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• Boom Times for the Big Four  (31 Dec 2005)
• A year of reckoning for scandal-tainted CEOs (31 Dec 2005)
• Corporate crooks face the music (31 Dec 2005)
• Enron rears its head again (30 Dec 2005)
  
• Accounting errors vex auto industry (30 Dec 2005)
• Ex-United Way CFO sues agency over bias, KPMG also sued (30 Dec 2005)
• American watchdog moves in on British auditors (28 Dec 2005)
• Ex-Enron accounting chief to plead guilty (28 Dec 2005)
  
• Enron accounting chief in plea talks (26 Dec 2005)
• European audit oversight group set up (23 Dec 2005)
• Prosecutors find Enron case more complex than others (23 Dec 2005)
  
• Singapore: PricewaterhouseCoopers under the spotlight for the audits of National Kidney Foundation(23 Dec 2005)
  
• Singapore: Accounting profession says auditor's role is not to investigate fraud  (23 Dec 2005)
  
• RIP OFR. Does it matter? (22 Dec 2005)
  
• Ex-HealthSouth exec sentenced in scandal (22 Dec 2005)
• SeraCare Life Sciences finds acocunting concerns (22 Dec 2005)
  
• Does the UK accounting standard setting have a future? (22 Dec 2005)
• FRC Publishes its UK Updated Regulatory Strategy and its Plan & Budget 2006/07 (22 Dec 2005)
  
• Deloitte insisted that tax clients sign waiver against future actions (21 Dec 2005)
• Unwins crashes in acrimony (21 Dec 2005)
  
• Two Fined in Lucent Accounting Scandal (21 Dec 2005)
• Retrial for Mannesmann bonus case (21 Dec 2005)
  
• Ex-Qwest boss faces fraud charges (21 Dec 2005)
  
• Ex-Qwest CEO indicted for insider trading (21 Dec 2005)
  
• Bank of America allowed to sue Parmalat in Italy (21 Dec 2005)
  
• Accounting for Pension: UK and Europe 2005 Survey (21 Dec 2005)
• EU rules bring audit regulators closer together (21 Dec 2005)
• Are accounting firms global?: RSM Interntional appoints chief executive (21 Dec 2005)
  
• Are accountancy firms global?: Ernst & Young says so (21 Dec 2005)
• Canadian Critique of Big Four Firms Sounds Familiar (21 Dec 2005)
  
• UK Serious Fraud Office rules out Equitable inquiry (20 Dec 2005)
  
• More than 50 per cent of key managers at Canada's four largest accounting firms have violated auditor independence policies (20 Dec 2005)
• Canada finds deficiencies in the audits conducted by the Big Four firms (20 Dec 2005)
• Read the report "ON QUALITY INSPECTIONS OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRMS"
  
• Big Four firms audits 4000 public companies in Canada (20 Dec 2005)
• FRC lashes out at new EU audit directive (20 Dec 2005)
  
• KPMG International Revenues Up 16.7 Percent  to $15.69 billion (20 Dec 2005)
• Pension payments 'missing' at troubled Unwins (20 Dec 2005)
  
• More money for corporate undetakers: Administrators come in at Unwins (20 Dec 2005)
• Fund told to hand over papers after collapse in Cayman Islands (19 Dec 2005)
  
• Hammer Falls On White-Collar Crime (19 Dec 2005)
• Former Financial Controller of TransBus International Limited (“TransBus”), one of the principal subsidiaries of the Mayflower Corporation plc faces investigation (19 Dec 2005)
• Auditing's Concentration-of-power Puzzle (19 Dec 2005)
• Hollinger: Former Telegraph boss faces racketeering charge (17 Dec 2005)
  
• Independent Insurance executives charged with conspiracy to defraud (17 Dec 2005)
  
• Poachers and gamekeepers: Despite its flawed record on auditing and tax services  former KPMG partner becomes chief audit regulators in US (16 Dec 2005)
• Deloitte partner embroiled in conflict of interest in New Zealand (16 Dec 2005)
  
• EU Orders Off-Balance-Sheet Disclosures (16 Dec 2005)
  
• BCCI creditors get further $500m pay-out (16 Dec 2005)
• Bank of England Warns UK Banks On Exposure To Commercial Property (16 Dec 2005)
• UK Accountant jailed over oil fraud (16 Dec 2005)
• KPMG chief proud of the firm's anti-social activities (16 Dec 2005)
  
• Hollinger: Extra charges mean Black could face 95 years in jail (16 Dec 2005)
  
• European Parliament to hold Equitable Life inquiry (16 Dec 2005)
  
• PricewaterhouseCoopers took 23 years to finalise the liquidation of the Isle of Man-based Savings & Investment Bank (16 Dec 2005)
• PricewaterhouseCoopers swallow half collapsed bank's assets (16 Dec 2005)
  
• Former executive of Ferro Corp. sentenced to four months in prison for falsifying documents and overstating earnings by $1.2 million (16 Dec 2005)
  
• Hollinger: Money laundering added to charges against Black (16 Dec 2005)
  
• 'Administration deal' to rake in fees from LDV (16 Dec 2005)
  
• Ten former executives of Medical Manager Health Systems indicted on conspiracy, money-laundering charges and inflating company earnings (16 Dec 2005)
• PKF dumps ICAEW (15 Dec 2005)
  
• £10.4m loss at Hollinger (15 Dec 2005)
• APB Defers Revision of Standard on Auditor's Reports (15 Dec 2005)
  
• Shell loses UK investor court battle (15 Dec 2005)
  
• The Accident Group: Director must pay back 'wages'(15 Dec 2005)
  
• Fraud at South Africa's JCI and Randgold & Exploration (15 Dec 2005)
  
• US IRS Probes Another KPMG Tax Shelter (15 Dec 2005)
• Former Enron chairman blames CFO for fraud (15 Dec 2005)
  
• South Korean Auditing rules to be tightened (15 Dec 2005)
  
• SEC suits could point the way for Sarbanes-Oxley challenges (15 Dec 2005)
  
• Yes Car Credit collapses (15 Dec 2005)
  
• KPMG under the spotlight again as US investigates questionable tax shelter sold to large corporations  (14 Dec 2005)
• Italian regulator bans two Deloitte auditors for two years (14 Dec 2005)
• Deloitte auditors banned over Parmalat work (14 Dec 2005)
• The Accident Group: Director must pay back £1/4m 'wages  (14 Dec 2005)
  
• First BanCorp shares fall on restatement (14 Dec 2005)
• 'No suit' accounting contracts set off alarms   (14 Dec 2005)
  
• Big Four Look to Limit Liability: Waivers of punitive damages and jury-trial rights are quietly finding their way into audit contracts (14 Dec 2005)
  
• FLAT TAXATION WILL FLATTEN THE PEOPLE HTML version (13 Dec 2005)
• Masters of the Universe: Deloitte will be a global partnership 'within a decade' (13 Dec 2005)
• Deloitte sees big accounting firms evolving into global partnerships (13 Dec 2005)
  
• Big Four accountancy firms take over the UK Conservative Party (13 Dec 2005)
  
• Liquidators tussle with auditors in court (13 Dec 2005)
  
• Approaches to critique of auditing (108 page PDf file) (13 Dec 2005)
• Concentration in the German audit market for credit institutions (14 page PDF file)(13 Dec 2005)
• Auditor Liability: Implications for Auditor Regulation and the Irrational Auditor (44 page PDF file)  (13 Dec 2005)
• SEC Chairman laments lack of audit competition (12 Dec 2005)
  
• Financial Reporting Review Panel widens focus to cover Automobile,  Pharmaceutical, Retail, Transport and Utility companies  (12 Dec 2005)
• Shell in court over improper behaviour claims  (12 Dec 2005)
• Auditor liability and market concentarion across the world (12 Dec 2005)
  
• EU Commissioner is on his knees to auditing firms on auditor liability (12 Dec 2005)
  
• Ernst, KPMG Liability Caps Draw Fire From US Regulators, Investors (12 Dec 2005)
  
• Stock Options: Old Game, New Tricks - Companies are finding ways to lower options costs despite stricter rules (12 Dec 2005)
• Booking the cost of executive share compensation (12 Dec 2005)
• BP chief executive reveals $100m burden of complying with Sarbanes-Oxley (12 Dec 2005)
• Is the Big Four Running Interference for Itself? (12 Dec 2005)
  
• Creditors in Samsung court move (11 Dec 2005)
• INTERNATIONAL financial reporting standards boost the reported profits of Australian companies by 6 per cent (10 Dec 2005)
  
• Gift cards give retailers headache (10 Dec 2005)
  
• Cost of complying with the Sarbox provisions should fall (10 Dec 2005)
• FLAT TAXATION WILL FLATTEN THE PEOPLE  (9 Dec 2005)
  
• SFO nears climax of Independent Insurance inquiries (9 Dec 2005)
• Probe into Compass UN corruption widens (9 Dec 2005)
• US Audit cites insurance fund problems (9 Dec 2005)
• Millfield struggling to avoid FSA shutdown (9 Dec 2005)
  
• Judge rejects SFO's case against Durex (SSL) directors (9 Dec 2005)
  
• Poachers and gamekeepers: Big four accountants sign up to help UK Treasury fight VAT fraud (8 Dec 2005)
• Deloitte to tackle crisis at Langbar (8 Dec 2005)
  
• Ex-KPMG partner settles Xerox claims (8 Dec 2005)
  
• UK Accountants welcome change to UITF 40 (8 Dec 2005)
• BDO grows by 21% as the firm reports record £228m fees (8 Dec 20065)
  
• South Korea to Open Accounting Market in 2007 (8 Dec 2005)
  
• Europe considers upgrades to 4th and 7th Directives (7 Dec 2005)
  
• Accounting for harsh realities (7 Dec 2005)
• PricewaterhouseCoopers and its global network reported combined member firm revenues of $20.3 billion (7 Dec 2005)
  
• Big Four firms audit some 80 per cent of the publicly traded U.S. companies (6 Dec 2005)
  
• SEC Seeks to Simplify Accounting Rules (6 Dec 2005)
• Scandals fed off tangled web of rules, says SEC chief (6 Dec 2005)
• Ex-KPMG Partner Settles SEC Xerox Charges (6 Dec 2005)
  
• Former KPMG partner involved in the Xerox audit banned for one year (6 Dec 2005)
  
• Delphi Investors Seek to Boot Deloitte (6 Dec 2005)
  
• Row over judge delays AWG's £130m lawsuit (6 Dec 2005)
  
• CONTRACTS  AWARDED BY THE UK DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY TO MCKINSEY AND COMPANY IN LAST 5 YEARS (5 Dec 2005)
  
• SOX paying off for accountants (5 Dec 2005)
• Corporate Governance at a Crossroads (5 Dec 2005)
• A Crown farce: how Langbar mislaid £365m (4 Dec 2005)
  
• Baker Tilly refused to sign off Langbar's accounts (4 Dec 2005)
  
• Hollinger indictment marks unusual step in fraud crackdown (4 Dec 2005)
  
• Compass accused of delaying payments to suppliers to make its figures look better (4 Dec 2005)
• Accounting Pill: Accountants are benefiting from the £1bn rise in the cost of regulation (4 Dec 2005)
• What future for social Europe (4 Dec 2005)
• What's the best way to prevent future accounting scandals? Audit insurance (4 Dec 2005)
• Accounting scandals, corporate governance and the audit (4 Dec 2005)
• The Future of the US Accounting Profession  (4 Dec 2005)
  
• Operating and Financial Review (OFR): Caught in its own red tape (3 Dec 2005)
  
• Hollinger: Black banned from leaving America (3 Dec 2005) 
• Detecting, Investigating and Regulating Business Law-Breaking  (3 Dec 2005)
• Chairman refuses to go after Equitable Life drops £3.2bn claim (3 Dec 2005)
• Global story of money laundering (3 Dec 2005)
• Death of Financial Reporting: EC Strategy on Financial Reporting: progress on convergence and consistency (2 Dec 2005)
  
• Hollinger: Conrad Black appears in US court (2 Dec 2005)
• Balance Sheet: Not another task force!  (2 Dec 2005)
  
• Can the Big Four  accountancy firms deliver on pensions? (2 Dec 2005)
  
• Equitable drops directors claim (2 Dec 2005)
• SOX Matters to Investors  (2 Dec 2005)
• EU may delay accepting US accounting standards (1 Dec 2005)  
• Japan: Former Kanebo(audited by ChuoAoyama PricewaterhouseCoopers) execs plead guilty (1 Dec 2005)
• Lambasted consultancy was hired by the UK Treasury (1 Dec 2005)
  
• How the UK government aided Slater-Walker Bank (1 Dec 2005)
  
• US Regulator Says Sarbanes-Oxley Act Audits Are Too Costly and Inefficient (1 Dec 2005)
• Read the 19 page PCAOB Report
• BY THE NUMBERS: THE NEW SOX BREAKDOWN (1 Dec 2005)
  

• SOX Spending for 2006 To Exceed $6B (30 Nov 2005)
• Crime hits nearly half of all global companies whilst auditors sleep (30 Nov 2005)
  
• Former executives at  Japanese cosmetics maker Kanebo plead guilty to falsifying financial statements (30 Nov 2005)
• Cayman Island firms sue Bank of America over Parmalat  (30 Nov 2005)
• UK Fraud office launches inquiry into Langbar (30 Nov 2005)
• Lawyer for Ahold plaintiffs says to sue Deloitte (30 Nov 2005)
  
• PwC Asks for Dismissal of Met Suit  (30 Nov 2005)
  
• Suit links ex-Fannie Mae CEO to fraud (30 Nov 2005)
  
• Fannie Mae chief exec Franklin Raines received more than $40 million in bonuses and other pay as a result of inflated earnings at the biggest U.S. mortgage finance company (30 Nov 2005)
  
• Financial Reporting Council press release on the Operating and Financial Review (29 Nov 2005)
  
• Governance, Accounting Still a Global Concern (29 Nov 2005)
  
• Despite Recent Reforms, Governance and Accounting Are Still Concerns Globally for Investors and Creditors (29 Nov 2005)
• Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Grant Thornton International and  Bank of America named in $1 billion Parmalat lawsuit (29 Nov 2005)
• PriceWaterhouseCoopers asks US federal judge to dismiss claims for the bankruptcy of Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities (29 Nov 2005)
  
• Former chief at of Langbar International at odds with fraud inquiry firm (29 Nov 2005)
• One rule for HSBC and one for others  (29 Nov 2005)
• HSBC flouts City governance guidelines to name new boss (29 Nov 2005)
  
• Big UK investors may insist on good governance reviews (29 Nov 2005)
• Ahold agrees to pay $1.1bn to settle US accounting scandal (29 Nov 2005)
  
• UK Accounting firms await word on work-in-progress tax bills (28 Nov 2005)
• Ahold settles US suit for $1.1bn (28 Nov 2005)
• Ahold settles $1 bn case with US investors - lawsuit against auditors Deloitte & Touhce continues (28 Nov 2005)
  
• HSBC flouts UK corporate governance guidelines (28 Nov 2005)
• Analysts fear IFRS clouds accounts (28 Nov 2005)
  
• IFRS is making life harder, not easier (28 Nov 2005)
  
• Founder of Langbar International, the shell company at the centre of a £365m suspected fraud, defends share sales (28 Nov 2005)
• Friends of the Earth lambasts chancellor over OFR decision (28 Nov 2005)
  
• UK scraps Operating and Financial Review (OFR) in bid to cut red tape (28 Nov 2005)
• Read the Full text of the ministerial speech
  
• Cayman Liquidators Bring Parmalat-Related Suits Against Bank of America, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and Grant Thornton International; Two Lawsuits Seek Almost $1 Billion for Cayman Companies (27 Nov 2005)
  
• Australian Court tells negligent PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) to pay $4.7m (27 Nov 2005)
• Hollinger: Black plays Canadian card to ease possible jail term (27 Nov 2005)
  
• AIG ex-boss avoids criminal case (26 Nov 2005)
• Fraud inquiry starts into shell firm's missing millions (26 Nov 2005)
• JOINT AND SEVERAL LIABILITY AND PROFESSIONAL DEFENDANTS:  OPTIONS DISCUSSION PAPER IN CANADA (25 Nov 2005)
• Political Economy of the Accounting Collapse in U.S (25 Nov 2005)
  
• Case Summary: University of Keele v Price Waterhouse (25 Nov 2005)
• This is not WorldCom: Black on Hollinger (25 Nov 2005)
• APB Finalises Bulletins Providing Guidance for Auditors on the Application of IFRSs, and Updated Example Auditor's Reports (25 Nov 2005)
  
• US Companies Review Stock-Option Accounting (25 Nov 2005)
  
• Sanctuary to face $50m fraud suit (25 Nov 2005)
  
• British accountant to begin US jail sentence (25 Nov 2005)
  
• Ryanair faces Belgium fraud claims (24 Nov 2005)
  
