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DECEMBER 2007

Deloitte Settles Delphi For A Pittance (31 Dec 2007)
Banks fight to rebuild balance sheets (31 Dec 2007)
Class-action lawsuits soar as investors try to recoup credit losses (31 Dec 2007)
Credit crunch 'our biggest challenge' (30 Dec 2007)
Subprime crisis: Merrill seeks more funds to avoid crisis (30 Dec 2007)
Merge Says Finances Scrutinized; SEC Has Launched Investigation (30 Dec 2007)
FutureFuel restates 2006 results to apply 'purchase accounting' (29 Dec 2007)
More pain for top US banks (29 Dec 2007)
Inside Bribery Probe of Siemens (29 Dec 2007)
Maxjet has ceased operating and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection (29 Dec 2007)
Deloitte agrees to pay $38 million to ex-Delphi investors (28 Dec 2007)
Accounting fraud confirmed at Samsung Heavy (28 Dec 2007)
Sanyo Electric risks delisting for years of wrong figures (28 Dec 2007)
Subprime slump may cost banks £100bn (28 Dec 2007)
US Judge Hands IRS Victory in KPMG Tax Shelter (28 Dec 2007)
No laughter please: Ethics and integrity a critical element of leadership at KPMG (28 Dec 2007)
U.S. Prevails in KPMG Tax-Shelter Battle (27 Dec 2007)
US Judge Invalidates Questionable KPMG Tax Shelter (27 Dec 2007)
Sanyo threatened with delisting in accounting scandal (27 Dec 2007)
Samsung Affiliate Suspected of Accounting Fraud (27 Dec 2007)
McAfee Fixes Past Stock Option Accounting Errors (27 Dec 2007)
Maxjet loses £10m in quarter before filing for bankruptcy (27 Dec 2007)
Visit Lloyds of London Litigation Database (24 Dec 2007)
The saga of Lloyds of London or how corporate power corrupts (24 Dec 2007)
Switzerland's Federal Banking Commission to investigate how UBS became one of the banking sector's worst victims of the credit crunch (24 Dec 2007)
Swiss banking watchdog snaps at heels of UBS (24 Dec 2007)
Equitable Life puts itself up for sale (24 Dec 2007)
Parmalat will receive €396 million (£287 million) in settlements with the banks (24 Dec 2007)
Parmalat in 327m euro settlement (23 Dec 2007)
Former Bear Stearns Bankers Plead Guilty to Fraud (23 Dec 2007)
McAfee to record charge of $137.4M in restatement; considering share buyback (23 Dec 2007)
Thousands of customers hit by the collapse of Travelscope Holidays (22 Dec 2007)
US Justice Dept. joins SEC in investigation into Diebold accounting (22 Dec 2007)
Diebold says being investigated by US Justice Dept (22 Dec 2007)
Merrill Lynch looks for $5bn bailout from Singapore fund (22 Dec 2007)
Single error costs mighty Morgan Stanley $8bn (22 Dec 2007)
Banks suffer from risky investments (22 Dec 2007)
More suprime damage is revealed (22 Dec 2007)
Northern Rock urges shareholders to reject 'potentially damaging' plan (22 Dec 2007)
Bribery and Corruption: Official memos released in BAE court case (22 Dec 2007)
Bribery and Corruption: Witness statement by head of Serious Fraud Office on BAE (22 Dec 2007)
Blair called for BAE inquiry to be halted (22 Dec 2007)
Lucent Technologies Inc. Agrees to Pay $1 Million Fine to Resolve Corruption Allegations (22 Dec 2007)
Meagre pickings outside big fifty (22 Dec 2007)
Auditors Know How To Backdate More Than Options (21 Dec 2007)
US Watchdog Vows To Dog Accountants Who Crap On Investors. (21 Dec 2007)
The Auditing Cartel shifts the consequences of bank audit failures to taxpayers: Determining Fair Value of Financial Instruments under IFRS in Current Market Conditions (21 Dec 2007)
Centro Properties (audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers) investors stare at $120m black hole (21 Dec 2007)
Overleveraged Centro Properties Says It's Still Viable (21 Dec 2007)
Centro faces $100m action (21 Dec 2007)
Sunrise Ousts More Execs Over Accounting Woes (21 Dec 2007)
Sunrise executives depart after accounting errors (21 Dec 2007)
Judge Approves $3.2 Billion Tyco Settlement (21 Dec 2007)
Lawyers win share of Tyco settlement (21 Dec 2007)
£32.7m consultant fees 'disgrace' (21 Dec 2007)
Ex-Fannie CEO's subpoena plan blocked (21 Dec 2007)
Bear Stearns suffers $854m loss (21 Dec 2007)
Corporate governance: Tall story (21 Dec 2007)
KPMG: Just pay your taxes (20 Dec 2007)
The Financial Reporting Council: Closing the gate too late (20 Dec 2007)
European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services Mr. McCreevy presents statutory audit package (20 Dec 2007)
EC seeks to limit auditor liability in first qtr of 2008 (20 Dec 2007)
Ex-BDO Seidman official penalized for lack of oversight (20 Dec 2007)
Ex-Allied Domecq boss gets 10 years for fraud (20 Dec 2007)
Barclays sues over sub-prime losses (20 Dec 2007)
Morgan Stanley bailed out by Beijing after $9bn write-off (20 Dec 2007)
We Want You! How The Big 4 Sells To Students (19 Dec 2007)
SEC Charges Mayer Brown Partner Joseph P. Collins With Aiding and Abetting Refco Disclosure Fraud (19 Dec 2007)
Ex-Refco exec Maggio pleads guilty to fraud (19 Dec 2007)
SEC warns accountants after Refco filing (19 Dec 2007)
Citigroup, debt and good times/bad times balance sheets (19 Dec 2007)
Credit Crisis: Worthless Billions Won't Solve A Problem Worth Trillions (19 Dec 2007)
FSA proposes tougher reporting for banks and building societies (19 Dec 2007)
Morgan Stanley takes $9.4bn hit (19 Dec 2007)
UK Taxpayers' backing for Northern Rock hits £50bn (19 Dec 2007)
APB issues a Discussion Paper on The Auditor's Report (19 Dec 2007)
AccountingWEB: profoundly unethical conduct (18 Dec 2007)
Hollinger: Black's partner gets 29 months (18 Dec 2007)
Ace to rectify $152M accounting error (18 Dec 2007)
Ex-BDO Seidman Auditors Disciplined by PCAOB (18 Dec 2007)
Ahold to Get $8 Million From Former Foodservice Head (18 Dec 2007)
Ex-US FoodService CEO to pay $8 million settlement (18 Dec 2007)
UK Auditor liability guidance published (18 Dec 2007)
Illicit money across borders: The Ugliest Chapter in Global Economic Affairs Since Slavery (18 Dec 2007)
Deloitte leads Big Four lift (18 Dec 2007)
KPMG revenues top £1.6bn with bonuses of £100m (18 Dec 2007)
UK government's exposure to Northern Rock increased around £50bn, or approaching £2,000 for each taxpayer (18 Dec 2007)
More public cash put behind Northern Rock (18 Dec 2007)
Northern Rock: just admit it, the market has failed (17 Dec 2007)
Always too Late: FRC highlights the challenges of corporate reporting and governance this year (17 Dec 2007)
SEC Charges Former Chairman/CEO of Schnitzer Steel for Authorizing Cash Bribes to Foreign Officials (17 Dec 2007)
In bed withbig accounting firms: FRC issues draft guidance on Auditor Liability Limitation Agreements (17 Dec 2007)
Income shifting: why accountants are protesting too much (16 Dec 2007)
Interwoven restates some results for accounting errors (16 Dec 2007)
Rock bottom: Branson has no banking licence (16 Dec 2007)
Is The Fix In On Starting Pay? (15 Dec 2007)
Citigroup under more strain as SIVs worth $49bn put on balance sheet (15 Dec 2007)
In bed with big accounting firms: FRC shys away from full transparency (15 Dec 2007)
PwC Sees Increased Role for Advisors (15 Dec 2007)
Does anyone believe KPMG claims of KPMG's claims of Credibility and Integrity (15 Dec 2007)
Top accountants accused of trying to organise €200m VRT refund claim 'scam' (14 Dec 2007)
UBS hit with shareholder lawsuit over subprime (14 Dec 2007)
UBS accused of hiding sub-prime hit (14 Dec 2007)
Citigroup to take $49 bln in SIVs onto balance sheet (14 Dec 2007)
Citigroup to take on $49bn debts (14 Dec 2007)
Beware of more 'hidden' subprime losses (14 Dec 2007)
More US white collar corporate crime prosecuted, but sentences are sparse (14 Dec 2007)
21 largest Eurozone banks have €244bn in off-balance sheet assets (13 Dec 2007)
HBOS in £180m credit crunch hit (13 Dec 2007)
SEC to discuss accounting standards (13 Dec 2007)
Subprime crisis and accounting: Flurry of reports on their way as industry grapples with changes (13 Dec 2007)
International banks Under intensive care (13 Dec 2007)
Banks' off balance sheet vehicles to be exposed (13 Dec 2007)
PwC $10m sexual harassment case to start in May (13 Dec 2007)
KPMG closes FTSE 100 audit gap on PwC (13 Dec 2007)
Ernst & Young and Rudy Giuliani (12 Dec 2007)
Global Accounting Board Cheered, Jeered on Transparency (12 Dec 2007)
Estimating subprime write-downs and the 'cookie jar' accounting problem (12 Dec 2007)
Sub-prime crisis is 'Enron all over again' (12 Dec 2007)
Focus on off-balance-sheet finance (12 Dec 2007)
Off balance sheet on FSA agenda (12 Dec 2007)
How Citi is Solving its SIV Problems (12 Dec 2007)
SEC Urging Bank Disclosure on Subprime (12 Dec 2007)
Call to reassess financial system checks (12 Dec 2007)
Farepak victims wait for cash (12 Dec 2007)
IFAC issues irreconcilable nonsense (11 Dec 2007)
Deloitte Disciplined For Deficient Partner (11 Dec 2007)
PCAOB Issues Disciplinary Orders Against Deloitte & Touche LLP and a Former Audit Partner (11 Dec 2007)
Deloitte Agrees to Pay $1 Million Fine (11 Dec 2007)
'No one is above the law' - Conrad Black gets six years: Former Telegraph owner jailed for plot to embezzle $6.1m from shareholders (11 Dec 2007)
Executives in prison (11 Dec 2007)
Problems heat up at Worthington (11 Dec 2007)
KPMG study shows flaws in corporate reporting data (11 Dec 2007)
spvs got benefits and disadvantages (11 Dec 2007)
Creative accounting (10 Dec 2007)
Hollinger: Black to serve up to eight years (10 Dec 2007)
Hollinger: Conrad Black to serve up to eight years in jail for fraud (10 Dec 2007)
Conrad Black: timeline (10 Dec 2007)
UBS posts fresh $10bn write-down (10 Dec 2007)
US sub-prime writs list AIG directors (10 Dec 2007)
Lloyds TSB in £200m sub-prime hit (10 Dec 2007)
Annual reports getting longer - average length to 89 pages (10 Dec 2007)
Joy for Corporate Undertakers: Accountants predict rise in insolvencies (10 Dec 2007)
ACCA chief exec to step down (10 Dec 2007)
Goldman Sachs and PwC (9 Dec 2007)
The Rock should tell PwC its number's up (9 Dec 2007)
The Treasury must act to stop firms evading tax through corporate giving (9 Dec 2007)
BDO Spicers criticised by judge in Capital + Merchant Finance case (9 Dec 2007)
SEC, FBI lodge bribery charges in penny stock sting (9 Dec 2007)
Britain's £10bn retail property fund industry is balancing on the edge of a liquidity crisis (9 Dec 2007)
FINANCIAL AND TAX ACCOUNTING: TRANSPARENCY AND ’TRUTH’ (9 Dec 2007)
Stock Option Scandal Not Over (8 Dec 2007)
Former UnitedHealth Group Chief Will Forfeit $418 Million to settle claims related to back-dated stock options (9 Dec 2007)
MaxJet suspends its shares amid liquidity fears (8 Dec 2007)
Auditors find accounting holes in US fund for equipping Iraqi forces (8 Dec 2007)
SEC Files Actions Against 10 Defendants in Fraudulent Kickback Schemes (8 Dec 2007)
Former UnitedHealth Group CEO/Chairman Settles Stock Options Backdating Case for $468 Million (8 Dec 2007)
The wealth of the nation (7 Dec 2007)
No regulation with self interest (7 Dec 2007)
FASB Could Become Branch of IASB (7 Dec 2007)
Samsung Accused of Accounting Fraud (7 Dec 2007)
POB presses on with audit transparency (7 Dec 2007)
KPMG Malpractice Suit Dismissed (7 Dec 2007)
Why Richard Branson is the last man to be trusted with Northern Rock (7 Dec 2007)
Put A Fork In PwC - They're Done Re: Northern Rock (6 Dec 2007)
Campaigners attack IASB award (6 Dec 2007)
RBS reveals £1.5bn credit crunch hit (6 Dec 2007)
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) sued by Sydney Water over IT failure (6 Dec 2007)
verifone's Bad Accounting Blip (6 Dec 2007)
PCAOB Mulls Inspections of Foreign Firms (6 Dec 2007)
US regulators mull hard lessons from credit crunch (6 Dec 2007)
How UK banks exploit charity tax laws (5 Dec 2007)
In the pockets of big firms: Audit Inspection Unit backs down on plans to publish list of reviewed company audits after sustained protest from firms (5 Dec 2007)
The Professional Oversight Board publishes its policy conclusions on the reporting of Audit Inspection findings (5 Dec 2007)
Reporting on Audit Quality Monitoring: Result of Consultation and Policy Conclusions (5 Dec 2007
Norther Rock: Role of auditors, PwC, comes under attack (5 Dec 2007)
Call for open inquiry in to Northern Rock (5 Dec 2007)
Carter & Carter launches fraud probe (5 Dec 2007)
Subprime crisis not seen changing accounting rules (5 Dec 2007)
Hollinger: Call to give Black tougher sentence for lack of remorse (5 Dec 2007)
Freddie Mac's Accounting Evokes Shades of Enron (5 Dec 2007)
The Financial Tsunami: Sub-Prime Mortgage Debt is but the Tip of the Iceberg (5 Dec 2007)
EU approves UK rescue aid package for Northern Rock (5 Dec 2007)
Branson's pickle (4 Dec 2007)
MI5 calls in KPMG to warn of espionage (4 Dec 2007)
Hey SEC - Clawback Those Stolen Bonuses (4 Dec 2007)
One World Trust - Accountability and how to get it so wrong on the IASB (4 Dec 2007)
PwC audit head grilled over Rock (4 Dec 2007)
MPs tackle PwC over Northern Rock role (4 Dec 2007)
MPs slam N Rock number-crunchers (4 Dec 2007)
MPs slam Northern Rock's accountants (4 Dec 2007)
pwc urged to return Northern Rock fees (4 Dec 2007)
Sub-prime hit outweighed profits for Citi and UBS (4 Dec 2007)
Goldfish owner forced into goodwill write-off (4 Dec 2007)
Accounting Errors Cause Plunge in verifone Shares (4 Dec 2007)
Verifone Feels Accounting Pain (4 Dec 2007)
FormFactor sued over accounting (4 Dec 2007)
PwC’s strange vision of tax and cost (3 Dec 2007)
Investigators of subprime crisis should look offshore (3 Dec 2007)
PCAOB to Consider Proposal to Enhance International Cooperation in Audit Inspections (3 Dec 2007)
ICAEW Tribunals slammed as ‘grossly unfair’ (3 Dec 2007)
Biggest four accounting firms have grown by 1,000% (3 DEc 2007)
Hollinger: The hunt for Black’s hidden millions (3 Dec 2007)
Sarbanes-Oxley doing its job, co-author says (3 Dec 2007)
Australia: Three men used a Swiss accounting firm to defraud Government of millions of dollars in unpaid taxes (3 Dec 2007)
The $41B Bomb Citi Doesn't Want You to Know About (3 Dec 2007)
TRAWQ should not have been placed in liquidation (3 Dec 2007)
Citigroup sells off more SIV assets (2 Dec 2007)
Toxic loans force Alliance & Leicester to write off another £50m (2 Dec 2007)
Banks and balance sheets (2 Dec 2007)
Subprime Crisis Not Over, More Writeoffs to Come, Levitt Says (2 Dec 2007)
NatWest Three will serve most of term in UK (2 Dec 2007)
Hollinger: Conrad Black protests innocence (1 Dec 2007)
Chinese property tycoon jailed for 16 years on corruption charges, including bribery and forging tax receipts (1 Dec 2007)
The NatWest Three are, in reality, Arthur Daleys in suits (1 Dec 2007)
Crisis at Carter and Carter (1 Dec 2007)
PATHOLOGY OF DEBT: Banks as vulture investors (1 Dec 2007)
PATHOLOGY OF DEBT: Commercial paper and pesky SIVs (1 Dec 2007)
Pathology of Debt: The credit guns of August (1 Dec 2007)
Pathology of Debt: Lessons unlearned (1 Dec 2007)
Pathology of Debt: Off-balance-sheet debt (1 Dec 2007)

