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DECEMBER 2008

Who knows, who cares? (31 Dec 2008)
Just who the heck is running the profession? (31 Dec 2008)
Useless Audit Reports (31 Dec 2008)
The Lessons to Be Learned From the Madoff Scandal (31 Dec 2008)
Madoff Case Faces Crucial Disclosure Deadline (31 Dec 2008)
SEC Study Defends Fair-Value Accounting Rule (31 Dec 2008)
SEC study: Bank failures not due to fair value rule (31 Dec 2008)
Congressionally-Mandated Study Says Improve, Do Not Suspend, Fair Value Accounting Standards (31 Dec 2008)
Report and Recommendations Pursuant to Section 133 of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008: Study on Mark-To-Market Accounting (31 Dec 2008)
More PLCs turning to mid-tier auditors (31 Dec 2008)
SEC's top enforcement accountant joins private firm (31 Dec 2008)
Austria makes move on Bank Medici after Madoff losses (31 Dec 2008)
An accountant’s duty (30 Dec 2008)
Who's Winning The Fair Value Debate - Might Makes Right (30 Dec 2008)
Madoff Case Set to Start Wednesday (30 Dec 2008)
US Congress to examine Madoff case on Monday (30 Dec 2008)
FBI steps up search for evidence in Bernard Madoff scandal (30 Dec 2008)
Strike-of-Midnight Change to Fair Value (30 Dec 2008)
SEC Revises Oil-Reserve Accounting Rules (30 Dec 2008)
What Can Be Learned From the KPMG Tax Verdicts (30 Dec 2008)
Bovis Homes renegotiates £220m loans (30 Dec 2008)
Adams confirms creditor's action (30 Dec 2008)
Debenhams to raise cash to cut debt levels (30 Dec 2008)
Crackdown on hedge funds after Madoff affair (30 Dec 2008)
Lehman Brothers chiefs' lack of plan cost creditors $75bn (30 Dec 2008)
Insolvency: This is where pre-packs start to fall apart (30 Dec 2008)
The politics of accounting and bank failure (29 Dec 2008)
Bernard Madoff ‘took SwFr1bn’ from Credit Suisse customers (29 Dec 2008)
The Meaning of the Madoff Case (29 Dec 2008)
Fair Value Accounting — It Is What It Is (29 Dec 2008)
UK banks face £70bn property bombshell (29 Dec 2008)
Madoff probe focuses on tax havens (28 Dec 2008)
Accountants, funeral homes see no shortage of business (28 Dec 2008)
With rash of scandals, trust is gone (28 Dec 2008)
Chutzpah Spree by Accused Lawyer Nets $380 Million (27 Dec 2008)
Advice for Obama From Ernst & Young’s Chief (27 Dec 2008)
Accounting Standards Wilt Under Pressure (27 Dec 2008)
Madoff Must Reveal All Assets by New Year’s Eve, Judge Rules (27 Dec 2008)
Lady Editor (26 Dec 2008)
Valuation Fix Leads Navistar to Restate (26 Dec 2008)
Broad Probe Into Hedge Fund (26 Dec 2008)
AIG's $150B bailout is just a start (26 Dec 2008)
Bernie Madoff: Lightining rod for anti-Semitism? (26 Dec 2008)
David Ross affair to flush out share disclosures (26 Dec 2008)
University goes to court over $24m lost in Bernard Madoff scandal (26 Dec 2008)
Madoff, MLK, Buddha And Elusive Nature of Self-Interest (24 Dec 2008)
Madoff Case Raises Compliance Questions (24 Dec 2008)
Q&A on the Madoff Case (24 Dec 2008)
Could SEC Have Stopped Madoff Scam In 1992? (24 Dec 2008)
Professional Oversight Board publishes Report to the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (24 Dec 2008)
London 2012 Olympic organisers have agreed to pay consultants KPMG more than £200,000 for a report on potential cost-cutting measures (24 Dec 2008)
FRC consults on its priorities and funding (24 Dec 2008)
Lehman lawsuit expanding (24 Dec 2008)
Judge slashes lawyers' cut in GM stock settlement (24 Dec 2008)
Calling accountants to account: Shortcomings in accounting standards have done grievous harm and are central to the current financial crisis (23 Dec 2008)
Probe Eyes Audit Files, Role of Aide To Madoff (23 Dec 2008)
What Happened to Objectivity and Integrity in Accounting? (23 Dec 2008)
'Fair-Value' Accounting Isn't Fair (23 Dec 2008)
Rulemakers Launch Revenue-Recognition Makeover (23 Dec 2008)
Livent VP blamed for fraud, court told (23 Dec 2008)
FASB Reviews Valuation Method (23 Dec 2008)
Whittard of Chelsea poised to call in administrators (23 Dec 2008)
Why we need country by country reporting - the case from Goldman Sachs (22 Dec 2008)
Jobs cut as liquidator seizes Madoff's UK fund (22 Dec 2008)
In Madoff’s Wake, Scrutiny of Accounting Firms (22 Dec 2008)
S.Korea to ease forex accounting rules to aid cos (22 Dec 2008)
Data show drop in SEC criminal case referrals (22 Dec 2008)
IASB moves on key G20 demands (22 Dec 2008)
Irish government pumps €5.5bn into banking system (22 Dec 2008)
Insolvency Sharks: New Zealand Receivers earn millions from collapse of finance companies (22 Dec 2008)
Insolvency Sharks: BDO Stoy Hayward has earned £342,976 in liquidation fees from Farepak (21 Dec2008)
Insolvency Sharks: forensic accountants that pored over the events leading up to Farepak's demise made £410,630 (21 DEc 2008)
Insolvency Sharks: Legal costs of Farepak insolvency are £184,089 (21 Dec 2008)
Farepak bills mount to £1m in third year of postmortem (21 Dec 2008)
City regulators probe Madoff’s London firm (21 Dec 2008)
Madoff’s Accountant ‘Was Taken’ Like Other Investors, Man Says (21 Dec 2008)
Bernard Madoff’s Misconduct Said to Date to 1970s (21 Dec 2008)
Irish banks are saved in €7bn bailout (21 Dec 2008)
Lehman Customers May Lose $1 Billion From German Unit, PwC Says (21 Dec 2008)
KPMG Tax-Shelter Case Is Mixed Win for US (21 Dec 2008)
BDO Sued in Madoff Case (21 Dec 2008)
Madoff probe uncovers fresh scams (21 Dec 2008)
If It's Not One Thing, It's Another - Auditors Getting Sued Over Madoff (20 Dec 2008)
Bernard Madoff `fraud': Betrayed by their best friend (20 Dec 2008)
Madoff's auditor under ethics probe by CPAs group (20 Dec 2008)
Brunswick to take $135 million charge related to accounting error (20 Dec 2008)
Madoff meets Lehman (20 Dec 2008)
Anglo Irish boss Sean Fitpatrick quits over £80m hidden loan scandal (20 Dec 2008)
Risk and Regulation (20 Dec 2008)
Time for adult supervision of auditors (19 Dec 2008)
Accounting firms drawn in to Madoff scandal (19 Dec 2008)
Madoff: Fairfield Greenwich Might Sue PwC (19 Dec 2008)
Parmalat founder gets 10 years' prison for market rigging (19 Dec 2008)
Big name accountants missed huge fraud (19 Dec 2008)
The End of the KPMG Tax Fraud Case (19 Dec 2008)
Accounting body to fight off-balance-sheet ruses (19 Dec 2008)
Polaroid files for bankruptcy protection from creditors (19 Dec 2008)
Distribution of Enron money to begin (19 Dec 2008)
Judge approves settlement in AIG shareholder suit (19 Dec 2008)
Anglo Irish bosses quit over loans scandal (19 Dec 2008)
Big Madoff loser eyes legal move on PwC (18 Dec 2008)
Former KPMG Executives Get Mixed Verdicts in Tax Case (18 Dec 2008)
3 convicted, 1 exonerated in KPMG tax trial (18 Dec 2008)
Three Convicted in KPMG Tax Case (18 Dec 2008)
KPMG Tax Shelter: US jury convicts three in tax shelter trial (18 Dec 2008)
It is possible artificially to increase EPS through a share buyback (18 Dec 2008)
Two Peregrine Executives Receive Prison Sentences (18 Dec 2008)
Madoff: Fairfield Greenwich considers suing PwC (18 Dec 2008)
Spotlight on fresh off-balance-sheet proposals (18 Dec 2008)
Siemens to Pay $1.34 Billion in Bribery and Corruption Fines (18 Dec 2008)
SEC Image Suffers in a String of Setbacks (18 Dec 2008)
Bernard Madoff scandal: the London connection (18 Dec 2008)
The Brazilian Connection in the Madoff Scandal (18 Dec 2008)
The Madoff Fraud: How Culpable Were the Auditors? (18 Dec 2008)
Questions surround firm that handled Madoff audit (18 Dec 2008)
Madoff Misled SEC in '06, Got Off (18 Dec 2008)
Questions about NY firm that handled Madoff audit (18 Dec 2008)
Madoff's auditor... doesn't audit? (18 Dec 2008)
Madoff's financial empire audited by tiny firm: one guy (18 Dec 2008)
Ascot, Merkin, auditor sued over Madoff investments (18 Dec 2008)
Who isn't a Madoff victim? The list is telling (18 Dec 2008)
How I Got Screwed by Bernie Madoff (18 Dec 2008)
NY Law School Races to Court, Sues Merkin Over Madoff Investments (18 Dec 2008)
Top 10 Financial Collapses of 2008 (18 Dec 2008)
Tightening up on the intermediaries (2) (17 Dec 2008)
LA school district and Deloitte in $18m failure settlement (17 Dec 2008)
US government, IBM sued by Deloitte (17 Dec 2008)
Leading accountancy firm McClure Watters faces disciplinary hearing (17 Dec 2008)
AIG Writedowns May Rise $30 Billion on Swaps Not in US Rescue (17 Dec 2008)
Economic crisis: Can there be accountability? (17 Dec 2008)
KPMG 2008 Revenues Grow 14.5% to US $22.7 Billion (17 Dec 2008)
Lessons Learned from the Madoff Scandal (17 Dec 2008)
Madoff in court as Wall Street fraud shakes world finance (17 Dec 2008)
When Did Madoff Go Over to the Dark Side? (17 Dec 2008)
Convicted former Gen Re exec to be sentenced (17 Dec 2008)
Credit Crisis Cost Tops $1 Trillion With Morgan Stanley’s Loss (17 Dec 2008)
The $50bn scam: How Bernard Madoff allegedly cheated investors (17 Dec 2008)
Charlie McCreevy, European Union internal market commissioner, comes under severe criticism from leading socialist MEPs for failing to regulate hedge funds and private equity (17 Dec 2008)
APB issues Bulletin on going concern issues during the current economic conditions (17 Dec 2008)
Madoff and Blagojevich: Stealing - Easier When No one is Watching (16 Dec 2008)
Private Equity Executive Slams Fair-Value Rule (16 Dec 2008)
Oil firms face tough disclosure rules:Congress wants to know how much companies pay foreign governments (16 Dec 2008)
False security led to Madoff scandal (16 Dec 2008)
Madoff’s Records ‘Utterly Unreliable,’ Says SIPC Head (16 Dec 2008)
UK firms lose £3.5bn to Madoff record fraudster (16 Dec 2008)
Madoff: Losing a few millions is easy: burning through $50bn takes real talent (16 Dec 2008)
Long road lies ahead for Bernard Madoff forensic team (16 Dec 2008)
Pressure mounts on US regulators over Madoff scam (16 Dec 2008)
How We Can Avoid Another Tragic Ponzi Scheme (16 Dec 2008)
Serious Fraud Office sees potential in two new cases (16 Dec 2008)
KPMG Iceland stops investigating Glitnir Bank (16 Dec 2008)
Called to account: With conflicts of interest rife, the auditing industry is in desperate need of independent oversight (15 Dec 2008)
Madoff Auditor Under Investigation by New York State Prosecutor (15 Dec 2009)
Madoff Assets Frozen, First Lawsuits Are Readied (15 Dec 2008)
A sound case for mark-to-market moderation (15 Dec 2008)
EU Extends GAAP Reconciliation Waiver (15 Dec 2008)
Irish banks to be recapitalised (15 Dec 2008)
RBS joins $50bn Wall Street 'fraud' victims (15 Dec 2008)
Revolving Doors: Likierman to chair National Audit Office (15 Dec 2008)
Wall St hero Madoff 'exposed as £35bn fraudster' (14 Dec 2008)
Firms braced for wave of auditors' warnings (14 Dec 2008)
Questions dogged Wall Street figure even before arrest (14 Dec 2008)
Bernie Madoff's alleged $50bn fraud may be just a foretaste of what's to come (14 Dec 2008)
PCAOB - Seeing The Big 4 Through Rose Colored Glasses (13 Dec 2008)
EU Accepts Accounting Rules of US, Japan, 4 More Countries (13 Dec 2008)
Madoff Securities’ Auditor Generated ‘Red Flags’ (13 Dec 2008)
Multiple Red Flags in Madoff Case (13 Dec 2008)
Former CEO of Entellium Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud (13 Dec 2008)
Questions Are Raised in Madoff Massive Fraud (13 Dec 2008)
Suits expected against Madoff scheme- Regulator: $17 billion missing from firm (13 Dec 2008)
The beginning of the end game: Leverage at Major Banks (13 Dec 2008)
The tale of Halifax Building Society and Bank of Scotland, like many others, is a sad story of negligence and mismanagement (13 Dec 2008)
Closings wrap up in KPMG tax-shelter trial in NYC (12 Dec 2008)
Closings rapping up in KPMG trial (12 Dec 2008)
China: KPMG Fails in Infringement Lawsuit (12 Dec 2008)
Zurich Financial Settles SEC Reinsurance Case (12 Dec 2008)
Former chairman of the Nasdaq stock market has been arrested and charged with $50bn securities fraud (12 Dec 2008)
Former Peregrine CEO gets 8 years in prison (12 Dec 2008)
FASB requires more off-balance sheet disclosures (12 Dec 2008)
Median leverage in UK banking is 33 to 1, with a range from 18 to 60 (12 DEc 2008)
Feds Now Say Dreier Bilked Investors Of $380 Million (12 Dec 2008)
Fannie Mae-Related Records Sought in Grand Jury Criminal Probe (12 Dec 2008)
Lawyers seeking $60M from deal in General Motors investor suit (12 Dec 2008)
Auditors dilemma: how to warn of the risks without panicking the market (12 Dec 2008)
Everything We Learned about the Financial Crisis, Again (12 Dec 2008)
The £4.5 trillion pledged by governments to the world’s bankers has failed to end the threat of meltdown at the heart of the global financial system (12 Dec 2008)
Zavvi creditors call in Ernst & Young as Woolworths fallout spreads wider (12 Dec 2008)
FASB Issues FSP FAS 140-4 and FIN 46(R)-8, Disclosures by Public Entities (Enterprises) about Transfers of Financial Assets and Interests in Variable Interest Entities (12 Dec 2008)
Audit issues when financial market conditions are difficult and credit facilities may be restricted (12 Dec 2008)
They Always Make Money Global Woes Boost Accounting Profession (12 Dec 2008)
CFOs Message To Big 4 - "Gimme Service or Gimme Cash (11 Dec 2008)
The Dreier Case: Where's All The Money? (11 Dec 2008)
At least four private-securities cases related to subprime problems name auditors (11 Dec 2008)
Lehman Brothers: Is Fuld the next loser of the corporate crime lottery? (11 Dec 2008)
What role auditors played in the financial meltdown (11 Dec 2008)
After Long Struggle, Nortel Faces Tough Choices (11 Dec 2008)
IASB could adopt fast track for future crises (11 Dec 2008)
UK Audit inspection unit defends its ‘consistent approach’ (11 Dec 2008)
Poachers and Gamekeepers: Zalm to keep role at IASB (11 Dec 2008)
JJB Sports to get round table with creditor banks (11 Dec 2008)
Charlie McCreevy, European Commissioner For Internal Market And Services - Speech At The European Contact Group/EGIAN Dinner (11 Dec 2008)
UK Inspectors Name Names in Grading the Big Four (10 Dec 2008)
UMDA Settles Case Against Deloitte & Touche (10 Dec 2008)
Has Feltex (audited by Ernst & Young) auditor inquiry been swept under the carpet? (10 Dec 2008)
The Murky World of Off-Balance-Sheet Items (Part 2) (10 Dec 2008)
AIG Faces $10 Billion in Losses on Bad Bets (10 Dec 2008)
EU accepts local accounting standards from six countries (10 Dec 2008)
Top 10 Reasons for the Credit Crunch (10 Dec 2008)
Monrad Regrets Not Testifying on GenRe Fraud as Prison Looms (10 Dec 2008)
Everything We Learned about the Financial Crisis, Again (10 Dec 2008)
Insolvencies 'epidemic' is forecast by Tenon (10 Dec 2008)
Firms in 6 countries exempt from EU filing rule (10 Dec 2008)
Dreier May Have Also Stolen Client Funds, SEC Says (10 Dec 2008)
PwC criticised for bending consultancy rules (9 Dec 2008)
AIU 08: It's about principles, firms told (9 Dec 2008)
PCAOB Finds Deficiencies Galore (9 Dec 2008)
PCAOB says post-Sarbanes-Oxley audits still deficient (9 Dec 2008)
SEC Charges N.Y. Attorney Marc S. Dreier With Multi-Million Dollar Fraud (9 Dec 2008)
Lawyer Is Accused in Massive Hedge Fund Fraud (9 Dec 2008)
Lawyer Accused of $100 Million Swindle (9 Dec 2008)
PCAOB to Auditors: Turn Up the Skepticism (9 Dec 2008)
Managing partner of Butcher Burns convicted of one count of money laundering and fined £5,000 (9 Dec 2008)
Transparency International supports country-by-country approach (8 Dec 2008)
And Now For Some KPMG Good News (8 Dec 2008)
AIU Inspections: Public Reporting (8 Dec 2008)
AUDIT INSPECTION UNIT 2007/8 AUDIT QUALITY INSPECTIONS AN OVERVIEW (8 Dec 2008)
Public Report on the 2007/8 inspection of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (8 Dec 2008)
Public Report on the 2007/8 inspection of Deloitte & Touche LLP (8 Dec 2008)
Public Report on the 2007/8 inspection of BDO Stoy Hayward LLP (8 Dec 2008)
Public Report on the 2007/8 inspection of Ernst & Young LLP (8 Dec 2008)
Public Report on the 2007/8 inspection of KPMG LLP and KPMG Audit PLC (8 Dec 2008)
Public Report on the 2007/8 inspection of Grant Thornton LLP (8 Dec 2008)
Public Report on the 2007/8 inspection of PKF (UK) LLP (8 Dec 2008)
AIU 08: PwC falls short in independence (8 Dec 2008)
AIU 08: Ernst & Young can improve on ethics (8 Dec 2008)
AIU 08: 'Recurring issues' at KPMG (8 Dec 2008)
AIU 08: Deloitte pulled up over evidence (8 Dec 2008)
AIU 08: Concerns over audit evidence and risks (8 Dec 2008)
AIU 08: BDO rapped over ‘cross selling’ (8 Dec 2008)
AIU 08: PKF must improve group audits (8 Dec 2008)
AIU 08: Grant Thornton staff appraisals not timely (8 Dec 2008)
Raines Says Fannie Mae's Woes Not of His Making (8 Dec 2008)
Audits from Top Eight Accounting Firms Show Deficiencies, PCAOB Says (8 Dec 2008)
PCAOB Report Reviews First 4 Years of Inspections of the 8 Largest U.S. Audit Firms (8 Dec 2008)
United Healthcare off-balance-sheet debt and risk of default (8 Dec 2008)
Poachers and Gamekeepers: Zalm denies conflicts and will remain at IASC (8 Dec 2008)
SEC head says accounting rules must be neutral (8 Dec 2008)
UK Auditors moan after audit flaws made public (8 Dec 2008)
Raines, ex-Fannie CEO, denies he manipulated earnings (8 Dec 2008)
Ernst & Young award winner wanted for fraud turns himself in (8 Dec 2008)
Pressure mounts on Gala Coral as debt rises to £4.4bn (8 Dec 2008)
Untangling the debt: Government’s plan to address the economic crisis has some good intentions, but we all know where those can lead (7 Dec 2008)
Accountants Rank Below Funeral Directors in Ethics (7 Dec 2008)
First Georgia Community Bank Closed, Boosting 2008 US Toll to 23 (7 Dec 2008)
Wall Street's toxic export (7 Dec 2008)
Subprime Suspects (7 Dec 2008)
Banker: Volatility Is Reality (7 Dec 2008)
PWC poised to win Lloyds auditing deal (7 Dec 2008)
Accounting for bad loans leaves many banks seeing red (6 Dec 2008)
Report Your Financials, Big Four Audit Firms Urged (6 Dec 2008)
Around we go again: the accounting fictions of corpses (6 Dec 2008)
Six years after Sarbox, audits still deficient, says PCAOB (6 Dec 2008)
Former WorldCom CEO asks Bush to shorten sentence (6 Dec 2008)
National Penn Files Suit Against Former Employee (6 Dec 2008)
Finnish police suspect 25 building executives of fraud (6 Dec 2008)
Goldman Executive Sued in $30 Million Hamptons Tiff (6 Dec 2008)
Couple sues PwC for more than £2m after being accused of tax fraud while being advised by the firm (5 Dec 2008)
PCAOB Postpones Non-US Firm Inspections (5 Dec 2008)
Greenberg, Others Must Defend AIG Suit Over Starr International Shares (5 Dec 2008)
Mark-To-Market Accounting:Villain Of The Financial Crisis? (5 Dec 2008)
AES's Edelap Denies Criminal Accounting Charges In Argentina (5 Dec 2008)
Act opens way for accountants to join legal firms (5 Dec 2008)
Persimmon attempting to refinance £900m debt (5 Dec 2008)
Revolving Doors: Former US IRS Commissioner Brown Joins PwC (5 Dec 2008)
Ex-WorldCom Chief Ebbers, in Prison for Fraud, Seeks Clemency (4 Dec 2008)
AES Unit Had ‘Irregular’ Accounting Procedures, Argentina Says (4 Dec 2008)
MPs call for Companies House filing shake-up (4 Dec 2008)
The Bank of Canada's mystery assets (4 Dec 2008)
Does anyone look at a balance sheet?!? Small caps and risk (4 Dec 2008)
Crunch claims new victim as The Pier collapses (4 Dec 2008)
State-controlled banks take over fund manager New Star (4 Dec 2008)
KPMG Tax Case Not Going to US Supreme Court (4 Dec 2008)
Mota-Engil finds management fraud at Hungary unit (4 Dec 2008)
Were AIG losses hidden early on by creative accounting? (3 Dec 2008)
The Murky World of Off-Balance-Sheet Items (3 Dec 2008)
PwC to make more than £200000 an hour from Lehmans (3 Dec 2008)
Goodwin’s $140 Billion Binge May Doom RBS to Nationalization (3 Dec 2008)
Hedge Fund Sues Bank of America over Countrywide Mortgage (3 Dec 2008)
Does IFRS undermine UK reporting integrity? (3 Dec 2008)
BCE's lobbying won't change minds at KPMG (3 Dec 2008)
Vodafone faces $2 billion Indian tax bill (3 Dec 2008)
Liechtenstein lifts bank secrecy in US deal (3 Dec 2008)
FASB and IASB Issue Discussion Paper on Financial Statement Presentation (3 Dec 2008)
Who Controls A.I.G.? (3 Dec 2008)
Citigroup's $1.1 Trillion of Mysterious Assets Shadows Earnings (3 Dec 2008)
The $326bn rescue of Citigroup (3 Dec 2008)
US Prosecutors Pass on Chance to Revive KPMG Tax Shelter Case (2 Dec 2008)
US Government Throws in the Towel on KPMG (2 Dec 2008)
Companies Filing for Bankruptcy More Apt to Face SEC Enforcement Action (2 Dec 2008)
US Justice Department has expanded its criminal investigation into foreign banks that sell offshore private banking services and include HSBC and Credit Suisse (2 Dec 2008)
Debt threatens John Duffield's control of New Star Asset Management (2 Dec 2008)
New Star's fall owes too much to £300m debt (2 Dec 2008)
Bringing 'Foreign-Cubed' Actions in American Courts (2 Dec 2008)
Music For Chameleons - A Visitor's View of The Accounting Firms (1 Dec 2008)
US and European Companies Differ on IFRS Move (1 Dec 2008)
JJB falls despite leases sale and bid hopes (1 Dec 2008)
Banks to seize New Star Asset Management as shares crash (1 Dec 2008)
Small firms hit back over ICAEW campaign (1 Dec 2008)
ASB proposes Amendments to Financial Instrument Disclosures (1 Dec 2008)