• Canadian Business income trusts overvalued by $20B amid accounting 'abuses' (24 Nov 2005)
  
• DTI bans accountant for forging audit signature (24 Nov 2005)
• Guilty plea likely to be dropped in Enron and Andersen case (24 Nov 2005)
  
• PCAOB Enforcement Chief Warns Auditors (23 Nov 2005)
  
• US rules out Enron retrial for Andersen (23 Nov 2005)
• Enron CEO Requests $25M 'Success Fee' (23 Nov 2005)
• EU Company Law Action Plan: Setting Future Priorities (23 Nov 2005)
  
• New European Forum on limitation of auditor liability (22 Nov 2005)
  
• Accountancy Firms control Euro forum on auditor Liability
• FSA warns on accounting firm dominance (22 Nov 2005)
• Financial Engineering, Corporate Governance, and the Collapse of Enron (22 Nov 2005)
  
• Option expensing in the US will result in a 4.2 percent decrease in earnings for the S&P 500 (22 Nov 2005)
  
• Option Expensing in the US: The Time Is at Hand (22 Nov 2005)
  
• Hollinger: Black battling to avoid court appearance (22 Nov 2005)
• Hollinger: Former Telegraph owner is on eight counts of fraud (22 Nov 2005)
  
• UK Financier guilty of £76m fraud (21 Nov 2005)
• Going After the Lawyers in Refco's Stunning Fall (21 Nov 2005)
• Ahold shareholders might sue Deloitte (21 Nov 2005)
  
• Delphi and directors sued for accounting fraud (21 Nov 2005)
  
• Rover 'has cost UK taxpayer £231m' (19 Nov 2005)
  
• MG Rover inquiry bill doubles to £23,000 a day (18 Nov 2005)
• US Audits 'another body blow for accounting firms' (18 Nov 2005)
  
• US Regulator Finds Audit Deficiencies at 3 Audit Firms (18 Nov 2005)
• 'Deficiencies' found at PwC and E&Y (18 Nov 2005)
  
• US regulator has Has Harsh Words for PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young Audits (18 Nov 2005)
• PCAOB Report on PwC
• PCAOB report on Ernst & Young
• PCAOB Report on BDO Seidman
  
• Despite mega fine there is no shame: KPMG warns government of erosion in trust over tax policy (18 Nov 2005)
• Thick or What: KPMG chief defends tax avoidance and tax havens (18 Nov 2005)
• Hollinger (ex KPMG client): Criminal charges await Conrad Black, Executives accused of siphoning $80 million (18 Nov 2005)
  
• Hollinger (ex KPMG client): Black facing 20 years for fraud (18 Nov 2005)
  
• Hollinger (ex KPMG client): Conrad Black denies fraud charges (18 Nov 2005)
• Colorado fines casinos for accounting violations (18 Nov 2005)
• Common Sense Solutions to Ensure Accounting Integrity  (17 Nov 2005)
  
• Deloitte to be spared BCCI bill (17 Nov 2005)
• KPMG 'put profits above ethics' (17 Nov 2005)
  
• Vodafone in £2bn tax battle (16 Nov 2005)
• Vodafone shares in a tailspin after revealing £5bn tax hit (16 Nov 2005)
• Defense document subpoena in Qwest case OK'd  (16 Nov 2005)
  
• Fair Value Accounting Rule Kicks in Europe (16 Nov 2005)
• Accounting's new frontier: Pensions (16 Nov 2005)
• Enron banking trio seek judicial review (15 Nov 2005)
• EU European endorses the amended International Accounting Standard (IAS) N° 39 on Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement, the “Fair Value Option” (15 Nov 2005)
  
• Failure of Corporate Ethics  (15 Nov 2005)
  
• Judge denies bail to KPMG executive accused in tax shelter fraud (15 Nov 2005)
  
• EU Company Law Action Plan: Setting Future Priorities (14 Nov 2005)
• Accountants flogging their LLP wares to lawyers (14 Nov 2005)
  
• More Fees Please: Accountants don't like UK tax avoidance crackdown (13 Nov 2005) 
  
• PricewaterhouseCoopers finance manager jailed for two years for embezzling (12 Nov 2005)
  
• Bank of England seeks £70m costs from Deloitte (12 Nov 2005)
  
• Bank of England bid to claw back BCCI costs (11 Nov 2005)
• VW corruption scandal probe to cost 5m euros (11 Nov 2005)
  
• Senior partner raises IFRS regulation fears (11 Nov 2005)
  
• Former chief executive of  Refco hid losses for more than 10 years (11 Nov 2005)
• GM seeks to settle accounting case with US regulator (11 Nov 2005)
  
• General Motors overstated profits by $400m (11 Nov 2005)
  
• Advisers take flak following BCCI and Equitable flops (10 Nov 2005)
• Fannie Mae discloses new accounting errors  (10 Nov 2005)
  
• Stripped down UK company law seen as threat to environment (10 Nov 2005)
• Federal prosecutors in Manhattan wanted to stick a criminal charge to KPMG (10 Nov 2005)
  
• General Motors reveals $300m accounting error (10 Nov 2005)
• Accounting errors add to Kodak loss (10 Nov 2005)
  
• US watchdog probes CSFB role in Refco (10 Nov 2005)
• Ousted Shell boss cleared over reserves scandal (10 Nov 2005)
• AIG Finds More Accounting Problems  (10 Nov 2005)
  
• AIG to restate results again (9 Nov 2005)
• AIG finds more accounting errors (9 Nov 2005)
  
• BearingPoint to Delay Report Filing Again (9 Nov 2005)
  
• Freddie Mac blames old computers for accounting error (9 Nov 2005)
• Conflict of interest in UK Company Law Reform Bill (8 Nov 2005)
  
• Pension-accounting rule under fire (8 Nov 2005)
  
• PwC paid £6.6m from MG Rover collapse (8 Nov 2005)
• German Truck company wins huge damages claim in fraud trial, E&Y cleared of any liability (8 Nov 2005)
  
• ICAS opposes shareholder approval of Auditor liability 'cap' (8 Nov 2005)
  
• Firm that pitched Bayou facing questions (8 Nov 2005)
• MG Rover Insolvency: Is £6.6m fee fair for service provided? (8 Nov 2005)
  
• PwC Pays Another $28M over Telxon (8 Nov 2005)
• Sidley KPMG tax shelter fine settles at $45m (8 Nov 2005)
  
• Prosecutor: Ex-KPMG exec is flight risk  (8 Nov 2005)
  
• Lawyers query UK Company Law Reform Bill proposals (8 Nov 2005)
• U.K. Considers Limiting Auditor Liability  (8 Nov 2005)
  
• Chantrey Vellacott DFK chief fined and reprimanded over charity accounts (7 Nov 2005)
• PwC dragged into Refco controversy (7 Nov 2005)
• UK Auditors spared jail in Company Law Reform Bill (7 Nov 2005)
  
• Parmalat back from the brink (7 Nov 2005)
• FASB Chips Away at Revenue Recognition (7 Nov 2005)
  
• BCCI: Old ladies should stay off high horses (6 Nov 2005)
• Deloitte should pay dearly for BCCI fiasco (6 Nov 2005)
  
• UK regulator gets tough with water bosses (6 Nov 2005)
  
• Out, damned BCCI spot (5 Nov 2005)
  
• 7 from Andersen face Texas Enron action (4 Nov 2005)
• Former exec at Bon Secours subsidiary charged (4 Nov 2005)
• Bank of England  to reclaim its £70 million in BCCI costs (4 Nov 2005)
  
• BCCI creditors seek UK govt probe into Deloitte's court action   (4 Nov 2005)  
• U.S. Foodservice Vendors Face Accounting Charges  (4 Nov 2005)
  
• Nortel Discloses Additional Subpoena For Accounting Records (4 Nov 2005)
• US not ready for accounting convergence (4 Nov 2005)
• New UK law proposes to cap claims against auditors (4 Nov 2005)
  
• UK government publishes its new and inadequate Company Law Bill (3 Nov 2005)
• Read the 2005 Companies Bill
  
• Despite scandals PwC reasserts its position with $20bn revenues (3 Nov 2005)
• PwC Reports $20.3 billion 2005 Global Revenues (3 Nov 2005)
• 'Enron Three' will test UK's new extradition law (3 Nov 2005)
• Mercury top execs resign in accounting scandal (3 Nov 2005)
• Stock-option Manipulation at Mercury (3 Nov 2005)
• UK Watchdog probes Big Four transparency (3 Nov 2005)
  
• GE says SEC probe into hedge accounting for derivatives now formal (3 Nov 20050
  
• SEC Charges Seven Individuals with Aiding and Abetting Financial Fraud at Royal Ahold's U.S. Foodservice Subsidiary for Signing And Returning False Audit Confirmations (3 Nov 2005)
  
• Accountants fill their pockets: MG Rover administration bill £5m and rising (3 Nov 2005)
• Compass sacks UK boss in corruption probe (3 Nov 2005)
  
• UN case triggers Compass sackings (3 Nov 2005)
• BCCI: Bitter victory for the Bank of England (3 Nov 2005)
  
• Bank of England moves to recover £75m BCCI legal costs (3 Nov 2005)
  
• Deloitte's failed BCCI case against Bank of England cost £100 million (3 Nov 2005)
  
• BCCI Scandal seeped into every corner of Britain (3 Nov 2005)
  
• Liquidators drop BCCI claim for £850m against Bank of England (3 Nov 2005)
• Timeline: BCCI case (3 Nov 2005)
• Rival Plaintiffs Firms to Appeal $225M KPMG Ruling (3 Nov 2005)
  
• Qwest pays $400m to settle investors' lawsuits (2 Nov 2005)
• SEC to Begin Random Checks of Investment Firms (2 Nov 2005)
• £850m BCCI case collapses (2 Nov 2005)
  
• BCCI: The end of an epic (2 Nov 2005)
  
• BCCI liquidators drop £1bn case (2 Nov 2005)
• Landmark BCCI battle ends as liquidators abandon court fight (2 Nov 2005)
  
• BCCI ends as Deloitte, Lovells call halt (2 Nov 2005)
• KPMG Deal Gets Preliminary OK: Average payout for tax-shelter clients would amount to $750,000 (2 Nov 2005)
  
• KPMG $225M Tax Shelter Deal Moves Forward (2 Nov 2005)
  
• MBIA, AIG near settling civil accounting probes (2 Nov 2005)
  
• Angry shareholders may sue Shell over tax bill (1 Nov 2005)
• E&Y pension deficit grows to £230m (1 Nov 2005)
• SEC, PCAOB Seek Refco Info from Grant Thornton (1 Nov 2005)
• SEC calls in Grant Thornton over Refco audit (1 Nov 2005)
• KPMG Settlement Gets Preliminary Approval (1 Nov 2005)
  
• US Judge grants preliminary approval to $225 million KPMG settlement (1 Nov 2005)
  
• UK Fraud office probe into Severn Trent (1 Nov 2005)
• UK SFO opens investigation into Severn Trent figures (1 Nov 2005)
• Accounting complaint in a Spanish utility takeover battle  (1 Nov 2005)
  
• Fraud probe at Severn Trent Water (1 Nov 2005)

• 'Tax us if you can' [English language)
• 'Tax us if you can' [French language)
• 'Tax us if you can' [Portuguese language]
• Delay to ex-Refco chief's hearing (31 Oct 2005)
• The Ostrich Farming Corporation Limited (31 Oct 2005)
• Brussels to circumvent national veto in company tax law (31 Oct 2005)
• US Congressional critic hounds Accenture (31 Oct 2005)
• SEC, PCAOB Seek Refco Info from Grant Thornton (31 Oct 2005)
  
• Delphi gets $2bn finance package (29 Oct 2005)
• Equitable drops claim against ex-director  (29 Oct 2005)
• Former RBG Resources chief on fraud plot charge (29 Oct 2005)
  
• GM is not the only target as SEC eyes pensions problems  (29 Oct 2005)
  
• Compass calls in auditors to probe subsidiary corruption (28 Oct 2005)
  
• SEC begins inquiry into General Motors accounting practices (28 Oct 2005)
• Venture firms' fraud sparks fear of wider problem  (28 Oct 2005)
• How the Big Four are re-entering the consulting market (28 Oct 2005)
  
• New Hermes chief signals increased shareholder activism (28 Oct 2005)
  
• US Senators Question Ernst & Young Tax Shelter Letters (27 Oct 2005)
• Refco arm's boss aids inquiries into 'fraud' (27 Oct 2005)
• Accountant Sentenced in $120 Million Tax Shelter Case (27 Oct 2005)
• KPMG loses Shell audit (27 Oct 2005)
  
• Royal Dutch Shell sacks KPMG, keeps PwC as sole auditor (27 Oct 2005)
• PricewaterhouseCoopers to pay out over Yoomedia flotation (27 Oct 2005)
• Boss of Unwins resigns on financial woes (27 Oct 2005)
  
• Eurotunnel misses its own loans deadline (27 Oct 2005)
• US Watchdog forces General Motors to open books (27 Oct 2005)
  
• General Motors accounts probed by regulators (27 Oct 2005)
  
• ICAEW-CIPFA merger rejected (25 Oct 2005)
  
• KPMG EXECS PLEAD NOT GUILTY OF SELLING ILLEGAL TAX SHELTERS (25 Oct 2005)
• Former KPMG officials to be arraigned in tax case (25 Oct 2005)
• Ex-KPMG Tax Partner Denied Bail (25 Oct 2005)
  
• KPMG partners in line for £550,000 Christmas bonus as revenues soar (25 Oct 2005)
  
• Poor staff training forces KPMG's ex-consulting unit BearingPoint to manually re-create 2004 accounting data (25 Oct 2005)
  
• KPMG to pay £59m bonus to staff in UK (25 Oct 2005)
• IFRS3 under attack from Europeans (25 Oct 2005)
  
• Bawag faces class action on Refco (24 Oct 2005)
• US boom in audit work helps KPMG boost profit and revenues to $15.7bn (24 Oct 2005)
  
• KPMG revenues climb 16% despite tax shelters scandal (24 Oct 2005)
• Classification and Analysis of Major European Business Failures (65 page PDF File) (22 Oct 2005)
• Man Group hits back at 'posturing' over cover-up allegations  (22 Oct 2005)
  
• The Accident Group: Text-sacking boss faces DTI ban (22 Oct 2005)
• PricewatehouseCoopers in  $10m sex law suit (21 Oct 2005)
• New date set for Deloitte's Semple Cochrane hearing (21 Oct 2005)
  
• Auditors should not be selling consulting services to audit clients, says IOSCO Director (21 Oct 2005)
  
• US Judge Asked to Deny Bail to Former KPMG Partner (21 Oct 2005)
  
• MFI denies rumours of financial meltdown (21 Oct 2005)
• Big firms should set the tone on audit, says EU Commissioner (21 Oct 2005)
  
• Compass chief suspended in UN contracts scandal (21 Oct 2005)
  
• Time 'running out' for Refco rescue (20 Oct 2005)
• Grant Thornton 'can bear Refco meltdown' (20 Oct 2005)
• Ex-CFO of KPMG among 10 Newly Indicted for Tax Evasion (20 Oct 2005)
  
• Nyfix to restate past financial results (20 Oct 2005)
• U.S. Arrests Former KPMG Executive in Tax Case, Fearing He Will Flee (20 Oct 2005)
  
• Samil PwC Files Lawsuit Against South Korean Regulator (19 Oct 2005)
• Grant Thornton facing huge claims over Refco collapse (19 Oct 2005)
  
• Austrian bank left exposed by fallout from Refco collapse (19 Oct 2005)
• Did SOX Have a Role at Refco? (19 Oct 2005)
  
• 100 Group voices IASB concerns (19 Oct 2005)
• Refco prompts review of audit rules (19 Oct 2005)
  
• TRANSNATIONALITY MATTERS: Related Party International Transactions in the
  Australian Food Industry (19 Oct 2005)
• Enron lawsuits prompt $500-million charge at RBC (18 Oct 2005)
• It is Impossible to secure redress from UK Auditors: High Court decision in Sir Elton john  and Price Waterhouse (18 Oct 2005)
• PDF version of the judgement
  
• Equitable Life drops a further part of negligence claim (18 Oct 2005)
• Missing assets prompt probe into Granville accounts (18 Oct 2005)
  
• 400 accountants belonging to Japan's four largest auditing firms have worked with the same clients for more than seven years (18 Oct 2005)
  
• KPMG Found Using a Tax Shelter It Sold (18 Oct 2005)
• Are Accountancy Firms Global?: DiPiazza Reappointed PricewaterhouseCopopers (PwC) Global Chief (18 Oct 2005)
  
• US Prosecutors' new indictment in KPMG case (18 Oct 2005)
• Ten more charged in KPMG tax shelter probe (18 Oct 2005)
  
• More partners charged in KPMG tax fraud (18 Oct 2005)
  