NOVEMBER 2007

Toothless watchdogs: The watchdogs auditing our financial institutions haven't been able to stave off the sub-prime crisis (30 Nov 2007)
Academics Sell Out To The Big 4 (30 Nov 2007)
Ex-KPMG employees trial in tax case set for 2008 (30 Nov 2007)
Taxpayers' support for Northern Rock soars to £30bn (30 Nov 2007)
Northern Rock rescue bill tops £29bn (30 Nov 2007)
Alliance & Leicester takes a £156m hit from credit crunch (30 Nov 2007)
Auditing rules OK for now in wake of subprime -EU (30 Nov 2007)
PCAOB to publish ‘mutual reliance’ plan (30 Nov 2007)
Sub-prime crisis hits IKB and Terra (30 Nov 2007)
German banks mount second rescue of stricken IKB (30 Nov 2007)
Weapons of mass financial destruction (30 Nov 2007)
Auditors Get Tough On Banks, Banks Say "Huh?" (29 Nov 2007)
Alliance & Leicester profits hit by credit crunch and writes down value of structured investment vehicles by £55m (29 Nov 2007)
Northern Rock auditors braced for MP grilling (29 Nov 2007)
EU to accept US accounting standards (29 Nov 2007)
Natwest Three plead guilty to $7.3m Enron-linked transatlantic fraud (29 Nov 2007)
NatWest Three face jail sentence (29 Nov 2007)
Virgin Mobile USA faces class-action lawsuit (29 Nov 2007)
Findings of the Financial Reporting Review Panel in respect of the accounts of Grainger Trust plc (29 Nov 2007)
Accounting is cleaner since enron, but it's not perfect (29 Nov 2007)
France on collision course with Europe over audit rules (29 Nov 2007)
Mexico to end to 'inflation accounting' (29 Nov 2007)
EU-US cooperation on reporting standards audit oversight and regulation (29 Nov 2007)
A twisty trail: from Northern Rock to Jersey to a tiny charity (28 Nov 2007)
Deloitte Facing New Suit by Ahold Shareholders (28 Nov 2007)
US outlines audit inspection criteria (28 Nov 2007)
Alliance & Leicester may have to seek emergency funds from the Bank of England (28 Nov 2007)
Why Citi can't take the high road over credit mess (28 Nov 2007)
Oral Roberts Ex-Accountant Files Suit (28 Nov 2007)
KPMG unveiled revenues of $19.8bn for 2007 - that should to pay fines (28 Nov 2007)
Auditors and Privilege - Ask Me No Questions, I'll Tell You No Lies (27 Nov 2007)
Deloitte faces huge Ahold claim (27 Nov 2007)
A KPMGer's Lack of Independence (27 Nov 2007)
A KPMGer's Lack of Independence: the PCAOB Report (27 Nov 2007)
HSBC to put up $35bn to finance two SIVs hit by the credit crunch (27 Nov 2007)
Citigroup had off-balance sheet conduits with assets totaling $73 billion (27 Nov 2007)
Why Citi can't take the high road over credit mess (27 Nov 2007)
Shades of Enron, Tyco allegations. Will the results be different? (27 Nov 2007)
Delphi accounting fraud probe ends But 6 could face SEC counts in separate case (27 Nov 2007)
New leasing standard brings windfall for some (27 Nov 2007)
Woes mount for Samsung amid fresh allegation of massive accounting fraud (27 Nov 2007)
Second ex-Brocade exec goes on trial over stock options accounting (27 Nov 2007)
PCAOB to Shed Light on Small Firm Inspections (27 Nov 2007)
EC to discuss quality assurance proposals for non-EU audit firms (27 Nov 2007)
NatWest Three may plea bargain over Enron charges (27 Nov 2007)
Taxpayers should be worried by terms of Northern Rock bank rescue (27 Nov 2007)
Northern Rock: the significance of Granite to the Bank of England (26 Nov 2007)
The Auditing Cartel: Big 'Six' draw up audit standards (26 Nov 2007)
HSBC Moves to Rescue 2 S.I.Vs by taking $45 billion in assets onto its balance sheet (28 Nov 2007)
HSBC May Need $12 Billion for Bad Debts (26 Nov 2007)
Dominance of the Big Four is exacerbating a decline in trust in audit quality (26 Nov 2007)
Insolvency work re-jig will favour larger firms (26 Nov 2007)
Paragon plans to sell book of car loans (26 Nov 2007)
One hundred days of chaos: can Rock move from ruin to rescue? (25 Nov 2007)
Bangladeshis may sue over First Solution (25 Nov 2007)
The sub-prime crisis is gathering speed and even the biggest of Britain's banks could find themselves in trouble (25 Nov 2007)
The Siemens scandal (25 Nov 2007)
Wal-Mart (Ernst & Young client) Feeling Annoyed and Oppressed Now that Everyone Knows Everything (24 Nov 2007)
Companies are putting up to 80% of their assets off balance sheet (24 Nov 2007)
Financial Services Authority "did not pay enough attention to the build-up of assets off-balance-sheet" (24 Nov 2007)
Ahold shareholders take Deloitte to court over 2003 accounting scandal (24 Nov 2007)
Northern Rock shareholder sell-off warning (24 Nov 2007)
Structured investment vehicles having a rough ride (24 Nov 2007)
Massive hole in Northern Rock's assets (23 Nov 2007)
Northern Rock: Granite Mortgage Transaction Structure (23 Nov 2007)
Northern Rock's creative balance sheet is now public knowledge (23 Nov 2007)
Northern Rock says no asset hole (23 Nov 2007)
The Bank of England and the Treasury's support for Northern Rock could "drive a coach and horses" through the public finances (23 Nov 2007)
Off Balance Sheet: Doubts raised over banks' ability to transfer risk (23 Nov 2007)
Law firm in Enron case set for $700m pay day (23 Nov 2007)
EU ministers back cutting company compliance costs (23 Nov 2007)
What the Corporate Auditor Is Told, a Plaintiff Could Exploit (23 Nov 2007)
CIMA 'not happy' with financial statements (23 Nov 2007)
UK MPs to reopen inquiry as Walker Report on private equity 'fails' (23 Nov 2007)
Hey PwC - Practice What You Preach (22 Nov 2007)
Severn Trent hit with criminal charges (22 Nov 2007)
Severn Trent Water to be prosecuted (22 Nov 2007)
SEC Penalties Fall Amid `New Ethos' on Company Fines (22 Nov 2007)
Enron investors' lawyers seek $700 million fee (22 Nov 2007)
Alaska recovers $19 million in Qwest agreement (22 Nov 2007)
US Judge Rejects Wal-Mart Effort To Block Public View of Documents (22 Nov 2007)
HLB Kidsons are to appeal an insurance judgment that left them liable for claims relating to failed tax schemes (22 Nov 2007)
Maintaining Independence Can Be A Sticky Wicket (21 Nov 2007)
Hiccup to IFRS 8 adoption (21 Nov 2007)
EU Parliemant and IFRS 8 (21 Nov 2007)
UK Taxpayers facing £10bn Northern Rock risk (21 Nov 2007)
Easyjet's profit growth was entirely driven by the fleet financing switch from off-balance sheet to on-balance sheet (21 Nov 2007)
From Poachers and Gamekeepers: From PwC chief to Whitehall insider? (21 Nov 2007)
Apple, Dell and More: 10 Accounting Slips To Avoid (21 Nov 2007)
Cox's SEC Thumbs Its Nose at Sarbanes-Oxley Act (21 Nov 2007)
Iosco to probe market turbulence sparked by sub-prime crisis (21 Nov 2007)
Lawyers accused of delaying Rover investigation (21 Nov 2007)
Dont' Laugh - KPMG teaches ethics (21 Nov 2007
Erinaceous hopes to avoid administration (21 Nov 2007)
Founders quit troubled Erinaceous (21 Nov 2007)
MG Rover investigation has so far taken two years and cost the taxpayer £10m (21 Nov 2007)
Jury Rules in SEC's Favor, Finds Former Chairman/CEO of Chancellor Corporation Liable for Securities Fraud (21 Nov 2007)
SEC Charges Edward May and E-M Management for Massive Offering Fraud Harming Seniors and Other Investors (21 Nov 2007)
Bradford & Bingley in £4.2bn sale (21 Nov 2007)
No Doubt - Blackwater and Deloitte (20 Nov 2007)
Northern Rock - what to do with junk equity? (20 Nov 2007)
KPMG Ex-Tax Partner Faces Extra Charges (20 Nov 2007)
Paragon hit by finance problems (20 Nov 2007)
Mortgage crisis hits Britannia members (20 Nov 2007)
Swiss Re hit by sub-prime losses - expects to lose 1.2bn Swiss francs ($1.07bn; £525m) (20 Nov 2007)
Prosecutors seek to keep trial on against Berlusconi (20 Nov 2007)
Private equity plan to open books - Pigs will fly (20 Nov 2007)
They don’t want accountability: Guidelines for disclosure and Transparency in Private Equity (20 Nov 2007)
Private equity code 'does not go far enough' (20 Nov 2007)
City prepare for a wave of new court battles following the recent collapse of the credit markets (20 Nov 2007)
Anti-corruption investigators are probing payments by ChevronTexaco and Royal Dutch Shell to a company owned by a powerful Nigerian politician (20 Nov 2007)
The dishonourable profession (19 Nov 2007)
The Left Economics Advisory Panel Red Papers (19 Nov 2007)
Bill for Northern Rock could hit £45bn (19 Nov 2007)
Swiss Re takes $1.1bn credit crunch hit (19 Nov 2007)
Off Balance Sheet Accounting: Subprime Crisis and Radioactive Paper (19 Nov 2007)
Irish tax audit snares underpaying accountants (19 Nov 2007)
Farepak victims miss festive cash (19 Nov 2007)
Ex-CEO of transport leasing firm Chancellor Corporation found liable in accounting fraud (19 Nov 2007)
Firms Settle Shar Options Backdating Suits (19 Nov 2007)
The number of accountant CEOs in the UK is dropping (19 Nov 2007)
Subprime debacle an ethical low (19 Nov 2007)
Sub-prime drama reveals the new crisis of capitalism (18 Nov 2007)
Subprime crisis and the model of lending that went wrong (18 Nov 2007)
Revised charges filed in KMPG tax shelter case (18 Nov 2007)
As Bank Profits Grew, Warning Signs Went Unheeded (18 Nov 2007)
Citigroup appeared to have taken a leaf from the Enron book (18 Nov 2007)
US FASB may eliminate certain off-the-books entities (18 Nov 2007)
Toxic Export: How U.S. Subprime Crisis Contaminated World Markets (18 Nov 2007)
Everybody pays except the CEO (18 Nov 2007)
US President’s Corporate Fraud Task Force Marks Five Years of Ensuring Corporate Integrity (18 Nov 2007)
Dysfunctional executives (18 Nov 2007)
Izodia investors close to securing a £23m compensation payout from Royal Bank of Scotland International (18 Nov 2007)
Probe reveals Farepak savers' mental torment (18 Nov 2007)
Farepak victims still waiting (18 Nov 2007)
Call to 'nationalise' Northern Rock (18 Nov 2007)
Ex-CFO of Safety-Kleen sentenced in $267 million accounting fraud (18 Nov 2007)
US wants to try ex-KPMG partner separately (17 Nov 2007)
Siemens Ruling Details Bribery Across the Globe (17 Nov 2007)
Siemens paid millions of euros to bribe ministers (17 Nov 2007)
Credit losses 'may reach $400bn' (17 Nov 2007)
Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined Toronto Dominion Bank (London branch) (TD Bank) £490,000 for systems and controls failings (17 Nov 2007)
Northern Rock boss quits (17 Nov 2007)
Early Day Motion condemns KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte, Ernst and Young, Grant Thornton and other accountancy firms for tax avoidance schemes (16 Nov 2007)
The Music's Stopped For Some CEOs - What About The Auditors (16 Nov 2007)
Ex-KPMG partner faces new indictment in US tax case (16 Nov 2007)
Court confiscates £41m from Izodia director (16 Nov 2007)
Court orders jailed Izodia financier to surrender £41m (16 Nov 2007)
Barclays in £1.7bn sub-prime deficit (16 Nov 2007)
Fannie Mae to answer questions on accounting (16 Nov 2007)
Fair-value accounting rule kicks in at crucial time (16 Nov 2007)
Banks are facing up to $300bn (£146.6bn) of losses from the subprime credit crisis (16 Nov 2007)
Investor Safe Haven Becomes a Concern (16 Nov 2007)
Is tax a cost? (15 Nov 2007)
US audit oversight provides glimpse of UK's future (15 Nov 2007)
Head of Alchemy Partner launches a stinging assault on the value of corporate finance work carried out by Big Four firm (15 Nov 2007)
Co-Founder of "Institute of Global Prosperity" Guilty of Tax Fraud (15 Nov 2007)
IFRS 8 approved by the EU - but with the case for Country by Country reporting now accepted (15 Nov 2007)
IFRS 8: European Parliament Resolution (15 Nov 2007)
IFRS 8 gets EU parliament’s approval, but with reservations (15 Nov 2007)
PwC Does Sweetheart Deal For Vietnam Headhunting Services (15 Nov 2007)
International accounting rules for foreign firms OK'd (15 Nov 2007)
Uh-oh. It's Enron all over again (15 Nov 2007)
AICPA Recommends SEC Use International Accounting Standards (15 Nov 2007)
Firing ceos tied to subprime could cost $1 billion (15 Nov 2007)
Barclays writes down £1.3bn in credit crunch (15 Nov 2007)
Northern Rock boss sold £2.6m of shares while urging employees to keep buying (15 Nov 2007)
Bear Stearns sees $1.2 billion write-down, cuts CDO, subprime exposure (15 Nov 2007)
SEC Announces 100 Percent Return of Funds to Defrauded Bio-Heal Investors (15 Nov 2007)
BDO Challenges Big 4 - Big 4 Says, "Huh?" (14 Nov 2007)
Aleef Directors jailed for accounting and tax fraud (14 Nov 2007)
PricewaterhouseCoopers will face court over a botched A$61 million software project (14 Nov 2007)
Ofwat to fine Southern Water £20.3m for "deliberately misreporting information" (14 Nov 2007)
Portus's Boaz Manor Arrested for Fraud on Return to Canada (14 Nov 2007)
HSBC US bad debt exposure $3.4bn (14 Nov 2007)
Royal Bank, Scotiabank to Take Subprime Writedowns (14 Nov 2007)
Bank of America in $3 billion sub-prime hit (14 Nov 2007)
UK Plans made to 'nationalise' Northern Rock (14 Nov 2007)
Errors weren't fraud: Nortel's ex-CEO (14 Nov 2007)
State support for Northern Rock already exceeds Britain's transport budget and could soon surpass the £32 billion allocated to defence (14 Nov 2007)
Rescue proposals for Northern Rock will only offer to pay a portion of the £20bn loan owed to the Bank of England (14 Nov 2007)
Enron all over again (13 Nov 2007)
Izodia plc – Court orders Gerald Smith to pay £41 million (13 Nov 2007)
Carnage on Wall Street as loans go bad (13 Nov 2007)
Company reports 'destroy acres of forest' (13 Nov 2007)
Half of South Africa’s auditors ‘may disappear’ (13 Nov 2007)
Blackstone warns of 'deeper, darker' mortgage black hole (13 Nov 2007)
Subprime Losses May Reach $400 Billion (13 Nov 2007)
No one leapt to help the silent, scattered and poor victims of Farepak (13 Nov 2007)
Northern Rock will owe billions for years (13 Nov 2007)
Northern Rock 'should have collapsed' (13 Nov 2007)
The world's weirdest legal cases (13 Nov 2007)
A World Without The Big 4 -It's Closer Than You Think (12 Nov 2007)
Northern Rock: the core of the issue (12 Nov 2007)
The large auditors' business model is broken (12 Nov 2007)
Insolvent Abuse: KPMG charge Lexi Holdings a staggering £5m-plus fee, close to half the £12.6m recovered so far (12 Nov 2007)
Liquidation fees and insolvent abuse: The new accountancy fees gold rush (12 Nov 2007)
FSA plans crackdown on derivative disclosure (12 Nov 2007)
FSA proposes greater disclosure of 'Contracts for Difference' (12 Nov 2007)
Countrywide, Washington Mutual play shell games (12 Nov 2007)
HSBC 'faces huge subprime crisis hit' (12 Nov 2007)
How can GM lose $38 billion and stay afloat? (12 Nov 2007)
Credit Crunch: Why FAS 157 strikes dread into bankers (12 Nov 2007)
Fair value triggers panic among Wall Street banks (12 Nov 2007)
FASB and FAF call for delay to IFRS-GAAP deal (12 Nov 2007)
BDO chief eyes challenge to Big Four (12 Nov 2007)
Just As I Was Starting To Feel Less Nauseous... (11 Nov 2007)
IFRS 8 - Europe gives a big thumbs down to the IASB (11 Nov 2007)
Barclays calls in auditor to quell City fears of ‘black hole’ (11 Nov 2007)
HSBC 'to reveal more US bad debt' (11 Nov 2007)
OFF-BALANCE-SHEET ITEMS- Hidden bank activities get fresh scrutiny:Risky arrangements invisible to readers of financial statements (10 Nov 2007)
Markets fear banks have $1 trillion in toxic debt (10 Nov 2007)
Man Group entangled in US hedge fund fraud inquiry (10 Nov 2007)
Vantis legal fees wrangle to be settled (10 Nov 2007)
Citigroup May Face $13.7 Billion Writedowns, creditsights Says (10 Nov 2007)
Off Balance Sheet:Who's Failing Us With Bad Information? (10 Nov 2007)
Charlie McCreevy European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services Striving for a Single European Market - The role of accounting (10 Nov 2007)
Do You Believe In Santa? The Auditors And The Subprime Debacle (9 Nov 2007)
Australia regulator considering legal action against KPMG, the auditor of collapsed property empire Westpoint (9 Nov 2007)
Aust regulator ASIC has KPMG in sight (9 Nov 2007)
French CFO attacks joint audit (9 Nov 2007)
Wall Street's esoteric assets may be trouble (9 Nov 2007)
Bribery fine helps push Siemens into first loss in 6 years (9 Nov 2007)
The Financial Reporting Review Panel Announces Priority Sectors for 2008/09 (9 Nov 2007)
iemens reveals depth of corruption scandal (9 Nov 2007)
Analyst fingers Morgan Stanley as Wall Street's next victim of mortgage crisis (9 Nov 2007)
China: Three Listed Companies Disclosed For Accounting Fraud (9 Nov 2007)
Big Four back in top ten consultancies (9 Nov 2007)
Striving for a Single European Market - The role of accounting (9 Nov 2007)
EU's McCreevy says member states must do more to implement accounting rules (9 Nov 2007)
The audit role at Merrill Lynch (8 Nov 2007)
Writedowns of subprime-related assets at U.S. banks and brokerage firms may total $50 billion (8 Nov 2007)
Safety-Kleen Ex-Finance Chief Sentenced to 70-Month Prison Term for Accounting Fraud (8 Nov 2007)
Morgan Stanley takes $3.7bn sub prime hit (8 Nov 2007)
What's Behind GM's $39 Billion Loss? (8 Nov 2007)
Freddie Mac ex-CEO settles accounting scandal charges (8 Nov 2007)
Northern Rock costs could wipe out share value (8 Nov 2007)
SEC to tackle fund disclosure, accounting (8 Nov 2007)
Former HIH executive jailed for another year (8 Nov 2007)
UBS banker arrested over money laundering (8 Nov 2007)
US CFOs reject auditors’ role in detecting fraud (8 Nov 2007)
Former Freddie Mac CEO to pay millions to settle accounting charges (7 Nov 2007)
US to allow accounts filing by international rules (7 Nov 2007)
Hollinger: Conrad Black loses retrial bid (7 Nov 2007)
General Motors Takes $39 Billion Charge on Unused Tax Offset (7 Nov 2007)
GM takes $39-billion hit (7 Nov 2007)
Authorities Responsible for Capital Market Regulation Work to Enhance the Governance of the IASC Foundation (7 Nov 2007)
SEC Staff Releases Accounting Bulletin For Written Loan Commitments Recorded at Fair Value Under GAAP (7 Nov 20070
Northern Rock bank rescue highlights the need for deeper reforms (6 Nov 2007)
Off With Their Heads! The Fallout Of The Sub-Prime Mess (6 Nov 2007)
Citigroup's Subprime Explanation Defies Belief (6 Nov 2007)
SuperSIV fund faces new challenges (6 Nov 2007)
Daring and Controversial Legal Structures Help Fortress and Blackstone Avoid Tax and SEC Scrutiny (6 Nov 2007)
UK Investor protest as ‘simplified’ company law prevents free votes at AGM (6 Nov 2007)
Hollinger: Judge rejects Black's plea to have convictions overturned (6 Nov 2007)
US SEC revises views on fair value accounting (6 Nov 2007)
IASB launches European charm offensive (6 Nov 2007)
Northern Rock - the real questions it raises (5 Nov 2007)
Citigroup write-down could be up to $11 billion (5 Nov 2007)
Citigroup may be sign that worst is yet to come (5 Nov 2007)
Citigroup faces SEC inquiry over ts use of structured investment vehicles, or SIVs (5 Nov 2007)
US 'Earnings Smoothing' Under Fire (5 Nov 2007)
Only 20% of US cfos willing to adopt IFRS (5 Nov 2007)
WAL-MART AND ERNST & YOUNG GET COZY (4 Nov 2007)
Wal-Mart Asks North Carolina Court To Seal Documents in Tax-Dispute Case (4 Nov 2007)
Wal-Mart request for tax avoidance proposals from Ernst & Young (4 Nov 2007)
Ernst & Young memo on tax-cutting strategy for Wal-Mart (4 Nov 2007)
Ernst & Young proposal to avoid taxes for Wal-Mart (4 Nov 2007)
Ernst & Young fees for Wal-Mart Schemes (4 Nov 2007)
Wal-Mart's motion seeking to seal tax avoidance documents (4 Nov 2007)
Drink spiking claim at pwc (4 Nov 2007)
The FRC: all bark and no bite ( 3 Nov 2007)
Wal-Mart Feeling Annoyed and Oppressed Now That Everyone knows Everything (3 Nov 2007)
Merrill Shares Decline After Report on Subprime Accounting (3 Nov 2007)
PricewaterhouseCoopers in sex discrimination case (3 Nov 2007)
Four-fifths of PFI schemes off balance sheet (3 Nov 2007)
Auditing records can be corporate 'soft spots' in US courts (3 Nov 2007)
Auditors Get Tough (3 Nov 2007)
Ernst & Young posts rise in 2007 global revenues - Ah that should help to pay fines (3 Nov 2007)
Auditor Liability: Are accountants accountable? (2 Nov 2007)
They are brainless: ICAEW chief executive saying that greater private equity transparency could be harmful (2 Nov 2007)
Pwc invokes Russian Constitution in defence (2 Nov 2007)
Pwc and Tyco handed $464m legal bill (2 Nov 2007)
Wal-Mart (advised by Ernst & Young) tax fight raising a paper storm (2 Nov 2007)
Northern Rock has borrowed almost £23bn in emergency funding from the Bank of England (2 Nov 2007)
Firm hired by US government releases subpoenaed files in fraud case (2 Nov 2007)
Credit Suisse takes near-£1bn writedown (2 Nov 2007)
PWC wants to capture Jamaica (1 Nov 2007)
Citigroup's Off Balance Sheet Liabilities: Spooky as a Halloween Apparition (1 Nov 2007)
Dell's Legal Issues Over Its Accounting Seen Continuing (1 Nov 2007)
Protest against scrapping ‘bottom line’ figures (1 Nov 2007)
SEC scrutinises disclosures made by Merrill Lynch (1 Nov 2007)
Credit Suisse writes down £910m because of sub-prime crisis (1 Nov 2007)
Big Four push liability cap: resist (1 Nov 2007)
Are off-balance sheet disclosures still inadequate? (1 Nov 2007)

OCTOBER 2007

Uncooking the books costs Dell 'only' $92m (31 Oct 2007)
Buffett saw early Freddie Mac troubles (31 Oct 2007)
Dell Climbs Out Of Accounting Hell (31 Oct 2007)
Former SEC chief: 'opaque accounting puts pensions at risk' (31 Oct 2007)
Deutsche Bank hit by sub-prime crisis (31 Oct 2007)
Auditor Litigation - The Vultures Are Hovering (31 Oct 2007)
Ernst & Young, Their Audit Client Wal-Mart, and Value Pricing (30 Oct 2007)
Ernst & Young abusing their own Code of Conduct at Walmart (30 Oct 2007)
Getting it wrong on IFRS/GAAP convergence (30 Oct 2007)
Pasta-maker (audited by Ernst & Young) will settle class action for $25M (30 Oct 2007)
Italy to introduce harsher measures on false accounting (30 Oct 2007)
Italians propose tougher penalties for false accounting (30 Oct 2007)
Call for audit tenders to create competition (30 Oct 2007)
Wal-Mart’s tax billions: Ernst and Young’s complicity (29 Oct 2007)
Newly Released Documents Reveal Continued Pattern of "Creative Accounting" by Wal-Mart (29 Oct 2007)
Mark-to-Make-Believe Accounting Claims a Victim (29 Oct 2007)
Internal auditors 'overstretched and under skilled' (29 Oct 2007)
Shareholders will demand investigation into Absolute funds strategy (29 Oct 2007)
Most CFOs Disagree With SEC on IFRS (29 Oct 2007)
IFRS 8 - the EU still has not approved it (28 Oct 2008)
Ernst & Young and Wal-Mart’s “Tax Shelter Room” (28 Oct 2007)
UK Parliament Ombudsman stalls on Equitable Life response (28 Oct 2007)
Poor state of external auditing - BBC World Service (27 Oct 2007)
Canada Accounting institute fines three Deloitte partners for lack of skepticism before theatre firm's collapse (27 Oct 2007)
PwC Hit With Overtime Lawsuit Wave (27 Oct 2007)
Former CEO of body-armor maker DHB Industries (audited by Grant Thornton) indicted in $200 million fraud (27 Oct 2007)
When Crumbling Credit Meets Deadly Leverage (27 Oct 2007)
Lack of audit choice is 'critical issue', says FRC chief (26 Oct 2007)
Plaintiffs Seek Class Action in PwC Overtime Suit (26 Oct 2007)
Litigation funding: foul play? (26 Oct 2007)
Sports Direct has lost its only senior non-executive director after a row over the company's failure to clean-up its act on corporate governance (26 Oct 2007)
US Audit cop says regulators must focus on valuation (26 Oct 2007)
PCAOB Releases Report on Issues Identified in Inspections Of US Firms that Audited 100 or Fewer Public Companies (26 Oct 2007)
FASB chairman predicts US shift to IFRS by 2013 (26 Oct 2007)
Wal-Mart’s Efficiency — In Avoiding Taxes! - with help from Ernst & Young (25 Oct 2007)
Arthur Levitt and AIG - Gone Over To The Dark Side Artie? (25 Oct 2007)
IFRS 8: EU puts segmental reporting on ice (25 Oct 2007)
John Bourn, Under-fire auditor general to retire (25 Oct 2007)
EU takes on Big Four auditing firms (25 Oct 2007)
More than $1 billion in accounting-related charges for Navistar (25 Oct 2007)
Audit choice dilemma may not be resolved for '10 to 15 years' (25 Oct 2007)
Audit choice a four gone conclusion (25 Oct 2007)
FRC says 'make audit barriers visible' (25 Oct 2007)
British shareholders could be next victims of the credit crisis (25 Oct 2007)
Merrill Lynch files biggest loss in 93 years (25 Oct 2007)
US accounting chief calls for 'unity' timetable (25 Oct 2007)
CCAB issues draft guidance on money laundering but silence on the involvement of accountants in money laundering (25 Oct 2007)
They're Still Choosing BDO (24 Oct 2007)
Off Balance Sheet: UK Government’s hidden debt soars to over £180bn (24 Oct 2007)
EU investigates audit industry competition (24 Oct 2007)
Ownership rules for audit firms: EU Commission services publish independent study on the impact on the audit market (24 Oct 2007)
Ownership rules of audit firms and their consequences for audit market concentration (24 Oct 2007)
Independent Insurance bosses jailed for fraud (24 Oct 2007)
Independent Insurance Group Plc: Former directors convicted (24 Oct 2007)
Independent Insurance chief gets 7 years in jail (24 Oct 2007)
Independent Insurance execs get seven years in jail (24 Oct 20070
Independent Insurance fraud bosses jailed for years (24 Oct 2007)
Associate Accountants of PricewaterhouseCoopers Seek Overtime Pay in Class Action Lawsuit (24 Oct 2007)
Russia Widens Probe Into PwC's Dealings With Yukos (24 Oct 2007)
Citigroup SIV Accounting Looks Tough to Defend (24 Oct 2007)
Yamada affiliate in US investigated over suspect accounting (24 Oct 2007)
ASB proposes hedge accounting amendments (24 Oct 2007)
Is PwC Helping Cisco Dodge Taxes In Brazil? (23 Oct 2007)
Former Arthur Andersen Audit Partner Fred Gold Agrees to Permanent Anti-Fraud Injunction, $100,000 Civil Penalty (23 Oct 2007)
Inside Wal-Mart's Bid To Slash State Taxes - Ernst & Young Devises Complex Strategies; California Pushes Back (23 Oct 2007)
Independent Insurance Group Plc: Former directors convicted (23 Oct 2007)
PCAOB Reports on 'Triennial' Audit Worries (23 Oct 2007)
Hollinger: Conrad Black seeks solace in God (23 Oct 2007)
Northern Rock's former chairman liked to rage against regulation, until his bank had to beg 16bn pounds from the detested state (23 Oct 2007)
US Lawmaker accuses Blackwater of tax evasion (23 Oct 2007)
PCAOB Criticizes PwC - PwC Respectfully Disagrees (22 Oct 2007)
PCAOB Knocks PwC on Auditing (22 Oct 2007)
SEC Distributes $356M to Fannie Mae Victims (22 Oct 2007)
ACCA finds lack of gender diversity at the top (22 Oct 2007)
Reactions to the recently published report on Choice in the UK Audit Market (22 Oct 2007)
No golden goodbye for Northern Rock chairman (22 Oct 2007)
Move to tackle Big Four is a ‘damp squib’, says professor (21 Oct 2007)
PCAOB Discusses Financial Standards, Restatements (21 Oct 2007)
SEC issues cease and desist order to MQ Associates (21 Oct 2007)
SEC Distributes $356 Million to Defrauded Fannie Mae Investors (21 Oct 2007)
Left to their own devices: All is not well with the way corporations are governed (20 Oct 2007)
US audit watchdog finds faults with PwC audits (20 Oct 2007)
PCAOB Report on 2006 Inspection of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (20 Oct 2007)
Streetcred credit union collapses (20 Oct 2007)
20 Years in US Accounting: An Unabridged Timeline (20 Oct 2007)
Balance Sheet: Can midsize auditors be turned into big ones? (20 Oct 2007)
Nabarro Wells fined £250,000 for not making proper checks on AIM listings (20 Oct 2007)
Northern Rock chairman quits (20 Oct 2007)
SEC Distributes $356 Million to Defrauded Fannie Mae Investors (19 Oct 2007)
Accounting standards are too important to be left to accountants (19 Oct 2007)
Judge Postpones KPMG Tax Trial (19 Oct 2007)
Trial is put off in KPMG case (19 Oct 2007)
Investors find IFRS hard to understand (19 Oct 2007)
PwC to examine accounts at Carter & Carter (19 Oct 2007)
Global Accounting Standards (19 Oct 2007)
Northern Rock calls on extra £3bn crisis funding (19 Oct 2007)
Grant Thornton says 2007 US revenues up 17 pct (19 Oct 2007)
A code of taxation is vital for accountants (18 Oct 2007)
Campaigners' code beats tax industry to the punch (18 Oct 2007)
Cisco staff arrested in Brazil tax inquiry (18 Oct 2007)
Are independent auditors tough enough? (18 Oct 2007)
Chief of US mortgage giant faces inquiry over share sales (18 Oct 2007)
Fears of US intervention over audit choice (18 Oct 2007)
Hundred Group: auditors are 'too combative' (18 Oct 2007)
Seven sacked in Max Petroleum over a share option scandal (18 Oct 2007)
Accountant 'conned victims out of £1.25m' (18 Oct 2007)
IASB chief vows to produce one global standard (18 Oct 2007)
IFRS 8 - Still no decision in the EU (17 Oct 2007)
Auditors face upheaval if MPG proposals pursued (17 Oct 2007)
Whistleblowers - Like The Tree That Falls In The Forest. (17 Oct 2007)
The Financial Reporting Council - is this a bad joke? (17 Oct 2007)
Inside jobs for the boys: the FRC has no independence (17 Oct 2007)
US Board Approves Amendments Regarding Inspection Frequency for Firms that Do Not Regularly Issue Audit Reports (17 Oct 2007)
FRC report unlikely to affect UK audit choice (17 Oct 2007)
Northern Rock insurance inadequate (17 Oct 2007)
FASB to discuss delay of valuation accounting rule (17 Oct 2007)
Regulators question Duke's pension accounting (17 Oct 2007)
Deloitte Touche Tomatsu said its revenue increased to $23.1 billion (17 Oct 2007)
Regulators do not know enough about the complex off-balance sheet investment vehicles (16 Oct 2007)
Ernst & Young Embroiled in Whistleblower Case - alleged that one of the clients improperly reduced its taxes by $1 billion (16 Oct 2007)
Nortel Networks (audited by Deloitte) Pays $35 Million to Settle Financial Fraud Charges (16 Oct 2007)
Market Participants Group unveils its recommendations (16 Oct 2007)
Final report of Audit Choice Market Participants Group published (16 Oct 2007)
Final report of UK Audit Choice Market Participants Group published (16 Oct 2007)
Big Four increase dominance in UK audits (16 Oct 2007)
CFOs Want More US Audit Firm Choices (16 Oct 2007)
US auditor committee releases discussion paper (16 Oct 2007)
Working Discussion Outline: US Advisory Committee on the Auditing Profession (16 Oct 2007)
What happened to the accounting profession? (16 Oct 2007)
US auditing group kicks off effort to ensure quality of public-company audits (16 Oct 2007)
U.S. sues Lloyds TSB and Bank of Cyprus alleging they helped launder hundreds of millions of dollars (16 Oct 2007)
Northern Rock loans mount as bosses face grilling (16 Oct 2007)
Citigroup Acknowledges Poor Risk Management (16 Oct 2007)
Citigroup profits plunge 57% as US mortgage slump takes toll (16 Oct 2007)
H&R Block selects Deloitte & Touche to replace KPMG as auditor (16 Oct 2007)
Northern Rock - the Granite saga continues in the Commons (15 Oct 2007)
Moscow Tax Guys Swing Their Hammer At PwC (15 Oct 2007)
Carter & Carter financial crisis triggered by its accounting policy (15 Oct 2007)
Russia Renews Attack on PwC (15 Oct 2007)
Russia Tax Service Widens Its PwC Case (15 Oct 2007)
EU Slows Down Accounting Convergence (15 Oct 2007)
The Risk Disclosure Problem (15 Oct 2007)
Ernst & Young received $2m for CVC debt-raising and $1.5m in due diligence fees (15 Oct 2007)
Top 50 UK accounting firms earned £8.8bn in 2006 (15 Oct 2007)
Questions mount over Carter’s accounting (14 Oct 2007)
Top banks plan $100bn bail-out of sub-prime funds (14 Oct 2007)
No timetable for Farepak refunds (14 Oct 2007)
Farepak.. one year on and not a penny back (14 Oct 2007)
US Home Builder Beazer to Restate Results in Wake of Accounting Probe (13 Oct 2007)
Ernst & Young criticized in Feltex report (13 Oct 2007)
UK MPs launch inquiry into John Bourn's role (13 Oct 2007)
EU set to slow global accounting convergence push (13 Oct 2007)
KPMG Tax Fraud Trial, Pared in Scope, Nears After Stormy Prologue (12 Oct 2007)
US asks court to reinstate charges in KPMG case (12 Oct 2007)
Ernst & Young carpeted after Feltex collapse (12 Oct 2007)
Head in the Sand: FRC publishes its report on responses to Promoting Audit Quality (12 Oct 2007)
New imperialism: SEC chairman warns against revising International Financial Reporting Standards to meet the needs of local markets (12 Oct 2007)
FRC Report: Promoting Audit Quality (12 Oct 2007)
Respondents to the FRC paper Promoting audit quality (12 Oct 2007)
Who audits the UK auditors? (12 Oct 2007)
Maybe It’s Time to Restructure Executive Stock Options (12 Oct 2007)
Vitesse to pay $8.75 million to settle stock option lawsuit (12 Oct 2007)
Brocade's legal bills in options lawsuits outpace profit (12 Oct 2007)
Enron's Second Coming? (12 Oct 2007)
SEC Publishes Its Observations in the Review of Executive Compensation Disclosure (12 Oct 2007)
Investors lay down law on liability caps (11 Oct 2007)
FTSE 100 and auditors in liability stand-off (11 Oct 2007)
Hedge fund managers should give investors and banks more information (11 Oct 2007)
Sir John Bourn run up bills of £365k on travel and £27k on meals. Then there's opera, grand prix, polo ... (11 Oct 2007)
The garbage some accountants utter (10 Oct 2007)
They are working for even more liability concessions: FEE demands 'consistent definition' of a network (10 Oct 2007)
South Africa: Pensioners Sue KPMG Mauritius (10 Oct 2007)
KPMG Tax Shelter Trial Gets Underway (10 Oct 2007)
Key US Justices Resist 3rd-Party Liability In Sec Suits (10 Oct 2007)
US Supreme Court wary 3rd-party lawsuits (10 Oct 2007)
US Justices debate investors' ability to sue third parties in Enron like cases (10 Oct 2007)
US regulator: Adopt global accounting standard (10 Oct 2007)
Northern Rock - why it abused the charity (9 Oct 2007)
IFRS 8 - broad based concern in the EU Parliament (9 Oct 2007)
New EU parliament resolution on IFRS 8 (9 Oct 2007)
Deloitte - Are They Really A Consulting Firm? (9 Oct 2007)
A new charge of false accounting against ex-Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (9 Oct 2007)
Mediaset chairman, Berlusconi accused of false accounting to 2000 (9 Oct 2007)
Jury selection starts in tax fraud case involving KPMG (9 Oct 2007)
The unfairness of fair value accounting (9 Oct 2007)
Gazprom profits boosted by pension accounting change (9 Oct 2007)
EU plans market reforms to avert crisis (9 Oct 2007)
Northern Rock - rotten abuse of charity (8 Oct 2007)
Financial News: SEC Reviews Bank Writedowns (8 Oct 2007)
KPMG tax-shelter case set to go to trial in US (8 Oct 2007)
UK MPs to accuse FSA of failing to supervise Northern Rock properly (8 Oct 2007)
BoE drops Freshfields over Northern Rock (8 Oct 2007)
Imax to restate fiscal earnings again (8 Oct 2007)
Imax defers $5.5M-$6.5M rent credit as it restates past results again (8 Oct 2007)
No value for money but ACCA appoints another director (8 Oct 2007)
Bribery: Siemens Settlement Sets Off Criticism of German Inquiries (8 Oct 2007)
KPMG tax-shelter case set to go to trial in US (7 Oct 2007)
Never Say Nyet - PwC and Moscow Update (7 Oct 2007)
KPMG tax-shelter case set to go to trial in U.S (7 Oct 2007)
UK Rail companies pay 7.9% corporation tax (6 Oct 2007)
Siemens fine fails to ease concern over regulatory issues (6 Oct 2007)
Bribery scandal: Siemens fined 201 million euros (6 Oct 2007)
Delphi Lawyers, Advisers Seek $65M Fees from PricewaterhouseCoopers, KPMG and Ernst & Young (6 Oct 2007)
Merrill Lynch crashes into loss after $5bn writedown (6 Oct 2007)
UK 'Rail firms exploit £1.3 billion tax loophole' (6 Oct 2007)
Bear Stearns faces criminal investigation (6 Oct 2007)
Corporate Crime: Stolen Without a Gun (5 Oct 2007)
Former Ahold CEO to pay company €5 million to settle accountingscandal claims (5 Oct 2007)
Siemens to Pay 201 million euros ($284 million) corruption Fine and Taxes in Germany (5 Oct 2007)
Countrywide ordered to provide stock options records (5 Oct 2007)
Bribery scandal: Siemens fined 201 million euros (5 Oct 2007)
Banks' Candor Makes Street Suspicious: Is Spate of Write-Downs A Sign of Transparency Or 'Big Bath' Strategy? (5 Oct 2007)
Are banks using write-downs to game their numbers? (5 Oct 2007)
US Investigators launch a criminal inquiry into collapsed Bear Stearns hedge funds (5 Oct 2007)
New accounting rules may result in property stock trading volatility (5 Oct 2007)
Northern Rock 'loans top £10bn' (5 Oct 2007)
Firms won’t ditch audit (5 Oct 2007)
Whistleblower rocks China solar firm (5 Oct 2007)
Australia: Aristocrat wanted to 'ram deal down auditors' throats' (5 Oct 2007)
Merrill profit warning after $5bn credit hit (5 Oct 2007)
Bracks' new job a tender subject inside KPMG (5 Oct 2007)
Merrill Lynch is to write off almost $5.5bn (£2.75bn) as a result of the global credit crisis triggered by the collapse of the US sub-prime mortgage market (5 Oct 2007)
Ernst & Young sees record turnover: Profits rise 7% to £328m (5 Oct 2007)
The Curious Case of PwC And Its Telecom (and Technnology) Clients (4 Oct 2007)
Cheney didn't recall Halliburton accounting in SEC interview (4 Oct 2007)
Auditing the Auditors After Sarbanes-Oxley (4 Oct 2007)
Russia: PricewaterhouseCoopers Audit is threatened with the loss of its audit license (4 Oct 2007)
Russia: PricewaterhouseCoopers Audit reduced its tax base by funneling payments to its Dutch arm (4 Oct 2007)
Mortgage-market events magnify financial institutions' accounting effects (4 Oct 2007)
EU is considering plans for greater control over credit-rating agencies and the off-balance sheet vehicles (4 Oct 2007)
Governments for Sale: Australia- Former Victoria premier joins KPMG for $100,000 a day (4 Oct 2007)
SEC Enforcement Cases Rise for First Time Since 2003 (4 Oct 2007)
Northern Rock has shown that split banking regulation simply means no one will admit responsibility (4 Oct 2007)
AIG Shareholders Sue PwC (3 Oct 2007)
Former Cendant Corp. chairman's conviction upheld (3 Oct 2007)
Carter & Carter shares suspended on profit-warning (3 Oct 2007)
Carter & Carter finance director quits (3 Oct 2007)
FRC reveals ICAEW numbers falling (3 Oct 2007)
US Treasury Appoints Audit Advisory Committee (3 Oct 2007)
US Treasury Names Members Of Audit Advisory Group (3 Oct 2007)
Volcker, Mulcahy, Flynn, Yerger Named to US Treasury Panel (3 Oct 2007)
Deutsche prepares for €2.2bn credit crunch hit (3 Oct 2007)
Chartered accountants 'have chance for higher wages' (3 Oct 2007)
International Rectifier CEO resigns (3 Oct 2007)
US prosecutors may lose an array of weapons against corporate fraud (2 Oct 2007)
FASB Favors Single Accounting Standard (2 Oct 2007)
Refco Shareholders Sue Law Firm Over IPO (2 Oct 2007)
Multinationals face environmental lawsuits in UK (2 Oct 2007)
UBS and Citigroup announce a $10 billion reversal in fortunes (2 Oct 2007)
Citigroup and UBS announced writedowns and profits hit by losses on US sub-prime home loans (2 Oct 2007)
PricewaterhouseCoopers says 2007 revenue up 10.5 percent to $25.2 billion (2 Oct 2007)
PWC - compromised on Northern Rock (1 Oct 2007)
PwC Hits The Iceberg at Northern Rock (1 Oct 2007)
American International (AIG) shareholders sue PricewaterhouseCoopers (1 Oct 2007)
The Observer on Special Purpose Vehicles (1 Oct 2007)
EU Adoption of the IFRS 8 Standard on Operating Segments (1 Oct 2007)
US Prosecutors Say New Limits May Help Future Enrons Go Free (1 Oct 2007)
Sunrise Senior finds some options accounting issues (1 Oct 2007)
Sunrise Senior Finds Accounting Errors (1 Oct 2007)
Council's £10m consultants bill (1 Oct 2007)
Fraud office inquiry into UK links to Kenyan cash and arms scandal - Arms dealer used Channel Island tax havens (1 Oct 2007)
What politicians and economists don't get about business corruption (1 Oct 2007)
Investors call for more meaningful and consistent financial disclosure (1 Oct 2007)

