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DECEMBER 2009

Single standard proves elusive goal (31 Dec 2009)
Ernst & Young quits as auditor to Halabi properties (31 Dec 2009)
Decade In Review: Corporate Scoundrels And Scandals (31 Dec 2009)
SEC Charges Houston-Based Broker With Defrauding Florida Municipalities (31 Dec 2009)
China's Annual Audit Regulations (31 Dec 2009)
Lawyers on Alert: IFRS is Just Around the Corner (31 Dec 2009)
Trainee accountant copied work from internet (31 Dec 2009)
Stockport law firm closed over dishonesty probe (31 Dec 2009)
Argentine Companies To Adopt IFRS Accounting Rules From 2012 (30 Dec 2009)
Some Firms Seem Stricter with Fair Value Accounting (30 Dec 2009)
Adelphia To Pay $133 Million To Claimants As It Closes Motorola Suit (30 Dec 2009)
Overstock Hires KPMG As Auditor, Replaces Grant Thornton (30 Dec 2009)
China auditors set to take on Hong Kong stock market (30 Dec 2009)
Policies at WaMu's Long Beach Mortgage invited fraud (30 Dec 2009)
Accounting takes over from regulation as the prime suspect (29 Dec 2009)
Former Comverse Execs to Pay $62M to Settle Suits (29 Dec 2009)
MP rounds on Labour's rotten insolvency regulation (29 Dec 2009)
Anger over failure to publish report into Farepak collapse (29 Dec 2009)
Taxman probes Zavvi cash from Sir Richard Branson (29 Dec 2009)
MP accuses accountants of cashing in on recession (29 Dec 2009)
Accounting for Banks' Value Gaps (29 Dec 2009)
Northern Rock shareholders have compensation appeal rejected by Supreme Court (29 Dec 2009)
Koss (audited by Grant Thonrton) embezzlement may exceed $20 million (29 Dec 2009)
Over 15 PwC India tax professionals quit; to join rival KPMG (29 Dec 2009)
Feds probe links between lawmakers, Allen Stanford (29 Dec 2009)
Ex-Livedoor president Horie settles multi-billion-yen damages lawsuit with company (29 Dec 2009)
Morgan Stanley Gets $173 Million Payday From Livedoor (29 Dec 2009)
Dong Ah's Ex-Chief Loses in Lawsuit (29 Dec 2009)
China's Banks Copy Citigroup in Hiding Bad Loans Off Their Balance Sheets (28 Dec 2009)
Flamboyant market trader who became millionaire with Joe Bloggs jeans declared bankrupt after blowing millions on spread betting (28 Dec 2009)
Smaller firms say financial rules create new problem (28 Dec 2009)
PwC prepares to sue directors of collapsed Shepherds Select fund (28 Dec 2009)
IFRS not yet, but Big 4, trainers make merry (28 Dec 2009)
A Separate GAAP? (24 Dec 2009)
Accounting firm works to retain blacks (24 Dec 2009)
SEC sues ex-CEO, associates in theft (24 Dec 2009)
SEC Freezes Assets of French Citizens Within Days of Insider Trading (24 Dec v)
Dublin Court May Combine Cases Over HSBC Duty to Madoff Fund (23 Dec 2009)
German banks dissatisfied with IFRS costs (23 Dec 2009)
Madoff moved from federal prison to medical center (23 Dec 2009)
ICAI to hear out PW auditors before passing Satyam order (23 Dec 2009)
Anti Money Laundering in the UK and EU – An Update (23 Dec 2009)
Allen Stanford is nearing a nervous breakdown, says psychiatrist (23 Dec 2009)
Carter's says uncovers accounting irregularities (23 Dec 2009)
Zapata restates third-quarter results because of accounting error (23 Dec 2009)
Ernst & Young Settles SEC Charges Re: Bally’s Fraud-Lives To Audit Another Day (22 Dec 2009)
Investors cool on audit convergence (22 Dec 2009)
Accounting stifles freedom of thought (22 Dec 2009)
Google's Bermuda presence helps Internet giant to trim UK tax bill (22 Dec 2009)
Vodafone £2.2bn tax appeal is rejected by Supreme Court (22 Dec 2009)
Cairn Energy shareholders revolt over plans to change directors' pay (22 Dec 2009)
Polls says accounting convergence not a top priority (22 Dec 2009)
Current accounting fiction that is extemely dangerous (21 Dec 2009)
Basel blows out Deferred Tax Assets (21 Dec 2009)
US government uses Enron-like accounting (21 Dec 2009)
FTSE 100 auditors scoop £250m in non-audit fees (21 Dec 2009)
Execs Named in Bulk of SEC Fraud Cases: Study (21 Dec 2009)
Revenue Recognition Fraud Declines (21 Dec 2009)
FRC opens consultation on work plan (21 Dec 2009)
EMI faces showdown over bank debt (21 Dec 2009)
Boom time for forensic accountants as frauds rise (21 Dec 2009)
Lawyers cash in on NHS negligence cases (21 Dec 2009)
Big four accountants face call for fees inquiry (20 Dec 2009)
Insolvency regulator has launched a corruption investigation into the liquidation of a group of printing companies by the international accountants Grant Thornton (20 Dec 2009)
Madoff-Linked Fund Liquidator Sues UBS, Ernst & Young (20 Dec 2009)
True Value lawsuit alleges bad legal advice (20 Dec 2009)
Middle-class fraudsters face clampdown (20 Dec 2009)
Creditors owed millions but liquidator 'is broke' (20 Dec 2009)
Deloitte to recover 90% for Landsbanki creditors (20 Dec 2009)
Ernst & Young in $8.5m US accounting fraud settlement (19 Dec 2009)
The Blair rich project: How ex-PM pays accountant for 'cloak of invisibility' (19 Dec 2009)
Accountant jailed indefinitely for throwing acid on lawyers (19 Dec 2009)
Toys R Us accountant stole £3.6m for prostitutes (19 Dec 2009)
Calls for Companies House to prevent fraud (19 Dec 2009)
'Greedy' accountant stole £110000 from employer after pay dispute (19 Dec 2009)
FRC consults on its priorities and funding (19 Dec 2009)
Accountant kept girlfriend's body in his freezer for seven months (19 Dec 2009)
Icap to pay $25m over 'fictitious trades (19 Dec 2009)
Number of banks, accountants and lawyers in tax havens (18 Dec 2009)
SEC Charges Ernst & Young and Six Partners for Roles in Accounting Violations at Bally Total Fitness: Ernst & Young to Pay $8.5 Million to Settle Charges (18 Dec 2009)
Ernst to Pay the SEC $8.5 Million (18 Dec 2009)
SEC: Ernst & Young Agrees To Pay $8.5M To Settle Charges (18 Dec 2009)
AADB in fresh Equitable probe (18 Dec 2009)
Is Fair Value Accounting Fair? (18 Dec 2009)
Hedge fund tycoon accused of fraud and racketeering in row with ex-wife (18 Dec 2009)
Collapsed airline Flyglobespan were owed £36m in online payments (18 Dec 2009)
Court Rules In Favor Of AIG In Financial Planner's Suit (18 Dec 2009)
Cattles deals another blow to investors (18 Dec 2009)
More Satyam-like cases simmering (18 Dec 2009)
KPMG Int'l Revenue Declines 11.4% (18 Dec 2009)
SEC Approves Enhanced Disclosure About Risk, Compensation and Corporate Governance (18 Dec 2009)
SEC Cracks Down on How Firms Are Governed (18 Dec 2009)
Affidavit: Sacramento accountant admits to stealing millions (18 Dec 2009)
The winner of the Guardian's online contest to solve the mystery of Blair's finances is Richard Murphy (17 Dec 2009)
If Auditors Weren’t There, Why Not? (17 Dec 2009)
EU rushes to take on new accounting standards (17 Dec 2009)
IAS 32 revision allowed by EU Council (17 Dec 2009)
Property developer accused of cheating celebrity clients out of £12m (17 Dec 2009)
ICAS member under disciplinary spotlight for Equitable Life (17 Dec 2009)
Toronto Dominion Bank London Branch fined £7m by the FSA for repeated systems and controls failings around the pricing of sophisticated financial products (17 Dec 2009)
MF Global Fined $10 Million by CFTC for Risk Failures (17 Dec 2009)
Insolvency profession under the spotlight (17 Dec 2009)
Capture of the Regulators: PricewaterhouseCoopers' Marek Grabowski appointed new Executive Director of the Auditing Practices Board (17 Dec 2009)
Accountant faces jail for £1.5m fraud (16 Dec 2009)
Accounting For A Difference Of Opinion (16 Dec 2009)
Shareholders ponder Cattles legal action (16 Dec 2009)
FDIC Approves Giving Banks Reprieve From Capital Requirements (16 Dec 2009)
SFO to carry out criminal probe into Icelandic bank (16 Dec 2009)
Hard lessons learned in Broadcom case (16 Dec 2009)
RBS Probes Possible "Irregularities" In China Unit (16 Dec 2009)
Madoff Victims Urge Judge to Reject Trustee's Request for Fees (16 Dec 2009 )
Nicolas Cage's Ex Sues Him and His Former Accountant (16 Dec 2009)
UK accountants subject to workplace discrimination? (16 Dec 2009)
Accountancy TV schedule: A Touch of Fraud (16 Dec 2009)
Reaping profit from insolvency (15 Dec 2009)
KPMG profits fall 2% as financial crisis hits (15 Dec 2009)
Former KPMG manager on trading charge (15 Dec 2009)
SEC Announces $418 Million Fair Fund Distribution to Harmed Investors in Invesco Mutual Funds (15 Dec 2009)
Anger at Leicester City Council's £11.5m bill for consultants (15 Dec 2009)
Another Useless Gesture: Accountancy bodies agree AADB changes (15 Dec 2009)
Bankers and accountants a drain on the state, says think-tank (14 Dec 2009)
For a salary of between £75,000 and £200,000 tax accountants destroy £47 of value for every pound in value they generate (14 Dec 2009)
A Bit Rich: Calculating the real value to society of different professions (14 Dec 2009)
Madoff Auditor Plea May Signal Other Probe (14 Dec 2009)
'Audit firms, not just CEOs, must be pulled up for fraud' (14 Dec 2009)
EMI sues Citigroup for £2bn over 'fraud' and 'lies' (14 Dec 2009)
APB issues new guidance to auditors in assessing companies' Corporate Governance and Going Concern Statements (14 Dec 2009)
As feds closed in, Allen Stanford scrambled to keep fraud secret, money flowing (14 Dec 2009)
IMF draws pricewaterhousecoopers in class action against Centro Properties (14 Dec 2009)
IMF widens class action with its sights on Centro auditor (14 Dec 2009)
Drugs money 'saved the banks from collapse' during global crisis (13 Dec 2009)
Insolvency practitioners use fake time sheets and expenses claims and fictitious creditors to boost fees (13 Dec 2009)
Insolvency partners working on Woolworths charged an hourly rate of up to £890 (13 Dec 2009)
PwC has so far earned £154m in fees after dismantling the European arm of Lehman Brothers (13 Dec 2009)
Ernst & Young has been paid £4.2m for acting as an administrator to Zavvi. One partner charged an hourly rate of £960 for tax advice (13 Dec 2009)
Insolvent Abuse: “magic circle” of 10 accountancy and law firms, including PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Deloitte and Ernst & Young, have made a total of almost £20 billion in fees in the past two years (13 Dec 2009)
Advisers rake in £3bn from Lehman Brothers, Woolworths and other failed firms (13 Dec 2009)
Deloitte girl quits after email asking colleagues to vote on office's most attractive men is sent around the world (13 Dec 2009)
They Weren’t There: Auditors And The Financial Crisis (12 Dec 2009)
Partners languish in prison but KPMG named FT Accountancy Firm of the Year (12 Dec 2009)
Regulators close 132nd US bank so far this year (12 Dec 2009)
MAN SE Fined 150.6 Million Euros Over Bribes at Units (12 Dec 2009)
Pubs 'n' Bars goes into administration (12 Dec 2009)
The Big Four audit firms must get smaller (11 Dec 2009)
Who's Who in the SEC's Fraud Charges Against New Century (11 Dec 2009)
Bernie Madoff, the $19 Billion Con, Makes New Friends Behind Bars (11 Dec 2009)
Haddrill: We don't need a Big Five - FRC's new chief to concentrate on planning for a Big Four collapse (11 Dec 2009)
PwC could be added to claim in Centro case (11 Dec 2009)
Audit watchdog shines light on Big Four's cross-selling (11 Dec 2009)
Private equity firms using company debt to enrich themselves, says report (11 Dec 2009)
Sheer greed of Britain's richest MP: Shaun Woodward hired accountants that specialised in 'amassing wealth' to handle claim (11 Dec 2009)
Testimony ends in trial of ex-Broadcom exec William Ruehle (11 Dec 2009)
Accounting Gets Harder as Politics Color the Rules (11 Dec 2009)
US IRS Studying 'Protocols' for Joint Tax Audits With Other Countries (11 Dec 2009)
Revolving Doors: Government appoints John McCready of Ernst & Young as property tsar (11 Dec 2009)
Barclays suspended from dealing in products that allow offshore investors to invest in India's stock market (10 Dec 2009)
Barclays still has a ton of toxic debt on its balance sheet (10 Dec 2009)
SEC: No IFRS Yet (10 Dec 2009)
PwC India top deck rejig hints at management discord (10 Dec 2009)
Bean Counter Freaks Out Over Al-Qaeda Assassins (10 Dec 2009)
Satyam, Upaid in $70 million settlement; Deloitte is auditor (10 Dec 2009)
Should Regulators Be Able To Suspend Accounting Rules? (10 Dec 2009)
Leverage rules could force big banks to cut balance sheets (10 Dec 2009)
FASB's Herz Calls For 'Decoupling' Of Bank Regulation, GAAP (10 Dec 2009)
Judge dismisses charge against Broadcom co-founder (10 Dec 2009)
FASB chief urges clearer distinction for bank, accounting rules (9 Dec 2009)
H&R Block subsidiary nears settlement with auditor (9 Dec 2009)
Banks swallow bitter pill over Four Seasons debts (9 Dec 2009)
The Financial Reporting Review Panel announces priority sectors for 2010/11 (9 Dec 2009)
Controversial accounting change will boost insurers' capital reserves (9 Dec 2009)
US Supreme Court Could Prove to Be PCAOB's Undoing (9 Dec 2009)
Mahindra Satyam settles US law suit with $70 mn (9 Dec 2009)
Barnier to face questions over fair value (9 Dec 2009)
Ex-Procomp Informatics chairwoman begins jail term (9 Dec 2009)
Shareholders have to get out there and vote (9 Dec 2009)
Supreme Court Likely to Leave Accounting Oversight Board as Is (9 Dec 2009)
US Board to Propose More Flexible Accounting Rules for Banks (8 Dec 2009)
Keeping accounting firms honest (8 Dec 2009)
SEC Charges New Century Ex-Officers With Fraud (8 Dec 2009)
SEC Charges Former Officers of Subprime Lender New Century (ex KPMG client) With Fraud (8 Dec 2009)
Accounting Change to Boost Insurers' Books by $11 Billion (8 Dec 2009)
Fannie, Freddie and FAS 166/167 (8 Dec 2009)
Auditors in on Satyam fraud: CBI (8 Dec 2009)
RBS faces £300m writedown in Four Seasons rescue (8 Dec 2009)
Four Seasons Health Care lenders to write off £800m of debt in exchange for stake (8 Dec 2009)
Northern Rock investors will not get compensation (8 Dec 2009)
Supreme Court Likely to Leave Accounting Oversight Board as Is (8 Dec 2009)
Xstrata to write down $2bn on restructure (8 Dec 2009)
The lessons we can all learn from Bernard Madoff (8 Dec 2009)
International accounting standards: Why they might not be for us (8 Dec 2009)
Who will go into to bat on behalf of investors to take on the kings of corporate spin? (8 Dec 2009)
IASB's Tweedie to retire when term ends in 2011 (8 Dec 2009)
The hunt for the new Tweedie begins (8 Dec 2009)
Conrad Black appeals 'honest services fraud' conviction (7 Dec 2009)
IASB proposals to 'dramatically' increase P&L charges (7 Dec 2009)
Thousands of insolvencies run for decades and government does nothing (7 Dec 2009)
Big Four partners seek promotions for cross selling (7 Dec 2009)
AIU 09: Room for improvement at E&Y - Concerns over cross-selling and audit judgments raised (7 Dec 2009)
PUBLIC REPORT ON THE 2008/9 INSPECTION OF ERNST & YOUNG LLP (7 Dec 2009)
AIU 09: Baker Tilly criticised over rotation -Policies require enhancement (7 Dec 2009)
PUBLIC REPORT ON THE 2008/9 INSPECTION OF BAKER TILLY UK AUDIT LLP (7 Dec 2009)
AUDIT INSPECTION UNIT: 2008/9 AUDIT QUALITY INSPECTIONS AN OVERVIEW (7 Dec 2009)
PwC files $217bn Lehmans claim (7 Dec 2009)
Vatican Bank reported to be facing money-laundering investigation (7 Dec 2009)
India CBI gives clean chit to Stayam auditors pricewaterhousecoopers (7 Dec 2009)
SFO set for Aero Inventory accounting probe (7 Dec 2009)
Parmalat founder's works of art seized (7 Dec 2009)
Tesco counts £200m Clubcard sales as cash (6 Dec 2009)
Fraud probe into Aero's collapse (6 Dec 2009)
Capita 'billed schools £75m too much' (6 Dec 2009)
&B four ousted over accounts (6 Dec 2009)
Report accuses owner of using Fair Finance as 'personal bank' (6 Dec 2009)
How a Toys R Us worker stole £3.7m from the company to spend on prostitutes - by the wife who was left to pick up the pieces (6 Dec 2009)
'My penny-pinch life with £3.7M TOYS "R" US swindler hooked on tarts & high life' (6 Dec 2009)
EU official criticises governance of IASB (5 Dec 2009)
Amtrust, Five Other US Lenders Shut as 2009 Toll Reaches 130 (5 Dec 2009)
Law school BPP accused of exploiting demand to rake in more fees (4 Dec 2009)
Health care software founder charged with fraud (4 Dec 2009)
Feds: KPMG Sent Sample Auditor Docs To Canopy's Blackburn (4 Dec 2009)
UK Treasury Advisers Earn 107 Million Pounds for Bank Advice (4 Dec 2009)
Financial advisers to Treasury – including Credit Suisse – to pocket £107m in fees (4 Dec 2009)
Opinion splits over pre-pack transparency reform (4 Dec 2009)
Baroness Hogg crowned FRC chair (4 Dec 2009)
Sarbanes-Oxley Law May Be Reshaped by US Supreme Court Clash (4 Dec 2009)
Its Future in Limbo, the PCAOB Asks for More Money (4 Dec 2009)
The FBI agent inside the Galleon case (4 Dec 2009)
Ernst & Young has AOL-Time Warner case thrown out (4 Dec 2009)
Siemens warns of sales fall as it unveils €1bn loss (4 Dec 2009)
BDO Takes Financial Hit from World Markets (4 Dec 2009)
BDO International's 2009 results hold firm (4 Dec 2009)
Migration chief calls for college inquiry (4 Dec 2009
News Corp's tax dodging in the news again (3 Dec 2009)
Virginia Investment Firm Officer Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy with Attorney and KPMG Tax Partner in Tax Shelter Case (3 Dec 2009)
Judge ends Enron suit filed by shareholders (3 Dec 2009)
Accounting Fraud and the Big Banks: Worse than Enron? (3 Dec 2009)
The Madoff Accounting (3 Dec 2009)
Canopy Financial faces SEC fraud charges (3 Dec 2009)
Transnet and Ernst & Young accused of irregularities (3 Dec 2009)
Clients blind on audit quality (3 Dec 2009)
Comparability must be the way forward (3 Dec 2009)
Satyam accounting fraud is turning murkier (3 Dec 2009)
S&P says European companies face $1.5 trillion funding shortfall next year (3 Dec 2009)
The mystery of Tony Blair's finances (2 Dec 2009)
EU regulator calls for accounting overhaul (2 Dec 2009)
AIG Uses Accounting Gimmick To Reduce Money It Owes Taxpayers By $25 Billion (2 Dec 2009)
AADB waters down 'enquiries' plan (2 Dec 2009)
PCAOB Plans Tougher Inspections with Budget Increase (2 Dec 2009)
EU official attacks IASB governance (2 Dec 2009)
Fiji's Reserve Bank says some accounting firms are giving false information (2 Dec 2009)
Dubai World Creditors Poised to Appoint KPMG (2 Dec 2009)
Profession makes fair access progress (2 Dec 2009)
Ghana Post accountant jailed 10yrs (2 Dec 2009)
Suing Audit Firms re: Madoff: The Iguana In The Room (1 Dec 2009)
Reserve Bank of india does not approve appointment of PwC as auditors for banks (1 Dec 2009)
Darling considers revealing 'lower and narrower' banker pay bands (1 Dec 2009)
Clients Need to Evade Grasp of Big 4 Auditors (1 Dec 2009)
Dubai's Accounting Questioned in Wake of Debt Crisis (1 Dec 2009)
Government slammed for spending £80m on bailout consultants (1 Dec 2009)
SEC Charges Hurricane Restoration Company and Executives in Post-Katrina Accounting Fraud (1 Dec 2009)
Merge Healthcare, 2 execs settle fraud charges (1 Dec 2009)
India Body Files 7 Cases in Satyam Computer Fraud (1 Dec 2009)
FRC launches proposed reforms to the UK Corporate Governance Code (1 Dec 2009)
Peabody man pleads guilty in $20M fraud - bought jets, homes for mistresses (1 Dec 2009)
World Bank Group Debars Limited Liability Company Siemens (OOO Siemens) for Engaging in Fraud and Corruption in a World Bank-Financed Project in Russia (1 Dec 2009)
Embattled Canopy Financial Files Ch. 11 Bankruptcy; Details Emerge (1 Dec 2009)
Malaysia bill to keep auditors in check (1 Dec 2009)