• Opaque Accounts: British American Tobacco has secretly been operating a factory in North Korea for the past four years (17 Oct 2005)
• Miers' firm busted 3 times for aiding investment cheats: US Federal probe opened in law group's blessing of Ernst & Young tax shelter (17 Oct 2005)
• SUPERSEDING INDICTMENT OF 19 INDIVIDUALS FILED IN KPMG CRIMINAL TAX FRAUD CASE (17 Oct 2005)
  
• Is Miers firm under criminal investigation?, Ernst & Young implicated (17 Oct 2005)
• Refco heads for bankruptcy protection as rivals seek to cherry-pick the leftovers (17 Oct 2005)
• The Auditor-Investor ''Expectation Gap'' (17 Oct 2005)
• Blame it on people: Investors ask too much, says Deloitte chief (17 Oct 2005)
  
• Two Leicester-based accountants have been charged with fraud (17 Oct 2005)
  
• Refco Scandal Leads to Suit against Grant Thornton (17 Oct 2005)
• £8m of missing assets at Granville Technology Group (16 Oct 2005)
  
• City broker's £56m 'black hole' (16 Oct 2005)
• Refco: an iceberg to sink world finance?  (16 Oct 2005)
• Man Group eyes Refco (16 Oct 2005)
• Hedge funds are out of control - will they strangle the world's finances (16 Oct 2005)
  
• Banks hit by Refco backlash (16 Oct 2005)
• Ireland HSE moves to end its contract with Deloitte (16 Oct 2005)
  
• US Regulator limits trading at Refco as broker shuts securities arm (15 Oct 2005)
• UK Accountants charged with fraud plot (15 Oct 2005)
  
• Crisis at Refco Raises Questions About Accounting (15 Oct 2005)
• KPMG's Tax shelters weren't too bright (15 Oct 2005)
  
• Snouts in the Trough: South Africa Auditors lash out at liability clause  (14 Oct 2005)
• Taxman's tentacles and auditor arm-twisting are here to stay (14 Oct 2005)
• Deloitte and Touche received €60m for working on the two health service computer systems now terminated (14 Oct 2005)
  
• Grant Thornton faces Refco questions (14 Oct 2005)
  
• Chicago's Grant Thornton sued over Refco scandal (14 Oct 2005)
• KPMG Found Using a Tax Shelter --which the IRS later found to be abusive--to book a $34 million deduction on its 2001 tax return (14 Oct 2005)
• Don't chuckle, Refco scandal hits us all (14 Oct 2005)
  
• Accountants ignorant about fraud (14 Oct 2005)
  
• AMERICA'S LOOMING ACCOUNTING CRISIS (14 Oct 2005)
  
• Fresh look at UK pension black holes (14 Oct 2005)
• Pension accounting rules could be relaxed after employer anger (14 Oct 2005)
• World's hedge funds face crisis as Refco suspends trading (14 Oct 2005)
• Fuzzy lines at KPMG? (13 Oct 2005)
• Ernst & Young could face biggest-ever UK disciplinary fine (13 Oct 2005)
  
• Refco: British high-flier 'hid £309m debt' (13 Oct 2005)
  
• ICAS opposes merged institute name in UK parliament (13 Oct 2005)
  
• AIG: The 'wickedness' of the wicked and the 'mischief' of the virtuous (12 Oct 2005)
• Harriet Miers enabled abusive tax shelters?: Ernst & Young implicated (12 Oct 2005)
  
• Refco (audited by Grant Thornton) chief 'used hedge fund to mask debt' (12 Oct 2005)
  
• Dana Corp. will restate earnings to fix improper accounting (12 Oct 2005)
  
• SEC launches informal probe into Refco (12 Oct 2005)
• EU 8th Company Law Directive on statutory audit (11 Oct 2005)
  
• PCAOB Criticizes Deloitte Audits  (11 Oct 2005)
• Barlow Clowes judgement upheld (11 Oct 2005)
  
• Certificate of Deposits (CDs) Used for Accounting Fraud (11 Oct 2005)
  
• BCCI Acrimony and legal fees mount up in Deloitte-Bank of England saga (11 Oct 2005)
  
• Ex-KPMG Partner Settles on Xerox Charges (11 Oct 2005)
  
• FASB and the Liability-Equity Split (11 Oct 2005)
• We haven't learned the Enron lesson (11 Oct 2005)
  
• Refco's CEO on leave after $430M debt issue raised (11 Oct 2005)
  
• Scandal rocks New York brokerage firm: Accounts cannot be relied upon for accuracy (11 Oct 2005)
  
• Switch to LLP status brings change to profit reporting in accountancy firms (10 Oct 2005)
  
• How Delphi's downward spiral started (10 Oct 2005)
  
• SEC opens inquiry into Man's $175m hedge fund losses (10 Oct 2005)
• Tax Shelters and KPMG: Sorting Out Legal Issues (8 Oct 2005)
  
• Equitable witness becomes KPMG audit chief (7 Oct 2005)
  
• SEC sues 3 ex-Andersen execs for fraudulent audits at American Tissue in Hauppauge (7 Oct 2005)
• Three ex-Andersen accountants Charged for American Tissue Audit (7 Oct 2005)
  
• Former KPMG accountant fined $100,000 over the Xerox audit (7 Oct 2005)
• Former KPMG Partner Pays $100,000 to Settle SEC Litigation Relating to Xerox Audits (7 Oct 2005)
  
• Deloitte receives criticisms from US Regulator (7 Oct 2005)
• Read the Report on Deloittes
  
• Pension funds sue Delphi over accounting  (7 Oct 2005)
  
• Funds sue Delphi over 3rd-party deals (7 Oct 2005)
  
• Regulators debate global regulation for Big Four accountancy firms (6 Oct 2005)
  
• Sidley and KPMG agree ‘cookie cutter’ tax claims settlement (6 Oct 2005)
  
• ICAS reaches agreement with human rights insolvency accountant claimant (6 Oct 2005)
• ICAS STATEMENT ON PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT FINDINGS AGAINST LEONARD HARRIS CA (6 Oct 2005)
• Scottish Court quashes an insolvency disciplinary hearing against accountant (6 Oct 2005)
  
• Delphi Sued over Inventory Deals (5 Oct 2005)
  
• MCI to Pay $331 Million to Settle Accounting Fraud Charges (5 Oct 2005)
  
• No shame in accountancy world: 14 years after BCCI collapse  Price Waterhouse to face a disciplinary tribunal (5 Oct 2005)
  
• Parmalat sues Credit Suisse bank (5 Oct 2005)
• Japan to strengthen measures to prevent auditing fraud (5 Oct 2005)
  
• When numbers don't add up (5 Oct 2005)
  
• PricewaterhouseCoopers to review Kanebo fraud case (5 Oct 2005)
• Three ChuoAoyama PricewaterhouseCoopers accountants indicted for helping Kanebo to conceal liabilities (5 Oct 2005)
• Deloitte Partners Charged by SEC (5 Oct 2005)
  
• Charges filed against two Adelphia auditors (5 Oct 2005)
  
• SEC Charges Adelphia Deloitte & Touche Accountants (5 Oct 2005)
• Equitable and BCCI's costly and difficult actions (5 Oct 2005)
  
• Bank of England vows to fight £850m BCCI case to the finish (5 Oct 2005)
  
• Bank of England  turns down BCCI settlement (5 Oct 2005)
  
• UK Company auditors have far reaching rights to secure information from anyone connected with the company (4 Oct 2005)
  
• Also see the Companies Act 2004
• The Statutory Instrument making the law effective
  
• New UK Regulations on Disclosure of Auditor Remuneration come into force (4 Oct 2005)
  
• New UK laws on the revision of defective accounts come into operation (4 Oct 2005)
• Deloitte's hospital audit fails state standards (4 Oct 2005)
  
• PCAOB Finds 18 KPMG Auditing Flaws (4 Oct 2005)
  
• Incomparable Accounting Standards (4 Oct 2005)
  
• Ernst & Young reaps £945m from City's enthusiasm for advice (4 Oct 2005)
  
• Former Tyco bosses refused bail (4 Oct 2005)
• Equitable Life drops negligence claims against two ex-directors (4 Oct 2005)
  
• Equitable drops claim against ex-directors (3 Oct 2005)
• The role of ethics in daily life as we choose between ... Right and Wrong (3 Oct 2005)
• Man Group in trading probe (3 Oct 2005)
  
• Another Look at Auditor Independence (3 Oct 2005)
• Red-tape boom boosts Ernst & Young's UK fees to £945 million (3 Oct 2005)
• KPMG Receives Critical PCAOB Inspection; Agrees to Tax Shelter Payout (3 Oct 2005)
  
• KPMG Had Doubts About Its Tax Shelters, Memos Show (need to register to read this)  (3 Oct 2005)
• PCAOB Finds Hefty KPMG Audit Errors (3 Oct 2005)
• Deloitte under fire for ‘conflicts‘ in South Africa's Nampak BEE deal  (2 Oct 2005)
• City firm faces £100m rogue trader action (1 Oct 2005)
• Accountancy firm accused of establishing a labyrinthine network of criminal offshore tax avoidance schemes (1 Oct 2005)
• PricewaterhouseCoopers responsible for paying a $182.9 million to Ambassador Insurance Co (1 Oct 2005)
  
• SEC accuses two auditors in Adelphia fraud (1 Oct 2005)
  
• Deloitte Partners Charged by SEC in the accounting fraud scandal at Adelphia Communications (1 Oct 2005)
  

• Empty promises in Bayou hedge fund fraud (30 Sep 2005)
• Swiss Bank Says Parmalat Suing It for $48B (30 Sep 2005)
• US Regulator  to Auditors: Don't look to Lawmakers For Liability Protection (30 Sep 2005)
• KPMG appoints global chief executive (30 Sep 2005)
• Case settled by KPMG on shelters  (30 Sep 2005)
  
• Law Firm and KPMG Settle $195 million Suit by Tax Clients (30 Sep 2005)
• US Regulator criticises KPMG audits (30 Sep 2005)
• Read the 29 page  PCAOB Report
  
• New Accounting Questions for Fannie Mae (30 Sep 2005)
• Are Accountancy firms global?: KPMG appoints global chief executive (29 Sep 2005)
  
• Corporate dismay as Tweedie lays out fresh IASB reform agenda (29 Sep 2005)
  
• EU lawmakers approve new auditor independence rules (29 Sep 2005)
• EU Approves Auditor Oversight Rules (29 Sep 2005)
  
• EU No to compulsory auditing committees (29 Sep 2005)
  
• EU steps up auditing rules of listed companies (29 Sep 2005)
• Read Reinforcing the statutory audit in the EU
  
• Criminal investigation of accounting at auto supplier  Delphi expands as firm considers bankruptcy (29 Sep 2005)
  
• Probe deepens at gun maker Taser (29 Sep 2005)
• Fannie Accounting Probes Find Problems (29 Sep 2005)
  
• Parmalat fraud trial is suspended (29 Sep 2005)
• Hollinger: Protecting investors' rights (29 Sep 2005)
  
• PENSION CRISIS: A POLITICAL FAILURE: AABA Submission to the Pension Commission (28 Sep 2005)
• Parmalat's founder goes on trial (28 Sep 2005)
• Mid-tier auditors under pressure to break UK stranglehold of big four firms (28 Sep 2005)
  
• Fraud Charges for Five Former Cornerstone Propane  Executives (28 Sep 2005)
• UK government investigates Big Four accountancy firm dominance (28 Oct 2005)
  
• South Africa President hears AABA message and lays into corrupt accountants (27 Sep 2005)
  
• Supervisory chief defends Bank of England over BCCI collapse (27 Sep 2005)
• KPMG settles Finance Credit claims in Norway (27 Sep 2005)
  
• KPMG Settles Norway Case for $53.6M  (27 Sep 2005)
  
• Japan: Public trust in auditors shattered once more (27 Sep 2005)
• South Korean Firms Confessing Wrongdoings Go Free (27 Sep 2005)
  
• Small Fries Know Accounting Tricks, Too (27 Sep 2005)
• Stakeholder concerns continue to be neglected in CSR (27 Sep 2005)
• UK Serious Fraud Office is investigating allegations that a large sum of money has been misappropriated from Merlin Biosciences (27 Sep 2005)
  
• Accountants fail to recover funds from the Plumber (27 Sep 2005)
  
• Berlusconi, ex-Fininvest managers acquitted of false accounting charge (26 Sep 2005)
• UK Institutional investors call for audit fee increase (26 Sep 2005)
  
• Deloitte & Touche will pay a reported $250 million to settle fraud claims over its audits of Fortress Re (26 Sep 2005)
• TNT begins tax probe at non-UK units; outcome could affect results (26 Sep 2005)
  
• Former chief financial officer for HealthSouth sentenced to 27 months in prison (26 Sep 2005)
  
• MERLIN Biosciences, the investment fund is being investigated by the UK Serious Fraud Office (26 Sep 2005)
• Left objects to World Bank and Pricewaterhouse role in Delhi project (26 Sep 2005)
• They always want more: US urged to limit big four's exposure to claims (25 Sep 2005)
  
• Pressure grows for Equitable crisis vote (25 Sep 2005)
• Equitable Life and Ernst & Young fiasco (25 Sep 2005)
• Agway investors sue PricewaterhouseCoopers and company executives (24 Sep 2005)
  
• Met Mortgage sues PricewaterhouseCoopers for alleged negligence (24 Sep 2005)
  
• Met Mortgage sues PriceWaterhouseCoopers (24 Sep 2005)
• Chairman of the US Public Company Accounting Oversight Board will resign his position (24 Sep 2005)
  
• Accountants who conduct company audits should not undertake other work for the same client. says Netherland regulator (23 Sep 2005)
  
• Ernst & Young has no right to gloat (23 Sep 2005)
• Equitable Life drops £700m claim for damages from Ernst & Young  (23 Sep 2005)
  
• Poachers and Gatekeepers: PWC hires UK pension regulator’s Farr (23 Sep 2005)
  
• WorldCom investors to get $6bn and Ebbers's house (22 Sep 2005)
  
• KPMG helped its US clients to evade tax but the UK government gives it £6 million tax contract (22 Sep 2005)
• JDS to push on with E&Y tribunal (22 Sep 2005)
  
• Equitable Life abandons high court claim against Ernst & Young (22 Sep 2005)
• Equitable and E&Y reach a settlement (22 Sep 2005)
• Equitable drops £2bn damages claim (22 Sep 2005)
  
• Equitable drops action and picks up bill for £30m (22 Sep 2005)
  
• UK FDs divided over ethics and tax avoidance (21 Sep 2005)
  
• South Sulawesi police insist that detained Malaysian KPMG accountants must be called to acocunts (21 Sep 2005)
  
• The accounting ploy that puts UK Royal Mail £537m into profit (21 Sep 2005)
  
• Conrad Black's right-hand man pleads guilty to $32m fraud (21 Sep 2005)
  
• Baugur boss fraud case thrown out (21 Sep 2005)
• PwC must pay A$1.6m for breach (20 Sep 2005)
  
• Former Tyco chiefs jailed for $150m corporate theft (20 Sep 2005)
  
• Tyco two get up to 25 years' jail for stealing $150m (£82m) from the company (20 Sep 2005)
  
• Global Witness calls for Reform of International Accounting Standards for Oil, Gas & Mining Offers Opportunity for Greater Transparency (19 Sep 2005)
  • Read the Report: Extracting Transparency
• French market regulator call for IFRS clarity (19 Sep 2005)
  
• Equitable 'is on brink of a deal with ex-auditors' (19 Sep 2005)
  
• Equitable Life case returns to court as peace talks fail (19 Sep 2005)
• Energy firms told to say what they pay to foreign regimes (18 Sep 2005)
  
• Fraud charges cloud Baugur boss's future (18 Sep 2005)
  
•  Report From A General In The SEC's War (18 Sep 2005)
• Hollinger International agrees to settle $20 million class lawsuits (17 Sep 2005)
• Ex-Hollinger lawyer charged (17 Sep 2005)
  
• Tokyo Stock Exchange calls for proper auditing of corporate financial statements (17 Sep 2005)
• E&Y grills witnesses on Equitable's bonus claim (16 Sep 2005)
  
• ACCA members reject the Colonial Model (16 Sep 2005)
  
• US Tax Inquiry Is Moving Past KPMG (16 Sep 2005)
  
• Britain Investigates PwC Bus Auditing (16 Sep 2005)
  
• Misconduct and accounting errors at Interpublic (16 Sep 2005)
  
• Stun Gun Maker Fires Accounting Firm Deloitte & Touche  (16 Sep 2005)
• Merrill Lynch Analysts to Include Option Expenses (15 Sep 2005)
  
• Boosting Profits: British Energy Extends Dungeness B's Accounting Life (15 Sep 2005)
  
• Kanebo echoes Enron scandal (15 Sep 2005)
  
• UK is a nation of beancounters: Graduates believe accountancy firms will be best employers (15 Sep 2005)
• PwC partner payouts hit £620k  (15 Sep 2005)
  
