul 2004)
  
• UK investigators to scrutinise  PwC audit of Mayflower (14 Jul 2004)
• Judge  says $2 billion lawsuit against Ernst & is without merit (13 Jul 2004)
• Labor's use of accounting firm adds up to nothing, says Treasurer (13 Jul 2004)
• How accounting firms have colonised the state 13 Jul 2004)
• Enron wife sent to jail (12 Jul 2004)
• The Brittle Illusion of Accounting Exactitude (12 Jul 2004)
• The Future of the Accounting Profession (12 Jul 2004)
• Canterbury University has the lowest percentage of women professors and associate professors of any New Zealand university (11 Jul 2004)
• Yukos shareholders sue accountants for millions (11 Jul 2004)
• EU can't agree on new rules (10 Jul 2004)
• KPMG pension dispute goes to court (10 Jul 2004)
• International Accounting Standards Causing a Stir (9 Jul 2004)
• Adelphia founder guilty of fraud (9 Jul 2004)
• US Judge Rules Most BDO Tax Shelter Documents Protected (9 Jul 2004)
• Former Enron chairman charged by US justice department (8 Jul 2004)
• Europe faces Enron legacy (8 Jul 2004)
• UK insolvency practitioners unhappy with the fragmented nature of regulation (8 Jul 2004)
• Another top tax name resigns at KPMG (8 Jul 2004)
• House of Lords Report Stage on the Companies (Audit, Investigations and Community Enterprise) Bill (8 Jul 2004)
• Capping UK audit firms’ liability moves closer (7 Jul 2004)
• When four accountants minus one equals nil (7 Jul 2004)
• UK government offers 'cap' for auditor liability (6 Jul 2004)
• Liability 'cap' is bad for audit quality (6 Jul 2004)
• Political furore over IAS 39, accounting for derivatives (6 Jul 2004)
• Law Society could lose power over solicitors as report condemns failures  (6 Jul 2004)
• US shareholders accuse Yukos, PWC of fraud (6 Jul 2004)
• Yukos lawsuit alleges that PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC)  "materially misled the investing public" (6 Jul 2004)
• US Regulators Outgunned by Big Accountancy Firms (5 Jul 2004)
• ICAS ‘conundrum’ threatens plans for super-regulator (5 Jul 2004)
• Russia Accounting Reform Loses Steam (5 Jul 2004)
• Shell says profits were overstated: Oil giant revises figures downward by $432 million (4 Jul 2004)
• Counting the wrong beans: Accountants are blind to intangible assets (4 Jul 2004)
• Call to democratise building societies (4 Jul 2004)
• Accounting woes dog Nortel: Company seeks repayment of unjustified bonuses (3 Jul 2004)
• South African Accounting firm probed over info 'fax scam' (3 Jul 2004)
• Bank of America settles Enron lawsuit for $69m (3 Jul 2004)
• High price of avoiding risk (2 July 2004)
• Troubled Shell writes down assets by $330m (£181.5m) (2 Jul 2004)
• Shell admits 'material weaknesses' in controls (2 Jul 2004)
• Shell audit committee knew of reserves problem months before disclosure (2 Jul 2004)
• UK Top 60 accountancy firms turn to limited liability partnerships (1 Jul 2004)
• BCCI lawyer urges judge: look at the body language (1 Jul 2004)

June 2004

• Second Attempt at Localising Imperial Accountancy: The Case of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Jamaica  (1970s – 1980s) (30 Jun 2004)
• The Case of The Complainant and The Disciplinary/Complaint Procedures of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland (30 Jun 2004)
• Adecco gets grand jury subpoena from US Justice Department (29 Jun 2004)
• Bristol-Myers ups reserves earmarked for legal actions   (29 Jun 2004)
• Land O'Lakes (KPMG client)  restates its earnings for the last seven years (29 June 2004)
• Basking in Enron’s Reflexive Goriness: Mixed Messages from The UK Profession’s Reaction ( 29 Jun2004
• What Do We Mean by Accounting for The Public Interest? (29 Jun 2004)
• US Sensor maker settles fraud charge; ex-CFO admits insider trading (28 Jun 20040
• Scandal not my fault, says Enron chief (28 Jun 2004)
• Auditing the auditor: what happens when audits fail? (28 Jun 2004)
• Good sense: Andrew Hind rejected ACCA Chief executive post for job at Charity Commission (28 Jun 2004)
• UK Institutional investor abstaining on the re-appointment of auditors Deloitte & Touche because the non-audit fees (28 Jun 2004)
• Silicon Valley Workers Protest Expensing of Stock Options (28 Jun 2004)
• US Auditor-watchdog group discovers serious accounting problems at the largest audit firms (28 Jun 2004)
• SEC's comments to companies to be published online (26 Jun 2004)
• US regulator found "Significant Audit and Accounting Issues" in Big Four Inspections (25 Jun 2004)
• Limited inspections of the Big Four accounting firms uncovered "significant" problems (25 Jun 2004)
• Shareholders in Hibernia Foods sue PwC: Audit firm faces class action in the US (25 Jun 2004)
• Ernst & Young is facing a criminal inquiry in New York over the accounting firm's promotion of tax shelters (25 Jun 2004)
• SEC Staff to Publicly Release Comment Letters and Responses (24 Jun 2004)
• Just 4% of big UK accountancy firm partners are from ethnic minorities (24 Jun 2004)
• Andersen's Ethics Consultant Say Company Rotted from Within (23 Jun 2004)
• KPMG helped at least 29 U.S. corporations to avoid at least $1.7 billion in owed taxe s (22 Jun 2004)
•  Hibernia Foods shareholders sue PwC (21 Jun 2004)
• Hibernia/PwC face massive US class action (20 Jun 2004)
• Andersen Loses Appeal of Enron Conviction (19 Jun 2004)
• UK government press release on the publication of  QUEENS MOAT HOUSES Report (19 Jun 2004)
• Eleven Years later: DTI publishes report of Inspectors to Queens Moat Houses Plc (19 Jun 2004)
• BCCI Scandal may cost Bank of England £40m (18 Jun 2004)
• Ex-Network Associates CFO charged in alleged accounting scam (18 Jun 2004)
• Jersey links of BHS and Arcadia (18 Jun 2004)
• Accounting shenanigans at BHS and Arcadia (18 June 2004)
• PwC's TransTec audit faces full probe (18 Jun 2004)
• US Corprate Interests Derail Proposed Stock Option Rule (18 Jun 2004)
• Accountancy college implicated in bogus UK student visa racket (17 Jun 2004)
• KPMG Shelter Generated $1.7B tax avoidance for 29 US companies (17 Jun 2004)
• UK Accountants fail to comply with money laundering reporting obligations (16 Jun 2004)
• Laughing all the way from the bank (16 Jun 2004)
• KPMG tax shelter had 29 clients and lost $1.7 billion of tax revenues (16 Jun 2004)
• KPMG tax shelter drew major U.S. firms (16 Jun 2004)
• Can Parmalat Be Saved? (15 Jun 2004)
• NZ Shareholder lobby group claims auditing victory over Ernst & Young (14 Jun 2004)
• SEC Warns Auditors on Contingency Fees (14 Jun 2004)
• PWC gets $130 million Iraq reconstruction contract  (13 Jun 2004)
• Companies are moving to law firms for tax advice in wake of new accounting rules (12 Jun 2004)
• THREE British bankers face extradition over US$7.1 million (£3.9m) Enron-related fraud (11 Jun 2004)
• UK accountants claim Tax clampdown will lead to chaos, but silent on their anti-social behaviour (11 Jun 2004)
• SEC probing Halliburton 'bribes' (11 Jun 2004)
• 'Constitution of boards will be questioned' (11 Jun 2004)
• UK Investment company fined £25,000 over a £125 million scam (11 Jun 2004)
• Shaw Group Under SEC Inquiry (11 Jun 2004)
• Accountants try to scupper UK money laundering laws by making false reports (10 Jun 2004)
• US Regulator Approves Rules for Foreign Auditors (10 Jun 2004)
• i2 Technologies, Inc. Settles Fraud Charges Involving Misstatement of Approximately $1 Billion in Revenues (10 Jun 2004)