NOVEMBER 2009

Rival law schools twist the knife over BPP parent's SEC probe (30 Nov 2009)
£700 an hour - the high cost of UK insolvency (30 Nov 2009)
Foxtons' late accounts spark fears of instability (30 Nov 2009)
Toys 'R' Us accountant pleads guilty to £3.7m theft (30 Nov 2009)
Investors face huge losses as Dubai abandons debt company (30 Nov 2009)
Hookers 'R' Us (30 Nov 2009)
Standard-setting and EU politics (30 Nov 2009)
Ethics are needed in the boardroom (30 Nov 2009)
Keep Bank Regulators Away from FASB (29 Nov 2009)
Can impairment have any real worth? (29 Nov 2009)
The Auditor Disagrees With Overstock.com (29 Nov 2009)
Counsel for the petitioner in the Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation is demanding that PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) and Ernst & Young, give back their consultancy fees (29 Nov 2009)
Dubai: what the immediate future holds (29 Nov 2009)
Perhaps Dubai's problems are much bigger than assumed (29 Nov 2009)
Banco Santander Seeks to End US Lawsuit Over Madoff Losses (29 Nov 2009)
ACCA Ripping-off its Students (28 Nov 2009)
One in 10 accountancy students sign up for an exam may never sit them (28 Nov 2009)
Ian Powell of pwc, the man sorting out the mess left by Lehman's collapse (28 Nov 2009)
Sarbanes-Oxley For Everyone: To Be Or Not To Be? (With Postscript) (27 Nov 2009)
Satyam Computer Fraud Grows to $2.5 billion (27 Nov 2009)
UBS, Ernst & Young Call Claims in Madoff Case 'Vague' (27 Nov 2009)
Insolvency: Deloitte appointed to Dubai World (27 Nov 2009)
Professional accountancy bodies that are currently registered in the UK as recognised supervisory bodies do not have charitable status and thus do not qualify for charity-related tax exemptions (27 Nov 2009)
Three senior executives at KPMG, liquidators of the Hong Kong subsidiaries of Lehman Brothers, have been summoned for questioning in Thailand (26 Nov 2009)
Canopy Financial (Audited by KPMG) Allegedly Falsified Financial Statements (26 Nov 2009)
Companies set to defy EU accounting rule delay (26 Nov 2009)
Ex-Satyam boss to face trial as fraud widens (26 Nov 2009)
India Probe Body: Satyam Fraud Larger Than Estimated (26 Nov 2009)
AIG and Greenberg agree to settle disputes (26 Nov 2009)
Canada a fraud nation? (26 Nov 2009)
Borders set to fall into administration (26 Nov 2009)
Blow for Borders as administrators pull out over conflict of interest (26 Nov 2009)
Mugged over a £25bn loan: Lloyds shareholders' fury that they were kept in the dark (26 Nov 2009)
What's the point of disclosing bank pay? (26 Nov 2009)
Walker blasted over banks (26 Nov 2009)
Walker Review: A review of corporate governance in UK banks and other financial industry entities - Final recommendations (26 Nov 2009)
Analysts call for clarity on insurance over fears of 'under-valuation' (25 Nov 2009)
Overstock's dispute with former auditor heats up (25 Nov 2009)
UBS, Ernst & Young Face Test Cases Over Madoff Funds (25 Nov 2009)
Satyam Fraud Larger Than Raju Claimed, India Says (25 Nov 2009)
FTSE 350 firms boost non-exec ranks (25 Nov 2009)
French Regulator To Study Audit Committee Rules (25 Nov 2009)
Survey questions role of audit committee (25 Nov 2009)
PwC buys Paragon to boost consulting arm (25 Nov 2009)
Xstrata's crafty accounting... (24 Nov 2009)
Grant Thornton linked to fraud claims (24 Nov 2009)
Revised Amendment Preserves SEC Control over FASB (24 Nov 2009)
Congress Waters Down FASB-Oversight Plan (24 Nov 2009)
Financial statements increase in ‘clutter’ (24 Nov 2009)
The Auditor Disagrees With Overstock.com (24 Nov 2009)
Stakeholders turn to non-audited company info (24 Nov 2009)
Banks, Airlines To Feel The Most Impact With FRS 139 (24 Nov 2009)
Madoff trustee seeking $22.1m (24 Nov 2009)
In 1962 Uganda had only four professional accountants (24 Nov 2009)
The audit industry should serve society ... not themselves (23 Nov 2009)
Auditors attacked over banks (23 Nov 2009)
Auditors blasted for pivotal role in crisis (23 Nov 2009)
Sir David Walker: Man you can bank on for better regulation (23 Nov 2009)
BPP parent Apollo Group in SEC accounting probe (23 Nov 2009)
Accountants caught up in bankers pay bill (23 Nov 2009)
Insolvency: Blacks Leisure creditors agree to rescue deal (23 Nov 2009)
Borders UK lines up accountancy firm for potential administration (23 Nov 2009)
Insolvency: Kpmg's £1m a month to strip Dunfermline (22 Nov 2009)
Investor Group Seeks To Remove UK Acctg Firm In Stanford Case (22 Nov 2009)
Satyam's internal auditor arrested (22 Nov 2009)
THE FINANCIAL REPORTING OF PENSIONS FEEDBACK AND REDELIBERATIONS (22 Nov 2009)
Walker tells bank investors to be more involved (22 Nov 2009)
Accountant is struck off and fined £30000 (22 Nov 2009)
Fat Cats: Shamed MG Rover chiefs bank extra £11m (22 Nov 2009)
Former Vantis expert Bassett Cross excluded from ICAEW (22 Nov 2009)
Price Waterhouse auditor Talluri seeks bail in Satyam case (21 Nov 2009)
Plaintiffs have sued PwC Bermuda and PwC US in the Madoff case (21 Nov 2009)
Banks In "Utter Chaos" Dealing WIth Off-Balance Sheet Assets (WFC, PNC) (21 Nov 2009)
Nationwide hit by £450m loan costs (21 Nov 2009)
Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has announced that Anthony Snow has joined as Chief Operating Officer (21 Nov 2009)
Bankrupt accountant forged letters to grab cash (20 Nov 2009)
Ex-Parmalat auditors settle US investor lawsuit (20 Nov 2009)
Auditors Grant Thornton Reach $15M Settlement In Parmalat Holder Case (20 Nov 2009)
McKesson ex-chairman convicted of securities fraud (20 Nov 2009)
Banco Santander Seeks to End US Lawsuit Over Madoff Losses (20 Nov 2009)
Court says ex-HealthSouth exec should go to prison (20 Nov 2009)
Lehman claims may total up to $1 trilllion (20 Nov 2009)
Securency Asks Executives to Stand Aside Amid Bribery Probe (20 Nov 2009)
Luxembourg regulator appoints provisional administrator for Lifemark (20 Nov 2009)
Bonuses spark white collar crime wave (19 Nov 2009)
Overstock CEO Objects to Grant Thornton Audit (19 Nov 2009)
Auditors caught in Rover headlights (19 Nov 2009)
Grant Thornton slips further behind the Big Four (19 Nov 2009)
Ireland Accountant fined for rules breach (19 Nov 2009)
Office of Fair Trading probes insolvency lawyers' fees (19 Nov 2009)
FRC chief Boyle bows out with no regrets (19 Nov 2009)
Busy time for Accounting & Actuarial Discipline Board chief Cameron Scott (19 Nov 2009)
SEC Official: Global Accounting Rules Haven't Been Forgotten (19 Nov 2009)
World Bank and CIMA strike training deal (19 Nov 2009)
Auditor Liability claims set to surge (19 Nov 2009)
Overstock Fires Auditor Over Accounting Dispute; Files 10-Q Anyway (18 Nov 2009)
SEC Charges Former Executives at Tvia for Inflating Financial Results (18 Nov 2009)
SEC says former Tvia execs inflated revenue (18 Nov 2009)
SEC Charges Promoters of "Green" Investments With Operating $30 Million Ponzi Scheme (18 Nov 2009)
Pa. woman can't re-sue Ernst & Young for $103M (18 Nov 2009)
US Justice Department & IRS Announce Results of UBS Settlement & Unprecedented Response in Voluntary Tax Disclosure Program (18 Nov 2009)
SunPower (audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers) Probes Accounting Errors, Says Don't Rely On Results (17 Nov 2009)
SunPower probing accounting errors, stock drops (17 Nov 2009)
Insolvency: BDO earns £2.3m to date for Farepak (17 Nov 2009)
Rights issue rules undergo change (17 Nov 2009)
Herz: US Convergence Ball Is in SEC's Court (17 Nov 2009)
US standard setter waiting for regulator's next move (17 Nov 2009)
Beazer's Chief May Face “Clawback” Suit by SEC (17 Nov 2009)
BDO spends £1m to bring Farepak collapse case to court (16 Nov 2009)
US Appellate Court Disallows Tax Shelter marketed by PwC (16 Nov 2009)
India's Serious Fraud Office to File Charges in Satyam Case (16 Nov 2009)
Kenmore Property collapse leaves Lloyds with a £700m hangover (16 Nov 2009)
Accountants as leaders: An Ox or a Moron? (16 Nov 2009)
Europe schism threatens world accounting rules (16 Nov 2009)
Lloyds facing £54m tax bill after HBOS ruling (16 Nov 2009)
£40 million for Deloittes: Fees bonanza behind the Woolies break-up (15 Nov 2009)
Fat Cats: 18 Footsie companies with non-executive chairmen earning more than £500,000 (15 Nov 2009)
Insolvency gravy train to hit buffers? (15 Nov 2009)
U.S. Charges Madoff Programmers (15 Nov 2009)
Europe's accounts are becoming cleaner and more transparent (15 Nov 2009)
Madoff Liquidator Sued by Chais Over Goldman 'Threat' (14 Nov 2009)
Madoff's former IT experts arrested over $65bn fraud (14 Nov 2009)
Europe delays fair value adoption (14 Nov 2009)
New bank-accounting proposals meet resistance (14 Nov 2009)
CHALLENGES FOR AUDIT COMMITTEES ARISING FROM CURRENT ECONOMIC CONDITIONS (13 Nov 2009)
FRC highlights current challenges for audit committees and users of actuarial information (13 Nov 2009)
Office of Fair Trading to investiage accountants' fees for corporate insolvency (13 Nov 2009)
UK Prosecutors Investigating Dynamic Decisions Fund (13 Nov 2009)
New bank-accounting proposals meet resistance (13 Nov 2009)
SafeNet to pay $1 million to settle non-GAAP case: SEC (13 Nov 2009)
Ex-Tyco official settles NJ suit for $5.6 million (13 Nov 2009)
IASB Issues Asset Measurement Standard (13 Nov 2009)
How many companies are there? (12 Nov 2009)
OFT launches market study into corporate insolvency (12 Nov 2009)
OFT is probing bust firms 'rip-offs' by accountants (12 Nov 2009)
OFT to investigate the high cost of going bust (12 Nov 2009)
New fair value standard rushed out by IASB (12 Nov 2009)
Labour favours modernising insolvency law (12 Nov 2009)
Does Transparency Work? (12 Nov 2009)
FRC urges caution on KPMG audit mix (12 Nov 2009)
AADB undecided on MG Rover charges against Deloitte (12 Nov 2009)
Audit quality under pressure as firms cut costs (12 Nov 2009)
Cracks appear in carbon emissions accounting (12 Nov 2009)
Izard Nobel LLP Announces Class Action Lawsuit Against Zale Corporation (12 Nov 2009)
Allied Capital Wins Dismissal of Lawsuit Over Fraud Disclosure (12 Nov 2009)
New reports offer practical guidance on human rights reporting for companies (12 Nov 2009)
Giving hedge fund investors a full accounting (12 Nov 2009)
FRC responds to Treasury Select Committee Report on Banking Crisis (12 Nov 2009)
Insolvency: Aero Inventory calls in administrators - More fees for KPMG (12 Nov 2009)
Profit Drops 30 Percent at UK's Largest Law Firms (12 Nov 2009)
Bumper pay packets for partners at law firms (12 Nov 2009)
Citigroup stands by deferred tax asset valuation (11 Nov 2009)
Carter's will restate financial results (11 Nov 2009)
SEC Charges Former CFO of New York-Based Hedge Fund With Securities Fraud (11 Nov 2009)
The lies they tell us on Wall Street (11 Nov 2009)
SEC Investigation of BIDZ.Com Heats Up (11 Nov 2009)
Securitization Likely to Become More Expensive (11 Nov 2009)
Proposed Amendment Could Neuter FASB (11 Nov 2009)
Julius Baer bank hit by crackdown on tax havens (11 Nov 2009)
Bernard Madoff's belongings go on the auction block in New York (11 Nov 2009)
ICAEW to axe final salary pension scheme (11 Nov 2009)
Corruption Forum 2009 - Watch Video (10 Nov 2009)
Ex-Grant Thornton partner faces writs (10 Nov 2009)
Carter's restatement plans drag down shares (10 Nov 2009)
Final Peregrine Settlement Is $117 Million (10 Nov 2009)
The Institute of Chartered Accountants pension scheme has a £19million black hole (10 Nov 2009)
Another Ponzi schemer steals millions by writing his own 'report card' (10 Nov 2009)
Heavyweight is preparing to take on all comers in fight for future of consulting (10 Nov 2009)
Satyam says US fraud suits must be moved to India (10 Nov 2009)
Loan Losses According to IASB (10 Nov 2009)
Former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers acquitted of lying to investors (10 Nov 2009)
Glitnir recruits Kroll to probe fresh £670m hole in accounts (9 Nov 2009)
Sticky Fingers: KPMG and the Accountancy Oligopoly (9 Nov 2009)
Lack of accounting-rules consensus vexes SEC (9 Nov 2009)
Citigroup says new rules may hit securitization (9 Nov 2009)
Hogan's financial adviser tries to claim accountant's privilege (9 Nov 2009)
RBS and Lloyds capital raisings are “seriously bonkers” (9 Nov 2009)
Paris Mounts the Barricades Against Global Standards (9 Nov 2009)
Accountant leaves Master of Queen's Music nearly bankrupt (9 Nov 2009)
Accounting at a tipping point (9 Nov 2009)
Madoff's Accountant Pleads Guilty, Faces Maximum 114 Years in Prison (9 Nov 2009)
TaxDiversity Study Reveals Significant Gap in Minority Representation in Tax (9 Nov 2009)
Corruption Forum 2009: The Role of Offshore Financial Centres (8 Nov 2009)
UCBH Holdings' Bank Is Seized, 120th US Lender Shut This Year (8 Nov 2009)
When a accounting firm pays price for brand contradiction (8 Nov 2009)
Safety net may fail thousands of Keydata investors (8 Nov 2009)
Berlusconi plots trips 'to stall his corruption trials' (8 Nov 2009)
Court Reinstates Malpractice Suit Against Deloitte (7 Nov 2009)
US Ruling defines role of auditors of public companies - Accountable to no one (7 Nov 2009)
PwC rapped over audit guidance (7 Nov 2009)
PUBLIC REPORT ON THE 2008/9 INSPECTION OF PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS LLP (7 Nov 2009)
KPMG has been publicly rapped by the accountancy watchdog over its appraisal process (7 Nov 2009)
PUBLIC REPORT ON THE 2008/9 INSPECTION OF KPMG LLP AND KPMG AUDIT PLC (7 Nov 2009)
Accounting for Losses at bofa and Fannie (6 Nov 2009)
Setback for Lehman creditors as court blocks PwC plan (6 Nov 2009)
Satyam - US lawsuits against PW: 'India can't do anything' (6 Nov 2009)
AICPA, FEI Object to Federal Accounting Oversight Board (6 Oct 2009)
French expected to lobby for greater IFRS control (6 Nov 2009)
Civil War In Corporate America: Banks Battling The Chamber On Accounting Rules (6 Nov 2009)
Concerns over the quality of audit evidence for some of Grant Thornton’s audit judgments and the conclusions it reached have been raised by the Financial Reporting Council’s Audit Inspection Unit (6 Nov 2009)
PUBLIC REPORT ON THE 2008/9 INSPECTION OF GRANT THORNTON UK LLP (6 Nov 2009)
Insolvency: Threshers owner closing 53 shops (6 Nov 2009)
Blackstone Reports $275 Million Profit as LBOs Return (6 Nov 2009)
PwC off the hook over Satyam? Not so fast! (5 Nov 2009)
Paris Mounts the Barricades Against Global Standards (5 Nov 2009)
Horwath Clark Whitehill has been rapped by the accountancy watchdog for having performance appraisal criteria that appears to reward partners for cross-selling non-audit services to audit clients (5 Nov 2009)
PUBLIC REPORT ON THE 2008/9 INSPECTION OF HORWATH CLARK WHITEHILL LLP (5 Nov 2009)
"Convergence Doesn't Necessarily Mean the Same." (5 Nov 2009)
Auditors face the biggest crackdown since Enron (5 Nov 2009)
Leading auditors face biggest crackdown on conflicts of interest since Enron (5 Nov 2009)
'Boundary stretch' warning to auditors (5 Nov 2009)
Satyam: ICAI agrees to withdraw proceedings against PWH Delhi (5 Nov 2009)
SEC Charges 13 Additional Individuals and Entities in Galleon Insider Trading Case (5 Nov 2009)
Satyam scam: Clean chit to PriceWaterhouseCoopers (5 Nov 2009)
Statement by Chairman Schapiro on IASB and FASB Commitment to Improve IFRS and U.S. GAAP and to Bring About Their Convergence (5 Nov 2009)
SEC Charges Wall Street Lawyers and Traders in $20 Million Insider Trading Scheme (5 Nov 2009)
Man Group shows signs of recovery and looks at Madoff redress (5 Nov 2009)
UBS fined £8m over gambling with clients' cash (5 Nov 2009)
FSA Fines UBS £8 million (5 Nov 2009)
J.P. Morgan Settles SEC Charges in Jefferson County, Ala. Illegal Payments Scheme (4 Nov 2009)
US corporate secrecy (4 Nov 2009)
US Bill to require corporations to disclose the beneficial owners of those corporations, in order to prevent wrongdoers from exploiting United States corporations for criminal gain (4 Nov 2009)
Ex-owner of accounting firm gets 3 years for tax fraud (4 Nov 2009)
US House Committee Approves Small Firms' Audit Exemption (4 Nov 2009)
Merge Healthcare, 2 execs settle fraud charges (4 Nov 2009)
Satyam - ICAI says has not withdrawn proceedings against PW (4 Nov 2009)
SEC Sues Value Line Inc. and Two Senior Officers for $24 Million Fraudulent Scheme (4 Nov 2009)
SEC Charges Former Executives Of Milwaukee-Based Medical Software Provider With Accounting Fraud (4 Nov 2009)
Madoff Accountant Pleads Guilty To Fraud (3 Nov 2009)
Telstra's $4.2b accounting trick (3 Nov 2009)
SEC Lets Execs In Fraud Settlement Go Free (3 Nov 2009)
Watchdogs warned against 'unilateral' stance on audit reports (3 Nov 2009)
Madoff Auditor Pleads Guilty but Makes Bail (3 Nov 2009)
Madoff auditor pleads guilty, denies knew of fraud (3 Nov 2009)
Vantis accountants appear in court accused of tax evasion scheme (3 Nov 2009)
The ICAEW whitewashes country-by-country reporting (3 Nov 2009)
Madoff victims lost 21.2 billion dollars: probe (2 Nov 2009)
Accounting scandal another nail in Nortel coffin (2 Nov 2009)
Auditors to come under closer scrutiny (1 Nov 2009)
IASB and FASB to Meet Monthly on Standards Overhaul (1 Nov 2009)
SEC investigates Zale's accounting (1 Nov 2009)
Zale says SEC probes accounting issues, shares fall (1 Nov 2009)
European Parliament urges cooperation on country-by-ciuntry reporting (1 Nov 2009)

OCTOBER 2009

Insolvency: Predatory PwC (30 Oct 2009)
Madoff started Ponzi scheme to 'cover losses' (30 Oct 2009)
Big Four- Too big to fail? Too good PR more like (30 Oct 2009)
IS LLOYDS THE NEW ENRON? (30 Oct 2009)
71% Of Senior Financial Executives Say That FASB Should Set U.S. Accounting Standards (30 Oct 2009)
Herald Fund lost $1bln, wants Madoff suit dismissed (30 Oct 2009)
Receiver sets $1.5B target for Stanford investors (30 Oct 2009)
Lawyers 'exploit' legal aid cash (30 Oct 2009)
Accounting Standard-Setters Will Get Much Chummier (30 Oct 2009)
More insolvency fees for KPMG: Threshers owner in administration (30 Oct 2009)
Apollo Group Questioned on Revenue Policies (30 Oct 2009)
Director at Boris Johnson agency sacked for racist word (30 Oct 2009)
SEC Charges Broker for Manipulating Stock Prices Through Fake Press Releases and Internet Postings (30 Oct 2009)
In Defence of Life (29 Nov 2009)
Nine agencies call for country-by-country reporting from the G20 (29 Oct 2009)
Accounting irregularities may be on the rise in U.S. (29 Oct 2009)
Inefficient market has no place for 'fair value' (29 Oct 2009)
Barclays among losers amid fraud inquiry at German fund (29 Oct 2009)
Audit reports targeted for reform (29 Oct 2009)
AADB publishes finalised changes to its Accountancy Scheme (29 Oct 2009)
THE ACCOUNTANCY SCHEME REVIEW FEEDBACK STATEMENT (29 Oct 2009)
Globe Pub Company on brink of receivershipvership (29 Oct 2009)
Annual reports slated for clutter and lack of clarity (29 Oct 2009)
Sports Direct vows to fight for Blacks and JD holdings (29 Oct 2009)
Blacks Leisure seeks to leave shops (29 Oct 2009)
ASB publishes Review of Narrative Reporting noting continuing challenges for companies (29 Oct 2009)
BAS publishes consultation paper on actuarial information for accounts (29 Oct 2009)
BDO claims 'solid' performance despite 5% drop in revenues (29 Oct 2009)
Land and Liberty Magazine (28 Oct 2009)
What if four become three? (28 Oct 2009)
Watchdog fears chaos if legal action drives out a top auditing firm (28 Oct 2009)
Apollo Group Facing Government Accounting Investigation (28 Oct 2009)
SEC head Mary Schapiro: Blame us for financial crisis too (28 Oct 2009)
Insolvency: Threshers job loss threat as off-licence owner fighting administration (28 Oct 2009)
Irish to permit filing using US GAAP (28 Oct 2009)
Hull City warned by accountants of struggle to remain a going concern (28 Oct 2009)
Don't forget the accountants (27 Oct 2009)
The Lloyd's of London File (27 Oct 2009)
FRC publishes its Fourth Progress Report on the implementation of the MPG recommendations on Promoting Choice in the UK Audit Market (27 Oct 2009)
UK Audit industry remains top heavy (27 Oct 2009)
Aero Inventory shares suspended (27 Oct 2009)
Amec pays £4.9m in 'payments' probe (27 Oct 2009)
Insolvency: Arc Capital and Income is placed in administration (27 Oct 2009)
Disagreement continues over fair value (27 Oct 2009)
Amec and Serious Fraud Office settle $9m 'irregular receipts' case (27 Oct 2009)
Accounting Firm fined for breaching Data Protection Act (27 Oct 2009)
Silvio Berlusconi tax fraud trial to restart next month (27 Oct 2009)
Lloyds Frauds exposed (26 Oct 2009)
Lloyds of London Frauds explained (26 Oct 2009)
Probe into Anglo loans to 'golden circle' hit by delays (26 Oct 2009)
Deloitte says 2009 global revenue falls 4.9 pct (26 Oct 2009)
Capmark Financial files for bankruptcy (26 Oct 2009)
Insolvency: Receiver Deloitte made A$5.6m from Opes mess (26 Oct 2009)
Auditor terms extended (26 oct 2009)
Politics and business shamefully hand-in-hand (26 Oct 2009)
Shareholders attack banks in bonus row (26 Oct 2009)
Vodafone faces SFO scrutiny over Ghana Telecom after £450m purchase (26 Oct 2009)
Bernard Madoff scheme top beneficiary found dead (26 Oct 2009)
Insolvency: PricewaterhouseCoopers tries to win approval for Lehman Brothers' assets scheme (26 Oct 2009)
Auditors face being called to account for their role in the global financial crisis (25 Oct 2009)
International auditing: who makes sure the accountants are accountable? (25 Oct 2009)
Centro ex-CEO, Chairman Sued by Securities Regulator (25 Oct 2009)
New Madoff case alleges JP Morgan role; money used for sex, drugs (25 Oct 2009)
CBI team leaves for US, Mauritius for Satyam probe (25 Oct 2009)
Conrad Black's shadow hangs over the collapse of a media empire (25 Oct 2009)
All aboard the insolvency gravy train (24 Oct 2009)
Price Waterhouse seeks consent order from Sebi in Satyam scam (24 Oct 2009)
PwC wants early Satyam settlement (24 Oct 2009)
The ICAEW does not understand Country-by-Country Reporting (24 Oct 2009)
IASB scraps IAS19 amendment (24 Oct 2009)
Former Pasta Company Executives Sentenced to Prison for Fraud (24 Oct 2009)
Trial begins for former Broadcom finance chief (24 Oct 2009)
Changes In Accounting Standards Impact US Companies (24 Oct 2009)
PCAOB Mulls New Related-Party Standards (24 Oct 2009)
Centro test case on directors' responsibilities (24 Oct 2009)
UK Accountant faces £16m VAT fraud charge (23 Oct 2009)
India Govt seeks clarity from PWC about its operations, plans (23 Oct 2009)
Parmalat appeals BofA, auditor lawsuit dismissals (23 Oct 2009)
NZ Commerce Minister proposes changes to oversight of auditors (23 Oct 2009)
NZ Auditors to get new watchdog and licensing regime (23 Oct 2009)
Former Leyton Orient vice chair Nick Levene questioned by fraud investigators (23 Oct 2009)
Nick Levene: Serious Fraud Office starts full investigation (23 Oct 2009)
Lehman Hedge Fund Clients to Get $3.3 Billion Payout (23 Oct 2009)
No big plaudits for audits: they just get accountants access to the corporate trough (22 Oct 2009)
Auditors warned as insolvencies rise (22 Oct 2009)
Lehmans' clients may claim interim income, court rules (22 Oct 2009)
Merkel Plans Tighter Financial Supervision (22 Oct 2009)
Revolving Doors: Ex-PwC Tattersall joins new Tory group (22 Oct 2009)
PwC partner speaks out over 'dreadful' annual reports (22 Oct 2009)
Madoff Investors Sue KPMG and Major Banks (21 Oct 2009)
Madoff lawsuit attacks KPMG UK (21 Oct 2009)
Bernard Madoff's life behind bars revealed (21 Oct 2009)
Ireland says "bad bank" to be off balance sheet (21 Oct 2009)
Barclays pockets £750m windfall in second Qatari shares sell-off (21 Oct 2009)
Insolvency: Shareholders face wipeout after Regent Inns goes into pre-pack (21 Oct 2009)
Appeals court wipes slate clean for Enron defendant Yeager (21 Oct 2009)
Equitable Life: more policyholders in line for compensation (21 Oct 2009)
Tories fail the tax test (20 Oct 2009)
Insolvency: PwC's Lehmans fees top £154m (20 Oct 2009)
Insolvency: Lehman's UK legal advice costs £60m in first year (20 Oct 2009)
Insolvency: Lehman Fees for European Insolvency Work Climb to $363 Million (20 Oct 2009)
PwC kicks off sale of Kemsley's trophy assets (20 Oct 2009)
FTSE 350 pay "lip service" to environment in annual reports (20 Oct 2009)
Navistar CEO To Return Part Of 2004 Bonus In SEC Settlement (20 Oct 2009)
Navistar, SEC tentatively settle probe (20 Oct 2009)
Fair value accounting reform wider than planned: IASB (20 Oct 2009)
Nine years later Ernst & Young fined £40000 over audit work failures (19 Oct 2009)
IFRS not for all small businesses (19 Oct 2009)
Accountants sue charity for wrongful dismissal (19 Oct 2009)
Liquidator hunts for missing £3.9m after loans firm collapse (19 Oct 2009)
Sticky fingers: KPMG and the accountancy oligopoly (18 Oct 2009)
Misconduct hearing for accountant (18 Oct 2009)
Scandal hits corporate role models IBM, McKinsey (18 Oct 2009)
Banks Failing To Disclose Derivatives Risk (18 Oct 2009)
SFO finds potential criminal activity during Iceland bank probes (18 Oct 2009)
Insolvency: More fees for KPMG - Redundancies at Peugeot garages (18 Oct 2009)
Police raid KPMG and Price Waterhouse Cooper in Iceland (17 Oct 2009)
Insolvency: PricewaterhouseCoopers administrators were paid up to £680 an hour as they sifted through the Haymills wreckage (17 Oct 2009)
Insolvency: Fee picked up so far by PricewaterhouseCoopers for overseeing the administration and sale of Haymills, based in Stowmarket, was £175,780.50 (17 Oct 2009)
Massachusetts panel nixes retailer's use of Deloitte & Touche inspired Delaware ploy (17 Oct 2009)
THE TALBOTS, INC v. MASSACHUSETTS COMMISSIONER OF REVENUE (17 Oct 2009)
Solar companies defend accounting practices (17 Oct 2009)
Enron Code of Ethics (17 Oct 2009)
True cost of Haymills collapse revealed (17 Oct 2009)
From Phoenix into ashes: The collapse of MG Rover should teach us some serious economic lessons (17 Oct 2009)
Insolvency: Savings plan firms enter administration (17 Oct 2009)
Insolvency: Altrincham's Grafton Centre in administration (17 Oct 2009)
Two former executives of American Italian Pasta are sentenced to prison (16 Oct 2009)
Government was wrong over Equitable Life report, rules High Court (16 Oct 2009)
Accounting dregs trouble Australia wine giant (16 Oct 2009)
ICAEW expels ‘fake degree’ accountant (16 Oct 2009)
Insurers Challenge FASB Fair Value Proposal (16 Oct 2009)
Satyam Pushes Back Restatement of Financial Accounts (16 Oct 2009)
Accountants not privileged over tax advice (16 Oct 2009)
Insolvency means more money for beancounters: Number of firms going bust jumps by 10% (16 Oct 2009)
Top finance execs to be vetted by FSA (16 Oct 2009)
US Supreme Court agrees to hear appeal of Enron's Jeffrey Skilling (16 Oct 2009)
APB issues updated Interim Guidance on Auditing Complex Financial Instruments (16 Oct 2009)
Insolvency: More dramatic developments after the liquidation of Joost UK (16 Oct 2009)
Insolvency: LDV assets sold by PwC to Chinese firm (16 Oct 2009)
France's Lagarde dissatisfied with accounting rule plan (15 Oct 2009)
Insolvency: KPMG gains extension in Lexi case (15 Oct 2009)
Ernst & Young earns £2.2m during injunction (15 Oct 2009)
Citigroup Loans Ruled Fraudulent; Tousa Bonds Surge (15 Oct 2009)
Bear Stearns fund managers 'lied to investors to save their bonuses' (15 Oct 2009)
Insolvency scheme 'will rip off cash-strapped customers' (15 Oct 2009)
Subprime and the Banks: Guilty as Charged (15 Oct 2009)
Missing financier Nicholas Levene facing police inquiry over alleged £70m debts (15 Oct 2009)
Insolvency: Deloitte Administrators appointed at Sir John Ritblat's pubs chain (15 Oct 2009)
Whistle-blowing legislation 'ineffective', says Andreasen (15 Oct 2009)
City bankers 'regularly offer prostitutes to clients' (15 Oct 2009)
Insolvency: Pre-packs face scrutiny and calls for more transparency (15 Oct 2009)
Europe must stop its meddling, says FASB chief (15 Oct 2009)
PWC and Ernst & Young heavily implicated in unlawful privatization (14 Oct 2009)
PWC and EY heavily implicated in unlawful privatization (14 Oct 2009)
Unlawful privatisations in Lanka – Role of the Auditors (14 Oct 2009)
California tightens rules on accounting services (14 Oct 2009)
PCAOB Considers Changing Fair Value Audit Standards (14 Oct 2009)
Punch losses triple on £663m pub writedown (14 Oct 2009)
Punch Taverns goes flat after figures (14 Oct 2009)
Miss World investor Trevor Baines from Isle of Man faces jail for £111m Wall Street scam (14 Oct 2009)
Vodafone's Ghana Telecom deal labelled 'illegal' (14 Oct 2009)
Organised crime bureau probes ex-JJB directors (14 Oct 2009)
Why cases such as JJB Sports and Cattles cannot simply be ignored (14 Oct 2009)
Ponzi king Bernie Madoff wins prison fight (14 Oct 2009)
The ACCA – undermining the ballot box (13 Oct 2009)
The ACCA – supporting illicit financial flows (13 Oct 2009)
The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants seeking to undermine democracy (13 Oct 2009)
So Much Auditor Litigation Makes For Strange Bedfellows (13 Oct 2009)
Sacked directors at Cattles launch legal action against firm (13 Oct 2009)
Red alert on Bellway earnings (13 Oct 2009)
Reliance probed for alleged misreporting of revenue (13 Oct 2009)
Insolvency: Pre-packs may be "morally questionable" (13 Oct 2009)
Deloitte Administration review costs £90m (13 Oct 2009)
Supreme court to hear appeal by Enron's Skilling (13 Oct 2009)
Bear Stearns ex-managers on trial (13 Oct 2009)
Emails hold key to trial of Bear Stearns' former fund managers (13 Oct 2009)
The APB issues new ISAs (13 Oct 2009)
Insolvency: Tootsies set to close as diners lose taste for burger chain (13 Oct 2009)
Barclays planning to offload £4bn of assets (12 Oct 2009)
FSA investigates alleged market abuse at Cattles (12 Oct 2009)
Price Waterhouse in the Pockets of Big Tobacco companies (12 Oct 2009)
Deloitte under scrutiny over sale of Bakkavor stake (12 Oct 2009)
Stock options create strong incentives for short-sighted and excessively risky behaviour, as well as for "creative accounting" (12 Oct 2009)
KPMG Earns Most From Bank Asset Plan (12 Oct 2009)
KPMG earns most fees from UK bank asset plan (12 Oct 2009)
Bradford & Bingley share valuation by June 2010 (12 Oct 2009)
Former Wall Street financiers at Bear Stearns face criminal action (12 Oct 2009)
KB Home says SEC probes accounting issues (12 Oct 2009)
Storm 'asked about insolvency' before moving $2m (12 Oct 2009)
Is HBOS the Enron of finance? (11 Oct 209)
The two senior executives at Vantis, a stockmarket-listed accountancy firm, will face court this month over claims they set up a sophisticated scheme that HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) alleges evaded tax on £219m of income (11 Oct 2009)
Kaupthing chief named as suspect in fraud investigation (11 Oct 2009)
RBS shareholders to sue directors (11 Oct 2009)
SEC Strategic Plan Backs Global Accounting Standards (11 Oct 2009)
Something From Nothing: My Madoff Fantasy (11 Oct 2009)
Transfer Pricing Canadian multinationals face tougher tax scrutiny (11 Oct 2009)
High Court to Hear Two Big Finance Cases (10 Oct 2009)
RBS investors discuss legal action (10 Oct 2009)
Lacroix gets 13 years in prison for Norbourg fraud (10 Oct 2009)
Prison Terms Upheld For Adelphia Founder, Son (10 Oct 2009)
Financial fraud 101 -- accounting for criminals (9 Oct 2009)
IFRS Returns to the Front Burner (9 Oct 2009)
Akai Liquidator to Receive Payment in Settlement With Grande (9 Oct 2009)
Nigeria Senate 'kills' chartered accountants' institute's bill (9 Oct 2009)
Findings of the Financial Reporting Review Panel in respect of the accounts of Robinson Webster (Holdings) Limited for the period ended 29 September 2007 (9 Oct 2009)
JPMorgan, Banks to Pay $100 Million in Lender American Business Financial Services Inc. Bankruptcy Case (9 Oct 2009)
No plaudits for audit (8 Oct 2009)
Ineffective Regulation: Ernst & Young has been fined by the ICAEW over auditing infringements going back nearly nine years (8 Oct 2009)
Audit Integrity Tells SEC Hertz Seeks To Silence It With Suit (8 Oct 2009)
No Accounting for Accountants (8 Oct 2009)
Seymour Pierce fined over staff fraud (8 Oct 2009)
Why Small Biz Isn't Ready for IFRS (8 Oct 2009)
US Push For More Coordination With EU On Insur, Auditing Firms (8 Oct 2009)
New Equitable Life inquiry targets actuary (8 Oct 2009)
Accounting for Satyam (8 Oct 2009)
Can morality be brought to market?: The BAE bribery allegations draw attention to the huge gap between corporate ethical talk and action (7 Oct 2009)
Police fight new wave of middle-class fraudsters (7 Oct 2009)
No Accounting for Accountants (7 Oct 2009)
US trial opens for Vivendi shareholders' lawsuit (7 Oct 2009)
Audit and Accounting: audits "so deficient they amounted to no audits at all" (7 Oct 2009)
Another Stupid Idea: Tories say business can repel regulators with an audit (7 Oct 2009)
Accounting Leaders Recommend Changes to IASB's Constitution (7 Oct 2009)
Prison Terms Upheld For Adelphia Founder, Son (7 Oct 2009)
PricewaterhouseCoopers revenue slips to $26.2 bln (7 Oct 2009)
Auditor Liability caps not dead in the water says E&Y's Halliday (7 Oct 2009)
Another example of useless regulation: APB finalises changes to Ethical Standards dealing with partner rotation (6 Oct 2009)
It is failure as usual: Audit partner rotation limit extended to seven years (6 Oct 2009)
Consultation opens possibility of more caps for auditors (6 Oct 2009)
Regulator discusses non-audit restrictions (6 Oct 2009)
Auditors face scrutiny over independence (6 Oct 2009)
FRC CONSULTATION ON AUDIT FIRMS PROVIDING NONAUDIT SERVICES TO LISTED COMPANIES THAT THEY AUDIT (6 Oct 2009)
KPMG forced to pay £45000 in discrimination case (6 Oct 2009)
Pensions raise difficult accounting questions (6 Oct 2009)
Bear Stearns Fund Judge to Weigh Lawyer's Conflict (6 Oct 2009)
Insolvency: New PwC scheme to return Lehman assets to creditors (6 Oct 2009)
PWC seeks to avoid court by offering Lehman deal to creditors (6 Oct 2009)
US Auditing Standard 5: How Now, Brown Cow? (5 Oct 2009)
Alleged 'Fall Guy' Sues KPMG for $30 Million (5 Oct 2009)
Corporate governance changes will begin next year: FRC (5 Oct 2009)
Insolvency: PwC proposes deal to Lehman Brothers' creditors (5 Oct 2009)
Lehman UK Administrators Offer Out-of-Court Payment (5 Oct 2009)
Ernst & Young begins Equitable appeal (5 Oct 2009)
Akai Liquidator to Receive Payment in Settlement With Grande (5 Oct 2009)
New Court Term May Give Hints to Views on Regulating Business (5 Oct 2009)
Libel Laws, Financial Losses, Life & Liberty (5 Oct 2009)
Wall Street faces day of reckoning over Bear Stearns (4 Oct 2009)
Darling to weigh new tax on banks (4 Oct 2009)
Babcock & Brown directors face probe for quitting (4 Oct 2009)
3 more US banks fail, shutdown tally 98 (4 Oct 2009)
Alternative Report on Banking Reform (4 Oct 2009)
Former KPMG partner sues accounting firm for $30 million over tax shelters case (3 Oct 2009)
Police raid accountant offices in Iceland (3 Oct 2009)
KPMG and PwC raided in Iceland probe (3 Oct 2009)
Bernard Madoff's family sued for nearly $200m (3 Oct 2009)
US Financial System Systemic Failure Approaches (3 Oct 2009)
KPMG and PwC Reykjavik offices are raided by Icelandic police as part of an investigation into alleged criminal activity at three collapsed Icelandic banks (2 Oct 2009)
Brewin takes dual hit from accounting change (2 Oct 2009)
Ernt & Young restructure Hong Kong outpost following raid (2 Oct 2009)
Ernst & Young announce management shuffle in Hong Kong (2 Oct 2009)
Concerns over FTSE 250 company's accounting policy (2 Oct 2009)
Banking crisis has cost UK taxpayers more than a quarter of GDP (2 Oct 2009)
EU Says Bank Losses Could Reach 400 Billion Euros (2 Oct 2009)
Lloyds, RBS using taxpayer funds to bail out Irish banks (2 Oct 2009)
Keydata: FSCS decision on compensation not due until November (2 Oct 2009)
More Insolvency Fees: Deloitte adminstrators sell on northern off licences (2 Oct 2009)
BDO rebrand creates unified global identity (2 Oct 2009)
IASB rejects US plans to widen fair value scope (1 Oct 2009)
Protection for individuals making disclosures to the FRC (1 Oct 2009)
ICAI nails Satyam auditors (1 Oct 2009)
Row over non-audit services rages as FRC prepares review (1 Oct 2009)
Blacks Leisure jobs go to placate lenders (1 Oct 2009)
Audit and Accounting: Auditors struck off and fined (1 Oct 2009)
Rare £11m gem becomes £100 rock (1 Oct 2009)