• PwC Auditors arrested in Japan: The accounting system may lose the trust of investors (15 Sep 2005)
• Japan: Four ChuoAoyama PricewaterhouseCoopers accountants arrested this week falsified a report in 1998 (15 Sep 2005)
  
• PwC faces third probe into its audits (15 Sep 2005)
  
• US IRS to challenge companies over "transfer pricing" schemes (14 Sep 2005)
  
• Sun Microsystems restates 2003 and 2004  accounts  for a number of tax-related issues (14 Sep 2005)
  
• Birds of a feather: UK employers want reckless and crooked auditors to be let off the hook (14 Sep 2005)
  
• Four accountants at a Japanese unit of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Group arrested (14 Sep 2005)
  
• PwC faces disciplinary action over UK bus maker (14 Sep 2005)
• Read the press release
  
• PwC faces probe over Mayflower collapse (14 Sep 2005)
• KPMG Settles over Gemstar Audit (14 Sep 2005)
• Former chairman of Shell loses appeal against regulator over reserves debacle (14 Sep 2005)
• More South African Accounting Firms Probed Over Tax Fraud (13 Sep 2005)
• 4 accountant, incluidng PwC staff, busted for helping Kanebo window-dress accounts (13 Sep 2005)
  
• KPMG Settles $25 million Gemstar Lawsuit (13 Sep 2005)
  
• KPMG Appoints New Tax Services Leaders (13 Sep 2005)
  
• KPMG reshuffles tax practice management (13 Sep 2005)
  
• Rush to meet new rules lifts PwC to record high (13 Sep 2005)
  
• PwC posts 12% growth in UK amd income of £1.7 billion (13 Sep 2005)
  
• Tax dodgers 'rob poorer nations'(12 Sept 2005)
• New Christian Aid Report Accuses Accountancy Firms of ‘Ripping off Poor’ (12 Sep 2005)
  
• Christian Aid report accuses accountancy firms of ‘ripping off the poor’ (12 Sep 2005)
  
• Read Christian Aid Report: The shirts off their backs: How tax policies fleece the poor (12 Sep 2005)
• Accounting Charge Dropped Against Former Halliburton CFO (12 Sep 2005)
• Further US Guidance on Options Rule Coming (12 Sep 2005)
• BNZ sues NZX and Deloittes over Access collapse (12 Sep 2005)
  
• PricewaterhouseCoopers face Kanebo fraud charge (12 Sep 2005)
  
• PricewaterhouseCoopers face Kanebo charges in Japan (11 Sep 2005)
• Brussels drops plans for mandatory audit committees (10 Sep 2005)
  
• Ex-CFO of Halliburton Cleared of Charge  (9 Sep 2005)
• Giving up KPMG privilege   (9 Sep 2005)
  
• Bottom line is survival (9 Sep 2005)
• No shelter for KPMG (9 Sep 2005)
• Andersen UK escapes Enron probe (8 Sep 2005)
  
• KPMG Settlement Sends Shockwaves through Accounting Industry (8 Sep 2005)
• More face charges in KPMG tax scandal (7 Sep 2005)
• More Charges in KPMG Tax Scandal (7 Sep 2005)
  
• More KPMG charges expected (6 Sep 2005)
• POBA takes over formal responsibility for oversight of UK audit regulation (5 Sep 2005)
  
• Accountants: a threat to democracy (5 Sep 2005)
• Ex-Sidley partner indicted in KPMG tax shelter case (5 Sep 2005)
  
• IFRS handling of derivatives leads to 'misleading' results (5 Sep 2005)
  
• IAS39 "financial instruments" causing 'illogical' outcomes (5 Sep 2005)
  
• Time to shoot the accountants? (4 Sep 2005)
• Studies link CEO compensation to fraud, mismanagement (4 Sep 2005)
• KPMG UK chairman 'ashamed' over US scandal (4 Sep 2005)
  
• KPMG has been fined $456m for selling 'fraudulent' tax schemes and further cases are looming (4 Sep 2005)
• Applying safeguards to company auditors (4 Sep 2005)
  
• Deloitte Chairman faces December UK tribunal (2 Sep 2005)
• Hedge fund accused of fraud from 1998 to 2005 (2 Sep 2005)
• Hunt for $440m vanished from US hedge fund (2 Sep 2005)
  
• A "realistic chance" that one of the Big Four accounting firms could fail within the next three years (2 Sep 2005)
  
• UK operating and financial review is of little use to shareholders (1 Sep 2005)
• UK Summary statements meet mixed response (1 Sep 2005)
  
• First, Andersen; now KPMG (1 Sep 2005)
• Inside the KPMG Mess  (1 Sep 2005)
  
• Lawsuit filed against  Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu for allegedly violating China's Anti-secession Law (1 Sep 2005)
  
• Accounting and the Reproduction of Race Relations in Fiji: A Discourse On Race and Accounting in Colonial Context by Ruvendra K. Nandan & Manzurul Alam
• The European Workplace: The Right to Privacy and Data Protection by Michael Foutouchos
• Re-Engineering Tax Processes by Tim Knight

• Wachovia faces hit of half a billion (31 Aug 2005)
• How KPMG Was Given a Lesson in Humility (31 Aug 2005)
• SEC says KPMG behaviour 'unacceptable' (31 Aug 2005)
  
• Former Sidley Austin partner faces criminal charges in KPMG tax scandal (31Aug 2005)
  
• IFAC Tackles Environmental Management Accounting (31 Aug 2005)
  
• Hedge-fund firm could feel fallout from KPMG investigation (31 Aug 2005)
• KPMG, a Proud Old Lion, Brought to Heel (30 Aug 2005)
  
• KPMG faces three years of intense scrutiny (30 Aug 2005)
  
• Nine indicted as accounting firm admits tax-shelter scam (30 Aug 2005)
  
• 8 ex-KPMG execs indicted; firm to pay fine (30 Aug 2005)
• Statement by IRS Commissioner Mark W. Everson: REGARDING KPMG CORPORATE FRAUD CASE DELIVERED AT THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT  (30 Aug 2005)
  
• KPMG TO PAY $456 MILLION FOR CRIMINAL VIOLATIONS IN RELATION TO LARGEST-EVER TAX SHELTER FRAUD CASE (30 Aug 2005)
• Crime Without Conviction: KPMG Charged with Felony (30 Aug 2005)
  
• KPMG escapes prosecution but fined $456m for tax shelters (30 Aug 2005)
• Top US Accounting Firm Involved in Tax Fraud (30 Aug 2005)
• Statement by US IRS Commissioner Mark W. Everson REGARDING KPMG CORPORATE FRAUD CASE
  DELIVERED AT THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT (29 Aug 2005)
• KPMG to Pay $456 Million for Criminal Violations in Relation to Largest-Ever Tax Shelter Fraud Case (29 Aug 2005)
• PCAOB Issues Statement Regarding Oversight of KPMG (29 Aug 2005)
  
• KPMG avoids fatal indictment: Accounting firm to pay $456mln to settle tax-shelter charges (29 Aug 2005)
• Waste Management Settles for $26.8M (29 Aug 2005)
  
• Top US firms pick smaller accounting firms (28 Aug 2005)
• Waste Management Inc. to pay $26.8 million in SEC settlement (28 Aug 2005)
  
• Two of Puerto Rico's largest financial institutions face U.S. investigations into their accounting (28 Aug 2005)
  
• The folly of fair vlaue accounting (27 Aug 2005)
• Conclusion of the investigation into Deloitte’s audit of collapsed car maker MG Rover’s accounts could be years away (27 Aug 2005)
  
• Investors lost well over $900 billion in 30 big scams between 1997 and 2004 (27 Aug 2005)
• WHAT'S the best way to deter corporate malfeasance? (27 Aug 2005)
  
• Investors lost well over $900 billion in 30 big scams between 1997 and 2004 (27 Aug 2005)
  
• KPMG accounting to pay $456 million for selling potentially illegal tax shelters (27 Aug 2005)
  
• KPMG to pay $456m in tax scam case; 20 ex-Partners may face criminal charges (27 Aug 2005)
  
• Federal Home Loan Bank of Cincinnati wants to withdraw earlier financial statements (26 Aug 2005)
  
• UK companies hit out at IASB (26 Aug 2005)
• US Pension Fund Was Sold on KPMG (26 Aug 2005)
  
• KPMG pensions battle set for Lords (26 Aug 2005)
  
• PwC Settles with Tech Group for $18M (26Aug 2005)
  
• Symbol settles $18m suit with PricewaterhouseCoopers (26 Aug 2005)
  
• Saks Completes Accounting Probe (25 Aug 2005)
• Poaching ban gives KPMG elbow room (25 Aug 2005)
  
• Ex-SEC head may keep tabs on KPMG (25 Aug 2005)
  
• Accounting Cartels: No Poaching from KPMG, Say Audit Firms (25 Aug 2005)
  
• Consultants dream up new ways of avoiding accounting for stock options (24 Aug 2005)
• KPMG Nears Agreement On Tax-Shelter Abuses (24 Aug 2005)
  
• UK government asked to investigate the Heritage case (24 Aug 2005)
• FTSE companies' profits may have been inflated by £1bn (24 Aug 2005)
  
• FTSE100 takes £1bn share option hit (24 Aug 2005)
  
• Shedding light on shady corporate accounting (24 Aug 2005)
  
• SEC CHARGES KMART'S FORMER CEO AND CFO WITH FINANCIAL FRAUD (23 Aug 2005)
• Lawyers will have to repay £8m: Decision follows review of Hammonds accounts (23 Aug 2005)
  
• KPMG tax avoidance settlement near (23 Aug 2005)
• Mississippi Could Take KPMG to Court (23 Aug 2005)
  
• Dissent on UK pension accounting rules (23 Aug 2005)
• Lawyers in line for £1bn Enron bonanza (22 Aug 2005)
  
• SEC Charges Ex-Execs of Bristol-Myers (22 Aug 2005)
  
• SEC CHARGES TWO FORMER BRISTOL-MYERS OFFICERS FOR FRAUDULENT EARNINGS MANAGEMENT SCHEME (22 Aug 2005)
• ICAEW calls for halt in accounting convergence (22 Aug 2005)
• Deloitte signed off Rover accounts on eve of collapse (21 Aug 2005)
• Poachers and gamekeepers: Deloitte chosen to carry out full review of UN procurement system (19 Aug 2005)
  
• KPMG punches back against former tax clients  (18 Aug 2005)
• JP Morgan pays $1bn to settle Enron claim (17 Aug 2005)
  
• Deloitte investigated over MG Rover audit (17 Aug 2005)
  
• AIDB to investigate the conduct of Deloitte & Touche LLP as auditors and advisers to the MG Rover Group (17 Aug 2005)
  
• Deal Likely to Let KPMG Avoid Charges in Tax Case (15 Aug 2005)
  
• Guilty plea is first action in KPMG case  (12 Aug 2005)
• Krispy Kreme blames former executives (11 Aug 2005)
• FTSE 100 PENSION DEFICITS REMAIN FRUSTRATINGLY HIGH AT £37 Billion (10 Aug 2005)
  
• FRC confirms that 'True and Fair' remains a cornerstone of Financial Reporting in the UK (10 Aug 2005)
  
• KPMG: Federal suit filed on tax shelter sales (9 Aug 2005)
• Prosecutors advance KPMG tax-shelter case (5 Aug 2005)
• ACCA High Court case sets precedent (4 Aug 2005)
  
• Russian Audit Chamber queries TNK-BP on tax minimization and use of transfer pricing (4 Aug 2005)
• Board member from Odessa says KPMG's woes 'completely different' from Andersen's (4 Aug 2005)
  
• KPMG may escape tax probe penalties (4 Aug 2005)
• Ex-KPMG Partners May Face Charges (4 Aug 2005)
  
• KPMG Partners May Face Criminal Charges for Shelters (4 Aug 2005)
  
• London Underground slams PPP groups over accounts (4 Aug 2005)
• Ernst & Young to pay $100 million in Time Warner debacle (4 Aug 2005)
  
• Time Warner (audited by Ernst & Young)to pay $2.4bn (£1.34bn) to settle a shareholder lawsuit that accused the company of overstating revenues (4 Aug 2005)
• Time Warner (audited by Ernst & young) in $2.4bn (£1.35bn) shareholder lawsuit settlement over claims of inflated revenue (4 Aug 2005)
• Accounting Convergence goes awry (4 Aug 2005)
  
• Ex-Cendant Executive Gets 10 Years in Prison (4 Aug 2005)
• UK corporations and PwC to take on Treasury in tax avoidance battle (4 Aug 2005)
• 20 former KPMG partners could face criminal charges (3 Aug 2005)
• The audit function remains mystery (3 Aug 2005)
  
• Fort Worth wrestles with bookkeeping errors and says KPMG was a little lackadaisical (3 Aug 2005)
• Former consulting firm manager accused of bilking $550,000 (3 Aug 2005)
• Deloitte's declares UK income of £1.3 bn (3 Aug 2005)
  
• Deloitte's senior UK partner takes home £3.6m (3 Aug 2005)
  
• Kanebo scandal: Time to eradicate corporate culture that led to slush fund (3 Aug 2005)
• Enron investors win biggest settlement yet at $2.4bn (3 Aug 2005)
  
• How the US Accounting Profession got where it is today Part 2 (18 page PDf file) (2 Aug 2005)
  
• How the US Accounting Profession got where it is today Part 1 (18 page PDf file) (2 Aug 2005)
  
• Management consultants: Lying, cheating, falsifying results, plagiarism, incompetence, manipulation, tax evasion, expenses fraud, sex and alcohol abuse (2 Aug 2005)
• Doubts loom over accounting for partners' capital (2 Aug 2005)
  
• Ex-Deloitte Manager Is Accused of Fraud (2 Aug 2005)
  
• H&R Block Fumbles Its Financials (2 Aug 2005)
  
• Visteon committee finds accounting errors (1 Aug 2005)
  
• Recent changes in accounting standards are having an impact on distributable profits (1 Aug 2005)
  

• "Creative" accounting is common (31 Jul 2005)
• Ambassador creditors to receive $119.9M, PricewaterhouseCoopers to challenge judgement (31 Jul 2005)
  
• 13,000 accountants and law firms 'break UK data law' (31 Jul 2005)
• World Bank rebuked over India water deal to promote PricewaterhouseCoopers (30 Jul 2005)
• Balance Sheet: Fraud without Borders (30 Jul 2005)
• Ex-Kanebo bosses in fraud arrest (30 Jul 2005)
  
• Deloitte & Touhce makes $482,000 Arizona settlement (30 Jul 2005)
• Reliant Energy and Deloitte & Touche  to pay $75 million to settle lawsuits relating to round-trip trades that inflated revenues (30 Jul 2005)
• Foreign banks under fire in Parmalat case (30 Jul 2005)
• Prosecutors pursue  Parmalat banks: Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank and UBS (30 Jul 2005)
• KPMG partners may have to fund big pension deficit (29 Jul 2005)
• World Bank forced Indian government to hire PricewaterhouseCoopers (29 Jul 2005)
• Big questions for South Africa shareholders (29 Jul 2005)
  
• BDO in £3m lawsuit over UK bankruptcy (28 Jul 2005)
  
• Wal-Mart suing former vice chairman accusing him of looting hundreds of thousands of dollars to subsidise his personal expenses over five years (28 Jul 2005)
• UK Investors fear auditor liability cap by the back door (28 Jul 2005)
  
• KPMG partner forgot one thing: license to operate in Texas (28 Jul 2005)
  
• PwC audit shows £8m Hammonds shortfall (28 Jul 2005)
  
• LIABILITY LIMIT FOR AUDITORS A BAD MOVE, SAYS AABA (27 Jul 2005)
  
• LIABILITY LIMIT FOR AUDITORS A GOOD MOVE, SAYS AUDIITNG INDUSTRY (27 Jul 2005)
• PwC talks settlement in Jamaica (27 Jul 2005)
  
• British companies may be required to appoint two auditors in the future (27 Jul 2005)
  
• US PCAOB Approves Independence Rules (27 Jul 2005)
  
• PCAOB Toughens Auditor Independence Rules (27 Jul 2005)
• PCAOB Adopts Standard on Remediation of Material Weaknesses, Rules on Auditor Independence and Tax Services (27 Jul 2005)
  
• Homestore auditor PricewaterhouseCoopers to pay $17.5 million to settle lawsuit (27 Jul 2005)
• Former Qwest exec settles SEC allegations  (27 Jul 2005)
  
• Time for Democrats to take stand against run of corporate crime (27 Jul 2005)
  
• Kmart settles employee lawsuit: Workers get pennies on dollar of $100 million lost in 401(k) plans when the company went bankrupt (26 Jul 2005)
• ASB plan for accounting standard on financial instruments (26 Jul 2005)
  
• Sallie Mae Fires Divisional CFO (26 Jul 2005)
• New US Rules Would Limit Tax Work By Auditors (26 Jul 2005)
• 3 former WorldCom executives settle with investors (26 Jul 2005)
  