• Calpers targets companies for poor corporate governance (10 Jun 2004)
• Ex-WorldCom CFO Pleads Guilty To Conspiracy (10 Jun 2004)
• KPMG Named in MCI Tax Shelter Case (9 Jun 2004)
• Findings of the Financial Reporting Review Panel in respect of the accounts of McKechnie Holdings (UK) Limited   (9 Jun 2004)
• US Regulator Adopts Rules for Oversight of Non-U.S. Firms (9 Jun 2004)
• More Questions on E&Y Independence in the US (8 Jun 2004)
• SEC probing payments by Ernst & Young (8 Jun 2004)
• Versailles pair jailed for six years (8 Jun 2004)
• Shareholders deserve a bigger voice (7 Jun 2004)
• Smaller accountancy firms are picking off the best talent and positioning themselves (6 Jun 2004)
• Auditing independence enters brave new world (6 Jun 2004)
• Deloitte among four to face tribunal over Semple scandal (4 Jun 2004)
• HealthSouth (audited by Ernst & Young) Report Finds $2.7B in Fraudulent Accounting Entries (3 Jun 2004)
• Former HealthSouth finance chief gets house arrest in accounting fraud (3 Jun 2004)
• Symbol Technologies Agrees to pay $37 Million Penalty to Settle SEC Enforcement Action Charging the Company with Accounting Fraud (3 Jun 2004)
• Dawn of the £50,000 UK beancounter (3 Jun 2004)
• US Accounting Majors Average $42,155 (3 Jun 2004)
• Nortel Progresses in Accounting Probe (3 Jun 2004)
• Rush to Judgment: Whither Arthur Andersen? (3 Jun 2004)
• UK government spends £100m on consultancy with Big Four accountancy firms (3 Jun 2004)
• US Regulator offers comfort to EU audit firms (3 Jun 2004)
• Royal Bank of Canada Receives SEC Subpoena Related to PwC Resignation (3 Jun 2004)
• It may be time to break up the largest accounting firms (2 Jun 2004)
• Black bids to repay $8.2-million from Hollinger stock options (2 Jun 2004)
• PwC Probed on Auditor Independence at the Royal Bank of Canada (2 Jun 2004)
• Thirteen years later - Bird Luckin, the former auditors of Queens Moat Houses fined £17,000 (2 Jun 2004)
• Read the Report
• Adecco releases long awaited 2003 results after accounting probe (1 Jun 2004)
• Irish regulator warns it will double convictions (1 Jun 2004)

May 2004

• £150m bonanza for Shell auditors (30 May 2004)
• Faulty Depreciation at Thorns Group Plc (28 May 2004)
• Euronext warns Ahold on accounts (28 May 2004)
• Pension funds sue Royal Dutch, Shell (28 May 2004)
• To appease corporations UK government proposes to eliminate the role of parliament in approving company law: Will you speak up (27 May 2004)
• UK NEDs oppose strict internal controls (27 May 2004)
• POURING OIL ON TROUBL ED WATERS (27 May 2004)
• Findings Of The Financial Reporting Review Panel in respect of the accounts of Thorns Group Plc   (27 May 2004)
• The Battle for Iraqi Audits (27 May 2004)
• UK MP calls for probe into company tax affairs (27 May 2004)
• Parmalat probe seeks trial for 32, including Deloitte & Touche and Grant Thornton (27 May 2004)
• What Accountants do to society (26 May 2004)
• Dawn of the £50,000 beancounter (26 May 2004)
• Some US companies still in love with stock options (26 May 2004)
• Former CEO of WorldCom faces six new charges (26 May 2004)
• Computer Associates International made $10 million offer to settle US accounting and obstruction probes (26 May 2004)
• First of several Rite Aid executives sentenced for US accounting scandal       (26 May 2004)
• Versaiiles auditor fined £50,000 (26 May 2004)
• Cushnie is found guilty of fraudulent accountancy at Versailles Group (26 May 2004)
• Founder of failed Versailles group convicted of defrauding backers of £23m (26 May 2004)
• Versailles founder guilty of fraud (26 May 2004)
• PwC to pay $50 mln as part of Raytheon lawsuit (26 May 2004)
• PwC pays $50m over Raytheon (26 May 2004)
• FSA May Force Audits of U.K. Company Internal Controls (26 May 2004)
• US audit fees jump by 23 percent (26 May 2004)
• SEC Strips US Auditors of Tax Fees (25 May 2004)
<>Ernst & Young facing a criminal inquiry in New York over  tax shelters (25 May 2004)
• Man United set to make accounting changes (25 May 2004)
• US prosecutors begin a criminal investigation into Ernst & Young promotions of potentially abusive tax shelters (24 May 2004)
• U.S. federal officials probe E&Y over tax shelters (24 May 2004)
• U.S. criminal probe of Ernst & Young (24 May 2004)
• SEC attacks accountancy firms for peculiar interpretation of the auditor-independence rules (24 May 2004)
• PARMALAT. DEMINOR REPRESENTS US BONDHOLDER (24 May 2004)
• US audit ban costs Ernt & Young a client (23 May 2004)
• Absurdity of liability concessions to auditing firms (22 May 2004)
• Do sophisticated investors undferstand accounting quality? (large pdf file) (22 May 2004)
• Global Crossing Limited Hit With Accounting Fraud Class Action (22 May 2004)
• Institute of Chartered Accountants of India acts to prvent undercutting of audit fees (22 May 2004)
• Revolving Doors: Former UK Revenue inspector gets PwC tax post (21 May 2004)
• Lancer Corp. faces multiple suits tied to Coke case (21 May 2004)
• Auditors reviewed suspect Tyco loans, witness says (21 May 2004)
• UK Legislators urge the government to investigate banks, accountancy and law firms for peddling tax avoidance schemes (20 May 2004)
• UK Legislators urge the government to investigate companies that pay little or no corporation tax (20 May 2004)
• Three ex-Enterasys execs charged with accounting fraud; another pleads guilty (20 May 2004)
• Banco Espirito Santo International sues BDO Seidman for $170 million (20 May 2004)
• US  probe focuses on ADT accounting (20 May 2004)
• Lancer Corp. faces multiple suits tied to Coke case (19 May 2004)
• Invitation to comment on UK government proposals for registration of tax avoidance schemes (18 May 2004)
• Read the Disclosure Requirements – Draft Regulations
• Lucent Settles SEC Enforcement Action Charging the Company with $1.1 Billion Accounting Fraud (18 May 2004)
• Scottish Water accused over £300m accounts blunder (18 May 2004)
• Parmalat prosecutors aim for trial (18 May 2004)
• European framework for companies known as Societas Europaea (18 May 2004)
• Shift of tax goalposts hurting Big Four accountancy firms (18 May 2004)
• Ernst & Young admits settling a multimillion-dollar tax claim with Australian tax authorities (18 May 2004)
• Deloitte bidding to advise on design & structure of the UK  ID card system (17 May 2004)
• KPMG hit with $100 million penalty tax bill in Australia (17 May 2004)
• E&Y sued by Petrol Express (17 May 2004)
• KPMG hit with $100 million claim in unpaid taxes and penalties for allegedly breaching Australian anti-avoidance tax laws (16 May 2004)
• Nortel served subpoena for accounting records (15 May 2004)
• Arthur Andersen face $34 million  lawsuit for a fraudulent tax shelter (14 May 2004)
• All UK regulators whould be 'open' and accountable to Parliament, says a parliamentary Committee (13 May 2004)
• KPMG takes on internal auditing for Macfarlane (13 May 2004)
• UK Conservative Party reluctant to 'cap' auditor liability (13 May 2004)
• PWC face Homestore lawsuit (13 May 2004)
• Canadian accounting organizations in merger talks (12 May 2004)
• SEC Again Cites Accountants in Fraud Enforcement (12 May 2004)
• SEC Announces Settlement with Warnaco, Former Warnaco Executives, and PwC for Financial Disclosure Violations (12 May 2004)