SEPTEMBER 2009

Police raid Ernst & Young's HK office in Akai enquiry (30 Sep 2009)
Ernst & Young raided amid fraud probe in Hong Kong (30 Sep 2009)
FASB and IASB Try to Avoid Divergence (30 Sep 2009)
Auditors in Collapsed Property Company Disciplined following Investigation (30 Sep 2009)
SEC Charges Virtual Reality Product Maker and Individuals in Boiler Room Fraud (30 Sep 2009)
After years of over-charging, City lawyers could face tough justice (30 Sep 2009)
Ernst & Young usurps rivals with 8% UK growth (30 Sep 2009)
E&Y global revenues fall 6.8% in USD (30 Sep 2009)
No legislated cap on audit liability (29 Sep 2009)
ICAI finds Satyam auditors Price Waterhouse 'prima facie' guilty of misconduct (29 Sep 2009)
Ex Satyam CFO, Price Waterhouse auditors guilty (29 Sep 2009)
Bernard Madoff's staff in Britain face charges (29 Sep 2009)
Don't let accountancy off the hook (29 Sep 2009)
Ernst & Young Assists Hong Kong Police in Akai Probe (29 Sep 2009)
Ex-Enron exec jailed for 16 months for wire fraud (29 Sep 2009)
Ex-CEO of Pa. drinks-maker charged in $806M fraud (29 Sep 2009)
Dell Agrees to Corporate Governance Changes (29 Sep 2009)
Dell settlement has tougher accounting oversight (29 Sep 2009)
IASB chief says accounting-standards reform under way (29 Sep 2009)
Arab banks need own accounting standard (29 Sep 2009)
Corporate restructurings set to rise, says PwC's Lomas (29 Sep 2009)
Liability: Auditors face big claims after cap call fails (29 Sep 2009)
UK is the "best place" in Europe for insolvency (29 Sep 2009)
UK Insolvency laws lure big companies (29 Sep 2009)
Memo to the IASB, from the G20: include stakeholders (28 Sep 2009)
Axa chief attacks accounting rules switch (28 Sep 2009)
G-20: Achieve Single Set of Global Accounting Standards by June 2011 (28 Sep 2009)
IAS 39 returns to haunt bankers (28 Sep 2009)
Aston Martin owner given reprieve by banks (28 Sep 2009)
Follow the fraud wave to find the money trail (28 Sep 2009)
Insolvency: Farepak cheques 'are in the post' (28 Sep 2009)
Farepak customers to get 5p in the £ (29 Sep 2009)
Insolvency: Farepak administrator and lawyers charged £1.1 million in fees (29 Sep 2009)
Nothing Learnt: FSA grants ‘light touch’ to British listings (28 Sep 2009)
G20 Leaders' Statement: The Pittsburgh Summit (28 Sep 2009)
More lies peddled: Audit firms left unprotected against claims of negligence (28 Sep 2009)
Axa chief attacks IASB (28 Sep 2009)
We now live in a society so cynical that cheating has become the norm (27 Sep 2009)
Bear Stearns stockholder sues its former execs (27 Sep 2009)
PCM Co-Founder Sues Bear Stearns and Deloitte & Touche For Misstatements (27 Sep 2009)
Ernst & Young on the dock, again (27 Sep 2009)
Accounting lessons from global crisis? (27 Sep 2009)
More insolvency fees for KPMG: Blacks buys time by putting Sandcity into administration (27 Sep 2009)
Most evil part of Madoff's scheme were feeder funds (27 Sep 2009)
Ex-AIG CEO Greenberg Seeks To Dismiss NY AG's Case (27 Sep 2009)
Fed says Bankers' Bancorp to fix deficiencies (26 Sep 2009)
CBI probing 'Hawala' racket in Satyam fraud case (26 Sep 2009)
Ex-AIG CEO Greenberg Seeks To Dismiss NY AG's Case (26 Sep 2009)
Conseco, Inc. Investor Lawsuit Alert – Deadline: October 05, 2009 (26 Sep 2009)
Fed's Strategy Reduces US bank Bailout to $11.6 Trillion (26 Sep 2009)
FORMER KPMG PARTNER PLEADS GUILTY IN SCHEME TO DEFRAUD IRS, SAIPAN TAXING AUTHORITIES, AND COMPANY LOCATED IN SAIPAN (25 Sep 2009)
Auditors: To whom are they responsible? (25 Sep 2009)
I am yet to meet an auditor who actually has even an understanding of the business he is auditing (25 Sep 2009)
JJB Sports spent £3.7m with its directors' companies (25 Sep 2009)
PricewaterhouseCoopers accountant awarded £750 following £40 million compensation claim (25 Sep 2009)
pwc's $150bn Lehman claim (25 Sep 2009)
Deloitte secures ASIC funding to investigate Kleenmaid insolvency (25 Sep 2009)
The IFRS rules are gradually taking over (25 Sep 2009)
No accounting for human greed (25 Sep 2009)
An Economic Analysis of Fair Value: Accounting as a Vector of Crisis (25 Sep 2009)
SEC Charges Perot Company Employee in $8.6 Million Insider Trading Scheme (25 Sep 2009)
Country by country reporting: new US move (24 Sep 2009)
Ex-KPMG Tax Partner Pleads Guilty In US Tax-Shelter Case (24 Sep 2009)
Ernst & Young settles case over Hong Kong's biggest bankruptcy (24 Sep 2009)
Expect another whitewash: FRC to consider Inspectors' Report on Phoenix Venture Holdings/MG Rover (24 Sep 2009)
JJB Sports losses deepen despite restructuring (24 Sep 2009)
Going-concern warnings increasingly less accurate (24 Sep 2009)
Barclays' $12bn sale of toxic assets raises concerns (24 Sep 2009)
US convergence must be kept under 'close review' (24 Sep 2009)
Bernard Madoff 'victims' to be sued (24 Sep 2009)
The value of the insolvency industry
Insolvency: It took PwC 35 years to finalise the administration of Israel-British Bank (23 Sep 2009)
The case of Israel-British Bank Limited v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (23 Sep 2009)
1975 UK parliamentary statement on the closure of Israel-British Bank (23 Sep 2009)
Insolvency: Hacker Young have closed the administration of Apal Travel, a travel firm that went bust with the bank back in 1974 (23 Sep 2009)
Final meeting of the members of Apal Travel Limited (23 Sep 2009)
35-year insolvency case comes to a close (23 Sep 2009)
Ernst & Young Settles Akai Case, Suspends Partner (23 Sep 2009)
Blacks Leisure fights for survival as it struggles with loan agreement (23 Sep 2009)
The Failures of Mark-to-Market Accounting (23 Sep 2009)
Accounting Shift Would Lift Tech Profits (23 Sep 2009)
Tunbridge Wells the 'debt capital of Europe' (23 Sep 2009)
Barclays' £7.5bn Protium Finance deal 'suggests banking industry is back to its worst behaviour' (22 Sep 2009)
SEC Fines Former PurchasePro Chief $3 Million (22 Sep 2009)
SCORECARD: How is G20 doing on pledges from earlier summits? (22 Sep 2009)
Whistleblower accountant sues CPA firm for $5 million (22 Sep 2009)
Accountants becoming legal targets in down economy (22 Sep 2009)
Money impedes democracy: For politics to reconnect with the grass roots, parliament should first stop political donations and lucrative MPs' consultancies (21 Sep 2009)
Timms intends to pledge to stop tax avoidance by increasing disclosure requirements and penalties on those not paying (21 Sep 2009)
Parmalat to appeal judge's dismissal of suits (21 Sep 2009)
Bailed-out Lloyds faces tax avoidance allegations (21 Sep 2009)
New Revenue-Recognition Rules: The Apple of Apple's Eye? (21 Sep 2009)
SEC Chief Accountant Warns Against Standards Race (21 Sep 2009)
They like the gravy train: Walker review on bonuses and risk-taking attacked by Institute of Directors (21 Sep 2009)
£1bn boost for Barclays' coffers as toxic asset scheme pays off (20 Sep 2009)
Scottish Budget sparks 'dodgy accounting' row (20 Sep 2009)
Fair value of contingent liability argued in lawsuit (20 Sep 2009)
FASB Chair: US May Have Tougher Fair-Value Plan Than IASB (20 Sep 2009)
Insolvency: The business practices of the former Conservative health secretary have been branded "completely immoral" following a pre-pack administration of his corporate clothing company (20 Sep 2009)
Going Concern Audit Opinions: Why So Few Warning Flares? (19 Sep 2009)
Barclays proves nothing has changed – and this will end in tears (19 Sep 2009)
McAlpine managers jailed for accounts fraud (19 Sep 2009)
Bank of America, Grant Thornton Win Parmalat Ruling (19 Sep 2009)
Slate directors jailed for fraud (19 Sep 2009)
Swiss exchange probes UBS disclosures (19 Sep 2009)
Ex-Morgan Stanley boss jailed for insider trading (19 Sep 2009)
Zale finds accounting errors, will restate 2008, 2009 financial reports (19 Sep 2009)
I was tricked into sex shop by City colleagues, says PricewaterhouseCoopers accountant in record £40million claim (19 Sep 2009)
Overstock faces SEC scrutiny again into the Internet retailer's history of financial restatements (19 Sep 2009)
True and Fair View Debate:Macquarie Loses London Lawsuit Over 3 Million-Pound Gas Bill (18 Sep 2009)
Is Barclays Using "Cosmetic Accounting" to Avoid Mortgage Writedowns? (18 Sep 2009)
Uh Oh: Barclays Launches Off-Balance Sheet Vehicle To Buy Toxic Assets (18 Sep 2009)
Barclays' treatment of toxic assets may have unexpected side-effects (18 Sep 2009)
Ending the off-balance sheet charade (18 Sep 2009)
Apple may get boost from proposed accounting change (18 Sep 2009)
SEC to make IFRS roadmap ‘priority’ (18 Sep 2009)
Nigeria: Neiti Report - Persistent Quest For Transparent Cash Cow (18 Sep 2009)
Ex-mcafee Lawyer Roberts Alleges Defamation After Stock Options Probe (18 Sep 2009)
Law firms 'offering accountancy jobs' (18 Sep 2009)
Fee income at the UK’s top 10 law firms fell 7.7 per cent in the last quarter (18 Sep 2009)
Insolvency: Bailiffs have forced me out of business (18 Sep 2009)
Intl Accounting Standards Board Defends Progress On G-20 Goals (17 Sep 2009)
Insolvency: administration of Lehman "an industry in itself" will ultimately generate more than $4bn in fees (17 Sep 2009)
SEC wraps up probe of Dana accounting fraud (17 Sep 2009)
KPMG audit head defends controversial Rentokil role (17 Sep 2009)
Barclays accused of trickery in $12.3bn toxic asset sale (17 Sep 2009)
Barclays Banking on more complexity (17 Sep 2009)
A group of 45 bankers at Barclays bypassed potential curbs on pay and bonuses by jumping ship to set up a Cayman Islands company and manage $12.3 billion of Barclays’ most toxic debt (17 Sep 2009)
Cash-strapped Stanford given court-appointed lawyer (17 Sep 2009)
SEC and UK FSA Discuss Approaches to Global Regulatory Requirements (17 Sep 2009)
GE's Fraud Case Could Use the Judge Gone Wild (17 Sep 2009)
FSA warns penny share customers (17 Sep 2009)
FTSE-listed companies are failing to mitigate the risk of overseas corruption (17 Sep 2009)
Accounting liabilities for pensions set to balloon (17 Sep 2009)
KPMG director jailed for £500000 fraud (16 Sep 2009)
KPMG director Andrew Wetherall stole £545000 to fund wife's lifestyle (16 Sep 2009)
Ernst & Young's Trial for Akai Failure Role Begins (16 Sep 2009)
Investors seeks curbs on executive pay advisers (16 Sep 2009)
Lehman collapse: pwc's Tony Lomas sees 20-year slog to unravel (16 Sep 2009)
Stanford case prompts legal cross-border conundrums (16 Sep 2009)
Merrill bonus case highlights how shareholders get fleeced (16 Sep 2009)
High finance’s low practices: The City’s ‘socially useless’ activities have been aided and abetted by equally culpable politicians (15 Sep 2009)
Make accountants accountable: It is clear from the EU's G20 preparations that its neoliberal ideology perpetuates respect for those who oppose regulation (15 Sep 2009)
A former director of global accounting firm KPMG has been sentenced to four years in jail for fraud (15 Sep 2009)
Keydata investors call for compensation (15 Sep 2009)
The Government has paid bankers, lawyers and accountants £26.5m so far for advice in setting up the state-backed insurance scheme for banks' toxic debt - Ernst & Young, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers provided advice (15 Sep 2009)
Sentence due on KPMG husband who plundered accounts to please wife (15 Sep 2009)
Accountant claims £40m from PricewaterhouseCoopers (15 Sep 2009)
'Decade' to wind up Lehman Europe: massive fees for PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) (15 Sep 2009)
How accounting changes can create a world of investment banks (15 Sep 2009)
FASB Chair: US May Have Tougher Fair-Value Plan Than IASB (15 Sep 2009)
Insurance Group Criticizes IASB Staff Recommendations on Proposed Measurement Approach (15 Sep 2009)
'They made me feel like a prostitute': Accountant sues top City firm PricewaterhouseCoopers for record £40m for 'ruining her career' (15 Sep 2009)
Accounting rule change could boost Apple revenue (15 Sep 2009)
Crooked Hove accountant stole pensioner's cash (14 Sep 2009)
Internal auditors are responsible for bank crises (14 Sep 2009)
Lawsuit to Turn on Fair-Value Feud? (14 Sep 2009)
Tax lawyers to take on the accountants (14 Sep 2009)
The Bailouts: An Accounting (14 Sep 2009)
Sri Lanka Citi unit takes oil derivative losses off balance sheet (14 Sep 2009)
PwC’s “Bundler” Outlives His Usefulness (13 Sep 2009)
Deloitte's £30m fees at MG Rover and the Phoenix consortium (13 Sep 2009)
Accounting: Moved to tiers by the changing face of UK reporting (13 Sep 2009)
Lehmans Brothers' UK victims forced to wait another year (13 Sep 2009)
Mired in Scandals but Big Four Firm Get Top Spots in Business Week's “2009 Best Places To Launch A Career (13 Sep 2009)
Accounting Standard-Setters Under More Pressure (12 Sep 2009)
Wal-Mart And An Accounting Firm Deloitte Cosulting Fire A Muslim For Praying, Suit Says (12 Sep 2009)
Iceland banks' fraud trails 'lead to UK' (12 Sep 2009)
Dana Holding, SEC Settle Inquiry; No Fine, Penalties Imposed (12 Sep 2009)
St Modwen chairman Anthony Glossop approved MG Rover 'bribe' (12 Sep 2009)
By the end of 2007, 15 institutions with combined shareholder equity of $857 billion had total assets of $13.6 trillion and off-balance-sheet commitments of $5.8 trillion—a total leverage ratio of 23 to 1 (12 Sep 2009)
HealthSouth Scrushy ordered to answer questions about assets (12 Sep 2009)
Fat cat bankers police themselves: the timidity of financial reforms will lead to a bigger financial crisis (11 Sep 2009)
PwC accountant's email is global hit (11 Sep 2009)
Accountants Misled Us Into Crisis (11 Sep 2009)
Beware Bankers Spinning Story of Smooth Results (11 Sep 2009)
Bankers Want G-20 to Rein in FASB, IASB (11 Sep 2009)
Mark-to-Market: Fair in Theory, But of What Value? (11 Sep 2009)
Rover bosses took £42m from firm (11 Sep 2009)
Phoenix Four face heavy criticism in report into MG Rover's collapse (11 Sep 2009)
Phoenix Four face ban as MG Rover report published (11 Sep 2009)
Rover Report: History of the British carmaker (11 Sep 2009)
Accounting watchdog to consider MG Rover report (11 Sep 2009)
Mixed reviews for Deloitte in MG Rover report (11 Sep 2009)
REPORT ON THE AFFAIRS OF PHOENIX VENTURE HOLDINGS LIMITED, MG ROVER GROUP LIMITED AND 33 OTHER COMPANIES - VOLUME I (11 Sep 2009)
REPORT ON THE AFFAIRS OF PHOENIX VENTURE HOLDINGS LIMITED, MG ROVER GROUP LIMITED AND 33 OTHER COMPANIES - VOLUME II (11 Sep 2009)
Sports Direct and Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley in fraud inquiry (11 Sep 2009)
KPMG report into 2012 Olympics spending reveals £160m accounting shortfall (11 Sep 2009)
IASB given tongue-in-cheek reform award (10 Sep 2009)
Plans for accounting 'don't add up' (10 Sep 2009)
FRRP to investigate revenue reporting during downturn (10 Sep 2009)
IASC Foundation proposes name change (10 Sep 2009)
Hearing set on $27M lawyer bill in Stanford case (10 Sep 2009)
Why Barrick reversed its gold-hedging strategy (10 Sep 2009)
Proving Big Four isn't best (10 Sep 2009)
Goldman's chief Blankfein joins the bankers thinking afresh about capitalism (10 Sep 2009)
Fired PwC accountant's parting shot rant is internet hit (10 Sep 2009)
They Left Fannie Mae, but We Got the Legal Bills (9 Sep 2009)
Phoenix Four study MG Rover report (9 Sep 2009)
Governments for Sale: Big Four firms donate time and money to possible Tory win (9 Sep 2009)
Boom or bust - - Big accounting firms still in the money but should they be trusted? (9 Sep 2009)
MG Rover report advance copies sent (9 Sep 2009)
Lessons for the SEC From the Madoff Debacle (9 Sep 2009)
$40m 'Mini-Madoff' charged in New York (9 Sep 2009)
FSA fines Barclays £2.45m for failures in transaction reporting (9 Sep 2009)
Madoff mansions up for auction (9 Sep 2009)
PwC’s results: is it going the same way as Arthur Andersen? (8 Sep 2009)
Poor payout for Land of Leather creditors but Deloitte earned £2.5m in fees over the administration period (8 Sep 2009)
Deloitte fined £10000 over mis-signed audits (8 Sep 2009)
Accountants'' Liability in the Madoff Scheme (8 Sep 2009)
UK shareholders 'get more active' (8 Sep 2009)
Insolvency reform may end rise of pre-pack deals (8 Sep 2009)
Lehman’s £10.4bn hangover points to need for insolvency regime shake-up (8 Sep 2009)
Wall Street's Champs And Chumps (8 Sep 2009)
Lessons Learned From The Financial Crisis (8 Sep 2009)
ABI calls for crackdown on abuse of pre-packaged administrations (8 Sep 2009)
Lehman's woes help PwC lift turnover to £2.25bn (7 Sep 2009)
Hard times help PwC add 1% to its revenue (7 Sep 2009)
Stop paying for non-audit work: PIRC (7 Sep 2009)
Chelsea's impossible accounting trick finds some powerful enemies (7 Sep 2009
Five years on, a return for Sons of Gwalia creditors (7 Sep 2009)
Bill for MG Rover report is £16m (6 Sep 2009)
Rover report: no fraud (6 Sep 2009)
Auditor Not Liable for Losses Due to Incorrect Accounts (7 Sep 2009)
Auditor BDO Stoy Hayward is emerging as the prime litigation target after the collapse of investment firm Keydata, which handled more than £1billion of private savings (6 Sep 2009)
Auditors face fees backlash (6 Sep 2009)
A significant number of blue-chip companies last year shelled out more in non-audit fees to their auditors than for the cost of core audit work (6 Sep 2009)
Banks are overvaluing toxic property loans, experts warn (6 Sep 2009)
Retailers face shareholder scrutiny over executive pay (6 Sep 2009)
How SEC missed Bernard Madoff's fraud (6 Sep 2009)
Ernst & Young has agreed to pay the administrators of West Australian goldminer Sons of Gwalia $125 million, to settle a $1.3 billion damages case based on an inadequate audit (5 Sep 2009)
How the collapse of Lehman Brothers pushed capitalism to the brink (5 Sep 2009)
Five More US Banks Are Seized, Pushing Total for Year to 89 (5 Sep 2009)
Basel Committee suggests changes to accounting standards (5 Sep 2009)
Fast-track court to settle Satyam case soon (5 Sep 2009)
Assets of Jailed HealthSouth CEO Scrushy Up for Grabs; Where's the Silver? (5 Sep 2009)
Book profiles women in accountancy (5 Sep 2009)
Harpenden accountants ""taking Fergie to court (5 Sep 2009)
PWC’s cost benefit analysis: just a little awry? (4 Sep 2009)
Ernst and Young offer $125m in Gwalia case (4 Sep 2009)
US Congress to probe SEC's lapse on Madoff (4 Sep 2009)
Lawsuit to Turn on Fair-Value Feud? (4 Sep 2009)
The three worst words of all: 'off balance sheet' (4 Sep 2009)
Banks Need to End $1 Trillion Kick the Can Game (4 Sep 2009)
Huron Consulting Group Investor Lawsuit Update (4 Sep 2009)
Time to decide What the IASB is for (4 Sep 2009)
How many financiers do you think ended up in jail after America’s Savings and Loans scandals? (4 Sep 2009)
Federal Contracting BearingPoint deal puts Deloitte in big leagues (4 Sep 2009)
SEC criticised over failure to act on Bernard Madoff tip-offs (3 Sep 2009)
SEC admits repeatedly failing to properly investigate Madoff (3 Sep 2009)
Pfizer Makes History With $2.3B Fraud Settlement (3 Sep 2009)
Insolvency: IPA lukewarm on company rescue consultation (3 Sep 2009)
US Justice Department Announces Largest Health Care Fraud Settlement in Its History: Pfizer to Pay $2.3 Billion for Fraudulent Marketing (3 Sep 2009)
New Japan government eyes boardroom change (3 Sep 2009)
China's growth — economic or accounting miracle? (3 Sep 2009)
Institute warns of risk to ethics if internal and external audit are 'fused' (3 Sep 2009)
Smaller firms clean up as recession sees audit clients shun the Big Four (3 Sep 2009)
Regulator was tipped off about Madoff fraud as early as 1992 (3 Sep 2009)
Series of errors allowed Madoff to keep trading (3 Sep 2009)
Argus, Tremont settle Madoff insurance suits in NY (3 Sep 2009)
Monster's James Treacy Gets Two-Year Sentence in Stock Options Case (3 Sep 2009)
Fraud: Reps seek 25-year jail for bank chiefs, external auditors (3 Sep 2009)
Stanford Receiver Defends Fees After SEC, Investors Protest (3 Sep 2009)
Hiring pay consultants can reap rich rewards for FTSE chiefs (3 Sep 2009)
Duchess of York 'taken to court over £21539 in unpaid bills' (3 Sep 2009)
Receiver in Stanford case defends $27M fee request (3 Sep 2009)
Cattles to axe 500 jobs in battle for survival (2 Sep 2009)
VeriFone settles accounting irregularities charges (2 Sep 2009)
The Lehman 'undertaker' who takes a real delight in his work (2 Sep 2009)
ECB's Noyer says leverage ratio makes no sense (2 Sep 2009)
FASB eyes more disclosure on illiquid assets (2 Sep 2009)
No sense of social responsibility: AICPA Complains to Washington about Tax Penalties (1 Sep 2009)
SEC shuts down Vegas accounting firm favoured by BC promoters (1 Sep 2009)
Madoff Liquidator May 'Claw Back' Charities' Fake Profits (1 Sep 2009)
Société Générale rogue trader to stand trial next year (1 Sep 2009)
Judge in bank lawsuit shields $1 billion in Colonial collapse from regulators (1 Sep 2009)
Kent: the 'bankruptcy tourism' capital (1 Sep 2009)
Name change for Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland (1 Sep 2009)
City braces for Tories' new financial crime force (1 Sep 2009)