SEPTEMBER 2007

IASB nominated for Corporate Irresponsibility Award (30 Sep 2007)
IFRS 8 - what an independent expert says (30 Sep 2007)
EU Parliament on IFRS 8 (30 Sep 2007)
The Audit Landscape: 2001-2007 (30 Sep 2007)
Northern Rock auditor criticised for role in crisis: PricewaterhouseCoopers faces accusations of conflict of interest (30 Sep 2007)
Northern Rock takes £100m in penalty fees (30 Sep 2007)
Buca settles lawsuit with SEC regarding accounting practices (29 Sep 2007)
Board dismissed in Swedish bank scandal (29 Sep 2007)
Thanks a million, Ayn Rand, for setting the greedy free (29 Sep 2007)
Cendant’s Silverman Knew about Fraud (29 Sep 2007)
Swiss Bank Settles With Parmalat (29 Sep 2007)
US Senator Levin goes after tax break on executive stock options (29 Sep 2007)
Northern Rock refuses to tighten lending rules (29 Sep 2007)
SEC Charges California Investment Adviser With Impersonating Clients to Steal From Accounts (28 Sep 2007)
Northern Rock debt holders call in lawyers (28 Sep 2007)
US mortgage lender Freddie Mac has agreed to pay a $50m (£24.6m) penalty to settle charges that it massaged its earnings (28 Sep 2007)
PFI to stay off balance sheet for another two years (27 Sep 2007)
Metronet report highlights accounts mismatch mystery (27 Sep 2007)
Freddie Mac, Four Former Executives Settle SEC Action Relating to Multi-Billion Dollar Accounting Fraud (27 Sep 2007)
SEC Institutes Settled Enforcement Action Against Bristow Group for Improper Payments to Nigerian Government Officials and Other Violations (27 Sep 2007)
Canadian Hedge Fund’s Founders Charged With Fraud (27 Sep 2007)
RCMP charge co-founders of Portus Group with fraud, money laundering (27 Sep 2007)
Darling's DTI praised 'wise and balanced' Northern Rock (27 Sep 2007)
H&R Block to drop KPMG after Breeden election (27 Sep 2007)
The Case of the Russia Accounting Chamber (27 Sep 2007)
US watchdog calls on Wall St to give account of part it played in credit crunch (27 Sep 2007)
KPMG Fertig Re: Siemens (26 Sep 2007)
EDS pays nearly $500000 to settle accounting case with SEC (26 Sep 2007)
FRC supports US proposals to drop reconciliation (26 Sep 2007)
US Gov't Investigating Pall's Past Taxes (26 Sep 2007)
Now stop laughing - KPMG Issues Corporate Citizenship Report (26 Sep 2007)
KPMG, Tax and CSR (26 Sep 2007)
Milan clubs in accounting scandal (25 Sep 2007)
Prudential defeated in £105m swaps appeal (25 Sep 2007)
Another tax avoidance scheme designed by Ernst & Young declared unlawful (25 Sep 2007)
Shareholder group's accusations that Northern Rock's board withheld information could lead to class action (25 Sep 2007)
Largest US tax preparer drops KPMG (25 Sep 2007)
Cure prescribed for the global credit squeeze (25 Sep 2007)
PwC UK turnover reaches £2.1 billion (25 Sep 2007)
Their hands in our pockets: Price fixing is the inevitable outcome of a rotten corporate culture that routinely picks our pockets (24 Sep 2007)
Non-executives have been likened to bidets: they add a touch of class but no-one knows what they are for (24 Sep 2007)
Microsoft's $154 Billion Question: Accounting For the Unaccountable Intangibles (24 Sep 2007)
Studio Fined in Lord of the Rings Accounting Suit (24 Sep 2007)
Small accountancy firms should not be in any knee-jerk rush to consolidate (24 Sep 2007)
US think-tank criticises 'absurd' fair value (24 Sep 2007)
How not to give a true and fair view (23 Sep 2007)
The role of KPMG, the auditor at Siemens is coming under scrutiny, after illicit payments of £1 billion (23 Sep 2007)
America’s class action lawyers end their days in the dock (23 Sep 2007)
Top firms face audit time-bomb (23 Sep 2007)
Why is no one talking about the Granite problem that sunk the ordinary depositor in Northern Rock? (22 Sep 2007)
Northern Rock - those in the queue were right (22 Sep 2007)
Australia Tax office to crack down on rogue employers (22 Sep 2007)
Vodafone vs the taxman (22 Sep 2007)
Top class-action lawyer to be indicted on bribery and corruption (22 Sep 2007)
When it comes to the crunch (21 Sep 2007)
IASB nominated for corporate irresponsibility award (21 Sep 2007)
PwC Di Piazza "Czechs" In (21 Sep 2007)
Big Four Audit Firms Feel the Effects of Post SOX Inroads as Audit Fees Skyrocket (21 Sep 2007)
Conflict-of-Interest Issue Is Raised in KPMG Tax Shelter Case (21 Sep 2007)
BAE faces class-action suit in America (21 Sep 2007)
Northern Rock could face lawsuit (21 Sep 2007)
Ah Youth! The Folly Of Blind Loyalty (20 Sep 2007)
They like cillusion: Big Six press Europe to block auditor independence French law (20 Sep 2007)
L'Oreal is facing accusations that it illegally sold luxury cosmetics in Russia and diverting the profits through screen companies and tax havens (20 Sep 2007)
Fraud case reveals risk of ignoring disclaimer warning (20 Sep 2007)
The Financial Reporting Review Panel publishes Activity Report (20 Sep 2007)
US regulator on the hunt for insider trading at hedge funds (20 Sep 2007)
PwC chief admits firm is not perfect (20 Sep 2007)
Sub-prime accounting at heart of banking crisis (20 Sep 2007)
Bear Stearns caught in sub-prime trap (20 Sep 2007)
KPMG Holland votes against Europe merger (20 Sep 2007)
Morgan Stanley takes hits of more than $1.3bn (£655m) on the turmoil in the global credit markets (19 Sep 2007)
Northern Rock Bosses under fire as bank plans £60m payout to shareholders (19 Sep 2007)
Ex-Finance Chief Says He Was Fired By Sunrise Out of Retaliation (19 Sep 2007)
Banks remain under pressure to come clean (19 Sep 2007)
Lehman loses $700m to the credit crunch (19 Sep 2007)
SEC Charges Two Former Supermarket Executives With Financial Fraud (19 Sep 2007)
Charge banks 10% tax for guaranteeing their deposits (18 Sep 2007)
Auditor Failure - Catastrophic Is A Good Word For It (18 Sep 2007)
Northern Rock (audited by Pricewaterhousecoopers) - the questions needing answers (18 Sep 2007)
Two Fired Grocery Executives Face Federal Fraud Charges (18 Sep 2007)
Quest Software Makes $143M in Accounting Adjustments (18 Sep 2007)
Nasdaq-listed UTStarcom to restate 7 yrs of China revenue (18 Sep 2007)
UTStarcom to Take Financial Restatements (18 Sep 2007)
Northern Rock "just the beginning" of Britain's exposure to the unwinding of the structured credit industry (18 Sep 2007)
Global proceeds from criminal activities, corruption and tax evasion was $1 trillion to $1.6 trillion annually (18 Sep 2007)
A £28bn cheque to stop the banking panic (18 Sep 2007)
Opposition at KPMG to UK merger (18 Sep 2007)
As Northern Rock is bailed out, the notion that the dysfunctional financial market can regulate itself has been laid to rest (17 Sep 2007)
Mitchells & Butlers facing £140m liability from credit crunch (17 Sep 2007)
Quest: $143M Options Charge, Finds Other Accounting Mistakes (17 Sep 2007)
Write-offs may pose riddles in investment banks' earnings reports (17 Sep 2007)
Risk. Now They See It. Now You Don't: the old shell game of moving assets and liabilities to off-balance-sheet investment vehicles (17 Sep 2007)
Scancom defrauds Ghana ¢8 trillion - sophisticated networks in international money laundering, tax evasion and balance sheet fraud (17 Sep 2007)
UK Investors support publication of Audit Iinspection Unit reports (17 Sep 2007)
Big consultancies should focus more on quality, transparency (17 Sep 2007)
Financial management is the new witchcraft. We need to break the spell (17 Sep 2007)
Auditors are constantly playing catch-up and can't deal with corporate misbehaviour, says Nick Leeson (16 Sep 2007)
Many of Europe's high-flying US listings seek stealth exits (16 Sep 2007)
Creative accounting could ease banks' earnings hit from credit losses (16 Sep 2007)
How much money is laundered in and through Australia? (15 Sep 2007)
Accountancy profession most commonly utilised for money laundering in Australia (15 Sep 2007)
The Extent of Money Laundering in and through Australia in 2004 (15 Sep 2007)
Sun-Times Media Group and KPMG reach settlement with Canadian and U.S. investors (15 Sep 2007)
Ferro settles with SEC on improper accounting entries (15 Sep 2007)
Accounting for Errant Auditors (15 Sep 2007)
Ernst & Young escapes truckmaker liability (14 Sep 2007)
Rural/Metro Finds Accounting Errors (14 Sep 2007)
EU rejects IASB’s draft SME standard (14 Sep 2007)
Northern Rock crisis sparks banking panic (14 Sep 2007)
Led Zeppelin, soaring oil and house prices: is it 1973 all over again? (14 Sep 2007)
Shares in mortgage lender Northern Rock plunge after it seeks emergency funding (14 Sep 2007)
Northern Rock's troubles wipe £88.7m off Paragon's market value (14 Sep 2007)
SEC Charges 69 Audit Firms and Partners for Issuing Audit Reports While Not Registered with the PCAOB (14 Sep 2007)
That's Why They Make The Big Bucks (13 Sep 2007)
SEC Charges 4 Additional Former Officers of Nortel Networks Corporation in Financial Fraud Scheme (13 Sep 2007)
SEC Sues 4 Former Nortel (audited by Deloitte) Officers in Accounting Case (13 Sep 2007)
Toys "R" Us adjusts results after accounting error (13 Sep 2007)
Investors are set to be rebuffed in attempts to have more information on audit committees (13 Sep 20070
Liability: Appeals Court decision keeps Ernst & Young in the clear (13 Sep 2007)
IFRS 8: Green groups suffer reporting blow (13 Sep 2007)
EC report backs IFRS 8 (13 Sep 2007)
Tax, principles in accounting confuse payers (13 Sep 2007)
Former criminal teaches tricks on fraud to CPAs (13 Sep 2007)
Company directors could face court action if annual reports fail to tally with the accounts (13 Sep 2007)
Regulatory demands see AIM clients jump ship to Big Four (13 Sep 2007)
In the Pockets of Big Firms: European Commissioner For Internal Market And Services supports IFRS 8 (12 Sep 2007)
IFRS 8 gets European Commissioner's support, but will the European Parliament agree? (12 Sep 2007)
Only 9% of US companies keen to adopt IFRS (12 Sep 2007)
US Federal prosecutors are planning a fresh indictment in tax shelters sold by Ernst & Young (12 Sep 2007)
U.S. Plans New Indictment in Ernst & Young Tax Case (12 Sep 2007)
Defendant in KPMG Tax Case Pleads Guilty (12 Sep 2007)
CommBank Europe with $4.7bn balance sheet and four employees (12 Sep 2007)
CBI boss tells union leaders private equity must provide more disclosure (12 Sep 2007)
Corruption: US$1-1.6 billion in illegal funds crosses international borders each year, ending up in secret bank accounts (12 Sep 2007)
Computer Sciences (CSC) Finds 10 Years of Accounting Errors (11 Sep 2007)
Defendant in KPMG Tax Case Pleads Guilty, Agrees to Cooperate (11 Sep 2007)
Fat Cats: PwC UK partners take home £757000 each (11 Sep 2007)
PricewaterhouseCoopers boss sees his pay climb to £2.8m (11 Sep 2007)
PricewaterhouseCoopers has announced 6% growth in turnover to £2.1bn (11 Sep 2007)
South Africa: Audit Oligopoly Puts Small Rivals 'At Risk' (11 Sep 2007)
Non-execs lose sleep over crime (11 Sep 2007)
Catalyst sues IMAX (audited by PricewatehrouseCoopers) over accounting (10 Sep 2007)
Catalyst Seeks Court Review of Imax Probes, Accounting Issues (10 Sep 2007)
Metal trader RBG REsources (audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers) accused of running 'empire for fraud' (10 Sep 2007)
Who audits the auditors? (10 Sep 2007)
PwC’s FTSE 100 audit fees leap 30% (10 Sep 2007)
Investment adviser pleads guilty in KPMG tax case (10 Sep 2007)
'Honest services' ruling could cut Enron Skilling's prison time (10 Sep 2007)
Accountants like state guaranteed markets: ICAEW bids for probate work (10 Sep 2007)
Ace Hardware (audited by KPMG) Finds Itself In $154m Hole (9 Sep 2007)
BDO - Nibbling Away At Their Viability (9 Sep 2007)
US Audit Fee Increases Continue in 2006 (9 Sep 2007)
UK Investors need convincing on auditor independence (9 Sep 2007)
Staff sue KPMG over gap between hours billed and hours worked (9 Sep 2007)
Call Me Irresponsible - Ernst & Young Losing Laptops Left and Right (8 Sep 2007)
When Balance Sheets Collide With the New Economy (8 Sep 2007)
ES Bankest receiver seeks $170M in damages from BDO (8 Sep 2007)
Pall Corporation understatement of US income tax payments leads to a shareholder class action lawsuit (8 Sep 2007)
California collects back taxes from backdated options (8 Sep 2007)
Looking For Talent? Steal From Your Competitors (7 Sep 2007)
Managing Risk And Quality - More Of the Former And Less Of The Latter (7 Sep 2007)
Auditing firms control UK auditor regulation (7 Sep 2007)
Former CEO Will Testify to SEC About AIG Accounting (7 Sep 2007)
Max Petroleum has suspended its two top executives and started investigation into their share option dealings (7 Sep 2007)
BDO and other will pay $19M to settle Suprema suit (7 Sep 2007)
PartyGaming in BDO liability indemnity mystery (7 Sep 2007)
The Financial Reporting Review Panel's scope extends to directors' reports, including business reviews (7 Sep 2007)
Fair value: a fair cop? (7 Sep 2007)
KPMG Faces Lawsuit in Canada for Overtime Pay (7 Sep 2007)
Unaccountable: How can corporate-funded accounting rule makers possibly determine standards to benefit all in our society? (6 Sep 2007)
Ace Finds $154M Accounting Shortfall (6 Sep 2007)
The outrage at IFRS 8 (6 Sep 2007)
Guilty Hyundai boss escapes jail (6 Sep 2007)
Max Petroleum suspends CEO during share options probe (6 Sep 2007)
IFRS 8: Yet more need for country-by-country reporting (5 Sep 2007)
Auditors Or Clients - Who Wears The Pants In This Relationship (5 Sep 2007)
Deloitte and American Home - Have They Quit Yet? (5 Sep 2007)
UK MPs to investigate companies who pay no tax (5 Sep 2007)
When the piranas come a’hunting (5 Sep 2007)
Gordon Brown called on the City yesterday to publish more information about the risky financial instruments (5 Sep 2007)
KPMG faces employee class action lawsuit in Ontario for overtime pay (5 Sep 2007)
KPMG owes employees overtime, law firm says (5 Sep 2007)
UK MPs press for audit of iSoft buyer (5 Sep 2007)
Class Action Against Suit Against KPMG for Not Paying Overtime to Staff (4 Sep 2007)
Citigroup unit and Deloitte are sued over subprime lender's share issue (4 Sep 2007)
International Rectifier false accounting in SEC filing (4 Sep 2007)
Enron - The Beginning of The End Of Accounting Scandals (4 Sep 2007)
BearingPoint hit over accounting (4 Sep 2007)
Fraud trial Independent Insurance chief of Michael Bright was cut short for a second consecutive session (4 Sep 2007)
Russia Arbitration court to review PricewaterhouseCoopers' YUKOS appeal (4 Sep 2007)
'Bribery' inquiry to cost IMI £5m (4 Sep 2007)
Salaries at Top US Accounting Firms (4 Sep 2007)
Slippery consequences of marking to market (3 Sep 2007)
KPMG only firm with more than 400 listed audits (3 Sep 2007)
Financial Reporting Council picks the pockets of pension scheme members: FINANCIAL REPORTING COUNCIL (FRC) PENSION LEVY 2007/08 (3 Sep 2007)
Calls Grow for Foreigners to Have a Say on U.S. Market Rules (3 Sep 2007)
New colonialism: ICAEW enters into member deal with Pakistan institute (3 Sep 2007)
Globalization of professional accounting: the Big 8 entering New Zealand (3 Sep 2007)
Firm Histories: Accounting Practitioners, Work and Organizations (3 Sep 2007)
Dell profit improves amidst accounting troubles (2 Sep 2007)
Armies of accountants in the City of London trained in the dark arts of tax minimisation (2 Sep 2007)
Call the fat cats’ bluff and tax their preposterous pay fairly (2 Sep 2007
Inequality in Britain is worse than ever: Children who cannot escape the poverty trap (2 Sep 2007)
Poverty of thinking at the ICAEW (1 Sep 2007)
Mo' Money, Mo' Problems - Deloitte And An Unhappy Client (1 Sep 2007)
Deloitte Senior partner gets £500k pay rise (1 Sep 2007)
Legal battle between the Rigas family and auditing firm Deloitte & Touche has heated up (1 Sep 2007)