• PwC to pay a $2.4 million fine as part of a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission over misleading financial statements made by Warnaco (12 May 2004)
• Money Laundering: Solicitors and accountants are targeted by the National Criminal Intelligence Service for failing to disclose suspicious transactions (11 May 2004)
• Accounting Scandal Scorecard (11 May 2004)
• Trial opens for ex-Cendant (audited by Andersen) executives accused of $500M revenue inflation (11 May 2004)
• Accounting Change Ordered for Fannie Mae (10 May 2004)
• Ten years afterwards - Andersen, the auditors of Wickes plc, fined £400,000 and ordered to pay £700,000 costs (10 May 2004)
• Read the Report
• PCAOB Disapproves First Auditor        (10 May 2004)
• U.S. lawmaker delves into oil and gas accounting (9 May 2004)
• In spite accounting scandals, corporate use of derivatives is growing (9 May 2004)
• Accounting fraud trial of Cendant to start (8 May 2004)
• Descartes stock crumbles after CEO dismissal amid accounting woes (8 May 2004)
• US auditor watchdog eyes tax shelters, independence (7 May 2004)
• US Regualator Targets Auditor Independence (7 May 2004)
• Missouri accounting board revokes Andersen's license (7 May 2004)
• Fannie regulator questions firm's accounting (6 May 2004)
• Citigroup says SEC probing Argentina accounting (6 May 2004)
• UK Financial Reporting Review Panel concerned about compliance with FRS 10, ‘Goodwill and Intangible Assets’ (5 May 2004)
• New Zealand Public Finance (State Sector Management) Bill: attacking democracy and the public purse (5 May 2004)
• UK fails to learn lessons from scandals and announces ineffective corporate governance reforms (5 May 2004)
• 30 leading UK companies are facing tax investigation (5 May 2004)
• UK Revenue widens inquiry into tax avoidance schemes designed by accounting firms (5 May 2004)
• Grant Thornton surrenders names of 300 tax shelter clients to US Internal Revenue Service (5 May 2004)
• US judge orders KPMG to name tax shelter clients (5 May 2004)
• Coca-Cola accused of overshipping drink concentrate to distributors to inflate its financial results (5 May 2004)
• Grand jury gathers over Coke allegations (5 May 2004)
• SEC May Charge PepsiCo (5 May 2004)
• SEC Eyes Pepsi Over Kmart Improprieties (5 May 2004)
• Witness: Adelphia internal books gave real and inflated results (5 May 2004)
• Informatics shares plunge in response to accounting lapses (5 May 2004)
• El Paso might have overstated oil and gas reserves between 1999 and 2003 (4 May 2004)
• Grant Thornton and BDO Stoy Hayward sold tax avoidance scheme that has been denounced by UK ministers (4 May 2004)
• E&Y avoidance scheme draws in Revenue (4 May 2004)
• Responses vary to accounting woes (4 May 2004)
• US Watchdog Says Accounting Firms Have Much to Do to Restore Credibility (4 May 2004)
• PepsiCo Units Could Face SEC Action (3 May 2004)
• E&Y tax avoidance scheme faces UK probe (3 May 2004)
• Coke Employees Set to Testify in Accounting-Fraud Probe (3 May 2004)
• Self-Insurance Plans: Creative Accounting? (3 May 2004)
• PIRC targets Smith and Nephew pay and may vote against Ernst & young (2 May 2004)
• Deloitte Partners appointed Joint Administrators to Duo Airways Limited (2 May 2004)
• Ernst & Young fined for allegedly understating net worth (1 May 2004)
• Judge finds Ernst & Young in contempt of court (1 May 2004)
• Auditors (Deloitte & Touche) should suffer same fate as Nortel CEO (1 May 2004)

 April 2004

• UK Accounting guidance on compilation of financial statements for incorporate entities (30 Apr 2004)
• SEC Probes Bally (Ernst & Young client (30 Apr 2004)
• Grant Thornton withdraws Global Crossing audit reports for the past three quarters (30 Apr 2004)
• Bank of England Governor  accused of lying about the financial health of Bank of Credit and Commerce International (30 Apr 2004)
• Deloitte’s French legal arm finalises split from audit business (30 Apr 2004)
• Parmalat: Court declares Parma FC insolvent (30 Apr 2004)
• Nortel fires trio in accounting crisis (29 Apr 2004)
• Nortel fires top three in accounts debacle (29 Apr 2004)
• BP Chief Pans Oil Accounting Rules (29 Apr 2004)
• Global Crossing's new accounting woes (29 Apr 2004)
• RBG bosses ordered to pay £210m (29 Apr 2004)
• PROFESSIONAL INSECURITY, ACCOUNTANT IDENTITY AND THE EROSION OF ACCOUNTANCY’S JURISDICTIONAL BOUNDARIES (29 Apr 2004)
• Political Culture, Socialist Neo-Revisionism and the State in Change: Implications for Accounting Professionalism (29 Apr 2004)
• Globalization and the coordinating of work in mulitnational audits (29 Apr 2004)
• The jig is up for loss-leader auditors (28 Apr 2004)
• Foot-in-the-door auditing dries up (28 Apr 2004)
• RBG pair who secretly controlled brassplate firms must pay £200m (28 Apr 2004)
• 6-Month US Bar Against Ernst & Young Begins (27 Apr 2004)
• Israel Securities Authority suspects several auditing firms of public companies fudged numbers (27 Apr 2004)
• Bank of America may have helped misrepresent Parmalat's loans (27 Apr 2004)
• Former Icas chief executive received £118,000 pay-off (27 Apr 2004)
• ACCA to discipline a blind accountant (26 Apr 2004)
• Computer Associates restatements shift more than $2 billion in revenue (26 Apr 2004)
• Now Shell auditors are in the firing line (26 Apr 2004)
• UK regulator confirms investigation into "Shell" (26 Apr 2004)
• UK Regulator  Probing Shell Reserves Downgrade (24 Apr 2004)
• Optimization in the Production of Governance Services: Lessons for the Regulation of Auditor Independence (24 Apr 2004)
• Barings liquidators settle liability lawsuit with auditors Deloitte (23 Apr 2004)
• Barings settles with Deloitte (23 Apr 2004)
• Deloitte accused of breach of contract and negligence (23 Apr 2004)
• Barings Bank and auditor make peace (23 Apr 2004)
• Options-Expensing Debate Heats Up (23 Apr 2004)
• Mayflower collaps raises questions about corporate governance (23 Apr 2004)
• OECD fudges accounting and auditing issues - endorses the status quo (22 Apr 2004)
• OECD Issues New Corporate Governance Principles (22 Apr 2004)
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• Investors should to have more say in firms - OECD (22 Apr 2004)
• Barings Bank and auditor Deloitte make peace over £1.5 million payout (22 Apr 2004)
• CEO of Computer Associates resigns amid accounting probe (22 Apr 2004)
• Australian Securities & Investments Commission targets auditors (22 Apr 2004)
• PwC to build highways in Kazakstan (21 Apr 2004)
• CalPERS takes aim at Citigroup and KPMG (20 Apr 2004)
• Versailles chief refuses to give evidence in trial (20 Apr 2004)
• KPMG role in designing tax avoidance schemes: Leasing the Sewers (19 Apr 2004)
• Failures of self-regulation (18 Apr 2004)
• Going global is a painful journey for accountants (18 Apr 2004)
• Ernst & Young denies ban will affect UK practice (18 Apr 2004)
• US Judge stops E&Y taking on clients (18 Apr 2004)
• Ernst & Young Barred from Adding Clients (17 Apr 2004)
• Judge imposes US audit ban on Ernst & Young (17 Apr 2004)
• Ernst & Young Faces Six-Month New Business Ban in the US (17 Apr 2004)
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• Qwest balks at SEC's penalty (16 Apr 2004)
• US Fund opposes directors and auditors over the sale of non-auditing services (16 Apr 2004)
• Outrageous calls for a limit on auditor liability (15 Apr 2004)