AUGUST 2009

UK Companies Act to be used to make banks disclose non-board pay (31 Aug 2009)
Hong Kong Proposes Acceptance of Mainland Auditors (31 Aug 2009)
Madoff trustee to review swindled victims' claims (31 Aug 2009)
Who's the fraud suspect? Try the boss (31 Aug 2009)
Kroll facing embarrassment after giving a clean bill of health to a pair of alleged fraudsters who are accused of running a $248m (£150m) Ponzi scheme (31 Aug 2009)
US market regulator focuses on role of auditors in Satyam fraud (30 Aug 2009)
pricewaterhousecoopers preparing $100bn claim against Lehman Brothers (30 Aug 2009)
Lehman UK arm to sue for $100bn (30 Aug 2009)
$4bn bill looms for untangling Lehman (30 Aug 2009)
National Association of Pension Funds hits out at banks over unfair share issue fees (30 Aug 2009)
Shareholders Accuse Auditors, Audit Committees For Banks' Failure (30 Aug 2009)
The pension plunderers: Lord Turner wants us to delay retiring till 70, but only a squeeze on business can save workers from ending their days in poverty (29 Aug 2009)
Billion-dollar lawsuit could destroy top accountancy firms (29 Aug 2009)
Nortel Faces $3 Billion Tax Claim From IRS in Bankruptcy Case (29 Aug 2009)
Benitez's problems all add up to some clever accounting at Anfield (29 Aug 2009)
Tunbridge Wells is a Mecca for impoverished Germans fleeing onerous bankruptcy laws in their home country (29 Aug 2009)
ICAI to dig deeper into Satyam (29 Aug 2009)
Fraud-charge Stanford in hospital (29 Aug 2009)
Regulators Shutter Three US Banks, Bringing 2009 Toll to 84 (29 Aug 2009)
Accounting Changes Needed, Basel Banking Panel Says (28 Aug 2009)
Former Stanford Financial CFO details fraud, lies and bribes (28 Aug 2009)
Stanford executive pleads guilty to fraud (28 Aug 2009)
Lehman's ex-president files claim for $233m (28 Aug 2009)
Indonesian gov't vows action over SOE financial scandal (28 Aug 2009)
SEC Charges Las Vegas-Based Accountant for Issuing False Audit Reports (28 Aug 2009)
'Kung-fu Katona' accused of kicking down accountant's door (28 Aug 2009)
Class actions: why are we waiting? (28 Aug 2009)
Economic Transparency: A Request to the G20 (27 Aug 2009)
KPMG Accountant paid for divorce and holidays with £545000 fraud (27 Aug 2009)
Beware the ripple effect of expected accounting losses (27 Aug 2009)
Refco lawsuit against auditor (Grant Thornton), law firm dismissed (27 Aug 2009)
Grant Thornton, Ernst Win Dismissal in refcofx Suit (27 Aug 2009)
IKB probe victory for shareholders (27 Aug 2009)
For Lender, a Fast Fall From Audit to Collapse (27 Aug 2009)
AIG boss starts new job – with Adriatic holiday overseeing grape harvest (27 Aug 2009)
Reinventing Finance (26 Aug 2009)
KPMG accountancy chief fiddled £545000 to pay for his new wife's £15000 a month luxury tastes (26 Aug 2009)
KPMG Accountant claimed £545000 in false expenses to pay for wife's lifestyle (26 Aug 2009)
Accountant paid for divorce and holidays with £545000 fraud (26 Aug 2009)
Your Money or Your Life! (26 Aug 2009)
Colonial BancGroup Seeks Bankruptcy Amid US Criminal Probe (26 Aug 2009)
Further developments in egg fraud case (26 Aug 2009)
US businessman Hassan Nemazee arrested for alleged Citigroup fraud (26 Aug 2009)
Colonial BancGroup Seeks Bankruptcy Amid US Criminal Probe (26 Aug 2009)
How much money did JP Morgan make on Madoff? (26 Aug 2009)
Poachers and Gamekeepers: SEC’s Schapiro Names James Kroeker, for Deloitte and Tuche partner, as Agency’s Top Accountant (26 Aug 2009)
Fair value accounting is only part of the answer (25 Aug 2009)
Accounting: OAP opera - the pensions problem that just won't go away (25 Aug 2009)
Leading stock broker played important role in Satyam case (25 Aug 2009)
Icai acts on PW auditor involved in the Satyam scam (25 Aug 2009)
White collar bandits top fraud (25 Aug 2009)
Damn The Conflicts: Arthur Levitt Still Won’t Shut Up (24 Aug 2009)
When Can A Company Sue Its Auditors For Failure To Uncover Fraud (24 Aug 2009)
Blame other for their own failures: Investors expect too much, says Deloitte CEO (24 Aug 2009)
LSE probing AT Communications accounting issues (24 Aug 2009)
RBS and Lloyds sell repossessed properties to subsidiaries (24 Aug 2009)
PwC to appeal against Lehman decision over repaying clients (24 Aug 2009)
India Audit firms may face action for wrong-doing (24 Aug 2009)
Insolvency: PwC has already received £120m in fees from the winding down of the collapsed US bank (23 Aug 2009)
Madoff victims to sue accountants PwC over feeder fund audits (23 Aug 2009)
Auditors (BDO Stoy Haywrd) failed to spot 'funds Ponzi': Legal action may be taken after Keydata collapse (23 Aug 2009)
Ex-worker accuses accounting firm of tax fraud (23 Aug 2009)
Legal blow for Lehman Brothers creditors (23 Aug 2009)
Zavvi staff in fight for redundancy payments (23 Aug 2009)
Investors demand return of Madoff fees (23 Aug 2009)
US firms unite to oppose shareholder nominations to corporate boards (23 Aug 2009)
Audit do's and audit don'ts (22 Aug 2009)
Nigeria police to question bank auditors for fraud (22 Aug 2009)
What are bank loan values worth? (22 Aug 2009)
Bankers Craving Bonuses Fudge Loan-Loss Reality (22 Aug 2009)
40% of South Korean firms neglect accounting info rule (22 Aug 2009)
Deloitte: Can You Still Do Those Things You Do? (21 Aug 2009)
Chelsea Building Society admits £41m internal fraud (21 Aug 2009)
Singapore accounting regulator calls for better auditing (21 Aug 2009)
FDIC looks to measure effect of accounting change on banks (21 Aug 2009)
FASB Rethinks Lawsuit-Accounting Plan (21 Aug 2009)
Shareholder engagement and the current regulatory regime (21 Aug 2009)
FSA provides clarity for activist shareholders (21 Aug 2009)
Jobless accountant figures a way to get noticed (21 Aug 2009)
Accounting Convergence Efforts Start to Sputter (20 Aug 2009)
PwC, Akintola Deloitte are auditors to 5 troubled Nigerian banks (20 Aug 2009)
Fresh questions on the credibility of Nigeria ailing banks' external auditors (20 Aug 2009)
Auditor was aware of Elderslie irregularities (20 Aug 2009)
Dispute with E&Y forces Vantis delay (20 Aug 2009)
Debate rages on over KPMG's cut-price Rentokil audit deal (20 Aug 2009)
Deloitte awaits probe verdict over MG Rover (20 Aug 2009)
HealthSouth Scrushy's Antiques, Art Sought By Investors Owed $2.87 Billion (20 Aug 2009)
Insurers' Biggest Writedowns May Be Yet to Come (20 Aug 2009)
UK banks face more high-street losses, accountants warn (20 Aug 2009)
Downturn sees boom in audit tendering (20 Aug 2009)
Novia posts £3.7 million loss as auditor questions future of the wrap (20 Aug 2009)
Broadway Producers Sentenced for Accounting Fraud (20 Aug 2009)
More Banks in Europe Identified in Tax Probe (20 Aug 2009)
Disgraced ex-UBS legal chief returns to former firm as partner (20 Aug 2009)
The Great Fair-Value Debate (20 Aug 2009)
'Bankruptcy tourists' exploit uk's lenient insolvency laws (20 Aug 2009)
Vantis delays results in row with auditors (19 Aug 2009)
Pensioners sue audit firm KPMG (19 Aug 2009)
Investors sue KPMG over R300m forex loss (19 Aug 2009)
PwC billed £12.7m for non-Isa compliant Keydata plans (19 Aug 2009)
Keydata: 20 plans get Isa clearance as PwC confirms missing £103m 'has gone' (19 Aug 2009)
What about the auditors (19 Aug 2009)
Wells Fargo to pay $45 mln in Okun fraud case (19 Aug 2009)
FASB Weighs Disclosures Fought by Citigroup, JPMorgan (19 Aug 2009)
Top accounting firms profit from FSA contracts (19 Aug 2009)
Accountants profit as FSA gets tough with banks (19 Aug 2009)
Stanford warnings ignored, US senators are told (19 Aug 2009)
Judges Overturn Stock Option Backdating Conviction (19 Aug 2009)
Bank's voice opposition to fair value (19 Aug 2009)
KPMG auditors banned over Westpoint failure (18 Aug 2009)
Leaderguard investors obtain provisional order against KPMG (18 Aug 2009)
SEC review of AIG probed disclosure "inconsistencies" (18 Aug 2009)
UBS clients used foreign shells to hide income (18 Aug 2009)
Push to converge accounting standards loses steam (18 Aug 2009)
Elderslie auditors had $67m question (18 Aug 2009)
Plunging profits? Blame the accountant (18 Aug 2009)
JURY FINDS FORMER CREDIT SUISSE BROKER GUILTY OF SECURITIES FRAUD: Investor Losses Total Nearly $1 Billion (18 Aug 2009)
ABA warns of accounting standards confusion (18 Aug 2009)
San Diego Attorney and Accountant Charged with Tax Crimes (18 Aug 2009)
Govt asks SFIO to inspect money-siphoning angle in Satyam case (17 Aug 2009)
Bankruptcies double as 11 go to the wall every working day (17 Aug 2009)
Ernst & Young win audit of IMI from KPMG (17 Aug 2009)
MG Rover: how the Serious Fraud Office reached its decision (15 Aug 2009)
Madoff ally, Frank DiPascali, wins immunity for drug and gun charges (15 Aug 2009)
Fair-Value Accounting Is 'Horror Flick Monster': Chart of Day (14 Aug 2009)
MG Rover collapse: findings to be published (14 Aug 2009)
SEC Charges Ohio-Based Investment Advisers for Fraudulently Overstating Assets (13 Aug 2009)
Accounting rules could create further upheaval for law firms (13 Aug 2009)
Deloitte's MG Rover audit may feature in BDO report (13 Aug 2009)
Role of MG Rover auditor Deloitte comes under spotlight (12 Aug 2009)
SEC Charges Terex Corporation With Accounting Fraud (1`2 Aug 2009)
JP Morgan value falls after probe revelation (11 Aug 2009)
Accountants 'not facing higher insurance costs' (11 Aug 2009)
No hikes in accountants' legal cover says Marsh (11 Aug 2009)
A Renewed Push to Hook Companies for Counterparties' Actions (11 Aug 2009)
SEC Charges Key Madoff Lieutenant for Operating and Concealing Fraud Through Bogus Trades and Documents (11 Aug 2009)
Plan to change accounting rules will work in companies' favour (11 Aug 2009)
ASB seeks views on proposals for the future reporting requirements for UK and Irish entities (11 Aug 2009)
ASB sounds death knell for UK GAAP (11 Aug 2009)
SEC investigation focuses on accounting at Huron Consulting Group (11 Aug 2009)
SFO to rule on MG Rover investigation (10 Aug 2009)
Cattles sells finance unit to pay off debts (10 Aug 2009)
Blank Rome Settles Malpractice Claim for $20 Million (10 Aug 2009)
Allianz May Cut Equity Investments on New IASB Rules, FTD Says (9 Aug 2009)
Law firm sues ex-KPMG partner in US in tax case (7 Aug 2009)
Law Firm Won Tax Case, But Says Ex-KPMG Partner Still Owes $1.3M Bill (7 Aug 2009)
Ex-AIG boss pays $15m to settle SEC inquiry (6 Aug 2009)
IASB should focus on improving standards, accountants say (6 Aug 2009)
SEC Charges Hank Greenberg and Howard Smith for Roles in Alleged AIG Accounting Violations (6 Aug 2009)
Deloitte boss pockets £5.2m after taxpayer-funded bailout of RBS (5 Aug 2009)
AADB investigating accountants in connection with Presbyterian Mutual Society (5 Aug 2009)
AADB probing Moore Stephens NI over collapsed Presbyterian Mutual (5 Aug 2009)
GE fined $50m over alleged accounting fraud (4 Aug 2009)
Deloitte boss made £5.2m after RBS bailout (4 Aug 2009)
Investors expect too much: Deloitte CEO (3 Aug 2009)
PwC aims to treble its fees from consulting (3 Aug 2009)
Big Four hurting as Deloitte revenues shrink by 2% (3 Aug 2009)
Barlows takes lead as Moore Stephens escapes negligence claim (1 Aug 2009)

JULY 2009

Ex-BDO Seidman’s Mark Bloom Pleads Guilty in Hedge Fund Fraud (31 Jul 2009)
Another Ponzi Schemer Pleads Guilty (31 Jul 2009)
Global Task Force Releases Recommendations for New Accounting System for Multinational Corporations (31 Jul 2009)
Country-by-Country Reporting: Holding multinational corporations to account wherever they are (31 Jul 2009)
Auditors liability cleared in landmark negligence case (31 Jul 2009)
Auditors win ruling over Madoff-style frauds (31 Jul 2009)
Rentokil saves £1m in a swap of its auditors (31 Jul 2009)
Hermitage points to RenCap in fraud case (31 Jul 2009)
Auditors have 'doubts' over struggling National Express (31 Jul 2009)
Saudi Firm Sues Maan Al-Sanea In US,Claims $10B Fraud (31 Jul 2009)
Moore Stephens wins liability battle (31 Jul 2009)
Fat Cats: US banks pay out more in bonuses than profits (31 Jul 2009)
Enron boss seeks early release in court appeal (31 Jul 2009)
The global credit crunch has cost governments more than $10 trillion, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) says (31 Jul 2009)
Bank regulation reform needs to be more radical, say MPs (31 Jul 2009)
House of Commons Treasury Committee Report “Banking Crisis: regulation and supervision” (31 Jul 2009)
Auditors win liability ruling (31 Jul 2009)
Has the Satyam scandal changed corporate governance in India? (31 Jul 2009)
Cayman Court Freezes $9.2 Billion of Sanea's Assets (31 Jul 2009)
FORMER BDO SEIDMAN PARTNER PLEADS GUILTY TO INVESTMENT FRAUD AND TAX SHELTER CHARGES (30 Jul 2009)
PwC and KPMG greasing the government contract wheel? (30 Jul 2009)
FSA lambasted by MPs over handling of Dunfermline Building Society (30 Jul 2009)
House of Commons Scottish Affairs Committee Report “Dunfermline Building Society” (30 Jul 2009)
Accountancy firms channelling money into Tory Party (30 Jul 2009)
Directors come under fire over Cattles' slack reporting policy (30 Jul 2009)
The controversial report into the collapse of MG Rover might never be published (30 Jul 2009)
Pensions, searching for their place in the accounting world (30 Jul 2009)
Banks Prepping to Bring More Assets Back Home to Balance Sheets (30 Jul 2009)
Corporate reporting ‘good’, says blind FRRP (30 Jul 2009)
Madoff amazed he wasn't caught sooner (30 Jul 2009)
Bernard Madoff amazed he got away with $65bn fraud for so long (30 Jul 2009)
National Express makes loss after East Coast exit (30 Jul 2009)
HSS Hire brings in PwC over covenant (30 Jul 2009)
Bankruptcy courts in U.S., Canada approve Ericsson's US$1.13-billion Nortel bid (30 Jul 2009)
UK Investors’ Perceptions of Auditor Independence (30 Jul 2009)
APB issues a Consultation Paper and Exposure Draft of a Revision to Practice Note 26 'Guidance on Smaller Entity Audit Documentation' (30 Jul 2009)
Ernst & Young get country-by-country reporting wrong (29 Jul 2009)
PwC And Satyam: It’s Bigger Than A Blown Audit (29 Jul 2009)
Bank Of America Reaches $100M Settlement With Parmalat (29 Jul 2009)
Governments for Sale: KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers have given the Tories free services and staff on secondment (29 Jul 2009)
Leading companies including PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and KPMG, have given the Tories nearly £500,000 since the start of last year (29 Jul 2009)
Anglo Irish probe looks at role of top three in director loans (29 Jul 2009)
SEC Charges Four Arizona-Based Promoters, which includes two accountants, in $197 Million Mortgage Lending Scheme (29 Jul 2009)
Freightcar America stock rises on accounting error (29 Jul 2009)
IRS Rejects Firms on Share Options Tax-Backdate Effort (29 Jul 2009)
PCAOB: Experts Only for Final Audit Reviews (29 Jul 2009)
PCAOB Adopts New Auditing Standard On Engagement Quality Review And Issues Concept Release on Requiring the Engagement Partner to Sign the Audit Report (29 Jul 2009)
HMRC investigating MW Pensions in tax fraud case (28 Jul 2009)
Accounting rules exonerated by Unaccountable Accounting elites (28 Jul 2009)
Pensions, searching for their place in the accounting world (28 Jul 2009)
Accounting is semi-officially exonerated from causing crisis (28 Jul 2009)
Report of the Financial Crisis Advisroy Group (28 Jul 2009)
Northern Rock shareholders lose compensation appeal (28 Jul 2009)
Investors who used film companies as tax shelters could face £2bn bill (28 Jul 2009)
Suspend Mark-To-Market--Now (28 Jul 2009)
The Financial Scandals in Perspective (28 Jul 2009)
European audit exemption thresholds rise (28 Jul 2009)
Goelzer Named PCAOB Acting Chairman (28 Jul 2009)
Bank reform will never work unless you tackle the accountants (27 Jul 2009)
Bonus mania could not have happened without corrupted accounting rules (27 Jul 2009)
Accountant who became pregnant, unemployed, single and homeless in just a matter of months (27 Jul 2009)
'Revered' Surbiton accountant stole £300000 from hairdressers (27 Jul 2009)
Marathon Club calls for debate over 'damaging' accounting standards (27 Jul 2009)
Prescribing a valuation approach for pension funds in company accounts on a basis more appropriate to termination is becoming self-fulfilling (27 Jul 2009)
West Marine settles SEC false statement lawsuit (27 Jul 2009)
Lawsuit claims Parlux board hobbled auditors (27 Jul 2009)
There are alternatives to public spending cuts (26 Jul 2009)
PwC And Satyam: It’s Bigger Than A Blown Audit - Mira El Dedazo (26 Jul 2009)
Insolvency: Zavvi creditors to be paid just 5pc whilst £3.2m earned by Ernst & Young (26 Jul 2009)
NatWest Three will be released owing $6.1m (26 Jul 2009)
Lenders plan break-up of Gala Coral (26 Jul 2009)
PwC under fire re: Cattles. Another shoe drops? (25 Jul 2009)
West Marine Settles SEC Charges Of Falsifying Financials (25 Jul 2009)
CBI finds hawala link in Satyam case (25 Jul 2009)
Hedge-Fund Manager Investigated for Fraud (25 Jul 2009)
Derby County fraud exposes English football's 'fit and proper' test (25 Jul 2009)
Seven US Banks Fail, Making It 64 for '09 (25 Jul 2009)
Confusion over SME size could complicate international rules (25 Jul 2009)
Third of Robson Rhodes partners have left GT (24 Jul 2009)
Auditors under attack as the recession exposes failings (24 Jul 2009)
US SEC team in India to probe Satyam fraud (24 Jul 2009)
Insurance broker Willis faces new Stanford suit (24 Jul 2009)
Accountants Professional Liability Scorecards and Commentary (24 Jul 2009)
Audit Firms Sure to Face New Litigation, Experts Say (24 Jul 2009)
Business should be more like charity, says Stephen Lloyd (24 Jul 2009)
Ernst & Young issues counter writ on £5m Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander storm (24 Jul 2009)
Key dates in the history of Nortel (24 Jul 2009)
Tory banking regulation tastes stale (23 Jul 2009)
PWC comes under scrutiny for Cattles audit (23 Jul 2009)
Top City accountant sued for £5m over 'footballer belt' homes sale (23 Jul 2009)
Ernst & Young to pay $10M in Superior Bank lawsuit (23 Jul 2009)
Ernst & Young Ordered to Pay $10.2 Million on Negligent Auditing Claim (23 Jul 2009)
SEC Seeks Return of $4 Million in Bonuses and Stock Sale Profits From Former CEO of CSK Auto Corp (23 Jul 2009)
SEC Charges Perry Corp. With Disclosure Violations in Vote Buying Scheme (23 Jul 2009)
IASB Changes May Lead To CDO, Stock Sales (23 Jul 2009)
McCreevy’s refusal to sign key documents on international standards casts doubt over IASB’s future (23 Jul 2009)
Banks Highlight Damaging Effects Of Accounting Quirk On Earnings (23 Jul 2009)
Accountants' Group Calls for Single Set of International Rules (23 Jul 2009)
Even in recession, pay is increasing for senior accountants (23 Jul 2009)
Madoff and money laundering part 2 (23 Jul 2009)
Accountants Gain Courage to Stand Up to Bankers (23 Jul 2009)
Ernst & Young's Maximum Pay for AIG Advice Swells (22 Jul 2009)
Bogus college crackdown welcomed (22 Jul 2009)
HSBC dips on outlook, accounting jitters (22 Jul 2009)
Learn lesson from Scams and Scandals (22 Jul 2009)
Lawyer: Ernst auditing helped sink Hinsdale's Superior Bank (21 Jul 2009)
US Fed Reveals Consultants, Fees in Emergency Programs (21 Jul 2009)
Ernst & Young LLP may earn as much as $60 million advising the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on the dismantling of AIG - $775 per hour for work done by partners (21 Jul 2009)
Pre-pack bankruptcy accountants 'mocking rules' (21 Jul 2009)
Insolvency Accountancy Booms as UK Recession Bites (21 Jul 2009)
Not-so-sweet smell of insolvency excess (21 Jul 2009)
Insolvency business is booming as firms go bust (21 Jul 2009)
Professions 'reserved for rich' (21 Jul 2009)
Unleashing Aspiration: The Final Report of the Panel on Fair Access to the Professions (21 Jul 2009)
Unleashing Aspiration: Summary and recommendations of the full report (21 Jul 2009)
European Accountants Tell IASB to Dump Convergence (21 Jul 2009)
The big health-care-debate accounting fraud (21 Jul 2009)
How Accurate is Emissions Reporting? (21 Jul 2009)
pwc To Pay $23M To Settle Lancer Fraud Claims (21 Jul 2009)
US market regulator seeks India's nod to probe Satyam (20 Jul 2009)
Florida banking agency helped Stanford set up unregulated office to sell his phony CDs (20 Jul 2009)
Companies Exasperate SEC Accounting Chief (20 Jul 2009)
Even as police investigate £80m Business Consulting International (BCI) Ponzi scheme, some 'victims' can't believe it (20 Jul 2009)
Sue the Auditor and Shut Down the Firm (20 Jul 2009)
Ritz fraud helps push cases to record high (20 Jul 2009)
Former Marriott Director of Finance Charged with Wire Fraud (20 Jul 2009)
IASB publishes IFRS for SMEs (20 Jul 2009)
Dreaming Of India: PwC and Satyam (19 Jul 2009)
Commentary: Asset sales, write-ups, other tricks cloud rosy quarters (19 Jul 2009)
New US state law to force 'auditing of auditors' (19 Jul 2009)
Financial irregularities of Golden Key revealed (19 Jul 2009)
Bernard Madoff auditor set for plea bargain (19 Jul 2009)
Nashua Corp., stockholders agree to lawsuit settlement (19 Jul 2009)
BANK PROFITS ARE A FRAUD (18 Jul 2009)
Accounting in Russia. What Foreigners Should Know (18 Jul 2009)
Companies Exasperate SEC Accounting Chief (18 Jul 2009)
Audit Problems Found at BDO and Grant Thornton (18 Jul 2009)
Madoff Accountant Refuses Deal; 'Not Guilty' to Fudging Books (18 Jul 2009)
AIG's European Derivatives May Take Decades to Expire (18 Jul 2009)
JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs Profit Surge is an Accounting Mirage (17 Jul 2009)
Stanford's $7 Billion Fraud Trial in Texas Delayed by Judge (17 Jul 2009)
God Help Them: Somalia has hired PricewaterhouseCoopers to help ensure international aid is spent correctly (17 Jul 2009)
Accountant 'treated like a prostitute' sues City firm for £40million (17 Jul 2009)
UK Accounting Regulator questions IFRS convergence (17 Jul 2009)
SEBI to fund class action suit against Satyam (17 Jul 2009)
Who is the IASB kidding? (16 Jul 2009)
The “Last Out” May Come From Left Field… (16 Jul 2009)
Lawsuit claims Parlux board hobbled auditors Deloitte & Touche (16 Jul 2009)
KPMG Avoids Two Class Actions Over Licensing (16 Jul 2009)
Audit Problems Found at BDO and Grant Thornton (16 Jul 2009)
Bank boards come under scrutiny (16 Jul 2009)
Auditor ownership not top competition priority-EU (16 Jul 2009)
Insolvency: 78% of IPA members faced complaints (16 Jul 2009)
Allen Stanford's Venture Capital Investments Revealed (16 Jul 2009)
Donaldson, Levitt Back FASB Off-balance-sheet Rules (16 Jul 2009)
Mark-to-market accounting (16 Jul 2009)
PCAOB: Disreputable Acocunting firms are in control- Our Protectors, Encouraging Malfeasance (16 Jul 2009)
India's fraud-hit Satyam to restate accounts (16 Jul 2009)
Walker Review proposes fundamental changes to strengthen bank governance (16 Jul 2009)
Leave the bankers alone to their bonuses (16 Jul 2009)
A review of corporate governance in UK banks and other financial industry entities (16 Jul 2009)
Nothing Learnt: FRC Chief Executive Argues Against Changing the Fundamental Purpose of Accounting (16 Jul 2009)
EU: banks using looser accounting rules (15 Jul 2009)
IASB unveils fair value proposals (15 Jul 2009)
KPMG scoops 30% more fees from BBC (15 Jul 2009)
Calpers sues rating companies over $1 billion in bond losses (15 Jul 2009)
Madoff's Accountant Agreed to Waive Indictment (15 Jul 2009)
PwC and hedge funds strike Lehman deal (15 Jul 2009)
PwC to return $11bn of assets at Lehman Brothers (15 Jul 2009)
Madoff Accountant Friehling Waives Indictment, May Plead Guilty (15 Jul 2009)
SEC Settles Fraud Case With Former Tyco Executives (14 Jul 2009)
US Audit Overseer Faults BDO, Grant Thornton (14 Jul 2009)
Madoff Sent to NC Prison to Begin 150-Year Sentence (14 Jul 2009)
London projects threatened by multimillion-pound funding black hole (14 Jul 2009)
Superior Bank Peddled Risky Loans, Ernst & Young Witness Says (13 Jul 2009)
GM bankruptcy seen bringing chain effect: auditor (13 Jul 2009)
Dreier Is Sentenced to 20 Years for Fraud (13 Jul 2009)
India Supreme Court has left it open to the government to prosecute PricewaterhouseCoopers for alleged errors in computing its taxable income for 2000-01 (13 Jul 2009)
US Lawyer Gets 20 Years in $700 Million Fraud (13 Jul 2009)
Stanford CFO Pleads Not Guilty in $7 Billion Fraud (13 Jul 2009)
Phoenix Four net another £3.5m from collapsed MG (11 Jul 2009)
pricewaterhousecoopers hit by racism claim (11 Jul 2009)
Mabey & Johnson's corruption confession could lead to more SFO investigations (10 Jul 2009)
Did Mortgage Execs Get Off Easy? Scrutinizing the Beazer-DOJ Deal (10 Jul 2009)
Another Former BDO Exec Pleads Guilty in Tax Case (10 Jul 2009)
Ex-Partner at Tax Firm BDO Is Guilty in Shelter Case (9 Jul 2009)
Insolvency: UK government clueless on insolvencies that take more than 10 years to complete (9 Jul 2009)
At Beazer Homes, It Was See No Evil and Pay No Penalty (9 Jul 2009)
UK Parliament comment on Country-by-country Reporting (9 Jul 2009)
Bearwood Corporate Services Limited extends its accounting filing period (9 Jul 2009)
Filing of Bearwood Holdings Accounts (9 Jul 2009)
Astraporta (UK) Limited went into liquidation in March 2009 (9 Jul 2009)
Small companies need to disclose political donations exceeding £2000 (9 Jul 2009)
Ex-BDO Seidman Partner Pleads Guilty In Shelter Fraud Case (9 Jul 2009)
FORMER ACCOUNTING FIRM PARTNER PLEADS GUILTY TO TAX SHELTER FRAUD (BDO Link) (9 Jul 2009)
Ex-Livedoor execs ordered to pay Y1.46 bil to shareholders (9 Jul 2009)
Bean Counters Poised For Gains in Carbon Economy (8 Jul 2009)
Loss making companies can make political donations (8 Jul 2009)
Small companies can make political donations (8 Jul 2009)
ICAEW fines Grant Thornton over audit sign-offs (7 Jul 2009)
MG Rover ex-directors issue attack on Brown (7 Jul 2009)
Europe bank reports remain tough to interpret (7 Jul 2009)
Bank statements become harder to read (7 Jul 2009)
AIG Jury Weighs $4.3 Billion Claim Against Greenberg's Company (7 Jul 2009)
FSA gets tough as SFO moves in on MG Rover (7 Jul 2009)
The Big Four of Accounting Will Be Among the Big Winners if U.S. Adopts Climate Law (7 Jul 2009)
EU Presses for New Rules on Bank Reserves, Bonuses (7 Jul 2009)
Why didn't MG Rover's inspectors call in cops? (7 Jul 2009)
Somalia hires PwC to monitor aid (7 Jul 2009)
Mandelson's cynical cover up on Rover is a disgrace (6 Jul 2009)
British fraud office to probe MG Rover collapse (6 Jul 2009)
Stanford Asks Judge for Access to Funds to Defend Himself (6 Jul 2009)
Germany, France call for looser accounting, bank capital rules (6 Jul 2009)
Accounting in Russia. What Foreigners Should Know (6 Jul 2009)
SFO to probe MG Rover collapse (6 Jul 2009)
SFO to probe MG Rover collapse (5 Jul 2009)
Grant Thronton: Bankers battle to avoid 50p tax on bonuses (5 Jul 2009)
Satyam: PWC audit of 'India's Enron' faces probe (4 Jul 2009)
Corporate takeover of the state (3 Jul 2009)
Judge to Stanford: Show me the untainted money (3 Jul 2009)
SEC Moves to Make Companies More Accountable to Shareholders (3 Jul 2009)
SEC Proposes Measures to Improve Corporate Governance and Enhance Investor Confidence (3 Jul 2009)
Northern Rock losses grow by more than £500m (3 Jul 2009)
Satyam: PWC's version of the 'Who's On First?' comedy routine (3 Jul 2009)
PwC Bangalore unit audited Satyam accounts (3 Jul 2009)
Satyam: PwC CEO raises more questions (3 Jul 2009)
Taking a look at the 2009 Stanford offense (3 Jul 2009)
PwC Global Board: “Risk And Quality Top Priorities” (2 Jul 2009)
Cattles sacks seven directors after review (2 Jul 2009)
PwC Bangalore unit audited Satyam accounts (2 Jul 2009)
Beazer To Pay Up To $53M To End Mortgage Fraud Charges (2 Jul 2009)
Ex-Beazer Accountant Sued by SEC for Accounting Fraud (2 Jul 2009)
Ernst & Young's Error 'Shattered' Superior Bank, Official Says (2 Jul 2009)
Boost hedge fund, accounting oversight: SEC watchdog (2 Jul 2009)
SEC Previews Its Madoff Report (2 Jul 2009)
Bernie Madoff joins long white-collar prison roll (2 Jul 2009)
PWC claims it did not audit Satyam (1 Jul 2009)
AIG investor questions PwC fees(1 Jul 2009)
Former HealthSouth executive gets prison time (1 Jul 2009)
Fraud inquiry starts at Keydata (1 Jul 2009)
SFO to investigate Keydata Investment Services over £107m black hole (1 Jul 2009)
SEC accuses ex-Beazer official of accounting fraud (1 Jul 2009)
SEC Charges Former Chief Accounting Officer of Beazer Homes for Fraudulent Earnings Management Scheme (1 Jul 2009)
Where did Madoff's missing billions go? Investigators face uphill task (1 Jul 2009)
India Chartered accountants' panel to table Satyam report July 9 (1 Jul 2009)
Stanford Executive to Plead Guilty, Lawyer Says (1 Jul 2009)
British companies express regret for slavery connections (1 Jul 2009)
Rothschilds gained less from slavery than from financing its abolition (1 Jul 2009)
Records reveal erstwhile slavery links at Rothschild and Freshfields (1 Jul 2009)
Freshfields Benefitted From Slave Trade (1 Jul 2009)
Ex-Ahold Executive Kaiser Says US Withheld Evidence (1 Jul 2009)