• PricewaterhouseCoopers pays the US government $41.9 million in response to allegations that it defrauded agencies by inflating its travel expenses (26 Jul 2005)
  
• Wall Street walloping (25 Jul 2005)
• Targus Group International alleges professional malpractice by KPMG (25 Jul 2005)
  
• Accountants brought to book - or off the hook?: Investors fear new rules favour the Big Four (24 Jul 2005)
  
• Equitable denies cutting claim (22 Jul 2005)
  
• Enron unmasked, but not comprehended (22 Jul 2005)
• US Board to Consider Standard on Remediation of Material Weaknesses, Rules on Auditor Independence and Tax Services (22 Jul 2005)
• Big four accounting firms want to  water down plans by the US regulator to hold their staff responsible for violations of securities laws (22 Jul 2005)
  
• Portus co-founder caught with hand in cookie jar (22 Jul 2005)
  
• Sarbanes-Oxley Records Management Implications (22 Jul 2005)
  
• Enron broadband trio acquitted (21 Jul 2005)
• New US rules would bar corporate auditors from giving tax shelter advice to clients (21 Jul 2005)
  
• Deloitte in  $4.8 million Arizona settlement (21 Jul 2005)
  
• Expert witness accuses CNG (audited by Deloitte & Touche or Ernst and Young)of bad accounting (20 Jul 2005)
• Nigerian Banks lie over state of accounts (20 Jul 2005)
  
• UK government announces proposals on auditor liability (19 Jul 2005)
• See clauses of the proposed Companies Bill (39 page PDF File)
• Auditors: Explanatory Material
  
• Reminder of the 2004 consultaion exercise
  
• UK Auditors welcome proposals to limit financial liabilities (20 Jul 2005)
• Bill will let ‘big four’ avoid risk of lawsuits (19 Jul 2005)
  
• Worthless piece of paper: US Auditor’s Report Changes Dramatically Under New Rules (19 Jul 2005)
• Downer, Pricewaterhouse $200m fraud case back in Jamica court (19 Jul 2005)
  
• Lawyers always win: Equitable faces £10m legal bill (19 Jul 2005)
• Equitable cuts E&Y claim in dramatic twist (19 Jul 2005)
  
• Equitable Life has slashed its claim for damages from former auditor Ernst & Young to £700m from £2.05bn (19 Jul 2005)
• Shareholder lawsuit against 4 ex-Conseco execs dismissed (19 Jul 2005)
• Judge Sanctions KPMG for Hiding Documents (19 Jul 2005)
  
• KPMG sanctioned by a California judge for hiding critical documents in an accounting-malpractice lawsuit (18 Jul 2005)
• Judge fines KPMG over tactics in lawsuit (18 Jul 2005)
  
• Big Four firms want softer line on US accountants (18 Jul 2005)
  
• UK Auditors to get proportionate liability (18 Jul 2005)
• Not a choice over limited liability (18 Jul 2005)
• A seal of approval for companies' social progress (17 Jul 2005)
• Former WorldCom CEO sentenced to 25 years: The rise and fall of Bernie Ebbers (16 Jul 2005)
  
• Changing accounting's unhealthy dynamic (16 Jul 2005)
• Ex-AIG chief make public comments   (16 Jul 2005)
• KPMG Fined $100 Million by Oslo Court  (16 Jul 2005)
  
• Warning for Jarvis as losses grow (15 Jul 2005)
• Ernst & Young U-turn lifts hopes at Equitable (15 Jul 2005)
• Ernst & Young decides not to call Equitable witnesses (15 Jul 2005)
  
• US judge okays most of Parmalat suit over auditors Deloitte & Touche and Grant Thornton (15 Jul 2005)
  
• Wachovia (with links to KPMG) mired in probe fallout (15 Jul 2005)
• KPMG to pay a  NOK 656 million (about USD 100 million) for its role in the scandal around the now-defunct collection agency Finance Credit (15 Jul 2005)
  
• KPMG could “do an Andersen” (14 Jul 2005)
• IFRS brings tax out of the back room TAXING MATTERS (14 Jul 2005)
  
• Ebbers, icon of dotcom greed, jailed for 25 years (14 Jul 2005)
  
• WorldCom's Ebbers gets 25 years (14 Jul 2005)
• PwC to Pay $41M in Travel-Billing Suit (13 Jul 2005)
  
• Popolare Italiana CEO investigated for false accounting  (13 Jul 2005)
• Worldcom ex-boss awaits sentence (13 Jul 2005)
  
• SENIOR executive with One.Tel's British operation accuses Australian bosses ofof misleading stakeholders and creditors by refusing to adopt basic accounting principles (13 Jul 2005)
  
• International Accounting Standards: A money making machine for big accounting firms (12 Jul 2005)
  
• 80 US executives and 33 companies admit to using abusive tax shelter schemes (12 Jul 2005)
• UK government asked to investigate the role of KPMG, PwC, Ernst and Young and Deloitte in devising and selling tax avoidance schemes (12 Jul 2005)
• UK government asked to ban accountancy, law and other firms from charging contingency fees for selling tax avoidance schemes (12 Jul 2005)
• UK government asked to stop giving public contracts to accountancy firms selling dodgy tax avoidance schemes (12 Jul 2005)
  
• Parmalat risked collapse in 1997 (12 Jul 2005)
  
• AIG and Spitzer explore settlement (12 Jul 2005)
• Concern for KPMG Extends to E.U. (12 Jul 2005)
  
• PwC to Settle $41.9m Overbilling Allegations (12 Jul 2005)
  
• PwC to pay £23m over false travel claims (12 Jul 2005)
• Royal Group Facing SEC Accounting probe (12 Jul 2005)
  
• Royal Group says SEC probing past accounting (11 Jul 2005)
  
• Deloitte's Navistar Audit Target of PCAOB Probe (11 Jul 2005)
• Bid to sort revenue recognition (11 Jul 2005)
  
• Accountants and contradiction. The role of the accounting profession in post war Iraq (10 Jul 2005)
• The Paucity of Auditors' Social Responsibility: An Empirical Study of Client Management Control of Auditor Independence  (10 Jul 2005)
  
• Cash Balance Pension Plans: A Study of Financial Reporting Failure  (10 Jul 2005)
  
• Corporate Resistance to Government-Imposed Internal Control Regulation (10 Jul 2005)
• Neo Liberalism & Corporate Hegemony: A Framework of Analysis for Financial Reporting Reforms in the United States  (10 Jul 2005)
  
• The Security of Objectivity through Quantification (10 Jul 2005)
  
• CalSTRS, PricewaterhouseCoopers near suit settlement (9 Jul 2005)
• Regal Bank hearing clears Ernst & Young  (9 Jul 2005)
• FRC report: more questions than answers (9 Jul 2005)
  
• Morningstar Associates gets SEC subpoena (8 Jul 2005)
• SEC ends Duke trading probe (8 Jul 2005)
  
• Deloitte would settle Parmalat claims (8 Jul 2005)
  
• America’s first Black, female CPA remembered (8 Jul 2005)
  
• Public Company Accounting Oversight Board is investigating Deloitte & Touche audit of Navistar International Corp (8 Jul 2005)
• Deloitte questions court ruling on Parmalat (7 Jul 2005)
  
• Deloitte considers Parmalat deals (7 Jul 2005)
  
• Would you believe it:Accountancy Firms helping tax avoiders are advising the UK Treasury (7 Jul 2005)
• UK government has failed to prosecute any acocuntancy firm for selling tax avoidance schemes (7 Jul 2005)
• No UK government action PwC for selling tax avoidance schemes (7 Jul 2005)
• VW hires KPMG to investigate bribery claims (6 Jul 2005)
• Baugur fraud charges may include Arcadia deal (6 Jul 2005)
  
• BA revises profits upwards under the international accounting standards (5 Jul 2005)
• SEC Censures KPMG Canada (5 Jul 2005)
  
• HSBC says FY 2004 profits higher under IFRS accounting rules (5 Jul 2005)
  
• Nortel shareholders vent anger at Deloitte & Touche (3 Jul 2005)
• Appalling Fraud and Greed in Iraq Contracts (3 Jul 2005)
  
• Captive Insurance Companies: What are they? (3 Jul 2005)
• CAPTIVE  Insurance Companies (3 Jul 2005)
• Tax avoidance is a major reason for captive insurance companies (3 Jul 2005)
• The Stock Price Effect of Captive Insuere Formation: An Empirical Test from the UK Corporae Sector (3 Jul 2005)
  
• Balance Sheet: Guarding the Guards (2 Jun 2005)
• Accountancy firms eye corporate structure (2 Jul 2005)
  
• ASB Issues Report on UK Life Assurance Accounting  (2 Jul 2005)
  
• PricewaterhouseCoopers to pay $17.5 million to settle lawsuit (1 Jul 2005)
• Fraud charges for Daewoo founder (1 Jul 2005)
  
• Daewoo Founder Indicted for Accounting Fraud (1 Jul 2005)
  
• SEC Settles with KPMG Canada (1 Jul 2005)
• KPMG pays $73,683 in SEC Settlement (1 Jul 2005)
  
• Ex-WorldCom chief forfeits his money and home (1 Jul 2005)
• Former Akai CEO sentenced for false accounting (1 Jul 2005)
  
• Delphi says it made $300 million less than reported (1 Jul 2005)
  

• Undermining the UK Statutory Audit: The damaging effects of adopting IFAC- IAASB standards on auditing (ISAs) (30 Jun 2005)
• Canadian KPMG and Two of Its Partners Settle SEC's Auditor Independence Charges (30 Jun 2005)
  
• Fly on the wall has KPMG e-mail abuzz for four hours (30 Jun 2005)
  
• Former Versailles chief Cushnie ordered to repay £10m  (30 Jun 2005)
  
• Shell escapes charges over reserves reporting (30 Jun 2005)
• One Lawsuit, One Deloitte (30 Jun 2005)
  
• Judge OKs Parmalat Suit Against Deloitte, Grant Thornton (30 Jun 2005)
  
• Small/medium-size UK accountancy firms shun protection of LLP status (30 Jun 2005)
  
• UK Bean-counters enjoy Bonanza year  (29 Jun 2005)
• UK top 60 accountancy  firms have fees of £6.77 billion (29 Jun 2005)
  
• White-collar crime cases prove difficult to prosecute (29 Jun 2005)
  
• HealthSouth's ex-boss not guilty (29 Jun 2005)
• Halliburton accused of over $1.4bn in accounting related fraud in Iraq (29 Jun 2005)
  
• 11 guilty in first Parmalat trial (29 Jun 2005)
• Parmalat fraudsters to avoid prison(29 Jun 2005)
  
• Eleven convicted in major Italian accounting fraud (29 Jun 2005)
  
• China to promote accounting, auditing standard (29 Jun 2005)
  
• Tick-box approach to UK auditing practice (28 Jun 2005)
• Cushnie made £25m from Versailles fraud, court told (28 Jun 2005)
  
• SEC informally reviews IBM's stock-options accounting (28 Jun 2005)
• The trend for capping UK law firms' liabilities is catching on (28 Jun 2005)
• US Regulator probes IBM stock issue (28 Jun 2005)
• The Canadian Public Accountability Board isn't Accountable or Independent (27 Jun 2005)
  
• Stick-handling past the scandals (27 Jun 2005)
• Executives from Deloitte and Bank of America face trial over Parmalat (26 Jun 2005)
  
• US Companies' audit fees skyrocket (26 Jun 2005)
  
• How to Deter White-Collar Crime (26 Jun 2005)
  
• Slug & Lettuce placed in administration (25 Jun 2005)
• Parmalat founder to stand trial (25 Jun 2005)
  
• Early Day Motion in UK Parliament: KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte, Ernst and Young, Grant Thornton and other firms condemned for tax dodging activities (24 Jun 2005)
• Equitable unveils new £100m claim against Ernst & Young (24 Jun 2005)
  
• Morgan Stanley has agreed a 155m euros ($186.5m, £102.7m) settlement with collapsed Italian dairy group Parmalat (24 Jun 2005
• KPMG Looks to Safeguard Its Place  (24 Jun 2005)
  
• Portus co-founder's hand in ‘cookie jar' (24 Jun 2005)
  
• SEC ponders life after Big Four (23 Jun 2005)
• UK accountancy advisory fees set to top £1bn (23 Jun 2005)
  
• 'Accountant' jailed for illegal deposit taking (23 Jun 2005)
  
• US SEC mulls steps in event of collapse of major accounting firm   (23 Jun 2005) 
• In 2003, KPMG agreed to pay $115 million to settle lawsuits stemming from the collapse of software company Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products NV (23 Jun 2005)
• In 2003, KPMG agreed to pay US$200 million to auditing settle lawsuits on Rite Aid and Oxford Health Plans (23 Jun 2005)
• Rite Aid charged against KPMG
  
• In 2003, KPMG were named in the Peregrine lawsuit (23 Jun 2005)
  
• KPMG were named in a fraud lawsuit by the US Dept of Justice in 2001 (23 Jun 2005)
• IN 2001 KPMG PEAT MARWICK AGREED TO PAY THE UNITED STATES OVER $9 MILLION FOR PREPARING FRAUDULENT MEDICARE & MEDICAID COST REPORTS (23 Jun 2005)
  
• EU Report on statutory audit   (23 Jun 2005)
  
• EU Study on civil liability of statutary auditors  (23 Jun 2005)
  
• EU votes down mandatory audit committees  (23 Jun 2005)
• More Than Half of Fortune 250 Issuing Standalone Sustainability Reports  (23 Jun 2005)
• Read the Report (55 page PDF file)
  
• KPMG plays down charges over illegal tax schemes (23 Jun 2005)
  
• Rover's pension blackhole ballooned to £495m (22 Jun 2005)
• Former Bristol-Myers executives plead not guilty  (22 Jun 2005)
  
• British Regulator Finds Fault in Big Four Audits (22 Jun 2005)
  
• KPMG admission cheers its opponents (22 Jun 2005)
• Services leave UK cars 'death traps' (21 Jun 2005)
  
• Admission may leave KPMG vulnerable to suits (21 Jun 2005)
• Watchdog finds flaws in UK audit system (21 Jun 2005)
• Read the Report (34 page PDF file)
  
• Rethink Off-Balance-Sheet Reporting: SEC  (20 Jun 2005)
• European directors join attack on audit directive (20 Jun 2005)
  
• UK Professional Oversight Board for Accountancy finds deficicencies in audits by the Big Four (20 Jun 2005)
• US Audit firms fight for liability limits (19 Jun 2005)
  
• KPMG's big flip (19 Jun 2005)
  
• KPMG move to settle tax case (19 Jun 2005)
• Balance Sheet: Stirring Enron's ashes (18 Jun 2005)
• Andersen: Guilty when charged? (18 Jun 2005)
• Ex-Tyco chiefs found guilty of looting their firm of millions (18 Jun 2005)
  
• Report questions new IFRS accounts   (18 Jun 2005)
• IFRS adoption will significantly improve pretax profit  (18 Jun 2005)
• Fraud Charges dismissed against former SSL FD (17 Jun 2005)
  
• UK Serious Fraud Office humiliated in court over SSL prosecution (17 Jun 2005)
  
• Ex-Andersen partners target rivals (17 Jun 2005)
• Deloitte May Face British Tax Probe (17 Jun 2005)
• Tyco two guilty of stealing $150m (17 Jun 2005)
• US Judge Rules Investors Must Arbitrate in BDO Tax Shelter Case (17 Jun 2005)
• Andersen, Part Deux? (17 Jun 2005)
• KPMG 'unlikely' to face shelter charges (17 Jun 2005)
• KPMG tries to head off tax shelters prosecution (17 Jun 2005)
  
• KPMG may limit damage with deal (17 Jun 2005)
  
• KPMG is accused of obstructing justice but this is no repeat of Arthur Andersen (17 Jun 2005)
• How Big a Cloud Is KPMG Under?  (17 Jun 2005)
  
• Accounting giant KPMG wants mercy (17 Jun 2005)
• KPMG admits that former partners sold illegal tax shelters (17 Jun 2005)
  
• KPMG offers apology over illegal tax shelters (17 Jun 2005)
  
• US accounting needs to improve (16 Jun 2005)
• Big US Audit Firms Resist Effort to Tighten Liability Limits (16 Jun 2005)
  
• Canada: Fraud charges laid against 3 former execs of Betacom (16 Jun 2005)
• Deloitte to face tax probe over MG Rover accounts (16 Jun 2005)
  
• Deloitte to face inquiry over tax at MG Rover (16 Jun 2005)
• Deloittes fined for mis-selling but act as adviers to UK's financial regulator (16 Jun 2005)
• KPMG in peril as it may face criminal charges over tax scams (16 Jun 2005)
• KPMG admits unlawful conduct by ex-partners, takes full responsibility (16 Jun 2005)
  
• KPMG may face US criminal charges over the sale of abusive tax shelters (16 Jun 2005)
  