AUGUST 2007

There's no accounting for accountants (31 Aug 2007)
The looting of Kenya: More than £1bn moved to 28 countries, including London, New York , Australia (31 Aug 2007)
Read the Secret Report Relating to Alleged Corruption and Bribery in Kenya
Ernst & Young Emmy gaffe leaves ITN fuming (31 Aug 2007)
Fat Cats: Deloitte partners to share £572m profits (31 Aug 2007)
Fat Cats: chief executive at Deloitte in the UK, saw his pay packet soar to £4.7m (31 Aug 2007)
Singapore Appeal Court warns of anxiety over accounting standards (31 Aug 2007)
Barclays forced to arrange £1.6bn emergency loan (31 Aug 2007)
An Australian hedge fund has filed for bankruptcy protection (31 Aug 2007)
An Appeaser Is One Who Feeds A Crocodile... (30 Aug 2007)
Thanks to IFRS, JSE's results don't tell the real story (30 Aug 2007)
Accounting principle that is meant to capture fair value might end up distorting it (30 Aug 2007)
SEC Charges Former General Counsel of KLA-Tencor And Juniper Networks For Fraudulent Stock Option Backdating (30 Aug 2007)
International Rectifier Corp chief executive and director on a ''leave of absence'' pending the resolution of a previously-announced accounting snafu (30 Aug 2007)
Share probe begins at German bank WestLB (30 Aug 2007)
Second ACCA council member joins rival institute (30 Aug 2007)
Fair value fingered for market crash (30 Aug 2007)
Study Finds 54% of Accounting Students Cheat (30 Aug 2007)
In bed with big companies: Ernst & Young lobbied US government on behalf of Ford (29 Aug 2007)
Ford Paid Ernst & Young Lobbying Firm $160000 in 2007 (29 Aug 2007)
BDO Seidman had been grossly negligent in the audit of its client E.S. Bankest (29 Aug 2007)
Former Bankest chairman sentenced to 20 years in fraud case (29 Aug 2007)
South Africa Auditing's big four leave little room for small fry (29 Aug 2007)
WILL THE LAST BANKER AND ACCOUNTANT LEAVING PLEASE SWITCH OFF THE LIGHTS (29 Aug 2007)
Hollinger: Conrad Black asks judge to quash convictions (29 Aug 2007)
US firms cautioned on int'l accounting hurdles (29 Aug 2007)
Refco Trusts Sue on Behalf of Currency Clients (28 Aug 2007)
Audit firms step up campaign for charme life - want more privilges but no duties (28 Aug 2007)
Scandals are OK: No one to be charged over UK 'splits' scandal (28 Aug 2007)
A third of UK’s biggest businesses pay no tax (28 Aug 2007)
One third of large UK companies don’t pay tax (28 Aug 2007)
Almost a third of UK business pays no tax (28 Aug 2007)
Management of large business Corporation Tax (28 Aug 2007)
AFL-CIO Urges More Scrutiny of Stock Options (28 Aug 2007)
Carlyle bails out its $20bn Dutch fund (28 Aug 2007)
Computer Associates and KPMG - Always and Forever (27 Aug 2007)
Profits planted in tax havens fueled subprime debacle (27 Aug 2007)
US Judge OKs $167.5M Deloitte Settlement for Adelphia (27 Aug 2007)
US Union urges auditors to dig deeper for exec stock options excesses (27 Aug 20070
UK oil firms cheating investors by exaggerating their reserves (27 Aug 2007)
Wall Street results face scrutiny for summer meltdown (27 Aug 2007)
Barclays’ woes grow as crisis in sub-prime forces its client to be rescued (27 Aug 2007)
A crisis of conscience: Can a caring society exist in a market economy? (26 Aug 2007)
Lloyds TSB and Man Financial to pay $16.6 million (€12m) to settle a US lawsuit brought by investors who poured millions into a futures trading firm later found to be fraudulent (26 Aug 2007)
Former Teac CFO Ken Evans pleads guilty to five charges (26 Aug 2007)
The Topic Is BDO - Discuss (26 Aug 2007)
U.S. Senator Charles Schumer has asked the big accounting firms what steps they are taking to inform investors holding securitized mortgage assets (25 Aug 2007)
Independent Insaurance boss says he had never been alerted to the "material under-reserving" that led to the insurer's downfall (25 Aug 2007)
Regulators will have to find better ways of tracing liabilities and ownership of opaque financial instruments (25 Aug 2007)
Brace yourself for the insolvency crunch (25 Aug 2007)
IFRS - compounding the problem, and auditors are neglecting their duty to say (24 Aug 2007)
Deloitte and Transparency - Isn't It Ironic? (24 Aug 2007)
Former Independent Insurance (audited by KPMG) chief denies fraud charges:Company's accounts were a 'mystery quagmire' (24 Aug 2007)
Independent Insurance boss in tears at fraud trial (24 Aug 2007)
Company Audit is now just a tick and block job - no responsibility for auditors (24 Aug 2007)
Deloitte to Pay $167.5M to Adelphia Fund (24 Aug 2007)
Deloitte Backs Off Rigas Family (24 Aug 2007)
South Africa: Regal published and was damned - Ernst & Young did not blow whistle despite misgivings (24 Aug 2007)
BDO chief and KPMG audit head argue over ‘quality’ (24 Aug 2007)
Adelphia $167m deal with Deloitte may hearten Metropolitan creditors (24 Aug 2007)
Time to shine light on corporate accounting around the world (24 Aug 2007)
Shareholder revolt topples Photo-Me bosses (24 Aug 2007)
Do-It-Yourself Dubious Accounting (23 Aug 2007)
The Mother Of All Suits - Refco Does It Chicago Style (23 Aug 2007)
Top auditors' median fees up by 345 per cent (23 Aug 2007)
Fair value accounting a 'bubble-blowing' model (23 Aug 2007)
Dell admits its dishonest accounting was due to underinvestment in qualified staff (23 Aug 2007)
Accounting and Imperialism: African accounting expertise risks being compromised (23 Aug 2007)
Shedding Light on Business Accounts (23 Aug 2007)
SarbOx caused almost 350% increase in audit fees (23 Aug 2007)
Refco Creditors Sue for $2B (23 Aug 2007)
SEC accuses Sentinel of using market turmoil to hide fraud (22 Aug 2007)
Refco Litigation Trusts File Lawsuit Against Legal, Accounting and Financial Advisers for Role in the Refco Fraud: Grant Thornton, Ernst & Young and PricewaterhouseCoopers named (22 Aug 2007)
Refco trusts sue banks, accounting firms (22 Aug 2007)
Refco Trusts Seek $2 Billion From Banks, Auditors (22 Aug 2007)
Change course or cook the books? Dell chose latter (22 Aug 2007)
Backdating Of Stock Options Is Just Another Word for Bad Accounting (22 Aug 2007)
BOSSES COULD 'LEARN ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY' THROUGH ANCIENT FAITH (22 Aug 2007)
PwC - Why Are You Hanging On To Dell? (22 Aug 2007)
Deloitte Settles Again, And Again... (22 Aug 2007)
Equitable Life victims visit UK Treasury (22 Aug 2007)
HBOS bails out own fund as effect of credit crisis spreads (22 Aug 2007)
SEC Mulling New Oil Reserve Accounting Rules (22 Aug 2007)
UK Investors seek transparency over audit quality (21 Aug 2007)
KPMG Defendant to Plead Guilty in Tax Shleter Case (21 Aug 2007)
An Adviser to Plead Guilty in KPMG Tax Shelter Case (21 Aug 2007)
New UK accounting rules will penalise well run pensions (21 Aug 2007)
Dell founder in spotlight after audit (21 Aug 2007)
Northern Rock falls on details of US debt exposure (21 Aug 2007)
Bank of England today dug deep into its emergency fund to bail out a British bank hit by the credit crisis (21 Aug 2007)
KPMG Defendant to Plead Guilty (20 Aug 2007)
IAS 19 changes ‘could harm pensions’ (20 Aug 2007)
South Africa: Figuring Out a Path for Auditor Liability (20 Aug 2007)
'Going concerns’ are a growing concern for accountants (20 Aug 2007)
Creative Australian government accounting robs Aborigines of funds (20 Aug 2007)
Dell Restates After Accounting Investigation (20 Aug 2007)
Dell accounting scandal 'not a happy story' - CFO (19 Aug 2007)
Brocade And Backdating - Gatekeepers Fail (18 Aug 2007)
SEC Charges Additional Brocade Executive for Role in Stock Option Backdating Scheme (17 Aug 2007)
IFRS 8: Activists launch EC law attack on segmental reporting (16 Aug 2007)
Court Filings: Kickbacks on US Gov't Contracts Widespread (16 Aug 2007)
IBM, PwC Settle Kickback Allegations (16 Aug 2007)
IBM and PwC settle kickback charges (16 Aug 2007)
IBM & PriceWaterHouseCoopers to Pay U.S. more than $5.2 Million to Settle Allegations of False Claims (16 Aug 2007)
IBM and PricewaterhouseCoopers to pay nearly $5.3 million combined to settle allegations that they made improper payments on government technology contracts (16 Aug 2007)
UK Accounting Watchdog denies blocking transparency (12 Aug 2007)
BDO Wants Closed Court (14 Aug 2007)
BDO Seidman must pay $170 million (€124.5 million) in compensation and must provide punitive damages for its negligence (13 Aug 2007)
PwC and E&Y Drawn Into Sub-Prime Rabbit Hole (12 Aug 2007)
SEC Files Fraud Charges Against Nicor's Former CEO, CFO and Treasurer (9 Aug 2007)
Cost of Rover inquiry exceeds £9.5m (9 Aug 2007)
Audit Lapdogs Keep Jobs at Cardinal and ConAgra (8 Aug 2007)
First Bancorp Settles SEC Financial Fraud Charges Involving "Non-Conforming" Mortgages (7 Aug 2007)
IFRS 8 - TJN makes a further submission to the European Commission (6 Aug 2007)
IFRS 8: Geographic reporting is a legal requirement under EU law (4 Aug 2007)
Hollinger: Black had accounts in Barbados and the island of Jersey (4 Aug 2007)
Israeli private investigator alleges former Hollinger head moved $60 million to offshore bank accounts - Luxembourg, the Caribbean, the U.K. and the Channel Islands used (3 Aug 2007)
Hollinger: Black accused of 'hiding funds' overseas (3 Aug 2007)
US Jury Finds Michael Pietrzak and Maurice Furlong Liable for Securities Fraud and Other Charges (3 Aug 2007)
Sovereign Ventures? - Transborder Corporations and the Politics of Offshore by Matti Ylönen
Figuring Masculinities: Exploring Ethnic Masculinities in the Institutions of U.K Accounting by Roger Johnston and Orthodoxia Kyriacou
Jain Business Ethics by Atul K. Shah
Offshore Finance and its Economic and Political Implications by Robbie Chapman
Social Housing in Jersey: An Analysis by Chris Steel
Scandal-tainted Japanese accounting firm Misuzu Audit, formerly known as ChuoAoyama PricewaterhouseCoopers, has disbanded (3 Aug 2007)
McAlpine to sell off slate firm (3 Aug 2007)
Hollinger: Judge bars Black from returning to Canada (2 Aug 2007)
Tax Haven UK - 2 - Bearer Shares (2 Aug 2007)
Accounting for PFI (2 Aug 2007)
IFRS 8: Geographical reporting is a legal requirement under EU law (2 Aug 2007)
PwC And Alliance Partners - Staying Close To Home (2 Aug 2007)
ERNST & YOUNG: WHAT GOES ROUND COMES ROUND BUT ANY CHANCE OF JUSTICE? (2 Aug 2007)
IF NOTIFICATION OF BREACHES IN ACCOUNTING STANDARDS IS A DIRECTOR’S DUTY THEN WE DON'T NEED AUDITORS (2 Aug 2007)
Auditors should receive fat fees but no responsibility, says Scottish Insttiute (2 Aug 2007)
Integrated Silicon Solution, exec accused of stock-options fraud (2 Aug 2007)
Maintaining diversity an issue in accounting firms (2 Aug 2007)
Prominent Irish accountant banned (2 Aug 2007)
SEC Files Action Against Integrated Silicon Solution and Its Former CFO for Improper Stock Options Backdating (1 Aug 2007)
SEC Announces Distribution of $267 Million Fair Fund to Qwest Investors Injured by Accounting Fraud (1 Aug 2007)
Is Breeden Still A Believer? (1 Aug 2007)
Misuzu Audit Corp., formerly ChuoAoyama PricewaterhouseCoopers, ended its 39-year history following accounting scandals at client companies (1 Aug 2007)
PCAOB Audit of Deloitte Causes Restatement, Again (1 Aug 2007)
UK House of Commons' science and technology committee attacks Ernst & Young (1 Aug 2007)
Read theHouse of Commons Report “Chairman of the Medical Research Council: Introductory Hearing” (1 Aug 2007)
Report portrays former top executives at Motive (audited by Ernst & Young) as willing to cut corners (1 Aug 2007)
Ernst & Young Tax Shelters: Non-party law firm can't enforce arbitration clause (1 Aug 2007)
YUKOS's auditor appeals court decision (1 Aug 2007)
Some Charges Dismissed From Lawsuits Against Fannie Mae Directors (1 Aug 2007)
UNDISCLOSED RESOLUTION FOR EX-MEDCATH CEO: Man settles tax-shelter suit involving Wachovia, KPMG (1 Aug 2007)
Director 'lied' against Chantrey Vellacott in court battle (1 Aug 2007)
Bre-X fraud trial ends with no conviction (1 Aug 2007)

JULY 2007

Whatever Happened To Good, Old-Fashioned Accountants (31 Jul 2007)
The Century of Self and The Trap: why regulation doesn’t work (31 Jul 2007)
Auditors always blame someone else for their own failures (31 Jul 2007)
Women lose out on accounting partnerships (31 Jul 2007)
Number of audit firms in UK market drops by 25% (31 Jul 2007)
2007 Key Facts and Trends in the UK Accountancy Profession(31 Jul 2007)
Motive ends accounting investigation; drops Ernst & Young (31 Jul 2007)
Bridgecorp receivers have bad news for investors (31 Jul 2007)
KPMG Still Struggling With Audit Quality (30 Jul 2007)
Corporate Tax Scams (30 Jul 2007)
PCAOB Details KPMG Audit Deficiencies (30 Jul 2007)
PCAOB Exposes KPMG Problems (30 Jul 2007)
Center for Audit Quality Survey Finds Majority of US Investors Support Sarbanes-Oxley, Believe Rules Mandated By Act Should Not Be Eased (30 Jul 2007)
New study shows analysts getting favors, giving favorable ratings (30 Jul 2007)
They don't want reforms: Clients could pay for audit choice, says Ernst & Young (30 Jul 2007)
Sarbanes-Oxley law has been a pretty clean sweep (30 Jul 2007)
Moore Stephens fails to strike out Stone & Rolls claim (30 Jul 2007)
Private equity creating risks for UK's economic system (30 Jul 2007)
UK MPs want private equity tax probe (30 Jul 2007)
UK MPs seek inquiry into private equity tax breaks (30 Jul 2007)
UK House of Commons Treasury Committee Report on Private Equity (30 Jul 2007)
UK Fraud cases rise to record high on the back of VAT carousels (30 Jul 2007)
General Electric Again - Being Big Is No Excuse (29 Jul 2007)
ConAgra to pay $45 million US in civil fine for improper accounting (29 Jul 2007)
India: New accounting standards challenged in Supreme Court (29 Jul 2007)
Diageo recruits KPMG big guns in fight against Indian whisky taxes (29 Jul 2007)
Viper's nest of tax avoiders (28 Jul 2007)
PCAOB Details KPMG Audit Deficiencies (28 Jul 2007)
Read the PCAOB Report on KPMG (28 Jul 2007)
General Electric Revises Some Results (28 Jul 2007)
Former Qwest boss gets jail term (28 Jul 2007)
Corporate America is learning how to live with the tough regulations introduced after the collapse of Enron (28 Jul 2007)
Is This Why The Big 4 Need Liability Reform? (27 Jul 2007)
UK MPs question firms' £25m Metronet bill from Ernst & Young, PricewaterhouseCoopers and KPMG (27 Jul 2007)
Block sees conflict of interest in shareholder’s relationship with auditors (27 Jul 2007)
KPMG, Richard Breeden and H&R Block - It Gets Complicated (27 Jul 2007)
H&R Block says Breeden role at KPMG poses conflict (27 Jul 2007)
Moore Stephens illegality defence rejected (27 Jul 2007)
Criminals Uncovered: Real World Examples of Terrorists and other Criminals exploiting UK Financial Services (27 Jul 2007)
Accounting for PFI (27 Jul 2007)
SEC Sues Cardinal Health, Inc. For Fraudulent Earnings and Revenue Management Scheme: Pharmaceutical Distribution Company to Pay $35 Million Penalty (27 Jul 2007)
Foreign investor claims dismissed in US Parmalat lawsuit (27 Jul 2007)
US federal judge has ruled that two Parmalat banks and two auditors will not need to face charges (27 Jul 2007)
SEC Charges Former Chairman and CEO of Brooks Automation in Stock Option Fraud (27 Jul 2007)
SEC eases stance on accounting rules (27 Jul 2007)
Defense rests in Brocade ex-CEO's stock options backdating trial (27 Jul 2007)
WestLB chief fired over brokerage scandal (27 Jul 2007)
A Vote Of No Confidence for PwC's Indian Consulting Practice (26 Jul 2007)
US Presidential candidate pledges crack down on peddlers of tax shelters (26 Jul 2007)
Grant Thornton - indifferent, as usual (26 Jul 2007)
UK Internet tycoon thwarted in tax losses scheme (designed by KPMG) (26 Jul 2007)
Read Judgement in JASON DRUMMOND v THE COMMISSIONERS FOR HER MAJESTY’S REVENUE & CUSTOMS AS ANOTHER KPMG SCHEME IS REJECTED (26 Jul 2007)
NAO chief Sir John Bourn accused of 'exploiting public purse' (26 Jul 2007)
Former Parmalat Executives Indicted in Bankruptcy Case (26 Jul 2007)
SEC Charges Conagra Foods, Inc. in Financial Fraud and Accounting Case: ConAgra Agrees to Pay $45 Million Penalty to Settle Charges (26 Jul 2007)
SEC Approves PCAOB Auditing Standard No. 5 Regarding Audits of Internal Control Over Financial Reporting; Adopts Definition of "Significant Deficiency (26 Jul 2007)
SEC Soliciting Public Comment on Role of IFRS in the U.S. (26 Jul 2007)
The world of audit contracts is in the money (26 Jul 2007)
Judge Rejects Claims By Foreign Investors In Parmalat Suit (26 Jul 2007)
Subprime Mess Fueled by Crack Cocaine Accounting (26 Jul 2007)
Viper's nest of tax avoiders (25 Jul 2007)
Management of large business Corporation Tax (25 Jul 2007)
Livedoor Scandal: The Answer to Japan's Enron (25 Jul 2007)
Australian businessman dodged tax by hiding money in a Swiss-based accounting firm (25 Jul 2007)
Refco Insolvency Examiner Recommended that Ernst & Young be sued for "aiding and abetting fraud" (25 Jul 2007)
The Final Report of the US Insolvency Examiner for Refco: Points the finger at Grant Thornton and Ernst & Young (25 Jul 2007)
SEC Charges Former KLA-Tencor CEO With Fraud For Improper Stock Options Backdating (25 Jul 2007)
SEC alleges ConAgra misreported profits from 1999 to 2001 (25 Jul 2007)
PCAOB Proposal Requires Auditor-Independence Declaration (25 Jul 2007)
PCAOB Proposes New Ethics Rule (25 Jul 2007)
Accounting misconceptions: Cash flow and profit analysis have very different uses (24 Jul 2007)
TENNECO Restatement to correct swaps accounting (24 Jul 2007)
Foreign investors in US face scrutiny (24 Jul 2007)
Countrywide warns on profits and 'prime' loans (24 Jul 2007)
US Regulator Proposes New Auditor Ethics and Independence Rules (24 Jul 2007)
AEGON Changes Accounting Principles Relating to Guarantees in the Netherlands (24 Jul 2007)
Deloitte Mixed Up in "Sicko"/CNN Conflict (23 Jul 2007)
Reversal of Fortune for PWC in Russia (23 Jul 2007)
Corporate interests dominate the Accounting Standards Board (23 Jul 2007)
Banks face $200bn high-risk debts (23 Jul 2007)
Google Exec, E&Y Ireland to Settle Accounting Charges (23 Jul 2007)
Fund managers for companies including General Motors Corp. and Alcatel-Lucent are shifting away from stocks (23 Jul 2007)
ShinGinko feared on brink of failure (23 Jul 2007)
Running an audit on accounting scandals (22 Jul 2007)
Horwarth Clark Whitehill, the former auditor of Slug & Lettuce operator SFI Group, has paid £6m to settle a long-standing claim (22 JUl 2007)
Take-Two Execs Convicted Of Falsifying Company Records (22 Jul 2007
How Metronet came off the rails - and why investors lost £350m (22 Jul 2007)
Metronet black hole bodes ill for PFI (22 Jul 2007)
Metronet’s system of giving work to its member companies was flawed from the start (22 Jul 2007)
Fatal Attractions: technology, judgement, and the big four (22 Jul 2007)
More than 1,000 'millionaire' lawyers as M&A boom fuels record profits (21 Jul 2007)
PwC rounds up partners in A$10m damages suit (21 Jul 2007)
Two Take-Two Execs Plead Guilty To Stock Options And Accounting Charges (21 Jul 2007)
Imax restates several years of earnings (21 Jul 2007)
Imax set for big things with 'clean slate' after accounting mess: CEOs (21 Jul 2007)
SEC Could Sue Broadcom Over Share Options (21 Jul 2007)
Former SmartForce Executives, Auditors Settle Accounting Violation Charges: Executives to Pay $2.3 Million; Ernst & Young Chartered Accountants of Ireland to Pay $725,000 (20 Jul 2007)
Auditors, SmartForce pay $3m (20 Jul 2007)
Refco: When Smart Money Isn't So Smart (20 Jul 2007)
Merck faces shareholder lawsuits (20 Jul 2007)
UK Charity audit fees jump by 11% (20 Jul 2007)
Top Google attorney to settle SEC charges (20 Jul 2007)
Employee Stock Options Market May Derail (20 Jul 2007)
Hollinger: Judge orders Black to remain in US (20 Jul 2007)
£50bn losses from US subprime meltdown (20 Jul 2007)
US mortgage crisis could cost lenders $100bn (20 Jul 2007)
Property developer Clode sues Bridgecorp for NZ$15m (20 Jul 2007)
US Prosecutors in KPMG Case Appeal Dismissal of Charges (19 Jul 2007)
KPMG Tax 'Fraud' Travesty (19 Jul 2007)
KPMG Partners off the Tax Fraud Hook for Now: Read the Court Judgement in UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v JEFFREY STEIN, et al. (19 Jul 2007)
Read and excavate Enron Emails (19 Jul 2007)
SEC Charges Former CEO and Former Board Member of Engineered Support Systems, Inc. in Stock Options Backdating Scheme (19 Jul 2007)
IFRS 8: For Whom Are Accounting Standards Set? (19 Jul 2007)
Reilly case: Ernst & Young $103M verdict is tossed out (19 Jul 2007)
Ex-OM Group Execs Settle SEC Accounting Case (19 Jul 2007)
UK Taxpayers' £750m is used to keep Metronet alive (19 Jul 2007)
Collapse of Metronet shows the fatal flaws of PPP, and the folly of relying on consultants (19 Jul 2007)
Boost to PwC over Yukos audits (19 Jul 2007)
Nine out of ten UK audit partners have witnessed some form of fraud at their audit clients (19 Jul 2007)
Financial reporting in the mining industry (19 Jul 2007)
Here's What the Accounting Watchdog Keeps Hidden (18 Jul 2007)
New Century Creditors Want to Probe KPMG (18 Jul 2007)
Global Trust Bank issue back to haunt PwC (18 Jul 2007)
JPMorgan triples bad-debt provision (18 Jul 2007)
KPMG tax fraud case wilts (18 Jul 2007)
Feds Followed Proper Protocol in KPMG Case: US Justice Dept (18 Jul 2007)
Justice official faults US bill to weaken fraud inquiries (18 Jul 2007)
Bear Stearns hedge funds wiped out (18 Jul 2007)
PCAOB Teams Up With Aussie Regulators (18 Julk 2007)
More fees for corporate undertakers: E&Y appointed at collapsed Metronet (18 Jul 2007)
The Auditor's New Excuse - "I Was Duped!" (17 Jul 2007)
Izodia: Anatomy of a £34m theft (17 Jul 2007)
Charges dismissed against 13 KPMG defendants (17 Jul 2007)
Scathing report card on Fincorp pointed the finger PriceWaterhouse Coopers and Ernst & Young (17 Jul 2007)
Boeing failed both internal and external audits to prove it can properly protect its computer systems (17 Jul 2007)
Tyco $3.2 billion shareholder settlement gets preliminary court approval (17 Jul 2007)
Companies often select one of the Big Four accounting firms as their corporate auditor because of pressure to do so from their lenders or their investment bank advisers (17 Jul 2007)
Hollinger: How long for Conrad Black? (17 Jul 2007)
Metronet close to administration (17 Jul 2007)
US Businesses say accounting reform costly, onerous (17 Jul 2007)
FRC publishes responses to Interim Report of Market Participants Group (16 Jul 2007)
US Judge Drops Tax Charges Against Former KPMG Executives (16 Jul 2007)
Charges Dropped Against 13 in KPMG Tax Shelter Case (16 Jul 2007)
US Judge drops tax case against former KPMG executives (16 Jul 2007)
Metronet 'facing ruin' as £551m demand fails (16 Jul 2007)
Hollinger: Black's victims line up for compensation (16 Jul 2007)
Nine out of ten auditors witness fraud but keep quiet (16 Jul 2007)
The nine lives of misleading Equitable boss (16 Jul 2007)
Nature Sunshine (ex KPMG client) Under Heavy Scrutiny (16 Jul 2007)
Monsters are trampling the divisions set up to protect all (16 Jul 2007)
Profit warnings highest since dot-com crash (16 Jul 2007)
They like Tax Dodging: AICPA Urges US Congress to Change Law (16 Jul 2007)
Pretensions of being Global: New chairman of KPMG International (16 Jul 2007)
PwC Dodges A Bullet (For Now) With Refco (15 Jul 2007)
Indicted CEO Blames PwC on Share Option Backdating (15 Jul 2007)
Hollinger: Black's Downfall Linked to Enron Era (15 Jul 2007)
UK 'reckless auditing' law to apply from April 2008 (15 Jul 2007)
What Judgement: Auditing Gets More Standardized (15 Jul 2007)
Tax Loopholes Sweeten a Deal for Blackstone (15 Jul 2007)
KPMG score own goal with Leeds (14 Jul 2007)
Probe Sought on New Century, KPMG Deal (14 Jul 2007)
Hollinger: Downfall of Citizen Black (14 Jul 2007)
Hollinger: Conrad Black guilty of multiple fraud charges (14 Jul 2007)
Hollinger: Corrupt media tycoon faces 20 years’ jail (14 Jul 2007)
SEC Charges Former CEO and Former Board Member of Engineered Support Systems, Inc. in Options Backdating Scheme (13 Jul 2007)
EU set to limit auditor liability (13 Jul 2007)
Hollinger: Black verdict closes chapter in US fraud crackdown (13 Jul 2007)
The Dixie Group (audited by Ernst & Young) Restates Financial Results (13 Jul 2007)
Blackstone Group's unusual tax strategy under scrutiny (13 Jul 2007)
Trial begins Monday for suspects in Austrian Bawag bank scandal (13 Jul 2007)
Ernst & Young and Grant Thornton may face legal claims of professional negligence and fraud from Refco (13 Jul 2007)
Hollinger: Conrad Black convicted of fraud (13 Jul 2007)
Bridgecorp's missing millions (13 Jul 2007)
UK Companies Act under threat from European Commission (12 Jul 2007)
Auditor duped by Peregrine, Andersen lawyer says (12 Jul 2007)
EU lauds GAAP, IFRS accounting standards convergence (12 Jul 2007)
EU to reform company law, accounting, auditing (12 Jul 2007)
A Way for Resource-Rich Countries to Audit Their Way Out of Corruption (12 Jul 2007)
Ernst & Young and Grant Thornton face Refco negligence claims (12 Jul 2007)
E&Y moves tax work offshore (12 Jul 2007)
Big Four must prepare to lose market share (12 Jul 2007)
UK Non-audit fees, expressed as a percentage of audit fees, decreased from 83% in 2005 to 69% in 2006 (12 Jul 2007)
ASB publishes Financial Reporting Exposure Draft 41 'Related Party Disclosures' (12 Jul 2007)
IFRS 8: IASB's watchdog backs segments decisions (11 Jul 2007)
PwC Russia faces fresh tax evasion hearings (11 Jul 2007)
Moscow court orders new round of hearings in PwC alleged tax evasion (11 Jul 2007)
IASB Vice-chairman says the IASB will undertake reviews on IFRS 8 Operating Segments (10 Jul 2007)
Russia: New Hearings Ordered in PwC's Tax Evasion Case (10 Jul 2007)
Accounting Firm KPMG Secretly Met US Tax Prosecutors (10 Jul 2007)
Russia Court quashes decision to charge PwC extra $15 mln in back taxes (10 Jul 2007)
SEC Announces $316 Million Fair Fund Distribution to Investors Harmed by Fraud at Time Warner (9 Jul 2007)
KPMG and money laundering (9 Jul 2007)
Former Slug & Lettuce operator wins settlement from auditors Horwarth Clark Whitehill (9 Jul 2007)
More impression that substance: APB publishes summary of research on Ethical Standards (9 Jul 2007)
PricewaterhouseCoopers to settle Tyco International lawsuit for $225mn (7 Jul 2007)
PwC Settles Tyco Investors' Suit Over Fraud (6 Jul 2007)
PwC to pay $225M to settle Tyco case (6 Jul 2007)
FRC appoints Working Group to prepare guidance on auditor liability limitation agreements (5 Jul 2007)
The EC reponds to TJN call for a review of IFRS 8 (4 Jul 2007)
Accounting case hits Halliburton (4 Jul 2007)
Pensions: IAS19 'will cost companies billions' (4 Jul 2007)
Judge in KPMG tax case says he may reconsider landmark ruling (4 Jul 2007)
Ex KPMG Executives Must Show How Government Harmed Them (4 Jul 2007)
S.E.C. Sues 5 Ex-Executives in Veritas Software Fraud Case (4 Jul 2007)
Parmalat to face US group lawsuit (4 Jul 2007)
Networking Execs Sentenced for Accounting Fraud (4 Jul 2007)
Oxley says reforms' effects overblown (4 Jul 2007)
SEC Proposes Accounting Changes (4 Jul 2007)
SEC issues proposal for dropping reconciliation to US GAAP (4 Jul 2007)
Private equity firms 'abuse tax regime' (4 Jul 2007)
AA and Saga cash in on tax loophole (4 Jul 2007)
Quick guide: Private equity industry (4 Jul 2007)
US Regulator critical of Grant Thornton audits (3 Jul 2007)
PCAOB report critical of Grant Thornton (3 Jun 2007)
US judge weighs dismissal in KPMG tax shelter case (3 Jul 2007)
Rich list entrepreneur jailed over missing £120m (3 Jul 2007)
New Eurotunnel shares in meltdown (3 Jul 2007)
Anaren Announces Accounting Errors at Its China Subsidiary (3 Jul 2007)
Anaren May Restate on Accounting Errors (3 Jul 2007)
SEC settles with ex-ConAgra execs over accounting (3 Jul 2007)
International Rectifier Fires CFO as accounting probe deepens (3 Jul 2007)
Unica shares fall after auditor is fired (3 Jul 2007)
Hollinger: Judge denies Conrad Black jury access to lawyer's testimony (2 Jul 2007)
An overview of IFRS 8 (2 Jul 2007)
Watchdog interest in National Australia Bank's $6bn (2 Jul 2007)
Investment bankers lead the way in the City's race for riches (2 Jul 2007)
Profit disclosure could break Big Four habit (2 Jul 2007)
Tax breaks and fabled financial secrecy have made Caymans a magnet for hedge fund managers (1 Jul 2007)
Hancock Fabrics listed six reasons for dismissing PriceWaterhouseCoopers (1 Jul 2007)