JUNE 2009

PwC: rotten to the core or just plain stupid? (30 Jun 2009)
Insolvency: ENCOURAGING COMPANY RESCUE – a consultation (30 Jun 2009)
We didn't audit Satyam: PwC (30 Jun 2009)
Ernst & Young Sued for Allegedly Covering Up Bad Audits At Superior Bank (30 Jun 2009)
10 more could be charged in Madoff scam (30 Jun 2009)
SFO freezes $100m of UK assets in Sir Allen Stanford fraud investigation (30 Jun 2009)
Bernard Madoff receives maximum 150 year sentence (30 Jun 2009)
Where did Madoff's missing billions go? Investigators face uphill task (30 Jun 2009)
Bernie Madoff joins long white-collar prison roll (30 Jun 2009)
Madoff's sentence: big, but not 141078 years (30 Jun 2009)
Satyam: India Court rejects bail pleas of former PW auditors (30 Jun 2009)
AIG Discloses New Risk on Derivatives Sold to European Banks (30 Jun 2009)
Madoff Sentenced to Maximum 150 Years in Prison (29 Jun 2009)
Bernard Madoff gets 150 years in prison (29 Jun 2009)
Madoff's 150-Year Sentence: Long But Not Longest (29 Jun 2009)
Satyam: Court rejects PW auditors bail plea (29 Jun 2009)
India Securities Exchange Board of India is all for prohibiting Price Waterhouse and the jailed auditors from any furtherissuance of compliance certifications to listed companies in the country (29 Jun 2009)
Ernst & Young makes £3.7m out of c-charge and Metrolink (29 Jun 2009)
US accountant pleads guilty in UBS tax case (29 Jun 2009)
Chancellor wants end to bank tax avoidance (29 Jun 2009)
Bernard Madoff to face angry investors who fell victim to $65bn swindle (29 Jun 2009)
Jet lag snares a tax haven tout (29 Jun 2009)
Auditors' red flags sparks crackdown on disclosures (29 Jun 2009)
China finds lending irregularities in major banks (29 Jun 2009)
Deloitte handling the insolvency has indicated that Setanta shareholders will be wiped out (28 Jun 2009)
€100m loss for Doughty after demise of Setanta (28 Jun 2009)
Fat Cats: Secret perks of Britain's bosses: Private jets, company homes and free tax advice (28 Jun 2009)
Fat Cats:Secret perks of Britain's bosses revealed (28 Jun 2009)
Do UK firms enjoy abusing investors? (28 Jun 2009)
Fraud inquiry into new government jobs scheme (28 Jun 2009)
Setanta thought it had a sporting chance. It lost (28 Jun 2009)
US prosecutors to target Madoff's wife and sons (28 Jun 2009)
Stanford CFO could be next in line of star witnesses (28 Jun 2009)
Satyam, SocMed, BDO International, and Sunshine (27 Jun 2009)
The UK supports Country by Country reporting standards and publishes study minimising transfer mispricing impacts on development (27 Jun 2009)
UBS shows flaws of bond accounting (27 Jun 2009)
Cadogan starts legal action against 2 ex-directors (27 Jun 2009)
Satyam: Pwc auditors' bail plea- India High Court reserves order (27 Jun 2009)
India Govt to initiate prosecution in Satyam case (27 Jun 2009)
How Good Is Your Audit Firm? (27 Jun 2009)
Derivatives Tug of War Takes Shape (27 Jun 2009)
FASB's Herz slams politicization of accounting (27 Jun 2009)
Financial Regulation: Industry Objections Increasing (27 Jun 2009)
The Fair-Value Deadbeat Debate Returns (27 Jun 2009)
10 Companies With Ironclad Balance Sheets (27 Jun 2009)
Accounting rules 'manipulated to boost PFI' (26 Jun 2009)
FBI Said to Have Traveled to Europe in Madoff Probe (26 Jun 2009)
Fannie Mae, KPMG Push Hard to Settle Securities Suit (26 Jun 2009)
Handcuffed Sir Allen Stanford pleads not guilty to 21 criminal charges (26 Jun 2009)
PCAOB Delays Foreign Firm Inspections (26 Jun 2009)
US PCAOB delays 1st review of 49 foreign auditors (26 Jun 2009)
US regulators close their 40th bank of the year (26 Jun 2009)
The best democracy money can buy: The lack of corporate reform is an indictment of the UK's institutions and the weak state of our democracy (25 Jun 2009)
What the Big 4 do (25 Jun 2009)
Fight brews over accountant's role in market meltdown (25 Jun 2009)
Former Fruitlands CFO indicted for embezzling funds (25 Jun 2009)
Former pasta company executives settle fraud charges (25 Jun 2009)
Deloitte not to restate Mahindra Satyam's books (25 Jun 2009)
PwC wins £4.8m Bradford & Bingley valuation deal (25 Jun 2009)
BNP, Citi Exposed to $6.3 Billion Saudi Debt Workout (25 Jun 2009)
UK Treasury 'failed' on Northern Rock (25 Jun 2009)
Prosecutors Seek Ex-BDO Seidman CEO, 6 Others To Forfeit $180M (24 Jun 2009)
OECD close to forcing multinationals to reveal tax bills (24 Jun 2009)
Eleven bailed in £2.5bn pension fraud inquiry, says HMRC (24 Jun 2009)
Fraud inquiry into £100m hole in London Development Agency's Olympic accounts (24 Jun 2009)
£100m black hole discovered in 2012 Olympics accounts (24 Jun 2009)
Treasury 'manipulating' PFI books (24 Jun 2009)
FASB overseers to seek input on new strategic plan (24 Jun 2009)
Stanford Bail Hearing in Fraud Case Set for Tomorrow in Houston (24 Jun 2009)
Madoff lawyer seeks 12-year term for swindler (24 Jun 2009)
Learning the lessons of Nortel (24 Jun 2009)
Bahrain cenbank launches probe at TIBC bank (24 Jun 2009)
Banking Crisis could cost EU taxpayer 16.5 pct of GDP (24 Jun 2009)
Outsourcing: PwC to recruit 3500 in India in 3-4 years (24 Jun 2009)
Insolvency: Record number of business failures forecast (24 Jun 2009)
Ernst & Young drops gagging order on critical Equitable Life report (23 Jun 2009)
Banks lobby to change accounting rule that could cost billions (23 Jun 2009)
US audit watchdog criticises KPMG in report (23 Jun 2009)
Report on 2008 Inspection of KPMG LLP Issued by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (23 Jun 2009)
More Outsourcing: 'PwC plans to take India headcount to 10k' (23 Jun 2009)
Outsourcing for Cheap Labour: PwC to up India staff by over 50% (23 Jun 2009)
SEC Charges Madoff Solicitors and Feeder With Fraud (23 Jun 2009)
Investor group says FASB's independence has eroded (23 Jun 2009)
American Dairy says SEC investigation is complete (23 Jun 2009)
Former Nortel execs in court battle over legal bills (23 Jun 2009)
Poachers and Gamekeepers: Former Senior Fed Regulator Joins Deloitte & Touche (23 Jun 2009)
Pricewaterhousecoopers implicated in the collapse of LDC and Finance & Investments (22 Jun 2009)
SEC Charges Two Accountants and Antiguan Regulator for Roles in Stanford Ponzi Scheme (22 Jun 2009)
Stanford Associates Hit With SEC Civil Charges (22 Jun 2009)
Stanford Bribes Helped Stall SEC Case, Agency's Lawsuit Alleges (22 Jun 2009)
US judge sets $100000 bond for Stanford accountants (22 Jun 2009)
SEC chargesheet for Stanford Allen (22 Jun 2009)
Case vs. Stanford: 'A bit of Madoff, a dash of Enron' (22 Jun 2009)
Corporate Takeover of Regulation: FRC Chair Announces Appointments to the FRRP (22 Jun 2009)
Satyam Renamed Mahindra Satyam (22 Jun 2009)
Accountant accused of role in mortgage fraud (22 Jun 2009)
Manulife faces OSC disclosure probe (21 Jun 2009)
Receiver says sprawling web' of Stanford companies had 200 different accounting systems (21 Jun 2009)
Stanford Indicted in $7 Billion Scam With Regulator (21 Jun 2009)
UK company directors' expenses are enough to make our MPs' eyes water (21 Jun 2009)
Losses from fraud in the City top £1bn, police say (21 Jun 2009)
Bear Stearns Should Have Been Allowed To Go Bankrupt (21 Jun 2009)
John Bercow: claimed nearly £1000 for tax advice on mps expenses (21 Jun 2009)
New Zealand Call for auditor watchdog before scandal hits (21 Jun 2009)
Helping Young African-American Accountants Move Up (21 Jun 2009)
KPMG Should Be Tougher on Testing, PCAOB Finds (20 Jun 2009)
Setanta faces crunch in survival battle (20 Jun 2009)
Allen Stanford Indicted by US in $7 Billion Scam (20 Jun 2009)
More Details Emerge After Stanford Indictment (20 Jun 2009)
Changes Ahead For Lease Accounting Standards (20 Jun 2009)
Calman Commission Report also mentions Insolvency Regulation – Serving Scotland Better: Scotland and the United Kingdom in the 21st Century (20 June 2009)
2008 IASB Annual Report (20 Jun 2009)
BDO International Dodges A Bullet, But Threat Still Remains (19 Jun 2009)
Stanford Is Indicted in Fraud, Surrenders (19 Jun 2009)
Allen Stanford 'fraud' uncovered by favour (19 Jun 2009)
Comverse settles stock option backdating charges (19 Jun 2009)
Head in the Sands: Mandatory corporate governance code not wanted, says FRC (19 Jun 2009)
Big corporates escape audit disaster but the litigation might start soon (19 Jun 2009)
Jury Finds BDO International Not Required to Pay $170 Million Judgment (19 Jun 2009)
SEC May Force More Disclosure About 'Dark Pools,' Schapiro Says (19 Jun 2009)
Ex-Enron exec settles SEC fraud case, fined $1 mln (19 Jun 2009)
Accounting Rule To Ease Sting Of Changing Fannie,Freddie Loans (19 Jun 2009)
UNITED STATES SENATE COMMITTEE HEARINGS on INCORPORATION TRANSPARENCY AND LAW ENFORCEMENT: Law enforcement hindered by the lack of information available as to the true ownership or control of shell companies (19 Jun 2009)
Alistair Darling asked accountants to change wording on invoice (19 Jun 2009)
Barclays urged to dump 'casino bank' (19 Jun 2009)
US backs standards convergence (19 Jun 2009)
Fair Value Accounting and the Financial Crisis: Messenger or Contributor? (19 Jun 2009)
Country-by-country reporting – a new report (18 Jun 2009)
Country-by-Country Reporting Holding multinational corporations to account wherever they are (18 Jun 2009)
Scrushy Found Liable in HealthSouth Shareholder Suit (18 Jun 2009)
Former HealthSouth boss found liable for $2.9 billion (18 Jun 2009)
Deadline To Indict Madoff's Accountant Extended To July 17 (18 Jun 2009)
Miami jury rules in favor of BDO International in audit case (18 Jun 2009)
SEC Charges Former Quest Executives With Fraudulently Concealing Millions of Dollars of Self-Dealing (18 Jun 2009)
Some airlines would face big liabilities under new lease accounting rules (18 Jun 2009)
aig's ex-CEO had private jet fly stock to Bermuda (18 Jun 2009)
New rules set to bring leased airlines down to earth (18 Jun 2009)
US court rules for ex-Enron Broadband executive (18 Jun 2009)
Is the Accounting Profession Like GM? (17 Jun 2009)
Examining HBOS (17 Jun 2009)
Michigan announced a $109 million national settlement in a class action lawsuit against accounting firm Ernst & Young. The firm was accused of failing to expose fraud taking place at HealthSouth (17 Jun 2009)
Judge rules punitive damages out of BDO audit trial (17 Jun 2009)
Judge Tosses $352 Million Award in Accounting Negligence Suit Against BDO International (17 Jun 2009)
Ex-CEO of GenRe unit gets probation in fraud scheme (17 Jun 2009)
Banks don't want off-balance-sheet items on their books (17 Jun 2009)
Independent Insurance FD wins appeal against £10000 fine (17 Jun 2009)
BearingPoint completes sale to PricewaterhouseCoopers (17 Jun 2009)
Citigroup Says It Settled Lawsuit With Former Japan Executives (17 Jun 2009)
Judge dismisses shareholder suit against Oracle (17 Jun 2009)
UK bosses caught up in alleged $1.2bn South African 'Ponzi' fraud (17 Jun 2009)
Insolvency: PwC sells five Dairy Farmers outlets (17 Jun 2009)
Mad Hatters: Government 'must back hedge funds', say Lords (17 Jun 2009)
EU Financial Rules May Scare Away Hedge Funds, UK Lords Say (17 Jun 2009)
Lords report says Govt failed in EU regulation debate (17 Jun 2009)
The future of EU financial regulation and supervision (17 Jun 2009)
Country-by-Country Reporting: Multinationals to be forced to reveal tax bills (16 Jun 2009)
MSS to sue accountants over Worthington Nicholls debacle (16 Jun 2009)
Michigan settles with Ernst & Young in healthsouth fraud suit (16 Jun 2009)
Vitesse Reaches $22.5m Settlement with KPMG (16 Jun 2009)
Vitesse, auditor KPMG settle lawsuit (16 Jun 2009)
A third of the IASB board had worked for KPMG or firms that KPMG later acquired (16 Jun 2009)
Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers provide one-third of the funding for the IASB (16 Jun 2009)
Fraud Victims Want Maximum for Madoff (16 Jun 2009)
Wessanen shares hit by possible accounting woes (16 Jun 2009)
Accounting standards 'need simplifying' (16 Jun 2009)
Moral Hazard and the Crisis (16 Jun 2009)
UK government seeks comment on insolvency rules (16 Jun 2009)
Jury selected for lawsuit between AIG, Starr (16 Jun 2009)
Securitization Rule Revamp from FASB (16 Jun 2009)
The Critique of Accounting Theory (16 Jun 2009)
Multinational firms face exposure over their corporation tax policies (15 Jun 2009)
Accountant Mentality Killed GM (15 Jun 2009)
AIG comes face to face with Greenberg over $4.3bn lawsuit (15 Jun 2009)
Speed of Delphi Bankruptcy Deal Draws Scrutiny (15 Jun 2009)
Wessanen Finds Fincl Irregularities, Delays ABC Sale (15 jUn 2009)
FRC audit plan under fire (15 Jun 2009)
G8 signals the end of the financial crisis, but what caused it? (15 Jun 2009)
REITH LECTURES 2009: Markets and Morals (15 Jun 2009)
A nation of accountants: The growing industry has aided corruption, fraud and unethical governance. Why does the state help it audit society at a profit? (14 Jun 2009)
'Gentlemanly' accountant adviser arrested in family trusts probe (14 Jun 2009)
'Light-touch' accounting reforms raise fears of new bank disaster (14 Jun 2009)
Insolvency: Cobra Beer creditors lost £75m (14 Jun 2009)
Doha? Give us country-by-country reporting instead (13 Jun 2009)
US Fed eyes capital standards after accounting fix (13 Jun 2009)
$161M approved to pay victims of Madoff swindle (13 Jun 2009)
George Soros urges governments to outlaw ''toxic' credit default swaps (13 Jun 2009)
Former General Re executive faces sentencing (13 Jun 2009)
Appeals court upholds convictions of Baptist Foundation of Arizona officials (12 Jun 2009)
IASB Plans Further Revisions to Impairment Standards (12 Jun 2009)
Highly decorated soldier killed himself over Bernard Madoff losses (12 Jun 2009)
New Zealand Independent body needed to oversee auditors (12 Jun 2009)
Keydata bidders mount but so do problem Isas (12 Jun 2009)
Ex-SEC Accounting Chief Calls For Shareholder Proxy Access (12 Jun 2009)
Woolworths deal with BBC in court (12 Jun 2009)
Audit- and non-audit fees and company characteristics in Belgium (12 Jun 2009)
Bankruptcy Sharks, National debt and other abuses (11 Jun 2009)
Ernst & Young seeks final OK for $109 million settlement pact with HealthSouth investors (11 Jun 2009)
Lehman Examiner Calls Out Ernst & Young Over Audit Subpoena (11 Jun 2009)
Wakefield: 'Risky scheme' accountant has assets frozen (11 Jun 2009)
Feeder Fund Investors Sue Manager, Others Over Madoff Losses (11 Jun 2009)
Crisis Sets Back Needed Global Rules, Regulators Say (11 Jun 2009)
IFAC board to hold G20 accountancy summit (11 Jun 2009)
United Security Bancshares says accounting team it sued over audits (including Ernst & Young) has settled for $4.5 million (11 Jun 2009)
Deloitte puts China staff on unpaid leave (11 Jun 2009)
Grant Thornton liquidators in US court battle for Madoff assets (11 Jun 2009)
Tax and corporate transparency (10 Jun 2009)
Ex-BDO Chief, Ex-Jenkens Lawyer Indicted in Tax-Shelter Case (10 Jun 2009)
Former BDO Chief, Ex-Lawyer Indicted Over Shelters (10 Jun 2009)
BDO Seidman ex-chief Denis Field indicted in tax evasion case (10 Jun 2009)
Probe of questionable tax shelters brings 7 indictments (10 Jun 2009)
Jenkens & Gilchrist Attorneys, BDO Seidman Accountants, and Bankers Charged in Criminal Tax Fraud Related to Tax Shelters Generating Over Seven Billion Dollars of Fraudulent Tax Losses (10 Jun 2009)
US Indictment Charges Against Jenkens & Gilchrist Attorneys, BDO Seidman Accountants, and Bankers Charged in Criminal Tax Fraud (10 Jun 2009)
Tipperary's profit slashed over account 'irregularities' (10 Jun 2009)
Marvell Settles Share Option Backdating Suit, Revises Results (10 Jun 2009)
IASB repels finance ministers over response to crisis (10 Jun 2009)
IASB stands up to EU politicians on accounting rules (10 Jun 2009)
Gone But Not Forgotten: Jenkins & Gilchrist Trio Indicted for Tax Fraud (10 Jun 2009)
FASB's Parent Taps Lobby Firm To Fend Off Pressure (10 Jun 2009)
Prince George's County company accused of scamming churches (10 Jun 2009)
India News Digest: Satyam faces claims worth 100 Billion Rupees (10 Jun 2009)
Enron fraud laid bare at Royal Court (10 Jun 2009)
BDO International: “Manage and Control” Means Slam Dunk For BES (9 Jun 2009)
Cityphilia (9 Jun 2009)
Bosses urged to tackle debts instead of using administrations (9 Jun 2009)
Regulators back acccounting body IASB in EU grilling (9 Jun 2009)
PCAOB Chairman Mark Olson to Retire (9 Jun 2009)
Supreme Court Will Not Hear Ex-Tyco Chief's Appeal (9 Jun 2009)
Ex-CPA Pleads Guilty in $1.4M Embezzlement Scheme (9 Jun 2009)
Cher Sues Universal for $5 Million in Royalties (9 Jun 2009)
Madoff Part Two: Ascot Partners Turns Defendant (9 Jun 2009)
Stanford, SEC Talk Down Receiver's Fee Requests (9 Jun 2009)
Watch how the unelected officers behave: ACCA 2009 AGM (9 Jun 2009)
Billion-dollar errors: lawyers shape-up to audit firms (8 Jun 2009)
Fraudsters jailed over Aviva scam (8 Jun 2009)
Insolvency: Keydata Investment Services goes into administration (8 Jun 2009)
PwC to decide if £2.8bn Keydata funds are at risk (8 Jun 2009)
Ernst & Young wants to be rehired as Anglo Irish Bank auditor (8 Jun 2009)
Kanjorski a major lobbyist to save the financial industry billions (8 Jun 2009)
CIMA elects first Asian born president (8 Jun 2009)
Search for Madoff assets pits British and Americans against one another in New York court (8 Jun 2009)
A conversation about General Motors bankruptcy (7 Jun 2009)
IASB Accounting board could lose power to set rules (7 Jun 2009)
Countrywide exec often warned about mortgage risks (7 Jun 2009)
SEC Action Against Countrywide (7 Jun 2009)
DSGi pays off HMRC in transfer pricing dispute (7 Jun 2009)
US Banks Putting 'Lipstick on a Pig' (7 Jun 2009)
Singapore Governments to increase scrutiny on transfer pricing (7 Jun 2009)
Longtime federal agent Brian Aryai triggered Bovis Lend Lease probe (7 Jun 2009)
Complaints Handling by the Regulators of Insolvency Practitioners: A Comparative Study (7 Jun 2009)
Bank Profits From Accounting Rules Masking Looming Loan Losses (6 Jun 2009)
Purchase Acctg Rule Leaves Bank Investors In Dark On Loans (6 Jun 2009)
Insolvency: Grant Thornton - Liquidators of Madoff's British operation accused of wasting money (6 Jun 2009)
Shareholders' proposed reforms shot down as inactivist (6 Jun 2009)
US Fed said uneasy with coming balance sheet rules (6 Jun 2009)
UBS, HSBC Have Duty to Madoff Investors, Frieden Says (6 Jun 2009)
ICAEW casts doubt over joint legal and accountancy firms (6 Jun 2009)
Audit: trust the smaller firm (6 Jun 2009)
The corporate death-grip on reform: With government in the sway of the big banks, corporate elites have stifled the possibility of radical financial reform (5 Jun 2009)
Louder than words – and FRC seriously missing the point (5 Jun 2009)
Auditors have a massive responsibility for the financial crisis (5 Jun 2009)
SEC Charges Former Countrywide Executives With Fraud (5 Jun 2009)
Countrywide's Mozilo, Two Ex-Executives Accused by SEC of Fraud (5 Jun 2009)
Lloyds Shareholders plan action against bosses (5 Jun 2009)
Morrisons saves on pensions while boosting sales (5 Jun 2009)
SEC Finalizes ARS Settlements With Bank of America, RBC, and Deutsche Bank (5 Jun 2009)
Banks Resist Balance Sheet Clean Up (5 Jun 2009)
Banks Try to Stiff-Arm New Accounting Rule (5 Jun 2009)
Swedish banks fear writedowns (5 Jun 2009)
Fund managers pressure IASB on accounting rules update (5 Jun 2009)
“Urgent Change” Needed to Fix Reporting (5 Jun 2009)
Alcan deal destroyed Rio Tinto's balance sheet (5 Jun 2009)
'Rottweiler' Kemsley's Rock empire goes bust (5 Jun 2009)
Former BDO Vice Chair Pleads Guilty to Tax Fraud (5 Jun 2009)
A former vice chairman of the accounting firm BDO Seidman pleaded guilty to federal charges that he helped clients evade more than $200 million in taxes through illegal tax shelters (4 Jun 2009)
Guilty plea in BDO Seidman fraud case (4 Jun 2009)
£600m loans went astray in Dunfermline rescue (4 Jun 2009)
Hopeless FRC publishes Discussion Paper on Reducing Complexity in Corporate Reporting (4 Jun 2009)
UK companies linked to Iraqi reconstruction fraud inquiry (4 Jun 2009)
Banks Try to Stiff-Arm New Accounting Rule (4 Jun 2009)
Non-audit fees are averaging four times the audit fee for the top FTSE 100 clients (4 Jun 2009)
Accountants focusing on the wrong skills (4 Jun 2009)
EU might ignore IASB, enact its own IFRS, council warns (4 Jun 2009)
Madoff sons accuse father of 'biblical' betrayal (4 Jun 2009)
SEC Chief Strives To Rebuild Regulator (4 Jun 2009)
FRC chief warns of EU 'breakaway' (4 Jun 2009)
Banco Espirito Santo wants BDO held liable for jury verdict (3 Jun 2009)
Jury to decide if BDO International liable (3 Jun 2009)
Despite downturn, audit fees rose in 2008 (3 Jun 2009)
Ex-Enron Broadband CFO pleads guilty (3 Jun 2009)
Congress Helped Banks Defang Key Accounting Rule (3 Jun 2009)
SEC Ready to Require More Pay Disclosures (3 Jun 2009)
IRS should do company audits with other countries: Shulman (3 Jun 2009)
SEC Watchdog Reviews E-Mails in Investigation of Madoff Failure (3 Jun 2009)
Suit seeks $3 billion from General American's law firm (3 Jun 2009)
FOI disclosure: miners strike costs (3 Jun 2009)
AN OPEN CONSPIRACY: CONSERVATIVE POLITICS AND THE MINERS' STRIKE (3 Jun 2009)
Country-by-Country Reporting: Revenue fuels aid agency’s row with Big Four (2 Jun 2009)
Debt-Defying Quirk Could Haunt Banks (2 Jun 2009)
'Five building societies to fail within a year' (2 Jun 2009)
Bank regulators should be talking to auditors, say Lords (2 Jun 2009)
UK Bank regulation system 'failed' (2 Jun 2009)
HOUSE OF LORDS Select Committee on Economic Affairs: Banking Supervision and Regulation (2 Jun 2009)
Commons committee calls for auditors to look at Buckingham Palace revenues (2 Jun 2009)
House of Commons Public Accounts Committee - Maintaining the Occupied Royal Palaces (2 Jun 2009)
Backgrounder: US top ten bankruptcies since 1980 (1 Jun 2009)
FASB Issues FAS 165, Subsequent Events (1 Jun 2009)
Secrecy over financial company complaints is bad for all (1 Jun 2009)
THE GREAT CORPORATE TAX DODGE (1 Jun 2009)
Ex-Travelscope finance director facing probe (1 Jun 2009)
PwC gets court approval for BearingPoint assets (1 Jun 2009)
Millionaire footballers to evade new 50% tax rate by taking wages as interest-free loans (1 Jun 2009)
KPMG 'told me I was ****ed' admits chef Ramsay (1 Jun 2009)