NOVEMBER 2008

Regulatory reforms needed to fix financial system (30 Nov 2008)
JJB Sports lender Barclays piles on pressure (30 Nov 2008)
Stay away from Citigroup (30 Nov 2008)
PFI bill 'up by £27bn' to £216.1bn (30 Nov 2008)
Memo to Obama on rescue: Go back to square one, experts say. Devise new strategy, explain it clearly (30 Nov 2008)
KPMG: abusing the UK tax system from the Isle of Man (29 Nov 2008)
KPMG In The News - Not The Good Kind (29 Nov 2008)
'Impossible to deny' Livent fraud: Crown (29 Nov 2008)
BCE faces uphill battle with KPMG (29 Nov 2008)
BCE Seeks C$1.2 Billion Buyout Termination Fee (29 Nov 2008)
Money Laundeirng: Are accountants doing their bit (28 Nov 2008)
Autos and Auditors -- Could the Big Four Learn from the Big Three? (28 Nov 2008)
Deloitte could be charging as much as £22,000 an hour plus expenses for taking control of Woolworths (28 Nov 2008)
Partners in the insolvency arms of the big four accountancy firms charge up to £600 an hour (28 Nov 2008)
Russian advisor to Hermitage fund arrested by police (28 Nov 2008)
Paul Volcker Obama's Accounting Expert? (27 Nov 2008)
Qwest's $445 mln settlement with investors okayed (27 Nov 2008)
London-based AIG head at heart of US inquiry (27 Nov 2008)
Did AIG exec mislead PWC, investors about insurer's swaps? (27 Nov 2008)
Is the Fair-value Fix Stalled? (27 Nov 2008)
UBS uncovers tax fraud cases (7 Nov 2008)
Furniture giant MFI collapses into administration (27 Nov 2008)
UK's Woolworths puts retail unit into administration (27 Nov 2008)
Currys, PC World and B&Q become latest victims of high street horror (27 Nov 2008)
Business journalists shined a spotlight on serious problems in the U.S. economy. But regulators and members of the public didn’t pay much attention (27 Nov 2008)
US judge denies dismissal of charges in KPMG trial (26 Nov 2008)
Leverage by the numbers: Citigroup has leverage of 56:1 (26 Nov 2008)
Equitable Life advisers under investigation (26 Nov 2008)
Accountancy & Actuarial Discipline Board to investigate Equitable Life advisors (25 Nov 2008)
US Government bailout hits $8.5 trillion (26 Nov 2008)
FRC issues new going concern guidance (26 Nov 2008)
Board Approves $157.6 Million PCAOB Budget (26 Nov 2008)
Furniture group MFI teetering on brink of collapse (26 Nov 2008)
Expect More Securitization Disclosure Soon (26 Nov 2008)
New Century's final years: A chronology (26 Nov 2008)
The Rest Of The Mess - Beyond The Big 4 (25 Nov 2008)
Accounting’s Role in the Market Bailout (25 Nov 2008)
FRC announces new funding arrangements to start in 2009/10 (25 Nov 2008)
Greenberg Pact Derailed by AIG's Near-Collapse (25 Nov 2008)
KPMG tax shelter defendants seek dismissal or mistrial (25 Nov 2008)
Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner announces $40 million settlement with Deloitte & Touche over the collapse of Reliance Insurance Company (25 Nov 2008)
Expect More Securitization Disclosure Soon (25 Nov 2008)
Citigroup has Citi has $2 trillion in on-balance sheet assets; another $1.23 trillion in off-balance sheet assets; and $36.8 trillion in derivatives (25 Nov 2008)
CitiGroup received clean bill of health from KPMG (page 103) (25 Nov 2008)
Citigroup: KPMG collected $63.6 million for audit fees, $18.1 million for audit related fees and $6.4 million for tax services (page 75) (25 Nov 2008)
Why Citigroup Imploded (25 Nov 2008)
Has the Crisis Ended the Fair-Value War? (25 Nov 2008)
Ex-NatWest Banker Transferred to UK to Finish Prison Sentence (25 Nov 2008)
Will Buffett Be Burned by Derivatives? (25 Nov 2008)
The Case Against Obama's Economic Advisors (25 Nov 2008)
George Soros: The Crisis & What to Do About It (25 Nov 2008)
Rebalancing the books: Alistair Darling's VAT cut does not address the unfairness of the tax system. What we need is a redistribution of wealth (24 Nov 2008)
On the excess supply of financial services (24 Nov 2008)
Trustee for USA Capital seeks damages from Deloitte and accounting firms (24 Nov 2008)
With a $3.6 trillion portfolio Citigroup is the second-largest player in credit derivatives (24 Nov 2008)
Citigroup is heavily exposed to derivatives risk with $2.58 of risk exposure to every $1 of capital (24 Nov 2008)
Citigroup has another $1.23 trillion in entities that aren't reflected in its balance sheet (24 Nov 2008)
Citigroup: Among the off-balance-sheet assets are $667 billion in mortgage-related securities (24 Nov 2008)
Citigroup worth just $20.5 billion, down from $244 billion two years ago (24 Nov 2008)
CBI calls for ‘going concern’ curb (24 Nov 2008)
FRC publishes its Second Progress Report on the implementation of the MPG Recommendations (24 Nov 2008)
Choice in the UK Audit Market: Second Progress Report (24 Nov 2008)
UBS Overvalued Property by $100 Million, Fired Executive Says (24 Nov 2008)
Treasury urged to act on Equitable Life (24 Nov 2008)
BDO shuns outside investment (24 Nov 2008)
Chemicals giant Ineos hires PwC to reformulate business plan (24 Nov 2008)
‘KPMG top officials relieved in sexual harassment case’ (24 Nov 2008)
Barclays' board facing up to the wrath of shareholders (23 Nov 2008)
Fair value accounting should not be replaced-US panel (23 Nov 2008)
'Mark-to-market' accounting rules fuel debate (23 Nov 2008)
Elephantine Citigroup will be bail-out's next chapter (23 Nov 2008)
The value of swaps Derivatives at $531 trillion is 8 1/2 times the world GDP of $62 trillion (23 Nov 2008)
Bailout for Bank of Ireland (23 Nov 2008)
Sex, Lies, and Subprime Mortgages (22 Nov 2008)
Citigroup May End Up With US Government Rescue (22 Nov 2008)
Class Action Lawsuit on Washington Mutua l (22 Nov 2008)
Lawsuit against Deloitte & Touche for Washington Mutual Audits (22 Nov 2008)
Look at credit-default swaps reveals surprises (22 Nov 2008)
Meltdown 101: What is mark to market accounting? (22 Nov 2008)
US Regulators shut down three more banks (22 Nov 2008)
Agency Theory Does Not Work: ‘I made a mistake,’ admits Greenspan (22 Nov 2008)
A federal judge has ruled that shareholders of American International Group Inc (AIG) lost more than $500 million as a result of a scheme to manipulate the financial statements (22 Nov 2008)
PricewaterhouseCoopers Missed AIG Group's Red Flags (22 Nov 2008)
Woolworths staring at collapse unless rescue (22 Nov 2008)
Melting into Air: Before the financial system went bust, it went postmodern (22 Nov 2008)
International Swaps and Derivatives Association estimated that nearly $47 trillion in swaps were outstanding (22 Nov 2008)
Testimony Concerning Credit Default Swaps by Erik Sirri (22 Nov 2008)
A Question for A.I.G.: Where Did the Cash Go? (22 Nov 2008)
Citibank held $37.1 trillion in total notional value derivatives, including $3.6 trillion in credit default swaps (22 Nov 2008)
Naked capitalism: Whither Citigroup's $1.1 Trillion of Off Balance Sheet Assets (22 Nov 2008)
US SEC Focused on Aiding Corporate Deals Not Regulating Them - Official (22 Nov 2008)
The financial meltdown and the welfare state (22 Nov 2008)
Who Needs the Stock Market? Part I: The Empirical Evidence (22 Nov 2008)
Group Appeals PCAOB Case to Supreme Court (21 Nov 2008)
Hagens Berman Investigating Sales of $120 Million by Insiders at Taleo in Light of Auditors Questioning Revenue Recognition Policies (21 Nov 2008)
Woolworths' Woolie Accounts (21 Nov 2008)
The Creditors of Lehman Can Do Little but Wait (21 Nov 2008)
Lehman task 10 times worse than Enron, say administrators (21 Nov 2008)
Northern Rock to wind down Granite but taxpayers may lose £3bn (21 Nov 2008)
Another £3bn at risk in Northern Rock (21 Nov 2008)
Fair value: the pragmatic solution (21 Nov 2008)
Citigroup Board Said to Weigh Options as Stock Drops (21 Nov 2008)
Citigroup meets to consider rescue options (21 Nov 2008)
15 people on BNP membership list call themselves 'accountant' (21 Nov 2008)
Capture of the state: KPMG among panellists in SEC roundtable (21 Nov 2008)
US investors sue Ernst & Young over Lehman woes (20 Nov 2008)
Deleveraging Must Continue (20 Nov 2008)
Barclays feels fury of investor rights fight (20 Nov 2008)
US Federal Government Charges 6 In $40 Million Class-Action Fraud (20 Nov 2008)
Surge in tort cases expected—and audit firms may be prime targets (20 Nov 2008)
Transcript of the UK Treasury Committee Hearing on Banking Crisis and Accountancy (20 Nov 2008)
Hold them to account: The traditional mechanisms for disciplining company directors have failed. We need a new approach (19 Nov 2008)
The Messy Business Of Reductions, Cuts, Redundancies & Layoffs (19 Nov 2008)
EU could ease auditor ownership restrictions (19 Nov 2008)
Trustee for USA Capital seeks damages from accounting firms, including Deloitte & Touche (19 Nov 2008)
SEC Publishes Proposed IFRS Roadmap (19 Nov 2008)
US regulators face fight on IFRS accounting cost (19 Nov 2008)
Citigroup to Buy $17.4 Billion in SIV Assets (19 Nov 2008)
Woolworths: the rise and fall of the department store empire (19 Nov 2008)
Former executives of MG Rover stall publication of report into conduct (18 Nov 2008)
IFRS Requires a Soft Touch (18 Nov 2008)
Ineos asks bankers to waive covenants on €7bn loan as demand collapses (18 Nov 2008)
EasyJet founder won’t sign off accounts (18 Nov 2008)
Vogue for share buy-backs turned out to be worse than any fashion faux pas (18 Nov 2008)
Despite offshore operations and tax disputes Vodafone most accountable large company (18 Nov 2008)
Life Assurance Accounting: An accounting change too far (17 Nov 2008)
Hollinger: KPMG will pay US$7.5 million into a settlement fund (17 Nov 2008)
Ernst & Young sued over Lehman audit: Lehman 'concealed losses with help of auditors' (17 Nov 2008)
SEC: Early IFRS Adoption Will Cost Firms $32M (17 Nov 2008)
Barristers make £75m in five years from tax and fraud cases (17 Nov 2008)
Marking-to-Market: Panacea or Pandora’s Box? (17 Nov 2008)
Barclays' fundraising to face investor opposition (17 Nov 2008)
ABCPMMMFLF Spells Fed Relief for JPMorgan, Citi Shadow Banking (17 Nov 2008)
Deregulation Blunders and Moral Hazard (17 Nov 2008)
Capture of the State: Deloitte expert to advise MPs on bonuses (17 Nov 2008)
Revolving Doors: KPMG chief gets DBERR advisory post (17 Nov 2008)
SECURITISATION AND THE BANK LENDING CHANNEL (17 Nov 2008)
Avoiding Disorderly Deleveraging (17 Nov 2008)
How Barclays’ directors protect their bonuses (16 Nov 2008)
Company share schemes twist the knife in the wounds of investors (16 Nov 2008)
AIG. CDOs. CDS. It's A Mess (16 Nov 2008)
Ernst & Young accused of helping cover up the fraud before Lehman declared bankruptcy (15 Nov 2008)
Judge keeps former Agriprocessors CEO in jail (15 Nov 2008)
Revised Fair Value Rule Is Weaker: Moody's (15 Nov 2008)
PricewaterhouseCoopers, which has around 300 employees working on the Lehman administration, is being paid £4m a week (15 Nov 2008)
Insolvency: Lehman's administrators PricewaterhouseCoopers paid more than the bankers (15 Nov 2008)
Auditing Industry Status Quo Won’t Cut It (15 Nov 2008)
So where were auditors - Subprime: Borne of Sleaze, Bribery, and Lies (15 Nov 2008)
Freddie Mac says it is worth less than zero (15 Nov 2008)
Record loss forces Freddie Mac to tap $100 bln fund (15 Nov 2008)
Auditors collect a large fee and provide little more than a clean bill of health to an unhealthy client (15 Nov 2008)
Auditors bracing for a backlash (15 Nov 2008)
Former Enron Official Yeager Gets US Supreme Court Hearing (15 Nov 2008)
Buffett was client of accused Deloitte partner (14 Nov 2008)
Banks face challenge on billions of dollars of off-balance-sheet exposure (14 Nov 2008)
Ernst & Young sued over US Lehman audit (14 Nov 2008)
Calif County Accuses Lehman Executives, Auditor Of Fraud In Suit (14 Nov 2008)
Ernst & Young “IT error” creates confusion for KSF savers (14 Nov 2008)
Record loss forces Freddie Mac to tap $100 bln fund (14 Nov 2008)
Pension accounting rules 'bizarre' says regulator (14 Nov 2008)
Bretton Woods II – five key points on the road to a new global financial deal (14 Nov 2008)
The Credit-Default Swap: (14 Nov 2008)
Redesigning global finance (14 Nov 2008)
Myners puts crunch blame on boards (14 Nov 2008)
Soros warns of hedge fund horror to come (14 Nov 2008)
RAB Capital shuts 12 hedge funds as assets flee (14 Nov 2008)
Soros warns 'hedge funds will be decimated' (14 Nov 2008)
The Financial Crisis, From AZ (14 Nov 2008)
That Awesome Warren Buffett CNBC Interview (14 Nov 2008)
Accountancy and the Banking crisis (13 Nov 2008)
Hedge Funds And Their Auditors - It's Good To Be Aggressive (13 Nov 2008)
Making tax cuts work: Increase personal allowances and pensions but end offshore loopholes and start to tax derivative trades (13 Nov 2008)
European banks reveal balance sheet havoc with mass writedowns (13 Nov 2008)
ASB issues Amendment on Financial Instruments: Eligible Hedged Items (13 Nov 2008)
Ostrich Politics - Auditing profession: no review needed (13 Nov 2008)
Americans accuse UBS fund boss of tax fraud conspiracy (13 Nov 2008)
Global Accounting Standards? Not So Fast (13 Nov 2008)
Probiz hit with writ over cheque (13 Nov 2008)
Washington's $5 Trillion Tab (13 Nov 2008)
Total US Bailout Cost Heads Towards $5 TRILLION (13 Nov 2008)
So far, Washington is on the hook for $5 trillion (13 Nov 2008)
Late filing of accounts rises 25% (12 Nov 2008)
Auditor's to blame for unreliable financial statements (12 Nov 2008)
CP1 posts $109m loss; auditors fear company no longer a going concern (12 Nov 2008)
UK accounting watchdog threatens to quit over EU rule change (12 Nov 2008)
Deloitte - Tolerant And Forgiving of Bad Accountants (11 Nov 2008)
Should the auditors have known the banks weren’t a going concern? (11 Nov 2008)
Auditors not Sounding the financial alarm (11 Nov 2008)
Fannie posts $29B 3Q loss, $100B may not be enough (11 Nov 2008)
G20 leaders asked to support independence of IASB (11 Nov 2008)
AIG receives second US bailout on $24.5bn loss (11 Nov 2008)
US government grants troubled insurer AIG $150bn in new bailout (11 Nov 2008)
Obama's Bailout Bunch Brings Us More of the Same (11 Nov 2008)
Sweden faces first big bank collapse (11 Nov 2008)
Circuit City in Chapter 11 as light fails (11 Nov 2008)
Deloitte - A Culture of Non-Compliance? (10 Nov 2008)
Accountancy and the Banking Crisis: AABA comments on the Treasury Committee’s request for Information (10 Nov 2008)
How to Fix Financial Reporting (10 Nov 2008)
Annual financial reports unhelpful, say analysts (10 Nov 2008)
Norwich Union admits £11m error (10 Nov 2008)
Time to pull the plug on AIG? (10 Nov 2008)
AIG wins new $40bn bail-out cash (10 Nov 2008)
HSBC bad debt charges soar to $4.3 billion (10 Nov 2008)
PwC donates €3m to UN for Darfur (10 Nov 2008)
Economic warfare funded by taxes: how banks have achieved a double whammy (9 Nov 2008)
Bankers try to keep bad assets off books (9 Nov 2008)
Hovis owner's banks call in help to restructure £1.7bn debt (9 Nov 2008)
Countrywide joins company danger list (9 Nov 2008)
US regulators closed two more banks, bringing to 19 the number that have gone under this year (9 Nov 2008)
Deloitte Sues Its Own Vice Chairman Over Trading Scandal (8 Nov 2008)
Deloitte dealing with insider-trading scandal (8 Nov 2008)
Japan to ease capital accounting rules for banks (8 Nov 2008)
Emanuel Was Director Of Freddie Mac During Scandal (8 Nov 2008)
US car giants report large losses (8 Nov 2008)
500,000 to fall into personal insolvency in three years (8 Nov 2008)
Berkshire Hathaway reported a $1.01 billion loss on derivatives and other investments (8 Nov 2008)
IASB questions relaxing of fair value accounting (7 Nov 2008)
Will a Single Accounting Standard Help? (7 Nov 2008)
Profits higher under IFRS But debt to equity ratio rises (7 Nov 2008)
Taxpayers may pay legal bills for mortgage execs (7 Nov 2008)
Company collapses soar 26% on economic downturn (7 Nov 2008)
Judge backs ICAEW in complaint case against Piers Coke-Wallis (7 Nov 2008)
PwC reports annual revenues of $28 bn for 2007 (7 Nov 2008)
Deloitte & Touhce reports revnues of $27.4 billion (7 Nov 2008)
KPMG reports annual revenues of $20 bn for 2007 (7 Nov 2008)
Ernst & Young reported revenues of $21.1 bn (7 Nov 2008)
KPMG ordered to hand over Multiplex files (6 Nov 2008)
Global accounting accord 'on edge' (6 Oct 2008)
Fair Value Accounting Guidance Smiles on Banks (6 Nov 2008)
Paulson's Bailout Bucks Look Like Debt in Drag (6 Nov 2008)
European group aiming for stronger voice in accounting (6 Nov 2008)
Credit-Default Swap Disclosure Hides Truth on Risk at Banks (6 Nov 2008)
No IFRS consistency in oil and gas sector (6 Nov 2008)
British banks face an abyss: Credit Suisse (6 Nov 2008)
Ex-Goldman Sachs analyst may have fled US (6 Nov 2008)
Why The Big 4 Also Deserve Blame For The "Financial Crisis (5 Nov 2008)
"Where were the Auditors?" In this Crisis, Nobody Asks - Because Nobody Cares (5 Nov 2008)
Former Alfred McAlpine Slate executive charged with fraud (5 Nov 2008)
Siemens sets aside €1bn for US bribery fine (5 Nov 2008)
6788 pages, 237 exhibits and 10 years later (5 Nov 2008)
AIG Violated Investor Rights in Accepting Bailout, Suit Says (5 Nov 2008)
Debt refinancing is the next crisis (5 Nov 2008)
Deloitte US partner fined $25,000 (4 Nov 2008)
IASB Publishes Guidance on Fair Value (4 Nov 2008)
Livent fraud trial closes, two accused won't testify (4 Nov 2008)
Goldman fund loses $990m after 10 months (4 Nov 2008)
IASB and FASB to hold first round table on global financial crisis (4 Nov 2008)
UBS warns earnings will be squeezed for rest of year (4 Nov 2008)
Credit Default Swaps: What Went Wrong With CDS (4 Nov 2008)
"Accounting has become a new exercise in creative fiction," with the result that banks are carrying a lot of "sludge" assets clogging up the balance sheet, says Lazards CEO (3 Nov 2008)
Judge says loss in AIG scheme exceeds $500 million (3 Nov 2008)
US Judge Rules Against Executives (3 Nov 2008)
Australian Banks face challenge on billions of dollars of off-balance-sheet exposure (3 Nov 2008)
AIG: CDS Obligations Devouring Government Loans (3 Oct 2008)
Female accountants are taught to dress for success (3 Nov 2008)
Female accountants sent on course to learn how to dress appropriately (3 Nov 2008)
France Wants Tighter Global Financial Rules (3 Nov 2008)
Commerzbank Gets EU8.2 Billion Rescue From Germany (3 Nov 2008)
France Wants Tighter Global Financial Rules (3 Nov 2008)
No Market, No Problem (2 Nov 2008)
NAO has banking audits on radar (2 Nov 2008)
Auditors Should Prepare for Legal Backlash (2 Nov 2008)
Former National Century Financial Enterprises CEO Convicted of Conspiracy, Fraud and Money Laundering (2 Nov 2008)
HBOS and RBS to write-off billions (2 Nov 2008)
US election special: campaign trial (2 Nov 2008)
The Consequences of Mortgage Credit Expansion: Evidence from the U.S. Mortgage Default Crisis (2 Nov 2008)
Could the Crisis Crimp Convergence? (1 Nov 2008)
Fired employee sues Boeing in whistle-blower case (1 Nov 2008)
Money-Laundering Risk Of Hedge Funds Gauged (1 Nov 2008)
Lance Poulsen of National Century Financial Enterprises convicted (1 Nov 2008)
District Launches $105M Lawsuit Against Bank of America in Tax Scam (1 Nov 2008)
Ex-health care CEO convicted in $1.9B fraud case (1 Nov 2008)

OCTOBER 2008

Auditing Regulators are Fast Asleep (31 Oct 2008)
PCAOB Suspends Audit Firm's Registration for Numerous Violations of Board Standards (31 Oct 2008)
Jailing Executives Is One Thing Bush Did Right (31 Oct 2008)
Deutsche Bank kicks off funny accounting season (31 Oct 2008)
Regulator 'mesmerised' as Equitable headed for disaster (31 Oct 2008)
LeNature's trustee files first round of lawsuits (31 Oct 2008)
SEC Charges Lazard Capital Markets, Former Employees for Improper Gifts and Entertainment to Fidelity Employees (31 Oct 2008)
Profiting from the recession: Accountancy firms should not receive any public contracts until there is tangible evidence that they have cleaned up their act (30 Oct 2008)
The farce of National City Corp accounts (audited by Ernst & Young) (30 Oct 2008)
Wachovia (audited by KPMG) Shows Why No Bank's Books Are Trusted (30 Oct 2008)
After eight years delay Joint Disciplinary Tribunal dismisses disciplinary Complaints against Deloitte & Touche (30 Oct 2008)
Semple Cochrane accountants cleared (30 Oct 2008)
Joint Disciplinray Tribunal Report on Deloitte & Touche and Semple Cochrane (30 Oct 2008)
Joint Disciplinray Tribunal Report on WILLIAM WILSON EVANS and Semple Cochrane (30 Oct 2008)
The Financial Reporting Review Panel announces priority sectors for 2009/10 (30 Oct 2008)
Deutsche dodges loss thanks to accounting rules (30 Oct 2008)
Greenspan Slept as Off-Balance-Sheet Toxic Debt Evaded Scrutiny (30 Oct 2008)
Investors, banks battle on fair value accounting (30 Oct 2008)
Accountancy professor lambasts Big Four firms (30 Oct 2008)
Auditors Should Prepare for Legal Backlash, Report Says (29 Oct 20080
Auditors Brace for Legal Backlash in Credit Crisis (29 Oct 2008)
Banks turning the receivership screw (29 Oct 2008)
Don't Blame Mark-to-Market Accounting (28 Oct 2008)
SEC Announces Panelists and Agenda for Mark-to-Market Accounting Roundtable (28 Oct 2008)
market accounting isn't going away-analyst (28 Oct 2008)
Cost of banking crash: $2,800,000,000,000 (28 Oct 2008)
US Bailout is getting off on the wrong foot (28 Oct 2008)
Fraud Trial to Focus on Accounting at Heilig-Meyers (28 Oct 2008)
PwC wins Yukos appeal (28 Oct 2008)
Moscow Court Rules In PwC's Favour Over Yukos Audits (28 Oct 2008)
Japan Will Ease Mark-to-Market Accounting Rules (28 Oct 2008)
Defense Lawyers See Bonanza From Lehman, Bear, Other Collapses (28 Oct 2008)
Moore Stephens warns over hedge accounting pitfalls (28 Oct 2008)
Reviled firms lead corporate responsibility list (28 Oct 2008)
Non-financial reporting gains currency but still has way to go (28 Oct 2008)
Briloff Speaks: The case of Google (27 Oct 2008)
Commentary: Willy Loman and the M&A mania of private equity (27 Oct 2008)
Lawsuit claims Barclays is guilty of fraud: UK bank sued in the US over claims that investors lost out in secretive vehicles holding toxic assets (27 Oct 2008)
FRC Chief Executive cites preliminary lessons from financial crisis (27 Oct 2008)
The pendulum swings towards regulation (27 Oct 2008)
Persimmon cuts £600m off value of land bank (27 Oct 2008)
FRC publishes feedback on Audit Quality Framework (27 Oct 2008)
UK in EU airline insolvencies wrangle (27 Oct 2008)
Fraud trial could drive cases from London (27 Oct 2008)
Off the legal hook: The law does not protect individuals from the recklessness and failings of company directors. It should (26 Oct 2008)
AEGON is in talks with the Dutch government about the possibility of joining a €20 billion (£16 billion) state recapitalisation scheme (26 Oct 2008)
Equitable Life members step up pressure on Gordon Brown for £4.5billion bail-out (26 Oct 2008)
US Mulls Widening Bailout to Insurers (26 Oct 2008)
NAO investigates bank bailout (26 Oct 2008)
GLG chief expects third of hedge funds to close (26 Oct 2008)
Don't expect to find a banker down at bankruptcy court (25 Oct 2008)
Overstock announces earnings restatement (25 Oct 2008)
US hedge fund admits 35% plunge in value since downturn (25 Oct 2008)
Treasury Appoints PwC and EY - The Wolves Are In The Henhouse (24 Oct 2008)
HealthSouth, UBS settle lawsuit (24 Oct 2008)
UBS to Pay HealthSouth $100M for Abetting Fraud (24 Oct 2008)
‘I made a mistake,’ admits Greenspan (24 Oct 2008)
Freddie Mac seeks Lehman probe of missing $1.2 billion (24 Oct 2008)
PCAOB Report on PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP(United Kingdom) (24 Oct 2008)
Investors Flee as Hedge Fund Woes Deepen (24 Oct 2008)
Isle of Man's Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander investors plan legal action (24 Oct 2008)
Accounting rule changes could dent confidence, say analysts (23 Oct 2008)
Still Fast Asleep -crunch shouldn't mean tighter regulation, FRC boss says (23 Oct 2008)
US Bankers Call for New Accounting Oversight Board (23 Oct 2008)
First German Bank Takes Bailout Offer (23 Oct 2008)
One in four big companies pays zero UK corporation tax (23 Oct 2008)
Insolvency: Administrations soar as the economic downturn bites (23 Oct 2008)
Class-action suits may stem from economic crisis (22 Oct 2008)
Poulsen attorney tries to shift blame for National Century collapse (22 Oct 2008)
Prosecutors eyeing Wall Street mess look for lies (22 Oct 2008)
Barnsley Building Society rescued (22 Oct 2008)
Analysts doubt Parmalat win against Grant Thornton (22 Oct 2008)
Jury Finds Parmalat Defrauded Citigroup (22 Oct 2008)
Role of Opinion Letters Takes Stage in KPMG Tax Trial (22 Oct 2008)
Bank of America dismisses KPMG as Countrywide's accountants (22 Oct 2008)
Broadcom Billionaire wants fraud charges dismissed, alleges jury bias (22 Oct 2008)
Next in the Financial Crisis: Possible Criminal Charges (22 Oct 2008)
PCAOB Proposes New Risk Rules (22 Oct 2008)
US Board Proposes New Auditing Standards Related to the Auditor's Assessment of and Responses to Risk (22 Oct 2008)
A Question Of Value - Why So Much Ado? (21 Oct 2008)
What's all the fuss about marking to market? (21 Oct 2008)
US Treasury Hires PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young Under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (21 Oct 2008)
Citigroup Prevails in Parmalat Case (21 Oct 2008)
Citigroup appears to defy physics on Parmalat (21 Oct 2008)
Off balance sheet: The Report the SEC Doesn’t Want You to See (21 Oct 2008)
US bank group urges changes to accounting policy (21 Oct 2008)
$360bn Lehman Swaps Unwind (21 Oct 2008)
Investors call on EC to drop more changes to fair value reporting (21 Oct 2008)
French Government to inject €10.5bn into top six banks (21 Oct 2008)
ING Group gets €10 billion lifeline from Dutch government (20 Oct 2008)
ING gets €10bn from Dutch government (20 Oct 2008)
ING bank accepts Dutch cash injection (20 Oct 2008)
ING Group received clean bill of health from auditors Ernst & Young (page 240) (20 Oct 2008)
ING Auditors Ernst & Young charged €61million for audit fee and €14 million for non-audit fees (page 70) (20 Oct 2008)
Bank-Equity Program Gets Accounting Fix (20 Oct 2008)
Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman files class action lawsuit against Medicis Pharma (20 Oct 2008)
Rulemakers: Take Politics out of Accounting (20 Oct 2008)
Heseltine favours setting up an independent commission with the power to appoint auditors (19 Oct 2008)
Listed firms urged to have in-house audits (19 Oct 2008)
DOJ launches WaMu failure probe (19 Oct 2008)
FORMER minister of state in Ireland has ridiculed auditors as a “joke and a waste of time (18 Oct 2008)
Bear Stearns Is Faulted on Its Valuations in 2007 (18 Oct 2008)
Financial Crisis Provides Fertile Ground for Boom in Lawsuits (18 Oct 2008)
Lawyers swoop on financial carrion (18 Oct 2008)
Lehman Is Subject of Federal Criminal Probes (18 Oct 2008)
Fannie Suit Vexes Regulator, May Pay Shareholders (18 Oct 2008)
FSA should not ask the taxpayer to cough up for tighter regulation (18 Oct 2008)
What The Auditors Saw - An Update on Société Général (17 Oct 2008)
PwC Advisory Leadership - "The Bundler" Ascends (17 Oct 2008)
UK Parliament Early Day Motion Urges Regulators to Audit Banks (17 Oct 2008)
Figure it out: The British government is happy to bail out the banks, but when is it going to bail out the poor? (17 Oct 2008)
Norwegian police accuse Microsoft's Fast of fraud (17 Oct 2008)
The transparency test - HBOS and Lloyd's offbalance sheet accounting (17 Oct 2008)
Don't let accounting mess up accountability (17 Oct 2008)
When Fannie And Freddie Opened The Floodgates (17 Oct 2008)
Financial crisis: Days of soft-touch regulation are over (17 Oct 2008)
Switzerland injects billions into UBS as it joins global bank bail-out (17 Oct 2008)
Switzerland Bails Out UBS; Credit Suisse Raises Funds (17 Oct 2008)
UBS received lean bill of health from Ernst & Young (17 Oct 2008)
In 2007 Ernst & Young received CHF61,718,000 for UBS audit and 13,370 for non-audit fees (17 Oct 2008)
In 2006 Ernst & Young received CHF63,691,000 for UBS audit and 12,135 for non-audit fees (17 Oct 2008)
Australian banks have more than $13 trillion in off-balance-sheet derivative exposures (17 Oct 2008)
Japan mulls accounting rule change to help banks (17 Oct 2008)
Caisse d’Epargne suspends bankers on €600m loss (17 Oct 2008)
Auditors to probe 3D-Gold's accounts (17 Oct 2008)
Does India need an independent regulator of audit firms? (17 Oct 2008)
Prosecutors Seek 13-Year Sentence For Former Chief of Parmalat (17 Oct 2008)
Hector Sants apologises for FSA's failure to prevent bank crisis (17 Oct 2008)
Deliberations Expected To Begin Thursday In Citigroup-Parmalat Case (17 Oct 2008)
Prosecutors Look to Enron, Refco in Subprime Probes (17 Oct 2008)
US Says Ex-KPMG Staff Lied, Cheated (16 Oct 2008)
KPMG Prosecutor Assails Ex-Executives' Tax Schemes (16 Oct 2008)
Financial sector revealed as the Emperor with no clothes (16 Oct 2008)
What was the role of the auditors in banking fiasco? (16 Oct 2008)
Where Were Auditors as Companies Collapsed? (16 Oct 2008)
BDO Stoy Hayward faces inquiry after failure of XL (16 Oct 2008)
SEC Agrees to Accounting Shift Sought by US Banks (16 Oct 2008)
EU regulators back emergency change to bank accounting rules (16 Oct 2008)
Auditors must endure a good going-over (16 Oct 2008)
Banks Try to Drag Us Back Into the Drowning Pool (16 Oct 2008)
UBS and Credit Suisse Get Urgent Bailout Funds (16 Oct 2008)
Audit Commission has £10m tied up in Iceland's troubled banks (16 Oct 2008)
Audit Firms braced for crunch claims (16 Oct 2008)
What Went Wrong: How did the world's markets come to the brink of collapse? (16 Oct 2008)
Mark to market will have to go (15 Oct 2008)
Britain's toxic fiddling (15 Oct 2008)
Michael Meacher MP draws attention to "dodgy auditing" (15 Oct 2008)
UK Banks Should Shut Tax Haven Units (15 Oct 2008)
Accountants investigated over XL audit (15 Oct 2008)
AADB Investigating Audit of XL Leisure Group plc (15 Oct 2008)
It’s Actually Happening: The KPMG Trial Begins in Manhattan (15 Oct 2008)
Era of self-regulation is over, European Commission warns (15 Oct 2008)
MPs demand 'higher accounting standards' for banks (15 Oct 2008)
Europe stuns with €1.5bn bank rescue, as France plays role of saviour (15 Oct 2008)
What Happened to the Accounting Regulation Debate? (15 Oct 2008)
Mark-to-market accounting exacerbates the crisis (15 Oct 2008)
Revenue Recognition Rules Hamper Biotech Firms (15 Oct 2008)
Greenberg Calls for Changes To AIG's Federal Rescue Terms (15 Oct 2008)
Vantis chief calls for change to insolvency laws (15 Oct 2008)
Ex-Enron executive pleads guilty in broadband fraud (15 Oct 2008)
re: The Auditors Is Two Years Old (14 Oct 2008)
Britain needs to bank on change in the financial system (14 Oct 2008)
Finger of blame pointed at auditors (14 Oct 2008)
Applegarth and auditors avoid Northern Rock legal action (14 Oct 2008)
Northern Rock directors and auditors escape legal action (14 Oct 2008)
Kerviel's lawyers question Société Générale accountants (14 Oct 20080
Ex-KPMG partners in New York tax evasion trial (14 Oct 2008)
KPMG sued for negligence by the Australian corporate watchdog for failing to raise the alarm about the finances at the failed property developer Westpoint (14 Oct 2008)
KPMG signed off on financial audits of Papel Entities in 1998, 1999 and 2000 without discovering inflated revenue numbers (14 Oct 2008)
NJ jury finds KPMG guilty of negligence (14 Oct 2008)
NJ Jury Gives Plaintiff $41M from KPMG (14 Oct 2008)
Fair value critics turn on guidance (14 Oct 2008)
Maker of Dreamsicle Figurines Wins Tidy Verdict over KPMG (14 Oct 2008)
Accountants under investigation for perjury (14 Oct 2008)
AABA speaks at 'Who Pays for the Credit Crunch?' (13 Oct 2008)
Big players fall amid the profits of doom: Some lost out, others dodged bullets, Norway did well - and junkets went on (13 Oct 2008)
More fingerpointing at accountants over crisis (13 Oct 2008)
American International Group (AIG) might have averted disaster if its top executives had paid attention to an internal auditor sniffing around (13 Oct 2008)
Whatever happened about regulation? (13 Oct 2008)
ASIC sues KPMG over Westpoint collapse (13 Oct 2008)
Deloitte loses BSkyB employee data on laptop (13 Oct 2008)
100000 pensioners' details on Deloitte stolen laptop (13 Oct 2008)
Deloitte Fiasco: More personal data goes missing... this time the details of 100,000 pensioners are stolen (13 Oct 2008)
Ahern seeks €435000 for first phase tribunal fees (13 Oct 2008)
UK Banks get £40bn as bosses give up bonuses (13 Oct 2008)
Can the Banking System Handle Huge New Write-Downs? (13 Oct 2008)
Morgan Stanley `Urgently Needs Rescue (13 Oct 2008)
The crisis and the auditor’s ’structual dependence’ theory (12 Oct 2008)
Finger of blame points at auditing firms (12 Oct 2008)
Auditors on the rack over 'foreseeable' risk (12 Oct 2008)
‘Fair Value’ Rules Divide Financial Industry (12 Oct 2008)
UK State to save HBOS and RBS (12 Oct 2008)
Insolvency Sharks: KPMG scoop £12.3 million from Courts bankruptcy (12 Oct 2008)
Insolvency sharks: An attempt by the liquidators of Courts, the failed furniture retailer, to stop payments to the majority of unsecured creditors and former staff failed (12 Oct 2008)
Insolvency sharks: Courts advisers scoop £20m (12 Oct 2008)
Banks must reveal full exposure to sub-prime (12 Oct 2008)
Titans of blame, tone-deaf and dodging responsibility (12 Oct 2008)
US Treasury waits in wings to save Morgan Stanley (12 Oct 2008)
Blame accounting alchemy for market evaporation (11 Oct 2008)
Jury today awarded $31.8 million against Big Four firm KPMG in an accounting fraud lawsuit (11 Oct 2008)
EU Commission to propose fair value accounting change (11 Oct 2008)
Documents Show AIG Knew Of Problems With Valuations (11 Oct 2008)
Red Flags in the Boardroom (11 Oct 2008)
Illinois, Michigan Banks Shut by Regulators; Toll Climbs to 15 (11 Oct 2008)
Meridian Bank is closed by regulators (15 Oct 2008)
Regulators shut Main Street Bank (11 Oct 2008)
Italy mkt regulator seeks damages in Parmalat trial (11 Oct 2008)
The banks must be forced to stop their tax abuse (10 Oct 2008)
SEC Charges Former Duane Reade Executives with Accounting Fraud (10 Oct 2008)
FASB meeting on accounting rule (10 Oct 2008)
IASB eases fair value for banks (10 Oct 2008)
Japan's Yamato Life file for bankruptcy in Tokyo (10 Oct 2008)
Ex-McAfee executive clear of illegal option dating (10 Oct 2008)
Paulson Plan Bring On Accounting Deja Vu (10 Oct 2008)
Analyst warns of run on audit firm (10 Oct 2008)
A (Crumbling) Wall of Money Financial Bricolage, Derivatives and Power (10 Oct 2008)
Taking it Private Consequences of the Global Growth of Private Equity (10 Oct 2008)
NZ Should Defer Tax Payments to Boost Liquidity (10 Oct 2008)
Auditors discuss bank audits during crunch (10 Oct 2008)
History Repeats as the Off-Balance Sheet Money Supply Explodes (10 Oct 2008)
Gazprom and bean-counters without a conscience (9 Oct 2008)
IASB Trustees back easing fair value in EU (9 Oct 2008)
Criticism of IASB shifts to its corporate structure (9 Oct 2008)
PWC has been the auditor for AIG for many, many years, and yet despite its knowledge of the company had not caught and reported the errors leading up to the 2005 restatement (9 Oct 2008)
SEC Commences Work on Congressionally Mandated Study on Accounting Standards (9 Oct 2008)
SEC Gives CFOs a Chance to Defend Asset Values (9 Oct 2008)
SEC Begins Mark-to-Market Study (9 Oct 2008)
AIG accounts attacked by former chief accountants of the SEC (9 Oct 2008)
Lehman had a leverage of more than 30 to 1 (9 Oct 2008)
US Committee on Oversignt and Government Reform Holds Hearing on the Causes and Effects of the AIG Bailout (9 Oct 2008)
More regulation expected in the wake of economic crisis (9 Oct 2008)
Accounting standard setters who failed to require that companies provide investors and the capital markets with transparency (9 Oct 2008)
During the last ten years the market for credit default swaps (CDS) grew unregulated from almost zero to more than $44 trillion (9 Oct 2008)
Fewer licenced accountancy firms in Holland (9 Oct 2008)
Blame Accounting Alchemy for Market Evaporation (9 Oct 2008)
Hear, see and speak no evil about Fannie and Freddie (9 Oct 2008)
Financial Crisis: Hank Paulson warns of more bank failures (9 Oct 2008)
Kaupthing becomes third Icelandic bank to fail (9 Oct 2008)
For those of us who are not accountants, can you help explain how bad mortages work? (9 Oct 2008)
US Committee on Oversignt and Government Reform Committee Holds Hearing on Causes and Effects of the Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy (9 Oct 2008)
Transcript of AABA evidence to credit crunch to Scottish Parliament (8 Oct 2008)
The auditors have failed (8 Oct 2008)
Accounting should not pander to the market’s whims (8 Oct 2008)
Time for the auditors to raise their game (8 Oct 2008)
Imperial directors to stand trial again (8 Oct 2008)
Ernst & Young Baltic executive stays arrested (8 Oct 2008)
SEC begins accounting rules review as House committee probes AIG (8 Oct 2008)
AIG CEOs Blame Each Other, Accounting for Downfall (8 Oct 2008)
Losses on U.S.-based loans and securities may rise to some $1.4 trillion (8 Oct 2008)
Greenberg blames AIG woes on shorts, accounting (8 Oct 2008)
AIG accused of hiding risks from auditors (8 Oct 2008)
A People's Programme for the Crisis (7 Oct 2008)
Issue of the day: mark to market accounting (7 Oct 2008)
Insurers halt cover for JJB Sports suppliers (7 Oct 2008)
Crisis spreads as Iceland's Landsbanki goes bust (7 Oct 2008)
Ernst & Young records 16.2% jump in revenue (7 Oct 2008)
Even the ACCA says the existing non-exec directors of banks are to blame (7 Oct 2008)
Race to the Bottom: New York versus London (6 Oct 2008)
Balfour Beatty pays £2.25m after SFO probe (6 Oct 2008)
Serious Fraud Office successfully obtains first ever Civil Recovery Order involving Balfour Beatty plc (6 Oct 2008)
Drive for clearer accounting continues (6 Oct 2008)
Lenders' accounts rules may change (6 Oct 2008)
Enron was an omen of dangers of fair value rules (6 Oct 2008)
Off balance sheet: Regulators’ absence generated helium for the credit bubble (6 Oct 2008)
City grandees shun banks seeking non-executive directors (6 Oct 2008)
Insolvency: Deloitte brought in to administer GuestInvest (6 Oct 2008)
Zurich falls after it writes down $615 mln (6 Oct 2008)
Germany's second-largest mortgage lender, Hypo Real Estate falters (5 Oct 2008)
Financial Crisis: Hypo Real Estate on brink of collapse (5 Oct 2008)
KPMG gave clean bill of health to Hypo Real Estate (5 Oct 2008)
KPMG received in €11,090,000 in fees from Hypo Real Estate of which €5,704,000 is for consultancy (5 Oct 2008)
Is Debate Over Mark-to-Market Just a Waste of Time? (5 Oct 2008)
Grimm days for Big Four auditors (5 Oct 2008)
JP Morgan ‘brought down’ Lehman Brothers (5 Oct 2008)
Thousands hit as 'buy to let' firm Instant Access Properties goes bust (5 Oct 2008)
Insolvency: Lehman 'may take 10 years to wind up' (5 Oct 2008)
Governments for Sale: Wall Street firms at center of bailout are big political donors (5 Oct 2008)
Row over financing for car-wash giant IMO Car Wash (5 Oct 2008)
There’s no accounting for bankers’ greed (5 Oct 2008)
PricewaterhouseCoopers has reported that its revenues worldwide have climbed 8% to $28.2bn (5 Oct 2008)
SEC gets power to suspend the mark-to-market accounting rule (4 Oct 2008)
Mark-to-market accounting stays, albeit 'clarified' (4 Oct 2008)
PwC in $97.5M settlement in Ohio over AIG (4 Oct 2008)
PWC reaches settlement with Ohio in AIG case (4 Oct 2008)
Former M&S chairman Paul Myners becomes Minister for the City (4 Oct 2008)
AIG draws down $61 billion of its Fed loan (4 Oct 2008)
Europe Summit to Focus on Oversight, Accounting Rules (4 Oct 2008)
Former McAfee exec acquitted of sock backdating (4 Oct 2008)
Who’s Bailing out Whom? (4 Oct 2008)
More disclosure on cash flow (4 Oct 2008)
Financial Crisis: Fortis' Dutch assets are nationalised (4 Oct 2008)
Europe shouts 'no' to IASB's proposed pensions reforms (4 Oct 2008)
TJN submission on international accounting standards (3 Oct 2008)
The IASB has got its conceptual framework wrong (3 Oct 2008)
Exposure Draft of an Improved Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting (3 Oct 2008)
Response to IASB/FASB Exposure Draft: An Improved Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting: Chapter 1: The Objectives of Financial Reporting and Chapter 2: Qualitative Characteristics and Constraints of Decision-useful Financial Reporting Information (3 Oct 2008)
"Mark-to-market" accounting fight goes down to the wire (3 Oct 2008)
Fair-value accounting becomes a political issue (3 Oct 2008)
Meeting with SEC to focus on audits (3 Oct 2008)
The collapse of the sub- prime-mortgage market has led to more than $ 587 billion of losses and write-downs (3 Oct 2008)
Wells Fargo in a Deal to Buy All of Wachovia (3 Oct 2008)
Can an Accounting Fix End the Financial Crisis? (3 Oct 2008)
EU firms urge accounting review, bank stability (3 Oct 2008)
US Prosecutors Expected To Spare Wall St. Firms (3 Oct 2008)
Ernst & Young on standby for Sigma (3 Oct 2008)
PWC is not part of the solution (2 Oct 2008)
Where In The World Is The Revenue? (2 Oct 2008)
Critics say accounting rule off mark (2 Oct 2008)
The Evolution of U.S. GAAP: The Political Forces Behind Professional Standards (2 Oct 2008)
A Federal Probe of Fannie and Freddie (2 Oct 2008)
NAPF attacks IASB pensions proposals (2 Oct 2008)
GE Capital has shoved into off-balance sheet vehicles a huge $54 bn in securitizations (2 Oct 2008)
The Financial Reporting Review Panel's Annual Review and the challenges of current financial markets (2 Oct 2008)
A USELESS REPORT FROM FINANCIAL REPORTING REVIEW PANEL: REVIEW FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS – 2008 (2 Oct 2008)
AADB Announces New Investigation (2 Oct 2008)
Dispute over AADB enquiry powers (2 Oct 2008)
Bank directors whose financial strategies caused their share prices to collapse should resign or be sacked (2 Oct 2008)
Fat Cats: More UK FDs hit the million mark (2 Oct 2008)
Fat Cats: More than half of the finance directors in the FTSE 100 earned over £1m last year (2 Oct 2008)
Quest Seeks New Auditing Firm (2 Oct 2008)
US fair-value moves draw Canadian scrutiny (2 Oct 2008)
Sigma's $27 billion Fall Could Worsen Market's Pain (2 Oct 2008)
Sigma collapse marks end of SIV era (2 Oct 2008)
The harder they fall: Will the Big Four survive the credit crunch? (1 Oct 2008)
To help banks, some suggest rewriting accounting rules (1 Oct 2008)
PwC earns less than half of fees from audits (1 Oct 2008)
SEC eases ‘mark to market’ accounting rule (1 Oct 2008)
Sarkozy seeks change to fair value rules (1 Oct 2008)
Ireland puts up €400bn to protect six big lenders (1 Oct 2008)
SEC `Failed' in Bear Stearns Oversight, Report Says (1 Oct 2008)
Audit cites shortfalls in SEC’s reviews of corporate financial filings (1 Oct 2008)
Investors Seek Off Balance Sheet Options (1 Oct 2008)
Auditors Resist Effort To Change Mark-to-Market (1 Oct 2008)
Financial crisis: US corporate defaults look set to spike (1 Oct 2008)
SEC Loosens Accounting Rule Banks Blame for Crisis (1 Oct 2008)
SEC gives banks more leeway on mark-to-market (1 Oct 2008)
SEC Office of the Chief Accountant and FASB Staff Clarifications on Fair Value Accounting (1 Oct 2008)
SEC Charges East Coast Supermarket Operator Penn Traffic With Accounting Fraud (1 Oct 2008)
New Zealand: Dominion Finance fined $65000 for late report (1 Oct 2008)
SEC Announces $32 Million Fair Fund Distribution in Ameriprise Revenue Sharing Settlement (1 Oct 2008)