JUNE 2007

CVS Settles SEC Accounting Complaint (30 Jun 2007)
Companies Use International Accounting Standards To Maximize Profits (30 Jun 2007)
Former ConAgra Execs Named in SEC Complaint (30 Jun 2007)
4 former ConAgra executives are named in US agency's accounting complaint (30 Jun 2007)
Global Financial Integrity Announces Launch of Campaign to Curb Flow of Illicit Funds Into the United States (30 Jun 2007)
Governments for Sale: Deloitte's Sir Digby to work for UK Prime minister (30 Jun 2007)
PCAOB flags up international cooperation (30 Jun 2007)
Running Away from Responsibility but keeping fees: PWC can’t do that (29 Jun 2007)
A settling of Yukos and PricewaterhouseCoopers accounts (29 Jun 2007)
There is nothing surprising about the PwC Yukos scandal (29 Jun 2007)
Embezzler says audit gaps eased theft (29 Jun 2007)
FTSE giants confirm audit liability cap discussions (29 Jun 2007)
Deserting a sinking ship: ACCA Scotland boss defects for ICAS role (29 Jun 2007)
Accountants face commission crackdown (29 Jun 2007)
PwC and Yukos: It’s Just Good Business (28 Jun 2007)
PwC Withdraws YUKOS Audits (28 Jun 2007)
SEC Snaps Its Magic Fingers and Assets Appear (28 Jun 2007)
SEC Launches Effort to Simplify Accounting, Give Companies Clearer Guidelines (28 Jun 2007)
UK Regulator raps PricewaterhouseCoopers: Firm in spotlight over Lucas's departure (28 Jun 2007)
UK The Professional Oversight Board publishes the Annual Report from its Audit Inspection Unit (28 Jun 2007)

Audit Inspection Unit: 2006/07 Audit Quality Inspections Public Report (28 Jun 2007)
UK Audits 'not documented' sufficiently says AIU (28 Jun 2007)
A common method of concealing corporate income is through falsified transfer pricing (28 Jun 2007)
Is there life after audit?: PricewaterhouseCoopers Audit company withdraws its audit reports for Yukos (28 Jun 2007)
Biggest rise ever in Charles' income and spending - but only a modest rise in one's tax bill (28 Jun 2007)
Bend Me, Shape Me...PwC Folds Its Hand In Russia (27 Jun 2007)
The new capitalism (27 Jun 2007)
US urges dropping KPMG tax evasion charges against 12 (27 Jun 2007)
Metronet’s future hangs in the balance (27 Jun 2007)
PwC accused of sell-out over Yukos accounting flaw claims (27 Jun 2007)
AUDITORS DELIVER LOUSY AUDITS: REPORT ON NATIONAL SINGLE AUDIT SAMPLING PROJECT (26 Jun 2007)

Troubled Pendragon boss under fire (26 Jun 2007)
Hollinger’s Former Lawyer Described as Trustworthy (26 Jun 2007)
U.S. Disputes KPMG Ruling (26 Jun 2007)
PwC Is Criticized for Pulling Yukos Audits (26 Jun 2007)
PricewaterhouseCoopers withdraws all audits of Yukos oil company (26 Jun 2007)
UK and US regulators to join forces against fraud (26 Jun 2007)
Where Is Washington’s Love for Shareholders? (26 Jun 2007)
International standards at ‘tipping point’:Senior figures see shift to rules-based accounting (25 Jun 2007)
Stewardship/Accountability as an Objective of Financial Reporting, ASB Paper (25 Jun 2007)
PwC scraps ten years of Yukos audits (25 Jun 2007)
PwC Withdraws YUKOS Reports (25 Jun 2007)
Will they get away: U.S. concedes dismissal only remedy in KPMG tax case (25 Jun 2007)
UK Watchdog looks into Brown aide's charity (24 Jun 2007)
Pre-trial hearing limits accounting in Cobell lawsuit (23 Jun 2007)
Jersey accountant jailed for money laundering (23 Jun 2007)
Enron's Skilling completes six months behind bars (23 Jun 2007)
US bank Bear Stearns is to give $3.2bn (£1.6bn) in loans to bail out one of its hedge funds (23 Jun 2007)
UK Audit Firms initiate tentative liability cap negotiations (22 Jun 2007)
Ex-AIG boss to sue management (22 Jun 2007)
Barclays Concern at exposure to two hedge funds facing collapse (22 Jun 2007)
UK Audit competition probe is ‘long overdue’ (22 Jun 2007)
When Academics Double as Expert Witnesses (22 Jun 2007)
Halliburton Accused of Accounting Irregularities (22 Jun 2007)
Halliburton's Accounting Might Make You Wonder (22 Jun 2007)
Investors’ Suits Face Higher Bar, US Justices Rule (22 Jun 2007)
£1.5m row over a property contract is settled between KPMG and Equity Trust (Jersey) (22 Jun 2007)
UK Professional Oversight Board Announces Plans to Increase Transparency of Audit Inspection Findings (21 Jun 2007)
FSA may call Moore as iSoft case witness (21 Jun 2007)
Firms 'may involve lawyers' in audit reports (21 Jun 2007)
SEC Seeks Easier Foreign Accounting Rules (21 Jun 2007)
Inter and AC Milan are under suspicion of false accounting (21 Jun 2007)
Inspection by US Accounting Board Prompts Deloitte to Revisit Some Audits (21 Jun 2007)
Sexual harassment cloud on KPMG (21 Jun 2007)
Swiss join KPMG's European merger (21 Jun 2007)
UK MPs grill private equity bosses (20 Jun 2007)
KPMG warned of ‘death spiral’ in tax shelter fraud case (20 Jun 2007)
Big Four dominance ‘dangerously high’ (20 Jun 2007)
"Combined reporting" movement grows since Wal-Mart court fight (20 Jun 2007)
New Empires: Accountants will need supervisory body, says ACCA (20 Jun 2007)
EU report slams UK government over Equitable collapse (19 Jun 2007)
US Regulator Inspection makes Deloitte expand audits (19 Jun 2007)
Read the PCAOB Report on Deloitte & Touche (19 Jun 2007)
Hollinger: Prosecutors urge the jury to see through Black's 'phoney paper trail' (19 Jun 2007)
EU VAT fraud part 1 (19 Jun 1997)
Allegations that Fannie Regulator Hiding Details on Accounting Probe (19 Jun 2007)
KPMG Weighed Bankruptcy as U.S. Threatened Charges, Memos Say (19 Jun 2007)
Investors might not be able to sue lying advisers: Antitrust Ruling Welcomed on Wall Street (19 Jun 2007)
Hollinger: Black 'lied to cover $60m theft' (18 Jun 2007)
Nine out of 10 consumers are sceptical about the environmental information from companies and governments (18 Jun 2007)
FirstGroup hits back at claims it uses 'unusual' accounting methods (18 Jun 2007)
Questions raised over FirstGroup’s ‘aggressive’ number-crunching (18 Jun 2007)
FirstGroup under fire over accounting methods (18 Jun 2007)
Read the 72 page Indictment against Ernst & Young partners for alleged tax evasion (17 Jun 2007)
Timeline of Fraud at Lloyd's of London (17 Jun 2007)
Parmalat Bankers Subject To Italian Style Justice (17 Jun 2007)
UK MP calls for investigation into Leeds and KPMG (17 Jun 2007)
Accounting firm BDO Seidman LLP negligent in fraud case, jury finds (17 Jun 2007)
Firms 'should be forced to reveal pay gap' (17 Jun 2007)
BDO Seidman found negligent in Banco Espirito Santo bank case (16 Jun 2007)
Telecoms giants leave £40bn debt off balance sheet (16 Jun 2007)
The IFRS 8 row is still ringing in our ears (16 Jun 2007)
Private equity to give in over tax (16 Jun 2007)
Hope for victims of Equitable Life (16 Jun 2007)
Ex-Ernst & Young Employee Admits To Tax Fraud (16 Jun 2007)
Private equity's inner circle refuse to declare they are UK taxpayers (15 Jun 2007)
Bristol-Myers ends 2-year probation over accounting scandal (15 Jun 2007)
INTERPUBLIC GROUP OF COS. Accounting problems spur talks with SEC (15 Jun 2007)
Guilty Plea Entered in Ernst & YoungTax Shelter Case (15 Jun 2007)
Ex-Ernst & Young worker admits to tax fraud (15 Jun 2007)
Vitesse Files Lawsuit Against Auditing Firm KPMG Alleging Professional Malpractice (15 Jun 2007)
The Stock Options Backdating Scandal: D&O Implications (15 Jun 2007)
SEC Distributions to WorldCom Fraud Victims Top Half-Billion Dollar Mark (15 Jun 2007)
FORMER EMPLOYEE OF ERNST & YOUNG PLEADS GUILTY TO CRIMINAL TAX FRAUD RELATED TO TAX SHELTERS (14 Jun 2007)
Four banks to stand trial over Parmalat for stock market manipulation (14 Jun 2007)
Vitesse sues KPMG alleging audit failures (14 Jun 2007)
Shareholder suits against Tyco pass hurdle - PricewaterhouseCoopers is defendant in most of the lawsuits (14 Jun 2007)
Lowballing: BDO chief reveals cost of pricing wars (14 Jun 2007)
Aspen Tech finds accounting mistakes (14 Jun 2007)
Audit reports become worthless as EU caves into more audit liability concessions (14 Jun 2007)
Call for fraud squad to probe Leeds Footbal Club deal (14 Jun 2007)
For Computer Associates executive to pay $29.7 million for his part in the massive fraud (13 Jun 2007)
Hollinger: Black declines to take stand in own defence (13 Jun 2007)
UK MPs have scorching words for private equity chiefs (13 Jun 2007)
PFI Hitting Patient Care (13 Jun 2007)
The Biggest Scam in the World: Closing Down the Tax Haven Racket (13 Jun 2007)
200,000 UK people to receive a warning letter over unpaid taxes on their offshore accounts (13 Jun 2007)
How they wield political influence: Grant Thornton to help Tories on tax (13 Jun 2007)
KPMG partners using more loopholes to avoid judgement day (12 Jun 2007)
Consultants Capgemini makes a fortune but the UK Revenue IT project is shambles (12 Jun 2007)
SEC to Fine Nortel for Accounting Fraud (12 Jun 2007)
Australia: KPMG facing legal action over the collapse of the Westpoint property group (12 Jun 2007)
Avis Europe fears effects of 'irregularities' (12 Jun 2007)
Ex-KPMG partners want tax-shelter case dismissed (12 Jun 2007)
Debts racked up by hospitals under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) hit patient care (12 Jun 2007)
Larger accountancy firms still do not have many ethnic minorities as partners (11 Jun 2007)
Hollinger: Black trial hears final witnesses (11 Jun 2007)
UK Revenue to take more litigious line over tax cases (11 Jun 2007)
UBS to Pay $115M to Settle Enron Suit (11 Jun 2007)
Report: Japan's financial watchdog eyes larger fines for accounting fraud (10 Jun 2007)
BAE to appoint 'ethics committee' to defuse arms row (10 Jun 2007)
Calls to curb lucrative tax advantages enjoyed by the private equity industry (10 Jun 2007)
Briloff updates his dissection of Google's Tax Avoidance and Transfer Pricing (9 Jun 2007)
Former Metropolitan Mortgage exec convicted in accounting fraud trial (9 Jun 2007)
SEC to fine Nortel up to $100 million for shady accounting (9 Jun 2007)
Big Business likes the useless IFRS 8 (8 Jun 2007)
SEC to Fine Nortel Over Accounting Fraud: Report (8 Jun 2007)
Ernst & Young accused of botching audit work at Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities (8 Jun 2007)
UK Accountancy firms urged to promote diversity (8 Jun 2007)
Holinger: KPMG Auditor testifies he thought fees were approved (8 Jun 2007)
Hollinger executive halted stock-option plan, lawyer says (8 Jun 2007)
Head of KPMG team assigned to Hollinger says fees to Black didn’t alarm director (8 Jun 2007)
Auditors say EU has a case to cap their liability (8 Jun 2007)
Profits Without Honor (8 Jun 2007)
Just 5.9% of partners out of a total of 20 UK firms returning the numbers, were from ethnic minorities (7 Jun 2007)
Verdict awaited in Swissair trial - entire board face charges of mismanagement, fraud and false accounting (7 Jun 2007)
Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities executive says Ernst & Young knew details of the troubled 2002 real estate deal (7 Jun 2007)
Almost half of accountants have admitted that their senior colleagues have deliberately made decisions based on a commercial result over an ethical objection (7 Jun 2007)
Attempts to reduce power of top UK audit firms fail (7 Jun 2007)
UK Top 50 Firms: failing to be diverse (7 Jan 2007)
Top 50 Survey of UK Accountancy Firms, 2007 (7 Jun 2007)
WHY ‘MACHO’ ACCOUNTANCY FIRMS ARE HARMING THE FEMALE PUSH TOWARDS PARTNERSHIP (7 Jun 2007)
Male domination of Uk profession continues (7 Jun 2007)
Bribery and Corruption:BAE accused of secretly paying £1bn to Saudi prince - via US banks (7 Jun 2007)
US Senator wants end to stock option tax gap (6 Jun 2007)
US Treasury is losing billions of dollars due to different rules for stock-option accounting and income-tax reporting (6 Jun 2007)
Testimonies at the US Senate Committee on Permanent Investigations hearings on Executive Stock Options (6 Jun 2007)
US Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Holds Hearing on Executive Stock Options (6 Jun 2007)
US Subcommittee on Investigations Hearing on Executive Stock Options: Should the IRS and Stockholders be Given Different Information? (6 Jun 2007)
Stock options have been associated with a litany of abuses ranging from dishonest accounting to tax dodging (6 Jun 2007)
Law firm fights FSA over ‘boiler rooms’ (6 Jun 2007)
Glass ceiling still intact, as figures show macho ethos in accounting (6 Jun 2007)
Ernst & Young and allegation of US Tax Fraud (5 Jun 2007)
UK ACCOUNTANCY PROFESSION FALLS SHORT OF ETHICAL PRACTICES (5 Jun 2007)
Directors lied before Independent Insurance collapse, court told (5 Jun 2007)
Independent Insurance: Ex-directors accused of lying over finances of insurer (5 Jun 2007)
Ernst & Young avoids inquiry into Farepak accountants (5 Jun 2007)
UK Probe into Farepak's accountants (5 Jun 2007)
Accountants face probe over Farepak (5 Jun 2007)
Hollinger: Black's $4.6m makeover for apartment queried in court (5 Jun 2007)
Private Equity Dumps More Than £2 Billion Unfunded Liabilities In 96 Insolvent Pension Funds On Uk Taxpayers/Other Pension Funds (5 Jun 2007)
AIDB announces investigation into recent events at European Home Retail Plc and Farepak Food & Gifts Ltd (4 Jun 2007)
Hollinger: Trump brings razzmatazz to Black trial (4 Jun 2007)
SEC to back shareholders suing banks over Enron (4 Jun 2007)
Lifting the lid: Wall Street poses subprime obstacles (4 Jun 2007)
Enron-Like Play Travels to New York (4 Jun 2007)
The accounting train wreck (4 Jun 2007)
TOWARDS A MORE ETHICAL STANDARD-SETTING PROCESS (4 Jun 2007)
Brocade, Mercury settle charges over backdated options (4 Jun 2007)
Brocade Communications Systems pays $7 million penalty to settle stock options lawsuit (4 Jun 2007)
Does the ICAEW understand integrity? (3 Jun 2007)
Compensation Consultants - You're Next (3 Jun 2007)
PROFESSIONALS working in the law, finance and business are knowingly helping criminals launder dirty money (3 Jun 2007)
PricewaterhouseCoopers and KPMG have been hit with legal action from Australian clients (3 Jun 2007)
Insolvency: Increase in suspected 'phoenix syndrome' tax evasion in Ireland (3 Jun 2007)
Lawyer had duty to client after retainer lapsed: Canada Supreme Court (3 Jun 2007)
Torex sacks whistleblowing chief executive (2 Jun 2007)
US Federal court dismisses Fannie Mae shareholders lawsuit (2 Jun 2007)
Privileges, Prerogatives and Power: Corporate Power Since 1980 (2 Jun 2007)
Ernst & Young, Deutsche Bank May Face Fines in US Tax Shelter Case (1 Jun 2007)
Convergence of global accountancy standards is not imminent (1 Jun 2007)
Ernst & Young partners face tax evasion charges (1 Jun 2007)
Altran fined 1.5 mln eur by French regulator for accounting anomalies (1 Jun 2007)
Big Four face fresh scrutiny from US (1 Jun 2007)
US Judge Dismisses Fannie Mae Lawsuit (1 Jun 2007)
They are global for business but local for avoiding responsibility: KPMG International names new chairman (1 Jun 2007)
Financial Reporting Review Panel invites views on a proposal to encourage voluntary disclosure of qualified audit reports (1 Jun 2007)
Accounting Problems Tax Computer Sciences (1 Jun 2007)
Wal-Mart to confront investor wrath (1 Jun 2007)