MAY 2009

The Bankruptcy Parasites (31 May 2009)
Weavering Capital, the company now at the centre of Britain's first alleged hedge fund fraud, had imploded before in a period of its history previously kept hidden (31 May 2009)
Creative accounting masked AFL-CIO's finances, official says (31 May 2009)
AFL-CIO Used “Creative Accounting” To Hide Financial Woes (31 May 2009)
Investors blast secrecy over Rock (31 May 2009)
Cisco to record $130 million tax-related charge (31 May 2009)
Credit Suisse caught up in $400m shares scam (31 May 2009)
International Financial Reporting Scandal? New accounting not to every taste (31 May 2009)
Citi, SEC In Talks To Settle Asset Probe (31 May 2009)
Citigroup Remains in Critical Condition (31 May 2009)
The Failure of Regulation in Banking: Ethical Reflections (31 May 2009)
Toxic innovation? Beyond Haldane’s gambit (31 May 2009)
Wages of Sin? the Crisis of the Libidinal Economy (31 May 2009)
Science, Discourse and Materiality: What's Material about an Economy with no Money? (31 May 2009)
The end of the Big 4 (30 May 2009)
PwC was in a strategic partnership with Satyam till last year (30 May 2009)
US judge gives final OK for Qwest suit settlement (30 May 2009)
PwC gets court approval for BearingPoint assets (30 May 2009)
Dynamic Decisions Fund Put Into Liquidation by Cayman Court (30 May 2009)
Satyam, PwC had business links: Report (30 May 2009)
The Myth of a Corporate Tax Exodus (30 May 2009)
Briton Robert Tringham charged over $7 million Ponzi scheme (30 May 2009)
The True Cost of Chevron: An Alternative Annual Report (29 May 2009)
How HBOS 'killed our businesses' (29 May 2009)
Financial Reporting Council is a stooge for the auditing industry: Audit reform may lead to major disruption (29 May 2009)
Stayam: 2 Auditors Held in India Fault System (29 May 2009)
Paris, London May Be Used for Madoff Court Settlement (29 May 2009)
Anglo Irish Bank gets €4bn lifeline after Ireland's worst ever loss (29 May 2009)
JPMorgan EPS Hit by Accounting Change (29 May 2009)
FRC Publishes Exposure Draft updating Going Concern Guidance for Directors (29 May 2009)
Accountants, Washington Helping Banks Fluff Profits (28 May 2009)
IASB Proposes Its Own Fair-Value Rule (28 May 2009)
Q&A: Can you set accountancy bills against tax? (28 May 2009)
Revenue Recognition Standards Get Mixed Response (28 May 2009)
Auditors struggle to agree liability limits with clients (28 May 2009)
Only true reform can end the rip-off: The state has bailed out capitalism without any restructuring. The only way forward is to change Parliament – but who will? (27 May 2009)
Off-Balance-Sheet Rules Could Weigh On Banks' Capital (27 May 2009)
Judge Rejects Challenge to $522 Million Award Against BDO Seidman (27 May 2009)
Cattles loses chairman amid battle with banks (27 May 2009)
KPMG could face class action over Great Southern collapse (27 May 2009)
Capital One's Accounting Gimmick (27 May 2009)
City police warn of huge rise in fraud cases (27 May 2009)
Firms 'ruined by HBOS executive' (27 May 2009)
Hedge fund agrees to return Madoff withdrawals (27 May 2009)
Santander Agrees to Pay Madoff Trustee $235 Million (27 May 2009)
Industry concerns over leasing proposals (27 May 2009)
Alchemy chief: markets risk turmoil without liability cap (27 May 2009)
New accounting standards under spotlight at international leasing conference (27 May 2009)
PwC rejects global plan for Lehman recoveries (27 May 2009)
How Satyam Supported PwC’s Schizophrenic Strategy To Reenter The Systems Integration Business (26 May 2009)
HBOS loan irregularities alleged (26 May 2009)
Disastrous £250m lending spree to just 13 firms that sealed the fate of HBOS (26 May 2009)
Satyam: Enough proof against former PW partnersI (26 May 2009)
From Worldcom to Satyam (26 May 2009)
Banks' code of conduct may include tax demand (26 May 2009)
Porsche on the financial brink (26 May 2009)
Accountancy bills tax the public (26 May 2009)
Chancellor claimed on expenses for accountant to do his tax returns (26 May 2009)
Ex-Ernst & Young accountant's IRD battle heads to Supreme Court of New Zealand (26 May 2009)
Lehman bankruptcy pits US trustees against UK administrators (26 May 2009)
PwC urges transparency as top priority (26 May 2009)
Church of Scientology accused of fraud (26 May 2009)
Scientology on trial in France (26 May 2009)
Accounting: Four play – is non-audit work in jeopardy? (25 May 2009)
Satyam: Former PW partners' bail plea dismissed (25 May 2009)
Ernst & Young netted £825k from failed Tote sale (25 May 2009)
New accounting rules to hurt 5 big banks (24 May 2009)
US body has doubts over matching accounting reform (24 May 2009)
Lessons Learned From Internal Control Audits (24 May 2009)
Lloyds faces Legal action over HBOS takeover (24 May 2009)
Insolvency: Super-creditors scheme 'unlawful' (24 May 2009)
GSK accused of earnings stripping (23 May 2009)
US body has doubts over matching accounting reform (23 May 2009)
UK Treasury may be forced to water down proposals to make finance directors personally liable for company’s accounts (23 May 2009)
Learning from Satyam: How to Detect Fraud (23 May 2009)
Drug Companies' Overseas Operations Cause Tax Headaches (23 May 2009)
Scrushy Again Blames Underlings for Fraud (23 May 2009)
Jailed HealthSouth boss testifies in $2.6 billion suit (23 May 2009)
Accounting professor: break up the Big Four audit market (22 May 2009)
BDO International - Yellow Card or Red Flag? (22 May 2009)
New Mark-To-Market Accounting Rules Boost Banks' Equity (22 May 2009)
Dutch regulator slams secret bank stress tests (22 May 2009)
Ex-AIB CEO 'threatened auditor' (22 May 2009)
34 US banks go belly up in 2009; BankUnited collapses (22 May 2009)
BankUnited FSB collapses in year's biggest failure (22 May 2009)
Time to count the cost of failure:Accounting firms are trying to shield themselves from the consequences of the financial crisis despite being partly to blame (21 May 2009)
The IASB sent prudence out of the window (21 May 2009)
Police investigating Business Consulting International, John Anderson Consulting and Kenneth Peacock Consulting for allegedly mishandling millions of pounds of investors’ funds (21 May 2009)
Accounting rule setter speeds up fair value reform (21 May 2009)
FRC publishes its Third Progress Report on the Implementation of the MPG Recommendations on promoting Choice in the UK Audit Market (21 May 2009)
CHOICE IN THE UK AUDIT MARKET - THIRD PROGRESS REPORT (21 May 2009)
TWO solicitors who operated a secret €32m bank account to deliberately evade tax yesterday escaped being struck off (21 May 2009)
Mitchells & Butlers boss quits as disastrous deal costs company £96m (21 May 2009)
Siemens Greece ex-director held in bribes scandal (21 May 2009)
FASB Kills the "Q," Stiffens Off-Balance-Sheet Reporting (21 May 2009)
'Bank auditors need greater liability protection' (21 May 2009)
Badge of Shame: PriceWaterhouse Coopers,KPMG, Ernst & Young and Deloitte & Touche and the International
Accounting Standards Board win the 2009 Christian-Aid Alternative Tax Award (20 May 2009)
NHS consultancy costs 'soaring' and accounting firms are creaming it (20 May 2009)
Accountancy glass ceiling 'still exists' (20 May 2009)
Gender bias still exists in senior positions (20 May 2009)
AIG Will Pay $843 Million To Harmed Investors From 2006 Fraud Case (20 May 2009)
SEC Announces $843 Million Fair Fund Distribution to Harmed AIG Investors (20 May 2009)
Crunch Moment for International Accounting (20 May 2009)
Wall Street magicians lose trick of trade (20 May 2009)
Court Says No To $33 Million Tax Rebate For Wal-Mart (20 May 2009)
Conrad Black's anti-fraud case will go to Supreme Court (20 May 2009)
FRC Announces Appointment of New CEO (20 May 2009)
Stanford Receiver Requests $20M To Pay Helper Firms (20 May 2009)
Government Money Is a Toxic Asset (20 May 2009)
The Vavasseur Prime Bank Securities Fraud (19 May 2009)
Men 'dominate senior accounting positions' (19 May 2009)
FASB tightens off-balance-sheet loan rules (19 May 2009)
FASB Rule Will Force Banks to Move Assets Onto Books (19 May 2009)
Supreme Court Will Hear Sarbanes-Oxley Challenge (19 May 2009)
Madoff investors probed over 'inside knowledge' (19 May 2009)
Madoff: An Accounting Tragedy (19 May 2009)
SEC Charges Monster Worldwide Inc. for Stock Options Backdating Scheme (19 May 2009)
WellCare Settles SEC Accounting Probe (19 May 2009)
Audit firms charging small companies too much? (19 May 2009)
Shell and Next face investor anger over pay (19 May 2009)
Ernst & Young lawyer found guilty of fraud after insider-trading inquiry (18 May 2009)
US High Court Will Hear Attack on Auditing Oversight Board (18 May 2009)
SEC Lawyers Investigated for Insider Trading (18 May 2009)
Accounting Board to Ban Accounting Practice That Helped Lending Proliferate (18 May 2009)
Speed up reform of financial reporting system, say investors (18 May 2009)
Investors attack IFRS for its role in credit crisis (18 May 2009)
Forensic Accountants Reconstruct Madoff Books (18 May 2009)
Derivatives and the Wisdom of Crowds (18 May 2009)
US court to review accounting oversight board case (18 May 2009)
Kleenmaid 'may have traded while insolvent' (18 May 2009)
Supreme Court Accepts Conrad Black Conviction Appeal (18 May 2009)
Ex-Ernst & Young Partner Guilty Of Six Fraud Counts (17 May 2009)
Financial Services Authority has asked PwC to assess the competence of RBS directors (17 May 2009)
Class-action lawsuit against Washington Mutual sent back for revisions (17 May 2009)
Serious Fraud Office launches dawn raids over collapsed hedge fund (17 May 2009)
Hunt for Madoff money to drag on for years (17 May 2009)
West Bromwich Building society in rescue talks (17 May 2009)
Equitable Life victims outraged over delays (17 May 2009)
Ex-Ernst & Young Partner Guilty of Insider Trading (16 May 2009)
Ex-Ernst & Young Partner Convicted of Insider Trading (16 May 2009)
Bank audit firms could be restricted from other services (16 May 2009)
SFO arrests two in Weavering Capital hedge fund dawn raids (16 May 2009)
‘We cannot base financial system on greed’ – bishop (16 May 2009)
Accounting Change Helps Federal Home Loan Banks (16 May 2009)
Audit Watchdog Group Warns About Starbucks (16 May 2009)
Deal will allow German banks to move toxic assets off their balance sheet (16 May 2009)
Healthsouth shareholder seeks $2.6 bln from ex-CEO (16 May 2009)
Testimony: Scrushy left HealthSouth in a mess (16 May 2009)
UK Lawmakers Defend Fair Value (16 May 2009)
BSJA auditors (Baker Tilly) resign over £328000 'black hole' found in accounts (15 May 2009)
Liquidator calls on Madoff family and associates to pay back £483m (15 May 2009)
SEC proposes tougher investment adviser rules (15 May 2009)
Prudential Among Insurers Cleared for US Bailout (15 May 2009)
Auditors should be banned from doing non-audit work for banks, says Treasury Committee (15 May 2009)
Auditors failed to highlight developing problems in the banking system (15 May 2009)
Treasury committee calls for reform of audit process (15 May 2009)
Auditors could have to choose between audit and offering other more lucrative services to their financial clients (15 May 2009)
Banking Crisis: reforming corporate governance and pay in the City (15 May 2009)
Income Tax Dept sends notice to E&Y in Vodafone tax case (15 May 2009)
Insolvency: MPs call for clampdown on pre-packs (15 May 2009)
Wheels of justice could grind Countrywide’s Mozilo (15 May 2009)
US Cellular sued by shareholder (15 May 2009)
Expenses scandal: proving MPs committed fraud would be difficult (15 May 2009)
Do As I Say, Not As I Do - Whistleblowers In The Big 4 (14 May 2009)
Accounting error to cost Insight $61 million (14 May 2009)
SEC Poised to Charge Mozilo With Fraud (14 May 2009)
Satyam Win for Mississippi Pension Fund Boosts Plaintiff Role (14 May 2009)
Johnston Press faced with renegotiating debts (14 May 2009)
Zambia: ACCOUNTING staff ran ‘ghost’ companies that provided goods and services to the Government resulting in the abuse of billions of Kwacha (14 May 2009)
Banks 'may need more state aid', Bank of England warns (14 May 2009)
It’s A Race To The Finish - But There Are No Winners (13 May 2009)
When Audit Firms are Part of the Problem (13 May 2009)
Why the FASB Fair Value Change Hurts Investors (13 Mar 2009)
Treacy Found Guilty by Jury in Monster Options-Backdating Case (13 May 2009)
At least 225 US companies have disclosed internal or federal probes involving share options irregularities (13 May 2009)
Sir Allen Stanford's deputy charged with obstructing fraud inquiry (13 May 2009)
Chief Investment Officer at Stanford Group Indicted (13 May 2009)
Foundation That Is Tied to Madoff Faces Suit (13 May 2009)
PFI projects to 'stay off the books' (13 May 2009)
AIB Chairman Calls For Accountability, Change (13 May 2009)
The PCAOB: An Obstacle to President Obama's Success (13 May 2009)
Fuzzy Accounting on Financial Stress Tests (13 May 2009)
Great adventures in accounting (13 May 2009)
HealthSouth shareholder seeks $2.6 bln from ex-CEO (13 May 2009)
Unraveling Madoff's investment scam (13 May 2009)
Accounting Change Puts MBIA Back In Black (13 May 2009)
Brazilian accounting errors cost AWB $4m (13 May 2009)
Ingram Pays $15 Million to End sec's mcafee Inquiry (13 May 2009)
SEC Charges Los Angeles-Based "Finder" in Kickback Scheme Involving N.Y. Pension Fund (13 May 2009)
Country by country: a case study (12 May 2009)
What's new with lease-accounting project? (12 May 2009)
Royal Mail and HMG's creative accounting (12 May 2009)
Unraveling Madoff's investment scam (12 May 2009)
Imperial Tobacco Has First-Half Loss on Derivative Accounting (12 May 2009)
UK Outlines Insolvency Overhaul After Lehman (12 May 2009)
Treasury plan to overhaul solvency laws (12 May 2009)
Developing effective resolution arrangements for investment banks (12 May 2009)
Peregrine Figure Receives 27-Month Sentence (12 May 2009)
So Mr Cameron, what are your policies?: I hope you are not planning to sneak into power without saying what the Conservatives are selling – please answer my letter (11 May 2009)
Toothless Watchdogs? Auditing the Audit Firms (11 May 2009)
We need to resurrect the concept of the “public intellectual” (11 May 2009)
Allen Stanford was 'US government informer' (11 May 2009)
Greencore chases auditors PwC in Ireland (11 May 2009)
Christian Aid targets accountancy firms (10 May 2009)
Greencore chases auditors PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) over failure to spot fraud (10 May 2009)
Auditing the Audit Firms (10 May 2009)
It's still Tory policy to look after City friends (10 May 2009)
Fannie Mae seeks $19 billion bailout (10 May 2009)
The Evolution of U.S. GAAP: The Political Forces Behind Professional Standards (10 May 2009)
Country by country in the FT (9 May 2009)
Europe Turns the Screw on IASB (9 May 2009)
Madoff buddy, Ezra Merkin, sued over plunder from Ponzi scheme (9 May 2009)
Investors Sue KPMG, Feeder Fund Over Madoff Losses (9 May 2009)
JPMorgan May Be Sued by SEC Over Alabama Bond Deals (9 May 2009)
BearingPoint Closes Unit's Sale to Deloitte (9 May 2009)
4 Ernst & Young employees convicted of tax charges (8 May 2009)
Ernst & Young partners guilty of tax shelter fraud-US jury (8 May 2009)
FOUR CURRENT OR FORMER ERNST & YOUNG PARTNERS FOUND GUILTY ON CRIMINAL TAX SHELTER CHARGES (8 May 2009)
4 With Ties to Ernst & Young Guilty of Tax Fraud (8 May 2009)
Deloitte to Pay $1M in Beazer Suit (8 May 2009)
The three phases of the Satyam scam (8 May 2009)
Impairments at RBS soar to £3bn (8 May 2009)
RBS profit wiped out by £4.9bn in bad debts (8 May 2009)
How Bankers Seized America through Liars' Loans and Accounting Fraud (8 May 2009)
US Judge Allows Fraud Claims Vs Banks In Adelphia Case (8 May 2009)
Adelphia trust wins round in lawsuit against banks (8 May 2009)
Off-balance-sheet items next task for standards setters (8 May 2009)
Fraud: Scam Capital of America (8 May 2009)
The IASB is little more than a trade association for international accounting firms and should be relieved of responsibility for setting international accounting standards, say UK MPs (7 May 2009)
UK MPs call for country-by-country reporting (7 May 2009)
European Ministers put pressure on IASB - accounting standards board(7 May 2009)
EU's McCreevy says accounting body clash over crisis (7 May 2009)
Poverty of Accounting: From Making Judgments to Following Rules (7 May 2009)
From Making Judgments to Following Rules: The Evolution of U.S. Accounting (7 May 2009)
California Lawmakers to scrutinize accounting firms (7 May 2009)
Satyam Fake Profits May Have Earned Chairman Raju $600 Million (7 May 2009)
Has the FASB Outlived Its Usefulness? (7 May 2009)
Investors wary of auditor liability plan (7 May 2009)
Accounting and Auditing Failures: Only Skin Deep: The Rudman Report Scratches the Surface (7 May 2009)
Fraud at Stanford Was Suspected as Early as 2002 (7 May 2009)
Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown? (7 May 2009)
US banks thought to need $55bn in capital (7 May 2009)
This banking inquiry is purely cosmetic:The pseudo-investigations into the banking crisis are being run by firms with a history of unsavoury financial arrangements (6 May 2009)
2 former American Home execs charged with hiding losses (6 May 2009)
SEC Charges Former American Home Mortgage Executives for Misleading Investors About Company's Financial Condition (6 May 2009)
Former Director of Finance for Winpak Lane, Inc. Charged with Tax Crimes (6 May 2009)
UK MPs to seek curbs on £1 bankruptcy deals (6 May 2009)
Business insolvency deals damage competitors, say MPs (6 May 2009)
House of Commons Committee Report: The Insolvency Service (6 May 2009)
'Injustice Unremedied' - another damning verdict on Equitable Life (6 May 2009)
Beazer settles investor lawsuit (6 May 2009)
Freddie Mac Pressured Over Accounting Disclosure (6 May 2009)
Freddie Gets Favorable Accounting Ruling From SEC (6 May 2009)
Insolvency: MPs to seek curbs on £1 bankruptcy deals (6 May 2009)
WellCare Agrees to Pay $80 Million to Settle Medicaid Case (6 May 2009)
Why is Country-by-Country financial reporting by Multinational Companies so important? (5 May 2009)
Diebold to pay $25 mln to settle SEC revenue probe (5 May 2009)
Major City frauds uncovered by police: Detectives and SFO reveal inquiry into big 'Ponzi' scheme and several 'mini-Madoffs' (5 May 2009)
Ex-Peregrine Systems Vice President Sentenced to 27 Months (5 May 2009)
Fraud tempts more directors of insolvent companies (5 May 2009)
FASB Offers Guidance on Fair Value of Liabilities (5 May 2009)
How We Treat Cash on the Balance Sheet (5 May 2009)
On Mark-To-Market Accounting (5 May 2009)
Bankruptcy or IVA – what's the best way to go bust? (5 May 2009)
Accountants Uncertain About IFRS Roadmap (4 May 2009)
'Satyam misused accounting software' (4 May 2009)
Legendary investor Warren Buffett has attacked the strategy of companies buying back their own shares, arguing that it almost always destroys value (4 May 2009)
US SEC opposes releasing Stanford defense funds (4 May 2009)
Fraud tempts more directors of insolvent companies (4 May 2009)
This £2bn Mandelson fiefdom is an open door to corporate predators (4 May 2009)
ENFORCEMENT OF BANK OF ENGLAND ACT 1694: Failure to control the greed, risk-taking and speculation (3 May 2009)
MISSION STATEMENT FOR ONE VOICE ACTION GROUP (3 May 2009)
UK Government ignores parlimanetary question about the country-by-country approachj to financial reporting (3 May 2009)
Insolvent Abuse: 20,721 liquidations that commenced more than 10 years ago and have not been finalised (3 May 2009)
Insolvent Abuse: 17,058 liquidations that commenced more than 15 years ago and have not been finalised (3 May 2009)
UK government has no information about credit default swaps held by UK banks (3 May 2009)
The UK Treasury does not collect or hold information about branches of UK banks in tax havens (3 May 2009)
UK government asked to levy a tax of one per cent. on all derivative products written by banks (3 May 2009)
Tax campaigners target the Big 4 (2 May 2009)
Additional $100 Million Said To Be Missing From Satyam (2 May 2009)
No more mark-to-market guidance: PCAOB (2 May 2009)
The bad-paper trail: Where are the toxic assets? (2 May 2009)
Just what is a Toxic Asset? Good question. (2 May 2009)
UK professions dominated by the wealthy; Nepotism and networking restricts access to top jobs (2 May 2009)
UK legal sector becoming more ‘socially exclusive' (2 May 2009)
The Panel on Fair Access to the Professions (2 May 2009)
Cabinet Office research paper highlighting key trends and issues on access to the Professions (2 May 2009)
US Regulators didn't challenge Freddie's accounting (1 May 2009)
Christian Aid calls for change in accountancy culture (1 May 2009)
Big Four accountancy firms will do nothing to support good accounting (1 May 2009)
Ex-Gen Re Exec Gets Jail Time, $100K Fine In AIG Fraud Case (1 May 2009)
Accounting executive sentenced in $500 million AIG scandal (1 May 2009)
FASB preps new rule on securitization accounting (1 May 2009)
FASB to Act on Off-Balance-Sheet Rule Change by June, Herz Says (1 May 2009)
Bankrupt Banks and How Asset Values Are Deteriorating (1 May 2009)
The £11m valuation of a 2kg ruby owned by Wrekin Construction company was based on a forged document (1 May 2009)
Canada's banks applaud accounting rule change (1 May 2009)
UK Bankers made 'astonishing mess' (1 May 2009)
Bankers and politicians blamed in UK Treasury report (1May 2009)
Banking Crisis: dealing with the failure of the UK banks (1 May 2009)

APRIL 2009

Where’s the room for the critics IASB? (30 Apr 2009)
FBI Looks Into Losses at Freddie (30 Apr 2009)
For Some Companies, A New Way Of Presenting 'Net Income' (30 Apr 2009)
Whitehall backs demands for 'sensitive' accounts (30 Apr 2009)
IBM: Reflating the Corporate Bubble, GE-Style (30 Apr 2009)
Fairfield Greenwich Responds To Mass. Madoff Claims (30 Apr 2009)
One fifth of companies do not have an accountancy qualified financial director (30 Apr 2009)
Button's Team oppose pkf's £300000 fees claim (30 Apr 2009)
India CA firms told to furnish overseas tie-up details (30 Apr 2009)
World Bank changes its tune on tax and regulation (29 Apr 2009)
Milan Police Seize UBS, JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank Funds (29 Apr 2009)
SEC Charges Former American Home Mortgage Executives for Misleading Investors About Company's Financial Condition (29 Apr 2009)
ICAI questions big firms' auditing practices (29 Apr 2009)
Satyam fraud methodology revealed (29 Apr 2009)
Satyam cooked books to show Rs27,000 crore (29 Apr 2009)
Criminal Authorities Focus on 3 in Investigation of AIG (29 Apr 2009)
Auditors Not Trying To Wiggle Off The Hook. Really (28 Apr 2009)
Banking Reform: Value for Value (28 Apr 2009)
IASB To Hold Off-Balance Sheet Talks (28 Apr 2009)
AADB Investigating Advisors to First Quench Pension Fund (28 Apr 2009)
Citigroup and Bank of America 'must raise billions in extra capital' (28 Apr 2009)
Ponzi vs Madoff: Stealing from the Rich (28 Apr 2009)
US IRS to Pursue Foreign Banks Assisting Tax Evasion (28 Apr 2009)
Mark to Market Accounting Still Out of Control - And Spreading to Main Street (27 Apr 2009)
Auditors plead for help amid fear of lawsuits (27 Apr 2009)
Activist investor calls for worker directors (27 Apr 2009)
Beyond the crisis: PIRC’s manifesto for corporate governance and capital market reform (27 Apr 2009)
Irish Banks May Report EU22.5 Billion of Loan Losses (27 Apr 2009)
Status of Adoption into UK GAAP of IFRIC Interpretations (27 Apr 2009)
Inequality Curse: Life expectancy, infant mortality, low birth weight and self-rated health have repeatedly been shown to be worse in more unequal societies (27 Apr 2009)
Insolvencies soar 60pc in UK retail sector (27 Apr 2009)
From the Archives: 'Global' dodge lets big accounting firms off hook (26 Apr 2009)
EU could take back IASB power (26 Apr 2009)
Lifeboat for UK building societies (26 Apr 2009)
Companies to be forced to reveal gender pay gap (26 Apr 2009)
ECB Noyer:French Banks Have Passed Stress Tests So Far (26 Apr 2009)
Corporate Governance: Boots boss splits jobs (26 Apr 2009)
German far-right NPD party leader found guilty of accounting irregularities (26 Apr 2009)
Kaupthing administrators Ernst & Young scupper yacht sales (26 Apr 2009)
A superabundance of insolvency regulators? (26 Apr 2009)
PwC auditors 'ignored' Satyam fraud for fees (25 Apr 2009)
Administrators called in at Bay Trading (25 Apr 2009)
Stanford accounts 'convoluted,' receiver says (25 Apr 2009)
US Stress-Test Accounting May Make Banks Raise Capital Levels (25 Apr 2009)
IASB rejects EU calls for immediate changes (25 Apr 2009)
Will the SEC Be Able to Stop IFRS? (25 Apr 2009)
Daikin Industries admits 'inappropriate accounting' (25 Apr 2009)
Professional indemnity: Auditors shielded from the fall-out (25 Apr 2009)
JP Morgan Chase Bank v Springwell Navigation Corporation: A shot in the arm for defendant banks - a shot across the bows for claimant investors (24 Apr 2009)
JPMorgan Chase Bank v Springwell Navigation Corporation, Part 1: A Banker's Duty to Advise (24 Apr 2009)
JPMorgan Chase Bank v Springwell Navigation Corporation, Part 2 Contractual Provisions: Their Effect on the Banker's Duty to Advise (25 Apr 2009)
APB issues a Bulletin setting out Revised Example Auditor's Reports on Financial Statements in the United Kingdom (25 Apr 2009)
SEC looking at Carlyle Group (24 Apr 2009)
Creative accounting gives bank earnings an odd look (24 Apr 2009)
Bank Profits and Other Fantastic Tales (24 Apr 2009)
Dixons contravenes transfer pricing rules (24 Apr 2009)
Alexon's Bay Trading put into administration (24 Apr 2009)
First company charged under new UK manslaughter law (24 Apr 2009)
UK Financial Bailout Reaches 1.4 Trillion Pounds (24 Apr 2009)
Association of Certified Fraud Examiners: Fraud is on the Rise (24 Apr 2009)
SEC takes aim at disclosure, accounting standards (24 Apr 2009)
Forensic Accountant: Stanford Assets "Grossly Overstated" (24 Apr 2009)
Receiver says Stanford companies were tangled mess (24 Apr 2009)
Prison for embezzling accountant (24 Apr 2009)
Auditors: Nearly 25% of Companies May Not Be Going Concerns (24 Apr 2009)
International accounting standards: only fools rush in (24 Apr 2009)
Cattles suspends shares on delayed accounts(23 Apr 2009)
Accounting Change Boosts Wells Fargo (23 Apr 2009)
Freddie Mac Acting CFO Kellermann Found Dead (23 Apr 2009)
Budget: Finance directors to be fined for tax avoidance (23 Apr 2009)
Accountants in the firing line from tax avoidance crackdown (23 Apr 2009)
Report: Fraud and deception at Satyam was deep (23 Apr 2009)
FRC Confirms its Priorities and Budget for 2009/10 (23 Apr 2009)
China Regulator: Chinese Banks Must Control Derivatives Risk (23 Apr 2009)
Morgan Stanley breaks the spell with $177m loss (23 Apr 2009)
Morgan Stanley Posts Loss, Hurt by Revenue Drop and Write-Downs (23 Apr 2009)
Budget 2009: UK Economic and Fiscal Strategy Report and Financial Statement and Budget Report (22 Apr 2009)
Accounting change costs AMR $203 million over 5 years (22 Apr 2009)
Goldman Sachs Profit Just Creative Accounting 101 (22 Apr 2009)
Goldman, Citi Accused of Accounting Tricks (22 Apr 2009)
Where were the giant accounting firms? (22 Apr 2009)
Report Details Broad Scope of Fraud at Satyam (22 Apr 2009)
IFRS to Converge with Islamic Accounting Standards (22 Apr 2009)
Demystifying Mark-To-Market (22 Apr 2009)
Madoff accountant may be in plea talks with prosecutors (22 Apr 2009)
Madoff Investors Want UK Unit Bankruptcy Moved (22 Apr 2009)
UK Bank Bailouts Will Cost 175 Billion Pounds, IMF Estimates (22 Apr 2009)
Global bank losses likely to reach $4.1 trillion, says IMF (22 Apr 2009)
Global Financial Stability Report, Banks losses could hit $4100 billion (22 Apr 2009)
Deloitte to PCAOB: Don't Second-Guess Us (22 Apr 2009)
Linklaters wins €50m negligence claim (22 Apr 2009)
Accountantscontrole moet anders' (21 Apr 2009)
Auditing must be different (21 Apr 2009)
Satyam and its Auditors Price Waterhouse: Watch The Watchmen (21 Apr 2009)
No Intellectual Leadership - Audiitng Practice Board and its useless audiitng standards (21 Apr 2009)
Weakened accounting rules undermine investor confidence (21 Apr 2009)
US Companies Seek SEC Decision On Accounting-Rules Switch (21 Apr 2009)
Goldman, Citi Accused of Accounting Tricks (21 Apr 2009)
Herz: No Convergence for 10-15 Years (21 Apr 2009)
Bank Profits Appear Out of Thin Air (21 Apr 2009)
UBS Must Transfer Madoff-Linked Funds to Liquidator (21 Apr 2009)
Whistle-blower's tip blew Satyam fraud wide open (21 Apr 2009)
Ex-insider blew the lid off Satyam scam (21 Apr 2009)
“Audit committee: Effective enough?” (21 Apr 2009)
Why Capital Structure Matters (21 Apr 2009)
Fewer auditors' warnings issued to the biggest PLCs (21 Apr 2009)
The Plot Thickens - Price Waterhouse India Plausibly Culpable (20 Apr 2009)
US CFOs on IFRS: Forget about It (20 Apr 2009)
Visteon protesters face eviction by administrators KPMG (20 Apr 2009)
Price Waterhouse auditors knowingly falsified Satyam data (20 Apr 2009)
Holding global auditors Price Waterhouse (PW) guilty of wrongdoings in the Satyam scam, the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) has informed the government that the bookkeepers were involved in the falsification of accounts (20 Apr 2009)
Satyam diverted foreign earnings (20 Apr 2009)
US Supreme Court rejects Ernst and Young appeal over $45 million award (20 Apr 2009)
The Accounting Games Go On (20 Apr 2009)
Let’s get real – accountants are to blame for poverty (19 Apr 2009)
Google avoids £100m UK tax (19 Apr 2009)
Did Stanford Keep Two Sets of Books? (19 Apr 2009)
Equitable Life savers launch legal campaign (19 Apr 2009)
Fat Cats: How can a mutual boss earn £8m from share options? (19 Apr 2009)
Madoff Trustee Sues to Recover $255 Million From Kingate Funds (19 Apr 2009)
Madoff-related lawsuits become more common (19 Apr 2009)
MFS Investment auditors KPMG sued for $1bn (18 Apr 2009)
Order extends US probe of accountant in Madoff case (18 Apr 2009)
Citi's $1.6 billion profit based on $2.5 billion accounting trick (18 Apr 2009)
Madoff accountant may be in plea talks with prosecutors (18 Apr 2009)
Whistle-blower's tip blew Satyam fraud wide open (18 Apr 2009)
Securities litigation on the rise (18 Apr 2009)
Insolvency: Up to 35,000 firms could go bust this year, and each bankruptcy is a tale of personal misery and human hardship (18 Apr 2009)
Big banks benefit from accounting sleight of hand (17 Apr 2009)
Europe Is No Model for Our Banks (17 Apr 2009)
Big banks' fuzzy math (17 Apr 2009)
Visteon workers reject “derisory” redundancy offer (17 Apr 2009)
IASB amends a range of standards (17 Apr 2009)
Bank of Ireland exposed in US $29.5bn bankruptcy (17 Apr 2009)
General Growth amassed $27 billion in debt (17 Apr 2009)
Former Arnold & Porter Partner Disbarred In Ernst & Young Tax Shelter Case (17 Apr 2009)
Survey: end gender pay divide in accountancy (16 Apr 2009)
Wells Fargo's Profit Looks Too Good to Be True (16 Apr 2009)
Derivatives: Gambling at Public Expense (16 Apr 2009)
Ruling clears PwC in Portus lawsuit (16 Apr 2009)
Why there is a shortage of senior black leaders in the UK accountancy profession (16 Apr 2009)
Nigeria Sets Up Halliburton Bribery Panel (16 Apr 2009)
Stanford investors 'may lose everything' (16 Apr 2009)
Bernard Madoff's Lawyer (16 Apr 2009)
CRISIS IN THE HEARTLAND: Consequences of the New Wall Street System (16 Apr 2009)
Capitalism Beyond the Crisis (16 Apr 2009)
FINANCIAL REGIME CHANGE? (16 Apr 2009)
It's time for a sustainable budget: To have any hope of saving the economy, Alistair Darling's budget must improve the unfair distribution of income and wealth (15 Apr 2009)
The ICAEW on tax havens (15 Apr 2009)
Deconstructing Francesca, Mike and the ICAEW (15 Apr 2009)
Insolvent Abuse: PwC billed £77,233,373 for 234,578 hours of work, an average hourly rate of £329 (15 Apr 2009)
Lehman ‘sausage machine’ processor at work (15 Apr 2009)
Linklaters racks up £33m on Lehman bankruptcy (15 Apr 2009)
The Lehman Legal Bill: $84 Million and Counting (15 Apr 2009)
£14.8m spent on MG Rover inquiry (15 Apr 2009)
Samsung Accused of 'Big Bath Accounting' (15 Apr 2009)
Tiscali auditors refuse to sign-off on accounts (15 Apr 2009)
Ex Tyco Execs Kozlowski,Swartz Appeal To US Supreme Court (15 Apr 2009)
Accounting fraud is the worst type of fraud (14 Apr 2009)
Ponzi schemes flourish with vulnerable victims, underfunded watchdogs (14 Apr 2009)
PCAOB Explores Ways To Bolster Audit Confirmation Standards (14 Mar 2009)
5 Lessons From Goldman's Earnings Surprise (14 Apr 2009)
SFO sets up whistleblowers' helpline to beat City fraudsters (14 Apr 2009)
Audit reveals huge fraud in Tajikistan (14 Apr 2009)
Casualties of bad Regulation (13 Apr 2009)
Time to CHANGE – a message to the Big 4 (13 Apr 2009)
ICAEW peddles its usual anti-social practices: Crackdown on havens may cost too much (13 Apr 2009)
As usual no thought leadership at the ICAEW - Deconstructing Frank (13 Apr 2009)
The Lessons of the Savings-and-Loan Crisis (13 Apr 2009)
Enron lobbied heavily for, and made highly creative use of, mark-to-market accounting (13 Apr 2009)
AIG in spotlight over derivatives (13 Apr 2009)
FSA monitors Cattles after discovery of £700m black hole (12 Apr 2009)
HSBC faces crisis over US credit cards (12 Apr 2009)
HSBC May Sell London Headquarters, Buildings in New York, Paris (12 Apr 2009)
Madoff liquidator sues investor for $150m (12 Apr 2009)
Madoff funds ‘netted $790m’ (12 Apr 2009)
Financial Services Authority to investigate bankers' failures (12 Apr 2009)
Two Satyam Auditors Are Denied Bail (12 Apr 2009)
Accountants now make the calls at BT (12 Apr 2009)
Sir Bob Geldof's company to launch Accountants TV (12 Apr 2009)
Can the pirate fat cats be winkled out of their safe havens? (11 Apr 2009)
Wells Fargo's Peppy Profit Projections Belie Balance-Sheet Dangers (11 Apr 2009)
Fraud - How the West Was Lost (11 Apr 2009)
Madoff Judge Refuses to Block Investor Forced-Bankruptcy Filing (11 Apr 2009)
Personal Bankruptcy for Madoff More Likely (11 Apr 2009)
European Bank Bailout Total: $4 Trillion (11 Apr 2009)
FASB Fixes a Costly Iatrogenic Accounting Problem (10 Apr 2009)
Madoff victims seek assets of those who helped him (10 Apr 2009)
The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS): Implications for regulation of financial services in the United States (10 Apr 2009)
FASB Watch: Who Should Make the Economic Calls? (10 Apr 2009)
Ponzi schemes flourish with vulnerable victims, underfunded watchdogs (10 Apr 2009)
Japan's Softbank faces $748 mln derivatives loss (10 Apr 2009)
UK MPs look at possibility of breaking up the banks (10 Apr 2009)
What next for tax havens? Country by Country Reporting (9 Apr 2009)
Calling on professionals who want change (9 Apr 2009)
PwC India Auditors Charged in Satyam Case (9 Apr 2009)
Canada’s Banks Want US-Style Accounting Reforms (9 Apr 2009)
Blockbuster's Auditors Raise Doubt About Firm (9 Apr 2009)
2 ex-CSK Auto execs indicted on fraud charges (9 Apr 2009)
Senior Executives of Auto Parts Retailer CSK Auto Corp Charged with Scheme to Manipulate Corporate Earnings (9 Apr 2009)
Intel accused of massive tax evasion (9 Apr 2009)
Ex-Deloitte exec loses bid to dismiss trading case (9 Apr 2009)
Companies with large off-balance sheet exposure didn't appreciate the full magnitude of the economic risks they were exposed to (8 Apr 2009)
Satyam founder faces life imprisonment (8 Apr 2009)
India Charges 9 After Inquiry of Outsourcing Company Satyam (8 Apr 2009)
PwC partners charged over Satyam (8 Apr 2009)
IASB commits to G-20 proposals (8 Apr 2009)
PCAOB Plans International Inspections (8 Apr 2009)
Ex-Qwest CEO Nacchio ordered to prison April 14 (8 Apr 2009)
AIG payments to banks to be probed (8 Apr 2009)
New accounting rules will stall US economic recovery — Soros (8 Apr 2009)
Zuckerman Sues Merkin Over $40 Million Madoff Loss (8 Apr 2009)
Madoff Scandal Casts Light on Investment Advisers (8 Apr 2009)
Effect On Banks Of FASB Rule Change Is Subtle, Belaying Hype (8 Apr 2009)
SEC is floating options to limit short sales (8 Apr 2009)
Release of Report on Abuse of Charities for Money-Laundering and Tax Evasion (8 Apr 2009)
REPORT ON ABUSE OF CHARITIES FOR MONEY-LAUNDERING AND TAX EVASION (8 Apr 2009)
Banks and accounting standards (8 Apr 2009)
BDO Partner Charged with Tax Crimes (7 Apr 2009)
BDO Seidman partner faces tax evasion charges (7 Apr 2009)
Fannie Mae and KPMG Spar Over Attorney-Client Privilege (7 Apr 2009)
G-20: Financial system needs better accounting standards (7 Apr 2009)
Brussels yet to sign key accounting pact (7 Apr 2009)
UK Has Most Profit Warnings Since 2001 (7 Apr 2009)
Toxic debts could reach $4 trillion, IMF to warn (7 Apr 2009)
Satyam made auditors "comfortable", says ICAI (7 Apr 2009)
Satyam: ‘No clean chit to PW auditors’ (7 Apr 2009)
Satyam Officers Had Help in Fraud, Investigators Told (7 Apr 2009)
More Staff Arrested at Satyam (7 Apr 2009)
It was more than greed and incompetence that brought down the U.S. financial sector and plunged the economy in recession — it was fraud (7 Apr 2009)
Corruption: Former Bristol-Myers Squibb Senior Executive Pleads Guilty for Role in Dishonest Dealings with the Federal Government (7 Apr 2009)
New York art dealer accused of being Bernard Madoff's middleman (7 Apr 2009)
Regulators Eye "Going Concern" Concerns (7 Apr 2009)
Sibir begins proceedings against ex-directors (7 Apr 2009)
Accountants most likely to have an affair (7 Apr 2009)
Madoff victims turn spotlight on pwc auditing role (6 Apr 2009)
Accounting Rule Change Lets Banks Reinvent the Past (6 Apr 2009)
Banks Get New Leeway in Valuing Their Assets (6 Apr 2009)
FSA wins case to ban former chief executive of Gen Re business unit (6 Apr 2009)
Ex CEO banned for ‘misleading auditors’ (6 Apr 2009)
Satyam Ex-CFO Says PWC Auditors Innocent: Accounting Body (6 Apr 2009)
Rajus gave fake papers to Satyam auditors: Ex-CFO to ICAI (6 Apr 2009)
The trouble with tax tricks: Companies' tax avoidance schemes inflate profits and distort the market – those responsible must be made to come clean (5 Apr 2009)
Conflict of Interests: UK'S RBS eyes veteran accountant for audit role (5 Apr 2009)
EU Ministers Say Accounting Convergence With US Is ‘Critical’ (5 Apr 2009)
Satyam gave fake papers to auditors(5 Apr 2009)
Bankrupt Britain: 340 people go bust every day (5 Apr 2009)
Insolvencies to soar with quickie rules (5 Apr 2009)
How celebrity chef cooked up financial mess (5 Apr 2009)
KPMG Has A $1 Billion New Century Problem (4 Apr 2009)
The usual mafia controls UK accounting policymaking: FRC Chair announces appointments to the AADB, APB and POB (4 Apr 2009)
Accountancy rules 'are not policy instruments' (4 Apr 2009)
THE LIMITATIONS OF ACCOUNTING MODELS AND THEIR IMPACT ON DECISIONS (4 Apr 2009)
The Tale of Political Influence in Changing Accounting Rules (4 Apr 2009)
UK MPs blame 'impotent' FSA over Icelandic banks (4 Apr 2009)
Banking Crisis: The impact of the failure of the Icelandic banks (4 Apr 2009)
Under New Accounting Rule, Toxic Assets May Be Revalued (3 Apr 2009)
New Accounting Rules Could Eliminate Operating Leases (3 Apr 2009)
Madoff’s Secret: Keep Mum When Asked About Methods (3 Apr 2009)
Partner at Major International Accounting Firm Charged with Tax Crimes (3 Apr 2009)
Former Gen Re CFO sentenced to 18 months in prison (3 Apr 2009)
EU seeks to match US by revaluing toxic assets under mark-to-market accounting (3 Apr 2009)
Herald Fund Sues HSBC Over Madoff Losses, $2 Billion (3 Apr 2009)
FASB Caves, US Adopts Japan Bank Accounting Standards (3 Apr 2009)
The Market Celebrates Pro-Bank-Fraud Measure (3 Apr 2009)
£80m buy-to-let fraudster John Potts jailed (3 Apr 2009)
Administrators call for insolvency rule shake-up (3 Apr 2009)
Insolvency: No one is safe as administrations rise (3 Apr 2009)
“Going Concern” Opinions - How Many? How Many More? (2 Apr 2009)
New Century Fincl Trustee Sues KPMG Over Audits (2 Apr 2009)
KPMG hit with $1bn US lawsuit over audits (2 Apr 2009)
KPMG sued for ‘negligent’ auditing (2 Apr 2009)
KPMG sued for $1bn over New Century collapse (2 Apr 2009)
KPMG faces $1bn suit over sub-prime lender New Century (2 Apr 2009)
New Century liquidators sue KPMG for $1bn (2 Apr 2009)
2 Ex-KPMG Managers Sentenced Over Tax Shelters (2 Apr 2009)
Ex-KPMG Partner, Ex-KPMG Tax Manager, Lawyer Sentenced To Prison (2 Apr 2009)
3 sentencings in massive KPMG tax fraud case (2 Apr 2009)
US Said to Start UBS Tax Fraud Cases (2 Apr 2009)
Auditors Get Deserved Blame for Weakness in Bank Reserves (2 Apr 2009)
Cattles adds £850m to bad loans book (2 Apr 2009)
Sub-prime lender Cattles faces £850m write-down in risk management scandal (2 Apr 2009)
Madoff's Florida mansion, yacht seized by marshals (2 Apr 2009)
Madoff-Linked Funds Are Dissolved by Luxembourg Court (2 Apr 2009)
Geneva Whispers About New Money From Mumbai Amid Madoff Scandal (2 Apr 2009)
Regulator accuses 'feeder' fund of turning blind eye over Madoff (2 Apr 2009)
Fairfield Greenwich Fund charged over $7bn pumped into Madoff empire (2 Apr 2009)
A Guide to Hiding Toxic Assets (2 Apr 2009)
G20 communique in full (2 Apr 2009)
Winterflood fined £4m for market abuse (2 Apr 2009)
Another Big Four firm in Ireland cuts pay (2 Apr 2009)
FASB poised to give firms leeway in valuing assets (2 Apr 2009)
Total, Michelin and Adidas – caught up in the Liechtenstein tax scandal (1 Apr 2009)
Global banks may shrink balance sheet by $2 trillion more (1 Apr 2009)
Cattles in new warning on £850m charge (1 Apr 2009)
Cattles warns of £700m debt hit (1 Apr 2009)
Cattles Provisions May Be 700 Million Pounds More Than Forecast (1 Apr 2009)
Banks Are Set to Receive More Leeway on Asset Values (1 Apr 2009)
Banks Demand Perfume for Rotting Balance Sheets (1 Apr 2009)
Stanford asks court to release seized assets, cash (1 Apr 2009)
Stanford denies wrongdoing, wants money for lawyer (1 Apr 2009)
Deutsche Bahn CEO’s Exit Harks Back to Hewlett-Packard Scandal (1 Apr 2009)
Executive Summary: How Wall Street and Washington Betrayed America (1 Apr 2009)
Sold Out: How Wall Street and Washington Betrayed America - 231 page report (1 Apr 2009)