• KPMG reportedly at risk of US indictment over the sale of abusive tax shelters (16 Jun 2005)
• KPMG LLP STATEMENT REGARDING DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE MATTER (16 Jun 2005)
  
• Bank of England governor hits out at BCCI case (16 Jun 2005)
  
• Enron fallout costs JP Morgan $2.2bn (16 Jun 2005)
• Oxfam says EU and US are using creative accounting to avoid real trade concessions to developing countries (16 Jun 2005)
  
• Bristol-Myers pays $300m to settle accounting fraud case (16 Jun 2005)
• SEC STAFF REPORT ON OFF-BALANCE SHEET ARRANGEMENTS, SPECIAL PURPOSE ENTITIES AND RELATED ISSUES (15 Jun 2005)
  
• Powertrain kept MG Rover on the road (15 Jun 2005)
• South Africa needs an accounting regulator in all our interests  (15 Jun 2005)
  
• SEC Opens Formal Probe into OfficeMax Accounting (15 Jun 2005)
• SEC CHARGES FORD CREDIT WITH UNLAWFUL MARKETING OF "FORD MONEY MARKET ACCOUNT" (14 Jun 2005)
  
• Accountants moan about the EU stautory audit directive and checks on organised looting (14 Jun 2005)
• SEC launches formal OfficeMax probe (14 Jun 2005)
  
• ACCA Accountant launches challenge to 'misconduct' ruling (14 Jun 2005)
  
• Cracks in the US Crackdown (13 Jun 2005)
• New Zealand: $20.3m account blunder by Transpower (13 Jun 2005)
• Accountability still iffy on foreign revenue  (13 Jun 2005)
  
• SEC investigation could lead to subpoenas over Highwoods Properties (Ernst & Young client) accounts (13 Jun 2005)
  
• European companies cry foul over accounting plans  (13 Jun 2005)
  
• US Options Expensing Is Here To Stay  (13 Jun 2005)
  
• MG Rover: Bosses were in a 'muddle' (13 Jun 2005)
• E&Y partner faces hearing over Daewoo (13 Jun 2005)
  
• E&Y partner in Daewoo investigation (13 Jun 2005)
  
• Row over BCCI witness numbers  (13 Jun 2005)
• Bank of England boss to take stand in £1bn case (13 Jun 2005)
  
• Bank of England faces £100m bill for BCCI (12 Jun 2005)
• Partner at E&Y in probe over Daewoo (12 Jun 2005)
• BBC Radio 4 File on Four Prograame transcript on Insolvencies and the role of accountants (12 Jun 2005)
• Boon for Enron victims: Citigroup to pay $2 billion to energy firm's shareholders (11 Jun 2005)
  
• Job losses for thousands but PwC get £4m 'so far' for MG Rover administration (11 Jun 2005)
  
• There is no money for you, MG Rover creditors told (11 Jun 2005)
• SEC opens formal probe of Brocade (11 Jun 2005)
  
• Qwestionable time (11 Jun 2005)
• UK Panel Concludes Enquiry on Royal Bank of Scotland Accounting for Joint Venture (11 Jun 2005)
  
• Citigroup pays $2bn to settle Enron case  (11 Jun 2005)
  
• Senior vice president at the General Re unit of Berkshire Hathaway, pleads guilty to helping American International Group distort its finances  (11 Jun 2005)
• SEC CHARGES A SECOND FORMER GEN RE EXECUTIVE FOR AIDING IN AIG SECURITIES FRAUD (10 Jun 2005)
• Equitable refuses to water down claim against E&Y (10 Jun 2005)
  
• UK Tax advisers face massive penalties for avoidance schemes (10 Jun 2005)
  
• US SEC shows Brocade its formal probe (10 Jun 2005)
  
• AABA opposes any further liability concessions for UK audit firms (10 Jun 2005)
  
• Rover used host of lawyers (9 Jun 2005)
• Rover owed creditors £1.37bn but had assets of just £80.6m (9 Jun 2005)
  
• SEC Acts to Curb Cash Flow Shenanigans (9 Jun 2005)
  
• HealthSouth Settles SEC Charges for $100M (9 Jun 2005)
• CIPFA members soon able to audit (8 Jun 2005)
  
• New accounting rules edit Daily Mail headline figure by £12m (8 Jun 2005)
• Somerfield moves to FRS 17 pension scheme accounting   (8 Jun 2005)
• SEC suit targets ex-Fischer execs (8 Jun 2005) 
• Understanding the Profession-University Link:The case of accountancy in England and Wales (7 Jun 2005)
• Bristol-Myers' Paltry $300m Penalty (6 Jun 2005)
  
• Shareholders to lose out at Slug & Lettuce (5 Jun 2005)
• US$550 million  debacle at China Aviation Oil (Singapore), audited by Ernst & Young (5 Jun 2005)
  
• The $2.5 trillion money laundering washing machine (5 Jun 2005)
• How the City of London has become hooked on hot money (5 Jun 2005)
• Jury begins deliberations in Tyco retrial   (4 Jun 2005)
  
• Huntington to Pay Fine to Settle SEC Claim   (3 Jun 2005)
• Who Killed Andersen? It Was Suicide (3 Jun 2005)
• Andersen's High Court Victory Isn't What It Seems (3 Jun 2005)
  
• Andersen: How do you send a corporation to jail? (3 Jun 2005)
• Deloitte faces R241m South Africa court ordeal  (2 Jun 2005)
• CRE chief slams diversity failure and racial discrimination in UK law firms (2 Jun 2005)
  
• Hungary Court Rules against Deloitte & Touche in Bank Collapse Case  (2 Jun 2005)
• Andersen reversal is no vindication (2 Jun 2005)
• Court ruling isn'ta finding of innocence for Arthur Andersen (2 Jun 2005)
  
• Andersen Innocent? Think Again (2 Jun 2005)
• Was Arthur Andersen A Mistake? (2 Jun 2005)
  
• Was Andersen Really an Innocent Bystander?  (2 Jun 2005)
• ACCA sued under the UK's Race Relations Act (1 Jun 2005)
• AIG Acknowledges Accounting Improprieties  (1 Jun 2005)
• Andersen cleared by supreme court over Enron (1 Jun 2005)
• An inspector will call, after all (1 Jun 2005)
  
• Rover questions must be answered, says DTI (1 Jun 2005)
• Business bankruptcies: Accountants and Auditors under Scrutiny (1 Jun 2005)
  

• Role of Accountancy Firms in Tax Avoidance: Some Evidence and Issues (31 May 2005)
  
• DTI to investigate Rover accounts (31 May 2005)
• UK GOVERNMENT APPOINTS INSPECTORS TO INVESTIGATE MG ROVER GROUP (31 May 2005)
  
• Andersen's guilty verdict quashed (31 May 2005)
  
• Conviction of accounting firm in Enron case overturned (31 May 2005)
• Supreme Court overturns Arthur Andersen's Enron conviction (31 May 2005)
  
• US Supreme court overturns Arthur Andersen's conviction (31 May 2005)
  
• AIG acknowledges accounting improprieties  (31 May 2005) 
• Cushnie of Versailles Group goes to Europe to fight fraud conviction (31 May 2005)
• PwC Missed AIG Group's Red Flags (31 May 2005)
• Racial Politics: The Scheme to Promote Race Equality in The Treasury Solicitor's Department   (30 May 2005)
  
• Court told of dash for HIH cash (30 May 2005)
  
• Sarbanes' cost: Audit fees double (30 May 2005)
  
• WHAT DO WE MEAN BY ACCOUNTING FOR THE PUBLIC INTEREST? (29 May 2005)
• AUDIT STANDARD ANALYSIS: AN ILLOCUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE ON THE NEW ZEALAND GOING CONCERN STANDARD (29 May 2005)
• Consultants pocket $20bn of global aid (29 May 2005)
• Friends to sell Isis to avoid new accounting standards (28 May 2005)
• MG Rover unsecured creditors owed £1.4bn (28 May 2005)
• 'Tiny' payout for MG Rover creditors (27 May 2005)
  
• Audit issues lead to Easier PLC EGM (27 May 2005)
• New York Accuses Sues of Fraud (27 May 2005)
  
• PwC Ignored Warnings on AIG (27 May 2005)
• Rover accounts 'raise questions' (27 May 2005)
• OFR splits UK business leaders (26 May 2005)
  
• PricewaterhouseCoopers quits as Turkish firm Gama's auditors (26 May 2005)
  
• American sues ACCA over sacking (26 May 2005)
• FRC voices fears over freedom of information (26 May 2005)
• Tesco shows big pension deficit (25 May 2005)
• KPMG appeals High Court ruling over its pension fund (23 May 2005)
  
• KPMG playing catch-up with rivals (23 May 2005)
  
• America's response to Enron and other scandals was the Sarbanes-Oxley law. It is costing plenty—but is it working? (23 May 2005)
• Demands for publication of Rover report (23 May 2005)
  
• US IRS Revises New Standards for Written Tax Advice (21 May 2005)
• In bed with the state: Deloitte to carry out research for UK financial regulator (20 May 2005)
• Accountingnisation of the UK: Financial Regulator creats a new accounting and auditing sector team (20 May 2005)
  
• British cover-up of scandals: Rover probe findings may be kept secret (20 May 2005)
• Suit over AIG bonuses (20 May 2005)
  
• Haines Watts facing a £2.9m legal battle after being accused of negligence by subsiduaries of a South African bank (19 May 2005)
• Auditor liability firmly on UK government's agenda (19 May 2005)
  
• European Commission consults on minimum standards that should apply to shareholders’ rights (17 May 2005)
  
• 2 Delphi execs resign over accounting probe (17 May 2005)
• CSFB: Merck's Accounting Overstates Gross Margin Trends (17 May 2005)
  
• Brocade Communications Systems  accounting is the target of a US government probe (17 May 2005)
  
• UK Legal watchdog criticised over two-year delays (17 May 2005)
  
• Enron Violated Rules, Ex-Finance Chief Says (16 May 2005)
• Jail time in Enron-Merrill case (16 May 2005)
• AIG to fire senior executives linked with accounting fraud (16 May 2005)
  
• Connecting Worlds: How International Auditing Standards Travel (53 page PDF file)   HTML Version (15 May 2005)
  
• Parmalat Investigation Names 71 People  (14 May 2005)
  
• Banks blamed for Parmalat collapse (14 May 2005)
  
• The Role of Auditors, Reporting Accountants and Skilled Persons in UK Financial Services Supervision (13 May 2005)
• Former Enron finance executive sentenced to three years and 10 months in prison for his role in a bogus deal to boost earnings (13 May 2005)
• Professions: Acting as a law unto themselves? (12 May 2005)
  
• ASB reporting standards for HR disappointing (12 May 2005)
• Systemax to restate earnings, again  (12 May 2005)
  
• Audit firms have won their battle with the DTI for proportionate liability (11 May 2005)
  
• ASB Issues Reporting Standard on the Operating and Financial Review (10 May 2005)
  
• NZ SFO charges Access Brokerage's CEO for false accounting (10 May 2005)
• Mississippi is seeking $900 million from KPMG for tax adviced to WorldCom (10 May 2005)
  
• Veritas plans to hand SEC $30m to end accounting saga (9 May 2005)
  
• GE to Restate, Faces Informal Probe: accounting for derivatives under scrutiny (9 May 2005)
• Anger as Labour's spend on advisers hits £2bn (8 May 2005)
• Audit forces GE to restate earnings (7 May 2005)
• 10% Russian of Auditors Lose License (7 May 2005)
  
• The Economics of US Corporate Governance Reform (7 May 2005)
  
• FBI and US regulators confer on AIG probe (6 May 2005)
• EC green paper calls for greater accountability for IASB (6 May 2005)
  
• HealthEssentials Solutions' creditors want to question Ernst & Young (6 May 2005)
  
• Court victory against Deloitte sparks UK rule rethink (5 May 2005)
• The US Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating accounting practices at insurance companies (5 May 2005)
  
• US FBI criminal division probes insurance companies accounting (5 May 2005)
• Accounting in Iraq spurs criminal probe (5 May 2005)
  
• Equitable chief plays it cool under questioning (4 May 2005)
• Hollinger directors agree $50m settlement (4 May 2005)
• Controls Circumvented at AIG? (4 May 2005)
  
• Shareholders claim $2.7-b from Doral Financial Corp - PricewaterhouseCoopers named (4 May 2005)
  
• AIG owns up to $2bn of accounting errors (3 May 2005)
• EU legal victory for Berlusconi (3 May 2005)
  
• EU court rules in Berlusconi's favour in false accounting case (3 May 2005)
  
• Europe adapts to globalisation and investor unrest (3 May 2005)
• Galway builder sues KPMG, First Active over site incident (2 May 2005)
  
• KPMG Fires Three over Tax Shelters (2 May 2005)
• European Group Seeks Accounting Changes (2 May 2005)
• Danger, unexploded audit (2 May 2005)
  
• Audit flaws wipe $2.7bn from AIG (2 May 2005)
• Deloitte 'bowed to pressure to stop Parmalat whistleblower' (1 May 2005)
  
• Equitable case is crucial for auditors (1 May 2005)
• Sun sets on Asil's safe haven (1 May 2005)

• A.I.G. Booked Premiums Early, Executives Say (30 Apr 2005)
• Fraud by a convicted criminal and a struck off solicitor readmitted to the profession with the full knowledge of the Law Society and two of its member firms (30 Apr 2005)
  
• Trouble not over for Fannie Mae (30 Apr 2005)
  
• Deloitte boss named as gag is lifted (30 Apr 2005)
• Deloitte allegations made public (30 Apr 2005)
• Deloitte blow as UK court lifts gag (29 Apr 2005)
• Rover collapse has cost UK taxpayers £230m so far (29 Apr 2005)
• Morrisons demands answers from accountants (KPMG) over Safeway (29 Apr 2005)
  
• HealthSouth Auditor (Ernst & Young) relied on conspirators (29 Apr 2005)
  
• SEC Demands Revision of Deloitte Statement (29 Apr 2005)
• Deloitte chairman to face UK disciplinary tribunal (29 Apr 2005)
  
• Governments must ask if reduced liability will spur audit firms to deliver high-quality audits (29 Apr 2005)
• FRRP pores over Rover accounts (28 Apr 2005)
  
• AIG faces new investigation in New York (28 Apr 2005)
• Stop tax avoidance by the super-rich (28 Apr 2005)
• Deloitte Statement Irks SEC (28 Apr 2005)
  
• Why it's time to close these tax avoidance loopholes for the super rich (27 Apr 2005)
• US Supreme Court could reverse Andersen conviction (27 Apr 2005)
  
• Accountants pay penalty for scandals that rocked America  (27 Apr 2005)
  
• Special Purpose Entities: Presentation to the IMF (27 Apr 2005)
• $284 Million Ends Safety-Kleen Lawsuit - PwC involved (27 Apr 2005)
  
• Delaware Supreme Court rejects Black and Hollinger appeal of chancery ruling (27 Apr 2005)
• US High Court Probes Arthur Anderson Trial (27 Apr 2005)
• SEC rebukes Deloitte on Adelphia audit spin (27 Apr 2005)
• PwC refuses to sign off AIG accounts as inquiry widens (27 Apr 2005)
• Deloitte to pay $50M to settle Adelphia charges (27 Apr 2005)
  
• Deloitte fined record $50.4m in two failed audit cases (27 Apr 2005)
  
• Deloitte to settle over Just For Feet (27 Apr 2005)
• Big Four tighten their grip on Auditing Practices Board (26 Apr 2005)
• SEC CHARGES DELOITTE & TOUCHE AND TWO OF ITS PERSONNEL FOR FAILURES IN THEIR AUDIT OF JUST FOR FEET (26 Apr 2005)
  
• SEC CHARGES DELOITTE & TOUCHE FOR ADELPHIA AUDIT (26 Apr 2005)
  
• Equitable Life lawsuit against Ernst & Young (235 page PDF File) (26 Apr 2005)
• Ernst & Young defence statement  on Equitable Life (9 page PDf file) (26 Apr 2005)
• PricewaterhouseCoopers to net £50,000 a day from MNG Rover administration (26 Apr 2005)
  
• Sainsbury's: Accounting Rules to Cut Profit (26 Apr 2005)
• Former Enron official admits lies (26 Apr 2005)
• More accounting problems seen at AIG (26 Apr 2005)
• Andersen prepares to appeal conviction (26 Apr 2005)
• $65M fraud bill for Andersen over Worldcom (26 Apr 2005)
• Arthur Andersen settles WorldCom lawsuit (26 Apr 2005)
• SEC AND U.S. ATTORNEY SETTLE MASSIVE FINANCIAL FRAUD CASE AGAINST ADELPHIA AND RIGAS FAMILY FOR $715 MILLION (25 Apr 2005)
  
• Big Four US audit fees to fall (25 Apr 2005)
  