MAY 2007

Raw dealing: Accountancy firms and their anti-social practices (31 May 2007)
AUDITOR LIABILITY: TOO EASY FOR AUDITORS? (31 May 2007)
US Department of Justice Statement: FOUR INDIVIDUALS CHARGED IN CRIMINAL TAX FRAUD RELATED TO ERNST & YOUNG TAX SHELTERS (31 May 2007)
Partners Charged but Ernst & Young Won’t Face Criminal Charges (31 May 2007)
Will they ever learn: In 2003, Ernst & Young reached a $15 million civil settlement with the I.R.S. over its shelters, in 2007 more partners charged (31 May 2007)
Ernst & Young Allegedly Concocted Tax Schemes to Shelter Millions (31 May 2007)
Four current and former partners of Ernst & Young charged with tax fraud (31 May 2007)
Ernst & Young partners charged with tax fraud (31 May 2007)
Sept. 11 Used in Alleged Tax Frauds by Ernst & Young (31 May 2007)
Snakes In An Accounting Firm: Four Ernst & Young Vipers Indicted For Tax Shelter Scheme (31 May 2007)
Big Four firms engaged in 'unfair competition' (31 May 2007)
Three-quarters of the 1,322 auditor changes at U.S. public companies gave no reason for the switch (31 May 2007)
SEC probes Sunrise's stock, accounting (31 May 2007)
Hollinger: Prosecution drops one money laundering count against Black (31 May 2007)
Thousands burnt by UK ‘boiler room’ fraud (31 May 2007)
Four With E&Y Connections Indicted in Tax-Fraud Case (30 May 2007)
IASB and IFRS 8: Called to account (30 May 2007)
EU Commission IFRS 8-consultation-final.doc (30 May 2007)
EU Commission Questionairre on Endorsement of IFRS 8 (30 May 2007)
EU Commission Questionairre: Endorsement of IFRS 8 Operating Segments Analysis of potential impacts (30 May 2007)
Dirty money flows distort our economy and corrupt democracy (30 May 2007)
The IASB misses the point on small company accounting (30 May 2007)
It's Either Me or You, Baby, and I Choose You... (30 May 2007)
UK regulator leads the way for ineffective tackling big four dominance (30 May 2007)
Big Four still has a stranglehold on the UK audit market (30 May 2007)
30 second guide to...impairment charges (30 May 2007)
NEC uncovers $18M accounting scandal (30 May 2007)
Media baron 'conned Hollinger in apartment deal' (30 May 2007)
BCCI: Politicizing the Justice Department, Bush takes a page from his father (30 May 2007)
Sunrise says SEC begins formal stock, accounting probe (29 May 2007)
Mid-tier merger 'limits choice' (29 May 2007)
BVI company involved in the share transaction to avoid declaring assets (29 May 2007)
ISoft deal hangs in balance (29 May 2007)
Unions furious at cuts as NHS surplus revealed (29 May 2007)
Bring down the curtain on Equitable saga (28 May 2007)
The Growing Abuse Of Transfer Pricing By TNCs (28 May 2007)
Sarbox and Auditor Liability (28 May 2007)
Hollinger: Tales of excess may precipitate Black's downfall (28 May 2007)
Holding audits to account (27 May 2007)
International Corporate Governance Network slams IFRS 8 (27 May 2007)
Shareholder opposition to IFRS 8 is global (27 May 2007)
Conviction of Adelphia founder Rigas upheld (27 May 2007)
New Century probe may widen (26 May 2007)
New Century says probably overstated 2005 earnings (26 May 2007)
US Regulators ask GM for accounting documents (26 May 2007)
Appeals Court Unimpressed By KPMG Tax Fee Fight (26 May 2007)
SEC puts General Motors under spotlight on accounting (25 May 2007)
Betonsports has pleaded guilty in the US to charges of money laundering and racketeering (25 May 2007)
Deutsche Bank’s Zurich offices raided in options inquiry (25 May 2007)
Carousel fraud, which has cost the UK billions in lost value added tax (VAT), is out of control (25 May 2007)
Stopping the Carousel: Missing Trader Fraud in the EU (25 May 2007)
Court ruling jeopardizes KPMG tax cases (25 May 2007)
US Appeals Court Unimpressed By KPMG Fee Fight (25 May 2007)
Citigroup loses Parmalat appeal (25 May 2007)
IFRS 8: International investors wade in to segments row (24 May 2007)
ACCA wastes £85,000 on rebranding (24 May 2007)
US Judge can toss KPMG tax case (24 May 2007)
SEC Revises Its Standards for Corporate Audits (24 May 2007)
Hollinger: Black 'called on Trump for help' (24 May 2007)
Private Equity: As the deals get bigger and more highly leveraged, catastrophe approaches (24 May 2007)
Court Dismisses All Charges Against CA (24 May 2007)
SEC moves to reduce Sarbanes-Oxley costs (23 May 2007)
KPMG Avoids Trial on Legal Fees in Tax Shelter Case (23 May 2007)
Profit shifting - as recommended by Deloittes (23 May 2007)
Transfer pricing and profit shifting, as recommended by Deloittes (23 May 2007)
Tell the Public Why the Auditor Split (23 May 2007)
Nortel Gets Off Lightly In Accounting-Scandal Settlement (23 May 2007)
SEC Settles Charges Against Hewlett-Packard for Misleading Disclosures Arising Out of Company’s Boardroom Leak Investigation (23 May 2007)
How often does the press beat the SEC to accounting fraud stories? (23 May 2007)
BISYS to Pay $25 Million to Settle Financial Reporting and Related Charges by SEC (23 May 2007)
Hollinger Jury hears Black's rants against investors (23 May 2007)
Can Britain cope with the next Enron? (22 May 2007)
FASB and the future of segment reporting (22 May 2007)
What does the demand to appoint independent non-executive directors mean in practice? (22 May 2007)
Insolvency vultures: Capital One refusing to pay “excessive” fees charged by companies that encourage people to go bankrupt (22 May 2007)
KPMG among those to go on trial in Brussels (22 May 2007)
Some observations on risk management (22 May 2007)
Perils of using known unknowns to predict the consequences of catastrophic events (22 May 2007)
Lernout & Hauspie fraud trial starts; Dexia, KPMG among those charged (21 May 2007)
Fraud trial begins against Lernout & Hauspie software firm (21 May 2007)
Former SEC Staffers to Lead Accounting Study (21 May 2007)
The ludicrous logic of IFRS 8 (20 May 2007)
COMPANY AUDITORS IGNORE HUMAN CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR NEGLIGENCE (20 May 2007)
PwC and KPMG Together Again - Collins & Aikman Sues Both (20 May 2007)
Peregrine woes challenged in Germany in 2001 (20 May 2007)
US Treasury to Study Restatements, Auditing (20 May 2007)
SEC under pressure to loosen rules tightened after corporate scandals (20 May 2007)
Collins & Aikman sues ex-CEO Stockman and former auditors KPMG and PwC (19 May 2007))
If at first you don't disclose, just restate and restate again (19 May 2007)
US Treasury Wants Accounting Industry Reforms (19 May 2007)
Layoffs - What's Your Excuse? (19 May 2007)
Ex-Ahold executive sentenced to 7 years in prison (18 May 2007)
US Treasury focuses on rise in accounting restatements (18 May 2007)
Bank of New York accused by Russians of money laundering (18 May 2007)
Bank of New York slammed with $22.5bn money laundering suit (18 May 2007)
Dragging America down the rocky road to a set of global accounting rules (18 May 2007)
Australian group aims to revive iSoft with transplant (18 May 2007)
Few Companies Ready for Fair Value Measurement (18 May 2007)
IFRS 8: Investors, especially in Britain, are furious (17 May 2007)
Can Britain cope with the next Enron? (17 May 2007)
How Much Will Tyco Cost PwC? (17 May 2007)
US Treasury wants accounting industry reforms (17 May 2007)
Nortel Settles Accounting Case (17 May 2007)
Market Reactions to Auditors Switching from Big Four to Smaller Accounting Firms (17 May 2007)
SEC Faces Some Crucial Questions: Agency Under Pressure to Loosen Rules Tightened After Corporate Scandals (17 May 2007)
Carbon accounting must improve (17 May 2007)
Masters of the Universe: UN hires KPMG to audit Juba peace funds (17 May 2007)
FAIR VALUE ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL STABILITY (17 May 2007)
Toys "R" Us restates 2006 net income upward due to tax accounting (16 May 2007)
US Trustee to appoint examiner to probe New Century (audited by KPMG) accounting (16 May 2007)
Profit Could Be Lost With New Accounting Statements (16 May 2007)
PwC may face lawsuit after Tyco settles for $3bn (16 May 2007)
Tyco Paying $3 Billion to Settle Lawsuit (16 May 2007)
Tyco to pay $3bn to settle fraud suits (15 May 2007)
Tyco to Pay $3 Billion to Settle Lawsuits (15 May 2007)
SEC steps up investigation of drugmaker Biovail (15 May 2007)
Goodbye Houston: An Alternative Annual Report on Halliburton (15 May 2007)
Russia Court rules PwC documents seizure illegal (15 May 2007)
Siemens ordered to pay for bribery gains (15 May 2007)
Siemens ex-managers found guilty of paying bribes to win contracts (15 May 2007)
Barrick's Dirty Secrets: Communities Respond to Gold Mining's Impacts Worldwide (15 May 2007)
£336,000 travel expenses for civil servant and Chair of the Professional Oversight Board (POB) paid to advise on saving money (14 May 2007)
SEC Chairman Says More Execs May Face Criminal Charges in Stock-Option Backdating Probes (14 May 2007)
SEC Alleges Biovail Violations (14 May 2007)
Pennsylvania House Finance Committee Holds Hearing on “Combined Reporting” to Level the Playing Field on Taxes (14 May 2007)
Closing Corporate Tax Loopholes: Testimony of Phineas Baxandall, Of the Pennsylvania Public Interest Research Group (14 May 2007)
'Green' Tesco's Swiss tax dodge (14 May 2007)
TOWARDS A MORE ETHICAL STANDARD-SETTING PROCESS (14 May 2007)
MAKING IMAGINARY WORLDS REAL: THE CASE OF SFAS 123R (14 May 2007)
Accounting for the use of private finance in roads: experiences in the UK and Spain (14 May 2007)
IFRS 8: 10 reasons why Country-by-Country accounting is vital (13 May 2007)
International Rectifier Finds Accounting Problems at Subsidiary (13 May 2007)
Japan: A series of accounting irregularities at large companies have deepened public distrust of both accounting and auditing firms (13 May 20070
Ex-wives face loss of settlements in bankruptcy (12 May 2007)
Corporate rights and responsibilities: restoring legal accountability (12 May 2007)
Australia: FIVE employees of high-profile accountancy firm Ernst and Young are under investigation for fraud (12 May 2007)
Canada: BDO and Grant Thornton "have agreed to discontinue merger discussions" (12 May 2007)
Penthouse settles fraud case with SEC (11 May 2007)
Parmalat scandal highlighted the need for protection against 'self-dealing transactions' between company insiders and third parties (11 May 2007)
Bribery Pleas Prompt Look at Donations (11 May 2007)
THE CONCEALED PROBLEMS FOR ACCOUNTING LABOUR IN GLOBAL PROFESSIONAL NETWORK INITIATIVES (11 May 2007)
IFRS 8: ASB offers peace deal in segments row (10 May 2007)
Hollinger: Peer 'concocted' bonus payments to executives (10 May 2007)
SEC nears end of probe in General Motors accounting errors (10 May 2007)
ICAS refuses to go public on disciplinary tribunals (10 May 2007)
Surrey company made a profit of £1.6m on a turnover of just £1.5m (10 May 2007)
Ex-PwC Japan staff clear out: Nearly half of Misuzu go to E&Y (10 May 2007)
MBAs See Low Pay in Accounting (9 May 2007)
US IRS Says New Century (audited by KPMG) Owes $400M (9 May 2007)
Hollinger: Black 'took payments for himself' (9 May 2007)
Hollinger: $60m 'was siphoned from non-compete payments' (9 May 2007)
Hollinger: Peer ‘told aide to skim off $12m from newspaper deals’ (9 May 2007)
UK rebuffed over Equitable Life scandal (9 May 2007)
UK attacked over Equitable Life savings scandal (9 May 2007)
UK MPs criticise IFRS 8 (9 May 2007)
Watchdog must clamp down on private equity (9 May 2007)
Auditor Resignations - Lawsuit Anyone? (8 May 2007)
The future's bright . . . but not for lawyers and accountants (8 May 2007)
Hollinger: Black aide tells of 'partnership' (8 May 2007)
Trusted executives most likely to rob the firm (8 May 2007)
SEC Settled $16.8 million Administrative Proceeding Against Zurich Capital Markets Inc. for Financing of Hedge Funds' Illegal Market Timing (8 May 2007)
All eyes on Accenture kickback case (7 May 2007)
iSoft's former KPMG board member departs (7 May 2007)
Siemens ordered to pay 97.7 mln eur in fines in Italian bribery case (7 May 2007)
Toys "R" Us Delays Filing Over 'Weakness' in Tax Accounting (7 May 2007)
Buffett On Derivatives: 'A Fool's Game' (7 May 2007)
You’re guilty of false accounting - now please walk free (6 May 2007)
KPMG Says, "Everything's Peachy!" (6 May 2007)
Low-income savers left in lurch in new Farepak-style scandal (6 May 2007)
Farepak II: More small savers are hung out to dry (6 May 2007)
Farepak II:'The company is not covered by savings regulations' (6 May 2007)
PwC Russia Office Search Declared Illegal (6 May 2007)
Deloitte is facing $22m legal action from ESG Re (6 May 2007)
US Federal Grand Jury Indicts Former General Counsel in Peregrine Scandal (6 May 2007)
New Century Execs' Multimillion-Dollar Bonuses Tied to Lowballing Risks, Highballing Income From Subprime Mortgages (6 May 2007)
Baugur chief guilty of false accounting (5 May 2007)
Pin Stripe Mafia: UK lawyers helped Zambia ex-president launder £23m (5 May 2007)
The price of aggressive accounting (5 May 2007)
Managing director of a Gwynedd business agency has been found guilty of false accounting (5 May 2007)
Toys "R" Us BlamesAccounts Delay on Tax Issue (5 May 2007)
Hollinger: Star witness expected to dish the dirt on media mogul's alleged lying and thieving (5 May 2007)
A Signficant case for Insolvency: House of Lords Judgments - OBG Limited and others (Appellants) v. Allan and others (Respondents) (4 May 2007)
UK MPs attack IFRS 8: Standard will give multinationals 'carte blanche' (4 May 2007)
Hollinger auditors accused of lying over payments (4 May 2007)
Baugur chief guilty of false accounting (4 May 2007)
Corruption: KPMG Germany, Siemens's longtime auditor, didn't do enough to flag improprieties (4 May 2007)
Fee feud clouds $10M verdict in PriceWaterhouseCoopers audit case (4 May 2007)
KPMG drops New Century as probe expands (4 May 2007)
Court rules against Goldman and ABN for misleading investors (4 May 2007)
iSoft founder quits with £250,000 payout (4 May 2007)
More money for corporate undertakers: Number going bust hits new record (4 May 2007)
UK MPs join European Parliament in segment standard row (3 May 2007)
Rover inquiry costs £8m and still not finished (3 May 2007)
UK MPs criticise sluggish MG Rover inquiry (3 May 2007)
Ernst & Young Signed Audits Without Evidence (3 May 2007)
Ernst & Young audits faulted in US report (3 May 2007)
More money for corporate undertakers: New figures to show 'record insolvencies' (3 May 2007)
Corruption is costing the Germany economy about €8.3 billion (£5.7 billion) a year (3 May 2007)
SEMINAR TO EXAMINE FAITH AND FINANCE (2 May 2007)
IFRS 8: UK MPs join European Parliament in segment standard row (2 May 2007)
IFRS 8 - Early Day Motion in UK Parliament (2 May 2007)
US-EU Seal Accounting Standards Pact (2 May 2007)
BetonSports Accounting Exec Now Under Fire by US Feds (2 May 2007)
US seeks to pursue BAE over claims company paid bribes (2 May 2007)
Protecting investors will be tricky for SEC (2 May 2007)
UK legislators table a motion condemning IFRS 8 (1 May 2007)
US Accounting rulemakers may alter fair value option (1 May 2007)
The UK and other industrialised countries have regulatory standards no better, and sometimes worse, than many offshore financial centres (1 May 2007)
Ex-Westar execs face third trial (1 May 2007)
Korean executive accused of gangsterism (1 May 2007)
Accounting Said to Hide US Lender Losses (1 May 2007)
FRC publishes finalised Strategic Framework and Plan for 2007/08 (1 May 2007)

APRIL 2007

Auditing market moving away from the big four (30 Apr 2007)
IFRS 8 Segment reporting - why the controversy? (30 Apr 2007)
New colonialism: IoD to educate Russian and Chinese bosses on corporate governance (30 Apr 2007)
Corporate Accountability: Is Self Regulation the Answer? (30 Apr 2007)
Former KPMG manager pleaded guilty to four felony tax charges (30 Apr 2007)
The European Parliament kicks IFRS 8 into touch - for now (30 Apr 2007)
The Finitist Accountant: Classifications, Rules and the Construction of Profits (30 Apr 2007)
Financial Services Authority, the UK City watchdog, needs to do more to combat financial crime (30 Apr 2007)
Read the Report: Financial Services Authority, the City watchdog, needs to do more to combat financial crime (30 Apr 2007)
Grant Thornton is poised to take over smaller rival RSM-Robson Rhodes (29 Apr 2007)
The Enron attitude is still alive and kicking (29 Apr 2007)
Evidence from a former Hollinger director and friend undermines Conrad Black’s version of events (29 Apr 2007)
The Women's Professional Ghetto (28 Apr 2007)
UK government refuses to reveal commissions and consultancy fees paid to private finance initiative (PFI) advisers since 1997 (28 Apr 2007)
Timberland to Restate Financials (28 Apr 2007)
US Embassy protested to Britain over decision to halt BAE inquiry (28 Apr 2007)
SEC steps up investigation into Siemens corruption allegations (27 Apr 2007)
Indian staff already doing Pru accounting work (27 Apr 2007)
Insolvency brings big fees: US Judge authorizes Dana to pay $26 million to law firms, advisers (27 Apr 2007)
Financial crisis looms after rise in risky UK lending (27 Apr 2007)
Corruption: SEC launches full-scale probe into Siemens (26 Apr 2007)
SEC Announces Next Steps Relating to International Financial Reporting Standards (26 Apr 2007)
Errors uncovered at Safran unit after audit (26 Apr 2007)
There's money in scandals: McAlpine probe nets Deloitte £6m (26 Apr 2007)
EU blocks IFRS 8 ratification in shock move (26 Apr 2007)
IFRS 8 blocked by EU (26 Apr 2007)
Sunrise suspends CFO amid stock, accounting probe (26 Apr 2007)
Hanson CEO joins ranks of IFRS critics (26 Apr 2007)
FRC, SEC and FSA sign protocol for sharing information on application of IFRS (26 Apr 2007)
DaimlerChrysler 2006 Net Profit Under International Accounting Standards Rises to $4.99B (26 Apr 2007)
Sports Direct warns on sales and profits (26 Apr 2007)
Bank of England raises alarm over boom in corporate debt (26 Apr 2007)
IFRS 8 - heading for trouble in Europe (25 Apr 2007)
EU Parliement motion calls for change to IFRS 8 (25 Apr 2007)
Maxwell tapes found by BBC (25 Apr 2007)
Maxwell tapes are a chilling reminder (25 Apr 2007)
US Regulator urging accounting firms to move away from a "checklist" approach to conducting audits (25 Apr 2007)
FRC publishes Interim Report of Market Participants Group as part of Audit Choice Project (25 Apr 2007)
FRC calls for audit profitability disclosure (25 Apr 2007)
Does it make sense to early adopt new standards such as IFRS 8 on segments? (25 Apr 2007)
Fate of Siemens' chief hangs in balance amid corruption scandals (25 Apr 2007)
Insider Trading Rife: Corruption in the City (25 Apr 2007)
Apple executive says Jobs was told options switch was wrong (25 Apr 2007)
Cleared of Fraud, PwC Wants $10 Million Verdict Set Aside (25 Apr 2007)
Police called in to investigate fraud at Alfred McAlpine slate quarries (24 Apr 2007)
Hollinger: Auditor Testifies in Conrad Black Trial (24 Apr 2007)
Ex HealthSouth CEO reached an $81 million settlement to end a lawsuit filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission blaming him for a $2.7 billion accounting fraud (24 Apr 2007)
Ex-Apple Finance Chief to Settle SEC Options Probe (24 Apr 2007)
UK Treasury minister signals greater scrutiny of hedge fund industry (24 Apr 2007)
Revenue to jump 15pc to $23bn (£11.5bn), says Deloitte (24 Apr 2007)
A Game As Old As Empire: The Secret World of Economic Hit Men and the Web of Global Corruption (23 Apr 2007)
Hollinger auditor ``surprised" to discover executives had not disclosed non-compete payments (23 Apr 2007)
Alfred McAlpine has accused senior managers at its quarrying business of committing "extensive and systematic" fraud (23 Apr 2007)
Police called in to investigate Alfred McAlpine fraud (23 Apr 2007)
Top McAlpine chiefs go after fraud costs £50m (23 Apr 2007)
Shell Companies…Facilitation Tool for Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (23 Apr 2007)
Nikko Cordial sues 3 former company executives over accounting scandal (23 Apr 2007)
Novell uncovers 10 years of stock option accounting errors (23 Apr 2007)
Problems With Private Equity, Blackstone? (23 Apr 2007)
Privatisation rife in NHS as accountants, management consultants, lawyers creamed off an exorbitant £25bn (22 Apr 2007)
Sarbanes-Oxley Act: Jury's out on effectiveness of corporate ethics law (22 Apr 2007)
US Corporate reforms working, says law's co-author Paul Oxley (22 Apr 2007)
KPMG Sues Fannie Mae for 'Deception' Over Accounting (21 Apr 2007)
Former Qwest boss guilty of fraud (21 Apr 2007)
Qwest boss convicted of fraud (21 Apr 2007)
The Serious Fraud Office has dropped its 18-month investigation into Southern Water (21 Apr 2007)
Ex-Qwest CEO convicted on 19 counts of insider trading (20 Apr 2007)
United Utilities fined £8.5m over transfer pricing (20 Apr 2007)
Transfer Pricing Abuse: OFWAT PROPOSING £8.5M FINE ON UNITED UTILITIES WATER FOR BREACHING INTRA-GROUP TRADING RULES (20 Apr 2007)
Transfer Pricing of Intrafirm Sales as a Profit Shifting Channel – Evidence from German Firm Data (20 Apr 2007)
Siemens chairman to leave amid bribery probe (20 Apr 2007)
UK Audit choice report to be released in May (20 Apr 2007)
Does Accounting for Taxes on Income Provide Information about Tax Planning Performance? – Evidence from German Multinationals (20 Apr 2007)
Social responsibility standards and global environmental accountability : a developing country perspective (20 Apr 2007)
Blackstone’s 'Enron' Accounting (19 Apr 2007)
Russia Finance Ministry extends PWC Audit license for five years (19 Apr 2007)
US Creative accounting cases decline by half (19 Apr 2007)
Astroc chairman states confidence in group as accounting error hits stock (19 Apr 2007)
PCAOB Issues Second Year Report on Internal Controls (19 Apr 2007)
PCAOB: Internal-Controls Audits Could Be More Efficient (19 Apr 2007)
Get Ready for Tax Avoidance Games: Ernst & Young starts Indian tax advisory unit (19 Apr 2007)
Tax Justice Focus, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2007 (18 Apr 2007)
Urge to Do Nothing: FRC to hold another stakeholder meeting on provisional recommendations of Market Participants Group as part of Audit Choice project (18 Apr 2007)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION - IFRS 8 (18 Apr 2007)
IFRS 8: European Parliament Resolution (18 Apr 2007)
Four executive directors of Cadbury Schweppes’s Nigerian subsidiary have resigned after an accounting scandal (18 Apr 2007)
SEC warns auditors firms may manipulate new rule (18 Apr 2007)
Grant Thornton, BDO set to merge (18 Apr 2007)
ABN, ING investigated for possible price fixing (18 Apr 2007)
Computer Associates mulls suing co-founder Wang over accounting fraud (17 Apr 2007)
Stock options scandal reaches Wall Street (17 Apr 2007)
US Supreme Court rejects Enron challenge (17 Apr 2007)
New Research Shows Wal-Mart Rigs the System to Skip Out on $2.3 Billion in US State Taxes (17 Apr 2007)
Dynegy dismisses auditor PricewaterhouseCoopers (17 Apr 2007)
60% of frauds committed by senior management (17 Apr 2007)
Middle-aged male senior company executives who have been employed for a long time are the main perpetrators of fraud (17 Apr 2007)
PwC Loses Contract For Sakhalin-2 Audit (16 Apr 2007)
New Century's accounting raised red flags (16 Apr 2007)
PwC's US Political Contributions At Work (15 Apr 2007)
What's so hard about keeping accounts simple? (15 Apr 2007)
MORE than 100 UK companies issued profit warnings in the first quarter of the year (15 Apr 2007)
Report Accuses Computer Associates Founder Wang of Overseeing Accounting Fraud (15 Apr 2007)
International convergence ‘some way off’: More than 200 US GAAP and IFRS differences revealed (14 Apr 2007)
Attitude adjustment: judges' views of auditors take a dive (14 Apr 2007)
Former Computer Associates. CEO to pay at least $52 million in accounting fraud case (14 Apr 2007)
Ex-Executive of Computer Associates Agrees to Pay $800 Million in Restitution (14 Apr 2007)
Powell Industries Finds Accounting Errors in One of Its Divisions (14 Apr 2007)
Lawyers are probably the greatest obstacles to justice in the world (13 Apr 2007)
PNC's Claims Against Ernst & Young Settled for $9M (13 Apr 2007)
‘IOSCO looks to regulate non-audit services globally’ (13 Apr 2007)
Consultant independence in the post-Arthur Andersen World (13 Apr 2007)
Russia annuls Sakhalin II contract with PwC (13 Apr 2007)
Qwest jury begins deliberations (13 Apr 2007)
Postmen bowed by HSBC's 3lb report (13 Apr 2007)
Masters of the Universe: KPMG is the biggest consulting company in Czech market (13 Apr 2007)
Oil major slates accounting firms over IFRS (12 Apr 2007)
Siemens last 3 annual reports valid despite bribery scandal (12 Apr 2007)
When Tax Avoidance Crosses a Line (12 Apr 2007)
American hedge fund trader shrugs off Enron scandal to earn £2.7m a day (12 Apr 2007)
When the paymasters whistle: Accounting Firms urged to stand up for private equity (12 Apr 2007)
Shell likely to pay $700m as it offers to settle over reserves (12 Apr 2007)
Accident Group boss killed in car crash (11 Apr 2007)
Shell to pay £180m to settle reserves scandal (11 Apr 2007)
Royal Dutch Shell agrees to pay $353m to settle claims from investors over its 2004 oil reserves scandal (11 Apr 2007)
Private equity collapse on cards, says IMF (11 Apr 2007)
Masters of the Universe: Deloitte buys US federal intelligence consultancy (11 Apr 2007)
Tweedie in investor showdown over IFRS 8 (10 Apr 2007)
Prisoner of corporate interests: ASB will not amend FRS 20 (10 Apr 2007)
International Rectifier finds errors in foreign subsidiary financials (10 Apr 2007)
The Accident Group dies in car crash (10 Apr 2007)
The Accident group boss killed in car crash (10 Apr 2007)
Cash-strapped iSoft sued for £9m in New Zealand (10 Apr 2007)
UK Treasury's claims that the private finance initiative (PFI) programme is cost effective and money saving have been dismissed as unfounded (10 Apr 2007)
Citigroup’s Charles Prince: “Let’s go back to the bad old days.” (10 Apr 2007)
Masters of the Universe: Deloitte acquires intel consulting firm (10 Apr 2007)
Is Deloitte Sufficiently Independent of Siemens? (9 Apr 2007)
Stock Options Backdating (9 Apr 2007)
Board of Legislators to hear case on KPMG (9 Apr 2007)
Mystery of the Missing Meters: Accounting for Iraq's Oil Revenue (9 Apr 2007)
New Imperialism: Kenya's IAS accountants become poaching target (8 Apr 2007)
Concerns have emerged over payment acccounts used by some of the world's most powerful financial institutions (8 Apr 2007)
IFRS 8: Investor fury at ‘dumbed down’ rules (8 Apr 2007)
Barclays faces a struggle to convince the Financial Services Authority that the role of lead regulator should pass to Amsterdam (8 Apr 2007)
Lifting the Lid: Auditor's subprime exits show risks (6 Apr 2007)
Hollinger mogul accused of misusing jet (6 Apr 2007)
IFRS 8: A standard that nobody likes (6 Apr 2007)
ACCA eases international rule (5 Apr 2007)
Stock Options: SEC probes Grand Theft Auto firm (5 Apr 2007)
Hollinger: Bora Bora flight flummoxed me, accountant tells Black trial (5 Apr 2007)
PwC may lose Russian clients over its role in Yukos (5 Apr 2007)
Lloyds becomes latest bank to snub IFRS (5 Apr 2007)
Hollinger: Black's Lawyer Rips Into Comptroller (5 Apr 2007)
Questions Linger About Bushes and BCCI (4 Apr 2007)
Fallout from disastrous Mayflower case to be revealed by FRC in the next quarter (4 Apr 2007)
Futile monopoly for accountants in Ireland (3 Apr 2007)
Atlas Air settles SEC accounting probe (3 Apr 2007)
Some Accuse SEC of Pushing Accounting Board, Tilting to Business in Rules Process (3 Apr 2007)
AvtoVAZ drops PwC over Yukos bankruptcy (3 Apr 2007)
AvtoVAZ Drops PwC As Auditor (3 Apr 2007)
Kremlin accuses PwC in tax fraud case (3 Apr 2007)
Mandatory rotation of audit engagement partners is a serious threat to audit quality (3 Apr 2007)
US Board Proposes New Auditing Standard and Amendments Relating to Consistency and the Hierarchy of GAAP And Further Implements Rules Relating to Tax Services and Independence (3 Apr 2007)
Linklaters is latest top firm to take LLP route (2 Apr 2007)
Mortgage lender New Century Financial files for bankruptcy (2 Apr 2007)
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: WHAT ABOUT THE WORKERS? (1 Apr 2007)
LEAP alternative UK budget (1 Apr 2007)
10 Years On: Whatever happened to equality? (1 Apr 2007)
IFRS 8 - toolate to object? (1 Apr 2007)
Deloitte's Political Contributions Pay Off - Pending (1 Apr 2007)