SEPTEMBER 2008

European banks: Dexia the latest to be bailed out (30 Sep 2008)
PricewaterhouseCoopers and Mazars & Guérard gave clean bill of health to Dexia for 8,394,702 Euros including 2,117,267 Euros for non-audit work (30 Sep 2008)
Government takes control of Glitnir, Iceland's third-largest bank (30 Sep 2008)
PricewaterhouseCoopers gave a clean bill of health to GLITNIR BANKI for 367m ISK, including ISK218m in non-audit fees (30 Sep 2008)
US authorities investigating Fannie and Freddie (30 Sep 2009)
Bailout Bill Gives SEC Sweeping Power to Halt Fair Value (30 Sep 2008)
Jailed Publisher Conrad Black Broke Securities Laws, Judge Says (30 Sep 2008)
SEC Wins Ruling on Conrad Black (30 Sep 2008)
The Lessons of Europe's Biggest Bailout (30 Sep 2008)
New doubts over buy-to-let market that collectively owes £132bn (30 Sep 2008)
The layman's finance crisis glossary (30 Sep 2008)
Fat Cats: Failed Derbyshire's bosses to get £1m (30 Sep 2008)
Bradford & Bingley received a clean bill of health from KPMG for £1.4 million (29 Sep 2008)
Financial crisis: Bradford & Bingley nationalisation will cost taxpayers £150 billion (29 Sep 2008)
Fannie, Freddie disclose subpoenas, investigations (29 Sep 2008)
Mark to Market Accounting: Kill It Before It Eats Us Alive (29 Sep 2008)
Citigroup to buy US bank Wachovia (29 Sep 2008)
Wachovia's `Great Success' Became $122 Billion Burden (29 Sep 2008)
Wachovia received a clean bill of health from KPMG (29 Sep 2008)
KPMG relationship with Wachovia was under scrutiny by the SEC (29 Sep 2008)
KPMG received $65 million over las year fro audit and non-audit services to Wachovia (29 Sep 2008)
Ex-computer execs 'evaded tax' on stock option gains (29 Sep 2008)
Financial crisis: Benelux bank Fortis nationalised to stop collapse (29 Sep 2008)
KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers gave a clean bill of health to Fortis (29 sep 2008)
Fortis auditors received 37 million Euros for auditing and non-auditing fees (29 Sep 2008)
Financial crisis: Bradford & Bingley to be nationalised by Treasury (28 Sep 2008)
B&B and Fortis both in crisis (28 Sep 2008)
Bankruptcies loom for private equity (28 Sep 2008)
MFI lines up Kroll as administrator (28 Sep 2008)
Behind Biggest Insurer’s Crisis, a Blind Eye to a Web of Risk (28 Sep 2008)
Funny Accounting Weighing the bailout's cost to taxpayers (28 Sep 2008)
Deloitte issues 'going concern' warning over JJB interims (28 Sep 2008)
AABA Gives Evidence to Scottish Parlament Hearing On Credit Crunch (27 Sep 2008)
My Clients Are Failing, My Clients Are Failing (27 Sep 2008)
Like Deja-vu, All Over Again... (27 Sep 2008)
Country by country reporting gets EU Parliament backing (27 Sep 2008)
Brown calls for better international accounting standards (27 Sep 2008)
Will Audit Firms Go Public with Financial Results? (27 Sep 2008)
US Treasury panel can't agree on auditor liability shield (27 Sep 2008)
US Treasury Advisory Committee on the Auditing Profession Adopts Final Report (27 Sep 2008)
Fact Sheet: Final Report of the Advisory Committee on the Auditing Profession (27 Sep 2008)

US Panel Suggests Ways Auditing Firms Can Stem Fraud (27 Sep 2008)
Insolvency firm reaps rewards from the casualties (27 Sep 2008)
Deloitte & Touche gave a clean bill of health to Washington Mutual (26 Sep 2008)
Deloitte & Touche received $15 million fees from Washington Mutual - $2.3 million for consultancy (26 Sep 2008)
Deloitte and Touche has a record of providing non-auditing services to Washington Mutual (26 Sep 2008)
US regulator shuts Washington Mutual (26 Sep 2008)
Insolvency firm reaps rewards from the casualties (26 Sep 2008)
Bally Technologies settles accounting dispute (26 Sep 2008)
'Rogues gallery' of mortgage scandals: Who should take heat for accounting fraud, deliberately misleading Wall Street? (26 Sep 2008)
Report says Royal Bank of Canada probed by SEC (26 Sep 2008)
McCain Says US Should Let AIG Fail to Prevent `Moral Hazard' (26 Sep 2008)
Rush for Bank of England funding (26 Sep 2008)
Financial crisis: Summit on $700bn Wall Street bail-out collapses (26 Sep 2008)
ECB in $40bn single-day loan to banks after collapse of Lehman (26 Sep 2008)
Professor calls for greater regulation of financial markets (25 Sep 2008)
Holyrood Hears of Finance Scandals (25 Sep 2008)
Mortgage collapse inquiry widened (25 Sep 2008)
FBI Began Investigating AIG in March (25 Sep 2008)
Beazer settles with SEC, will not pay fine (25 Sep 2008)
Why Mark-to-Paulson Accounting Won't Save Banks (25 Sep 2008)
Medicis May Restate for Sales-Return Reserves (25 Sep 2008)
Livent founders couldn't read financial ledger, trial hears (25 Sep 2008)
KPMG leads Europe with 34bn fees (25 Sep 2008)
Audit resignations thrust into spotlight (25 Sep 2008)
Misaccounting was at the core of the governance failure that lead to the credit crunch (24 Sep 2008)
LEAP @ the Convention of the Left (24 Sep 2008)
Citigroup might have to take $83 billion in off-balance-sheet liabilities back onto its balance sheet (24 Sep 2008)
US on reverse socialism path (24 Sep 2008)
FBI said to probe Fannie, Freddie, Lehman, AIG (24 Sep 2008)
FBI subprime investigation targets Lehman, AIG, Fannie and Freddie (24 Sep 2008)
AIG signs terms for $85bn package (24 Sep 2008)
National Road To Bankruptcy (24 Sep 2008)
Neo-con policies have failed (23 Sep 2008)
The Pain of Deleveraging Will Be Deep and Wide (23 Sep 2008)
The Pending Fair Value Accounting Fracas (23 Sep 2008)
Auditors to profit most from US rescue fund (23 Sep 2008)
Financial Socialism? No Thanks (23 Sep 2008)
1200 India listed companies forged accounts: Study (23 Sep 2008)
New York will begin regulating part of the $62 trillion credit default swap market (23 Sep 2008)
Banking Groups Seek Suspension of `Fair Value' Accounting Rule (22 Sep 2008)
True and fair (22 Sep 2008)
UK Taxpayers could be loaded with up to £200bn of so-called toxic bank debts in a move to prevent a financial collapse (22 Sep 2008)
Senate Republican backs CEO pay limit in bailout (22 Sep 2008)
The Economic Crisis how we got there and how to get out
Neo-con policies have failed (21 Sep 2008)
Ernst & Young Baltic executive arrested (21 Sep 2008)
Mining and oil face world tax exposure (21 Sep 2008)
Fat Cats: Fury at $2.5bn Lehman bonus (21 Sep 2008)
Lehman administrator seeks $8bn (21 Sep 2008)
12 failed US banks, thrifts so far this year (20 Sep 2008)
Corporate Bankruptcy Filing - The Inevitable Chapter (20 Sep 2008)
How to Save the Financial System (20 Sep 2008)
Maybe the Banks Are Just Counting Wrong (20 Sep 2008)
$700 billion limit set on the big US bail-out (20 Sep 2008)
More Significant Write-Downs on the Way (20 Sep 2008)
PwC aims to sell Lehman Europe assets in days (20 Sep 2008)
Accounting for the auditors: As huge corporations tumble, what of the auditing firms paid millions to provide them with clean bills of health? (19 Sep 2008)
The crisis and fair-value accounting (19 Sep 2008)
Accounting experts push fair market values rules (19 Sep 2008)
US financial industry bailout could hit economy with £1 trillion bill (19 Sep 2008)
Morgan Stanley, Wachovia in advanced merger talks (19 Sep 2008)
SEC's mandate will lead to a monopoly (19 Sep 2008)
Soros: 'We're headed for a financial storm' (19 Sep 2008)
HBOS funding model was too dependent on the wholesale markets (19 Sep 2008)
Morgan Stanley perplexes Wall Street as bank loses $20bn (19 Sep 2008)
Oxley says Wall Street crisis could trigger new regulations (19 Sep 2008)
Moulton slams 'absurd' accounting for banks' crisis (19 Sep 2008)
In Crisis, Fingers Point at Mark-to-Market Rule (19 Sep 2008)
Brown vows to end off-balance sheet accounting (19 Sep 2008)
Regulating the regulators (19 Sep 2008)
Casualties of Bad Regulation (18 Sep 2008)
Hello? Big 4? Are You Out There? (18 Sep 2008)
Government bailout tally tops $900 billion (18 Sep 2008)
Bailouts and other gov't rescues exceed $600B (18 Sep 2008)
Bad Accounting Rules Helped Sink AIG (18 Sep 2008)
BDO says it dealt with XL issues (18 Sep 2008)
FASB Pushes Ahead With “Securitization Killer” (18 Sep 2008)
Loopholes let Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae push off their balance sheets some $3.3 tn in hedges (18 Sep 2008)
Accounting For The Meltdown (18 Sep 2008)
Woolworths chief offers a dose of good shopkeeping after £100m loss (18 Sep 2008)
Findings of the Financial Reporting Review Panel in respect of the accounts of Wilmington Group plc for the year ended 30 June 2007 (18 Sep 2008)
SEC cracks down on short selling (18 Sep 2008)
Tax Dodging: Corporate America’s Next Big Scandal (18 Sep 2008)
Even bankers agree that more regulation is not only desirable but essential (18 Sep 2008)
Accountancy Firm Partner Compensation - We Now Know How It's Done (17 Sep 2008)
There seemed no limit to the leverage, the off-balance sheet liabilities, and what credit rating agencies would approve (17 Sep 2008)
Dragon of moral hazard is going to take some impaling (17 Sep 2008)
US to Take Over AIG in $85 Billion Bailout (17 Sep 2008)
Fed to Loan AIG $85 Billion in Rescue (17 Sep 2008)
HBOS in talks with Lloyds TSB over merger after shares plunge (17 Sep 2008)
UK Group Warns of Global-accounting Confusion (17 Sep 2008)
The state shirked its role while City stupidity and greed slid into thieving. When the crisis subsides, an inquiry is needed (17 Sep 2008)
Revenue Recognition Trips Up Auditors, Clients (17 Sep 2008)
Fair Value overhaul rejected by IASB body (17 Sep 2008)
Provident Bankshares Dumps KPMG for Deloitte (17 Sep 2008)
PwC Says Unwinding Lehman Brothers Could Take Years (17 Sep 2008)
Liquidating Lehman Brothers UK may take years (17 Sep 2008)
Will we get country by country reporting? (16 Sep 2008)
Taking liberties (and tax dollars): Financial institutions have long devised ways of avoiding tax. Now they're relying on taxpayers to bail them out (16 Sep 2008)
SEC Charges American Italian Pasta Company Executives With Accounting Fraud (16 Sep 2008)
Former pasta executives plead guilty to conspiracy (16 Sep 2008)
SEC Announces $7.2 Million Settlement With Former KB Home Chairman and CEO for Stock Option Backdating and Self-Dealing (16 Sep 2008)
Derivatives And Dangerous Times (16 Sep 2008)
Lehman ‘more complex than Enron’ (16 Sep 2008)
New fears for HBOS as turmoil spreads (16 Sep 2008)
A Race for Cash at AIG as Ratings Are Downgraded (16 Sep 2008)
An AIG Accident Could Dwarf Lehman's (16 Sep 2008)
tate to Allow AIG to Access $20 Billion in Subsidary Assets (16 Sep 2008)
Switzerland's biggest bank UBS set for new crunch writedown of £2.8bn (16 Sep 2008)
Insolvency Sharks: For the doctors of debt, downturns are boom times (16 Sep 2008)
Annual reports blow the whistle on weak firms as auditors reach for the red card (16 Sep 2008)
FASB Issues Exposure Drafts to Amend Statement 140 and Interpretation 46(R) (16 Sep 2008)
FASB seeks changes to securitization accounting (16 Sep 2008)
How The Mighty Have Fallen - An Update On Who Audits Whom (15 Sep 2008)
Lehman Brothers received a clean bill of health from Ernst & Young (15 Sep 2008)
Merrill Lynch received a clean bill of health from Deloitte & Touche (15 Sep 2008)
Crisis on Wall Street as Lehman Totters, Merrill Is Sold, AIG Seeks to Raise Cash (15 Sep 2008)
Lehman Brothers declares bankruptcy (15 Sep 2008)
Lehman had derivative contracts with a face value of $738bn (15 Sep 2008)
Bank of America buys Merrill Lynch for $50bn (15 Sep 2008)
Struggling giant insurer AIG may restructure (15 Sep 2008)
AIG Scrambles to Raise Cash, Talks to Fed (15 Sep 2008)
Who murdered the GAAP? Take a look at the evidence (15 Sep 2008)
FASB Issues Position on Credit Derivatives (15 Sep 2008)
FASB Issues FASB Staff Position (FSP) No. 133-1 and FIN 45-4, Disclosures about Credit Derivatives and Certain Guarantees (15 Sep 2008)
Creditors set to pay bankruptcy tax (15 Sep 2008)
XL Leisure Group was warned over 'financial irregularities' (14 Sep 2008)
XL Leisure ignored probe into ‘irregularities’ (14 Sep 2008)
Fannie Mac, Freddie Mac bailout had to happen (14 Sep 2008)
Hank Greenberg and three others agree $115m settlement in AIG suit (14 Sep 2008)
Northern Rock rescue laws are flawed, warn banks (14 Sep 2008)
Ex-Livedoor exec's sentence cut (13 Sep 2008)
Fed did not know enough about the immense off-balance sheet vehicles that were highly leveraged (13 Sep 2008)
Some banks borrowed $30 for every $1 of capital on their balance sheets (13 Sep 2008)
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have an implied leverage ratio of anywhere from 60:1 to 200:1 (13 Sep 2008)
Freddie and Fannie are leveraged by more than 100 times, when one includes the guarantees (13 Sep 2008)
My old notes on Northern Rock and its leveraging (13 Sep 2008)
Lifting the Lid: Accounting 'interpretations' get more scrutiny (13 Sep 2008)
Poll: IASB changes would discourage 46% from offering pensions (13 Sep 2008)
Reporting rules should not favour bank cash cushions (12 Sep 2008)
Ex-top US law firm partner admits tax fraud shelter - Ernst & Young implicated (12 Sep 2008)
Appeals Court Upholds $183M Judgment Against PwC (12 Sep 2008)
US court OKs $183 million award in accounting case (12 Sep 2008)
Read Court Judgement in PAULETTE J. THABAULT, as Receiver of Ambassador Insurance Company v. DORIS JUNE CHAIT, as Representative of the Estate of Arnold Chait; PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS LLP (12 Sep 2008)
Livent witness accused of exaggerating fraud concerns (12 Sep 2008)
Auditor Liability: UK and US part ways over Enron response (12 Sep 2008)
AIC calls for reform of IASB governance (12 Sep 2008)
Profit warning proposals spark fears of litigation (12 Sep 2008)
Investors Push Companies For Greater Disclosure on Lawsuits (12 Sep 2008)
Error sees Hamworthy axe divisional FD (12 Sep 2008)
Banks borrow more from Fed; Wall Street takes pass (12 Sep 2008)
Big Four FTSE 100 audit fees reach £424M (11 Sep 2008)
Greenberg to Give Sworn Testimony in AIG Accounting Suit (11 Sep 2008)
Are banks relying on deferred tax as part of their capital here? (11 Sep 2008)
Washington Mutual Falls on Concern Accounting Will Deter Suitors (11 Sep 2008)
US Regulator Rips Into Global Accounting Plan (11 Sep 2008)
Regulator pans US move toward IFRS accounting (11 Sep 2008)
Northern Rock shareholders say BDO's valuer role is 'nonsense' (11 Sep 2008)
The People Responsible for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (11 Sep 2008)
The Hocus-Pocus Accounting Tricks That Will Perpetuate the Capital Markets Credit Crisis (11 Sep 2008)
US regulator wants more fair lending data from banks
Lean Times for Accounting Firms? (11 Sep 2008)
US Report slams stock-swap 'gimmicks' at financial firms (11 Sep 2008)
Follow the money: Until we tackle global economic inequities that drive people to leave their homes, immigration will continue unchecked (10 Sep 2008)
The IASB doesn’t buy incidence (10 Sep 2008)
When Internal Audit Is Impotent or Absent - What Is The Role Of The Board (10 Sep 2008)
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's accounting branded 'House of Cards' (10 Sep 2008)
Enron lawyers in record $688m payday (10 Sep 2008)
Royal Bank still faces Enron suit in Texas (10 Sep 2008)
SEC Charges Former Embarcadero Executives in Stock Option Backdating Scheme (10 Sep 2008)
US Senator Cornyn Seeks Criminal Inquiry of Fannie, Freddie Executives (10 Sep 2008)
Lehman plans asset sales after record $4 bln loss (10 Sep 2008)
Lehman fights for its future (10 Sep 2008)
Billions to be shared by Enron shareholders (10 Sep 2008)
Fannie, Freddie Get Tax Pass, Too (10 Sep 2008)
Where were the auditors as Fannie and Freddie circled the drain? (9 Sep 2008)
Freddie's dead:The US government takeover of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae shows why privatisation doesn't serve the public interest (9 Sep 2008)
United Rentals agrees to settlement in SEC case (9 Sep 2008)
PwC chairman nets £3m payday as profits soar (9 Sep 2008)
United Rentals, Inc. to Pay $14 Million to Settle Financial Fraud Charges (9 Sep 2008)
Northern Rock valuers BDO Stoy Hayward to be paid £4.5m (9 Sep 2008)
Mortgage bailout 'aggressive accounting?' Or fraud? (9 Sep 2008)
Ex-Livent employee says he was told to stop asking questions (9 Sep 2008)
KPMG sex lawsuit: SC stays probe (9 Sep 2008)
Will GE Hedge Accounting Pass Muster? (9 Sep 2008)
The Twilight of Neo-Liberalism? by Frank Lee
Welfare Consequences of Nigeria’s Tax Policies: Lessons for the Rest of Africa by N. A. ADEBAYO
Crash: Porsches and Portfolios at the End of the Road by Elton G. McGoun, Janice M. Traflet and Ulrika Sjödin
The Inherent Manipulability of Markets by Elton G. McGoun
Ethics in accounting: Exploring the relevance of a Buddhist perspective by Gregory A. Liyanarachchi
Where’s the objectivity? (8 Sep 2008)
GE (audited by KPMG)warned it may face charges over its accounts (8 Sep 2008)
Freddie and Fannie are nationalised (8 Sep 2008)
Freddie and Fannie Bailout Was Essential (8 Sep 2008)
Wachovia has $132 billion of off-balance sheet assets (8 Sep 2008)
AIG's Greenberg could pay fine of up to $100 million: report (8 Sep 2008)
Employers oppose IASB pensions plans (8 Sep 2008)
Nationwide rescues small lenders (8 Sep 2008)
Closing the Information GAAP (8 Sep 2008)
GE Says SEC Considers Civil Case in 3-Year-Old Accounting Probe (7 Sep 2008)
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: background to their rescue (7 Sep 2008)
US government siezes control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (7 Sep 2008)
US mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae taken into public ownership (7 Sep 2008)
Mortgage Giant Overstated the Size of Its Capital Base (7 Sep 2008)
Regulators Share Blame for the Financial Crisis (7 Sep 2008)
Accounting-Rule Change Spurs Lawsuit (6 Sep 2008)
Three US Accountants Sentenced to Prison in $20 Million Offshore Tax Fraud Conspiracy (6 Sep 2008)
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bail-out talks continue (6 Sep 2008)
Hey KPMG - Watch Your Back At Computer Associates (5 Sep 2008)
Jury Selection Set to Begin in KPMG Accounting Fraud Trial (5 Sep 2008)
Unwins administrators back legal move (5 Sep 2008)
KPMG hands over Unwins probe findings (5 Sep 2008)
Fannie Mae Investor Sues Citigroup, Merrill Over Stock Drop (5 Sep 2008)
Phillip Bennett starts 16-year jail sentence for Refco fraud (5 Sep 2008)
Stockman fraud trial puts Enron in the shade (5 Sep 2008)
Global Accounting Rules: Simpler, Yes. But Better? (5 Sep 2008)
Told to hide transfers, ex-Livent official says (5 Sep 2008)
Ex-CFO of Natural Health Trends Settles Self-Dealing Fraud Charges (5 Sep 2008)
Accounting firm chairman stole $847000 from client (5 Sep 2008)
Employers oppose IASB accounting rule proposals (5 Sep 2008)
Employers Oppose Proposed New Pension Accounting Rules (5 Sep 2008)
SEC wants IASCF accountability before IFRS reaches US (5 Sep 2008)
Accounting for Employee Benefits: Reactions to the IASB’s Preliminary Views Paper From Around the World (5 Sep 2008)
Stoy era ends as BDO plots global move (5 Sep 2008)
Computer Associates Jailed Ex-CEO Kumar Implicates Others in Cover-Up (4 Sep 2008)
Barclays 'needs £7.5bn' to shore up finances (4 Sep 2008)
SEC Charges Former CEO of Kellogg, Brown & Root, Inc. with Foreign Bribery (4 Sep 2008)
SEC Charges Two Wall Street Brokers in $1 Billion Subprime-Related Auction Rate Securities Fraud (4 Sep 2008)
Former Credit Suisse brokers accused of securities fraud (4 Sep 2008)
Criminal charges for ex-Credit Suisse brokers (4 Sep 2008)
Ospraie chief axes flagship hedge fund (4 Sep 2008)
New Zealand Securities Commission to check if financial reports tell full story (4 Sep 2008)
New accountancy rules will add significant debts to NHS balance sheets (4 Sep 2008)
US will adopt IFRS but on its terms (4 Sep 2008)
More gimmicks: Deloitte first off the mark with audit report (4 Sep 2008)
Impression Management: Insolvency practitioners are to get a new code of ethics (4 Sep 2008)
Rogue trader's lawyers aim to show SocGen complicity (4 Sep 2008)
Hamworthy Has Biggest Fall in 10 Months on Balance Sheet Error (3 Sep 2008)
Hamworthy fires divisional FD after finding £4.6 million accounting errors (3 Sep 2008)
Former Livent accounting controller testifies he was 'dumbfounded' to learn of proposal to reclassify costs as assets (3 Sep 2008)
Kumar: CA's Wang was involved in improper accounting (3 Sep 2008)
Lehman Brothers and a Brief History of ‘Bad Banks’ (3 Sep 2008)
Bedding company Dunlopillo in administration (3 Sep 2008)
Laboring In The Big 4 - A Labor Day Special Report (2 Sep 2008)
Fair-Value Revolution (2 Sep 2008)
Bank write-offs 'rise to £276bn' (2 Sep 2008)
FRC faces caution on 'going concern' (2 Sep 2008)
Accountants 'in battle with HMRC over adviser definition' (2 Sep 2008)
IAS39: Traps for the unprepared? (2 Sep 2008)
UK top bosses can look forward to retiring on £200,000 a year (2 Sep 2008)
PensionsWatch 2008: Analysing the pensions of top company directors (2 Sep 2008)
ECB has lent banks €467 billion (£378 billion) (2 Sep 2008)
Bank write-offs 'rise to £276bn' (2 Sep 2008)
Professional bodies: A bid for raised profiles rather than world domination (2 Sep 2008)
Sky-high oil prices fuel XL's cash crisis (1 Sept 2008)
APB reveals concise audit report plans (1 Sep 2008)
APB issues an Exposure Draft of proposed revisions to ISA (UK and Ireland) 700 'The Auditor's Report on Financial Statements'; and Bulletin 2008/8 on UK Auditor's Reports for short accounting periods (1 Sep 2008)
Atticus hit hard by credit crunch after losses top $5bn this year (1 Sep 2008)
Lehman hopes to clinch $6bn funding (1 Sep 2008)
Shell comes under fire for role in Sakhalin audit (1 Sep 2008)
SEC Charges Oil and Gas Well Operators for Defrauding Investors (1 Sep 2008)
PROPOSALS FOR A NEW AUDIT LIABILITY REGIME IN EUROPE (1 Sep 2008)