MAR 2009

“Accountancy firms are part of the problem and should be removed from audit role” (31 Mar 2009)
PwC India Struggles to Overcome Satyam Scandal (31 Mar 2009)
‘Major audit’ threshold drops to £50m: AIU focuses on going concern and disclosures (31 Mar 2009)
Mark-to-Market Lobby Buoys Bank Profits 20% as FASB May Say Yes (31 Mar 2009)
Guessing the Costs of IFRS Conversion (31 Mar 2009)
KPMG appointed administrators of Visteon UK (31 Mar 2009)
Visteon financial statement filed in the US (31 Mar 2009)
Car parts maker Visteon puts UK arm in administration with KPMG (31 Mar 2009)
GSI Group discovers more accounting errors (31 Mar 2009)
US accounting board signals overhaul of fair-value rules (31 Mar 2009)
Bradford & Bingley’s loan write-offs soar as borrowers struggle (31 Mar 2009)
AADB takes no action against Townsleys (30 Mar 2009)
Emerging Business Trust - Outcome of the Investigation (30 Mar 2009)
Madoff’s accountant: When is an auditor not an auditor? (30 Mar 2009)
UK Auditor’s report rules revised (30 Mar 2009)
APB Issues a revision of ISA (UK and Ireland) 700 'The Auditor's Report on financial statements' (30 Mar 2009)
The Professional Oversight Board announces the scope of the Audit Inspection Unit's work for 2009/10 (30 Mar 2009)
Corporate Governance Lessons from the Financial Crisis (30 Mar 2009)
Nationwide's Dunfermline rescue costs taxpayers £1.6bn (30 Mar 2009)
Ernst & Young: tax haven apologist (29 Mar 2009)
Are the insolvency laws at fault in relation to the fraudulent activities of ‘Lord’ Hugh Rodley? (29 Mar 2009)
Ex-boss at JJB in expenses probe (29 Mar 2009)
Financial crisis: Will lawyers and accountants pay the price? (29 Mar 2009)
Two million corporations and limited liability companies are formed every year in the US with no one knowing who the beneficial owners are (29 Mar 2009)
Ombudsman takes AIM; E&Y/SGV take heat (29 Mar 2009)
Madoff victims sue HSBC in US (29 Mar 2009)
Madoff UK offices in fraud probe (29 Mar 2009)
It's time to explode the myth of the shareholder (29 Mar 2009)
The cost of the US bank bailout reaches $11.6 trillion (29 Mar 2009)
The subsidy to hedge funds (28 Mar 2009)
False Profits: Christian Aid nails the charges to the door (28 Mar 2009)
Accounting relief hope may limit toxic asset sales (28 Mar 2009)
Serious Fraud Office broadens investigation to Madoff feeders (28 Mar 2009)
Putting A Price Tag On FAS 157 (28 Mar 2009)
Getinge Shares Drop After Finding Accounting Irregularities (28 Mar 2009)
US Banks Lost $9.2B In Cash, Derivative Trades In 4Q (28 Mar 2009)
Accounting Rule Change May Block Capital for Credit-Card Issuers (28 Mar 2009)
SEC Halts $68 Million Ponzi Scheme Involving Caribbean-Based Bank and Swiss Affiliate (28 Mar 2009)
Wikileaks congratulated in UK parliament for publishing Barclays tax avoidance documents (27 Mar 2009)
UK government urged not to provide any loans, guarantees and financial support to Barclays and suspend its deposit-taking licence until it cleans up its affairs (27 Mar 2009)
x-KPMG Official Deserves Up to 24 Years, US Says (27 Mar 2009)
Evening Reading: Pay Attention to Those Off-Balance-Sheet Vehicles (27 Mar 2009)
Digging Common Ground on Bank Accounting (27 Mar 2009)
Toxic assets and bank accounting: Elusive search for harmony (27 Mar 2009)
US banks pull out of $11bn Barclays tax avoidance partnerships (27 Mar 2009)
As Oversight Plan Is Unveiled, Turf Battle Begins to Unfold (27 Mar 2009)
Botox Earnings Put Crooked E in Stock Market P/E (27 Mar 2009)
DOJ Seeking Sentences Of Up To 24 Yrs For Ex-KPMG Execs (26 Mar 2009)
Ernst & Young Settles HealthSouth Case for $109M (26 Mar 2009)
New Mexico funds settle Ernst & Young class-action suit (26 Mar 2009)
FBI swamped by financial fraud cases (26 Mar 2009)
Insolvency: Value of companies in administration hits £8bn (26 Mar 2009)
Accountancy watchdog seeks to widen inquiry into Anglo Irish (26 Mar 2009)
Livent looks like our WorldCom (26 Mar 2009)
City police raid homes in £56m alleged fraud on AIB (26 Mar 2009)
2 ex-Broadway producers guilty of accounting fraud (26 Mar 2009)
Levitt: Proposed Accounting Changes Will ‘Obscure’ Impairments (26 Mar 2009)
BearingPoint to Divest Key Ops to Big Four Firms (26 Mar 2009)
Regulation of City law firms 'not fit for purpose' (26 Mar 2009)
The brand new fridge freezers that cost 18p each… and other ways to avoid tax (26 Mar 2009)
'British FBI' working with US to investigate Madoff (25 Mar 2009)
Turner's P&L proposal spooks audit experts (25 Mar 2009)
Madoff auditor charged (25 Mar 2009)
Putting a price on toxic assets could cost public finances (25 Mar 2009)
US financial firms want more on mark-to-market (25 Mar 2009)
Weakening A Market Watchdog (25 Mar 2009)
Accounting standards convergence update: IFRS 8 (25 Mar 2009)
Tell the IASB what you think (24 Mar 2009)
Turn, Turn, Turn - Turner Does About Face re: The Auditors (24 Mar 2009)
We Need Honest Accounting (24 Mar 2009)
Indictment of Bernard Madoff's accountant could signal further liability for auditors (24 Mar 2009)
French FinMin: global approach on regulation needed (24 Mar 2009)
Bernanke: Modified rules on capital, accounting might be needed (24 Mar 2009)
The SEC Asks for Help in Apprehending the Bad Guys (24 Mar 2009)
Fannie Mae Takeover Confuses a Class Action (24 Mar 2009)
Court of Appeal Rejects Shareholders’ Suit Over Fraud at Peregrine (24 Mar 2009)
High court justices skeptical on Enron exec (24 Mar 2009)
Walden cries "Wolf!" Too little, too late (24 Mar 2009)
Barclays Bank has had dealings with one of the world's most corrupt regimes (24 Mar 2009)
Accountants’ Liability (24 Mar 2009)
Signet braced for fallout from Weavering collapse (23 Mar 2009)
UK's Weavering liquidates fund following probe (23 Mar 2009)
Derivative Trade Sinks Weavering (23 Mar 2009)
Weavering accounts short on disclosure (23 Mar 2009)
Weavering accounts disclosure mystery (23 Mar 2009)
Our cut-price audits are the real liability (23 Mar 2009)
SEC seeks records on Insight accounting (23 Mar 2009)
Ernst & Young, UBS Sued over Madoff Feeder Fund (23 Mar 2009)
Dunfermline Building Society to get £60m bailout package (23 Mar 2009)
'Mark to market' rule no asset to banks' health (23 Mar 2009)
RBS faces £500m loss on Cattles (23 Mar 2009)
Brown ‘may be planning Dunfermline bailout' (23 Mar 2009)
US Treasury Unveils Details of Plan to Relieve Banks of Toxic Assets (23 Mar 2009)
US Treasury Unveils Details of Plan to Relieve Banks of Toxic Assets (23 Mar 2009)
US Treasury Announces $1 Trillion Toxic-Debt Plan (23 Mar 2009)
Q&A: US bank rescue plan (23 Mar 2009)
UK Liquidations reach 16-year high (23 Mar 2009)
Top-class graduates struggle for jobs as they spurn stricken banks (22 Mar 2009)
The banker, his socialite wife and the billion pound tax question (22 Mar 2009)
Chips down for casino banks (22 Mar 2009)
PricewaterhouseCoopers Case Is A Game Changer (21 Mar 2009)
Ireland Department of Health employs one accountant (21 Mar 2009)
FBI Ramps Up Probes of Financial, Mortgage Fraud (21 Mar 2009)
Barclays secret memos make interesting reading (21 Mar 2009)
Alliance & Leicester dives £1.3bn into red as bad debts soar (21 Mar 2009)
Naked Short Sales Hint Fraud in Bringing Down Lehman (21 Mar 2009)
Weavering Capital (audited by Ernst & Young) collapses over derivatives position (20 Mar 2009)
Weavering to Liquidate Largest Fund Amid Swap Probe (20 Mar 2009)
Fraud investigators eye Weavering Capital probe (20 Mar 2009)
New whistleblower claims over £1bn Barclays tax deals (20 Mar 2009)
The seven secret Barclays tax documents we have been barred from publishing – and what an expert told the court they mean (20 Mar 2009)
The Documents that Barclays Does not want you to Read (20 Mar 2009)
AIG Hid Risky Bets From Auditors, So Why Pay Bonuses? (20 Mar 2009)
US regulators cracking down on financial fraud (20 Mar 2009)
SFO puts accountants on notice (20 Mar 2009)
Govt paid £13m in failed Northern Rock bid costs (20 Mar 2009)
Slaughter and May earns £9.4m on Northern Rock (20 Mar 2009)
Gordon Brown defends rescue of Northern Rock after NAO report (20 Mar 2009)
Northern Rock lent £1.8billion in risky mortgages after Government bailout (20 Mar 2009)
NAO Report: The nationalisation of Northern Rock (20 Mar 2009)
COMPLIANCE WATCH:Madoff Auditor Evaded Honor System (20 Mar 2009)
Boards Try to Reconcile Lease Accounting Standards (20 Mar 2009)
FASB Impairment Changes Could Boost Banks' Profits (20 Mar 2009)
Adrian Dicker, a United Kingdom chartered accountant and former vice chairman and board member of BDO Seidman pleaded guilty to defraud the United States in connection with tax shelter transactions (19 Mar 2009)
Ponzi Scheme Victims All Missed an Easy Clue: Bogus Auditors (19 Mar 2009)
Accounting Brothel Opens Doors for Banker Fiesta (19 Mar 2009)
First Communications shares suspended amid accounting irregularities (19 Mar 2009)
India Accountants Body Sends Notice to Satyam Auditors (19 Mar 2009)
Bernard Madoff's auditor charged with fraud over 17 years (19 May 2009)
US Federal appeals court hears Madoff jail argument (29 Mar 2009)
ASB Constituents back economic cycle reserving (19 Mar 2009)
Accountants face court over laundering charge (19 Mar 2009)
Barclays hit with multi-million investor lawsuit (19 Mar 2009)
Ex-BDO Seidman Exec Guilty of Tax Evasion (18 Mar 2009)
Former BDO Partner Pleads Guilty in Tax Shelter Scam (18 Mar 2009)
Madoff accountant on fraud charge (18 Mar 2009)
Madoff May Have Net Worth of Zero, Not $826 Million as Claimed (18 Mar 2009)
FSA chief opens debate on accounting for banks (18 Mar 2009)
The FSA publishes "The Turner Review": a wide-ranging review of global banking regulation (18 Mar 2009)
The Turner Review: A regulatory response to the global banking crisis (18 Mar 2009)
Reforming remuneration practices in financial services (18 Mar 2009)
Distancing regulator from regulated: A public debate on effective regulation is long overdue, and would put an end to the constant pandering to private interests (17 Mar 2009)
Bank regulation will not happen whilst we have tax havens (17 Mar 2009)
Summing Up US Accounting Hearings (17 Mar 2009)
Backing Off On Mark-To-Market (17 Mar 2009)
GE: Worst Case Scenario Ain't So Bad (17 Mar 2009)
Shell investigated by SEC over bribery claims (17 Mar 2009)
Revenue investigates Barclays tax mole claims (17 Mar 2009)
Barclays Tax Avoidance: The secret documents (17 Mar 2009)
Barclays Tax Avoidance: Whistleblower's words (17 Mar 2009)
Fear, revenge and ingenious tax deals – life on the top floor at Barclays (17 Mar 2009)
US seeks $100m of Madoff assets (17 Mar 2009)
Luxembourg seeks out of court solution on Madoff (17 Mar 2009)
Poachers and Gamekeepers: Looking Out For Me, Myself, And I (16 Mar 2009)
FASB Moves Toward Giving Banks More Flexibility on Fair-Value (16 Mar 2009)
Lloyds shareholders form action group (16 Mar 2009)
Is a Nortel Breakup Nearing? (16 Mar 2009)
The 10 greatest conmen of all time (16 Mar 2009)
Babcock & Brown Appoints Deloitte as Administrator (16 Mar 2009)
US seeks to seize assets of Madoff and wife (16 Mar 2009)
The pandering of successive governments to financial institutions has left a gaping hole in our capacity to create wealth (16 Mar 2009)
Comverse Backdating Suit Raises Auditor Liability Questions (16 Mar 2009)
Fat Cats: Fury as AIG pays $450m to staff who nearly broke firm (16 Mar 2009)
The lunatics controlling the asylum" of financial self-regulation by the FSA and the ICAEW (15 Mar 2009)
Create effective regulation, redress, compensation and punishment of the banking industries (15 Mar 2009)
Accounting Rule Changes Creating False Rally in Financials (15 Mar 2009)
Chapter closes as reality settles in on Krispy Kreme (15 Mar 2009)
Barclays tax dodge ‘nets £1bn a year ’ (15 Mar 2009)
Barclays at war with Treasury over insurance for toxic debt (15 Mar 2009)
Prosecutors target assets of Madoff's wife (15 Mar 2009)
RBS – where was the tax dodging in the accounts? (14 Mar 2009)
SEC Charges Quest Software and Three Executives for Stock Option Backdating (14 Mar 2009)
Madoff's lawyers want him freed pending sentencing (14 Mar 2009)
Babcock & Brown goes into administration (14 Mar 2009)
FASB Head: Mark-To-Market Relaxation Within Three Weeks (14 Mar 2009)
SEC files complaint against former CSK Auto execs (14 Mar 2009)
Recessions expose financial scandals (14 Mar 2009)
ABI calls for review of directors' roles (14 Mar 2009)
Madoff appeals for bail and reveals wife's huge fortune (14 Mar 2009)
Bernard Madoff’s $830m 'lavish lifestyle’ revealed (14 Mar 2009)
Royal Bank of Scotland avoided £500m in tax (13 Mar 2009)
The Problem? Bankers Point to the Accounting Rules (13 Mar 2009)
Putnam CEO: Allow some firms to go under (13 Mar 2009)
Economic Games of Misdirection and Sleight of Hand (13 Mar 2009)
US: Madoff Used London Office In Fraud (13 Mar 2009)
Huge frauds blamed on London's light-touch regime (13 Mar 2009)
I knew it was criminal fraud and I’m sorry, says Bernard Madoff (13 Mar 2009)
London's light touch regime of regulation appears to have attracted the cowboys, gangsters and swindlers (13 Mar 2009)
Madoff says felt compelled to deliver "at any cost" (13 Mar 2009)
Mayfair office was 'ground zero' of AIG credit crunch (13 Mar 2009)
Madoff: One Wall Street swindler down, many more to go (13 Mar 2009)
Madoff swaps penthouse apartment for solitary cell (13 Mar 2009)
Madoff: High-flying fundraisers who saw nothing wrong (13 Mar 2009)
We need people-centred banks: Billions of pounds of taxpayers' money are being used to save the banks, but the public is seeing little return (12 Mar 2009)
Audit Integrity Says, “I Dare You…” - Who Audits The 300 Worst Companies? (12 Mar 2009)
Association of British Insurers will oppose auditors’ plans to push for statutory limits on their liability (12 Mar 2009)
Bernard Madoff has pleaded guilty to all 11 charges surrounding a $50bn fraud (12 Mar 2009)
Investigation Into Madoff Fraud Turns to a Small Circle of Accountants (12 Mar 2009)
Madoff inquiry looks at accounting firms (12 Mar 2009)
Sir Allen Stanford refuses to testify in fraud probe (12 Mar 2009)
IASB clarifies embedded derivatives (12 Mar 2009)
US nears mark-to-market accounting guidance (12 Mar 2009)
Changing accounting norms have worsened crisis: Bernanke (12 Mar 2009)
Is there a viable alternative to fair-value accounting? (12 Mar 2009)
Prosecutors Brought AIG To Its Knees (12 Mar 2009)
Conflict of Interests: Hammonds lawyer accused of taking 'secret payments' (12 Mar 2009)
Isle of Man link to Antigua corruption inquiry (11 Mar 2009)
Football Club directors 'took secret fees' (11 Mar 2009)
The world needs a UK deal to limit auditor liability (11 Mar 2009)
Know losses before bank nationalization (10 Mar 2009)
PricewaterhouseCoopers has been fined by ICAEW's Audit Registration Committee for breaching audit regulation - errrrr it's £750 (10 Mar 2009)
Crisis at Cattles deepens as three more directors suspended (10 Mar 2009)
Cattles suspends three more directors in probe (10 Mar 2009)
Accountants face court over laundering charge (10 Mar 2009)
Deloitte receives pay rise as RBS auditor (10 Mar 2009)
Bernanke Says Financial Rules Need an Overhaul (10 mar 2009)
Bernanke Urges Accounting Rules Overhaul to Stem Risk Build-Ups (10 Mar 2009)
Citibank has only $241 billion in U.S. deposits but the larger holding company has $1.797 trillion in liabilities (10 Mar 2009)
Global Financial Assets Lost $50 Trillion Last Year (10 Mar 2009)
Indians gets tougher on auditing norms (10 Mar 2009)
Scotland fringe meeting at the Scottish Labour Party Conference (9 Mar 2009)
Private equity feels the pain as investment values fade (9 Mar 2009)
Deloitte criticised by Royal Court as administrators of Woolworths in Jersey (9Mar 2009)
New insurance accounting rules are confusing, says Axa (9 Mar 2009)
Madoff piggy bank that won't give your money back (9 Mar 2009)
The clueless and useless APB issues a Consultation Paper and Exposure Draft of Amendments to Ethical Standards for Auditors (9 Mar 2009)
Madoff expected to plead guilty to fraud (9 Mar 2009)
Multiple auditors may make entry in India Inc books (9 Mar 2009)
FSA launches investigation into Resolution (9 Mar 2009)
Resolution founder Clive Cowdery investigated by FSA (9 Mar 2009)
Barclays could be facing a £13billion hit from the impending torrent of corporate debt defaults (9 Mar 2009)
GM Gets Defensive On Blog Over Viability Doubts (9 Mar 2009)
Governments for Sale: $5 Billion in Lobbying for 12 Corrupt Deals Caused the Multi-Trillion Dollar Financial Meltdown (9 Mar 2009)
Brits looking for possible Madoff money laundering (9 Mar 2009)
Accounting overwhelmingly male profession (8 Mar 2009)
Life insurers' £137bn debt pile revealed (8 Mar 2009)
Lloyds chiefs fight for survival as bank bailed out for £260bn (8 Mar 2009)
Bailed-out bank executives claim non-dom tax breaks (8 Mar 2009)
From the Archives: It couldn't happen here? Don't bank on it (8 Mar 2009)
Vince Cable: Unmask all big earners (8 Mar 2009)
The Economic Crisis, Capitalist Causes/Socialist Solutions"
Limiting auditor liability (8 Mar 2009)
Regulatory Reform Sought In Wake of Fraud Cases (7 Mar 2009)
Merrill Lynch examines irregular accounts in UK business (7 Mar 2009)
Enron Investors’ Lawsuit Thrown Out of Court (7 Mar 2009)
Hedge fund hotel yields up secrets (7 Mar 2009)
The Story of Deep Capture (7 Mar 2009)
Britain tops bank bail-outs with nearly 20% of GDP, report finds (7 Mar 2009)
The Size of the Fiscal Expansion: An Analysis for the Largest Countries, IMF Paper (7 Mar 2009)
US Congress Proposes New Accounting Overseer (6 Mar 2009)
GM's 'going concern' opinion does not mean much (6 Mar 2009)
Auditors Raise Doubts About GM’s Viability (6 Mar 2009)
Pension plans play accounting games with numbers (6 Mar 2009)
US House bill would create panel to OK accounting rules (6 Mar 2009)
Insurers fall further as accounting row emerges over MCEV (6 Mar 2009)
City fraudster spent millions on life in the fast lane (6 Mar 2009)
Madoff investors find accounts offer no protection (6 Mar 2009)
The Madoff Case: A Timeline (6 Mar 2009)
IASB must deal with stakeholders more effectively (6 Mar 2009)
Insolvency: Call to reform pre-packs to save more businesses (6 Mar 2009)
Leeds, Jersey and KPMG (5 Mar 2009)
US Congress to examine mark-to-market accounting (5 Mar 2009)
Former SEC Chief Accountant Blames FASB for Meltdown (5 Mar 2009)
Comverse Backdating Suit Raises Auditor Liability Questions (5 Mar 2009)
Private equity writedowns hit, more expected (5 Mar 2009)
Sold Out: How Wall Street and Washington Betrayed America (5 Mar 2009)
SEC, Krispy Kreme settle spat over dough (5 Mar 2009)
IASB's mark-to-market rules come closer to US rules (5 Mar 2009)
Krispy Kreme, former executives settle SEC inquiry (5 Mar 2009)
Judge Rejects Bid To Dismiss AIG Claim In Starr Case (5 Mar 2009)
Who Oversees Offshored Audit Work? (5 Mar 2009)
Ex-Gen Re executive gets 1 year in prison (5 Mar 2009)
UK study suggests bias against male accounting candidates (4 Mar 2009)
Figuring it out: Good financial reporting is the objective (4 Mar 2009)
Mark-to-Market Mayhem: Don't Count on FAS 157 for Clarity (4 Mar 2009)
Ex-Gen Re executive to be sentenced for fraud (4 Mar 2009)
Cattles falls 40pc as key executives suspended (4 Mar 2009)
US Authorities Probe Syntax-Brillian for Missing Millions (4 Mar 2009)
Madoff revealed as 'cold-hearted control freak' (4 Mar 2009)
SEC Charges Sunwest Management Inc Operators of Multi-Billion Dollar Real Estate Enterprise With Fraud (4 Mar 2009)
Auditors Self-audit: PCAOB Revises Plan (4 Mar 2009)
Meltdown 101: 'Goodwill' during bad recession (4 Mar 2009)
Madoff clients' lawsuits look to others for recompense (4 Mar 2009)
Auditors worldwide will have access to 36 newly updated auditing standards (4 Mar 2009)
Bernanke Blasts AIG For 'Irresponsible Bets' That Led to Bailouts (4 Mar 2009)
UK sub-prime lender Cattles says there has been a failure of internal accounting controls (3 Mar 2009)
Cattles warns on profits and suspends directors (3 Mar 2009)
US bank regulator questions loan loss provision rule (3 Mar 2009)
Town Sues KPMG over Madoff Feeder Fund (3 Mar 2009)
PwC, NJ Settle Tyco Fraud Suit For $5.8M (3 Mar 2009)
Mostly-white accounting field remains colorbland (3 Mar 2009)
The Carefully Designed Disaster of Fannie and Freddie (3 Mar 2009)
US judge OKs Parmalat shares settlement(3 Mar 2009)
Buffett Addresses Mark-to-Market (3 Mar 2009)
Gala Coral is ‘worthless’ as private equity counts costs (3 Mar 2009)
Lessons from Global Corporate Frauds (3 Mar 2009)
Mosaic reborn as Aurora after buy-out (3 Mar 2009)
Madoff asks to keep penthouse, other assets (3 Mar 2009)
AIG Sued by Ex-CEO Maurice Greenberg Over ‘Inflated’ Shares (3 Mar 2009)
Freddie Mac chief resigns after five months (3 Mar 2009)
Britain facing unprecedented crisis (2 Mar 2009)
Citigroup Crashes as US Tax Payers Take on $3trillion Liabilities (2 Mar 2009)
Accounting sleights of hand replaced by puffery (2 Mar 2009)
Stanford CFO declines to cooperate in SEC Probe (2 Mar 2009)
Stanford fraud investigators uncover £100m hidden in British banks (2 Mar 2009)
AIG reports record $61.7bn loss (2 Mar 2009)
General Motors awaits auditors’ verdict as losses exceed $30bn (2 Mar 2009)
AIG set to receive another $30bn Washington bailout (2 Mar 2009)
Oasis and Coast owner heads for bankruptcy (2 Mar 2009)
Conn. Pensions Sue NEPC, KPMG Over Madoff Losses (1 Mar 2009)
Kobi Alexander sues Comverse auditor Deloitte & Touche (1 Mar 2009)
Apple Inc.’s Audit Firm was Involved in Massive Tax Shelter Fraud (1 Mar 2009)
Buffett Endorses 'Mark-to-Market' as a Producer of Ways to Profit (1 Mar 2009)