• KPMG turns over names of two tax shelter holders (15 Apr 2004)
• Audit firms suspected of partiality in Israel (15 Apr 2004)
• Deloitte & Touche criticised in report on DVI Inc (14 Apr 2004)
• US regulators to charge Time Warner for alleged sales fraud (14 Apr 2004)
• Time Warner Faces Accounting Lawsuit (14 Apr 2004)
• Time Warner May Face SEC Charges of $400 million faulty accounting (14 Apr 2004)
• Computer Associates guilt spreads (13 Apr 2004)
• 3 Plead Guilty in Computer Associates Case (13 Apr 2004)
• Calpers votes against Sprint auditor Ernst & Young for selling consultancy services to audit client (13 Apr 2004)
• Law Firms as Defendants: Why They Settle (13 Apr 2004)
• MCI fights creditors' bid to oust auditor KPMG (13 Apr 2004)
• Mayflower chief tells of shock at sudden collapse (12 Apr 2004)
• Fresh blow to Mayflower over £17m black hole (12 Apr 2004)
• Goodyear Reduces Past Income Results (12 Apr 2004)
• Parmalat probe focuses on Deloitte Italy (12 Apr 2004)
• Deloitte May Have Concealed Parmalat Irregularities (11 Apr 2004)
• Computer Associates Audit Cmte Finishing Accounting Probe (10 Apr 2004)
• Former Computer Associates Execs Plead Guilty to Fraud Conspiracy (9 Apr 2004)
• Calpers  to vote against Ernst & Young for performing non-audit services (9 Apr 2004)
• Calpers to vote against Deloitte & Touche LLP for performing non-audit services at Morgan Stanley (9 Apr 2004)
• Sentencing of Enron auditor delayed (9 Apr 2004)
• Cleaners wins PWC lawsuit (8 Apr 2004)
• Mayflower fears raised a year ago (8 Apr 2004)
• Accountants face workplace discrimination (8 Apr 2004)
• One in three accountants 'suffered prejudice' (8 Apr 2004)
• Mayflower's German unit and UK jobs go (8 Apr 2004)
• UK Accounting Standards Board ASB Issues Standard on Share Options (7 Apr 2004)
• Hidden accounting weaknesses sank Mayflower (7 Apr 2004)
• The accounting firms were pathetic (7 Apr 2004)
• Majority of accountancy firms want non-specific graduates (7 Apr 2004)
• Discrimination is the issue in the UK accountancy profession (7 Apr 2004)
• Dynacq accounting figures to be restated (6 Apr 2004)
• Four partners of Deloitte & Touche partners charged with professional misconduct (6 Apr 2004)
• KPMG LLP and its former consulting arm, BearingPoint Inc. pay $34 million to settle lawsuit alleging that they overbilled clients for travel expenses (6 Apr 2004)
• IMF urges lessons be drawn from Parmalat scandal (6 Apr 2004)
• Hidden accounting weaknesses sank Mayflower (6 Apr 2004)
• Fannie Mae Relied on Misleading Accounting Methods (5 Apr 2004)
• Small UK accountancy firms start to wilt under pressure of regulation costs (5 Apr 2004)
• SEC probes Nortel accounts (5 Apr 2004)
• The battle lines on accounting for stock options (5 Apr 2004)
• PwC refused to sign Ashtead accounts (4 Apr 2004)
• Chasing the UK tax cheats (2 Apr 2004)
• Five key challenges facing the UK accountancy regulator - FR C (1 Apr 2004)

March 2004

• AABA OPPOSES LIABILITY CONCESSIONS TO AUDIT FIRMS AND COMPANY DIRECTORS (31 Mar 2004)
• AABA comment on the Auditing Practices Board's "Consultation Paper: Draft Ethical Standards for Auditors" (31 Mar 2004)
• IFAC exposure Draft on The Work of Related Auditors and Other Auditors in the Audit of Group Financial Statements” and IAPS, “The Audit of Group Financial Statements” (31 Mar 2004)
• Mayflower admits accountancy hole (30 Mar 2004)
• Deloitte auditor had early Parmalat concerns (29 Mar 2004)
• What the academics teach is what created Enrons (28 Mar 2004)
• Tech execs lobby against stock options proposal (28 Mar 2004)
• Director claimed PwC probe was compromised (27 Mar 2004)
• Credit Suisse, admits overstating profits by 200m Swiss francs (£89m) (27 Mar 2004)
• Goldman Sachs banker allowed a string of secretaries to forge his signature on cheques and other documents (27 Mar 2004)
• Investor Association on 'capping' auditor liability (26 Mar 2004)
• U.S. and Europe Reach Pact on Auditors (26 Mar 2004)
• 15,000 Parmalat jobs face the axe (26 Mar 2004)
• Former Dynegy executive jailed for 24 years after $300m fraud (26 Mar 2004)
• SEC spurns help in oil reserves squabble (25 Mar 2004)
• India keeps audit out of trade agenda (25 Mar 2004)
• Auditor concerns hurt Rhodia (25 Mar 2004)
• Versailles assistant charges dropped (24 Mar 2004)
• Pension fund challenges Freddie's use of PricewaterhouseCoopers for non-audit services (24 Mar 2004)
• Only 4% of the accountants are happy with their job (24 Mar 2004)
• Judge rejects indictment request in Parmalat case (24 Mar 2004)
• SEC under attack over Shell (23 Mar 2004)
• Private Monopolies, Public Betrayal (23 Mar 2004)
• US Banks sued over "prepays" in Enron scandal (23 Mar 2004)
• Young British Millionaire Made Strange Manoeuvers with His Companies (23 Mar 2004)
• Fallen Singh is still calling the tune (23 Mar 2004)
• Thousands of US tax returns to go to India for processing (23 Mar 2004)
• Corporate Governance: "Other People's Money" (23 Mar 2004)
• Judge to WorldCom: Don't Pay KPMG (23 Mar 2004)
• Parmalat Accountants on the Defensive (23 Mar 2004)
• MyTravel warns of new blow to shares (23 Mar 2004)
• MyTravel warns of more misery (23 Mar 2004)
• Parmalat accountants accused (22 Mar 2004)
• Oil companies need better accounting (22 Mar 2004)
• Moore Stephens distance themselves from their tax partner (22 Mar 2004)
• Shell denies auditor delay claims (21 Mar 2004)
• The Shell debacle infects four FTSE company bosses (21 Mar 2004)
• Dodgy taxes (20 Mar 2004)
• Deloitte & Touche subpoenaed over tax shelter case (20 Mar 2004)
• Bank of India ordered to pay US$82mn to BCCI liquidators (20 Mar 2004)
• Ex Global Crossing execs settle suits for $325 mln (20 Mar 2004)
• Is KPMG Judgment-Proof? (20 Mar 2004)
• US bankruptcy court judge halts payments to WorldCom accountants KPMG (20 Mar 2004)
• Energy industry gets away with murky accounting practices (20 Mar 2004)
• Accountants have any number of foes: UK Treasury unlikely to impose liability cap (20 Mar 2004)
• UK clamour grows for Big Four 'monopoly' probe (19 Mar 2004)
• Former Qwest Executive Testifies to Firm's Aggressive Accounting Practices (19 Mar 2004)
• Qwest Auditor dodge detailed (19 Mar 2004)
• Crisis deepens at Shell: further 500m barrels of oil are reclassified (19 Mar 2004)
• Accountants ask the UK government to go easy as tax loopholes are targeted (18 Mar 2004)
• "No matter what legislation is in place, the accountants and lawyers will find a way around it. Rules are rules, but rules are meant to be broken", says Moore Stephens partner (18 Mar 2004)
• Deloitte & Touche role in the $3.2 billion tax breaks for Boeing (18 Mar 2004)
• Parmalat Founder, Bank of America and Deloitte Indicted (18 Mar 2004)
• Italian Prosecutors Seek 29 Indictments in Parmalat Scandal (18 Mar 2004)
• Italy aims to speed Parmalat case (18 Mar 2004)
• Judge approves $93M settlement of Homestore.com suit (18 Mar 2004)
• Audit adds to Hyundai woe (18 Mar 2004)
• Deloitte appointed receivers of Caithness Glass Limited (18 Mar 2004)
• Mannesmann–Vodafone Six trial unravels after weak testimony from KPMG (18 Mar 2004)
• Suit seeks to remove KPMG as WorldCom auditor (18 Mar 2004)
• Fourteen US States Seek Ouster of KPMG as MCI's Auditor (18 Mar 2004)
• U.S. states demand KPMG give up $146 mln from MCI (18 Mar 2004)
• Stock options expensing is still a hard sell in U.S. (18 Mar 2004)