AUGUST 2008

Blame Game: A Jury Tackles CFO-CEO Fraud (31 Aug 2008)
Insurer warns PwC over restructuring (31 Aug 2008)
Update: Deloitte Statement on Layoffs (30 Aug 2008)
IFRS - "Like A Band of Gypsies We'll Go Down The Highway (30 Aug 2008)
Bradford & Bingley gave us a glimpse of how dicey things were in July as it came close to becoming a second Northern Rock (30 Aug 2008)
Integrity Bank Becomes 10th US Failure This Year (30 Aug 2008)
Alitalia in administration with €1bn debt (30 Aug 2008)
US court upholds dismissal of charges in KPMG case (29 Aug 2008)
Prosecutors can't ask firms to waive legal privileges (29 Aug 2008)
New US Guidelines Issued for Corporate Fraud Cases (29 Aug 2008)
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT JUDGEMENT IN THE CASE OF KPMG PARTNERS (29 Aug 2008)
Bradford & Bingley victim of £18m mortgage fraud (29 Aug 2008)
Bradford & Bingley announces loss (29 Aug 2008)
FRC publishes Consultation Paper setting out its proposals to revise the Guidance for Directors on Going Concern and Financial Reporting (29 Aug 2008)
Credit Agricole tops France's crunch casualties (29 Aug 2008)
Deloitte to Lay Off 2 Percent of US Employees (29 Aug 2008)
SEC OKs plan that could lead to global accounting rules (28 Aug 2008)
Big Shift in Accounting Rules Nears (28 Aug 2008)
US Moves Toward International Accounting Rules (28 Aug 2008)
Future of audit: down the pan? (28 Aug 2008)
Companies urged to clarify risks of failure (28 Aug 2008)
Hopes of debt deal give Taylor Wimpey a boost (28 Aug 2008)
Don't Get Burned by Phony Assets (28 Aug 2008)
ASB issues Amendment to FRS 25 'Financial Instruments: Presentation' (28 Aug 2008)
An academic's duty is to truth, not trends (28 Aug 2008)
'Picky' audit regulators isolating smaller firms (28 Aug 2008)
Taylor Wimpey reveals £1.5bn property hit (27 Aug 2008)
Northern Rock defaults leave taxpayers facing bill (27 Aug 2008)
Credit crunch: List of at-risk US banks increases sharply as lenders' profits shrink by 87% (27 Aug 2008)
FDIC sees 117 problem banks; most since 2003 (27 Aug 2008)
VAT ruling to bring windfall for Rank (27 Aug 2008)
Is Deloitte The Perfect Firm? (26 Aug 2008)
Is the US Accounting Oversight Board Really Independent? (26 Aug 2008)
Non-executive directors see pay levels drop (26 Aug 2008)
Accounting Fair Value Rule Driving Bank Meltdown (26 Aug 2008)
EC urged to review audit liability stance (26 Aug 2008)
Law suit against Bank of China for transferring terrorist money (26 Aug 2008)
Elderslie collapse leads to sinking of two associated companies (25 Aug 2008)
Freddie's off-balance-sheet commitment is nearer $1.4 trillion (25 Aug 2008)
Court Challenge to Sarbanes-Oxley Fails (25 Aug 2008)
Tax and accounting loopholes that largely benefit rich taxpayers and companies cost the U.S. government $20 billion a year (25 Aug 2008)
Executive Excess 2008 How Average Taxpayers Subsidize Runaway Pay (25 Aug 2008)
Housing giant Taylor Wimpey suffers massive land hit (25 Aug 2008)
Private shareholders lose £48bn on investments since credit cruch started (25 Aug 2008)
Northern Rock could cost £1.28bn (25 Aug 2008)
UK Taxpayers face £1bn Northern Rock loss (24 Aug 2008)
Top investors slam EU plans to "protect" auditors (24 Aug 2008)
Fannie and Freddie's blame game (24 Aug 2008)
SEC looks at timing for accounting rules change (24 Aug 2008)
Crunch time at Lehman (24 Aug 2008)
Sarbanes-Oxley Upheld By Court as Constitutional (23 Aug 2008)
DC Circuit Affirms Constitutionality of Accounting Oversight Board (23 Aug 2008)
Former Hayes Lemmerz executive convicted of accounting fraud (23 Aug 2008)
The Conservative state we're in (22 Aug 2008)
PwC 's Non-Announcement (22 Aug 2008)
Germany's D.Bahn finds accounting fraud at Schenker unit (22 Aug 2008)
Ernst & Young had advised Hogan (22 Aug 2008)
A VANUATU-BASED accountant with links to KPMG charged with defrauding more than $10 million by promoting an offshore tax avoidance scheme (22 Aug 2008)
Deloitte gross revenue exceeds £2 billion (22 Aug 2008)
Auditors protest requirments for IFRS specialists (22 Aug 2008)
Salesforce: Deferred Revenue Debacle; Bookings In Danger? (22 Aug 2008)
Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs settle bond dispute (22 Aug 2008)
Credit crisis: Let’s call the banks to account (21 Aug 2008)
Country based reporting reduces risk for just about everyone (21 Aug 2008)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Nowhere: A journey into economic anarchy (21 Aug 2008)
Insolvency Sharks: Grant Thornton charge £331 per hour (21 Aug 2008)
Information Commissioners Officer has prosecuted accountants for offences under the data protection act (21 Aug 2008)
Pair settle fraud lawsuit at SeraCare (21 Aug 2008)
Grant Thornton wants another year to sell Esporta gym chain (21 Aug 2008)
For a single language, audit regulators must go global too (21 Aug 2008)
Big 4 and FAS 5 - What We Don't Know Can't Hurt US (20 Aug 2008)
PCAOB Faults Flaws in KPMG's Audits (20 Aug 2008)
Country-by-Country reporting: UNCTAD supports it (20 Aug 2008)
Country by Country Reporting: Is the penny dropping? (20 Aug 2008)
SEC fines Ernst & Young for violating auditor independence rules (20 Aug 2008)
Violations of Auditor Independence Rules by Ernst & Young (20 Aug 2008)
Auditors PwC replaced after fraud (20 Aug 2008)
KPMG survey highlights problem with disclosure (20 Aug 2008)
Morgan Stanley faces £9m lawsuit over failed Irish mortgage venture (20 Aug 2008)
Who Should Write the Accounting Rules? (20 Aug 2008)
FASB Seeks to Inform Investors, Not Whack Companies (20 Aug 2008)
Fat salaries eat into earnings of auditing firms (20 Aug 2008)
Swindler accountant heads for jail (20 Aug 2008)
Grant Thornton and Refco - Small Favors (19 Aug 2008)
A Bleak Outlook From the Bank of Japan (19 Aug 2008)
Warning from Alliance & Leicester (19 Aug 2008)
A large US bank likely to collapse in the next few months, a former IMF chief economist has warned (19 Aug 2008)
Greencore switches auditors after fraud (19 Aug 2008)
Wolverine Tube cans Q2 results after finding errors (19 Aug 2008)
FSA warning on new investor scams (19 Aug 2008)
Bar Fight: Accounting for Lawsuits (18 Aug 2008)
PCAOB Faults Flaws in KPMG's Audits (18 Aug 2008)
More transparency urged for energy companies accounts (18 Aug 2008)
Deloitte boss pockets £5.7m despite downturn (14 Aug 2008)
UK Insolvency regulator comes under fire over dual role (14 Aug 2008)
BDO manager blames boss in forgery case (13 Aug 2008)
Pension scheme accounting standards ‘creaking' (13 Aug 2008)
Poachers and Gmekeepers: PwC partner appointed senior adviser to IRS (12 Aug 2008)
Update (2) - More FAS 5 - More Transparency or More Shilling (11 Aug 2008)
SEC Announces Distribution of $48 Million to Defrauded Vivendi Universal Investors (11 Aug 2008)
US will adopt global accountancy model (10 Aug 2008)
Lib Dems call on Northern Rock auditor to stand down (9 Aug 2008)
Erinaceous’s £205m debt toll (8 Aug 2008)
GM, Deloitte to settle shareholder suit for $303M (8 Aug 2008)
Findings of the Financial Reporting Review Panel in respect of the accounts of The Investment Company PLC for the years ended 31 March 2007 and 31 March 2006 (8 Aug 2008)
Insolvency sharks: Zero return for Erinaceous creditor minnows (8 Aug 2008)
GM, Deloitte, to Pay Combined $303M to Settle Securities Class Action (8 Aug 2008)
Ernst & Young Mucks Up Independence (7 Aug 2008)
Independence Breach Costs E&Y $2.9 Million (7 Aug 2008)
Accountant struck off CIPFA for ₤44m gamble (7 Aug 2008)
Ex-President of Refco Inc. Is Sentenced (7 Aug 2008)
Ernst & Young not liable for the collapse of the Beacon Hill Master Hedge fund (7 Aug 2008)
SEC Sanctions Ernst & Young (6 Aug 2008)
Prudential Financial, Inc. Settles Financial Reporting and Related Charges by SEC for Improperly Reporting Over $200 Million in Income as a Result of Purported Reinsurance Contracts (6 Aug 2008)
SEC Charges Former ABB Project Manager for Falsifying Company's Books and Records (6 Aug 2008)
Sigma Financial creditors seek Deloitte reassurance (4 Aug 2008)
Portfolio valuations: Auditors off the hook (4 Aug 2008)
Accounting firms can't help on tax (1 Aug 2008)
US bank accounts will not show a true and fair view (1 Aug 2008)
Enron Stripper Lover Charged (1 Aug 2008)
FRC Report: Key Facts and Trends in the UK Accountancy Profession (1 Aug 2008)
Balance Sheets 101: Who Made the Grade (1 Aug 2008)
FRRP publishes revised operating procedures (1 Aug 2008)
Investor class-action lawsuits surge with subprime bust (1 Aug 2008)
A&L profits hit by credit crunch (1 Aug 2008)
Stressed banks borrow record amount from Fed (1 Aug 2008)
Despite monumental failures accountants want even more monopolies (1 Aug 2008)
No response to audit failures and scams but Campaign to protect name of accountants steps up (1 Aug 2008)

JULY 2008

Hartnett gunning for tax haven advisers (31 Jul 2008)
Ex-Refco CEO Bennett Reaches Settlement in SEC Civil Case (31 Jul 2008)
US delays accounting changes (31 Jul 2008)
US Accounting Board Delays an Asset Rule (31 Jul 2008)
US Federal Reserve and ECB in joint action on emergency bank lending (31 Jul 2008)
SEC to Examine Subprime Accounting (31 Jul 2008)
Former Enron Executive Pai Agrees to Insider-Trading Settlement (31 Jul 2008)
Transfer Pricing scams: Conning the Congo,, A Greenpeace Report (31 Jul 2008)
SEC Slaps CPA Firms for Not Registering (31 Jul 2008)
Manx Electricity Authority Auditor 'kept in the dark' on loans (31 Jul 2008)
Super-rich tax cheats and their sleazebag lawyers (30 Jul 2008)
PCAOB Approves Succession Rule (30 Jul 2008)
Wall Street warns regulators not to rush accounting change (30 Jul 2008)
JP Morgan Banker arrested in Argentina; faces NY prosecution (30 Jul 2008)
Recovering after IndyMac fallout (30 Jul 2008)
Bank Failures: The Latest Fixes Don't Fix the Big Problem (30 Jul 2008)
SOx and ERPs - Where Are The IT Auditors? (29 Jul 2008)
Freddie, Fannie `Fair Values' Hardly Look Fair (29 Jul 2008)
IMF: Credit crunch losses to hit $1trn (29 Jul 2008)
BDO Seidman prospers as $521m suit lingers (29 Jul 2008)
Subprime-fueled rise in class-action suits (29 Jul 2008)
Nothing local about the First National Bank of Nevada: the seventh US bank to go bust (29 Jul 2008)
Bribery trial: Judge criticises Siemens for failures that let fraud flourish (29 Jul 2008)
FASB may delay off-balance sheet accounting change (29 Jul 2008)
US Audit Watchdog's Performance Questioned as Court Ruling Looms (29 Jul 2008)
French experts explain fair value during a crisis (29 Jul 2008)
Securitization Accounting: Later Than Sooner? (29 Jul 2008)
How to arrive at fair value during a crisis (29 Jul 2008)
Lawsuit accounting: a quadruple threat for business defendants? (28 Jul 2008)
US Appellate Court Upholds $10M Ruling Against PwC (28 Jul 2008)
Two more US banks collapse as defaults soar (28 Jul 2008)
No time to backtrack on fair value accounting (28 Jul 2008)
PwC faces probe over Greencore's €21m fraud (28 Jul 2008)
Scramble for bodies boosts insolvency pay (28 Jul 2008)
Beds Direct calls in the administrators (28 Jul 2008)
reland: Lease scheme to avoid tax (marketed by Deloitte & Touche) ruled invalid (28 Jul 2008)
Ireland Court judgement: Cussens & Ors -v- Brosnan, which rejected a Deloitte & Touche tax avoidance scheme (28 Jul 2008)
PwC face probe into failure to detect €21m Greencore fraud (27 Jul 2008)
Firms go to credit limit to stay afloat (27 Jul 2008)
UK Treasury plan to rescue mortgage lenders (27 Jul 2008)
Wells Fargo paddles while other banks sink (27 Jul 2008)
KPMG Has Been Ordered to Stand Trial in Massive Fraud Lawsuit (26 Jul 2008)
KPMG takes ex-partner to court (26 Jul 2008)
Patientline collapses into administration (26 Jul 2008)
Call to use JDS fine to pay Equitable investors (26 Jul 2008)
US SEC, FASB urged to delay accounting change (26 Jul 2008)
US Regulators close First National Bank of Nevada (26 Jul 2008)
US Regulators Close Two More National Banks (26 Jul 2008)
Citigroup To Begin Presenting Its Case In Parmalat Trial Monday (26 Jul 2008)
Money can't fix Fannie and Freddie (26 Jul 2008)
18,857 firms: one registered address. Ugland House goes to Washington (25 Jul 2008)
Highlights of Business and Tax Advantages Attract U.S. Persons and Enforcement Challenges Exist (25 Jul 2008)
Summary of Cayman Islands: Business and Tax Advantages Attract U.S. Persons and Enforcement Challenges Exist (25 Jul 2008)
CAYMAN ISLANDS: Business Advantages and Tax Minimization Attract U.S. Persons and Enforcement Challenges Exist (25 Jul 2008)
CAYMAN ISLANDS: Business and Tax Advantages Attract U.S. Persons and Enforcement Challenges Exist (25 Jul 2008)
We must break the prism of corporate interests (25 Jul 2008)
The Fan/Fred Bailout Is a Scandal (25 Jul 2008)
Oilcorp plans legal action against auditor (25 Jul 2008)
Fed Needs Direct Oversight of Banks With Access to Its Lending (25 Jul 2008)
Balance sheet sleight of hand means US banking crisis far from over (25 Jul 2008)
Livent employee told to get auditors out quickly (25 Jul 2008)
Tokyo court rejects Livedoor tycoon's appeal (25 Jul 2008)
We must break the prism of corporate interests (24 Jul 2008)
SEC Charges Scott Hirth and ProQuest Company in Connection With Accounting Fraud Scheme (24 Jul 2008)
Don’t be fooled by accountancy’s invisible ink (24 Jul 2008)
Former Cazenove trader faces insider dealing charge (24 Jul 2008)
Limiting Auditor Liability is Plain Dumb (24 Jul 2008)
French audit regulator gets day in court (24 Jul 2008)
Ford posts $8.7bn loss (24 Jul 2008)
Chrysler says it lost $431 million (24 Jul 2008)
China to cancel double audit requirement for HK dual-listed firms (24 Jul 2008)
Wall Street Shrinks From Competing With Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac (24 Jul 2008)
Hospitals: Survey finds foundation trusts' hidden private income (24 Jul 2008)
BDO chief takes on the Big Four (24 Jul 2008)
Deloitte Revenues Top $27 Billion (24 Jul 2008)
Deloitte boasts global growth (24 Jul 2008)
ProQuest, former executive hit with accounting fraud charges (23 Jul 2008)
SEC Charges Ann Arbor-Based Company and Former Executive in Accounting Fraud Scheme (23 Jul 2008)
Attack of the Global Pirate Bankers (23 Jul 2008)
FASB plans proposal on off-balance accounting soon (23 Jul 2008)
E-gold executives plead guilty to money laundering (23 Jul 2008)
Credit Crunch: Wachovia Posts $8.66 Billion Loss, Slashes Dividend, Will Sell Assets (23 Jul 2008)
Deloitte Double Talk (22 Jul 2008)
Bitter taste of accounting scandals linger in subprime crisis (22 Jul 2008)
The General Trading Company collapses (22 Jul 2008)
Will a Lawsuit Unravel SOX? Firm Brings Constitutional Challenge (22 Jul 2008)
FASB proposes simpler hedging standard (22 Jul 2008)
Trustees publish proposals on enhancements to public accountability and to IASB composition (22 Jul 2008)
IASCF constitution review proposals published (22 Jul 2008)
Fannie, Freddie May Record More Losses (22 Jul 2008)
A Bermuda Triangle - Levi Strauss, Deloitte Consulting, SAP and Internal Controls (21 Jul 2008)
Efforts to regulate 'Wild West' markets are long overdue (21 Jul 2008)
US rule changes could hit banks (21 Jul 2008)
Accounting Rule changes could hit balance sheets (21 Jul 2008)
Ernst & Young faces penalties for Equitable Life role (21 Jul 2008)
The long list of shame at Equitable (21 Jul 2008)
Citigroup Unravels as Reed Regrets Universal Model (21 Jul 2008)
US raises $5000bn balance sheet fears (21 Jul 2008)
Accountant, employee convicted of 66 fraud charges (21 Jul 2008)
Accountant charged with stealing $2.7 million in pet insurance money (21 Jul 2008)
Unwins director faces questioning over collapse (20 Jul 208)
New Equitable storm looms for Ernst & Young (20 Jul 2008)
Fraudsters still get a free ride in the City (20 Jul 2008)
Outrage of the Week: Freddie's Curious Accounting (19 Jul 2008)
Apple's iPhone Dials Up A New Deferred Cash Hoard (19 Jul 2008)
US May Seek More Charges Against Ex-Bear Stearns Managers (19 Jul 2008)
SEC settles fraud case with 3 former iGo execs (19 Jul 2008)
Citigroup loss pushes credit crunch hit to $50bn (19 Jul 2008)
Insolvency: a licence to print money (18 Jul 2008)
US lawmakers attack bank secrecy (18 Jul 2008)
LGT Group's Kieber Says Bank Helped Clients Break Law (18 Jul 2008)
Levin Calls for Closing Down UBS (18 Jul 2008)
Opening Statement of Senator Carl Levin Before U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations on Tax Haven Banks and U.S. Tax Compliance (18 Jul 2008)
US SENATE PERMANENT SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS REPORT: TAX HAVEN BANKS AND U. S. TAX COMPLIANCE (18 Jul 2008)
FBI in £500m IndyMac probe (18 Jul 2008)
FBI fraud inquiry after IndyMac (audited by Ernst & Young) collapse (18 Jul 2008)
Stall Balance-sheet Changes, FASB Asked (18 Jul 2008)
Mired in tax dodging but CIoT backs qualification call for all advisers (18 Jul 2008)
Who's to blame for the biggest financial catastrophe of our time? (18 Jul 2008)
Credit Crunch: Merrill posts $4.9 bln loss, sells Bloomberg stake (18 Jul 2008)
Fannie and Freddie - They're No Angels (17 Jul 2008)
Sarbanes-Oxley - How Painful Is It? (17 Jul 2008)
Cameron sets out ideas on insolvency (17 Jul 2008)
Business big shot: Lord Wakeham (17 Jul 2008)
Equitable Life: a decade of regulatory failure (17 Jul 2008)
Compensation call over Equitable (17 Jul 2008)
Former HealthSouth official sentenced to probation (17 Jul 2008)
Swiss Re hurt by $9.6bn exposure (17 Jul 2008)
Cooking the books but protected by powerful politicians, the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac financial crisis was seen a mile away by print media (17 Jul 2008)
US Treasury chief defends 'blank cheque' to rescue Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae (17 Jul 2008)
A history of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae (17 Jul 2008)
Moral hazard on the road to increasing profits (17 Jul 2008)
US claims UBS 'colluded' on tax evasion behind secrecy laws (17 Jul 2008)
"Rogue" Partners At KPMG Christchurch (16 Jul 2008)
Samsung boss guilty of tax fraud (16 Jul 2008)
UK Watchdog clears Arthur Andersen and Lord Wakeham over Enron role (16 Jul 2008)
Lord Wakeham escapes probe over Enron role (16 Jul 2008)
No professional body action against Lord Wakeham, a former non-executive director of Enron (16 Jul 2008)
US Accounting Cleanup Board Is Facing a Gutting (16 Jul 2008)
On the Outside Now, Watching Fannie Falter (16 Jul 2008)
Fannie and Freddie on the Brink (16 Jul 2008)
'Who Is Next' lists 7 banks in 'danger zone' (16 Jul 2008)
The rescue of Fannie and Freddie by Hankie and Feddie (15 Jul 2008)
Freddie Mac under attack (15 Jul 2008)
The Book on Bank Bailouts: They Often Cost (15 Jul 2008)
Who's Next? List of Troubled Banks Worries Wall Street, DC (15 Jul 2008)
After IndyMac's failure, which bank could be next? (15 Jul 2008)
Credit crunch: Fannie and Freddie rescued by government loan (15 Jul 2008)
Deloitte staff score bonuses of more than £0.5m (15 Jul 2008)
We have financial, not economic, problems (14 Jul 2008)
Citigroup's $1.1 Trillion of Mysterious Assets Shadows Earnings (14 Jul 2008)
Six-year ban for director in Allied Carpets scandal (14 Jul 2008)
Charges help sink shares of United (14 Jul 2008)
Analysts: 150 Banks May Fail In Next 12 To 18 Months (14 Jul 2008)
The Fannie Mae Scandal: A History (14 Jul 2008)
US Treasury to spend billions in bailout of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae (14 Jul 2008)
Ernst & Young Wins Hedge Fund Case (14 Jul 2008)
The quiet young man at heart of £72m HSBC bank fraud (14 Jul 2008)
Lehman's Off Balance Sheet Entities (14 Jul 2008)
Carphone Warehouse in choppy waters (13 Jul 2008)
close watch on corporate accounts (13 Jul 2008)
Off the balance sheet: Bank's new £50bn scheme to ease credit crisis (13 Jul 2008)
One of the largest US mortgage lenders, the California-based IndyMac Bank, has collapsed (13 Jul 2008)
US Treasury rescue for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (13 Jul 2008)
Panic as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac dive (13 Jul 2008)
US crisis over $5 trillion loans liability: White House scrambles for options to rescue mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (13 Jul 2008)
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac hold or guarantee about half of the nation's $12 trillion mortgage market (13 Jul 2008)
$3.3 trillion worth of debt and assets sits in off balance sheet vehicles operated by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (13 Jul 2008)
No help for Fannie and Freddie shareholders (13 Jul 2008)
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Followed `Hedge Fund' Model (13 Jul 2008)
Top funds may have lost $4 bln on Freddie and Fannie this week (13 Jul 2008)
Sovereign wealth funds debate disclosure rules (13 Jul 2008)
The Discreet Charms of Accountancy in Hollywood Films (13 Jul 2008)
Fannie Mae And Freddie Mac - Bear Stearns Redux (12 Jul 2008)
Some Blame Obscure Accounting Rule for Financial Crisis (12 Jul 2008)
You'll Need a Fair Value "Mindset" (12 Jul 2008)
Fair value rules will not change, says IASB (12 Jul 2008)
PwC Sees Revenue Recognition Snags in IFRS (12 Jul 2008)
How regulators take over failed banks (12 Jul 2008)
IndyMac in third largest bank collapse in US history (12 Jul 2008)
US regulators close IndyMac Bancorp savings bank (12 Jul 2008)
US Feds shut down IndyMac Bank (audited by Ernst & Young and published on 28 February 2008) (12 Jul 2008)
Read IndyMac's 2007 audited accounts published on 28 Feb 2008 clean bill of health from Ernst & Young (12 Jul 2008)
Federal regulators seize control of IndyMac bank (12 Jul 2008)
U.S. Weighs Takeover of Two Mortgage Giants Fannie Mae (audited by Deloitte & Touche, ex KPMG) and Freddie Mac (audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers) (12 Jul 2008)
Read the 2007 audited acocunts of Freddie Mac, audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers (12 Jul 2008)
Read the 2007 audited accounts of Fannie Mae, audited by Deloitte & Touche (12 Jul 2008)
Responding to Auditors Without Waiving Attorney Work-Product Protection (12 Jul 2008)
Credit Crunch: Fannie, Freddie bailout would imperil budget, dollar (12 Jul 2008)
KPMG India Thanks The SEC For IFRS (11 Jul 2008)
Auditors dismiss limited liability link with low fees (11 Jul 2008)
Fair-Value Accounting Supported at SEC Event (11 Jul 2008)
Bernanke, Paulson Champion Global Accounting (11 Jul 2008)
IASB chief cool to overhaul of fair-value rule (11 Jul 2008)
PwC Case Could Have Impact on Liability (11 Jul 2008)
US Justice department halts Apple stock options inquiries (11 Jul 2008)
Financial 'super cop' role for Fed in banking regulation (11 Jul 2008)
US housing market crisis fuels fears for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (11 Jul 2008)
US considers takeover of two mortgage giants (11 Jul 2008)
GE - Is KPMG Still Their Auditor? (10 Jul 2008)
How Fair Value Rewards Deadbeats (10 Jul 2008)
SEC Charges Sycamore Networks, Former Executives in Stock Options Backdating Case (10 Jul 2008)
Judge Bars Suit Alleging Negligence by Hedge Fund Accountants Ernst & Young (10 Jul 2008)
SEC roundtable clash over fair value (10 Jul 2008)
Swiss Holdings chief lambasts IFRS (10 Jul 2008)
Fannie, Freddie `Insolvent' After Losses (10 Jul 2008)
U.S. Is Revising Rules On White-Collar Crime (10 Jul 2008)
Are accounts worthless? (9 Jul 2008)
EU ministers move to rein in IASB powers (9 Jul 2008)
Auditors And ERPs - Can We Rest "Assured" ? (9 Jul 2008)
Bid to stop PFI tax avoidance (9 Jul 2008)
UK House of Commons Bill to stop PFI Tax Avoidance (9 Jul 2008)
JP Morgan CEO says Wall St. losses not due to accounting (9 Jul 2008)
Horwath Clark Whitehill has been reprimanded by the ICAEW (8 Jul 2008)
US far from adopting global accounting standard (9 Jul 2008)
SEC Examinations Find Shortcomings in Credit Rating Agencies' Practices and Disclosure to Investors (9 Jul 2008)
Transfer pricing holds clues to international money laundering, terrorist financing, and more (9 Jul 2008)
Equitable policyholders set to sue for billions (9 Jul 2008)
Credit crunch: Barclays' secured loans offshoot closes to new borrowers (9 Jul 2008)
Credit Crunch: It’s hard to see any value in the shares of Bradford & Bingley (9 Jul 2008)
UBS fails in bid to fight sub-prime lawsuit in London (9 Jul 2008)
Accountancy rule update must meet business concerns (9 Jul 2008)
Squeeze Is On When Becoming A Partner (8 Jul 2008)
Consultants and accountant run amok: The price of dubious advice - £100bn a year (8 Jul 2008)
Shareholder democracy is on hold (8 Jul 2008)
Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron (8 Jul 2008)
Fannie, Freddie Sink on Capital Concerns (8 Jul 2008)
CalPERS settles with UnitedHealth for $895 million over stock options (8 Jul 2008)
Parmalat scandal rumbles on amid subprime debris (8 Jul 2008)
Auditors: do they really make any difference any more? (7 Jul 2008)
And The IRS Has What Leverage Over The Firms? (7 Jul 2008)
Why ask the accountants? They’re the problem, not the solution (7 Jul 2008)
A typical Irish Chartered Accountant earns over €110000 a year (7 Jul 2008)
More 'diligent' auditing required to halt bribery (7 Jul 2008)
Whom the Gods wish to destroy: Lib Dems want 'accountant' term protected (7 Jul 2008)
Rose faces M&S shareholder rebellion (7 Jul 2008)
Add Deloitte To The List of "Vulnerables" (6 Jul 2008)
US Accounting Plan Would Allow Use of Foreign Rules (6 Jul 2008)
Crisis-hit Tanfield calls in PwC to probe accounts (6 Jul 2008)
10 names in frame to value the Rock (6 Jul 2008)
US Non-Audit Fees: A Five Year Trend (6 Jul 2008)
The UK's economic elites cannot effectively regulate themselves (5 Jul 2008)
Oh, To Be In Merry Old England Today (5 Jul 2008)
How bean counters have hurt your nest egg (5 Jul 2008)
Guy Hands sues Baker Tilly over 'negligent' tax advice (5 Jul 2008)
US IRS Probes Audit Firms on Tax Shelters (5 Jul 2008)
Big Four accounting firms edge back into consulting biz (5 Jul 2008)
Bear Stearns Faces Revised Suit Over Collapse of Hedge Funds (5 Jul 2008)
PricewaterhouseCoopers is helping the Tories with data and research (5 Jul 2008)
Cage Match - The Lawyers vs. The Accountants (4 Jul 2008)
US Internal Revenue Service asks accountancy firms to help stop tax evasion (4 Jul 2008)
Taxation and Representation (4 Jul 2008)
Law limits agencies' ability to keep secrets (4 Jul 2008)
Former Austrian bank boss jailed for fraud (4 Jul 2008)
British brokerage boss is jailed for 'depraved' fraud (4 Jul 2008)
Refco boss Phillip Bennett jailed for 16 years by US judge (4 Jul 2008)
Ex-Refco president guilty of fraud (4 Jul 2008)
Wall St. girds for battle on accounting rules (3 Jul 2008)
EU ministers to turn up heat on IASB (3 Jul 2008)
Deloitte bolstered by ‘downturn’ work (3 Jul 2008)
Liability: Could the Lawyers Kill the Auditors? (3 Jul 2008)
Liability: Will the US say yes? (3 Jul 2008)
IRS Taps Audit Firms to Probe Foreign Bank Role in Tax Cases (3 Jul 2008)
Deloitte Taps Into The Unusual, Again (2 Jul 2008)
Taylor Wimpey shares crash over funding crisis (2 Jul 2008)
The Mess On Wall Stree: Interview with Arthur Levitt (2 Jul 2008)
NJ Court Denies Citi's Appeal Of Parmalat Evidence Ruling (2 Jul 2008)
French drink group sacks KPMG as auditor (2 Jul 2008)
US wins court order for UBS bank tax records (2 Jul 2008)
In Any Other "Profession..." (1 Jul 2008)
PWC: a part of the problem (1 Jul 2008)
A new accounting rule — “an accounting rule!” — partly explains why the American financial system looks so wobbly these days (1 Jul 2008)
PCAOB Cites "Deficiencies" at PwC (1 Jul 2008)
PCAOB Report on 2007 Inspection of PricewaterhouseCoopers (1 Jul 2008)
Subprime hurts Sumitomo's asset management (1 Jul 2008)
US Judge Dismisses $4 Billion In Claims From Adelphia Creditors (1 Jul 2008)
Suspended Ex-Deloitte Auditor Back in the Saddle (1 Jul 2008)
US Court lightens sentence of convicted Adelphia telecom executives (1 Jul 2008)
PwC appoints 80 new partners (1 Jul 2008)