FEBRUARY 2009

Stanford and aide took $1.2bn in bogus loans, accuses SEC (28 Feb 2009)
New SEC Complaint Says Stanford Ran Ponzi Scheme (28 Feb 2009)
Trustee of Bankrupt Hollywood Movie Payroll Company Sues BDO Seidman LLP and BDO Global BV for Gross Negligence (28 Feb 2009)
Mark-to-market accounting method must come to a halt (28 Feb 2009)
Banks’ Books Finally Start Seeping Some Truth (28 Feb 2009)
Connecticut Town Sues Over Madoff Losses (28 Feb 2009)
US Bill Would Beef up Broker-Dealer Auditor Oversight (28 Feb 2009)
Former Bear Stearns Executive Pleads to Fraud Charge (27 Feb 2009)
Stanford’s First Investment-Banking Deal Sparked 2005 Lawsuit (27 Feb 2009)
Madoff’s UK Firm Sent $164 Million to Parent, Receiver Says (27 Feb 2009)
Price Waterhouse objects to Satyam observations (27 Feb 2009)
Deloitte faces heat over Subhiksha's audit (27 Feb 2009)
Parmalat investors may pursue Grant Thornton lawsuit (27 Feb 2009)
Inside the Breakdown At the SEC (27 Feb 2009)
Bear Stearns Ordered to Pay $27.3 Million in Damages to Investors for Misrepresenting Its Investment Strategies (27 Feb 2009)
Nacchio case timeline (27 Feb 2009)
BDO under fire over delays to $521m case (27 Feb 2009)
HBOS Whistleblower Says Bank Ignored Warnings on Bond Products (27 Feb 2009)
Lloyds reports 80pc fall in profit, set to put £250bn in asset protection (27 Feb 2009)
FACTBOX - How the toxic asset insurance scheme works (27 Feb 2009)
Westgate Capital Management Hedge fund founder used phony firm, returns (26 Feb 2009)
EU to scrap some small business accounting rules (26 Feb 2009)
2 Money Managers Held in New Wall St. Fraud Case (26 Feb 2009)
Bernanke Says Mark-to-Market Accounting Rule Should Be Improved (26 Feb 2009)
US judge sets bail conditions for fund manager Nadel (26 Feb 2009)
GM's future hangs in balance after $31bn loss (26 Feb 2009)
RBS posts record UK loss: where it went wrong (26 Feb 2009)
Ex-PWC manager files racism complaint (26 Feb 2009)
General Reinsurance Corp. has agreed to pay $72 million to settle investors' claims (26 Feb 2009)
Bill That Might Have Helped Catch Stanford Died In US Senate (26 Feb 2009)
Former Belgo executive Tim Power convicted of insider dealing (26 Feb 2009)
Bad times for Big Four accountants (26 Feb 2009)
Mark Thomas Interview with John Christensen
Mark Thomas Interview with Prem Sikka
Mark Thomas interview with Prem Sikka and John Christensen
Mark Thomas Interview with Austin Mitchell
Fight recession: put cash into people's pockets (25 Feb 2009)
HBOS, KPMG and Their Problematic Whistleblower (25 Feb 2009)
Nail CA firms too for fraud: Experts (25 Feb 2009)
Innocent bystanders suffer in Stanford case (25 Feb 2009)
Anglo Irish Bank's corporate governance issues unique (25 Feb 2009)
Maytas evaluation started before formal engagement letter: E&Y (25 Feb 2009)
Sibir Energy reveals $325m black hole (25 Feb 2009)
Maytas evaluation started before formal engagement letter: Ernst & Young (25 Feb 2009)
Police Raid Anglo Irish in Dublin (25 Feb 2009)
Banks hammer out £40bn lending deal as the price for toxic assets insurance (25 Feb 2009)
UK FSA Had HBOS Conflict of Interest, Lawmaker Says (25 Feb 2009)
Barratt losses reach £592m as land value falls (25 Feb 2009)
Traumatic time if AIG goes bust (25 Feb 2009)
Accountants PwC cut salaries by 10% (25 Feb 2009)
Citigroup assets on its balance sheet of $1.95tn – with a share value of $10.6bn (24 Feb 2009)
Madoff Must Have Had Help, Lawyers Say, Citing Trustee Report (24 Feb 2009)
How to spot corporate cons (24 Feb 2009)
Treasury Select Committee on audit industry's trail (24 Feb 2009)
Accounting standard setter plans fair value revamp (24 Feb 2009)
CIMA council suspended in Sri Lanka (24 Feb 2009)
How insolvency shark milk companies (24 Feb 2009)
Lehman Liquidator KPMG Weighs Inquiry for Asia Assets (24 Feb 2009)
Microsoft workers to keep severance overpayment (24 Feb 2009)
How to Value a Toxic Asset (24 Feb 2009)
Nomura seeks ¥302bn in new capital to shore up balance sheet (24 Feb 2009)
One way of looking at it (23 Feb 2009)
Insolvency Sharks: Courts' collapse fills KPMG coffers (23 Feb 2009)
KPMG partners were "charged out" at up to £600 an hour to Courts insolvency (23 Feb 2009)
Ban the Big Four accounting firms? (23 Feb 2009)
SEC probed Stanford companies; red flags abounded (23 Feb 2009)
How common sense and due diligence kept some fund-of-funds from falling prey to Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme (23 Feb 2009)
Sir Ken Macdonald, the country's former chief prosecutor warned that the UK's system for regulating financial markets is "completely broken" with basic safeguards "shockingly absent" (23 Feb 2009)
What Stanford investors got for $5 million (23 Feb 2009)
$8bn 'missing' from Allen Stanford's offshore bank (22 Feb 2009)
Financial Q&A: How to value AIG five months after the bailout (22 Feb 2009)
PwC auditors aware of Satyam fraud (22 Feb 2009)
However good the pay, it doesn't buy results (22 Feb 2009)
UBS rejects reports top bosses aware of tax fraud (22 Feb 2009)
UBS Warns US Tax Fraud Battle Could Be Its Ruin (22 Feb 2009)
UBS admitted "improper activities" by some of its employees (22 Feb 2009)
RBS and Lloyds close in on £500bn Treasury deal (22 Feb 2009)
UK government to launch bank asset-protection scheme, which is expected to protect at least £400 billion of “toxic” loans with a taxpayers’ guarantee (22 Feb 2009)
Mutuality in the Global Financial Crisis (21 Feb 2009)
PwC to fail? (21 Feb 2009) 2
The Auditor’s Chinese Wall - Is SOx Still A Keystone? (21 Feb 2009)
EU says United States won't cooperate on auditing (21 Feb 2009)
EU delays new auditing rules until US says whether it will reciprocate on oversight (21 Feb 2009)
Audit Working papers – Statement Charlie McCreevy European Commissioner For The Internal Market And Services (21 Feb 2009)
Spat looms between EU and US over auditing (21 Feb 2009)
Hypo Real Estate: 600 Billion In Off-Balance Sheet Assets (21 Feb 2009)
Offshored External Audits Expose Regulatory Issues (21 Feb 2009)
PW auditor's bail plea posted to Feb 24 (21 Feb 2009)
Transfer Pricing: Bailout talks hit bump as taxman seeks $500-million from Chrysler (21 Feb 2009)
Derivatives the new 'ticking bomb' (21 Feb 2009)
PWC report shows Anglo gave 15 loans over €500m (21 Feb 2009)
Anglo's top 15 clients each owe in excess of €500m (21 Feb 2009)
New UK Banking Act comes into effect (21 Feb 2009)
BearingPoint Files Chapter 11 (20 Feb 2009)
Allen Stanford 'fraud' uncovered by favour (20 Feb 2009)
SEC Statement on the Case Against R. Allen Stanford (20 Feb 2009)
Serious Fraud Office eyes possible Stanford link (20 Feb 2009)
Saab seeks bankruptcy protection (20 Feb 2009)
GM Seeks $16.6 Billion More in US Aid (20 Feb 2009)
Corporate Goodwill, the Next Big Write-off (20 Feb 2009)
United States Asks Court to Enforce Summons for UBS Swiss Bank Account Records (20 Feb 2009
Manager at Antigua auditor says never met Stanford (20 Feb 2009)
It’s a complete surprise, says Allen Stanford's accountant’s daughter (20 Feb 2009)
FBI tracks down Allen Stanford to Virginia (20 Feb 2009)
SEC Halts Ponzi Scheme Targeting Deaf Investors (20 Feb 2009)
BearingPoint - An Era Ends, For Now (19 Feb 2009)
Canada Accounting body nixes Livent auditors' (Deloitte) appeal (19 Feb 20009)
Sir Allen Stanford's billion-dollar empire 'run out of tiny office in North London (19 Feb 2009)
Confusion surrounds 'auditor' of Allen Stanford's business empire (19 Feb 2009)
Bank bailout could add £1.5tn to public debt, taking it to 100% of GDP (19 Feb 2009)
Satyam "strong wake-up call" for auditors: Grant Thornton (19 Feb 2009)
Allen Stanford: In search of the $8bn man (19 Feb 2009)
EU banks may be sitting on £16.3 million toxic assets (19 Feb 2009)
Meltdown 101: AIG, five months into its bailout (19 Feb 2009)
Accounting firms face threat of legal claims over Madoff affair (19 Feb 2009)
Allen Stanford lost money to Bernard Madoff and 'lied to cover it up' (19 Feb 2009)
Allen Stanford was appointed to oversee the new regulatory body to clea-up lax banking laws to prevent wholesale tax evasion and money laundering in Antigua (19 Feb 2009)
UBS Enters into Deferred Prosecution Agreement: Bank Admits to Helping U.S. Taxpayers Hide Accounts from IRS; Agrees to Identify Customers & Pay $780 Million (19 Feb 2009)
UBS Agrees to Pay $200 Million to Settle SEC Charges for Violating Registration Requirements (19 Feb 2009)
Accounting board announces mark-to-market studies (19 Feb 2009)
Allegations against Stanford Group, among others, suggest this will be a fraud-infested downturn (19 Feb 2009)
Allen Stanford: a sorry tale of greed and shame (19 Feb 2009)
UBS pays and names to settle US tax fraud case (19 Feb 2009)
Land Securities seeks £775m injection (19 Feb 2009)
FBI investigate Stanford over money laundering for dangerous Mexican drug cartel as cricketing tycoon goes missing (19 Feb 2009)
A razzie for obfuscating PwC (18 Feb 2009)
Accounting Firms That Missed Fraud at Madoff May Be Liable (18 Feb 2009)
Holding the Accountants Accountable? (18 Feb 2009)
Jailed PW auditor on ICAI committees (18 Feb 2009)
BANKING CRISIS - AUDITORS AND CREDIT RATING AGENCIES: TRANSCRIPT OF TREASURY COMMITTEE HEARING (18 Feb 2009)
Former BDO Attorney Pleads Guilty to Tax Evasion (18 Feb 2009)
SEC Charges R. Allen Stanford, Stanford International Bank for Multi-Billion Dollar Investment Scheme (18 Feb 2009)
Allen Stanford, the Texan behind 20/20 cricket riches, charged over $9.2bn 'fraud' (18 Feb 2009)
Panama bank regulators seize local Stanford affiliate (18 Feb 2009)
SEC charges Stanford with 'massive' fraud (18 Feb 2009)
Sir Allen’s Antigua, or the curious case of Stanford International Bank (18 Feb 2009)
Stanford Bank: How the alarm was raised — by a Venezuelan economics magazine (18 Feb 2009)
Ernst & Young profits from Tesco's Guardian win (18 Feb 2009)
Court fight over RBS 'insolvency' (18 Feb 2009)
London firm identified as Stanford auditor (18 Feb 2009)
Law firm Fox Hayes fined almost £1m for role in share scams (18 Feb 2009)
RBS may have to put as much as £200bn of toxic assets into the insurance scheme (18 Feb 2009)
Court allows SEBI to grill Satyam ex-CFO, PwC auditors (18 Feb 2009)
The Satyam Scandal Explained (18 Feb 2009)
The Return of the Dissenters (18 Feb 2009)
Lawyers from 21 countries tackle Madoff case (18 Feb 2009)
No jobs on graduating, KPMG tells trainees (18 Feb 2009)
SEC Charges Research in Motion and Four Senior Executives With Stock Option Backdating (18 Feb 2009)
David Mills corruption investigation centred on key letter (18 Feb 2009)
Q&A: Berlusconi v the courts (18 Feb 2009)
Even the Irish have had enough of PwC (17 Feb 2009)
David Mills guilty of taking bribe linked to Berlusconi trials (17 Feb 2009)
David Mills's letter to his accountant: Full text of the British lawyer's letter to Bob Drennan, describing a payment he received (17 Feb 2009)
Jersey accountant could face extradition to Australia as part of a massive tax fraud investigation (17 Feb 2009)
Exec: Accounting rule hurting local banks (17 Feb 2009)
Scrap This, Bolster That: Seeking Really Fair Value (17 Feb 2009)
Legal & General sets aside £650m more for company defaults (17 Feb 2009)
Scandal at Satyam: Truth, Lies and Corporate Governance (17 Feb 2009)
Fund manager Arthur Nadel arrested in Madoff-style scheme (17 Feb 2009)
Alberta's securities regulator hands out bigger penalties (17 Feb 2009)
Banking Crisis and Freeing up the lending flow (17 Feb 2009)
ACCOUNTING FIRM ATTORNEY PLEADS GUILTY TO TAX FRAUD RELATED TO TAX SHELTERS CLAIMING OVER ONE BILLION DOLLARS OF FRAUDULENT TAX LOSSES - Links to BDO (16 Feb 2009)
US v Michael Kerekes (ex BDO) - Criminal Information (16 Feb 2009)
Michael Kerekes (ex BDO) - Plea Bargaining (16 Feb 2009)
The IASB model of accounting has failed (16 Feb 2009)
Insurers had been complaining about a lack of transparency from some of the UK’s biggest companies (16 Feb 2009)
Association of British Insurers has continued to complain about a lack of transparency from many companies, especially those backed by private equity (16 Feb 2009)
Auditors always work in favour of companies and are capable of showing profits as losses and vice versa (16 Feb 2009)
SEC Probes Irregularities At Stanford Bank (16 Feb 2009)
Tainted PW auditor made member of ICAI panels (16 Feb 2009)
Interim report on Satyam fraud ready, officials say (16 Feb 2009)
Strategies for avoiding Madoff-like Ponzi schemes (16 Feb 2009)
Companies in Europe and US cut costs differently (16 Feb 2009)
The U.S. banking system has less than $1 trillion worth of equity remaining (16 Feb 2009)
UK Treasury’s insurance plan for toxic bank assets could cost up to 8% of GDP (16 Feb 2009)
Capping the banks' fat cats: The pay of those who have brought the UK economy to the edge of destruction should now conform to a 'maximum wage' (15 Feb 2009)
The Tax Gap series - proving tax is where CSR begins (15 Feb 2009)
Roman Abramovich's accounting sleight of hand at Chelsea tells us little (15 Feb 2009)
Bankers kept silent over Madoff fears (15 Feb 2009)
Moore: the evangelist who damned a bank(15 Feb 2009)
Ex-BDO Partner Pleads Guilty in Tax Shelter Case (14 Feb 2009)
Questions raised over KPMG role at HBOS (14 Feb 2009)
ICAI wants 6 mths to determine PwC's involvement in Satyam (14 Feb 2009)
Governments for Sale- Banking on a freebie: Finance chiefs played host to mandarins 73 times a year (14 Feb 2009)
Britain Investigates AIG Unit in London (14 Feb 2009)
SFO launches investigation into AIG’s British financial arm (13 Feb 2009)
FASB considering more mark-to-market guidance (13 Feb 2009)
Wells Fargo says accounting change increases loss (13 Feb 2009)
Governments for Sale: KPMG tops Whitehall schmooze league (13 Feb 2009)
HBOS’s ‘Empire Within an Empire’ Lost 7 Billion Pounds on Loans (13 Feb 2009)
Northern Rock shareholders lose battle in High Court (13 Feb 2009)
City trader Terry Freeman arrested over £40 million 'Ponzi' fraud (13 Feb 2009)
Nicholas dropped from Broadcom backdating lawsuit (13 Feb 2009)
‘Another Day, Another Scandal’ as Irish Bank Executives Exit (13 Feb 2009)
Second HBOS whistleblower: Bank 'had a disregard for risk' (13 Feb 2009)
Police Arrest Man Connected to GFX Capital Probe (13 Feb 2009)
Allied Irish Bank and Bank of Ireland are to receive a €7bn bailout from the Irish Government (13 Feb 2009)
Shifting profits across borders: 'Transfer pricing' is the biggest tax avoidance scheme of all. The government must insist on companies being more transparent (12 Feb 2009)
Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? (12 Feb 2009)
'Independent' KPMG earned millions from HBOS (12 Feb 2009)
HBOS ignored risk warnings with KPMG’s approval (12 Feb 2009)
Madoff's wife withdrew $15m from account days before his arrest (12 Feb 2009)
Poachers and Gameleepers: PwC corporate finance partner seconded to HM Treasury (12 Feb 2009)
Corporate Vultures: Profession profits from soaring insolvencies (12 Feb 2009)
Cash-strapped Rio Tinto reveals $20bn Chinese bail-out (12 Feb 2009)
Satyam to appoint Indian auditing firm (12 Feb 2009)
The Big 4 And Pending Litigation - Can They Fight The Law and Win (11 Feb 2009)
Bloodlust for bankers (11 Feb 2009)
Hedge-Fund Manager ‘Gad’ Grieve Sued for Fraud by SEC (11 Feb 2009)
Finvest, Founder Charged With Fraud (11 Feb 2009)
Satyam to face another US class action lawsuit (11 Feb 2009)
Lloyds faces accusations of tax avoidance (11 Feb 2009)
Derivatives Help Expand Barclays Balance Sheet (11 Feb 2009)
Creative accounting - making profits look better (11 Feb 2009)
Poachers and Gamekeepers: Ex-KPMG partner to advise Cameron (11 Feb 2009)
Creative accountants: 'Toms', an avoidance scheme that could have cost the Treasury £1bn, is just one of the top accountancy firms' elaborate wheezes (10 Feb 2009)
Moore Stephens faces $175m negligence claim (10 Feb 2009)
Pricewaterhousecoopers partner found guilty of professional misconduct in the collapse of Global Trust Bank (10 Feb 2009)
Satyam auditors say partners deny criminal activity (10 Feb 2009)
Madoff Claims Another Victim (10 Feb 2009)
The tax gap debate: Principles, what principles? Another KPMG update (10 Feb 2009)
Dispatches programme highlights discrimination (10 Feb 2009)
Satyam account cleaning to take six months (10 Feb 2009)
Australia: Former president of the National Institute of Accountants in court over a $5.2 million money laundering and tax evasion scheme (10 Feb 2009)
HBOS sacked and gagged bank risk whistleblower (10 Feb 2009)
HBOS whistleblower: statement of evidence (10 Feb 2009)
Accounting error may cost Insight $70 million (10 Feb 2009)
Members of the Office for Legal Complaints revealed (10 Feb 2009)
Ernst & Young Chief Calls for More Audit Regulation (10 Feb 2009)
Barclays defends derivatives-led growth as balance sheet balloons (10 Feb 2009)
Barclays stands by its accounting policies (10 Feb 2009)
SEC Chair Wants to Beef up Enforcement (10 Feb 2009)
Record Swiss loss of SFr20bn for UBS (10 Feb 2009)
WPP and its Low-tax, low-cost flight to Dublin (10 Feb 2009)
Arrested auditors claim Satyam's top brass knew of accounting fraud (9 Feb 2009)
Summons for Anglo Irish Bank auditors (9 Feb 2009)
Plaintiffs target Madoff auditors to recover dues (9 Feb 2009)
Goldman chief defends fair value accounting (9 Feb 2009)
SEC, Treasury not discussing suspending fair value rule (9 Feb 2009)
US Taxpayers Risk $9.7 Trillion on Bailouts as Senate Votes (9 Feb 2009)
From the high street to a tax haven: Boots the Chemist has taken its headquarters from Nottingham to the canton of Zug, Switzerland (9 Feb 2009)
Dixons uses the laws of the Isle of Man to its advantage (9 Feb 2009)
Greed, corruption and shamelessness (9 Feb 2009)
Global Financial Crisis and Government Intervention: Surplus Generation, Gearing Ratio, Asymmetry of Financial Multiplier and Other Considerations by Arun Kumar
Resolving Bilateral Tax Treaty Disputes: (In)competent Authority in the 21st Century by Loren C. Ponds
Can tax challenge bad governance? by Olivia McDonald and Kadi Jumu
Cause of Crisis and the Solution by Rodney Shakespeare and Peter Challen
Formulating Policies For Robust SME Development: Schumpeter-Arrow-Inverted U Debate - Evidence From Malaysian SMEs by Ananda Samudhram and G. Sivalingam
Public Cash for the Real Economy : The ultimate request, by on-line petition, by Sabine K McNeill
Reinventing Jamaica (8 Feb 2009)
Blackberry-maker chiefs fined £43m over backdating of share options (8 Feb 2009)
About $1 trillion in illiquid securities still haunts the banks' balance sheets (8 Feb 2009)
UK Treasury orders probe into banks (8 Feb 2009)
UK Taxpayer to insure Treasury's £400bn toxic loan scheme (8 Feb 2009)
UK Treasury Committee Hearing on Auditors and Banking Crisis
Auditor Shopping, Or, When Harry Met Congress (7 Feb 2009)
Sheltering cash: the intricate schemes drawn up by KPMG(7 Feb 2009)
Inside the secret world of auditing (7 Feb 2009)
Austin Mitchell wants the government to decline aid to banks that conjure tax avoidance schemes (7 Feb 2009)
Senator Dodd says could tweak mark-to-market(7 Feb 2009)
Where has the US bailout money gone? (7 Feb 2009)
Loophole here, loophole there (7 Feb 2009)
What if tax avoidance had to be publicly disclosed? (7 Feb 2009)
Jamaican investor arrested on fraud charges (7 Feb 2009)
UK banks face 'new subprime loans' crisis (7 Feb 2009)
Three US Banks Shut by Regulators as Financial Crisis Deepens (7 Feb 2009
Does the Accounting Standards Board undrstand accountability? (6 Feb 2009)
Is a Big 4 Firm Buying BearingPoint? (6 Feb 2009)
All Offshore - The Sprat, the Mackeral, Accounting Firms and the State in Globalization (6 Feb 2009)
Early Day Motion: Government urged to investigate KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte, Ernst and Young, Grant Thornton and other accountancy firms for tax avoidance schemes (6 Feb 2009)
Inside the secret world of auditing (6 Feb 2009)
PwC dragged into Satyam class action suits (6 Feb 2009)
Early Day Motion: Government urged to to investigate banks for tax avoidance schemes (6 Feb 2009)
Bank stocks rebound on hopes of accounting changes (6 Feb 2009)
Long Beach sues Lehman for fraud - Ernst & Young also named (6 Feb 2009)
India Market Officials Probe Satyam Fraud (6 Feb 2009)
RBS announces boardroom clear-out (6 Feb 2009)
Bank Sent Clients’ Cash to Its Madoff Account (6 Feb 2009)
UK company collapses up 124% in three months (6 Feb 2009)
Companies still not owning up to corruption (6 Feb 2009)
Del Biaggio pleads guilty to securities fraud (6 Feb 2009)
Toxic debts will poison us: It's time taxpayers were told the real cost of bailing out all these banks, and what good it will do them (5 Feb 2009)
It was 'unrealistic' to expect an auditor to risk losing the clients' business by asking awkward questions about their business model (5 Feb 2009)
Ponzi scheme litigation continues its spread through accounting firms (5 Feb 2009)
Did Madoff's feeder fund shop for friendly audits? (5 Feb 2009)
The tax gap debate: more reaction, this time from KPMG (5 Feb 2009)
Madoff's clients at heart of UK establishment (5 Feb 2009)
Japanese businessman Kazutsugi Nami arrested for £1bn fraud (5 Feb 2009)
Man Group plc has paid just 14% of its pre-tax profits in corporation tax over the latest four years (5 Feb 2009)
Pomerantz Law Firm Sues KPMG and Tremont Group in Madoff Related Derivative Action On Behalf of Rye Select Broad Market XL Fund (5 Feb 2009)
Arrests made in what could be biggest investment scam in Japanese history (5 Feb 2009)