• US companies rush to restate their earnings (18 Mar 2004)
• Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility: Building the Links (18 Mar 2004)
• European Commission fails to propose tough auditing rules (18 Mar 2004)
• U.S. Investigation into Shell May Lead to Charges (17 Mar 2004)
• Enron insolvency examiner pockets $90 million from Enron bankruptcy (17 Mar 2004)
• Capture of the State: Industrial secondees to the UK Department of Trade and Industry (17 Mar 2004)
• EU fails to introduce worthwhile auditing reforms (16 Mar 2004)
• Veritas to Restate Earnings (16 Mar 2004)
• ICAEW fails to provide any evidence to support its campaign for auditor liability concessions (16 Mar 2004)
• UK Fund giant demands competition inquiry into stranglehold of 'Big Four' audit firms (16 Mar 2004)
• Hollinger could run into a fresh legal row over the filing of its annual accounts (16 Mar 2004)
• Hollinger Int misses deadline over accounts (16 Mar 2004)
• Troubled Nortel suspends bosses (16 Mar 2004)
• Deloitte Failed to Challenge $7 Billion Loan to Parmalat Unit           (16 Mar 2004)
• Re-evaluating the Numbers (16 Mar 2004)
• Businessman to sue family accountants: Time bar is not a barrier (15 Mar 2004)
• Court decision in John Hedley Haward and Ors Appellants - and -Fawcetts (a firm) & Anor Respondents (15 Mar 2004) 
• Belgian KPMG Faces Showdown With U.S. Over Lernout Audits           (15 Mar 2004)
• Grant Thornton face £18m claim from Televillage insolvency (15 Mar 2004)

• EU to announce audit clampdown (15 Mar 2004)
• Australian companies push for deferral of new accounting standards (15 Mar 2004)
• Tough New Accounting Rules for Europe (15 Mar 2004)
• Are Accounting Scandals Good for the Economy? (14 Mar 2004)
• Accountants and actuaries may look like pillars of propriety; instead, they have the values of the Borgias (14 Mar 2004)
• UK Treasury targets Big Four tax teams (13 Mar 2004)
• EU to propose tougher auditors' regime (13 Mar 2004)
• Limited auditor liability without reform is to put the cart before the horse (12 Mar 2004)
• Nortel Shares Fall After Company Announces Accounting Review (12 Mar 2004)
• KPMG contract may be NAB's next scalp (12 Mar 2004)
• ICAEW throws out Grant Thornton insolvency case (12 Mar 2004)
• US Regulator Orders More Auditing Reviews (12 Mar 2004)
• MCI (formerly WorldCom) restatement wipes out $74bn (12 Mar 2004)
• UK Investment Fund demands 'monopoly' probe of Big Four firms (11 Mar 2004)
• KPMG fees risk in NAB wash-up (11 Mar 2004)
• SEC's findings of accounting inaccuracies in Conseco accounts (11 Mar 2004)
• 40 Percent Of US Cos. Must Adjust Reporting to Meet SEC Requirements (11 Mar 2004)
• Accounting firm's client wants its audit papers (10 Mar 2004)
• Deloitte & Touche Executives Targeted in Tax Evasion Probe (10 Mar 2004)
• U.S. Charges Grant Thornton as Negligent (10 Mar 2004)
• Parmalat recovery plan on hold as banks balk (10 Mar 2004)
• Equitable Life: The full story (10 Mar 2004)
• Grant Thornton sacked as liquidators over alleged conflict of interests (9 Mar 2004)
• Accounting firms fund Bush Presidential campaign (9 Mar 2004)
• US Dept of Justice Names KPMG Employees as Subjects in Tax Shelter Probe (9 Mar 2004)
• Penrose Report provides ammunition for a new Equitable compensation battle from Ernst & Young (9 Mar 2004)
• Questions about PwC's independence at the National Australia Bank (9 Mar 2004)
• Firms' stock buybacks aren't always good for investors (9 Mar 2004)
• Call for inquiry into BAE payments (9 Mar 2004)
• Italy's Parmalat Probe Looks to Bank of America in London (8 Mar 2004)
• BAE's secret vault in Geneva uncovered (8 Mar 2004)
• APB code ‘could restrain trade’ by small accountancy firms (8 Mar 2004)
• Deloitte accused of tax evasion (8 Mar 2004)
• KPMG Partners, Employees Probed (8 Mar 2004)
• Russia accuses Deloitte of fraud (6 Mar 2004)
• Sage under fire over PwC payments (5 Mar 2004)
• House of Lords rules that holders of floating charges should be paid ahead of liquidators' costs and expenses (5 Mar 2004)
• Read Judgments - Buchler and another (as joint liquidators of Leyland Daf Ltd) (Respondents) v Talbot and another (as joint administrative receivers of Leyland Daf Ltd) and Stichting Ofasec (Appellants) and others
• KPMG Tax-Shelter Probe Grows as 30 'Subjects' Classified (5 Mar 2004)
• Ericsson auditor quits, says books are clean (5 Mar 2004)
• NTL makes £30m restatement (5 Mar 2004)
• Deloitte Set to Defend Two Auditors Facing Probe Over Parmalat (4 Mar 2004)
• US audit watchdog tells staff to reveal crimes (4 Mar 2004)
• Anger over Sage jobs for auditor (4 Mar 2004)
• Ericsson Auditor Resigned After Tax Probe Questioning (4 Mar 2004)
• No End in Sight for Scandals (4 Mar 2004)
• Audit ethics guidelines under fire (need to register - 3 Mar 2004)

 February 2004

• US mulls NAB, KPMG criminal charges (29 Feb 2004)
• KPMG subject of US federal of tax probe (28 Feb 2004)
• KPMG accepts responsibility for breaches of audit independence (27 Feb 2004)
• KPMG acknowledges breaching US corporate rules in dealing with the National Australia Bank (27 Feb 2004)
• Grand Jury Investigating KPMG Tax Shelters (23 Feb 2004)
• Ernst & Young says Parmalat Capital low on cash (21 Feb 2004)
• KPMG says tax work probed by US Justice Dept (20 Feb 2004)
• KPMG is "shameless", says US Senator Carl Levin (19 Feb 2004)
• UK institutional investors unmoved by auditor liability plea (18 Feb 2004)
• Bank of America, PricewaterhouseCoopers Are Sued in Lancer Case (18 Feb 2004)
• Charges Loom Over Former Enron CEO (17 Feb 2004)
• Goodyear to Raise $650M to Refinance Debt (17 Feb 2004)
• Shocktroopers of capitalism: Big Four return to Iraq (16 Feb 2004)
• Parmalat investigators probe Swiss bank account (15 Feb 2004)
• Senate committee investigates consulting firm contracts to boost state Medicaid claims (14 Feb 2004)
• SEC formally investigating Goodyear accounting problems (13 Feb 2004)
• Investors in bankrupt Lancer Group hedge funds have sued Bank of America  Citco Fund Services and PricewaterhouseCoopers (13 Feb 2004)
• Parmalat's former Financial Director passes the buck to auditors (13 Feb 2004)
• Parmalat's accounting web has yet to unravel (13 Feb 2004)
• Waste Management profit hurt by accounting change (13 Feb 2004)
• Prominent Italian industrialists arrested in anti-fraud drive (12 Feb 2004)
• Investors sue Adecco (12 Feb 2004)
• Swiss stock exchange opens probe into Adecco (12 Feb 2004)
• Groupaction Marketing Inc. accused of  submitting fake invoices (12 Feb 2004)
• SEC seeks budget of  US$913 million whilst UK regulators work on a shoestring (11 Feb 2004)
• New World Pasta Co. warns of accounting woes (11 Feb 2004)
• Parmalat has debts of £855m in Brazil            (11 Feb 2004)
• Seven banks probed in Parmalat scandal (11 Feb 2004)
• Dutch pension fund sues Qwest for $100 million (11 Feb 2004)
• PepsiCo raises '02, '03 results on accounting error (11 Feb 2004)
• Behind the Corporate Veil: Using Corporate Entities for Illicit purposes (10 Feb 2004)
• Trade Bank auditors expected to sue Bank of Israel for $50m (10 Feb 2004)
• More US firms part ways with auditors (10 Feb 2004)
• Accountancy body campaigns to dilute UK money laundering laws (9 Feb 2004)
• Deloitte had early warning over Parmalat (9 Feb 2004)
• Grant Thornton accused of negligence in handling  receivership (8 Feb 2004)