JUNE 2008

FRC issues Guidance on Auditor Liability Limitation Agreements (30 Jun 2008)
Disclosure of off-balance sheet arrangements (30 Jun 2008)
Institutional Shareholders’ Committee statement on auditors’ liability agreements (30 Jun 2008)
Institutional Shareholders’ Committee Statement on Auditor Liability Limitation Agreements (30 Jun 2008)
How Good Are Commercial Corporate Governance Ratings? (30 Jun 2008)
Accountants to branch out into mortgage advice (30 Jun 2008)
Prince Charles paid less tax despite £1m income rise (30 Jun 2008)
Toward a New Big Eight: A Deal The Big Fours Can’t Refuse (29 Jun 2008)
UK MPs look at role of tax havens in loans crisis (29 Jun 2008)
UBS could lose its licence in America after an official confessed to illicit tactics that helped clients avoid the Revenue (29 Jun 2008)
Corporate Taxes, Profit Shifting and the Location of Intangibles within Multinational Firms (29 Jun 2008)
The Capital of Corruption: Lack of political will, poor regulation and enforcement has led Britain to become the sleaze capital of the western world (28 Jun 2008)
Auditing review over €21m fraud at Greencore (28 Jun 2008)
The Exxon Valdez Crashes into Fair Value Accounting (28 Jun 2008)
AIG to Absorb $5 Billion Loss on Securities Lending (28 Jun 2008)
Subprime fiasco is a true disaster for people of color (28 Jun 2008)
GAAP vs. IFRS: New accounting rules could mean trouble (27 Jun 2008)
Hopes fading that worst of the credit crunch is over (27 Jun 2008)
UK Regulators are failing to crack down on financial crimes, HBOS chairman says (27 Jun 2008)
Livent co-founder not aware of fraud: Lawyer (27 Jun 2008)
Bear Indictments: Permissible Spin or Willful Misrepresentation? (27 Jun 2008)
FRC bows to Corporate Interests and Updates the Combined Code (27 Jun 2008)
PwC Moscow - Still Breathing, Barely (26 Jun 2008)
FRC brands PwC merger 'unfortunate' (26 Jun 2008)
Greencore hit by €21m fraud at Scottish mineral water unit (26 Jun 2008)
Hollinger: Appeal court says Black must remain in US jail (26 Jun 2008)
PWC: is it too big for its boots? (26 Jun 2008)
FASB Agenda Takes on Global Spin (26 Jun 2008)
Former partner at Ernst & Young is New Deputy Chair of the Financial Reporting Review Panel (26 Jun 2008)
ASB seeks views on proposed Improvements to Financial Reporting Standards (26 Jun 2008)
Trust Me - KPMG UK Strains Credibility (25 Jun 2008)
KPMG fined £1.5m over fraud failure (25 Jun 2008)
KPMG fined £1.5m over fraud failure (25 Jun 2008)
INDEPENDENT INSURANCE GROUP: Fines totalling £500,000 imposed on KPMG (25 Jun 2008)
DISCIPLINARY REPORT ON INDEPENDENT INSURANCE GROUP AND ITS AUDITORS KPMG (25 Jun 2008)
Internal audit at Scottish mineral water company Campsie Spring has uncovered a £15m fraud (25 Jun 2008)
Greencore (audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers) sacks three over accounts fraud (25 Jun 2008)
Read the 2007 annual acocunts of Greencore Group (25 Jun 2008)
ANNOUNCEMENT REGARDING GREENCORE MINERAL WATER (25 Jun 2008)
Israel: Ernst & Young accountants indicted on aiding tax evasion (25 Jun 2008)
How Fair Is Fair-Value Accounting? (25 Jun 2008)
Livent ex-CFO's position called 'preposterous (25 Jun 2008)
Revoke UBS' banking license (24 Jun 2008)
"When" Another One Bites The Liability Dust (24 Jun 2008)
Debenhams: We're not going bust (24 Jun 2008)
Broadcom exec pleads guilty to lying to SEC (24 Jun 2008)
Broadcom co-founder Samueli pleads guilty in stock options fraud case (24 Jun 2008)
Livent whistleblower blasted at fraud trial (24 Jun 2008)
PWC Wins Right to Appeal Ruling on Russian Tax Case (24 Jun 2008)
US Fed to have greater powers after near-collapse of Bear Stearns (24 Jun 2008)
NEC Settles with SEC over Accounting Problems (23 Jun 2008)
Cendant Scandal Refuses to Die (23 Jun 2008)
Bonderman slams fair value (23 Jun 2008)
ScS suspends shares amid last ditch rescue talks (23 Jun 2008)
Did the SEC Miss Warning Signs at Bear Stearns? (23 Jun 2008)
Former accounting manager rings up $1.8 million credit card fraud (23 Jun 2008)
If we rely on free markets, we are looking disaster in the face (23 Jun 2008)
US BANKER PLEADS GUILTY TO HELPING AMERICAN REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER EVADE INCOME TAX ON $200 MILLION (23 Jun 2008)
Statement of Facts in United states of America v Bradley Birkenfeld (23 Jun 2008)
UBS Faces Taxing Allegations, Spelling Drama for Shareholders (23 Jun 2008)
Deloitte and Litigation - Ya Win Some, Ya Lose Some (22 Jun 2008)
Wall Street rogues' gallery gets new portraits (22 Jun 2008)
Accounting lessons still not learned (22 Jun 2008)
McCain Aide Created 'Enron Loophole' (22 Jun 2008)
SEC Announces July 9 Roundtable on Fair Value Accounting Standards (21 Jun 2008)
Former UBS banker has admitted he was part of a team that hid more than $20bn (£10bn) in assets from US tax authorities on behalf of clients (21 Jun 2008)
In Bear Stearns Case, Question of an Asset’s Value (21 Jun 2008)
Goldman SIV deal shows banks urged to come clean (21 Jun 2008)
Deepening Insolvency Claim Against Deloitte & Touche Upheld (21 Jun 2008)
IASB Trustees ducking the issue: stakeholders are their responsibility (20 Jun 2008)
Auditors and Gambling (20 Jun 2008)
3 Accused of Accounting Fraud at Nortel (20 Jun 2008)
Two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers indicted (20 Jun 2008)
Feds charge Bear pair with fraud over $1.4bn sub-prime collapse (20 Jun 2008)
Two former managers at investment bank Bear Stearns have been charged with fraud related to two hedge funds (20 Jun 2008)
Catastrophe for the Audit Firms Liability ... and the Talk Goes On, and On, and On (20 Jun 2008)
UBS banker pleads guilty to US tax evasion scheme (20 Jun 2008)
Crime and delusion on Wall Street (20 Jun 2008)
US Feds seek $22M from jailed exec in Cendant debacle (20 Jun 2008)
IHI may face record fine of 1.6 billion yen over accounts (19 Jun 2008)
Third-party lawsuit funding hit as auditor liability case thrown out (19 Jun 2008)
Norbourg six face 900 charges (19 Jun 2008)
PACE boss slams profession - Forget the liability caps; they’re not liable for anything (19 Jun 2008)
A Brave New World for Financial Regulation (19 Jun 2008)
City bonuses face fair value overhaul (19 Jun 2008)
Subprime losses to top $1 trillion, Paulson (19 Jun 2008)
Guy Hands, Deutsche Bank Face UBS Lawsuit Over Loans (19 Jun 2008)
Stock saga continues as firm faces negligence writ (19 Jun 2008)
Morgan Stanley Rogue London trader loses $120 million (19 Jun 2008)
PwC Wage and Hour Class Action - FYI (18 Jun 2008)
Ernst & Young ordered back to court for CBI fraud (18 Jun 2008)
SEC Charges Two Former Bear Stearns Hedge Fund Managers With Fraud (19 Jun 2008)
Fed's Bear Stearns Books Look Prime for Cooking (18 Jun 2008)
Parmalat investors launch legal action vs former auditors, banks (18 Jun 2008)
Parmalat Suits Target Deloitte, Grant Thornton (18 Jun 2008)
Moore Stephens wins landmark liability case (18 Jun 2008)
Bank Of America Denies Wrong Doing In New Parmalat Action (18 Jun 2008)
Union Launches PwC Overtime Lawsuit Site (18 Jun 2008)
Scrushy in Ala. court for testimony on HealthSouth (18 Jun 2008)
Credit Crunch: Goldman Sachs reaches deal to rescue Cheyne Finance (18 Jun 2008)
Deutsche Bank sued over subprime 'fraud': report (18 Jun 2008)
Prosecutors watch Barclays' lawsuit (18 Jun 2008)
Authorities Responsible for Regulation of Public Companies Announce Next Steps Regarding the Creation of a Group to Interact with the International Accounting Standards Committee Foundation (18 Jun 2008)
A democratic deficit in accounting (18 Jun 2008)
£18m lifeline plan for Land of Leather (18 Jun 2008)
Lehman CFOs - The Problem Is Obvious (17 Jun 2008)
Government mustn't punish workers for inflation incompetence (17 Jun 2008)
Land of Leather's cash call finds support (17 Jun 2008)
Citi Settles Argentina Accusations (17 Jun 2008)
Criminal case threat over Bear Stearns pair (17 Jun 2008)
Tax code, global accounting rules seen clashing (17 Jun 2008)
Goldman close to $7 bln SIV restructure (17 Jun 2008)
Revealed: Rock's plans to freeze accounts (17 Jun 2008)
Chartered accountants working in business can earn an average basic salary of £76,200 (17 Jun 2008)
AIG CEO TO Step Down (16 Jun 2008)
US Treasury Committee Expands Audit Suggestions (16 Jun 2008)
Insurer AIG ousts chief executive (16 Jun 2008)
Starkie attack of IASB triggers further slating (16 Jun 2008)
Citigroup settles SEC case on Argentina accounting (16 Jun 2008)
Two Swiss Banks Agree to Settlement in Parmalat Case (16 Jun 2008)
Darling reforms to stop Rock horror (16 Jun 2008)
Written Submissions to the US Treasury Advisory Committee on the Auditing Profession (16 Jun 2008)
Credit Crunch: Stupid IAS 39 Accounting Rules, Useless Auditors and Offshore (15 Jun 2008)
And the winner in the credit crunch is . . . (15 Jun 2008)
SEC moves to update oil and gas reserves accounting rules (15 Jun 2008)
Accounting Practices Ultimately Affect Global Economy (15 Jun 2008)
Bradford & Bingley - being dragged down by securitisation (14 Jun 2008)
All You Need Is Love (14 Jun 2008)
AIG Faces New York Review of Credit-Default Swaps Accounting (14 Jun 2008)
Parmalat says it settles with Credit Suisse, UBS (14 Jun 2008)
Livedoor told to pay 9.5 bil. yen compensation (14 Jun 2008)
AIG Group Tied to Swaps (13 Jun 2008)
Soccer-Three Serie A clubs charged with false accounting (13 Jun 2008)
Levitt: regulators at fault during the credit crunch (13 Jun 2008)
Broker Investors Want More Transparency (13 Jun 2008)
Barclays to re-file Bear Stearns lawsuit (13 Jun 2008)
ACCA admits F7 question error (13 Jun 2008)
Pasternak Cleared of SEC Trading-Fraud Allegations (13 Jun 2008)
A Feather In Their Cap - Audit Firms Win LiabilityBattle With the EU (12 Jun 2008)
IAS39: 'Like drunkes getting into a car after crashing another..' (12 Jun 2008)
UK hands more economic power to unaccountable financial elites (12 Jun 2008)
International Centre for Financial Regulation Prospectus by Lord Currie (12 Jun 2008)
Ex-CFO testifies she hid fraud at Livent (12 Jun 2008)
The Top 50 2008: Firms branded hypocrites over missing profit figures (12 Jun 2008)
But Who'll Audit the Auditors' Reports? (12 Jun 2008)
UK's Top 50 Accounting Firms 2008 (12 Jun 2008)
BP chief accountant slams 'unhelpful' IFRS (12 Jun 2008)
FBI Halts Some Financial Cases to Investigate Mortgage Fraud (12 Jun 2008)
SEC Proposes Comprehensive Reforms to Bring Increased Transparency to Credit Rating Process (12 Jun 2008)
Absolute transparency is the only way forward (12 Jun 2008)
Accounting rule-makers putting markets at risk, says BP chief (12 Jun 2008)
FRC appeals to US watchdog over auditor liability deals (12 Jun 2008)
ASB issues updated version of the FRSSE (12 Jun 2008)
No risk, big rewards: The sale of the government's defence research agency QinetiQ saw companies profit from a business built by the taxpayer (11 Jun 2008)
Societe Generale boss admits faults in control systems (11 Jun 2008)
HSBC boss: Credit crisis resulted from now 'bankrupt' debt model (11 Jun 2008)
PCAOB Adopts Rules for Annual and Special Reporting by Auditing Firms (11 Jun 2008)
PCAOB Adopts New Rules for Accounting Firms (11 Jun 2008)
Ex-Livent executive says she blew whistle (11 Jun 2008)
Former Livent CFO told to keep quiet (11 Jun 2008)
SFO report looks at low conviction rate (11 Jun 2008)
SFO had lower conviction rates and used more resources than its US counterpart (11 Jun 2008)
Conviction rate slumps at the Serious Fraud Office (11 Jun 2008)
Subpoenas issued in US banking inquiry (11 Jun 2008)
Deloitte happy with EC’s decision on audit market and auditor liability (11 Jun 2008)
Privates on parade: Why does the government think private sector managers can run failing hospitals, when there's so much evidence to the contrary? (10 Jun 2008)
Arthur Levitt - Looking Down From The Mountain (10 Jun 2008)
UK Companies do not pay a higher proportion of value added in tax (10 Jun 2008)
CalPERS is after info on UnitedHealth's backdating of stock options (10 Jun 2008)
Broadcom CFO Indicted (10 Jun 2008)
FASB Proposes Standard on Hedge Accounting (9 Jun 2008)
New Slavery: ICAN, ACCA (UK) Sign MOU to Promote Accountancy in Country (9 Jun 2008)
From a Whistle-Blower to a Target (9 Jun 2008)
Cablevision Gets $24.4 Million In Options Backdating Suit (9 Jun 2008)
Big Shareholders Rebel at AIG (9 Jun 2008)
NY Fed chief urges global bank framework (9 Jun 2008)
European Banks Suffered More Losses From Credit Crunch (9 Jun 2008)
Dubious Mergers (8 Jun 2008)
Bradford & Bingley: the sleepwalk towards the abyss (8 Jun 2008)
Accounting rule defying common sense (8 Jun 2008)
High Court pressed for early hearing on Rock shareholders' battle with Treasury (8 Jun 2008)
EU seeks limited auditor liability to boost sector (7 Jun 2008)
Auditing: Commission issues Recommendation on limiting audit firms' liability (7 Jun 2008)
EU COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION concerning the limitation of the civil liability of statutory auditors and audit firms (7 Jun 2008)
COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION CONCERNING THE LIMITATION OF THE CIVIL LIABILITY OF STATUTORY AUDITORS AND AUDIT FIRMS: Impact assessment (7 Jun 2008)
Auditor liability cap will not prevent losses (7 Jun 2008)
AIG's sub-prime losses spur federal probe (7 Jun 2008)
SEC reportedly probing AIG's swaps (7 Jun 2008)
Fullers' chairman attacks asset strippers (7 Jun 2008)
Credit Crunch: Abbey increases mortgage rates and Egg quits mortgage business (7 Jun 2008)
US SEC Probes AIG on Subprime Contracts Accounting (6 Jun 2008)
SEC, Justice Scrutinize AIG on Swaps Accounting (6 Jun 2008)
Absurd Accounting Rules and $5 Trillion Off Bank Balance Sheets (6 Jun 2008)
Can the Global Banking System Take A $5 Trillion Hit? (6 Jun 2008)
AIG must give ex-CEO access to files (6 Jun 2008)
Banks risk legal claims after launch of price fixing probe (6 Jun 2008)
'Rich List' tycoon is jailed for £350m fraud involving 324 bogus companies (6 Jun 2008)
Many companies locally and national involved in backdated stock options (6 Jun 2008)
Cablevision settles options practices lawsuits (6 Jun 2008)
Sex, Drugs, and Options Backdating (6 Jun 2008)
ICAEW chief will chair panel selecting independent valuer for Northern Rock (6 Jun 2008)
Tanzania: some investors have lost confidence and trust in the auditing reports (5 Jun 2008)
Credit Crunch: $5 Trillion Hidden Off Bank Balance Sheets (5 Jun 2008)
Rich List businessman Virendra Rastogi jailed for £350m fraud (5 Jun 2008)
RBG directors jailed for $700-mln metals fraud (5 Jun 2008)
Financial Reporting Review Panel announces approach to qualified accounts (5 Jun 2008)
IASB response to credit crunch blasted (5 Jun 2008)
Helen Brand appointed ACCA chief executive (5 Jun 2008)
Levitt talks of having an 'audit-only' firm (5 Jun 2008)
The Threatened Collapse of the Last Large Accounting Firms and What that Means for the World of Financial Information (5 Jun 2008)
Metals trio jailed over £500m banks scam (5 Jun 2008)
Former bosses of UK metal trading firm RBG Resources have been jailed for a total of 25 years and six months after stealing $700m (£359m) from creditors (5 Jun 2008)
What is Countrywide's Lending Operation Worth? (5 Jun 2008)
On with the show? Auditing business, concentrated in the hands of just a few companies, is far too cosy (4 Jun 2008)
Rating Agencies Settle - When Will They Call CR On auditors Too (4 Jun 2008)
The Audit Cartel (4 Jun 2008)
IASB response to credit crunch blasted (4 Jun 2008)
New rule lets US banks gain even when they're losing (4 Jun 2008)
US banks fear $5 trillion balance impact (4 Jun 2008)
Laurel creditors lumbered with £130m losses (4 Jun 2008)
The gods of greed (4 Jun 2008)
How Britain's middle class was betrayed (4 Jun 2008)
OFT raids RBS and Barclays for price-fixing loans to accountancy firms (3 Jun 2008)
Analog Devices and CEO Settle Stock Option Backdating Charges (3 Jun 2008)
One in seven UK banks is loss-making (3 Jun 2008)
Restatements Plunge after Record 2006 (3 Jun 2008)
Dutch officials to probe Deloitte over Ahold (3 Jun 2008)
Deloitte to face Ahold investigation (3 Jun 2008)
Deloitte & Touche had the highest auditor restatement rate (3 Jun 2008)
Shareholders pay for Bradford & Bingley's long charge sheet (3 Jun 2008)
Hyundai boss avoids prison again (3 Jun 2008)
E&Y completes integration of 86 national firms (3 Jun 2008)
Banking Group Wrestles with Fair Value Accounting (2 Jun 2008)
Wall Street Says -2 + -2 = 4 as Liabilities Get New Bond Math (2 Jun 2008)
The Downside of a Grand Illusion (2 Jun 2008)
Credit crunch: UK banks slide after Bradford & Bingley profits warning (2 Jun 2008)
Auditors´ Negligence: Liability To Company And Shareholders (2 Jun 2008)
IASB and US FASB seek views on two consultative documents on the conceptual framework (2 Jun 2008)
Tescos: the Zug deal is tax avoidance (1 Jun 2008)
Trucking companies targeted by suspected fuel tax scam (1 Jun 2008)
Shake-Up at French Bank After Trading Scandal (1 Jun 2008)
BDO hits back over audit concentration (1 Jun 2008)
Banks in 'secret' property shelter (1 Jun 2008)
Sofa chain Land of Leather seeks funds (1 Jun 2008)

MAY 2008

Deferred Gratification In The UK (31 May 2008)
Blacks director fired after accounting irregularities (31 May 2008)
US Treasury panel mulls audit liability reforms (31 May 2008)
Dell's Strong Numbers Shadowed by 'Ongoing' SEC Probe (31 May 2008)
Microsoft Unit Faces Accounting Probe (30 May 2008)
Former Ernst & Young partner in insider trading charge (30 May 2008)
SEC Charges Former Ernst & Young Partner and Friend With Insider Trading (30 May 2008)
SEC Charges Former Partner of Ernst & Young and a Registered Securities Professional With Repeated Instances of Insider Trading (30 May 2008)
Ernst & Young Partner, Banker Charged With Insider Trading (30 May 2008)
Deloitte Audits Faulted in US Inspection Report (30 May 3008)
2007 Inspection of Deloitte & Touche LLP Issued by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (30 May 2008)
Ex-IXI president, 4 execs held over accounting fraud (30 May 2008)
Stock Options: Ex-Broadcom chief spends 6 hours in federal court (30 May 2008)
FRC moves to bolster audit committees (30 May 2008)
Why isn’t BAT paying tax? (29 May 2008)
On Being Held Accountable And Being A Fall Guy (29 May 2008)
The latest ACCA chief executive does not have ACCA qualification either (29 May 2008)
Blacks Leisure dismisses board director (29 May 2008)
Shares tumble as loss-making Blacks halves dividend (29 May 2008)
AIG slides on analyst's call for $10bn lifeline (29 May 2008)
SEC could announce subprime cases soon (29 Mar 2008)
Credit crunch sends property prices falling worldwide (29 May 2008)
Deloitte closes in on top spot as £2bn barrier stands ready to fall (29 May 2008)
Forgeard held in EADS insider share investigation (29 May 2008)
Share sale quiz for EADS ex-boss (29 May 2008)
Who really governs? (28 May 2008)
Professional Oversight Board publishes proposals for regulating audit firms from outside the European Union (28 May 2008)
SOX Appeal Judge Offers Peek Underneath His Robe (28 May 2008)
Monolines face accounting overhaul (28 May 2008)
Shareholders file suit against TRM Corp. (28 May 2008)
Cox to Press Global Rules (28 May 2008)
SEC chair calls for IASB oversight body (28 May 2008)
FRC announces final 2008/09 Levies (28 May 2008)
Deloitte global revenues rocket by 17% to $27 bn (28 May 2008)
Investment banks weigh into insolvency row (28 May 2008)
Defence casts Livent manager as tyrant who bullied staff (27 May 2008)
MG Rover costs top £12m (27 May 2008)
Alitalia stalls annual accounts (27 May 2008)
SocGen And PwC - They Still Don't Know Jack... (26 May 2008)
Held to Account - Holiday Reprint (26 May 2008)
Former Arthur Andersen officials grilled at Berkman trial (26 May 2008)
Only yourselves to blame for crisis, banks told (26 May 2008)
High Court Rejects Cendant Fraud Appeal (26 May 2008)
White-collar crook spills his secrets (26 May 2008)
‘Huge’ offshore demand for UK accountants (26 May 2008)
What's a C.D.O.? (25 May 2008)
Accounting board deserves 'whoopin' for off-balance sheet CDOs (25 May 2008)
Dissecting CDOs — and finding the Enron within (25 May 2008)
Citigroup, Merrill Lynch & Co., UBS AG and other banks created more than US$1.5-trillion of collateralized debt obligations like Bonifacius, keeping an undisclosed amount in off-balance-sheet (25 May 2008)
Corruption: US quoted mining firms will be forced to disclose every payment over $100,000 (25 May 2008)
Wall Street tangled up in hedges (25 May 2008)
LTCM's John Meriwether in trouble again (25 May 2008)
This Time KPMG UK Is Blaming The Merger (24 May 2008)
Can Smaller Firms Compete With The Big 4? (24 May 2008)
Study shows Big Four losing business to competitors (24 May 2008)
Silverjet on brink of collapse in cash crisis (24 May 2008)
SocGen rogue trader may have had accomplice, says internal inquiry (24 May 2008)
Societe Generale cites lax management in $7B fraud (24 May 2008)
SocGen trader 'may have had help' (24 May 2008)
AccountingWEB.co.uk Fee Survey 2008 (24 May 2008)
Citigroup's `Last Roman' CDO Shows Enron Accounting (24 May 2008)
FASB changes US accounting rules for bond insurers (24 May 2008)
European banks Tiers for fears (24 May 2008)
Banks Keep $35 Billion Markdown Off Income Statements (24 May 2008)
Hidden Bank Losses Show Path to Protection and Profit (24 May 2008)
'Immoral Hazard': LTCM's balance sheet assets were leverage thirtyfold to $125 billion (24 May 2008)
Nedbank Probes Law Firm for Accounting Irregularities (24 May 2008)
Nationwide says accounting rules to blame for £726m crunch hit (23 May 2008)
Audit Faults Accounting For Iraq (23 May 2008)
Auditors suspected Livent books were 'arbitrarily manipulated' (23 May 2008)
Silverjet shares suspended on AIM (23 May 2008)
US gets serious on curbing the Big Four's dominance (23 May 2008)
Securities and Exchange Commission filed civil fraud charges against eight former executives of AOL Time Warner Inc. for their roles in a fraudulent scheme (23 May 2008)
SEC charges ex-CFO of AOL Time Warner, seven other execs with $1 billion fraud (23 May 2008)
Ponzi scheme allegations put trio in court (22 May 2008)
AIG is sued by Florida pension fund (22 May 2008)
Ernst & Young settles in American Italian Pasta class-action suit (22 May 2008)
Ernst & Young proposes lawsuit settlement (22 May 2008)
Discrimination "rife" in accounting (22 May 2008)
Accountancy glass ceiling as thick as ever (22 May 2008)
Zoltek under investigation by SEC for accounting errors (22 May 2008)
Grant Thornton squeezed failing Diverseport (21 May 2008)
Age discrimination rife in accountancy profession (21 May 2008)
Leading Banks Call for Relaxation of Accounting Rules (21 May 2008)
Lawyers must give better value for the fees they charge clients (20 May 2008)
Nickels and Dimes - They Add Up... (20 May 2008)
Presidential Endorsements, Politics, and Arthur Levitt (19 May 2008)
Wenham Major sold - and the rumour mill hits overload (19 May 2008)
Brooks Automation Settles SEC Charges of Stock Option Backdating (19 May 2008)
Globalisation and Financial Crisis (18 May 2008)
Citicorp Following Attanasio Lead In Pamalat Litigation (18 May 2008)
Former PurchasePro.com CEO Found Guilty on Securities Fraud Charges (18 May 2008)
Corruption: US detains BAE bosses over Saudi contracts (18 May 2008)
BAE bosses detained by US investigators over Saudi case (18 May 2008)
Corruption: Willbros Group Inc. Enters Deferred Prosecution Agreement and Agrees to Pay $22 Million Penalty for FCPA Violations (18 May 2008)
This Auditor Was Duped (17 May 2008)
Parmalat Had Little Cash Left, Executive Testifies (17 May 2008)
How Ahold Unit Fooled the Auditors (17 May 2008)
SEC Charges Four Current and Former Broadcom Officers for Backdating Options (17 May 2008)
SEC sues Broadcom officers for backdating stock options (17 May 2008)
Sentinel settlement reached (17 May 2008)
BDO takes former Farepak ‘parties’ to court (17 May 2008)
Former executive testifies he told Livent to clean up the books (17 May 2008)
Ex-CEO of Gemstar-TV Guide charged with obstruction (16 May 2008)
Gemstar-TV Guide ex-CEO now wanted for obstruction (16 May 2008)
Bank of America CFO backs fair-value accounting (16 May 2008)
Class actions sought against RBC, KPMG (16 May 2008)
Lenders may up Bank asset swap to £90bn (16 May 2008)
Barclays takes £1.7 billion hit and refuses to rule out capital raising (16 May 2008)
Accounting Practices Ultimately Affect Global Economy (16 May 2008)
Failed Reporting Council (FRC) publishes further paper on Choice in the Audit Market (15 May 2008)
At UNDP, Whistleblower Says Somalia Contracts Steered to KPMG (15 May 2008)
UNDP Whistleblower Details Comprehensive Wrongdoing in Somalia Projects (15 May 2008)
UK Carriers May Boost Balance Sheets by Valuing Airport Slots (15 May 2008)
Carbon Accounting in New Zealand (15 May 2008)
Nigeria threw out a Bill seeking to establish the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants of Nigeria (15 May 2008)
Why CFOs Hate Fair Value (15 May 2008)
Fresh £1 billion writedown from Barclays, but no rights issue yet (15 May 2008)
Banks have disclosed 80 percent of subprime losses (15 May 2008)
Citigroup is an unmanageable corporate octopus (15 May 2008)
Bear Stearns: Not Your Average Bailout (15 May 2008)
The Secret Bailout of J. P. Morgan: How Insider Trading Looted Bear Stearns and the American Taxpayer (15 May 2008)
Fed Balance Sheet Worries Volcker (15 May 2008)
Auditor Liability deals 'won't happen' without backing from SEC (15 May 2008)
Study Finds Discrimination at Accounting Firms (14 May 2008)
Fair Value: Nothing New under the Sun? (14 May 2008)
Recruitment firm Hat Pin in administration (14 May 2008)
Banks Don't Like Accounting. Too Bad. (14 May 2008)
Former UBS banker charged with US tax fraud (14 May 2008)
Freddie Mac Reports Loss, Plans to Raise $5.5B (14 May 2008)
Not paying their dues (13 May 2008)
Fraud trial told of fake Livent bills (13 May 2008)
Which Rules Rule? Now Ask FASB (13 May 2008)
Credit crunch lawsuits are on the rise, warns Lloyds of London (13 May 2008)
Credit Crunch: UK bank Alliance and Leicester has announced a £192m write-down (13 May 2008)
Write-down woes for French banks (13 May 2008)
Farepak savings bosses may face prosecution (13 May 2008)
Parliamentary statement on Farepak (13 May 2008)
Northern Rock: Taxpayers’ £24bn at risk (13 May 2008)
Wow! The Big 4 and Iraq (12 May 2008)
Tax evasion 'costs the lives of 1000 children a day' (12 May 2008)
Tax evasion 'costs lives of 5.6m children' (12 May 2008)
Death and taxes: the true toll of tax dodging (12 May 2008)
EC sets out plans for audit body (12 May 2008)
Final SocGen trading scandal report to ratchet up criticism of bank (12 May 2008)
PwC and AIG - Beyond Ludicrous (11 May 2008)
Accounting changes 'will be dagger to the heart' of final salary pensions (11 May 2008)
Fraud trial raises issues over purse strings at Kodak (11 May 2008)
US Treasury committee recommended reducing the barriers to growth of smaller auditing firms (11 May 2008)
Draft Report of the Advisory Committee on the Auditing Profession to the U.S. Department of the Treasury (11 May 2008)
The subprime house of cards (11 May 2008)
Debate on accountancy firm ownership to begin (11 May 2008)
Credit Crunch: HSBC to reveal $5bn of fresh write-offs (11 May 2008)
PCAOB Pushes Auditing Standard 5 (10 May 2008)
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AUDIT SOCIETY (10 May 2008)
Legal risks put firms off taking on Northern Rock valuation (10 May 2008)
Big Business is not the Solution to Global Poverty (10 May 2008)
Three former NatWest bankers convicted of Enron fraud have begun jail terms (10 May 2008)
Lawsuits may expand Sarbanes-Oxley (10 May 2008)
Accounting scandal forces Thielert insolvency (10 May 2008)
How Far Can Fair Value Go? (10 May 2--8)
US Audit Board Finds Fault with BDO Seidman (9 May 2008)
Read PCAOB 2007 Report on Inspection of BDO Seidman (9 May 2008)
PCAOB slams E&Y audits (9 May 2008)
PCAOB Reports on Ernst & Young Audit Problems (9 May 2008)
PCAOB Report on 2007 Inspection of Ernst & Young LLP (9 May 2008)
US Justice Dept. probing Swiss bank UBS in tax case (9 May 2008)
Kodak tax fraud jury told to follow evidence (9 May 2008)
Allianz writes down €845 million related to subprime investments (9 May 2008)
Wenham Major calls in advisers over 'irregularities' (9 May 2008)
Northern Rock investors seek redress from UK government (9 May 2008)
Allianz says accounting rules will hit pensions (8 May 2008)
Charles Taylor again, and Citibank (8 May 2008)
BDO case may set precedent for umbrella bodies' liability (8 May 2008)
BDO and Banco Espirito Santo - a relationship gone bad? (8 May 2008)
South Africa: PwC sued for R7,6bn (8 May 2008)
Buffett sanguine over accounting losses (8 May 2008)
Regulator: Fannie, Freddie bailout not likely (8 May 2008)
Wave of Lawsuits Over Losses Could Hit a Wall (8 May 2008)
SEC is forcing US banks to line up more capital as protection (8 May 2008)
Slick operators: Oil companies make record profits but are poor on transparency (7 May 2008)
A Judgment Too Important to be Left to the Accountants (7 May 2008)
War on Greed: The Tax Treatment of Private Equity and Hedge Funds (7 May 2008)
Judgment Too Important to be Left to the Accountants (7 May 2008)
Sub-prime loss hits Commerzbank (7 May 2008)
Top UBS banker detained by US authorities investigating whether the Swiss bank helped its American clients evade tax (7 May 2008)
UBS Banker Detained in Tax Inquiry (7 May 2008)
Biting the hand that feeds them: The tax avoidance scam operated by some PFI companies (6 May 2008)
So Close It's Eerie... (6 May 2008)
SEC Settlement with Auditors of WorldCom: Too Little, Too Late? (6 May 2008)
At Zoltek, Errors Are Found and CFO Is Out (6 May 2008)
Parmalat seeks $2.2 bln in damages from Citigroup (6 May 2008)
US panelists urge outside directors for audit firms (6 May 2008)
Liquidity Risk Tops Regulation on Bankers' List of Concerns (6 May 2008)
KPMG: E&Y faces hurdles when merging 87 units (6 May 2008)
Alstom denies bribe allegations (6 May 2008)
Financial secrecy in America, abetting war criminals (5 May 2008)
Microsoft Ireland Research paid just €460,000 in tax on profits of more than €1.2 billion last year (5 May 2008)
Another Iraq Contractor Avoiding Millions In Taxes Through Offshore tax havens (5 May 2008)
Citigroup and Parmalat meet in court to fight damages case (5 May 2008)
FASB to Get Tougher on Subprime Loan Sell-offs (5 May 2008)
US Government Intensifies Mortgage Investigation (5 May 2008)
Wall Street, Lenders Face Subprime Scrutiny (5 May 2008)
You Thought Stop Options Backdating Was On The Back Burner? (4 May 2008)
Invoice worries as MK One is sold (4 May 2008)
Banks urged to disclose risks (4 May 2008)
Bermuda Shell firms shielded US contractor from taxes (4 May 2008)
FASB on Subprime: "We Warned You" (4 May 2008)
Stock Options Backdating and Its Implications (3 May 2008)
Livent saga finally goes to trial (3 May 2008)
Ex-Peregrine executive gets fine, probation (3 May 2008)
Credit Crunch: US Federal Reserve and European Central Bank pump an extra $82bn into banking system (3 May 2008)
The Beginning of the End of GAAP (3 May 2008)
Parmalat Investor Recovery Hits $90 Million (3 May 2008)
Insolvency: Sharp rise in number of companies seeking protection (3 May 2008)
Wenham Major launches internal investigation (2 May 2008)
Capital & Regional shares plunge on fear its Mall Fund has breached covenants (2 May 2008)
HSBC calls in police over alleged £70m fraud attempt (2 May 2008)
'Ultra safe' money market fund loses millions in credit crunch (2 May 2008)
UTStarcom Executives Pay $175000 To Settle Claims of False Financials (2 May 2008)
Deficiencies in Fair Value and Mark-to-Market Accounting (2 May 2008)
Jackson drops ex-accountant claim (2 May 2008)
Lifting the Lid: Accounting rulemakers to speed up convergence (2 May 2008)
More bucks for insolvency practitioners: Sound Control in administration (2 May 2008)
Lax British bankruptcy rules worsen credit crunch (2 May 2008)
John Prescott blames banks for credit crunch (2 May 2008)
Fine Company, Even Finer Conversation (1 May 2008)
Former partner in the law firm Milberg Weiss, has agreed to plead guilty to a racketeering charge accusing him of paying kickbacks to plaintiffs (1 May 2008)
SEC Charges McCann-Erickson Worldwide With Accounting Fraud (1 May 2008)
Interpublic settles with SEC on accounting probe (30 Apr 2008)
McCann-Erickson Worldwide agrees to pay $12 Million Penalty (1 May 2008)
SEC Charges Banc of America Investment Services With Failing to Disclose It Favored Affiliated Mutual Funds (1 May 2008)
US audit watchdog eyeing hard-to-value securities (1 May 2008)
Off balance sheet structures too risky (1 May 2008)
Tyco International to pay NJ $73M to settle securities fraud (1 May 2008)
Standard setters outline response to credit crunch (1 May 2008)