• SEC Opens Informal Probe into BearingPoint (formerly KPMG Consulting) Accounting (25 Apr 2005) 
• The Boss on the Sidelines: How auditors, directors, and lawyers are asserting their power (25 Apr 2005)
• Andersen and PwC slammed in report on Mayflower audits (24 Apr 2005)
  
• One in 5South Korean Listed Firms Rigs Accounting (24 Apr 2005)
• New accounting rules may knock shares for six as the number game alters (24 Apr 2005)
  
• Ex-Merrill staff jailed for fraud (22 Apr 2005)
• US to cut accountancy red tape for EU firms (22 Apr 2005)
• Political investment: KPMG breaks own code with Tory donation 'oversight' (21 Apr 2005)
  
• Equitable Life war of words hots up (21 Apr 2005)
• Digirad CEO resigns after probe (21 Apr 2005)
  
• Goodwill accounting key to Rover investigation (21 Apr 2005)
• KPMG Settles Xerox Charges with SEC (21 Apr 2005)
• Xybernaut (Grant Thonrton client) fires CEO, COO amidst scandal allegations (20 Apr 2005)
  
• Hotter Water for PwC at AIG (20 Apr 2005)
  
• Equitable's £2bn claim is hypocrisy, court told (20 Apr 2005)
  
• Ernst & Young QC dismisses Equitable's audit claims (20 Apr 2005)
• Equitable case (20 Apr 2005)
  
• Equitable has no smoking gun, says Ernst & Young (20 Apr 2005)
• KPMG PAYS $22 MILLION TO SETTLE SEC LITIGATION RELATING TO XEROX AUDITS (19 Apr 2005)
• Read SEC's 30 page list of KPMG failures at Xerox
  
• Restricted scope of initial MG Rover inquiry (19 Apr 2005)
  
• Rover accounts mismatch widens to £554m (19 Apr 2005)
  
• Bisys says SEC probe focuses on payments (19 Apr 2005)
• KPMG to pay $22.5 million over Xerox audits (19 Apr 2005)
• DTI must prise open Rover's bonnet (18 Apr 2005)
  
• WorldCom's Bernard Ebbers seeks new trial in accounting fraud case (18 Apr 2005)
  
• THE COCA-COLA COMPANY SETTLES ANTIFRAUD AND PERIODIC REPORTING CHARGES RELATING TO ITS FAILURE TO DISCLOSE JAPANESE GALLON PUSHING (18 Apr 2005)
• The stripping of MG Rover (17 Apr 2005)
  
• UK government asks: where is Rover cash? (17 Apr 2005)
• Government orders inquiry into Rover accounts (16 Apr 2005)
  
• Rover's £400m accounting puzzle (15 Apr 2005)
• Breaking down the mechanics of the Rover £400m money (15 Apr 2005)
• £427m 'black hole' in Rover finances (15 Apr 2005)
• Accounting Games: Rolls Boosted by Accounting Changes (15 Apr 2005)
• HIH collapse – a corporate failure (15 Apr 2005)
  
• Boss of 'Australian Enron' jailed (15 Apr 2005)
• Accounting Games: France Telecom's debt on the rise (15 Apr 2005)
  
• Ex-AIG chief gave his wife $2bn shares (14 Apr 2005)
• More beancounters: Accountancy firms in gradaute recruitment drive (14 Apr 2005)
  
• New accounting rules raise price of US audits (13 Apr 2005)
  
• Japance cosmetic firm in £723 million accounts scandal (13 Apr 2005)
  
• Global Crossing settles with US regulators (12 Apr 2005)
• Equitable blames Ernst & Young for huge losses (12 Apr 2005)
• At AIG, the real mess is far from over (12 Apr 2005)
  
• Buffett questioned over AIG (12 Apr 2005)
  
• KPMG auditor suspended  in Australia (12 Apr 2005)
  
• EQUITABLE LIFE'S £3.7bn claim against Ernst & Young and 15 of its own ex-directors began today (11 Apr 2005)
• Equitable launches multi-billion pound legal action (11 Apr 2005)
  
• Equitable Life has launched a £4bn claim against former directors and auditors (11 Apr 2005)
  
• Audit firm mergers increased UK audit fees and auditor concentration (10 Apr 2005)
  
• With so much talent going into Beancounting is anyone generating  wealth (9 Apr 2005)
• MG Rover: Crucial factor of £215m gap in the balance sheet (9 Apr 2005)
  
• £200m question over Rover accounts (9 Apr 2005)
  
• Equitable sues Ernst & Young for £3.7bn over 'negligence' (9 Apr 2005)
• Savers fear Equitable Life settlement (8 Apr 2005)
  
• Accounting for the Abuses at AIG (8 Apr 2005)
• Savers fear Equitable Life settlement (8 Apr 2005)
  
• BEAN COUNTER PLEDGED WORLDCOM GOOD NOS (8 Apr 2005)
• SEC opens AIG files with legal muscle: Court order expected to widen investigation of company's relationship with offshore reinsurers (8 Apr 2005)
  
• FASB to Examine Insurance Risk Transfer (8 Apr 2005)
• SEC OBTAINS COURT ORDER AGAINST MAURICE GREENBERG, C.V. STARR AND AIG TO PROTECT DOCUMENTS IN ONGOING INVESTIGATION (7 Apr 2005)
  
• UK market regulators fines a former Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) audit manager, £10,000 for committing market abuse (7 Apr 2005)
• AIG Insurance Accounting Probe Spreads; Munich Re Questioned; Bermuda Opens Investigation (7 Apr 2005)
  
• Auditor fined for insider trading (7 Apr 2005)
• UK regulator fines former PwC auditor for market abuse (6 Apr 2005)
  
• Big Business Rules: EU ready to give liability concessions to auditors (6 Apr 2005)
• IBM to expense stock options (6 Apr 2005)
  
• Universal accounting rules 'fail developing countries' (6 Apr 2005)
• Liquidators to Independent Insurance would sue KPMG for £300m (6 Apr 2005)
  
• HealthSouth sues Ernst & Young (6 Apr 2005)
  
• HealthSouth countersues Ernst & Young: Company says auditor's inability to discover fraud was a breach of contract (6 Apr 2005)
  
• Fannie Mae investigation turns to trusts (5 Apr 2005)
• Ernst & Young HealthSouth lawsuit pins fraud on Scrushy (5 Apr 2005)
  
• AIG's Auditor May Be Next: How Closely Did PricewaterhouseCoopers Scrutinize The Insurer's Transactions (5 Apr 2005)
• 'Accounting errors’ found in off-licence audit (5 Apr 2005)
• Pension accounting rules cut £40bn from big firms' books (4 Apr 2005)
• £3.75bn roll of the dice for Equitable (4 Apr 2005)
  
• KPMG 'negligent' over Independent Insurance (4 Apr 2005)
• Alert as accountants cash in on bankruptcy (3 Apr 2005)
• Scandal casts a shadow over the sage of Omaha (3 Apr 2005)
• Who kept the Sage of Omaha in the dark? (3 Apr 2005)
  
• Spitzer reveals tip of AIG iceberg (3 Apr 2005)
• Secret summit on Equitable's future (3 Apr 2005)
  
• Alert as UK accountants cash in on bankruptcy (3 Apr 2005)
• Despite revelations KPMG and Pricewaterhouse-Coopers clean up at Shell (3 Apr 2005)
• Heritage case prompts MP to call for transparency in insolvency and accountancy regulation (2 Apr 2005)
  
• FBI investigates Delphi accounting practices (1 April 2005)
• Equitable stands to lose £100m if legal action fails (1 Apr 2005)
  
• AIG shares drop 8% amid 'document caper', probes (1 Apr 2005)
  

• AIG admits 'improper' accounting in deals with Buffett group (31 Mar 2005)
  
• AIG admits accounting irregularities (30 Mar 2005)
• Masters of the Universe: Deloitte acquires Chinese accounting firm (30 Mar 2005)
  
• Ernst And Young Sues HealthSouth Over Accounting Fraud (29 Mar 2005)
  
• Ernst & Young sues Healthsouth over fraud (29 Mar 2005)
  
• US Audit Fees Surged in 2004 (28 Mar 2005)
• Effect of Sarbanes–Oxley Act doesn’t trickle down: Big Four see more auditing work, but smaller firms unaffected (27 Mar 2005)
  
• AIG moves to clean up its $3 billion act (26 Mar 2005)
• Balance Sheet: All is finally right post-Enron. April Fool! (26 Mar 2005)
  
• Troubled audits in the past (26 Mar 2005)
• AIG to make $3B restatement? (25 Mqar 2005)
  
• POBA announces the scope of the AIU’s work for 2005/6 (25 Mar 2005)
  
• UK Shareholders powerless on auditor liability (24 Mar 2005)
• Morgan Stanley accessory in accounting fraud  (24 Mar 2005)
  
• Black facing US criminal inquiry (24 Mar 2005)
• More US finance chiefs are dropping out (24 Mar 2005)
• E&Y suit's end highlights settlement trend (24 Mar 2005)
  
• More monopolies: U.K. to Open Up Law Profession (24 Mar 2005)
  
• Top insurance company mired in allegations of accounting fraud (24 Mar 2005)
  
• Mis-selling win for Equitable policyholders (24 Mar 2005)
• Test case ruling could cost Equitable millions (24 Mar 2005)
• Delphi reports further acocunting errors (23 Mar 2005)
• AIG fires bosses for refusing to aid inquiries (23 Mar 2005)
  
• Accounting checks delay US 10-K filings (23 Mar 2005)
• AIG: Things Left Unsaid (23 Mar 2005)
  
• AIG Combed for Side Deal (22 Mar 2005)
• TimeWarner settles charges for £158m (22 Mar 2005)
• AOL inquiry is settled for $300 million (22 Mar 2005)
• Ernst & Young lose control of hotel as its representative is beaten-up in China (22 Mar 2005)
  
• Independent Watchdog takes over complaints against UK lawyers (22 Mar 2005)
  
• Walter Construction suspected of window dressing accounts (22 Mar 2005)
  
• Why audit committees should ask for confidential information on the quality-control systems of their companies' audit firms (22 Mar 2005)
  
• PCAOB Prepares to Ramp Up Audit Inspections (22 Mar 2005)
• SEC CHARGES TIME WARNER WITH FRAUD, AIDING AND ABETTING FRAUDS BY OTHERS, AND VIOLATING A PRIOR CEASE-AND-DESIST ORDER; CFO, CONTROLLER, AND DEPUTY CONTROLLER CHARGED WITH CAUSING REPORTING VIOLATIONS (21 Mar 2005)
  
• HOW WE CAN CONTROL YOB CAPITALISM (21 Mar 2005)
  
• Maverick DeLorean dies at 80 (21 Mar 2005)
• WorldCom Director's Settlement Back On (21 Mar 2005)
  
• CalPERS OKs Audit Independence Proposal (21 Mar 2005)
  
• Non-executive misdirection (20 Mar 2005)
• Success made Bernie Ebbers so wealthy and powerful that WorldCom could no longer control him (20 Mar 2005)
  
• Colonising the state: PwC man becomes OFT's first Chief Operating Officer (19 Mar 2005)
  
• Tighten the rules on fraud (18 Mar 2005)
• Auditing Regulation slipping away to unaccountable international cartels (18 Mar 2005)
  
• Cattles Flags Impact of Accounting Changes (18 Mar 2005)
  
• J.P. Morgan agrees to pay $2 billion to WorldCom investors (18 Mar 2005)
  
• Chantrey Vellacott to face new negligence allegations (18 Mar 2005)
  
• Morgan Stanley £1bn hidden emails bill (18 Mar 2005)
• Incompetent UK auditors face jail under DTI plans (18 Mar 2005)
  
• UK Auditors face jail for false opinions (18 Mar 2005)
• Morrisons warns of £40m profit hit  (18 Mar 2005)
• Citigroup seeks Parmalat damages (18 Mar 2005)
• Ernst & Young Tower Air Lawsuit Will Proceed (17 Mar 2005)
  
• Banks named in Parmalat inquiry (17 Mar 2005)
• Ebbers' conviction bad omen for Enron chiefs, others  (17 Mar 2005)
  
• Kodak to restate earnings (17 Mar 2005)
  
• Accounting problems at Morrisons (17 Mar 2005)
  
• Morrisons in profit shortfall (17 Mar 2005)
  
• UK Auditors' liability wishes in company law bill (17 Mar 2005)
• UK government press release
• UK govenment consultation paper on company law reform
  
• SEC accuse Qwest fat cats of cooking the books (16 Mar 2005)
  
• WorldCom blow dealt to 'Aw Shucks defence' (16 Mar 2005)
  
• SEC files suit against ex-Qwest bosses (16 Mar 2005)
  
• Those who lost say Ebbers end is fitting (16 Mar 2005)
• Ebbers guilty of history's biggest accounting fraud at WorldCom (16 Mar 2005)
  
• Ebbers faces jail after WorldCom fraud conviction (16 Mar 2005)
• Deloitte is to face a joint  trial (16 Mar 2005)
  
• SEC Charges Former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio and Eight Others with Massive Financial Disclosure Fraud (15 Mar 2005)
  
• US Congress to start World Bank account probe (14 Mar 2005)
  
• Former Qwest CEO could face SEC charges (14 Mar 2005)
• Chiefs keep bonuses despite revised profits (14 Mar 2005)
• Hibernia Foods class action is invalid – PwC (13 Mar 2005)
  
• Fannie Mae changes bonus system (13 Mar 2005)
  
• Ernst & Young faces accounting fraud lawsuit (13 Mar 2005)
• KPMG Audit Prompts EchoStar Probe (11 Mar 2005) 
• Delphi faces at least 11 lawsuits over accounting troubles (11 Mar 2005)
• Law firm files suit over AIK Comp downfall, Ernst & Young named (11 Mar 2005)
  
• Nortel and Deloitte face class lawsuit (11 Mar 2005)
  
• Adecco is in the clear (10 Mar 2005)
  
• Delphi class-action lawsuits mount: Employees, retirees, investors voice their displeasure over firm's misstated profits (10 Mar 2005)
• Namibia Airports Company issues N$5 million lawsuit against two local affiliates of PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young  (10 Mar 2005)
  
• EC puts IASB Accountability Demand in Writing (10 Mar 2005)
  
• Delphi retiree sues over accounting irregularities (9 Mar 2005)
• Partners should sign audit personally, DTI told (9 Mar 2005)
  
• MBIA to Restate Seven Years of Results (9 Mar 2005)
  
• SEC approves $20 million budget for FASB (8 Mar 2005)
  
• SEC Approves $153 million PCAOB Budget (8 Mar 2005)
• US Accounting reforms cause decrease in junk bond issuance (8 Mar 2005)
  
• Four More Banks in $100 million WorldCom Settlement (8 Mar 2005)
• Bank of America agrees $461 million Worldcom settlement (8 Mar 2005)
  
• An Experimental Investigation of Non-Audit Service Fees and Investors’ Perception of Auditor Independence: Post-Enron Era (8 Mar 2005)
• Revolving Doors: IASB member defects to Big Four ( 7 Mar 2005)
  
• SCO Group (KPMG client) accounting errors force restatement (7 Mar 2005)
• The effect of audit firm mergers on audit pricing in the UK (6 Mar 2005)
  
• Canadian Accounting bodies shelve merger plan (5 Mar 2005)
• Citigroup will pay $75 million to settle Global Crossing suits (4 Mar 2005)
• How clean are corporate books? (4 Mar 2005)
• SPIEGEL: Creditors can sue KPMG, court rules (3 Mar 2005)
  
• Molex (ex Deloitte and Touche client) sued by shareholders (3 Mar 2005)
• OFR: ASB accused of missing the government's point (3 Mar 2005)
  
• More accounting problems at Fannie Mae (3 Mar 2005)
  
• Accounts problem costs Mowlem dear (3 Mar 2005)
  
• Bank of America  will pay $460.5m (£241.3m; 350.8m euros) to settle a lawsuit brought by shareholders in Worldcom (3 Mar 2005)
• Japanese mogul arrested on charges of falsifying shareholder information and selling shares based on the false data (3 Mar 2005)
• Eurotunnel digs in as accountants' doubts grow (2 Mar 2005)
• Ex-traders at RBG Resources bankrupted in hunt for missing £180m (2 Mar 2005)
  
• The Representational Faithfulness Of IFAC (1 Mar 2005)

February 2005

• Allies of the state: KPMG and the Tobacco giants' probe over smuggling deal (28 Feb 2005)
  
• Independent audit and independent non-executive directors in corporate governance (28 Feb 2005)
  
• KT (KPMG client), Kia (Deloitte client) Under Accounting Probe in South Korea (27 Feb 2005)
• Auditors used to find tax shelters (27 Feb 2005)
  
• Rather than raising governance standards UK companies seek exemptions from Sarbanes-Oxley Act (27 Feb 2005)
  
• Who's to blame for America's scandals? (27 Feb 2005)
  
• The Enron Scandal, Media and Regulation  (27 Feb 2005)
• What caused Enron?: A capsule Social and Economic History of the 1990s (27 Feb 2005)
  