• Institutionalising Discord; The Problem with Accounting firms and other Professional Services (8 Feb 2004)
• Accountants push for 'cap'  on auditor liability - the biggest anti-consumer legislation of all times (9 Feb 2004)
• Equitable ex-boss slams SFO probe (7 Feb 2004)
• Shareholder suits seen after accounting ills (7 Feb 2004)
• Nobody is called to account (6 Feb 2004)
• After 85 years Friends Provident replaces PwC with KPMG (6 Feb 2004)
• Parmalat Bank Documents Ordered Seized (6 Feb 2004)
• Italian offices of Swiss bank UBS searched in Parmalat affair (6 Feb 2004)
• Samsung Card Suspected of Hiding Loss (6 Feb 2004)
• Agco discloses SEC inquiry into accounting (6 Feb 2004)
• Directors distorted the results of Chiyoda Fire and Marine Insurance Company Europe (CE) to reduce the loss from £30 million to £4m (6 Feb 2004)
• Compensation claims blow to 24,000 customers of The Accident Group (6 Feb 2004)
• Accident Group liquidator slams profession (6 Feb 2004)
• Parmalat Haunts Accounting Firm Grant (6 Feb 2004)
• Accounting probe keeps Computer Associates under a cloud (5 Feb 2004)
• Italian government proposes bill aimed at preventing another Parmalat-like scandal (5 Feb 2004)
• Parmalat lawyers removed documents (5 Feb 2004)
• Swiss to quiz Parmalat over money laundering (5 Feb 2004)
• Lancer Auditor KPMG Quits During SEC Probe (5 Feb 2004)
• Accounting hole at China Life (4 Feb 2004)
• U.S. fund launches suit against Black, Hollinger, KPMG (4 Feb 2004)
•  Auditor Rotation Gets a Fresh Start in Europe (4 Feb 2004)
• General Mills Inc faces SEC inquiry into sales practices and related accounting (4 Feb 2004)
• The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland (ICAI) and the Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Ireland (CPA)  abandon proposed merger (4 Feb 2004)
• ICAEW agrees money laundering deal with NCIS (4 Feb 2004)
• Swiss auditors want more state intervention (4 Feb 2004)
• Cushnie firm 'received Versailles cash' (3 Feb 2004)
• Parmalat simply sent its invoices out twice (3 Feb 2004)
• Versailles cheques 'falsified each day' (3 Feb 2004)
• EU seeks to rotate auditors after Parlamat (3 Feb 2004)
• Grand Theft Auto to restate its earnings from 1999 (3 Feb 2004)
• Analyst discusses role of board in NAB scandal (3 Feb 2004)
• Top 100 Corporate Criminals of the Decade (2 Feb 2004)
• Sainsbury's brings SPV in from the cold (2 Feb 2004)
• Global accounting rules needed, FASB chair says (1 Feb 2004)

• No fraud found in Adecco accounts (31 Jan 2004)
• Federal Investigators Probe Coke Finances (31 Jan 2004)
• SEC investigates Sallie Mae accounting (31 Jan 2004)
• Adecco breaks silence on accounting woes (30 Jan 2004)
• Adecco says accounting issues found at branch-level (30 Jan 2004)
• KPMG Names New Tax Team in US (30 Jan 2004)
• Italy seeks solution to corporate scandals (30 Jan 2004)
• Macmed accountant (KPMG) failed to check books (30 Jan 2004)
• Accounting firms face tough time from US tax enforcers (29 Jan 2004)
• WorldCom, Under Fire Itself, Could Sue KPMG, Smith Barney, Andersen (29 Jan 2004)
• E2.5bn moved out of Parmalat (29 Jan 2004)
• Auditor Didn't Review Tyco Loan Approvals (29 Jan 2004)
• Versailles witness admits lying to firm's banks (29 Jan 2004)
• Corporate lobby opposes expensing of stock options (28 Jan 2004)
• Deloitte & Touche fined £750,000 for serious compliance failings in investment advice (28 Jan 2004)
• Auditors 'turned blind eye' to Macmed cover-up (28 Jan 2004)
• Tyco defense wants auditor’s documents (28 Jan 2004)
• Jarvis back on the defensive as new problems emerge (28 Jan 2004)
• SEC chief's co-operation plea to head off scandals (28 Jan 2004)
• EU seeks U.S. assistance in policing accountants (28 Jan 2004)
• Auditors urged to 'open their eyes' (27 Jan 2004)
• US bank sees red on UK accounting (27 Jan 2004)
• Rogue trades hit Australian bank (27 Jan 2004)
• For the first time in a decade each of the Big Four firms lost more public company audit clients than they acquired (27 Jan 2004)
• 54 companies, including Vodafone, Unilever, BAT, Gallaher , Allied Domecq, Scottish Power, Imperial Tobacco, WPP, GUS, Rexam, mmO2 and Pearson accused of practicing aggressive accounting (27 Jan 2004)
• U.S. SEC chief hints at 'enablement' by Parmalat's banks as fraud grows (27 Jan 2004)
• Preliminary findings of PWC on Parmalat finances (27 Jan 2004)
• Final WorldCom report: Many to blame (27 Jan 2004)
• KMPG defends tax work on former WorldCom (27 Jan 2004)
• Report Criticizes WorldCom Tax Shelters Designed by KPMG (27 Jan 2004)
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• SEC calls for EU, U.S. cooperation on accounting and auditing (27 Jan 2004)
• Bank of England denies botching BCCI role (26 Jan 2004)
• Pious statements from accounting trade associations but reform of auditing firms is organised off the political agenda (26 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat debt is more than €14bn (26 Jan 2004)
• Tyco recommends Deloitte & Touche as auditor (26 Jan 2004)
• Fraud probe increases pressure on Equitable (25 Jan 2004)
• Shake-up at top of 'tax-dodging' KPMG (25 Jan 2004)
• The grand illusion of corporate social responsibility (24 Jan 2004)
• I was deceived, says Versailles founder (24 Jan 2004)
• Grant Thornton contributed to firm's fraudulent reporting (24 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat and creditors joust for offshore subsidiaries (24 Jan 2004)
• Adecco says briefing customers on account problems (24 Jan 2004)
• Accountant questioned in Parmalat affair found dead (24 Jan 2004)
•   Former Computer Associates financial executive pleads guilty  to charges of accounting fraud (24 Jan 2004)
• Tyco Ready to Dismiss PwC as Auditor (24 Jan 2004)
• Enron's accountant surrenders (23 Jan 2004)
• Investigations mount into National Australia Bank currency scandal (23 Jan 2004)
• UK's Fraud Office examines Equitable Life affair (22 Jan 2004)
• Serious fraud office called in to Equitable Life (22 Jan 2004)
• Computer Associates had widespread practice of late booking of contracts to inflate sales figures (23 Jan 2004)
• Grand jury indicts ex-Enron accounting chief (23 Jan 2004)
• EU Urges Tighter Accounting Rules (23 Jan 2004)
• SEC seeks more details on revenue recognition (22 Jan 2004)
• Corporate Social responsibility Report  is just a PR tool for businesses, says report (22 Jan 2004)
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• Former Enron Accountant Faces Fraud Charges (22 Jan 2004)
• Ex-Enron accounting chief indicted on six counts (22 Jan 2004)
• UK Investor groups oppose even more liability concessions for auditors (22 Jan 2004)
• More accounting fraud found at HealthSouth (22 Jan 2004)
• Accounting fraud at HealthSouth could be $4.6 billion (22 Jan 2004)
• Grant Thornton under fire from SEC (22 Jan 2004)
• Accounting company named in mortgage fraud case (22 Jan 2004)
• EU to propose that only one auditor be responsible for overseeing company accounts (22 Jan 2004)
• New EU Accounting Rules On the Way (22 Jan 2004)
• New fraud fears in Italy for Nuovo Mercato (22 Jan 2004)
• Effect of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act 2002 and SEC Final rulings on auditor Independence (21 Jan 2004)
• 'False promises' made at Versailles (21 Jan 2004)