MARCH 2007

Founder of Betonsports arrested on charges of racketeering, fraud, tax evasion and conspiracy (31 Mar 2007)
Banks force sale of Torex Retail in SFO inquiry (31 Mar 2007)
SFO raids premises in Torex Retail case (31 Mar 2007)
UK to outsource accounting services (31 Mar 2007)
Under the thumb of corporations: FRC announces new appointment to the Accounting Standards Board (31 Mar 2007)
Dell admits accounting misconduct (30 Mar 2007)
Dell Reports Accounting Misconduct (30 Mar 2007)
Eurotunnel faces action from investors (30 Mar 2007)
United Airlines parent UAL Corp found "material weakness" in its tax accounting (30 Mar 2007)
Imax widens accounting probe, filing of 2006 results delayed again (30 Mar 2007)
Nicor to Pay $10 Million to Settle Fraud Charges (30 Mar 2007)
Opaque Tax Accounting: IFRS 8 standard allows for companies to change the segments on which they report (29 Mar 2007)
Farepak victims criticise refusal to compensate (29 Mar 2007)
Farepak: Protection for hamper scheme cash (29 Mar 2007)
Two more arrests in Siemens fraud probe (29 Mar 2007)
Mars, William Grant Win U.K Court Ruling in Accounting Dispute (29 Mar 2007)
Big Four Firms Infilterate the Regulators as SEC Selects Four Accounting Fellows (29 Mar 2007)
Ex-Enron lawyers in fraud charge (29 Mar 2007)
SEC charges 2 ex-Enron lawyers with fraud (29 Mar 2007)
Accounting rules hinder final salary pension schemes (29 Mar 2007)
UNDERSTANDING COMPANIES’ PENSION DEFICITS (29 Mar 2007)
Pensions: FRS 17 leading to poor asset allocation (29 Mar 2007)
Case at US high court could make it harder for shareholders lawsuits (29 Mar 2007)
City raises questions over running of newly floated Sports Direct (28 Mar 2007)
NHS supplier iSoft sacks co-founder (28 Mar 2007)
Pensions threat exaggerated by accounting standards rule (28 Mar 2007)
Pension scheme risks don't just matter to accounting anoraks (28 Mar 2007)
President of troubled Sanyo steps down amid accounting scandal (28 Mar 2007)
SEC conducting inquiry into Allied Defense's accounting errors (28 Mar 2007)
Hollinger: Black trial hears details of contentious non-compete payments (28 Mar 2007)
Hollinger: Publisher tells jury of being asked to pay Black $4.5m into his personal bank account (28 Mar 2007)
Sanyo president set to quit amidst a string of management failures and an accounting scandal (28 Mar 2007)
Davies Review of UK Issuer Liability (28 Mar 2007)
Barclays/ABN Amro - I'm PwC and It's All About Me (27 Mar 2007)
Securities Fraud Case Heading to US Supreme Court (27 Mar 2007)
VAT fraud in Europe estimated at €100 billion annually (27 Mar 2007)
SEC Censures Ernst & Young; Deloitte Wraps Up Canadian Trouble (27 Mar 2007)
Westchester County may sue Med Center's former accountants KPMG for up to $200 million (27 Mar 2007)
Ex-Qwest Finance Chief Testifies (27 Mar 2007)
Reagan's former budget director is accused of fraud (27 Mar 2007)
SEC official warns on foreign standards (27 Mar 2007)
Auditor Liability Reform - Same Old Same Old (26 Mar 2007)
SEC sanctions Ernst & Young and orders it to pay $1.6 million to settle charges of compromising its independence (26 Mar 2007)
SEC sanctions Ernst & Young for second time in three years (26 Mar 2007)
Ernst & Young censured over PNC audit work (26 Mar 2007)
SEC statement on auditor independence rules violations by Ernst & Young (26 Mar 2007)
Ernst & Young censured for independence violations in US again (26 Mar 2007)
US Supreme Court to rule on accounting suits against outside vendors (26 Mar 2007)
IASB funding issue resolved by FRC (26 Mar 2007)
In the U.S., shareholders come first (26 Mar 2007)
UK Consultation on the Implementation of Directive 2006/46/EC on Company Reporting - Amending the Accounting Directives (26 Mar 2007)
UK Consultation on the Implementation of Directive 2006/43/EC on Statutory Audits of Annual and Consolidated Accounts (8th Company Law Directive) (26 Mar 2007)
New ways of accountancy (26 Mar 2007)
Moscow court sided with accusations from Moscow city tax officials that the company PricewaterhouseCoopers aided Yukos in perpetrating tax evasion (25 Mar 2007)
Hollinger boss claims that he was taken in by a ‘web of deceit’ (25 Mar 2007)
Private equity - the unacceptable face of capitalism? (25 Mar 2007)
The foundations of global morality (25 Mar 2007)
Who runs your world?: Power, corruption and governance (25 Mar 2007)
Earth in the Balance Sheet (25 Mar 2007)
International Flavors finds accounting flaws (24 Mar 2007)
OI CEO resigns over stock options probe (24 Mar 2007)
Backdating options probes take time, regulators say, because of all the papers to review (24 Mar 2007)
HOW TO GET AUDITING REFORM RIGHT (24 Mar 2007)
Livedoor case comes to a head, but plenty of other accounting scandals are still out there (24 Mar 2007)
Livedoor accountant first to do real time for fraud (24 Mar 2007)
Court to Notify Parmalat Investors of $50 Million Partial Settlement of Class Action Lawsuit (24 Mar 2007)
Deloitte settles class-action suit for $50.5-million (24 Mar 2007)
Japan's Iseki & Co finds accounting irregularities at three subsidiaries (24 Mar 2007)
Ex-Livedoor accountants sentenced (23 Mar 2007)
Torex fails to disclose sale of stake by shareholder (23 Mar 2007)
Deloitte Canada to pay US$50.5M in Philip Services suit (23 Mar 2007)
Hollinger: Embezzlement trial told of $2m 'non-compete' deal (23 Mar 2007)
Hollinger: Witness said he was ordered to `funnel' cash (23 Mar 2007)
PwC Plans to Stay in Russia Despite Yukos Troubles (23 Mar 2007)
PwC revealed that it has between $1bn and $1.4bn in profits to distribute to its partners (23 Mar 2007)
Billions in deferred tax to boost plc earnings (23 Mar 2007)
US Judge Upholds Constitutionality of PCAOB, SOX (23 Mar 2007)
US Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Challenging Constitutionality of PCAOB (23 Mar 2007)
Colonised by Buisness Interests: FRC Announces Levy Proposals for 2007/08 (23 Mar 2007)
Professional Oversight Board announces the Scope of the AIU's work for 2007/8 (23 Mar 2007)
PCAOB Meets with Asian Counterparts to Discuss Cooperation on Auditor Oversight (23 Mar 2007)
Audit regulators, under the umbrella of the International Forum of Independent Audit Regulators, have met in Tokyo (23 Mar 2007)
Hollinger: KPMG came under fire during the second day of Conrad Black's fraud trial (22 Mar 2007)
Hollinger: Jury in Conrad Black case hears about perks (22 Mar 2007)
Second Livedoor director jailed (22 Mar 2007)
A Game As Old As Empire (21 Mar 2007)
KPMG merger creating ‘nervousness’ (21 Mar 2007)
The New York Times Dumps Deloitte (21 Mar 2007)
SFO launches second Torex Retail raid (21 Mar 2007)
Moscow Court Voids Audit Contract Between Yukos and PwC (21 Mar 2007)
PricewaterhouseCoopers Blamed in Yukos Tax Affair (21 Mar 2007)
PricewaterhouseCoopers audit report on IMAX wasn't worth the paper it was written on (21 Mar 2007)
Hollinger: Opening of Black trial hears claims of greed, lust for power and $60m theft (21 Mar 2007)
Who audits the auditors? (21 Mar 2007)
NYSE Suspends Trading in ProQuest Shares (21 Mar 2007)
Enron class action thrown out (21 Mar 2007)
US Feds may charge David Stockman for Collins & Aikman accounting ills (21 Mar 2007)
Companies restricting shareholder rights selected Arthur Andersen firm (20 Mar 2007)
Ernst & Young facing legal challenge from truckmaker (20 Mar 2007)
General Motors Accounting: Lessons From A Floundering Giant (20 Mar 2007)
General Motors 10K Annual Report (20 Mar 2007)
South Korea, U.S. body to jointly oversee accounting firms (20 Mar 2007)
Suharto Scion’s Channel Islands Treasure Hunt (20 Mar 2007)
Sanyo chairman quits amid reports that her board rejected her plea for an accounting probe (19 Mar 2007)
Sanyo chairwoman resigns amid accounting scandal (19 Mar 2007)
Grant Thornton hits out at 'institutional prejudice' in the UK audit market (19 Mar 2007)
Jury selection to start for Qwest chief accused of insider-trading (19 Mar 2007)
Legacies of Disgraced Livedoor Founder (19 Mar 2007)
Royal Dutch Shell Suits - KPMG/PwC Joined at the Hip (18 Mar 2007)
Grant Thornton - failing to join up their thinking (18 Mar 2007)
US Judge says negligent audit by Grant Thornton caused bigger bank losses (18 Mar 2007)
US The court found Grant Thornton responsible for more than $25 million in losses to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (18 Mar 2007)
New Century Financial - It's KPMG Again (18 Mar 2007)
Market woes, globalisation and political perspective: Time for political will for transparency and cleansing (18 Mar 2007)
Policing misbehaving bosses is proving to be a costly business (18 Mar 2007)
Revelations at Siemens highlight what was once a culture of bribery (18 Mar 2007)
Governments for Sale: PwC US political contributions (17 Mar 2007)
Governments for Sale: Deloitte US political contributions (17 Mar 2007)
Governments for Sale: Ernst & Young US political contributions (17 Mar 2007)
MPs want end to BDO's inquiry into Rover collapse (17 Mar 2007)
Canadian large-format film company Imax delays filing due to accounting problems (17 Mar 2007)
Livedoor founder receives custodial sentence in Japanese ‘trial of the century’ (17 Mar 2007)
Livedoor director sentenced to two and half years in prison for securities fraud (17 Mar 2007)
Hollinger: Black's ex-deputy settles civil case (17 Mar 2007)
Hollinger: Former Black ally settles charges (17 Mar 2007)
SEC Settles With Former Raytheon Officers for Improper Disclosure and Accounting Practices (16 Mar 2007)
Imax reports accounting errors, restatements (16 Mar 2007)
Livedoor tycoon guilty of falsifying the company's accounts and misleading investors (16 Mar 2007)
Experts question Deloitte's role in Nortel accounting problems (16 Mar 2007)
Nortel nightmare (16 Mar 2007)
Infiltration of KPMG Draws Waxman Probe (16 Mar 2007)
Accounting Firms: Private equity’s silent partners (16 Mar 2007)
New Century probes examine what execs knew about accounting (16 Mar 2007)
Former Raytheon Execs Settle SEC Accounting Probe (16 Mar 2007)
General Motors admits accounting gaffes (16 Mar 2007)
General Motors Says It Has Found Serious Flaws in Accounting (16 Mar 2007)
General Motors Says Internal Controls at Root of Accounting Troubles (16 Mar 2007)
General Motors warns of accounting problems (15 Mar 2007)
GM says internal accounting controls "ineffective" (15 Mar 2007)
Professional Bodies Must Comply with the Human Rights Act (15 Mar 2007)
Oxera returns in accountancy firm ownership probe (15 Mar 2007)
Nortel nightmare (15 Mar 2007)
Investment Management Association urged European Commission to defer adopting IFRS 8 (15 Mar 2007)
Hollinger: Racketeering trial of former Telegraph owner begins (15 Mar 2007)
SEC chairman defends Sarbox (15 Mar 2007)
APB invites comments on IAASB Exposure Drafts of Revised Standard on Related Parties and Clarified Standard on Going Concern (15 Mar 2007)
CFO turnover in US set for record high in 2007 (15 Mar 2007)
Citigroup Reveals Tender Offer for Nikko (15 Mar 2007)
Are British corruption laws up to scratch? (15 Mar 2007)
OECD attacks UK for abandoning BAE corruption probe (15 Mar 2007)
Torex to breach bank covenants as profits miss mark (14 Mar 2007)
Accounting tricks are difficult for anyone to spot (14 Mar 2007)
Former Peregrine (audited by Arthur Andersen) CEO pleads guilty in accounting fraud (14 Mar 2007)
FORMER CEO OF FRIEDMAN’S INC. AND CRESCENT JEWELERS INDICTED IN ACCOUNTING FRAUD SCHEME (14 Mar 2007)
SEC, California US attorney probe New Century accounting (14 Mar 2007)
Hollinger: Why Conrad Black is in the dock (14 Mar 2007)
Hollinger: Conrad Black's moment of truth (14 Mar 2007)
Hollinger: Bellicose Black is ready for the fight of his life (14 Mar 2007)
Nortel auditor's actions revealed (14 Mar 2007)
Growing old gracefully (13 Mar 2007)
ACCA COUNCIL TO BE FURTHER EMASCULATED (13 Mar 2007)
Ahold accountant Deloitte 'failed' in supervising Ahold subsidiary US Foodservice (13 Mar 2007)
Deloitte Settles Again - Options Truth Remains Buried (13 Mar 2007)
SEC Charges Four Former Senior Executives of Nortel Networks Corporation in Wide-Ranging Financial Fraud Scheme (13 Mar 2007)
Arthur Andersen to Pay $73M In Enron Deal (13 Mar 2007)
Hollinger: The fall of Conrad Black (13 Mar 2007)
Private equity 'a plague of locusts' (13 Mar 2007)
Corporate world enagges in accounting scams but controls the Financial Reporting Review Paanel (FRRP) (12 Mar 2007)
SEC charges ex-Nortel execs with accounting fraud (12 Mar 2007)
Disciplinary board for Dutch accountants faults Deloitte & Touche in Ahold case (12 Mar 2007)
Deloitte & Touche Accountant Is Censured in Ahold case (12 Mar 2007)
PWC raided as Moscow turns screw over Yukos (12 Mar 2007)
The arliamentary Ombudsman will find the UK Government guilty of failing to regulate Equitable Life (12 Mar 2007)
Cadbury Nigeria sued by investors over accounting (12 Mar 2007)
Will they ever learn?: U.S. Chamber of Commerce urges revamp of SEC, citing threat of competition (12 Mar 2007)
The US Chamber of Commerce propose that auditing firms be allowed to seek private shareholders (12 Mar 2007)
The US Chamber of Commerce calls for an end to quarterly earnings guidance from companies (12 Mar 2007)
How accountants can fight genocide (12 Mar 2007)
'New' Labour: the tax dodgers' friend (11 Mar 2007)
No More Excuses Follow-up - On Becoming an Auditor (11 Mar 2007)
The Russians Are Coming!: Moscow raids PwC over Yukos back tax (11 Mar 2007)
No care for cosumers and qulaity but Auditors seek liability shield (11 Mar 2007)
Investigators storm into Moscow offices of PwC: allegations that the accountancy firm owes back taxes of 290 million roubles (£5.7 million) (10 Mar 2007)
Russian Law Enforcers Probe Yukos Auditor PricewaterhouseCoopers (10 Mar 2007)
Russian officers raid PricewaterhouseCoopers in Yukos case (10 Mar 2007)
Arthur Andersen to pay $73M in Enron deal (10 Mar 2007)
Big 4` firms seek liability relief (10 Mar 2007)
Capture of the State: Despite their criminality the US I.R.S. Letting Tax Lawyers Write Rules (10 Mar 2007)
Hollinger survival at risk, filings reveal (10 Mar 2007)
New Century set to fail, analysts warn (10 Mar 2007)
Russia’s Interior Ministry Probes into PwC for Tax Evasion (9 Mar 2007)
ICAEW takes the ACA to India (9 Mar 2007)
Ex-Gateway executives found liable in accounting fraud (9 Mar 2007)
US jury: ex-Gateway execs manipulated earnings (9 Mar 2007)
Federal Jury in San Diego Delivers Verdicts in SEC's Favor, Finds Former CFO and Controller of Gateway Computers Liable for Securities Fraud (9 Mar 2007)
Accounting for Crime (9 Mar 2007)
Accounting for the Future (9 Mar 2007)
What did you expect?: Leading accounting firms have thrown their support behind the tax dodging private equity industry (9 Mar 2007)
SEC Suspends Trading Of 35 Companies Touted In Spam Email Campaigns (9 Mar 2007)
E.ON facing SEC investigation for accounting practices from 2000-2003 (8 Mar 2007)
Accounting for crooks, swindlers and CEOs can really tax you (8 Mar 2007)
If you don’t like monopoly, try a new auditor (8 Mar 2007)
Eurotunnel has spent an estimated £89m on lawyers' and financial advisers' fees in its battle against bankruptcy (8 Mar 2007)
UK Treasury to investigate private equity tax rules (8 Mar 2007)
The Dutch arm of accountancy group KPMG is to merge with its British and German counterparts to form KPMG Europe (8 Mar 2007)
Rich country, poor pensions (7 Mar 2007)
UnitedHealth Adjusts Earnings By $1.5 Billion Due to Backdating of Stock Options (7 Mar 2007)
Goodbye GAAP? US considers move to international accounting (7 Mar 2007)
US, EU Target 2009 for Convergence (7 Mar 2007)
Japan's Softbank to take legal action on reports of alleged improper accounting (7 Mar 2007)
Accounting snafus derail maker of Blackberries (7 Mar 2007)
Insider trading in quarter of UK deals (7 Mar 2007)
Private equity predicted to spark company collapses (7 Mar 2007)
BP slashes spending on accountants in 2006 (7 Mar 2007)
End in sight for dual inspections of audit firms: US and European regulators plan cooperation (7 Mar 2007)
Gender discrimination in accounting: No More Excuses - Or Straw Men (6 Mar 2007)
GlaxoSmithKline preparing U.K. tax litigation over transfer pricing (6 Mar 2007)
E&Y settles lawsuit with Ferox (6 Mar 2007)
AIDB ponders Torex Retail (6 Mar 2007)
Chairman of Research in Motion steps down over earnings restatement (6 Mar 2007)
Foreign auditor cooperation by 2009 says EU (6 Mar 2007)
Mazars agrees £2,000 fine in impartiality case (6 Mar 2007)
BlackBerry Boss Balsillie Bolts After $250M Accounting Error (6 Mar 2007)
France in move to protect whistle-blowers (6 Feb 2007)
Report accuses Big Four of legitimising tax havens (6 Mar 2007)
The IASB's sweat, tears and tantrums (5 Mar 2007)
SEC Questioning Google Over Income Tax Accounting (5 Mar 2007)
Grant Thornton goes to Lords over Parmalat insurance dispute (5 Mar 2007)
Judge declares mistrial in $170 million fraud case against BDO Seidman (5 Mar 2007)
RIM Expects Accounting Errors To Reduce Stated Earnings By $250 Million (5 Mar 2007)
US Law to curb accounting crimes widens (5 Mar 2007)
Ohki allegedly cooked books for 4 years / Contractor suspected of accounting fraud (5 Mar 2007)
Six percent of students in U.S. study accounting (5 Mar 2007)
IFAC Board Drafts Rules for Audit of Related Parties (5 Mar 2007)
Dominance of the Big 4 Under Attack - Really? (4 Mar 2007)
Tax accounting delays UAL annual report (4 Mar 2007)
Big Four accountants accused of 'legitimising' tax havens (4 Mar 2007)
Oligarchs' tax break 'racist' (4 Mar 2007)
Charles fights Channel 4 on his 'meddling' (4 Mar 2007)
The UK’s domicile laws are illegal (3 Mar 2007)
Enron-style fraud likely in UK, says top City figure (3 Mar 2007)
Actuaries throw out former Equitable Life chief over collapse (3 Mar 2007)
Google reveals tax dispute with SEC in company's annual report (3 Mar 2007)
New Century faces trading, accounting probes (3 Mar 2007)
UNITEDHEALTH TO COMPLETE RESTATEMENT (3 Mar 2007)
KPMG hit by probe into work permit ‘concerns’ (2 Mar 2007)
Google questioned on tax accounting (2 Mar 2007)
Dell revenue weak, accounting probe ongoing (2 Mar 2007)
Italy's Mediaset falls as analysts question sales accounting (2 Mar 2007)
Nortel discovers accounting error, changes financial results (2 Mar 2007)
Boston Communications' accounting errors (2 Mar 2007)
US watchdog charges 13 with insider trading (2 Mar 2007)
Employees at some of Wall Street's major banks illegally sold stock tips and merger information to an insider trading ring (2 Mar 2007)
EU directive dictates rigorous interim reporting (2 Mar 2007)
ACCA COUNCIL ELECTIONS TO BE RIGGED AGAIN (1 Mar 2007)
UK government considering releasing secret report on the closure of Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) (1 Mar 2007)
IASB - in the pocket of corporate interests (1 Mar 2007)
Ernst & Young faces grilling over Equitable Life (1 Mar 2007)
Auditor and Executive Liability: Is SEC chief signaling a change of course? (1 Mar 2007)
Ethics and the Professional Accounting Firm: A Literature Review (1 Mar 2007)
Unprincipled Accounting Firms cannot be constrained by accounting principles (1 Mar 2007)
Accounting myths continue: True and Fair view - Was there ever such a thing? (1 Feb 2007)
SMG's chairman and all of its non-executive directors have been ousted in a shareholder coup (1 Mar 2007)
Hollinger: Black tries to have emails from wife kept out of trial (1 Mar 2007)
FRC Market Participants Group to report in April (1 Mar 2007)
Record turnover of finance chiefs predicted in US (1 Mar 2007)

FEBRUARY 2007

Nikko to sue former execs over accounting fraud (28 Feb 2007)
Accounting firm sued for hacking releases (28 Feb 2007)
US Supreme Court has refused to consider a case charging several notable accounting firms and investment banks with facilitating a fraudulent transaction (28 Feb 2007)
Mid-tier accountancy firms heading for crisis (28 Feb 2007)
McAlpine hit by accounting black hole at Welsh slate quarry (27 Feb 2007)
Roof falls in at McAlpine after audit uncovers possible fraud (27 Feb 2007)
Alfred McAlpine’s shares hit by accounting scandal (27 Feb 2007)
AES to Restate Financials Going Back to 2004, Announces Stock-Option Accounting Review (27 Feb 2007)
S.E.C. Says Accounting Firm Traded on Information Stolen From Computers (27 Feb 2007)
US Supreme Court Turns Down Bankruptcy Case against PriceWaterhouseCoopers (27 Feb 2007)
Corruption: KPMG - what did they known about Siemens? (27 Feb 2007)
McAlpine (audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers) hit by accounting alert (26 Feb 2007)
Accounting scandal rocks Alfred McAlpine (26 Feb 2007)
Construction group Alfred McAlpine (audite dby PricewaterhouseCoopers) has found accounting irregularities (26 Feb 2007)
Alfred McAlpine Press Release on Accounting issues in Slate subsidiary (26 Feb 2007)
Citigroup accounts in SEC spotlight (26 Feb 2007)
Sanyo's accounting woes big blow to shareholders (26 Feb 2007)
Changing Japan's accounting landscape (26 Feb 2007)
Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse face Enron lawsuit (26 Feb 2007)
US regulators are withdrawing a remaining charge against a former chief financial officer of Halliburton (26 Feb 2007)
Corruption: The bottom line at BAE (26 Feb 2007)
KPMG audits more UK listed companies than PwC (26 Feb 2007)
Web of deceit that has left ‘the world’s leading cash machine supplier’ in turmoil (25 Feb 2007)
Transfer Pricing: How pharmaceutical and technology companies move their intellectual property offshore to cheat home countries of taxes (25 Feb 2007)
Sri Lanka: Unaccountable accountants (25 Feb 2007)
Accounting loophole clouds US executive-pay disclosures (25 Feb 2007)
The Next Enron is Around the Corner (24 Feb 2007)
Sanyo plunges as audit inquiry raises fear of ‘Japanese Enron’ (24 Feb 2007)
Authorities investigate Sanyo over reports of suspected false earnings (24 Feb 2007)
Enron investors will go to trial, contending banks helped the failed energy company hide financial wrongdoing (23 Feb 2007)
Judge Denies Motion to Delay Enron Suit (24 Feb 2007)
Can PricewaterhouseCoopers be trusted to count the Academy Awards ballots? (24 Feb 2007)
And the Oscar for Creative Accounting Goes To … (24 Feb 2007)
Misuzu Audit Corp., formerly ChuoAoyama PricewaterhouseCoopers, has asked three other major audit firms to take over its corporate audit operations (23 Feb 2007)
E&Y settles Ferox dispute out of court (23 Feb 2007)
Veritas Pays $30 Million in Civil Case for Fraud (23 Feb 2007)
What Did KPMG Know about allegations of money laundering at Siemens (23 Feb 2007)
Corruption at Siemens and KPMG (23 Feb 2007)
Nigerian arm of Deloitte resigns as Cadbury auditor after confectionary giant announces £23m restatement (23 Feb 2007)
How Corporate owners hide assets, identities (23 Feb 2007)
Delphi (previously audited by Deloitte & Touche) Says Accounting Related Legal Problems Cost It $19M (23 Feb 2007)
Sanyo (previously audited by ChuoAoyama PricewaterhouseCoopers) Probed Over False Earnings Reports (23 Feb 2007)
Sanyo knocked by accounts probe (23 Feb 2007)
Fears over UK light-touch regulation of foreign firms (23 Feb 2007)
UK Move to close down Serious Fraud Office (23 Feb 2007)
Aspen accounting errors lead to Nasdaq warning (23 Feb 2007)
Auditors face confusion as liability dust refuses to settle (23 Feb 2007)
Audit liability: will one size fit all? (23 Feb 2007)
Musings on Mike Rake of KPMG (22 Feb 2007)
Standards setters target lease accounting (22 Feb 2007)
Mayflower Debacle: FRC considers costs review (22 Feb 2007)
Audit disclosure plan sparks fear of paperwork overload (22 Feb 2007)
Veritas pays $30 million fine to settle SEC charges of misconduct (22 Feb 2007)
Regulators Fine Veritas $30 Million (22 Feb 2007)
Mercury Interactive Options lawsuit gives up details (22 Feb 2007)
PwC to Shutter Japanese Partner Tied to Scandal (22 Feb 2007)
Doctors expected to lose the right of self-regulation (21 Feb 2007)
PwC to shut down Japanese affiliate (21 Feb 2007)
Deloitte & Touche has to start paying Parmalat settlement this week (21 Feb 2007)
Judge accepts plea bargains for 17 in Parmalat fraud trial (21 Feb 2007)
Aspen accounting errors lead to Nasdaq warning (21 Feb 2007)
Meet the Men Who Fleeced Enron (21 Feb 2007)
Auditor liability: Critics fear SEC chief is seeking to limit investors' ability to sue (20 Feb 2007)
Inquiry into directors of Unwins (20 Feb 2007)
Mayflower madness from the Financial Reporting Council (20 Feb 2007)
Execs Sue Ernst & Young Over Tax Shelter (20 Feb 2007)
Silicon Valley Five Sue E&Y Over Shelters (20 Feb 2007)
Australia: Former PricewaterhouseCoopers partner urged to settle sexual harassment case out of court (20 Feb 2007)
Shielding dodgy Accountants: The SEC’s allegiance is put in doubt (19 Feb 2007)
Scandal-hit audit firms would be put under the control of a temporary "administrator" (19 Feb 2007)
International Effects of the Andersen Accounting and Auditing Scandals: Some Evidence from the US, UK and Australian Stock Markets (19 Feb 2007)
BT says KPMG's Rake to be new chairman (19 Feb 2007)
Church treasurer arrested over £100,000 missing funds (19 Feb 2007)
Farepak: The Story So Far (18 Feb 2007)
Audit Firm Quality: When the Private becomes Public (18 Feb 2007)
KPMG - so very confused (18 Feb 2007)
KPMG - missing the mark by miles (18 Feb 2007)
SEC once a watchdog, now just a lap dog (18 Feb 2007)
Masters of the Universe: Hungarian premier nominates Deloitte chief for top central bank job (18 Feb 2007)
SEC reviews of first IFRS filings show problems (17 Feb 2007)
SEC Nears Accounting Accord Recognizing International Standards (17 Feb 2007)
Uganda cautions PricewaterhouseCoopers to properly manage the $3.2m World Bank grant for clean water expansion project (177 Feb 2007)
Audit mergers aren’t made in heaven (16 Feb 2007)
Former Apple execs face charges over options accounting (16 Feb 2007)
US Charges mulled in options backdating cases (16 Feb 2007)
Australians admit iSoft bailout approach (16 Feb 2007)
Ex-Take Two CEO pleads guilty to making false filing in options scheme (16 Feb 2007)
Five sue Ernst and Young over failed tax dodge (16 Feb 2007)
Five Silicon Valley executives are suing Ernst & Young over dubious tax shelter (16 Feb 2007)
Vodafone in spotlight from Kenya corruption inquiry (16 Feb 2007)
Dismissal of criminal charge against KPMG for tax shelters to stand (16 Feb 2007)
Spies, Lies & KPMG (16 Feb 2007)
Former lawyer for recruitment website Monster has pleaded guilty to conspiracy and securities fraud, for backdating stock options (16 Feb 2007)
Delicate balance: liability vs. accountability (15 Feb 2007)
Tax authorities accuse PwC of delaying lawsuit in Yukos case (15 Feb 2007)
UK Accountancy Watchdog hints at halt in audit inquiries after tribunal defeat (15 Feb 2007)
FRC signals possible halt to further enquiries (15 Feb 2007)
Transfer Pricing: Merck Tax Settlement Carries $2.3B Tab (15 Feb 2007)
Merck to Pay $2.3B in IRS Dispute (15 Feb 2007)
Guernsey in EU talks over foreign-listed company audits (15 Feb 2007)
New breed of firms wants to make money from your company pension (15 Feb 2007)
Half of FTSE 100 companies are producing operating and financial reviews (14 Feb 2007)
The Future of Corporate Reporting State of Play – February 2007’ (14 Feb 2007)
“Unless the large accounting firms change their attitudes the government should assume the responsibility of auditing public companies", says former SEC chief accountant (14 Feb 2007)
Torex Retail secures banking lifeline (14 Feb 2007)
FRC Statement on the Mayflower Tribunal Decision on Costs (14 Feb 2007)
FRC hit with £1m Mayflower bill (14 Feb 2007)
Johnson & Johnson inquiry looms as foreign business bribery admitted (14 Feb 2007)
SEC Looks to Limit Audit Firm Liability (14 Feb 2007)
US Securities and Exchange Commission moves to further limit liability for corporate fraud (14 Feb 2007)
Regulators prepare for possible demise of Big Four accountancy firm (14 Feb 2007)
It’s time that the government take over the auditing duties of the big four, says former Reagan SEC Commissioner (13 Feb 2007)
Johnson & Johnson manager quits in fraud probe (13 Feb 2007)
Staff at BG's Italian unit arrested in corruption scandal (13 Feb 2007)
Five held in £333m Italian gas terminal bribes inquiry (13 Feb 2007)
S.E.C. Seeks to Curtail Investor Suits (13 Feb 2007)
Masters of the Universe: PwC Buys Tax Practice in India (13 Feb 2007)
Private equity - a threat to the well-being of capitalism (12 Feb 2007)
UK Directors escape board bans (12 Feb 2007)
Accounting glitch hits Securitas profits (12 Feb 2007)
Torex’s bank throws them a cash lifeline (12 Feb 2007)
Torex Retail auditor earned large non-audit fees (12 Feb 2007)
The Accident Group: Insurance pirate of the Mediterranean: the extraordinary life of Mark Langford (12 Feb 2007)
GM Accounting Issues Still Unresolved (12 Feb 2007)
Tax and corruption (11 Feb 2007)
Subsidies are negative taxation (11 Feb 2007)
Saviours or asset-strippers - the private equity debate (11 Feb 2007)
Levi Strauss Dumps KPMG As Accountant (11 Feb 2007)
£154 million Accounting errors hit Securitas profits (10 Feb 2007)
Insider Trader Ring Busted: former PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young accountants plead guilty (10 Feb 2007)
Torex Retail paying ex-director £50,000 a month (10 Feb 2007)
SEC Charges Family-Run Hedge Fund With a $3.7 Million Insider Trading Scheme (10 Feb 2007)
Deloittes Manager Guilty of Defrauding Firm (9 Feb 2007)
The Accident Group and its offshore links (9 Feb 2007)
Deutsche Bank, which helped KPMG sell illegal tax shelters, settles US tax-shelter lawsuits (9 Feb 2007)
Private equity group sells out of Qinetiq amid audit office inquiry (9 Feb 2007)
US Prosecutors seize £28m from Neteller's customers (9 Feb 2007)
Suppliers put pressure on Torex Retail (8 Feb 2007)
The Accident Group: Taxman traps 'compensation king (8 Feb 2007)
Leaks undermine FRC’s audit reform (8 Feb 2007)
US Jury Orders PwC to Pay $10M for Failed Merger (8 Feb 2007)
US Teacher pension fund settles with Time Warner over inflated AOL shares (8 Feb 2007)
SEC fines Bermuda re-insurer $15 million over accounting 'cookie jar' (8 Feb 2008)
Are missing US billions now funding Iraqi insurgents? (8 Feb 2007)
Jersey tax change enrages activists (8 Feb 2007)
KPMG: Siemens bans sales consultants (8 Feb 2007)
Torex paid pension adviser run by ex-chairman’s wife (7 Feb 2007)
Google's SOS to the SEC (7 Feb 2007)
Mittal, A Heavy Metal Triumph Of Globalization, Or Something Less? (7 Feb 2007)
Interserve axes four over £25m accounting hole (7 Feb 2007)
PricewaterhouseCoopers to pay $10 million for negligent misrepresentation (7 Feb 2007)
Reinsurer RenaissanceRe Settles Securities Fraud Charges For Sham Reinsurance Transaction - Company To Pay $15 Million Penalty (7 Feb 2007)
Reinsurer RenaissanceRe Paying $15 Million Fine (7 Feb 2007)
Deloittes Manager Guilty of Defrauding Firm (7 Feb 2007)
Japan cracks down on its corporate cowboy culture (7 Feb 2007)
Chongryun exec held over illicit accounting (7 Feb 2007)
Change to "fair value" accounting may affect insurers' financial reporting (7 Feb 2007)
Class-Action Suit Charges Dell, Intel and PwC (6 Feb 2007)
Ernst & Young and PricewaterhouseCoopers being investigated in Sri Lanka (6 Feb 2007)
Russian authorities may prosecute Yukos’s auditor, PricewaterhouseCoopers (6 Feb 2007)
Parmalat has been awarded €25m from Banca Popolare di Milano (6 Feb 2007)
Professional advisers too arrogant (6 Feb 2007)
Directors step down over Torex (6 Feb 2007)
Dollar Thrifty to restate financials (6 Feb 2007)
PricewaterhouseCoopers implicated in “a culture of genteel corporate corruption" (5 Feb 2007)
Leaked paper reveals FRC proposed UK audit demergers (5 Feb 2007)
Hyundai's boss gets three years (5 Feb 2007)
US Government Gets Win in KPMG Shelter Case (5 Feb 2007)
Torex's torrid eight weeks (5 Feb 2007)
'Inflated accounts at Torex' probed (5 Feb 2007)
Dell Accused of Hiding Intel Payments (5 Feb 2007)
Audit reports should be more open (5 Feb 2007)
Additional former Siemens manager arrested in corruption probe (5 Feb 2007)
Serious Fraud Office checks Torex for alleged history of irregularities (4 Feb 2007)
Damning dossier at the heart of Torex scandal (4 Feb 2007)
Torex has a month to avoid going bust (4 Feb 2007)
Dell Accused of Hiding Intel Payments (4 Feb 2007)
Lawsuit claims Dell (audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers) inflated earnings (4 Feb 2007)
SCOTTISH & Newcastle is seeking £70 million in damages claim against PricewaterhouseCoopers (4 Feb 2007)
Regulation? Directors want more rules (4 Feb 2007)
Allegations about its accounts land Dell in dock (3 Feb 2007)
Dell Investors Sue PC Maker Over Accounting Practices (3 Feb 2007)
KPMG suffers adverse legal ruling in tax shelter case (3 Feb 2007)
UK Profit warnings hit five year high (3 Feb 2007)
Home Depot Resignations - An Options Connection? (3 Feb 2007)
Three named in Torex (audited by BDO Stoy Hayward) inquiry (2 Feb 2007)
Fraud investigation takes its toll on Torex Retail (2 Feb 2007)