APRIL 2008

Funny, Funny, Funny (30 Apr 2008)
Tax Evasion: The double-headed Hydra (30 Apr 2008)
Countrywide Needs Some Help - Duh! (30 Apr 2008)
Exxon 'ranks low on transparency' (30 Apr 2008)
Echelon finds more accounting errors related to leases (30 Apr 2008)
Illiquid Markets Rock Fair-Value Accounting (30 Apr 2008)
Big Four-only audit clauses 'should be banned' (30 Apr 2008)
IASB's Jones: Insurance accounting is broken (30 Apr 2008)
SEC Charges Two Former Monster Worldwide Executives for Backdating Options (30 Apr 2008)
SEC charges of stock option abuse loom for former Pixar CFO (30 Apr 2008)
IFRS Fueled Much of Chrysler's Huge Loss (30 Apr 2008)
Stop Begging Ben for Help Cooking Banks' Books (30 Apr 2008)
PwC's diverse graduate intake (30 Apr 2008)
Wachovia May Take $1 Billion Charge Tied to Leases (30 Apr 2008)
Deloitte - Good Corporate Citizen, Good Soldier (30 Apr 2008)
Enterprise culture and accountancy firms: new masters of the universe (29 Apr 2008)
United Business Media: the real story of its tax (29 Apr 2008)
Credit Crunch: Deutsche writes down 2.7bn euros (29 Apr 2008)
Exxon 'ranks low on transparency' (29 Apr 2008)
Promoting Revenue Transparency: 2008 Report on Revenue Transparency of Oil and Gas Companies (29 Apr 2008)
Big four control directly linked to higher audit fees (29 Apr 2008)
PwC to Pay Retroactive Overtime in Canada (29 Apr 2008)
FSA allowed Northern Rock to keep breaking rules (29 Apr 2008)
Crisis essentially accounting problem (28 Apr 2008)
India: Power Finance Corp wants Ernst & Young debarred (28 Apr 2008)
Sasan fiasco: PFC wing suggests fine for Ernst & Young (28 Apr 2008)
IASB accelerates off balance sheet project (28 Apr 2008)
Danger Ahead: Fixing Wall Street Hazardous to Earnings Growth (28 Apr 2008)
Subprime-Crisis Lawsuits 2008: By the Numbers (27 Apr 2008)
Honda accused of not stating $1.3 bln income (27 Apr 2008)
Honda makes $7.7 billion provision against transfer pricing (27 Apr 2008)
Top 1,000 richest people in the UK now have more than £400bn between them (27 Apr 2008)
The very best Less Rich List® of our times (27 Apr 2008)
Wall Street, Run Amok (27 Apr 2008)
Archbishop of Canterbury criticises rich over credit crunch (27 Apr 2008)
FSA’s shorting inquiry widens to other banks (27 Apr 2008)
Fannie and Freddie - Incorrigible (26 Apr 2008)
Former Le-Nature's accounting director pleads guilty (26 Apr 2008)
How Old Are Ye, PCAOB? (26 Apr 2008)
Lane-Fox's M&S audit role questioned (26 Apr 2008)
More auditing firms, worse auditing quality? (26 Apr 2008)
MEPs call for greater transparency from IASB (25 Apr 2008)
Fair value guidance may be needed: SEC official (25 Apr 2008)
Make-or-break for litigation funding (25 Apr 2008)
If the company you run has big losses on hard-to-value assets, scream your head off about the accounting rules (25 Apr 2008)
The cost of a lifeline: Humbled financial groups brace for more regulation (25 Apr 2008)
SEC Charges Broadcom for Fraudulent Stock Option Backdating (25 Apr 2008)
SEC Charges Wall Street Short-Seller With Spreading False Rumors (25 Apr 2008)
More transparency and accountability needed in bodies setting international accounting standards (24 Apr 2009)
Audit costs are set to rise dramatically, FRC warns (24 Apr 2008)
FRC disciplinary revamp: a knee-jerk reaction (24 Apr 2008)
Credit Suisse banker arrested in Brazil tax probe (24 Apr 2008)
Credit Suisse bank loses billions (24 Apr 2008)
AIM 2007 Where now for technology?:AIM and its role in funding technology companies (24 Apr 2008)
Audit Fees - An Update From Ames Research Group (23 Apr 2008)
Top auditors’ median fees up by 345% (23 Apr 2008)
PCAOB Adopts Ethics and Independence Rule (23 Apr 2008)
PCAOB Adopts New Ethics and Independence Rule Concerning Communications with Audit Committees and an Amendment to its Existing Tax Services Rule (23 Apr 2008)
Ex-RBG directors napped for fraud (23 Apr 2008)
Ex-Access boss guilty of fraud (23 Apr 2008)
How National Irish Bank was exposed after tax scam inquiry (23 Apr 2008)
US Bill targets Wal-Mart 'tax evasion scheme' (23 Apr 2008)
Randgold & Exploration issues a summons on PricewaterhouseCoopers (23 Apr 2008)
EU allows US, Japan firms to keep accounting standards (23 Apr 2008)
The 12-step programme: The government claims it can't afford not to abolish the 10% tax rate. Here are some ways it could plug the gap and have money left over (22 Apr 2008)
Ex-boss to pay Langbar (22 Apr 2008)
PCAOB to Consider Adopting New Ethics and Independence Rules (22 Apr 2008)
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Warned on Accounting (22 Apr 2008)
UBS catalogues its $37.4 billion writedowns (22 Apr 2009)
UBS blames subprime loss on excessive risk-taking (22 Apr 2008)
PCAOB, Singapore Confirm Cooperative Arrangement (22 Apr 2008)
Fannie Mae Settlement (21 Apr 2008)
Mercury Interactive ex-CFO facing tax-evasion charges (21 Apr 2008)
Creative accounting is to blame for the crunch (21 Apr 2008)
Bank capital to shrink due to write-downs of $500 billion in Level 3 assets (21 Apr 2008)
PKF Cyprus Agrees to SEC Settlement (21 Apr 2008)
Ernst & Young to form single business (21 Apr 2008)
Ernst & Young merges international units (21 Apr 2008)
The trillion-dollar mortgage time bomb (21 Apr 2008)
The corporate kleptomaniacs: Companies are boosting their profits through cartels and price-fixing strategies (20 Apr 2008
The ACCA - an organisation worth quitting (20 Apr 2008)
Opes Prime - Investors' Interests Are Chum Compare to These Sharks (20 Apr 2008)
PricewaterhouseCoopers tests Prince Andrew’s mettle (20 Apr 2008)
Ex-Refco boss guilty of fraud in losses scam (19 Apr 2008)
Ex-Fannie Mae bosses fined $31.4m (19 Apr 2008)
PCAOB to Consider New Ethics and Independence Rule (19 Apr 2008)
Kidsons faces ex-judge in failed tax avoidance court fight (18 Apr 2008)
Accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers pays retroactive overtime (18 Apr 2008)
Ex-Fannie Mae Executives Said to Be Near Settlement (18 Apr 2008)
Banking Watchdog Barks at Poor Disclosure (18 Apr 2008)
If a Martian taxman landed now, he'd never guess Labour was in power (18 Apr 2008)
Enronitis Strikes Again? (18 Apr 2008)
Citigroup poised to shed jobs after posting $5.1bn loss (18 Apr 2008)
In world of hedge funds, subprime was a bonanza (18 Apr 2008)
FBI chief: Are Americans becoming more crooked? (18 Apr 2008)
FBI's Mueller Says Subprime Fraud Probe May Lead to Hedge Funds (18 Apr 2008)
Financial Regulation, Australian Style (17 Apr 2008)
Accounting Regulators Considering New Rules for Banks (17 Apr 2008)
Global regulators propose tighter rules, scrutiny on banks (17 Apr 2008)
Accountancy PKF Cyprus Settles with SEC: civil fraud charges stemming from audits of AremisSoft Corp (17 Apr 2008)
Chairman of South Korean firm Samsung, Lee Kun-hee, has been indicted for tax evasion and breach of trust (17 Apr 2008)
Self-Regulation Means No Regulation (17 Apr 2008)
JPMorgan warns credit crunch will run all year (17 Apr 2008)
Bear Stearns receives SEC notice, faces FTC probe (17 Apr 2008)
Barclays SIV Golden Key goes into receivership (17 Apr 2008)
UK Banks in line for £40bn bail-out (17 Apr 2008)
Law lords agree that UK assets of insolvent companies based abroad should be given to creditors (17 Apr 2008)
Deloitte snaps up SIV mandates, sidelines rivals (17 Apr 2008)
UK Watchdog urged to axe disciplinary costs plan (17 Apr 2008)
Frustration mounts over wait for auditor liability guidance (17 Apr 2008)
City chief joins auditor liability row (17 A008)
Insolvent abuse:Insolvency practitioners often charge huge fees, leaving less money for the creditors (16 Apr 2008)
PwC Russia Facing New Investigation (16 Apr 2008)
PCAOB Finds Problems with Grant Thornton Audits (16 Apr 2008)
PCAOB Pings Grant Thornton on Lax Testing (16 Apr 2008)
Read the PCAOB Report of 2007 Inspection of Grant Thornton (16 Apr 2008)
US jury told Refco's ex-president hid trading loss (16 Apr 2008)
WorldCom whistleblower Cynthia Cooper tells all (16 Apr 2008)
SEC Disciplines WorldCom Auditors (16 Apr 2008)
Switzerland charges 2 people in connection with collapse of Parmalat (16 Apr 2008)
FSF urges IASB to fix off balance sheet rules (16 Apr 2008)
United Kingdom: Limiting Auditors´ Liability: The Sky Is No Longer The Limit (16 Apr 20080
Delta And Northwest Merge - No Auditors Were Harmed (15 Apr 2008)
Hardest-to-value assets escalate (15 Apr 2008)
Bankers: Fair Value Is Like Throwing Gasoline on a Fire (15 Apr 2008)
Fourth-largest US bank resorts to emergency fundraising (15 Apr 2008)
Female auditors paid 5% less than males (15 Apr 2008)
Nigeria SEC Releases Final Decision on Cadbury’s (15 Apr 2008)
Brokers who filed complaint face uphill fight (15 Apr 2008)
Hedge fund founder gets 20 years in prison (15 Apr 2008)
Insolvency: Erinaceous calls in KPMG as administrators (15 Apr 2008)
Credit Crunch: Groundhog day for boom and bust (14 Apr 2008)
GE - Will Somebody Please Look Really Hard Under The Hood (14 Apr 2008)
Did Accounting Firms Miss The Subprime Numbers? (14 Apr 2008)
Russian court upholds decision on $10.8 mln PWC back tax claim (14 Apr 2008)
UK Accountants jailed for $200m investment fraud and conspiracy to corrupt a US official (14 Apr 2008)
Judge sends down Gangar and White (14 Apr 2008)
Fair Value Accounting Challenged (14 Apr 2008)
Int'l Accounting Effects: The PCAOB's Strategic Plan (14 Apr 2008)
Wachovia Bank confirms $8bn emergency funding (14 Apr 2008)
Bradford & Bingley shares hit new low (14 Apr 2008)
Retailers lead rash of UK profit warnings (14 Apr 2008)
Lawyers urge inquiry into Rock loans leak (14 Apr 2008)
Fair Value - What Goes Up, Must Come Down (13 Apr 2008)
Profit warnings 'most since 2001' (13 Apr 2008)
A Lender Failed. Did Its Auditor? (13 Apr 2008)
Bear Stearns Details Finances at Time of Collapse (13 Apr 2008)
Legal & General to join legal battle over Northern Rock (13 Apr 2008)
Lawsuit accuses Bear Stearns of fraud (13 Apr 2008)
Credit Crunch: US banks Citigroup and Merrill Lynch reveal fresh $15bn loss (13 Apr 2008)
Who Audits The Auditors' Pricing Models? (12 Apr 2008)
Nigeria fines Cadbury unit for false accounting (12 Apr 2008)
Revolving Doors: Politician Charles Clarke accepts KPMG role (12 Apr 2008)
Samsung rocked by bribery investigation (12 Apr 2008)
G-7 Urged to Back More Banking, Accounting Oversight (12 Apr 2008)
Financial Stability Forum Recommends Actions to Enhance Market and Institutional Resilience (12 Apr 2008)
The Big 4 And Their Travel Card Relationships (11 Apr 2008)
Bernanke: mark-to-market accounting challenging (11 Apr 2008)
US Treasury Releases Competitiveness Study on the Changing Nature and Consequences of Financial Restatements (11 Apr 2008)
The Changing Nature and Consequences of Public Company Financial Restatements - 1997-2006 (11 Apr 2008)
PwC Sees Securities Litigation on the Rise (11 Apr 2008)
Professional Oversight Board publishes the AIU's updated operating procedures for maintaining confidentiality (11 Apr 2008)
Smoke and Mirrors:FRC discussion paper on The Audit Inspection Unit Operating Procedures for Maintaining Confidentiality (11 April 2008)
Administrators called in to CD piracy firm (11 Apr 2008)
Subprime litigation fuels increase in federal class action lawsuits (11 Apr 2008)
G7 plots bail-out to ease credit crunch (11 Apr 2008)
SEC Action Returns Former Gemstar CEO's Pending Severance Payment to Company and Shareholders (11 Apr 2008)
SEC is to sue Headstart Advisers (11 Apr 2008)
S&W administrators for crooked company (11 Apr 2008)
Off blance sheet reporting irretrievably broken (10 Apr 2008)
Big 4 Partners With High Salaries To Experience Layoffs (10 Apr 2008)
Birmingham City bosses arrested (10 Apr 2008)
SocGen 'rogues' show flaws in accounting rules (10 Apr 2008)
Banks’ off-balance sheet rules are ‘broken’ (10 Apr 2008)
Lehman liquidates money-losing funds (10 Apr 2008)
Citi Is Said to Be Near Deal to Sell $12.5 Billion of Loans (10 Apr 2008)
Regulate All That Leverage (10 Apr 2008)
ACCA chief 'smaller auditors will go' in next few years (10 Apr 2008)
Ackermann Seeks Review of Ratings Firms, Accounting (10 Apr 2008)
They always want more for nothing: Government may have to revisit auditor liability (10 Apr 2008)
EY Steps Up To Strategic Risk (9 Apr 2008)
No End to the Games Financial Firms Play (9 Apr 2008)
Credit crunch costs '$1 trillion' (9 Apr 2008)
Credit crisis will inflict £500bn losses on banks, says IMF (9 Apr 2008)
Subprime Lender's Failure Sparks Lawsuit Against Wall Street Banks
Subprime crisis spurs lawsuits (9 Apr 2008)
South Africa: Onerous Laws May Spell End of Small Audit Firms (9 Apr 2008)
Another auditor questions TRM's continuance (9 Apr 2008)
Subprime Litigation - Round Two, Bear Style (8 Apr 2008)
Bear Stearns and Deloitte sued over hedge fund losses (8 Apr 2008)
Northrop guilty of creative accounting (8 Apr 2008)
Fed's decision to let BlackRock manage $30B in Bear Stearns assets questioned on Capitol Hill (8 Apr 2008)
US lawmaker eyes BlackRock role in Fed's Bear deal (8 Apr 2008)
Toxic shock: how the banking industry created a global crisis (8 Apr 2008)
Regulation needs more than tuning (8 Apr 2008)
KPMG - pointing the finger of blame in the wrong direction (7 Apr 2008)
Sovereignty & Seignorage: The Legal Privilege and a Financial Mechanism of Nation States (6 Apr 2008)
Bank of Scotland chief warns fair value could lead to recession (7 Apr 2008)
Accounting Antics Lift I-Bank Earnings - Barron's (7 Apr 2008)
Death by accountancy for the SIV could mean more asset creep (7 Apr 2008)
Companies will have to tell all on carbon emissions (7 Apr 2008)
Shell chief seeks carbon capture subsidies (7 Apr 2008)
Audit worries for EU-listed Indian cos (7 Apr 2008)
Mandatory transparency reports for auditors (7 Apr 2008)
APB publishes Revised Ethical Standards for Auditors (7 Apr 2008)
Plea bargaining: fraudsters may find that truth pays (7 Apr 2007)
The Big 4 and A Living Wage (6 Apr 2008)
The "Assault" On Privilege - A US Chamber Viewpoint (6 Apr 2008)
EU wants banks to account more clearly for off-balance-sheet transactions (6 Apr 2008)
Ex-insider tells how subprime lenders spun out of control (6 Apr 2008)
From Global Financial Crisis to Global Recession, Part II (6 Apr 2008)
The world is facing "the first truly global financial crisis" (5 Apr 2008)
Insolvency and Credit Crunch: Solent's Mainsail II calls in the receivers (5 Apr 2008)
US calls for new accounting rules for banks (4 Apr 2008)
Bundesbank calls for new accounting rules for banks (4 Apr 2008)
FRC chief defends consultation process (4 Apr 2008)
Credit Crunch: Lawyers are predicting a flood of claims (4 Apr 2008)
German banks top list for bad loans in Europe (4 Apr 2008)
Rogue trader sues bank that sacked him (4 Apr 2008)
Accountants raided in VAT fraud probe (4 Apr 2008)
US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is suing UK hedge fund Pentagon Capital Management and its chief executive (4 Apr 2008)
Peregrine Charges Dismissed Against Andersen Auditor (4 Apr 2008)
Enron pays out additional $1 billion (4 Apr 2008)
Summit - SEC Enforcement Is On The Job (3 Apr 2008)
Paulson's Reform Proposal - Are There Any Solid Hits (3 Apr 2008)
Credit crunch sparks fair value revolt (3 Apr 2008)
More than $10bn of Bear's liquidity evaporated in one day (3 Apr 2008)
Sub-prime crisis hits German bank Bayerische Landesbank (BayernLB) for a total of 4.3bn euros (£3.4bn) (3 Apr 2008)
VeriFone's accounting goof worse than first thought (3 Apr 2008)
CEOs want more regulation for businesses (3 Apr 2008)
IAS 19 unhelpful for the city (3 Apr 2008)
Credit Crunch: £32m write-off at Co-operative Financial Services (3 Apr 2008)
Financial crisis is the worst since the Great Depression (3 Apr 2008)
German Banks Are Holding EU200 Billion in Non-Performing Loans (3 Apr 2008)
SEC Fuels New Mark-to-Market Conspiracy Theories (2 Apr 2008)
Jailed boss seeks to reverse Enron verdict (2 Apr 2008)
Magellan falls on accounting errors (2 Apr 2008)
VeriFone completes accounting probe, delays filings; CFO resigns (2 Apr 2008)
Inquiry into SEC’s enforcement arm (1 Apr 2008)
suit says 3 banks should have aired Enron dealings (1 Apr 2008)
Lord Wakeham of Enron (1 Apr 2008)
KPMG chief backs one-line audit reports (1 Apr 2008)