• Goldman Sachs bankers failed to notice trusted employee siphoning millions from personal accounts (21 Jan 2004)
• SEC alleges that Grant Thornton aided company's accounting fraud (21 Jan 2004)
• Grant Thornton and Doeren Mayhew audit of MCA is challenged (21 Jan 2004)
• SEC Charges Grant Thornton Over Audit (21 Jan 2004)
• SEC Institutes Fraud Action Against Accounting Firms Grant Thornton and Doeren Mayhew and Certain of the Firms' Personnel in Connection with Their Audit of MCA Financial Corporation (21 Jan 2004)
• Accountancy firms charade of being "global" (20 Jan 2004)
• Adecco comes under investigation by Swiss (20 Jan 2004)
• Versailles fraudster turns against boss (20 Jan 2004)
• Versailles finance chief made £19m from fraud (20 Jan 2004)
• So how corrupt is the private sector? (20 Jan 2004)
• PARMALAT: AUDITORS INVESTIGATED (20 Jan 2004)
• Eleventh arrest made in Parmalat probe (20 Jan 2004)
• Europeans Slow To Reform Accounting Standards (20 Jan 2004)
• £5 million accounting error at British Vita (20 Jan 2004)
• KPMG chief rakes in 45% pay rise (20 Jan 2004)
• 10% of Korean Firms Commit Accounting Frauds (19 Jan 2004)
• UK Companies Bill will give quoted companies seven months to file audited accounts, US heading for 60 days (19 Jan 2004)
• Few US executives with large loans from their companies had made much effort to repay them (19 Jan 2004)
• Adecco accounts hole 'not fraud' (19 Jan 2004)
• Discrepancies but no fraud at Adecco (19 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat suspects taken to "rebuild" accounts (19 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat probe to include auditing firms (19 Jan 2004)
• KPMG chief's pay leaps to £2.4m (19 Jan 2004)
• KPMG's UK revenues for 2003 are £1,008 million (19 Jan 2004)
• KPMG has global income of US$12.16 billion for 2003 (19 Jan 2004)
• KPMG says 'horrified' by Parmalat (19 Jan 2004)
• Adecco accounting gap estimated at 40-50 million Euros (19 Jan 2004)
• Adecco becomes target of two shareholder suits (18 Jan 2004)
• SEC begins legal action against Hollinger Int'l (18 Jan 2004)
• Searching for the British bezzle (18 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat probe widens to other Tanzi concerns (18 Jan 2004)
• Hollinger sues Conrad Black for $US200 million (18 Jan 2004)
• Accountants’ body suspends former PwC manager (17 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat lenders reveal exposure (17 Jan 2004)
• KCC Files Lawsuit Against Hyundai Over Accounting Fraud (17 Jan 2004)
• Shell disclosure spotlights reserves accounting (17 Jan 2004)
• Adecco ex-CFO takes blame for accounting woes (17 Jan 2004)
• Accident Group Goes into Liquidation (16 Jan 2004)
• Adecco in management shake-up: finance officer resigns (16 Jan 2004)
• LIFTING THE LID-Scandals show risks at far-flung operations (16 Jan 2004)
• KPMG makes changes in tax unit (16 Jan 2004)
• Dutch accounting body probes Parmalat unit auditors, usual deadly silence in the UK (15 Jan 2004)
• SEC investigating Coca-Cola (15 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat's money trail leads to the Netherlands (15 Jan 2004)
• Enron 'mastermind' pleads guilty (15 Jan 2004)
• The world's largest retailer remains under fire over labor law violations (15 Jan 2004)
• Role of Auditing Firms in Scandals is Questionable (15 Jan 2004)
• Adecco's CFO Denies Wrongdoing (15 Jan 2004)
• Former Enron power couple pleads guilty to conspiracy, tax evasion (15 Jan 2004)
• Reserve Accounting Leading Cause of Restatements in 2003 (15 Jan 2004)
• Connolly's Barlow Clowes record attacked (15 Jan 2004)
• Deloitte faces fresh criticism over auditing of casino group (15 Jan 2004)
• Pursuing tax cheating companies would help UK citizens (14 Jan 2004)
• Key Enron boss 'pleading guilty' (14 Jan 2004)
• UK government announces rules for small company audit exemptions ( 14 Jan 2004)
• SEC Takes Closer Look At Computer Associates' Accounting (14 Jan 2004)
• Irregular trades may cost National Australia Bank $A180m (14 Jan 2004)
• National Australia Bank investigates rogue trading (14 Jan 2004)
• SEC Proposes New Investment Company Governance Requirements, New Investment Adviser Codes of Ethics Requirements, and New Confirmation and Point of Sale Disclosure Requirements (14 Jan 2004)
• SEC says 'looking at' oil reserve accounting issue (14 Jan 2004)
• Adecco plays down fears of meltdown in accounts (14 Jan 2004)
• Adecco's woes highlight thorns in merger accounting (14 Jan 2004)
• Finmatica to fire ex-Grant Thornton Italy as auditors (14 Jan 2004)
• Court papers reveal Parmalat's deliberate disguise of Cayman fund (14 Jan 2004)
• Computer Associates faces SEC charges (13 Jan 2004)
• Deloitte's UK Boss Should Step Down over his Barlow Clowes links (13 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat had debt of 13.5 billion euros: former finance head (13 Jan 2004)
• Tetra Pak investigates £47m 'sweeteners' to Parmalat founder (13 Jan 2004)
• Citigroup accuses Parmalat of forging notes (13 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat: Dubious banking helped (13 Jan 2004)
• KPMG claims to be global (13 Jan 2004)
• U.S. regulators open Adecco inquiries, as usual UK is invisible (13 Jan 2004)
• Adecco audit firms used same man (13 Jan 2004)
• Adecco fuels fresh accounting fear (13 Jan 2004)
• We're no Parmalat, Adecco insists (13 Jan 2004)
• 323 US companies restated their financial statements in 2003 (13 Jan 2004)
• 2 YEAR SUSPENSION FOR KPMG AUDITOR BY ITALIAN REGULATOR (13 Jan 2004)
• Americans still furious about corporate scandals (13 Jan 2004)
• Major accounting scandals in the last three years (13 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat ex-accountant alleges supplier paid Tanzis (13 Jan 2004)
• Audit fears wipe 50% off Adecco (13 Jan 2004)
• Time to shoot the auditors? (12 Jan 2004)
• Adecco finds accounting irregularities (12 Jan 2004)
• FACTBOX-Key facts about Adecco
• Adecco (Ernst & Young client) delays 2003 report, cites accounting issues (12 Jan 2004)
• Adecco shares dive on audit fears (12 Jan 2004)
• Shell debacle leads to call for outside audits (12 Jan 2004)
• Adecco S.A. Delays Announcement of FY 2003 Audited Results (12 Jan 2004)
• SEC plans civil suit against IBM over accounting transaction (12 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat accountants' UK chief had central role in Barlow Clowes investment scandal (12 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat financial network reached into Switzerland (12 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat may have set up subsidiaries in Switzerland to hide debt (12 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat money may be in tax havens (12 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat tricked BoA, says former employee (12 Jan 2004)
• Swedish packing firm is linked to Parmalat (12 Jan 2004)
• PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte and KPMG  face apartheid lawsuits (11 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat: could it happen here? (11 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat collapse puts spotlight on tax havens (11 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat Chief Used Fleet to Curry Favor (11 Jan 2004)
• Accounting firms cooking the books and get away with it because they have too much power (9 Jan 2004)
• Financial shaky Standard Life (9 Jan 2004)