• Differentiating Between Arthur Andersen and the Surviving Big Four on the Basis of Auditor Quality: A Empirical Investigation of the Decision to Criminally Prosecute Arthur Andersen (26 Feb 2005)
• Abusive tax shelters sold by auditors to their audit clients (25 Feb 2005)
  
• US GAO links auditors to tax-shelter setup (25 Feb 2005)
• Read the 26 page PDF Report
  
• UK accountancy regulator sucks up to the accountancy establishment with ineffective solutions (24 Feb 2005)
• Read the 25 page report
  
• New Problems Found in Fannie Mae Accounting (24 Feb 2005)
• HealthSouth Auditors Didn't See Some Books (24 Feb 2005)
  
• Access to HealthSouth books denied, internal auditor testifies (24 Feb 2005)
  
• Nation of Beancounters: Britain has 250,000 accountants but the demand keeps on rising (23 Feb 2005)
• Ernst & Young Prevails in Rare Class Fraud Trial (23 Feb 2005)
  
• Witness lost promotion after asking questions at HealthSouth (23 Feb 2005)
  
• Standards bodies: their power and accountability (23 Feb 2005)
  
• Accounting class actions suspended for two years in South Korea (23 Feb 2005)
• Countrywide Financial Has Accounting Glitch (22 Feb 2005)
  
• Law Firm Co-Defendant Settled, but Ernst & Young Prevails in Trial (22 Feb 2005)
• PwC vouched for firm in money inquiry (22 Feb 2005)
• WorldCom and HealthSouth CEO trials hold startling similarities (21 Feb 2005)
• Going, going, gone: how we sold Barings for £1 (21 Feb 2005)
  
• A decade on, Barings still haunts City (20 Feb 2005)
• Ten years after Barings, Nick Leeson warns that the financial services industry has yet to learn its lesson (20 Feb 2005)
  
• Barings: Few escaped unscathed from glittering class of 1995 (20 Feb 2005)
• PwC advises the Uk government on schools and education (19 Feb 2005)
  
• Big Four UK non-audit fees soar (18 Feb 2005)
• SEC starts informal probe of Bancinsurance (18 Feb 2005)
  
• US Auditor Changes Abounded in 2004 (18 Feb 2005)
  
• US Auditor Turnover Jumped 78 Percent in 2004 (18 Feb 2005)
  
• Profile of the UK Accountancy and Audit Profession (50 page PDF file)  (18 Feb 2005)
• Papers on accounting firm, Ernst & Young, will not be made public (18 Feb 2005)
  
• US regulator releases proposals on auditor independence and taxation services (51 page PDF file) (17 Feb 2005)
• WorldCom Ex-finance head admits lies in court (17 Feb 2005)
  
• PIRC, the pension fund pressure group, has said auditors continue to undertake far too much non-audit work for their clients (17 Feb 2005)
  
• PwC wins tronc battle with UK Revenue (16 Feb 2005)
• A Word From Accounting's Powers That Be (16 Feb 2005)
• Ernst & Young Sued for Its Audit of Computer Associates (16 Feb 2005)
  
• OfficeMax CEO resigns amid accounting scandal (15 Feb 2005)
• Dallas man sues Ernst & Young (15 Feb 2005)
  
• Fannie Mae violated accounting requirements (11 Feb 2005)
• Deloitte injunction gags UK accountancy investigators (11 Feb 2005)
  
• Audit Fees Double Due to Sarbox (11 Feb 2005)
• US SENATE INVESTIGATIVE SUBCOMMITTEE RELEASES REPORT TO COMBAT ABUSIVE TAX SHELTER: Names KPMG, Ernst & Young,  PricewaterhouseCoopers (11 Feb 2005)
• Report fills in blanks on KPMG tax shelters (11 Feb 2005)
• South Carolina's Department of Revenue said it will seek to ban 12 current and former KPMG tax professionals (11 Feb 2005)
  
• US Senate Report targets tax shelters of late 1990s (11 Feb 2005)
• Report criticizes KPMG, banks for tax shleters (11 Feb 2005)
• KPMG subpoenaed over Audiovox audits (10 Feb 2005)
• Equitable policyholder’s report lays down challenge (10 Feb 2005)
  
• UK insurer 'ran fraud for 10 years' (10 Feb 2005)
  
• Deloitte in legal move to silence UK watchdog (10 Feb 2005)
  
• PwC Violated Independence Rules (10 Feb 2005)
• Ex-CFO Warned About WorldCom Accounting (9 Feb 2005)
  
• WorldCom chief 'made me inflate revenues' (9 Feb 2005)
• Audit fees double in US (9 Feb 2005)
  
• Accenture staff paid the most in Britain (9 Feb 2005)
  
• LeisureNet liquidators sue Deloitte for R150m (9 Feb 2005)
• UK Parliament enacts the Operating and financial Review (OFR) legislation (8 Feb 2005)
• read a critique of OFR
  
• Bancinsurance Auditor Withdraws Reports (8 Feb 2005)
• Boustead fires auditor after 'uncertainty' about £2.6m (8 Feb 2005)
  
• Bally Attributes Errors to Former Execs (8 Feb 2005)
• OFR gets UK approval (8 Feb 2005)
• Equitable Life v Ernst & Young: good, old-fashioned litigation (7 Feb 2005)
  
• European Union to require listed companies to book stock options they grant to employees as expenses (7 Feb 2005)
• UK corporation tax 'under relentless attack' from accountancy firms (7 Feb 2005)
• Equitable accounts 'not qualified'  (5 Feb 2005)
  
• Toyota U.S. Unit Finds Accounting Errors (4 Feb 2004)
• LIQUIDATORS of Independent Insurance are suing actuaries (4 Feb 2005)
• Equitable action could cost £80m (4 Feb 2005)
  
• WorldCom accountant describes pressure to cook books (4 Feb 2005)
  
• Britain's corporation tax revenues are under relentless attack global accountancy firms' mass production of tax avoidance (3 Feb 2005)
• Ex-worker says WorldCom CFO ordered changes (3 Feb 2005)
  
•  £12 million accounting black hole at Mowlem (3 Feb 2005)
• A Calculated Scheme or Just Naïve Accounting?  (2 Feb 2005)
• WorldCom hid accounting fraud for 5 quarters, ex-controller testifies (2 Feb 2005)
• Witness: Scrushy knew of fraud for years (2 Feb 2005)
  
• Aspen inquiry turns up $18.5M in accounting flaws (2 Feb 2005)
• KPMG under scrutiny: Ruling won't undo harm to grass seed farmers (1 Feb 2005)
• Eliot Spitzer blasts President Bush for failing to rein in corporate accounting shenanigans (1 Feb 2005)
• Chelsea sign KPMG for plum audit role (1 Feb 2005)
  

January 2005

• Questionable accounting not going away (30 Jan 2005)
• KPMG 'pushed illegal tax dodge' (30 Jan 2005)
• Big-name US investors sue KPMG (30 Jan 2005)
  
• South Carolina looks at MCI, KPMG tax issues (30 Jan 2005)
• South Carolina Attorney General is reviewing the tax activity of MCI and KPMG (30 Jan 2005)
• Prison term for destroying documents: Ex-Ernst & Young partner sentenced (29 Jan 2005)
  
• Balance Sheet: Locking the barn door - Fannie Mae and KPMG (29 Jan 2005)
  
• Herbert Smith have voted to turn the top City law firm into a limited liability partnership (29 Jan 2005)
  
• Accountant delineates how HealthSouth cooked books (29 Jan 2005)
• Parmalat auditors' trial gets under way in Milan (28 Jan 2005)
  
• Parmalat's former auditors Deloitte & Touche misled the regulators (28 Jan 2005)
  
• HealthSouth Accused of Inflating Numbers (28 Jan 2005)
  
• Ebbers ordered employee to cook WorldCom's books (28 Jan 2005)
  
• KPMG cold-called to sell VAT avoidance scheme (28 Jan 2005)
• Accounting Errors Delay Kodak Earnings (28 Jan 2005)
  
• Ernst & Young partner jailed in US  (28 Jan 2005)
• Former Ernst & Young partner to serve time for falsifying records (28 Jan 2005)  (28 Jan 2005)
  
• WorldCom had history of questionable accounting, former exec testifies (28 Jan 2005)
• The WorldCom and Enron Settlements: Imposing Personal Liability on Public Company Directors (28 Jan 2005)
  
• Ebbers pleads Worldcom ignorance (27 Jan 2005)
• KPMG, BearingPoint also escape Peregrine liability (27 Jan 2005)
  
• Trial Begins for 2 Ex-Parmalat Auditors (27 Jan 2005)
• NextCard: FORMER ERNST & YOUNG AUDIT PARTNER SENTENCED TO ONE YEAR IN PRISON FOR CRIMINAL VIOLATIONS OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT (27 Jan 2005)
  
• Ernst & Young partner pleads guilty to falsifying  NextCard audit (27 Jan 2005)
  
• Parmalat bank barred from lawsuit (27 Jan 2005)
• Businesses named and shamed at Public Eye awards (27 Jan 2005)
• KPMG wins corporate booby prize (27 Jan 2005)
  
• Shell, Dow Chemicals, Wal Mart and KPMG braded most irresponsible MNCs (26 Jan 2005)
• Read Davos Press Release
• Power without Responsibility: Tax Avoidance and Corporate Integrity
  
• KPMG to pay £10m to Scottish partners (26 Jan 2005)
• KPMG Int'l Posts $13.44 billion income in 2004 (26 Jan 2005)
• HealthSouth Officer Says He Was Told to 'Fix' Profit (26 Jan 2005)
  
• Bernard Ebbers, the former chief executive of WorldCom, was yesterday accused of telling "lie after lie after lie (26 Jan 2005)
• HealthSouth to settle Medicare fraud charges: Whistleblower stands to collect $8 million (26 Jan 2005)
  
• Penthouse, Former Officer and Shareholder Charged with Accounting Fraud (26 Jan 2005)
  
• Parmalat bank barred from lawsuit (25 Jan 2005)
• SEC to rethink post-Enron rules (25 Jan 2005)
  
• Accounting flaws pose legal threat to US firms (25 Jan 2005)
• Sweet & Maxwell expected to confirm dawn raids (25 Jan 2005)
  
• Wary Auditors, Clients Worry FASB's Herz (25 Jan 2005)
  
• PricewaterhouseCoopers Pays Settlement of $87.5 Million (25 Jan 2005)
  
• Penthouse Charged With Accounting Fraud (24 Jan 2005)
• Millions go missing at China bank (24 Jan 2005)
  
• Murdoch business faces accounting investigation (23 Jan 2004)
• Shell reserves shortfall 'even worse than feared' (23 Jan 2005)
• Santander's Botin in dock over fraud charges (23 Jan 2005)
  
• Seven Trent faces fraud inquiry (23 Jan 2005)
• 414 US companies restated their accounts in 2004 (21 Jan 2005)
• Read the press release
  
• Friends in high places: KPMG hires a former US federal judge (21 Jan 2005)
• Former directors of SSL have fraud cases dismissed (21 Jan 2005)
• Accounting Rule changes turn Vodafone loss to profits (20 Jan 2005)
• Accounting rules change turned a £2.8 billion Vodafone loss into a £3.6 billion profit (20 Jan 2005)
• Hollinger International Legal Bills Top $57M (19 Jan 2005)
  
• Bosses go as Krispy Kreme dips (19 Jan 2005)
• Hollinger's filing reveals massive losses (19 Jan 2005)
  
• French Watchdog probes Vivendi bond sale (19 Jan 2005)
  
• US Board's Tax Service Restrictions Not Strong Enough (19 Jan 2005)
• WorldCom trial starts in New York (19 Jan 2005)
  
• Ebbers' attorneys likely to point finger at former CFO
• Fraud trial for ex WorldCom chief (19 Jan 2005)
• Naming and branding accountancy bodies in the British empire and commonwealth 1853-2003 (18 Jan 2005)
  
• Nine Charged In Ahold Fraud (18 Jan 2005)
  
• Corporate Tax Avoidance and Global Economic Development Seminar on 17 January 2005
• US Support for Limiting Auditor Liability (17 Jan 2005)
• Secret probe into £20m collapse of Mayflower (16 Jan 2005)
  
• Accountants win support on limited liability (16 Jan 2005)
  
• New Charges in Alleged Fraud at Ahold Arm (14 Jan 2005)
  
• McKesson Settles Accounting Irregularities Suits for $960 Million (14 Jan 2005)
  
• What Did WorldCom's Ebbers Know? (14 Jan 2005)
• Nortel heads into Sarbanes-Oxley headwind (14 Jan 2005)
• McKesson Agrees to $960M Settlement in Class Lawsuits (13 Jan 2005)
  
• Sage of ethical accounting foretold Andersen demise (13 Jan 2005)
  
• Auditor liability back in UK bill (13 Jan 2005)
  
• Critics point fingers at board and auditors Deloitte and Touche (13 Jan 2005)
  
• Nortel Networks Corp: Driving from a profit to a loss (13 Jan 2005)
  
• New charges in fraud at arm of supermarket giant Ahold (13 Jan 2005)
• SEC Steps Up SunTrust Probe (13 Jan 2005)
• SEC Launches Probe Into SunTrust Accounting Deficiencies (13 Jan 2005)
  
• Judge Finds That PwC Withheld Data (13 Jan 2005)
• Magistrate recommends judgment against Big Four accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (13 Jan 2005)
• The Parmalat Syndrome (12 Jan 2005)
  
• Pretensions of globalisation: PwC  employs 120,000 people in 139 countries (12 Jan 2005)
• Pretensions of globalisation: Deloitte employs 115,000  people in 670 cities in 148 countries  (12 Jan 2005)
  
• Pretensions of globalisation: KPMG employs 100,000 people in 715 cities in 148 countries (12 Jan 2005)
  
• Pretensions of globalisation: Ernst & Young employs 100,600 people in more than 140 countries (12 Jan 2005)
  
• BroadVision admits sales errors (11 Jan 2005)
  
• First “Public Eye Awards“ for Irresponsible Corporate Behaviour: Cast your vote for KPMG  (11 Jan 2005)
  
• Friends in high places: UN appoints PWC to audit tsunami aid spending (11 Jan 2005)
• United Kingdom: Keeping Up With Corporate Governance (10 Jan 2005)
  
• Saga of Enron and Andersen: Can a company be corrupt? (10 Jan 2005)
• Two Former AOL Execs Charged With Fraud (10 Jan 2005)
  
• Former executives at America Online face criminal charges into claims of fraudulent transactions with a software supplier (10 Jan 2005)
  
• Eighteen former Enron directors have agreed a $168m (£9.85m) settlement deal in a shareholder lawsuit (9 Jan 2005)
  
• US Supreme court to hear Enron case vs. Andersen (8 Jan 2005)
• BroadVision in Settlement With SEC over misleading accounting (7 Jan 2005)
  
• Former directors settle WorldCom lawsuit for $18m (7 Jan 2005)
  
• Ahold prepares cakes for long inquiry (7 Jan 2005)
  
• Dutch court orders Ahold inquiry (7 Jan 2005)
  
• Former Cendant Exec Found Guilty of Accounting Fraud (6 Jan 2005)
  
• SEC Charges TV Azteca And Its Chairman—Ricardo Salinas Pliego—with Fraudulent Scheme to Conceal Salinas’ $109 Million Windfall Through Related Party Transactions (5 Jan 2005)
  
• Restaurants have accounting trouble with leases (5 Jan 2005)
• SEC accuses Mexican firm of fraud (5 Jan 2005)
  
• Deloitte CEO Blames Parmalat Audit Firm (5 Jan 2005)
  
• Judge says Deloitte &Touche not liable for Ahold's fraud (5 Jan 2005)
  
• The eighth annual FTSE350 audit fees survey (5 Jan 2004)
  
• Former Cendant leader convicted of directing an accounting fraud (5 Jan 2005)
  
• UK Investors face 'rush of alerts' (4 Jan 2005)
• Deloitte accuses Grant Thornton of withholding information during audit work on Parmalat (4 Jan 2004)
  
• Fears over new 'fair value' accounts (3 Jan 2005)
  
• Are accountancy firms global?: Two faces for PwC (3 Jan 2005) 
  
• MINORITY ETHNIC And Racial GROUPS AND CAREERS IN ARCHITECTURE (30 page PDF File)  (2 Jan 2005)
• Race,discrimination and the UK Criminal Justice System (2 Jan 2005) 
• A Recent History of Racial Discrimination in the UK Legal Profession (2 Jan 2005)
• How racist are our institutions? (2 Jan 2005)
  
• Double court battle could force Equitable somersault (2 Jan 2005)
• Carbon trading is accounting minefield (2 Jan 2005)
• Are Accountancy Firms Global: Deloitte boast a global cheif executive (1 Jan 2005)
  
• PCAOB Said to Be Investigating KPMG Audit of Fannie Mae (1 Jan 2005)
  

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