MARCH 2008

Watching the watchdogs (31 Mar 2008)
Big 4 Blind Items - Spring Edition (31 Mar 2008)
PwC Australia Pays Up For Being Cads (31 Mar 2008)
More Totally Useless Auditors: New Century Financial (31 Mar 2008)
Rock audit fees climb by a third to £2.4m (31 Mar 2008)
Northern Rock will be in the red until 2012 (31 Mar 2008)
Northern Rock announces £167m loss (31 Mar 2008)
KPMG and Xerox Settle Securities Lawsuit (31 Mar 2008)
Lehman sues over £177m fraud (31 Mar 2008)
Little guy gets jailed as big firms get bailed (31 Mar 2008)
Ex-Alta Gas execs changes plea to guilty (31 Mar 2008)
Ravelle directors convicted in £3.25m fraud case (31 Mar 2008)
Just When Things Were Looking Up (31 Mar 2008)
Northern Rock: The incredible shrinking bank (31 Mar 2008)
Rock pledges to repay taxpayers (31 Mar 2008)
US plans finance system overhaul (31 Mar 2008)
Christina Rich in £2 million PwC settlement (31 Mar 2008)
Australia Authorities probe Opes Prime collapse (31 Mar 2008)
TAX JUSTICE BRIEFING - COUNTRY-BY-COUNTRY REPORTING: HOW TO MAKE MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES MORE TRANSPARENT (30 Mar 2008)
Too close for comfort: The FSA report on Northern Rock appeases the corporate elites (30 Mar 2008)
Next Tier Or Next To Fail? (30Mar 2008)
KPMG Canada Settles Overtime Suit - Or Do They? (30 Mar 2008)
More should be expected of the Big 4 (30 Mar 2008)
The Lehman Loss - Did The Auditors Grease The Wheels (29 Mar 2008)
PwC Australia Pays Up For Being Cads (29 Mar 2008)
Accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers pays up for sex discrimination (29 Mar 20008)
$100bn Fed move over credit fears (29 Mar 2008)
Corporate Governance: Schroders say Marks & Spencer move to promote Sir Stuart Rose is appalling (29 Mar 2008)
SEC official says more subprime fraud could surface (28 Mar 2008)
Court criticises KPMG over collapse of New Century (28 Mar 2008)
Xerox Agrees to Pay $670 Million To Settle Accounting Lawsuit (28 Mar 2008)
Xerox former audit firm, KPMG will pay $80 million to settle Accounting Lawsuit (28 Mar 2008)
Auditor KPMG accused over US fraud (28 Mar 2008)
KPMG engulfed in subprime accounting scandal (28 Mar 2008)
Judgment rules ACCA student's course fees are not tax deductible (28 Mar 2008)
Court judgement in D W PERRIN and THE COMMISSIONERS FOR HER MAJESTY’S REVENUE & CUSTOMS (28 Mar 2008)
Who will pay the price for new auditor limitations? (28 Mar 2008)
BDO takes out High Court writ against pop mogul (28 Mar 2008)
New blow for Bridgecorp investors (28 Mar 2008)
Slug and Lettuce pubs group collapses after failure to find buyer (28 Mar 2008)
Insolvency: Robert Tchenguiz pours £50m into rescue of Laurel Pub Company (28 Mar 2008)
Treasury rocked to the tune of £15m (27 Mar 2008)
Immorality - The Bank Lawyer Version (27 Mar 2008)
Accountants KPMG accused of professional negligence (27 Mar 2008)
US Inquiry Assails Accounting Firm KPMG in New Century's Fall (27 Mar 2008)
KPMG allowed fraud at New Century, report says (27 Mar 2008)
KPMG accused of lax auditing of New Century (27 Mar 2008)
Read the Insolvency Examiner’s Report (581 pages) on the collapse of New Century (27 Mar 2008)
New Century Official Urges KPMG Lawsuit (27 Mar 2008)
New Century: When Auditors Cave (27 Mar 2008)
Sub-prime lender allegedly inflated its profit (27 Mar 2008)
Enron case draws to close as Citigroup pays creditors $1.6bn (27 Mar 2008)
The FSA Northern Rock report: condemned in its own words, the regulator that missed the collapse (27 Mar 2008)
Northern Rock fiasco leads to FSA revamp (27 Mar 2008)
Credit crunch 'at $1.2 trillion' (26 Mar 2008)
KPMG UK's Griffith-Jones - "Trust Me" (26 Mar 2008)
US Government Tries to Revive KPMG Tax Cases (26 Mar 2008)
KPMG Prosecutor Asks Court to Reinstate Tax Charges (26 Mar 2008)
Second Circuit Skeptical of Government’s Arguments in KPMG (26 Mar 2008)
The KPMG Case for Dummies (26 Mar 2008)
Yorkshire's subprime losses hit £65m (26 Mar 2008)
FSA 'failed' in Rock supervision (26 Mar 2008)
FSA moves to enhance supervision in wake of Northern Rock (26 Mar 2008)
The FSA's internal audit review of its supervision of Northern Rock, and the FSA management response (26 Mar 2008)
Finger of blame points at City rules for crisis (26 Mar 2008)
Who needs these troublesome banks anyway? (26 Mar 2008)
Afghan aid 'lost to consultants and corruption' (26 Mar 2008)
The ACCA should be ashamed to be associated with these comments (25 Mar 2008)
KPMG UK's Griffith-Jones - "Trust Me" (25 Mar 2008)
Wachovia's Balance Sheet Doesn't Fool Mr. Market (25 Mar 2008)
SEC Charges Biovail Corporation and Senior Executives With Accounting Fraud (25 Mar 2008)
SEC Accuses Biovail and Executives of Accounting Fraud (25 Mar 2008)
SEC sues Biovail, execs over accounting fraud: Firm settles for $10 million, admits no wrongdoing; deal excludes foursome (28 Mar 2008)
Sentinel Trustee Sues Audit Firm (25 Mar 2008)
Auditors push to limit liability (25 Mar 2008)
Few likely to step forward in audit liability deals (25 Mar 2008)
FSA report expected to admit Rock mistake (25 Mar 2008)
One-third of audited foreign-aided projects in China have accounting flaws (25 Mar 2008)
Citigroup Slips to Also-Ran After 10 Years as Biggest US Bank (24 Mar 2008)
Rock directors to escape inquiry (24 Mar 2008)
If the City won't put its house in order, politicians must (23 Mar 2008)
Capitalism's too important to be left to capitalists (23 Mar 2008)
Darling calls for banks to reveal losses (23 Mar 2008)
Ex-KPMG Partner Indicted on Fresh Tax Charges (23 Mar 2008)
SocGen says to fight US suit on subprime risks (23 Mar 2008)
IASB Aims to Simplify Financial Instrument Reporting (23 Mar 2008)
Big Four: Are These Misses Or Intentional Overlooks? (22 Mar 2008)
Oh! How The Mighty Have Fallen - Update On Auditors And Their Banking Clients (22 Mar 2008)
US authorities say stock fraud cost overseas investors $50 million (22 Mar 2008)
Artist sues his bank over investments that lost a fortune (22 Mar 2008)
PwC ‘missed’ Tajikistan bank loans (22 Mar 2008)
Peregrine trial ends in second hung jury (22 Mar 2008)
Qwest To Get Beyond Nacchio's Bluster (22 Mar 2008)
The use of accountants to move and launder criminal proceeds has been increasing, says US government (21 Mar 2008)
Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man as money-laundering destinations, says US State Department (21 Mar 2008)
Release of the 2008 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (21` Mar 2008)
International Narcotics Control Strategy Report Vol 1: Drug and Chemical Control (21 Mar 2008)
International Narcotics Control Strategy Report Vol 2: Money Laundering and Financial Crimes (21 Mar 2008)
FBI Subprime Mortgage Probe Expands (21 Mar 2008)
Thornburg battles to stave off bankruptcy (21 Mar 2008)
Accounting firms must face up to global reality (21 Mar 2008)
Investec's subprime hit (21 Mar 2008)
US book chain Borders faces funding crisis (21 Mar 2008)
American investment banks borrowed a total of $28.8bn (£14.5bn) from the Federal Reserve in just three days (21 Mar 2008)
Carter & Carter shareholders to get nothing (21 Mar 2008)
CEO payout changes with reporting rule (21 Mar 2008)
Another Perspective On "Global Networks" (20 Mar 2008)
Northern Rock Secret Memo Shows CEO Dismissed Subprime Threats (20 Mar 2008)
Ernst & Young hit with £300k negligence claim (20 Mar 20080
Bank of England has released £11bn of funds to calm markets (20 Mar 2008)
Shock as Credit Suisse plunges to loss (20 Mar 2008)
'Paranoid' Morgan Stanley taps Fed's new lending facility (20 Mar 2008)
'Advisers make half their fees from avoidance,' says UK taxman (20 Mar 2008)
British banks tainted by US toxic debt (20 Mar 2008)
FASB issues new US derivatives accounting rule (20 Mar 2008)
FSA retail chief leaves with £380,000 payoff after Northern Rock debacle (20 Mar 2008)
IASB defends use of ‘fair value’ accounting (20 Mar 2008)
Shareholder group accuses ministers of rigging Rock compensation figures (20 Mar 2008)
Has market fundamentalism had its day? (20 Mar 2008)
ACCA COUNCIL ELECTIONS TO BE RIGGED - AGAIN (19 Mar 2008)
Are accountants really so incapable? (19 Mar 2008)
ACAP -The Acronym Tells The Story (19 Mar 2008)
Ex-KPMG Partner Pfaff Indicted Anew (19 Mar 2008)
US Files Added Charge Against Former Partner at KPMG Accused in Tax Case (19 Mar 2008)
Imperial Tobacco sees $282 million accounting hit (19 Mar 2008)
Preliminary Recommendations Of US Treasury ACAP Subcommittees (19 Mar 2008)
HBOS crisis rumour denied as shares tank (19 Mar 2008)
Subprime: Thornburg teeters on the brink for $1bn (19 Mar 2008)
Blacks suspends board director (19 Mar 2008)
Accounting rulemakers defend use of 'fair value' (19 Mar 2008)
Why today’s hedge fund industry may not survive (19 Mar 2008)
FSA cautions banks on fair value (19 Mar 2008)
ACCA IS THE THIRD LARGEST FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTOR TO IFAC (18 Mar 2008)
Despite Enron, antiquated bank secrecy laws have covered up today’s wrongdoing and regulatory failures (18 Mar 2008)
Blacks suspends director amid accounting alert (18 Mar 2008)
Blacks issues profit warning and suspends board director (18 Mar 2008)
Goldman Sachs reveals $2 billion credit crunch hit (18 Mar 2008)
AIG's Sullivan Seeks Accounting Rule Change After Writedowns (18 Mar 2008)
The mark to market fiasco (18 Mar 2008)
Deloitte Warned of Bear Stearns Trouble (18 Mar 2008)
Carter and Carter faces breakup (18 Mar 2008)
Slug and Lettuce group to be handed to administrators (18 Mar 2008)
Credit Crunch: Can we afford choice? (17 Mar 2008)
Bear Stearns - Sometimes Losing A Client Is A Good Thing (17 Mar 2008)
ACCA TO INCREASE MEMBERSHIP FEES WITHOUT MEMBERS' APPROVAL (17 Mar 2008)
Don't Blame Mark-to-Market for Banks' Problems (17 Mar 2008)
FAQ: Bear Stearns banking crisis (17 Mar 2008)
Bear Stearns: Sold for just $2 a share - the bank worth $140bn last week (17 Mar 2008)
Bear Stearns: what the economists say (17 Mar 2008)
Bear Stearns: The £118m deal represents roughly 1% of its share value just 16 days ago (17 Mar 2008)
With untold billions to be spent nationalising the debts of Bear Stearns, the US taxpayer is footing the bill for the failures of Wall Street (17 Mar 2008)
UK banks rush to borrow £23.6bn in panic auction (17 Mar 2008)
Hedge Funds Said to Sever Ties With Bear Stearns (17 Mar 2008)
Iceland's banks top 'riskiness league' (17 Mar 2008)
Which is worse: Moral hazard or credit collapse? (17 Mar 2008)
'Colleagues watched' Socgen trader Jerome Kerviel betting (17 Mar 2008)
Changing the rules for global auditors (17 Mar 2008)
IFRS switch challenges for US insurers (17 Mar 2008)
Cabling firm ECW owes €5.5 million to creditors (17 Mar 2008)
Watching the detectives: The subprime crisis should teach us to keep a much closer eye on company auditors (16 Mar 2008)
Shell to write off half of last year's reserves (16 Mar 2008)
Reserve Bank of India has withdrawn the blanket ban imposed on PricewaterhouseCoopers (16 Mar 2008)
Bear Stearns Bailout Was `Finger in the Dike,' Historians Say (16 Mar 2008)
US Fed Races to Rescue Bear Stearns In Bid to Steady Financial System (16 Mar 2008)
Credit Crunch: Goldman Sachs to reveal $3bn hit (16 Mar 2008)
Corporate Governance: Investors' anger rises after M&S reshuffle (16 Mar 2008)
Parmalat: 'Europe's Enron' trial opens amid concerns (15 Mar 2008)
Parmalat founder Calisto Tanzi stays at home as £11bn fraud trial begins (15 Mar 2008)
Jurors find all 5 National Century executives guilty on all charges (15 Mar 2008)
Credit crunch woes claim America's fifth-biggest bank Bear Stearns (15 Mar 2008)
SEC may ease bank writeoff rules (15 Mar 2008)
Bear Stearns exposed as a bank saddled with toxic sub-prime debt (15 Mar 2008)
Bear Stearns succumbs to Wall Street's worst fears (15 Mar 2008)
Credit crisis rocks world's major banks (15 Mar 2008)
Hollinger: Conrad Black has filed an appeal against his four criminal convictions (15 Mar 2008)
The Big 4 And Their "Global Networks" (14 Mar 2008)
Tax can solve child poverty - but accountants are abetting it (14 Mar 2008)
Aussies On The Audit Trial (14 Mar 2008)
PWC Guernsey: Carlyle is a going concern, for at least 15 days (14 Mar 2008)
Former Parmalat chief goes on trial for fraud (14 Mar 2008)
Bear Stearns gets emergency funds (14 Mar 2008)
£11bn Carlyle hedge fund goes bust after jittery banks pull plug (14 Mar 2008)
Anatomy of a Carlyle Collapse (14 Mar 2008)
Carlyle Capital Woes Signals Trouble (14 Mar 2008)
Triple-A rating not enough to save Carlyle Capital Corporation (14 Mar 2008)
Carlyle Capital Corporation: commentary (14 Mar 2008)
Credit crunch claims a new victim (14 Mar 2008)
PwC ‘missed’ Tajikistan bank loans (14 Mar 2008)
KPMG's Role in Thornburg's Ills (14 Mar 2008)
Shinginko Tokyo can't continue without capital injection (14 Mar 2008)
A firm appraisal of the auditing business (14 Mar 2008)
Global or Local? For Accounting Firms, It All Depends (14 Mar 2008)
Who's guarding the guards? (14 Mar 2008)
Who will call accountants to account? (14 Mar 2008)
Banks Valuing Subprime Assets Have To Pass Auditors' Muster (14 Mar 2008)
AIG requests rethink on 'fair value' accounting (14 Mar 2008)
Deloittes, making themselves look stupid (13 Mar 2008)
Taking Risks, Executive Pay, Pointing Fingers And Betting the Farm (13 Mar 2008)
Lloyds Fraud and Government and Judicial Cover-up (13 Mar 2008)
Carlyle Capital Corporation (audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers) has said it will not be able to meet lenders' demands for money (13 Mar 2008)
Hedge fund on verge of collapse (13 Mar 2008)
Read accounts of Carlyle Capital Corporation (13 Mar 2008)
PricewaterhouseCoopers gave a clean bill of health to Carlyle Corporation on 27 February 2008 (see page 6) (13 Mar 2008)
Carlyle: How a $21bn investment fund can disappear in a blink (13 Mar 2008)
Carlyle Capital banks to seize $16bn in assets (13 Mar 2008)
Lenders to liquidate Carlyle unit (13 Mar 2008)
Credit Crunch: Despite the Federal Reserve's efforts Wall Street fears a big US bank is in trouble (13 Mar 2008)
Turbulent hedge fund industry set for more failures (13 Mar 2008)
Audit waffle that smothers small business (13 Mar 2008)
KPMG's Role in Thornburg's Ills (13 Mar 2008)
IFRS auditing a bogus pursuit (13 Mar 2008)
BDO network to face $521m claim (13 Mar 2008)
Banco Espirito Santo Appeal Decision Hits BDO International (13 Mar 2008)
Waiting for the Subprime Lawsuits (13 Mar 2008)
Investor Education 101: How to Avoid Scams (12 Mar 2008)
While the regulators are grasping at shadowy hedge funds and despicable rumour-mongers, the accountants remain as always unaccountable (12 Mar 2008)
PwC's Rock work questioned in the Commons (12 Mar 2008)
Thornburg (audited by KPMG) Audit Report Sours Quicker Than Milk (12 Mar 2008)
Second SocGen trader is detained (12 Mar 2008)
New arrest in SocGen rogue trader inquiry (12 Mar 2008)
Subprime and Credit crisis: US Fed's new $200 billion rescue (12 Mar 2008)
Credit Crunch: Citigroup puts $1bn into funds rescue plan as crisis deepens (12 Mar 2008)
UK's 2008 Budget - Chancellor's speech (12 Mar 2008)
UK Budget at a glance (12 Mar 2008)
The Alternative UK Budget (12 Mar 2008)
Chancellor delays PFI accounting change (12 Mar 2008)
Swiss Banks Blast Tax Evasion Claim (11 Mar 2008)
KPMG And New Century - Down The Legal Rabbit Hole (11 Mar 2008)
Regulator seeks answers on audits (11 Mar 2008)
SocGen accounting prompts queries (11 Mar 2008)
Irish banks may need life-support as property prices crash (11 Mar 2008)
Corporate Governance: Marks & Spencer decision to give Sir Stuart Rose dual role angers investors (11 Mar 2008)
Blackstone hit by slump in profits (11 Mar 2008)
FBI investigates Countrywide over possible mortgage fraud (10 Mar 2008)
Countrywide in US sub-prime probe (10 Mar 2008)
Subprime: Carlyle Capital crisis deepens amid fire sale threat (10 Mar 2008)
United Rentals in MOU to settle accounting class action lawsuits (10 Mar 2008)
United Rentals settles lawsuits for $27.5 million (10 Mar 2008)
Off balance sheet: Totally Uncharted Waters (10 Mar 2008)
Marks & Spencer has promoted chief executive Sir Stuart Rose to executive chairman in breach of City corporate governance codes (10 Mar 2008)
What's all that debt really worth? (10 Mar 2008)
Investors value transparency over returns (10 Mar 2008)
Carter & Carter calls in administrators (10 Mar 2008)
Five FSA officials who oversaw Northern Rock have resigned (10 Mar 2008)
Some £30bn ($60bn) of PFI projects, chiefly in health and local government, are off balance sheet (10 Mar 2008)
INTO University Partnerships Limited, a PFI provider, has failed to file any of its accounts (9 Mar 2008)
UK's dismal record on fighting financial crime. corruption and moneylaundering (9 Mar 2008)
European banks face $68bn more write-offs (9 Mar 2008)
ACE HARDWARE Ace Hardware accounting shortfall spurs CFO hire (9 Mar 2008)
Accounting Loophole Lets Bank Rewrite the Calendar (8 Mar 2008)
Backlash Against Mark-to-Market Accounting (8 Mar 2008)
Off-the-balance-sheet mysteries (8 Mar 2008)
Is Citigroup Another Enron? (8 Mar 2008)
Anatomy of a hedge fund Tequesta's collapse (8 Mar 2008)
Insolvency Examiner's Report May Cast Light on Subprime Mess (8 Mar 2008)
Sarbanes Oxley Whistleblower Goes Internationale (7 Mar 2008)
Court extends Sarbox protection to whistleblowers outside US (7 Mar 2008)
Sarbox protection for overseas whistle-blowers (7 Mar 2008)
Shell settles oil reserves action with $80m payout (7 Mar 2008)
SEC Charges Broadcom's Former Vice President of Human Resources for Stock Option Backdating (7 Mar 2008)
Tory MP Peter Luff hits out at slowness of Rover inquiry (7 Mar 2008)
MPs threaten probe into 'endless' £11m inquiry into Longbridge collapse (7 Mar 2008)
Parmalat Summary Judgement In Citi Case Starts Mar 28 (7 Mar 2008)
Accenture Epitome Of Incompetence (7 Mar 2008)
Sentencing date for Gangar and White (7 Mar 2008)
Carlyle fund crisis escalates as banks move in (7 Mar 2008)
US music mogul admits $300m fraud (7 Mar 2008)
Besler & Company and its principal, Philip Besler, have agreed to pay the United States $2.875 million, plus interest, to settle allegations of fraud (7 Mar 2008)
Deferred tax: a con to hide subsidies to shareholders at taxpayers expense (6 Mar 2008)
Auditor Musical Chairs At Moody's (6 Mar 2008)
UK Watchdog urged to probe off-balance sheet (6 Mar 2008)
Institutes embroiled in 'scum of the earth' hierarchy row (6 Mar 2008)
N.Rock investors in dark on payout, legal spat looms (6 Mar 2008)
US High Court Rejects Rigas' Bid To Overturn Fraud Convictions (6 Mar 2008)
Companies try to steer investors’ view on mark-to-market accounting (6 Mar 2008)
FRC 'should consult less' (6 Mar 2008)
Fair dues:Corporate tax dodging places a greater burden on those least able to pay (5 Mar 2008)
KPMG - there is no morality in taxation (5 Mar 2008)
The ICAEW: sailing very close to the wind (5 Mar 2008)
Is Fair-Value Accounting Always Fair? (5 Mar 2008)
Banks Face New Accounting Issues (5 Mar 2008)
PCAOB Standing Advisory Group Meeting - Baby Steps But Important Ones (4 Mar 2008)
Enron lawyers seek $688m fees (4 Mar 2008)
Off balance sheet Rock would be 'outrageous' (4 Mar 2008)
Adelphia: Supreme Court rejects Rigases’ last appeal of fraud convictions (4 Mar 2008)
MF Global, SocGen, And "Rogue" Traders - Don't Fall for the Simple Answers (4 Mar 2008)
US audit watchdog says not the time to modify rules (4 Mar 2008)
Priceline.com to restate certain financials to correct accounting (4 Mar 2008)
Deutsche Bank CEO calls for globalised financial regulations (4 Mar 2008)
Hollinger: Conrad Black defiant as he is jailed in Florida (4 Mar 2008)
FRC levies more businesses for more money (4 Mar 2008)
Countrywide and Risk Management - They Just Can't Get the Models Right (3 Mar 2008)
Pension changes could lead to record final salary deficit (3 Mar 2008)
Hollinger: Lord Black admits he was unwise but protests his innocence (3 Mar 2008)
US woes weigh on HSBC (3 Mar 2008)
HSBC £12bn subprime losses to hit hard (3 Mar 2008)
UK Select committee says banks ignored credit crunch warnings (3 Mar 2008)
FSA attacked by MPs over weak financial warning system (3 Mar 2008)
Read the House of Commons’ Treasury committee report on Credit Crunch and the Subprime Crisis: Financial Stability and Transparency (3 Mar 2008)
The tipping point: the time is right for change in the way we tax (2 Mar 2008)
International accounting rules "a mistake" (2 Mar 2008)
Met Mortgage trust and PriceWaterHouseCoopers reach settlement (2 Mar 2008)
Enron investors to wait longer for payout (2 Mar 2008)
HSBC 'to unveil $16bn writedown' (2 Mar 2008)
US authorities see no Malta cooperation on missing millions (2 Mar 2008)
This special Tesco offer must end soon (1 Mar 2008)
PwC Tough On AIG? Too Little Too Late (1 Mar 2008)
Deloitte Audit Partners Barred by SEC in Delphi Case (1 Mar 2008)
Shareholders ignore call for revolt on non-audit fees (1 Mar 2008)
Shareholder revolt call over non-audit fees (1 Mar 2008)

FEBRUARY 2008

Bringing banks to book (29 Feb 2008)
True impact of mark-to-market accounting in the credit crisis (29 Feb 2008)
Axa chiefs hit out at international accounting rules (29 Feb 2008)
FASB to look into off-balance-sheet vehicles (29 Feb 2008)
Peloton fund forced into shock liquidation (29 Feb 2008)
Sub-prime lands AIG with $11bn write-down (29 Feb 2008)
Credit crisis claims hedge fund (29 Feb 2008)
Northern Rock’s Granite (29 Feb 2008)
Rogue wheat trader costs MF Global $141.5m (29 Feb 2008)
PCAOB Proposes New Auditing Standard: Engagement Quality Review (29 Feb 2008)
At Fannie Mae, Mind the Fair Value, not the GAAP (29 Feb 2008)
Freddie Mac Reports $2.5 Billion Loss; Launches Probe (29 Feb 2008)
Rebel investors seize Bear hedge funds (29 Feb 2008)
Hollinger: Conrad Black must start jail term (29 Feb 2008)
Hollinger: Conrad Black fails in bid to delay jail term (29 Feb 2008)
Accounting body to probe SIVs (29 Feb 2008)
Prospect of a banking failure in the US was raised yesterday by the Federal Reserve chairman (29 Feb 2008)
Off-the-balance-sheet mysteries (28 Feb 2008)
UK MPs to probe off balance sheet deals (28 Feb 2008)
Shareholder revolt call over non-audit fees (28 Feb 2008)
Liquidity, VIEs and “involuntary asset growth” (28 Feb 2008)
We're David to firms' Goliath, pleads FRC (28 Feb 2008)
Europe to Review Rules After Bailouts of 2 Banks (28 Feb 2008)
Subprime clouds gather on insurance (28 Feb 2008)
MPs call for inquiry into Tesco's tax avoidance (28 Feb 2008)
DiPiazza - Wise Sage or Spin Doctor? (27 Feb 2008)
Some error. KPMG wouldn't have miscalculated its fees, though (27 Feb 2008)
Allco admits to A$1.9b error (27 Feb 2008)
SEC, Deloitte partner Difazio settle over Delphi audit (27 Feb 2008)
Is fair value accounting really fair? (27 Feb 2008)
Europe Surprised by US Progress on Convergence (27 Feb 2008)
FASB to Be Downsized (27 Feb 2008)
Five Convicted in AIG Accounting Case (27 Feb 2008)
Moulton warns private equity firms to expect 'large failures' (27 Feb 2008)
Is accountancy education paying its social debt (27 Feb 2008)
5 Former Insurance Executives Are Convicted of Fraud (26 Feb 2008)
Five guilty of fraud that led to AIG chief’s fall (26 Feb 2008)
Ex-bosses convicted of AIG fraud (26 Feb 2008)
Wall Street could be facing a further $88bn (£44.7bn) in off-balance-sheet subprime associated losses (26 Feb 2008)
Conseco to restate financial results (26 Feb 2008)
Banking's Black Hole (26 Feb 2008)
UK Treasury urged to reform insolvency laws (26 Feb 2008)
UK Regulator admits it mishandled Northern Rock (26 Feb 2008)
Whistle-blower site taken offline (26 Feb 2008)
More than 1000 companies that are still owed money from the £1.3 billion collapse of MG Rover (25 Feb 2008)
Two accountants guilty in ‘Ponzi’ scheme (25 Feb 2008)
Former Rock executive admits management should take some blame (25 Feb 2008)
Major accounting firm wouldn't touch Rock valuation 'with a barge pole' (25 Feb 20080
HSH Nordbank sues UBS over exposure to sub-prime danger (25 Feb 2008)
Payouts after MG Rover collapse (25 Feb 2008)
£40m for MG Rover creditors (25 Feb 2008)
UK ACCOUNTANTS GUILTY OF £100M INVESTMENT FRAUD (24 Feb 2008)
Accountants guilty of £100m fraud (24 Feb 2008)
RCMP is set to file criminal fraud charges against former senior executives at Nortel Networks Corp. for their alleged involvement in a fraudulent accounting scheme (24 Feb 2008)
Canada Pension funds seek to sue Deloitte (24 Feb 2008)
Granite: Northern Rock's money-making vehicle (24 Feb 2008)
Credit crunch toll may top $500bn (24 Feb 2008)
PwC's SocGen Report - Nothing New To Report (23 Feb 2008)
Refco Execs' Pleas May Ease Auditors' Worries (23 Feb 2008)
D.B. Zwirn, a New York hedge fund that has been plagued by accounting irregularities, is closing two of its largest funds (23 Feb 2008)
Citigroup facing further big write-downs (23 Feb 2008)
NatWest Three express remorse as they are jailed for 37 months (23 Feb 2008)
Banks and accounting:More holes than thou (22 Feb 2008)
Alan White and Shinder Gangar guilty of running $200m pyramid scam (22 Feb 2008)
US prison beckons British bankers who got cosy with Enron (22 Feb 2008)
Tax plan draws US feds' attention to accountant (22 Feb 2008)
Zwirn Shuts Hedge Funds After Clients Pull $2 Billion (22 Feb 2008)
Credit Suisse traders responsible for write-downs used old data (22 Feb 2008)
French Bank Says Its Controls Failed for 2 Years (22 Feb 2008)
The Big 4 And The Ratings Agencies - A Self-Fulfiling Prophecy (21 Feb 2008)
£40bn of Northern Rock's best mortgages will be left in offshore firm Granite, which will not be nationalised (21 Feb 2008)
Northern Rock has subsidiary in tax haven (21 Feb 2008)
Concern at Rock's off-balance-sheet vehicles (21 Feb 2008)
UK Parliament motion on ACCOUNTANTS, AUDIT AND CONFLICT OF INTEREST (21 Feb 2008)
MP on offensive over PwC Rock audit (21 Feb 2008)
More Defendants Charged in Ernst & Young Tax Shelter Case (21 Feb 2008)
Judge OKs $38.25 million Delphi Lawsuit Settlement against Deloitte (21 Feb 2008)
Avoiding TV savaging 'is priority on insolvency firm complaints' (21 Feb 2008)
US SEC On Verge Of Modernizing Oil Reserve Accounting Rules (21 Feb 2008)
Hollinger: Conrad Black in new bid to avoid jail (21 Feb 2008)
Accountancy Regulator bites back in row over who pays disciplinary costs (21 Feb 2008)
Societe Generale missed 75 warnings on trader Kerviel (21 Feb 2008)
Skepticism meets KPMG vow to pay unpaid overtime (21 Feb 2008)
Credit Rating Agencies -- Submerged by Subprime? (21 Feb 2008)
Sub-Prime Crisis and the Ratings Agencies (21 Feb 2008)
After Northern Rock (20 Feb 2008)
Guilty Plea in Refco Fraud Case (20 Feb 2008)
Granite features- Northern Rock has been asset-stripped by offshore trusts (20 Feb 2008)
Granite: a nice piece of Rock (but for whom?) (20 Feb 2008)
The Big 4 And Their "Global Networks" (20 Feb 2008)
UK Taxpayers 'to get Rock rubbish' (20 Feb 2008)
Northern Rock: Why Granite must be nationalised (20 Feb 2008)
UK Parliament Debate to Nationalise Northern Rock (20 Feb 2008)
Northern Rock and the Granite (based in Jersey) mystery (20 Feb 2008)
2 More Indictments in Ernst & Young Tax Shelter Case (20 Feb 2008)
Banks' goodwill 'accounting fiction' (20 Feb 2008)
Credit Suisse vs. KPMG (20 Feb 2008)
UK traders suspended after £1.5bn Credit Suisse loss (20 Feb 2008)
Credit Suisse suspends traders (20 Feb 2008)
No accountability but FRC mulls charging AIM groups with levy (20 Feb 2008)
General Electric to Adjust Accounting in Bid to End Probe (19 Feb 2009)
Refco chief Phillip Bennett pleads guilty to fraud (19 Feb 2008)
Insolvent Abuse: Accountants rack up £5m in fees after Lexi collapse (19 Feb 2008)
Insolvent Abuse: Creditors left with sour taste (19 Feb 2008)
Australia's ANZ says US monoline loss driven by accounting standards (19 Feb 2008)
ANZ exposure to sub-prime losses shocks investors (19 Feb 2008)
How the subprime implosion sparked a chain reaction (19 Feb 2008)
PwC washes hands of Centro scandal (19 Feb 2008)
Corporate and governmental fraud Whistleblowing website vows to defy court gag (19 Feb 2008)
Thieving accountant 'faked death' (19 Feb 2008)
Northern Rock: Many to blame, but the director’s most of all (18 Feb 2008)
Nationalising Northern Rock was the right move (18 Feb 2008)
Rock investors 'may get nothing' (18 Feb 2008)
Move to nationalise Northern Rock (18 Feb 2008)
Findings of the Financial Reporting Review Panel in respect of the accounts of Cambrian Mining Plc (18 Feb 2008)
Financial reporting: The trouble with annual reports (18 Feb 2008)
Grant Thornton LLP 2007 Revenues Rise 14.4% to $1.075 Billion (18 Feb 2008)
Holding back the banks (17 Feb 2008)
Refco boss admits fraud charges (17 Feb 2008)
Refco Ex-CEO Pleads Guilty to 20 Counts (17 Feb 2008)
Northern Rock to be nationalised (17 Feb 2008)
Northern Rock advisers in line for fees of £90m (17 Feb 2008)
Fomer Applix CEO Found Not Guilty Of Accounting Fraud (16 Feb 2008)
Subprime: Citigroup bars withdrawals as Bear Stearns feels the credit squeeze (16 Feb 2008)
Federal appeals court upholds decision to vacate ex-Enron CFO (16 Feb 2008)
IFRS may lead to new US accounting divide (15 Feb 2008)
Bradford & Bingley and KPMG in £226m writedown row (15 Feb 2008)
PriceWaterhouse to Pay $30.5 Million to Settle SmarTalk Teleservices Litigation (15 Feb 2008)
US subprime lawsuits set to outpace S&L cases (15 Feb 2008)
UBS reveals $26 billion US loans shock (15 Feb 2008)
FSA urged to shine a light on shareholders' hidden stakes (15 Feb 2008)
Court extends Sarbox protection to whistleblowers outside US (7 Mar 2008)
WSJ Swallows Big 4 Public Relations (14 Feb 2008)
PwC Layoff - Paying The Pesky Employees To Go Away (14 Feb 2008)
US SEC has more than 3 dozen subprime cases underway (14 Feb 2008)
PROGRESS REPORT of the ADVISORY COMMITTEE on IMPROVEMENTS to FINANCIAL REPORTING to the UNITED STATES SECURITIES and EXCHANGE COMMISSION (14 Feb 2008)
UBS makes biggest quarterly loss in banking history (14 Feb 2008)
Sub-prime blow for Bradford & Bingley investors (14 Feb 2008)
SEC Disciplines Ex-PwC Auditor (14 Feb 2008)
Rover probe sparks call to review investigations (14 Feb 2008)
US regulators to review off-balance packaged loans (14 Feb 2008)
Firms vent fury over disciplinary costs (14 Feb 2008)
SEC chief accountant rattles investors by backing plans to hide debt (14 Feb 2008)
The PwC - AIG Clusterschmuck (13 Feb 2008)
Why is it OK for accountants to make civil law but not for Muslims? (13 Feb 2008)
Accounting standard setters have not done enough to ensure investors get timely and complete information on off-balance-sheet deals (13 Feb 2008)
US Senator queries accounting bodies on subprime (13 Feb 2008)
Japanese banks' subprime losses hit 5.6 bln dollars (13 Feb 2008)
Bradford & Bingley profits halve after bad debts soar (13 Feb 2008)
US credit crisis escalates as defaults spread (13 Feb 2008)
Accounting Changes Send Schering-Plough to a Loss (13 Feb 2008)
KPMG Report Highlights Improved Performance in PFI Schools but does not say how much the firm collects from tax payers (13 Feb 2008)
UNIVERSITIES AND EQUALITY (12 Feb 2008)
Say No To Auditor Liability Caps (12 Feb 2008)
We should be worried if Sir Richard Branson wins Northern Rock (12 Feb 2008)
Bad Bets and Accounting Flaws Bring Staggering Losses (12 Feb 2008)
Is fair value accounting a blessing or a curse (12 Feb 2008)
Auditors take eyes off the property ball (12 Feb 2008)
AIG acknowledges accounting flaws and raises losses to $5 billion (12 Feb 2008)
AIG losses may have been wider (12 Feb 2008)
AIG discloses hole in derivatives valuation (12 Feb 2008)
AIG warns of $4.8bn sub-prime writedown (12 Feb 2008)
Dissecting American International Group's $5.9B SEC Filing (12 Feb 2008)
Receivers are called in at Standard Chartered SIV (12 Feb 2008)
Standard SIV goes to receivers (12 Feb 2008)
Origin of Subprime Mess Source of Passionate Debate (12 Feb 2008)
St Modwen faces £35m hit to values (12 Feb 2008)
Grant Thornton Avoids Penalty in Keystone Audit (12 Feb 2008)
Mortgage Crisis Spreads Beyond Subprime Loans (12 Feb 2008)
Let's Play "Survivor" - PwC Style (11 Feb 2008)
PwC UK New Service Line - Undercover Fashion Police (11 Feb 2008)
UK Government refuses to investigate the use of off balance sheet accounting by banks (11 Feb 2008)
4,921 company administration or liquidation process began between 10 and fifteen years ago but still not finalised (11 Feb 2008)
12,571 company administration or liquidations began more than 15 years ago but are still not finalised (11 Feb 2008)
SocGen prices €5.5bn rights issue at sharp discount (11 Feb 2008)
G7 is told worldwide losses from sub-prime crisis could be $400bn (11 Feb 2008)
MG Rover investigators run up £130,000 expenses (11 Feb 2008)
Subprime crisis: World markets lose $5.2trillion (11 Feb 2008)
HCC Insurance reaches settlement in class-action suit over stock options (11 Feb 2008)
Financial and Tax Accounting: Transparency and ‘Truth’ (11 Feb 2008)
Time budget pressure and auditor dysfunctional behaviour within an occupational stress model by Shaun M. McNamara and Gregory A. Liyanarachchi
Attitudes of South African Taxpayers Towards Taxation: A Pilot Study by Ruanda Oberholzer
Taxing Thoughts: Ireland, Tax Competition and the Cost of Intellectual Capital by Sheila Killian
The Impact of HIV/ AIDS on Poverty and Education in Africa by Ravinder Rena
Sixty Years after Tryst with Destiny: Woh Subaha Kabhi to Aygi by Arun Kumar
Kerviel locked up as second trader questioned (10 Feb 2008)
GlaxoSmithKline can’t get its tax right, and is Sir Christopher Hogg covering for them? (10 Feb 2008)
US federal appeals court has vacated $300,000 in civil penalties against Grant Thornton (10 Feb 2008)
Subprime: SEC and federal prosecutors turn up the heat on Merrill Lynch (10 Feb 2008)
Lenders 'stretched' rules to get risk off-balance-sheet (10 Feb 2008)
SEC eyes disclosure in subprime probes (10 Feb 2008)
Saudi royal Prince Bandar Bin Sultan's US assets frozen as part of a lawsuit over bribery allegations (10 Feb 2008)
FIN 48 coming to the UK (9 Feb 2008)
Hat Pin suspends shares after accounting errors (9 Feb 2008)
Hat Pin duo quit over 'accounting errors' (9 Feb 2008)
Sub-prime fears at WestLB and IKB threaten German banking (9 Feb 2008)
SocGen: the lessons for London (9 Feb 2008)
Doubt cast on SocGen claim of single perpetrator - Kerviel locked up as second trader questioned (9 Feb 2008)
SocGen trader remanded in custody after court hearing (9 Feb 2008)
Corporate Rights and Responsibilities: Restoring Legal Accountability (9 Feb 2008)
PwC $20000 probe unveils £130 in unlawful claims (9 Feb 2008)
The Saga Of Sirva (8 Feb 2008)
I don’t want audits: just give me HMRC’s risk assessment (8 Feb 2008)
Subprime accounting stretched from day one (8 Feb 2008)
Former principal and managing director of KPMG Consulting LLC was charged with conspiracy to commit securities fraud, wire fraud, bank fraud and falsification of the books, records and accounts of a public corporation (8 Feb 2008)
Former KPMG Consulting Principal Settles SEC Charges (8 Feb 2008)
Former KPMG Principal Consultant was instrumental in setting up sham license agreements (8 Feb 2008)
The Impending Subprime Litigation Tsunami (8 Feb 2008)
Hat Pin (audited by BDO Stoy Hayward) shares suspended on AIM after accounting errors (8 Feb 2008)
Hat Pin suspends shares and warns on profits (8 Feb 2008)
Insolvency: £300m will be paid on top of the £1.7 billion to cover Metronet’s operating and insolvency costs (8 Feb 2008)
EU targeted on accounting clarity (8 Feb 2008)
UK Taxpayer's £100bn Rock exposure (8 Feb 2008)
Auditor's liability to third parties (8 Feb 2008)
Audit watchdog to home in on "fair value" (8 Feb 2008)
IASB in bed with corporate interests (8 Feb 2008)
British Land writes off £1.4bn from value of commercial property as market ebbs (8 Feb 2008)
Accountants take over the worold: KPMG reviews Government alcohol strategy (8 Feb 2008)
Former KPMG Consulting Principal Settles SEC Charges for Role in Peregrine Accounting Fraud (7 Feb 2008)
MG Rover investigators reveal £100000 hotel bill (7 Feb 2008)
Government has issued blank cheque to Rover inquiry (7 Feb 2008)
Ex-SocGen risk auditor calls systems a sham (7 Feb 2008)
Grant Thornton battles insurers over Parmalat liability cover (7 Feb 2008)
Audit reports no longer relevant (7 Feb 2008)
KPMG advice on ill-fated pub deal was a 'one-off' (7 Feb 2008)
Goldman Sachs settles with University of Californian for $11.5 million over Enron (7 Feb 2008)
Northern Rock reclassified as public company (7 Feb 2008)
Big 4 Salaries - Every Day A Surprise (6 Feb 2008)
FRC publishes Audit Quality Framework (6 Feb 2008)
Government to drop FRC funding (6 Feb 2008)
Levitt committee mulls audit choice changes in US (6 Feb 2008)
Regulators have blocked UBS's application for a banking licence in India as the country's Finance Ministry probes an alleged $8 billion (£4 billion) money laundering racket (6 Feb 2008)
Morgan Stanley Cries Mommy, SEC Comes Running (6 Feb 2008)
I won't be made a scapegoat - €5bn rogue trader breaks silence (6 Feb 2008)
I got carried away, says rogue trader (6 Feb 2008)
Northern Rock: nationalisation is the only answer (5 Feb 2008)
LAUSD - Still Cleaning Up Deloitte's SAP Debacle (5 Feb 2008)
Mutual Fund and Insurance Company Scandals (5 Feb 2008)
The Most Criminal Class Writes the Laws (5 Feb 2008)
Royal Bank of Scotland faces tough questions over £12.5bn finances gap (5 Feb 2008)
SocGen reportedly takes measures to avoid trading incidents (5 Feb 2008)
SocGen's credibility suffers fresh blow (5 Feb 2008)
Making Sense Of The Subprime Debacle (5 Feb 2008)
HSBC's money-laundering trial begins in Paris (5 Feb 2008)
SocGen’s Bouton faces money laundering court charges (5 Feb 2008)
Societe Generale in the dock over money-laundering scam (5 Feb 2008)
Beazer - They're Falling Like Dominoes (4 Feb 2008)
SEC - You Want Sanctions? We Got Sanctions (4 Feb 2008)
Société Générale - Please Try To Focus (4 Feb 2008)
SocGen controls 'failed to work' (4 Feb 2008)
How SocGen trades were hidden (4 Feb 20080
SocGen reportedly takes measures to avoid trading incidents (4 Feb 2008)
Time to get real on pensions (4 Feb 2008)
Trials in huge fraud case to begin (4 Feb 2008)
UK corporate fraud may hit a record high (4 Feb 2008)
Concerns raised over lack of fraud convictions in Scotland (4 Feb 2008)
Statement of the European Commission and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Mutual Recognition in Securities Markets (4 Feb 2008)
Treasury imposes Northern Rock warrant (3 Feb 2008)
Hollinger: Black must report to jail in four weeks (3 Feb 2008)
Federal judge gives former Wal-Mart executive community service tax evasion and fraud convictions (3 Feb 2008)
Poor people steal, but the rich practise creative accountancy (3 Feb 2008)
Enron investors get new chance (2 Feb 2008)
Metropolitan Mortgage investors' hopes fade: Court rulings favor big auditing firms (2 Feb 2008)
Shareholder Class Action Filed Against SunOpta Inc (2 Feb 2008)
Subprime, CDO Bank Losses May Exceed $265 Billion (2 Feb 2008)
Wal-Mart Pays $208,678 For High Price Lobbyists in Massachusetts to avoid taxes (2 Feb 2008)
US federal regulators want international accounting on 2008 agenda (2 Feb 2008)
Earthquake at British Land as £1.3bn is wiped off portfolio (2 Feb 2008)
CIMA boss Charles Tilley has flatly rejected the idea of a merger with another accounting institute (1 Feb 2008)
FBI Director: Mortgage Fraud Substantial (1 Feb 2008)
Germany's plans to introduce stricter accounting rules (1 Feb 2008)
Tax avoidance by UK companies and the wealthy costs everyone at work £1,000 a year (1 Feb 2008)
The Missing Billions: The UK Tax Gap (1 Feb 2008)
Five things about rogue traders (1 Feb 2008)
Rock rap for PwC as MPs highlight conflict of interest (1 Feb 2008)
The Financial Reporting of Pensions: ASB issues Discussion Paper on future directions (1 Feb 2008)