• IBM Swept Up In Government Accounting Probe (9 Jan 2004)
• Lawsuit: HealthSouth bankers, auditors knew of company fraud (9 Jan 2004)
• Lawsuit alleges that Ernst & Young and UBS Warburg knew HealthSouth Corp.'s massive accounting fraud (9 Jan 2004)
• Bush gets more support from financial sector (9 Jan 2004)
• Big financial firms, including Enron, become Bush’s top donors (9 Jan 2004)
• Ex-Enron aide stares at five-month jail (9 Jan 2004)
• Background On Enron, US Government Probe (9 Jan 2004)
• Bank of America and  Deloitte dragged into Parmalat inquiry (9 Jan 2004)
• Ninth arrest in Parmalat probe (9 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat probe net hits Canada: Deloitte expected to be removed as Canadian auditor (9 Jan 2004)
• Luxembourg investigates into suspected Parmalat money laundering connection (9 Jan 2004)
• Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority investigates Parmalat link (9 Jan 2004)
• Banks face action over Parmalat (9 Jan 2004)
• Ex-Grant Thornton Italy unit says expulsion unfair (9 Jan 2004)
• Grant Thornton International Expels Italian Unit; Parmalat Drops Auditor Deloitte (9 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat phone operator was 'chief' of 25 units (9 Jan 2004)
• When will international firms come clean?  (need to register) (9 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat parent goes bankrupt, Grant Thornton axed (9 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat fraud probe widens to auditors, ex-banker (9 Jan 2004)
• Have U.S. firms shaped up? As trials loom, investors ask if fraud is lessening (9 Jan 2004)
• Options packages encourage execs to fiddle books (9 Jan 2004)
• Root of financial fraud is still mostly in place (9 Jan 2004)
• PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ernst &Young under scrutiny for promoting patent donations as a tax avoidance strategy (9 Jan 2004)
• House of Lords debate on the Second Reading of the Companies Bill (8 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat not a uniquely Italian mess (8 Jan 2003)
• Italian investigators quiz Deloitte & Touche over their role in the collapse of Parmalat (8 Jan 2004)
• Italy probes Parmalat travel unit (8 Jan 2004)
• £5.4bn Parmalat funds 'in US bank' (8 Jan 2003)
• Luxembourg opens Parmalat money laundering probe (8 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat Scandal Deepens; May Be Biggest Fraud Ever (8 Jan 2004)
• Ireland link to Parmalat (8 Jan 2004)
• UK regulator questions Standard Life's financial state (8 Jan 2004)
• U.S. to force Canadian CAs to disclose past crimes (8 Jan 2004)
• EU Preparing to Toughen Auditing of Companies (8 Jan 2004)
• European Commission weighs stronger accounting controls after Parmalat (8 Jan 2004)
• Grant Thornton displays its 'global' credentials (7 Jan 2004)
• Ahold faces court over accounts (7 Jan 2004)
• New govt body to regulate Singapore accountants (7 Jan 2004)
• SEC to file civil charges against former Qwest Communications executives (7 Jan 2004)
• Audit power of 'Big Four' accountancy firms (7 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat finance boss reveals more (7 Jan 2004)
• Bank and auditors face Parmalat suit (7 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat ensnares Citigroup Deloitte and Grant Thornton (7 Jan 2003)
• Grant Thornton audits only ONE of the FTSE 250 companies (7 Jan 2004)
• Symbol CEO quits over accounting investigation (7 Jan 2004)
• US Government sues Ernst & Young over hospital accounting (7 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat's ex-finance chief fingers founder (6 Jan 2004)
• Ernst & Young accused of enabling caused hospitals  to submit more than 200,000 false claims (6 Jan 2004)
• Countrywide Appoints KPMG LLP as Its New Independent Auditor (6 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat - Grant Thornton loses clients:  Countrywide replacing Grant Thornton as auditor (6 Jan 2004)
• Grant Thornton may expel its Italian team (6 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat shareholders are to sue auditors, bankers and advisers (6 Jan 2004)
• The U.S. member firm of Grant Thornton International accepts no liability for Parmalat (6 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat revelations add up to another scandal for auditors (6 Jan 2004)
• Big Four Auditors' Legal Services  Hit By Sarbanes-Oxley Act (6 Jan 2004)
• Milberg Weiss Files Class Action Suit against Parmalat Finanziaria SpA's Senior Insiders and Its Legal, Accounting and Financial Advisors (6 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat scandal embroils Citigroup (6 Jan 2004)
• Shareholder Suit/Parmalat: Seeking Class Action Status (6 Jan 2004)
• Ex-CFO: Parmalat fiddled the books everywhere (6 Jan 2004)
• Deloitte's role in Parmalat questioned by experts (6 Jan 2004)
• Accounting firms outsourcing jobs to boost profits (6 Jan 2004)
• Whistleblower exposed Billing scam in PricewaterhouseCoopers ( PwC) (5 Jan 2004)
• Symbol Technologies CEO steps down (5 Jan 2004)
• BICO Sues PwC (5 Jan 2004)
• US, EU scandals go different ways (5 Jan 2004)
• Lord Black's directors accused of negligence (5 Jan 2004)
• Year for accountancy to put its house in order (5 Jan 2004)
• SEC Sues Three Additional Former Senior Executives of Gemstar-TV Guide for Their Part in Financial Fraud (5 Jan 2004)
• Big Four audit all of FTSE 100 and 97.5% of FTSE 250 companies (5 Jan 2004)
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• Parmalat Scandal Blow to Grant Thornton's Reputation (5 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat, Enron reveal two opposing approaches to failure (5 Jan 2004)
• One in 10 publicly traded companies in China have doctored their books (5 Jan 2004)
• China: 14 out of 16 accounting firms issued "seriously falsified" reports (5 Jan 2004)
• Grant Thorton shift some backroom work to India (4 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat: US banks caught in spotlight (4 Jan 2004)
• Officials raid Parmalat lawyer's US office (4 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat : How much did the bankers know? (4 Jan 2004)
• Fears for Grant Thornton over Parmalat (4 Jan 2004)
• Prosecutors sort pieces of a broken Parmalat mosaic (4 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat dream goes sour (4 Jan 2004)
• Rotten stench of Italy’s food scandal (3 Jan 2004)
• 'No missing treasure' at Parmalat (3 Jan 2004)
• A lot of cooks involved in this Italian stew (3 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat casts familiar shadow over audit firms (3 Jan 2004)
• Auditing chief resigns in Parmalat probe (2 Jan 2004)
• U.S. Unit of Grant Thornton distances itself from Parmalat scandal (2 Jan 2004)
• Italian Police take Deloitte papers in Parmalat case (2 Jan 2004)
• Grant Thornton accepts resignation of Italian partner (1 Jan 2004)
• Two former CFOs, founder's lawyer, auditing firm boss picked up in Parmalat probe (1Jan 2004)
• Auditor Detained in Parmalat Probe Quits (1 Jan 2004)
• Executive of Grant Thornton Resigns After Parmalat Arrests (1 Jan 2004)
• How Parmalat Went Sour (1 Jan 2004)
• Milking the company (1 Jan 2004)
• More arrests as Parmalat fraud scandal deepens (1 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat scandal to hit Grant Thornton's  global ambitions (1 Jan 2004)