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Meet Deloitte - The people who brought you the Adelphia audit (2 Feb 2007)
US Court Rejects Tax Shelter Once Sold by KPMG (2 Feb 2007)
Ex-hedge fund manager charged with fraud (2 Feb 2007)
Deloitte and KPMG fined by ICAEW (2 Feb 2007)
Investors sue Dell on payments from Intel (2 Feb 2007)
Thor investigating accounting issues (2 Feb 2007)
IFRS application 'inconsistent' as benefits fail to materialise (2 Feb 2007)
Nikko Says 5th Manager Leaves Amid Accounting Investigation (2 Feb 2007)
Tax Dodging idea from Ernst & Young: Wal-Mart Cuts Taxes by Paying Rent to Itself (1 Feb 2007)
FRC faces £1.4m Mayflower chaos (1 Feb 2007)
Big Four Accountancy Firms Form a New Cartel (1 Feb 2007)
Wal-Mart avoided $350 million in taxes using a strategy developed by Ernst & Young (1 Feb 2007)
Torex bosses step down amid fraud office inquiry (1 Feb 2007)
Torex chief ousted after fraud probe (1 Feb 2007)
Lots of frauds could not operate without the expertise of accountants and lawyers (1 Feb 2007)
Derivatives: the risk factor is frightening (1 Feb 2007)
Ex-Enron executive has conviction quashed (1 Feb 2007)
British Airways in hot water over director perks (1 Feb 2007)

JANUARY 2007

Governance of an Accountancy Body – The Story Of CIMA by Bala K Balachandran (31 Jan 2007)
Scottish & Newcastle seeks damages over PwC advice (31 Jan 2007)
Scottish & Newcastle brew up claim against PwC (31 Jan 2007)
Fraud investigation launched into Torex (31 Jan 2007)
Police raid homes of Torex bosses in Serious Fraud Office probe (31 Jan 2007)
Troubled Torex investigated by SFO (31 Jan 2007)
Canadian accounting firms must do more to improve audit quality and consistently (31 Jan 2007)
More gestures than action: US accountants form new group to improve audit quality (31 Jan 20070
Former executives spared prison time in Cendant case (30 Jan 2007)
Errors in accounting embarrass General Motors exec (30 Jan 2007)
SEC Rule Change on Executive compensation Forces Firms to Redo Numbers (30 Jan 2007)
KLA-Tencor takes $370M hit over options accounting (30 Jan 2007)
Thor Investigates Accounting Issues (30 Jan 2007)
MBIA settles 1998 accounting investigation with US$75 mln payment (30 Jan 2007)
Bogus audit case triggers swoop by US regulators (29 Jan 2007)
BDO Seidman accused of failing to detect a massive fraud (29 Jan 2007)
Former Cedent executive sentenced (29 Jan 2007)
Former Cendant executive gets no prison time for role in scandal (29 Jan 2007)
66% of the FTSE 350 still failing fully to adopt the provisions of the Combined Corporate Governance Code (29 Jan 2007)
The Corruption Interface: Tax Havens, Bankers and Dirty Money Flows by John Christensen (29 Jan 2007)
Artemis sold Torex stake last month (29 Jan 2007)
Torex Retail’s largest investor dumps stake (29 Jan 2007)
US Auditing Standard 5 - Repealing the AA/Enron Rule (29 Jan 2007)
KPMG at centre of Siemens Storm (29 Jan 2007)
Safran shareholders to file complaint over accounting anomalies (29 Jan 2007)
It’s true - we are working on a Code of Conduct for tax (28 Jan 2007)
Corporate Social Responsibility in Mexico: How changes in the behaviour of multinational enterprises contribute to economic development by Francis Weyzig (28 Jan 2007)
THE CASE OF THE COMPLAINANT AND THE DISCIPLINARY PROCEDURES OF THE INSTITUTE OF CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS IN IRELAND (28 Jan 2007)
How ACCA Disabled Social and Economic Development in Jamaica (28 Jan 2007)
How accountants have colonised the state: KPMG advises UK government on nuclear power (28 Jan 2007)
Oil giant Shell faces new accounting crisis as surrender of Russian stake (28 Jan 2007)
Torex profit warning sparks inquiry (27 Jan 2007)
GM's Financial Clouds Darken (27 Jan 2007)
Accounting errors force General Motors to delay results (27 Jan 2007)
Livedoor mogul breaks down in court (26 Jan 2007)
Torex shares suspended (26 Jan 2007)
KPMG On Texas Probation for Tax Shelters (26 Jan 2007)
US Trial opens in bank lawsuit against BDO Seidman accounting firm (26 Jan 2007)
Inter charged with falsifying documents (26 Jan 2007)
Brothers claim Pricewaterhouse lied about firm’s finances (26 Jan 2007)
UK Trade unions attack 'corporate greed' of private equity firms (26 Jan 2007)
Ex-NBC treasurer charged with embezzling $800,000 from TV firm (26 Jan 2007)
SEC may sue cardinal Health founder (26 Jan 2007)
White Collar crime: SFO takes keen interest in ruling by High Court (26 Jan 2007)
Broadcom to record $2.2 billion in noncash expenses for stock options (25 Jan 2007)
Offshore hedging increases risk (25 Jan 2007)
UK Watchdog accused over Mayflower expert witness (25 Jan 2007)
KPMG: US judge urges review of corporate criminal cases (25 Jan 2007)
Deloitte threatens to quit consultancy industry body (25 Jan 2007)
How accountants have colonised the state: PricewaterhouseCoopers partner seconded to the Cabinet Office (25 Jan 2007)
Ford hit by record $12.7bn loss (25 Jan 2007)
Top Citigroup banker sacked after 'money honey' questions (25 Jan 2007)
Kingston Smith defends Woolf over Mayflower (24 Jan 2007)
Novel accounting as Marks & Spencer pulls off pension fund coup (24 Jan 2007)
US investigators condemn Apple's stock options inquiry (24 Jan 2007)
Boss questioned over Apple share options scandal (24 Jan 2007)
How accountants have colonised the state: Ernst & Young partner named as Hungarian ambassador (24 Jan 2007)
Citigroup loses bid to end $10 bln Parmalat suit (24 Jan 2007)
HMRC to 'supervise' accountants not in professional bodies (24 Jan 2007)
THE COLLAPSE OF HOMEGOLD:Ex-accountants testify of hiding debt (24 Jan 2007)
Colonisation of the state: KPMG man appointed as nuclear advisor to government (24 Jan 20070
Shareholder sues Apple over options (23 Jan 2007)
Marks & Spencer pledges £500m to revive pension fund and also explains acocunting (23 Jan 2007)
UK Pension accounting guidelines will ‘frighten’ shareholders: Recommendation 'inconsistent' with ongoing concern basis (23 Jan 2007)
2 US tax shelter suits settled: Plaintiffs in both cases settle with KPMG (23 Jan 2007)
US regulators have accused 13 people of aiding a huge accounting fraud at Ahold (23 Jan 2007)
Red Cross accountant charged with embezzlement (23 Jan 2007)
Auction of iSoft nearing conclusion (23 Jan 2007)
US audit watchdog flags faults in fraud auditing (23 Jan 2007)
PCAOB Issues Report on Auditor's Fraud Responsibility (23 Jan 2007)
OBSERVATIONS ON AUDITORS' IMPLEMENTATION OF PCAOB STANDARDS RELATING TO AUDITORS' RESPONSIBILITIESWITH RESPECT TO FRAUD (23 Jan 2007)
Take-Two let ex-CEO get away with backdating of stock options (23 Jan 2007)
New UK team to crack down on financial crime (23 Jan 2007)
EU cap on auditor liability ‘unworkable’ (22 Jan 2007)
16 investment banks, law and accountancy firms subpoenaed to hand over documentation connected with the online gaming (22 Jan 2007)
Mayflower Tribunal Judgements (22 Jan 2007)
ASB Publishes Reporting Statement 'Retirement Benefits - Disclosures' (22 Jan 2007)
GE Capital: Rewriting Derivatives Accounting and decrease in earnings from continuing operations of $421 million (22 Jan 2007)
Christian Aid, African Union Report Tax Avoidance (22 Jan 2007)
London Stock Exchange has decided to allow Japanese accounting standards (22 Jan 2007)
IFRS 3 'is being ignored': Report says goodwill is too high (22 Jan 2007)
Sunrise Bogged Down in Accounting (22 Jan 2007)
ABI calls for hedge fund transparency (21 Jan 2007)
Western bankers and lawyers 'rob Africa of $150bn every year' (21 Jan 2007)
General Electric (audited by KPMG) has been forced to restate earnings for the second time in 18 months (20 Jan 2007)
Farepak victims to reject offer of 5p in the pound compensation (20 Jan 2007)
Farepak lent parent company £33m (20 Jan 2007)
Farepak 'faces claims worth £38m' (20 Jan 2007)

Farepak Administrators’ Report (20 Jan 2007)

High street lobbyists fight legal aid reforms (20 Jan 2007)
PWC - not on a level playing field - and not telling the whole truth either (19 Jan 2007)
EU Commission plans to cap auditors' liability (19 Jan 2007)
How the PCAOB Shields the Big Four (19 Jan 2007)
Ex-Refco owner accused of fraud (19 Jan 2007)
Refco paid at least $145.3M in fees to bankruptcy professionals (19 Jan 2007)
Farepak customers' outlook bleak (19 Jan 2007)
Stockbroker W Deb MVL fined £560,000 for accounting failings (19 Jan 2007)
Baker Tilly face court over investor losses (19 Jan 2007)
Tories demand Mayflower judgment (19 Jan 2007)
Former Cendant Chairman Gets Dozen Years, $3B Penalty (19 Jan 2007)
Former Cendant chairman gets 12 years (19 Jan 2007)
Neteller closes US payments service after founders' arrest (19 Jan 2007)
They feed on misery: Insolvency specialists anxious as corporate failures dwindle (19 Jan 2007)
Xenophobic FRC attacks EU audit Directive (18 Jan 2007)
BDO Seidman sued for $170 million for its involvement with E.S. Bankest banking scandal (18 Jan 2007)
Audits are worthless as EU suggests legal shield for big audit firms (18 Jan 2007)
Accountancy firms have penetrated the state: PwC recommends that business chiefs run schools (18 Jan 2007)
Former Cendant chairman gets 12 years (18 Jan 2007)
FASB Won't Postpone New Tax Rule (18 Jan 2007)
Has the FASB Outlived Its Usefulness? (18 Jan 2007)
Volkswagen's former personnel chief Peter Hartz has admitted making illegal payments to union officials (18 Jan 2007)
AVOIDING ANOTHER ENRON : THE ROLE OF THE EXTERNAL AUDITOR IN FINANCIAL REGULATION AND SUPERVISION (18 Jan 2007)
Auditor's Reports on Financial Statements in the United Kingdom (18 Jan 2007)
Example Reports by Auditors under Company Legislation in Great Britain (18 Jan 2007)
Volkswagen's former personnel chief on trial in a corruption case (17 Jan 2007)
Russian Court to hear tax lawsuit against Yukos auditor PwC (17 Jan 2007)
Founders of Neteller, registered in Isle of Man, charged with money laundering (17 Jan 2007)
Executives on trial over Swissair collapse for alleged crimes including , false statements, forging documents and income tax fraud (17 Jan 2007)
Former Cendant Chairman Walter Forbes may get 12 years prison for accounting fraud (17 Jan 2007)
FRC Publishes Further Update on Corporate Reporting & Governance Developments (17 Jan 2007)
Jail demand for Hyundai chairman for embezzlement (16 Jan 2007)
Former KPMG accountant pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy, tax evasion and obstruction of an Internal Revenue Service investigation (16 Jan 2007)
Accounting Standards Board publishes its first review of narrative reporting by UK listed companies (16 Jan 2007)
E.U. to explore cap on auditor liability (16 Jan 2007)
There are 16 liability claims outstanding against top accounting firms (16 Jan 2007)
PCAOB Reports Critique E&Y, KPMG (16 Jan 2007)
Deloitte settles Parmalat lawsuit (16 Jan 2007)
Brothers' Racketeering Suit Seeks to Bring Down PricewaterhouseCoopers in Georgia (16 Jan 2007)
E&Y, KPMG and the Meaning of Failure (16 Jan 2007)
Sunrise delays accounting restatement (16 Jan 2007)
Eurotunnel debts deal wins approval (16 Jan 2007)
I don't like budgeting and I don't like performance management either, says Statoil chief (16 Jan 2007)
U.S. Attorney in criminal probe of Apple options (15 Jan 2007)
Ferox suing Ernst & Young for early filing of its accounts (15 Jan 2007)
Ethical Gaps in Accountancy Bodies’ Claims and Practices (14 Jan 2007)
Is business ethics a lost cause? (14 Jan 2007)
Management Accounting and Power: a Contested Relationship (14 Jan 2007)
Brothers' Racketeering Suit Seeks to Bring Down PricewaterhouseCoopers in Georgia (14 Jan 2007)
Farepak parent owes £80,000 to ex-directors (13 Jan 2006)
Fat Cats: Widening pay gulf at Big Four accountancy firms (13 Jan 2007)
Parmalat to receive $149mln in settlement with Deloitte & Touche (13 Jan 2007)
Parmalat, Deloitte reach $149 million settlement (13 Jan 2007)
Lattice settles with SEC over accounting (13 Jan 2007)
Failing Grades for E&Y, KPMG (12 Jan 2007)
US regulator critical of E&Y, KPMG audit work (12 Jan 2007)
Read the US Regulators' Report on audit deficiences at Ernst & Young (12 Jan 2007)
KPMG audits criticised by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (12 Jan 2007)
5th Defendant Pleads Guilty in KPMG Tax Shelter Case (12 Jan 2007)
Another Guilty Plea in KPMG Tax Shelter Case (12 Jan 2007)
Cost of Interserve accounting inquiry grows (12 Jan 2007)
The Next Enron (12 Jan 2007)
How Apple Got Tangled Up with Options (12 Jan 2007)
SEC investigating Apple stock options (12 Jan 2007)
European Commission consults on 8th Directive: Regulation of third-country audit firms discussed (12 Jan 2007)
US Court OKs HealthSouth (audited by Ernst & Young) $445 million settlement of class-action fraud litigation (12 Jan 2007)
PricewaterhouseCoopers partners accused of engaging in repeated acts of fraud, theft by deception that together constitute racketeering (12 Jan 2007)
Former chief financial officer of Siemens questioned in corruption case (12 Jan 2007)
Non-executive directors at troubled Cape Diamonds have resigned en masse (12 Jan 2007)
Hollinger: U.S. offers more evidence of Conrad Black misdeeds (11 Jan 2007)
U.S. alleges insider trading scheme to prop up Hollinger (11 Jan 2007)
Cendant's Forbes (audite dby Ernst & Young) Asks Judge for 10-Year Prison Term (11 Jan 2007)
Former Qantas company caught in huge US tax scam, KPMG implicated (11 Jan 2007)
UK Companies Act 2006 (11 Jan 2007)
Printing.com says that its tax charges had been understated by a total of £210,000 in the last two years' (11 Jan 2007)
Accountant Pleads Guilty in KPMG Shelter Case (11 Jan 2007)
Saipan trader linked to fraud scheme, KPMG implicated (11 Jan 2007)
California man pleads guilty to conspiracy in KPMG tax shelters case (11 Jan 2007)
Ernst & Young gears up to fight hedge fund lawsuit (11 Jan 2007)
Parmalat says US court proceedings have resumed (11 Jan 20070
Interserve says accounting probe to cost £3 mln more than expected (11 Jan 2007)
Tax probe holds back Vantis (11 Jan 2007)
KPMG to face tribunal over role in Independent Insurance (10 Jan 2007)
KPMG faces tribunal over Independent Insurance (10 Jan 2007)
Financial Reporting Council hides behind veil of secrecy (10 Jan 2007)
ACCA shows in anti-public colours: Hails anti-investor move on auditor liability in Ireland (10 Jan 2007)
Hollinger: Black faces allegations of ramping his shares online (10 Jan 2007)
30 US states take side of Enron shareholders seeking damages from banks (10 Jan 2007)
Mills Audit Finds Accounting Errors (10 Jan 2007)
SafeNet finds more accounting problems (10 Jan 2007)
PwC cleared in Mayflower case: Blow to AIDB in first public tribunal (9 Jan 2007)
Setback for UK regulator as PwC cleared in Mayflower case (9 Jan 2007)
Mayflower Tribunal panel grills AIDB in judgement (9 Jan 2007)
Setback for deal over Parmalat (9 Jan 2007)
Conrad Black's former firm agrees to plead guilty to fraud (9 Jan 2007)
Ex-Qwest Exec Reaches Settlement (9 Jan 2007)
Legal experts discuss Apple options scandal (9 Jan 2007)
Negligence case puts LLP status to fore (8 Jan 2007)
UK Regulatory regime fails at the first test: PwC in the clear over Mayflower (8 Jan 2007)
Chinese auditors uncover law violations in financial institutions (8 Jan 2007)
Jersey not tackling financial crime (7 Jan 2007)
Norway Tax Probe Launched Against Cayman Islands Rig Operator, Ernst & Young implicated (7 Jan 2007)
Adelphia's downfall (audited by Deloitte & Touche) is story of Rigas family crimes (7 Jan 2007)
Auditor Fast Asleep: Securities Fraud Suits Down, Accounting Complaints Up (7 Jan 2007)
US Ends AOL Accounting-Fraud Case (7 Jan 2007)
Hancock claims Bank of America aided accounting scam: Sues for funds lost in Parmalat fraud (6 Jan 2007)
US Senator Levin Statement on the Weakening of Post-Enron Protections Against Structured Finance Abuses (6 Jan 2007)
US ends AOL accounting-fraud case (6 Jan 2007)
Norwegian KPMG cleared as partner sentenced (6 Jan 2007)
Japan Regulator imposes record fine on Nikko for accounting violations (6 Jan 2007)
Profits turn out to be fantasy as Games Workshop issues warning (6 Jan 2007)
Britain’s tax nexus: able fraudsters, useful idiots (5 Jan 2007)
Trust me, I’m a trust company (5 Jan 2007)
Moore Stephens faces £90m lawsuit (5 Jan 2007)
Biggest-ever independently funded litigation sparks gold rush concerns (5 Jan 2007)
ICAEW fines for Deloitte and KPMG (5 Jan 2007)
Charge Against KPMG Dropped: Firm Cooperated Over Tax Shelters, US Prosecutors Say (5 Jan 2007)
They have no shame: Tax Avoidance Leader
Accounting change to hit major art galleries but Accounting firms will rake in more fees (5 Jan 2007)
Corporate undertakers to make money as Administrators have busy new year (5 Jan 2007)
KPMG Launches Tax Governance Institute (5 Jan 2007)
Big Four's big pay discrepancy (5 Jan 2007)
ACCA TO END ITS SATELLITE EXPERIMENT (4 Jan 2007)
Norway: A KPMG group partner sentenced to 30 days in jail for negligent accounting, but KPMG acquitted (4 Jan 2007)
Enron accounting chief Causey reports to prison (4 Jan 2007)
US Prosecutors drop criminal charge against KPMG (4 Jan 2007)
US Prosecutors end tax-shelter case against KPMG, dropping charge after settlement (4 Jan 2007)
Ireland: Auditor Liability Regime Under Review (4 Jan 2007)
The Enrons of Russia (4 Jan 2007)
Little Chef saved as owners go under (4 Jan 2007)
US Department of Justice STATEMENT ON THE DISMISSAL OF CHARGES AGAINST KPMG (3 Jan 2007)
US Securities Class Actions at All-Time Low (3 Jan 2007)
SEC halts trading of Impax pharma shares (3 Jan 2007)
Ford boss in drive to survive (3 Jan 2007)
Ex-Enron CFO was to go to prison (3 Jan 2007)
Eurotunnel faces creditor challenge (2 Jan 2007)
Corporate Governance: Three years after the Higgs report, it’s 'as you were' for bosses (2 Jan 2007)
How Risk-Shifting Affects Accounting Earnings (2 Jan 2007)
With pressures of business, ethics can end up the victim (2 Jan 2007)
Old pump-and-dump scams resurfacing in stock spams (2 Jan 2007)
Knighthood for those who Promote Tax Avoidance (1 Jan 2007)
Lifting the Lid: Sarbanes-Oxley easing may not cut costs for all (1 Jan 2007)
Apple internal probe finds no wrongdoing in options back-dating (1 Jan 2007)
Toyota fails to declare 6 bln yen in taxable income (1 Jan 2007)

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