JANUARY 2008

Our irregular regulators (31 Jan 2008)
UK government responde to Northern Rock: Financial stability and depositor protection: strengthening the framework (31 Jan 2008)
Biggest Wall Street Firms Probed in subprime Crisis (31 Jan 2008)
FBI targets senior bankers in far-reaching sub-prime fraud inquiry (31 Jan 2008)
UBS sub-prime losses mount to $18.4bn (31 Jan 2008)
French challenge EC to court battle over audit rules (31 Jan 2008)
Predators circle pubs group Mitchells & Butlers wounded by £422m losses (31 Jan 2008)
PM’s proposed cure for markets is problematic (31 Jan 2008)
Société Générale opens inquiry into rogue trader (31 Jan 2008)
Société Générale, Risk, and Control (30 Jan 2008)
Investment banks will need write-downs of $40bn (£20bn) to $70bn as a result of the current crisis in the bond insurance market (31 Jan 2008)
Fair value shockwaves far from over (31 Jan 2008)
Audit committees don’t understand the off-balance sheet structures (31 Jan 2008)
$4 billion Sub-prime woes push UBS into red (30 Jan 2008)
Subprime Lenders Get Big Accounting Break at SEC (30 Jan 20080
KPMG advised M&B on hedge catastrophe (30 Jan 2008)
Playing blame game at Mitchells & Butlers (30 Jan 2008)
PwC Appeal Denied in Yukos Case (30 Jan 2008)
PwC provided tax and financial advice to the Prime Minister's leadership campaign (30 Jan 2008)
FBI investigates sub-prime crisis (30 Jan 2008)
Berlusconi Acquitted After Decriminalizing False Accounting (30 Jan 2008)
Northern Rock prompts Alistair Darling into secret deals (30 Jan 2008)
The GAO Report and Stoneridge - My Audacious Hope (29 Jan 2008)
If you don’t get flack for the Enron audit what do you get it for? (29 Jan 2008)
Russian court leaves PwC's licence in legal limbo (29 Jan 2008)
Former Enron Auditor Settles With SEC (29 Jan 2008)
Andersen partner who audited Enron settles with SEC (29 Jan 2008)
Former head of Enron team barred from some professional duties (29 Jan 2008)
Mitchells & Butlers savaged by credit crisis (29 Jan 2008)
Mitchells & Butlers (audited by Ernst & Young) Has 274 Million-Pound Hedge Loss (29 Jan 2008)
Mitchells & Butlers Hedge Closure, Strategy and Trading Update (28 Jan 2008)
Rogue trader freed as fraud case falters (29 Jan 2008)
SocGen in disarray as judges throw out fraud charge against trader (29 Jan 2008)
A&L reveals further £130m sub-prime hit (29 Jan 2008)
UK Royal Mint faces fraud probe (29 Jan 2008)
Investigators into alleged corruption by British companies and government departments overseas are probing many more cases than had been expected (29 Jan 2008)
Sour credit card loans hurt Amex (29 Jan 2008)
Our irregular regulators (29 Jan 2008)
Société Générale, Risk, and Control (29 Jan 2008)
The GAO Report and Stoneridge - My Audacious Hope (29 Jan 2008)
If you don’t get flack for the Enron audit what do you get it for? (29 Jan 2008)
Russian court leaves PwC's licence in legal limbo (29 Jan 2008)
Former Enron Auditor Settles With SEC (29 Jan 2008)
Andersen partner who audited Enron settles with SEC (29 Jan 2008)
Former head of Enron team barred from some professional duties (29 Jan 2008)
Mitchells & Butlers savaged by credit crisis (29 Jan 2008)
Mitchells & Butlers (audited by Ernst & Young) Has 274 Million-Pound Hedge Loss (29 Jan 2008)
Mitchells & Butlers Hedge Closure, Strategy and Trading Update (28 Jan 2008)
Rogue trader freed as fraud case falters (29 Jan 2008)
SocGen in disarray as judges throw out fraud charge against trader (29 Jan 2008)
A&L reveals further £130m sub-prime hit (29 Jan 2008)
UK Royal Mint faces fraud probe (29 Jan 2008)
Investigators into alleged corruption by British companies and government departments overseas are probing many more cases than had been expected (29 Jan 2008)
Sour credit card loans hurt Amex (29 Jan 2008)
Say On Pay"? Tell It To The Source - The Bendable Directors (28 Jan 2008)
On-balance sheet world returning (28 Jan 2008)
Landesbanks' Subprime Exposure 80 Bln Eur (28 Jan 2008)
AIG bails out $2.5 billion Nightingale SIV (28 Jan 2008)
Kerviel charged with attempted SocGen fraud (28 Jan 2008)
Belgian bank Fortis has warned that its losses connected to bad US sub-prime mortgage debt could be as much as 1bn euros (28 Jan 2008)
Court drops PwC appeal against invalidated Yukos audits (28 Jan 2008)
Singer Michael Bolton is suing his accountants for allegedly stealing more than $5 million (28 Jan 2008)
How to avoid a professional negligence claim (28 Jan 2008)
"Say On Pay"? Tell It To The Source - The Bendable Directors (27 Jan 2008)
Smell from accounting hangs at top trash hauler Waste Management (27 Jan 2008)
Dolcis paid off equity loan before collapse (27 Jan 2008)
Hedge funds: The new global super powers (27 Jan 2008)
Finance Industry: This reckless greed of the few harms the future of the many (27 Jan 2008)
Auditors - The Sound of Hooves Approaching (26 Jan 2008)
Banks had been guilty of underpricing risk and doing too much off-balance sheet activity (26 Jan 2008)
Banks may need to raise as much as $143bn (£77bn) to weather the credit crisis (26 Jan 2008)
Conflict of interest between the statutory role of the auditor, and the other work it may undertake for a financial institution, says UK parliamentary committee (26 Jan 2008)
FSA 'failed over Northern Rock' (26 Jan 2008)
UK Parliamentary Committee Report: The run on the Rock (26 Jan 2008)
Who Runs Britain? (26 Jan 2008)
Countrywide's Underwriters Sued for Fraud by New York Agencies (26 Jan 2008)
French Rogue trader scandal broadens out (25 Jan 2008)
He lost his bank £3.7bn. So was it his fault the markets crashed? (25 Jan 2008)
Regulators in London and Paris have launched an insider dealing investigation into Société Générale's €5 billion (£3.7 billion) rogue trader scandal (25 Jan 2008)
No amount of monitoring will stop a determined trader (25 Jan 2008)
Banks 'face a further $300bn sub-prime hit' (25 Jan 2008)
Former Monster CEO Settles SEC Options Backdating Charge (25 Jan 2008)
SEC Settles Charges Against Former CEO of Monster Worldwide, Inc. for Stock Options Backdating (25 Jan 2008)
Banks guilty of underpricing risk and undertaking too much off-balance sheet activity (25 Jan 2008)
MPs’ report on Rock will say FSA is not fit for greater role (25 Jan 2008)
Deloitte and David Fabb (Holdings) Ltd. Group (24 Jan 2008)
New Century Is A Drag For KPMG (24 Jan 2008)
Accountants, pressing on regardless (24 Jan 2008)
Societe Generale uncovered "massive" fraud of 4.9bn euros ($7.1bn; £3.7bn) (24 Jan 2008)
The 20 biggest trading disasters (24 Jan 2008)
SEC Settles Charges Against Former CEO of Monster Worldwide, Inc. for Stock Options Backdating (24 Jan 2008)
SEC inquiry into ABN share trades during Barclays bid (24 Jan 2008)
Firms' fury at tribunal costs plan (24 Jan 2008)
Ernst & Young avoids huge liability after Freightliner petition rejected by Lords (24 Jan 2008)
Siemens chairman appeals for leniency from US authorities over bribery scandal (24 Jan 2008)
Big banks announce writedowns that swell total to $120bn (24 Jan 2008)
2005 Court of Appeal judgement in Ernst & Young and Freightliner (24 Jan 2008)
Northern Rock in talks to sell £355m pension scheme (24 Jan 2008)
The Reality Of Working For The Big 4 (23 Jan 2008)
Bayou Co-Founder Gets 4 1/4 Year Sentence for Fraud (23 Jan 2008)
The conventional audit is probably no longer worth paying for (23 Jan 2008)
Firms sweat on MPs' Metronet verdict (23 Jan 2008)
ICAS signs pact with counterpart in China (23 Jan 2008)
Citigroup, UBS Lawyers Deny Wrongdoing on Parmalat (23 Jan 2008)
Parmalat Trial Could Open Door for Civil Proceedings (23 Jan 2008)
Northern Rock rescue plan is daylight robbery (23 Jan 2008)
Hedge funds in disclosure move (23 Jan 2008)
How to avert a recession: cut taxes (22 Jan 2008)
Shareholders will bail out WestLB with a €1billion (£743 million) injection (22 Jan 2008)
Computer Associates Kumar Pays Final $2M in Restitution (22 Jan 2008)
Northern Rock: £24bn bonds sell-off agreed (22 Jan 2008)
UK government statement on Northern Rock (22 Jan 2008)
Rock plans are 'an accounting trick' (22 Jan 2008)
The government's Northern Rock rescue plan looks doomed from the start due to hidden charges of up to £1bn (22 Jan 2008)
Taxpayers to take on Northern Rock risk (22 Jan 2008)
Grim times says Sports Direct (22 Jan 2008)
More money for corporate undertakers: Dolcis crushed as fashion retailers stamp their authority on high street shoe market (22 Jan 2008)
Insolvency: 600 jobs go as administrators close half of Dolcis outlets (22 Jan 2008)
APB issues Bulletin on audit issues when financial market conditions are difficult (22 Jan 2008)
Only four in 10 AIMs governance compliant (21 Jan 2008)
FTSE 350 'slow' on corporate governance (21 Jan 2008)
WestLB expects billion euro loss (21 Jan 2008)
Bank crisis hurts UK light-touch drive (21 Jan 2008)
For SEC Team, Share Option Backdating Probe Led To Surprises (21 Jan 2008)
PwC-HSBC arm probes flawed insurance sales (21 Jan 2008)
Northern Rock: £24bn bonds sell-off agreed (21 Jan 2008)
Held to Account: How accounting standards do harm (20 Jan 2008)
Clampdown on banks ordered by Regulator (20 Jan 2008)
UK government's useless response on acocuntancy firms and tax avoidance (19 Jan 2008)
Equipment Leasing and Finance Association Ernst & Young $100,000 to lobby the federal government (19 Jan 2008)
Share Option Backdating probe had surprises for investigators (19 Jan 2008)
Court seeks details on Qwest settlement (19 Jan 2008)
How the Banks Dodged Their Own Bullet (19 Jan 2008)
Credit crunch: melt down time (18 Jan 2008)
Merrill Lynch reports $9.8-billion loss (18 Jan 2008)
Former Peregrine executive pleads guilty to lying to FBI (18 Jan 2008)
New accounting standards leave too much to chance (18 Jan 2008)
AADB launches consultation on changes proposed for its Accountancy Scheme (18 Jan 2008)
US Court Restricts 3rd-Party Suits In Stoneridge Case (18 Jan 2008)
US Court seeks details on Qwest settlement (18 Jan 2008)
Big Four bosses join Brown on China visit (18 Jan 2008)
Ex-Brocade CEO Sentenced to 21 Months (18 Jan 2008)
Enron-driven reforms are unraveling (18 Jan 2008)
Only tougher laws will persuade auditors to come clean (17 Jan 2008)
MG Rover Inspectors cost hits £11 million (17 Jan 2008)
MG Rover inquiry bill tops £10m (17 Jan 2008)
Maxwell Insolvency practitioners charged £88 million (17 Jan 2008)
BCCI insolvency practitioners charged nearly £400 million (17 Jan 2008)
Farepak insolvency fees climb to £1.2 million (17 Jan 2008)
UK government opposes independent regulation of insolvency practitioners (18 Jan 2008)
UK insolvency regulators do not mainatin any record of long-running complaints (18 Jan 2008)
UK government refuses to investigate rip-off fees by insolvency practitioners (18 Jan 2008)
UK government has no plans to investigate the fees paid to insolvency practitioners (18 Jan 2008)
State guaranteed monopolies: Just 1,592 insolvency practitioners handle all UK insolvency work (18 Jan 2008)
UK government says no to regulation of the insolvency industry by a single independent regulator (18 Jan 2008)
Complaints against insolvency practitioners will not be investigated by a body independent of the accountancy and law trade associations (18 Jan 2008)
Farepak report to be completed within the next two to three months (17 Jan 2008)
Peregrine's former president pleads guilty in fraud case (17 Jan 2008)
JP Morgan's $1.3bn sub-prime hit (17 Jan 2008)
Merrill Posts Record Loss on $16.7 Billion Writedown (17 Jan 2008)
Citigroup directors face vote challenge (17 Jan 2008)
Citigroup investor challenges audit committee (17 Jan 2008)
Northern Rock has exposed the reality of the free market (17 Jan 2008)
'Compelling' need to tackle Big Four issue (17 Jan 2008)
US Supreme Court Rules Against Investors (16 Jan 2008)
SEC Charges Two Former PricewaterhouseCoopers Employees With Insider Trading (16 Jan 2008)
Insider trading matter, two employees of PricewaterhouseCoopers (16 Jan 2008)
Ex-auditor settles insider-trading (16 Jan 2008)
Citigroup's $9.8bn sub-prime loss (16 Jan 2008)
$18bn write-off at Citigroup prompts slide in markets (16 Jan 2008)
New court ruling bolsters Barclays in Enron battle (16 Jan 2008)
UK Laws planned to nationalise Northern Rock (16 Jan 2008)
Time to end London’s “listings of convenience” (16 Jan 2008)
Taking a Fresh Look at Judgment (16 Jan 2008)
Securities and Exchange Commission today charged two former employees of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) with insider trading (15 Jan 2008)
Outcry at county council’s £32m consultant bill (15 Jan 2008)
Ethical framework and independence of accountancy have been sidelined (15 Jan 2008)
How to save 43% on audit fees: dump Deloitte (15 Jan 2008)
Catapult and Deloitte - Look Past The End Of Pinocchio's Nose (15 Jan 2008)
Deloitte Dumped for 43 Percent Discount (15 Jan 2008)
Citigroup may write off $24 billion (15 Jan 2008)
Fresh writedowns at Citigroup and Merrill may total $35bn (15 Jan 2008)
Merrill Lynch targetted in share investigation (15 Jan 2008)
Samsung HQ raided in bribes probe (15 Jan 2008)
The Truth About Mortgage Bundling, SIVs, SPEs, and Sovereign Wealth Funds (14 Jan 2008)
Deloitte & Touche partner hit with $64,000 bill for Alberta insurance debate breach (14 Jan 2008)
Blaming others for their own failures: Top auditors seek freedom in shake-up (14 Jan 2008)
More credit crisis write-downs and writs (14 Jan 2008)
Private equity warned on disclosure (14 Jan 2008)
BVCA’s Walker warns private equity about disclosure code (14 Jan 2008)
This is not merely a subprime crisis (14 Jan 2008)
Cultural diversity: a world of difference (13 Jan 2008)
GAO Says, "No Gorillas In The Room" (13 Jan 2008)
Citigroup and Merrill seek $18bn rescue funds (13 Jan 2008)
Double pay deal for Rock bosses (13 Jan 2008)
Northern Rock: Goldman Sachs offers financial engineering, not a solution (12 Jan 2008)
What the auditors audit?: UBS admits that it still cannot quantify its exposure to sub-prime crisis (12 Jan 2008)
Bank of America saves Countrywide from bankruptcy (12 Jan 2008)
Audit Market Growing More Concentrated (12 Jan 2008)
Sanyo says paying fine for accounting error (12 Jan 2008)
Ace employee makes $152 million accounting error (12 Jan 2008)
Syntura Finds Accounting Errors (12 Jan 2008)
Northern Rock repays £2bn of £26bn Bank of England loan (12 Jan 2008)
Bankers throw in the towel over Rock (12 Jan 2008)
Countrywide and Risk Management - All The Best Intentions (11 Jan 2008)
Ernst & Young partners charged with tax evasion in the US - Firm a major financial contributor to Hilary Clinton (11 Jan 2008)
Ernst & Young and presidential election donations (11 Jan 2008)
US watchdog says "Big 4" audit firms enough for now (11 Jan 2008)
US Report reassures on Big Four auditors (11 Jan 2008)
AUDITS OF PUBLIC COMPANIES: Continued Concentration in Audit Market for Large Public Companies Does Not Call for Immediate Action, UA GAO Report (11 Jan 2008)
Northern Rock reveals £100m pension black hole (11 Jan 2008)
UK banks 'face a £1.5 trillion funding gap' (11 Jan 2008)
Revolving Doors: IRS's Nolan Joins Ernst & Young (11 Jan 2008)
Heart of darkness: Accounting firms have penetrated the UK state and their many antisocial activities are going unchecked (10 Jan 2008)
The Big 4 And The Nazis (10 Jan 2008)
BCCI and Sandstorm Report: Some 20 months later the UK government still won't release information (10 Jan 2008)
Parmalat ex-auditor Deloitte proposes agreed settlement with bondholder group (10 Jan 2008)
UK government refuses to investigate the use of captive insurance companies by accountancy firms (10 Jan 2009)
Citigroup Fights Enron Suit (10 Jan 2008)
Law firm seeks $688 million for Enron work (10 Jan 2008)
Trial of ex-Gen Re, AIG officers starts (10 Jan 2008)
Fraud Trial Focuses on Insurance Giants (10 Jan 2008)
Hong Kong Chamber Chief in Stock-Option Fraud Case Steps Aside (10 Jan 2008)
Prosecutors Launch Probe Into Samsung Bribery Scandal (10 Jan 2008)
PCAOB - A Lapdog, Not A Watchdog (9 Jan 2008)
Bogus university scam uncovered - chartered accountant ran it (9 Jan 2008)
ICAEW critic caught up in 'dodgy' university row (9 Jan 2008)
Catapult Dumps Deloitte to Reduce Expenses (15 Jan 2008)
How accounting firms line their pockets: Council audit fees to soar over IFRS (9 Jan 2008)
Countrywide Financial has denied speculation it is set to file for bankruptcy protection (9 Jan 2008)
Restaurant Group shares slump on slowdown (9 Jan 2008)
Top banks to stand trial in Parmalat case (9 Jan 2008)
After the horse has bolted: IASB in discussions to put SIVs on balance sheet (9 Jan 2008)
Companies face being forced to reveal off-balance sheet vehicles (9 Jan 2008)
SEC Provides Incentive For Mortgage Companies To Renegotiate Loans (9 Jan 2008)
Hey Big 4 - What's On Your Balance Sheet (8 Jan 2008)
KB Home, the fifth largest US homebuilder, has made quarterly loss of $773m (£392m) (8 Jan 2008)
Courts advisers run up £40m bill (8 Jan 2008)
balance sheet to be focus of accounting review (8 Jan 2007)
Auditors war over fraud liability as Parmalat goes to US (8 Jan 2008)
North Carolina Court decision in the Wal- Mart Case (advised by Ernst & Young) (8 Jan 2008)
North Carolina Court Order in the Wal- Mart Case (8 Jan 2008)
Hey Big 4 - What's On Your Balance Sheet (7 Jan 2008)
Wal-Mart or E&Y - Who's The Bigger Loser? (7 Jan 2008)
£334 an hour: times are tough for KPMG (7 Jan 2008)
Advisers to Courts, the failed furniture retailer, have collected more than £35m in fees since the company collapsed into administration (7 Jan 2008)
Insolvent Abuse: KPMG, Court Furniture's administrator, has charged £23.7m in fees and expenses (7 Jan 2008)
Parmalat accuse Grant Thornton of fraud (7 Jan 2007)
Parmalat claims Grant Thornton 'looted' us (7 Jan 2008)
Big four auditors need to be challenged (7 Jan 2008)
Grant Thornton faces ₤5bn claim from Parmalat (7 Jan 2008)
US Securities fraud lawsuits on rise (7 Jan 2008)
How Wall Street Evolved from a Trading Epicenter to an Offshore Manufacturer of Black Holes (7 Jan 2008)
Governments and Big Business: KPMG chief goes to Iraq as commissioner (7 Jan 2008)
Wal-Mart May Appeal $33.5 Million North Carolina Court Decision (6 Jan 2008)
Rolling Back Property Tax Payments: How Wal-Mart Short-Changes Schools and other Public Services by Challenging Its Property Tax Assessments (6 Jan 2008)
WAL-MART'S TAX AVOIDANCE SCHEMES: How Wal-Mart’s Pursuit of Lower Taxes Has Cost States and Their Communities Millions (6 Jan 2008)
Another unlawful tax scheme by Ernst & Young: US Judge Rules Against Wal-Mart Over Its Tax-Shelter Dispute (5 Jan 2008)
Firms taught to milk 'cash cow': Ernst & Young lead the field (5 Jan 2008)
Unlike Enron CEOs, fraud not going away (5 Jan 2008)
Warning wipes out 47% of Land of Leather market value (5 Jan 2008)
Waste Management's former chief financial officer to pay more than $4 million in penalties for accounting fraud (4 Jan 2008)
US Judge Enters Final Judgment Against Former CFO of Waste Management, Inc. Following Jury Verdict in SEC's Favor (4 Jan 2008)
Economic reality and fiction in the world of banking (4 Jan 2008)
Apria Healthcare restates on accounting error (4 Jan 2008)
Accounting standards will 'increase pension deficits' (4 Jan 2008)
State Street Sees $279 Million Charge; Replaces Unit CEO (4 Jan 2008)
Out-of-court settlement made in Manitoba lawsuit (4 Jan 2008)
FSA to get power to shut failing banks (4 Jan 2008)
UK to give extensive seize and access powers to the regulator in the wake of the Northern Rock fiasco (4 Jan 2008)
Subprime crisis: How The Mighty Have Fallen (4 Jan 2008)
Easy Money: KPMG head to work on Iraq rebuilding (4 Jan 2008)
Without a thorough investigation of the way banks are governed and their directors remunerated, meaningful reforms are impossible (3 Jan 2008)
Accountants face up to the moral maze (3 Jan 2008)
Deloitte & Touche agrees to $38 million Adelphi lawsuit settlement (3 Jan 2008)
Hedge fund raises stake to block nationalisation of Northern Rock (3 Jan 2008)
London Scottish: ‘Not a Northern Rock situation’ (3 Jan 2008)
Crunch time puts the squeeze on auditing profession (3 Jan 2008)
French Probe slams Vivendi's aggressive accounting (2 Jan 2008)
Report slams Vivendi’s accounting practices (2 Jan 2008)
Restatement Will Delay VeriFone Annual Report (2 Jan 2008)
Convergence of accounting standards entails significant costs (2 Jan 2008)
South Korea pardons Daewoo boss (2 Jan 2008)
Pricewaterhouse to pay $225 mln in Tyco settlement (2 Jan 2008)
Quest Software completes restatement (1 Jan 2008)
Class action settlement comprises $2.975 billion from Tyco and $225 million from its PricewaterhouseCoopers (1 Jan 2008)
London Scottish Bank admitted yesterday that it does not have enough capital to satisfy the regulator (1 Jan 2008)
Can the Accounting Regulators Picture a Future Without the Big Four? (1 Jan 2008)

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