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DECEMBER 2011
India Inc gets
accounting
break on forex losses
(31 Dec 2011)
IASB Defers
IFRS 9
to 2015
(31 Dec 2011)
Ireland Banks
could use losses to write off €4bn in tax
(31 Dec 2011)
Banking rout leaves British taxpayer
£40bn
bill
(31 Dec 2011)
UK Government Releases Transfer Pricing statistics - £436 million extra tax revenue collected
(31 Dec 2011)
Latest UK Transfer Pricing Statistics Released
(31 Dec 2011)
Tax-News.com Special Feature:
Transfer Pricing
(31 Dec 2011)
Ahead of IPO, SEC Pressed Groupon on
Accounting
(30 Dec 2011)
Alleged fraud by Warburg Pincus execs to be investigated by
FSA
(30 Dec 2011)
Tax
Benefits From CEO Stock Options as Windfall for Businesses
(30 Dec 2011)
Insolvency: Barratts announces 1610 redundancies
(30 Dec 2011)
Insolvency: Toy shop
Hawkin's Bazaar
goes into
administration
(30 Dec 2011)
Magyar Telekom and Deutsche Telekom Resolve Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Investigation and Agree to Pay Nearly $64 Million in Combined Criminal Penalties
(30 Dec 2011)
Who Will Save Us From Chinese
Fraud
?
(29 Dec 2011)
Auditors
put companies under the microscope
(29 Dec 2011)
AIG Says Warrants Issued Didn't Qualify as
Tax
-Free Distribution
(29 Dec 2011)
ABI Opposes Solvency II For
Pension
Schemes
(29 Dec 2011)
NHS
computer
system firm in £1bn climbdown
(29 Dec 2011)
Insolvency: D2 Jeans goes into administration
(29 Dec 2011)
Viacom Owes Former Harmonix Shareholders $383M, Says
Accountant
(29 Dec 2011)
US eyes first
BP
criminal charges over Gulf oil spill, report
(29 Dec 2011)
IRS writes new
accounting
rules for asset repairs
(28 Dec 2011)
Accounting has cause for nervousness in 2012
(28 Dec 2011)
SEC
Wins Delay in Citigroup Fraud Case
(28 Dec 2011)
The Ostrich Turn: ICAEW
attacks suggestion of single insolvency regulator
(28 Defc 2011)
EU Banks Face $270 Billion Goodwill Hangover
(28 Dec 2011)
SEC
Doubles Down On Its Efforts To Find Hedge Fund Fraud
(28 Dec 2011)
The New Basel III Framework: Navigating Changes in Bank Capital Management
(28 Dec 2011)
THINKING BEYOND BASEL III: NECESSARY SOLUTIONS FOR CAPITAL AND LIQUIDITY
(28 Dec 2011)
A Primer on Bank Capital
(28 Dec 2011)
Viacom
is ordered to pay $383 million more to Rock Band makers
(28 Dec 2011)
Auditor disowns Prithvi Information report; refuses to sign
accounts
(28 Dec 2011)
Ernst & Young audit panel says no violations in Olympus handover
(27 Dec 2011)
Olympus Auditor 'Still Investigating' Gyrus Share Purchase
(27 Dec 2011)
Lawsuit Filed over 'Bad Lieutenant'
Accounting
(27 Dec 2011)
Petroplus
shares fall 40% after $1bn credit freeze
(27 Dec 2011)
Merger of US, Chinese
firms
is cautionary tale
(27 Dec 2011)
PricewaterhouseCoopers faces up to £1m fine over JP Morgan Securities' audits
(26 Dec 2011)
Olympus Corrects Earnings Reports Due to Minor Mistakes
(26 Dec 2011)
Banks
and ABI to hold talks over 'out of control' bonuses
(26 Dec 2011)
The City mustn't be allowed to blame its misdemeanours on a few
rotten apples
(26 Dec 2011)
Bernie
Ecclestone admits
£
27m secret payments
(26 Dec 2011)
Ernst & Young criticised by US regulator
(23 Dec 2011)
Ernst & Young Audits Found Deficient
(23 Dec 2011)
Ernst & Young Faulted for Audit Failures
(23 Dec 2011)
Report on 2010 Inspection of Ernst & Young LLP
(23 Dec 2011)
Allen
Stanford
ruled fit for trial over 'Ponzi scheme'
(23 Dec 2011)
Goldman Sachs
tax
deal faces UK legal challenge
(23 Dec 2011)
CBI does not want worthwhile audits - opposes EU proposals
(23 Dec 2011)
George Osborne's family business
reveals major
losses
(23 Dec 2011)
New NAO study of larger tax settlements
(23 Dec 2011)
SFO
setback in Vincent Tchenguiz investigation
(23 Dec 2011)
Blacks Leisure signals pre-pack administration deal
(23 Dec 2011)
Will
Saab
bankruptcy mean that its models will fall in value
(23 Dec 2011)
SEC's Court Troubles in Citigroup Settlement Echo in Wisconsin
(22 Dec 2011)
Insolvency profession told to tackle excessive fees
(22 Dec 2011)
Silvercorp says China opens criminal probe on
fraudulent
reports
(22 Dec 2011)
A Useless Consultation that Leads to No Transparency: ASB and EFRAG issue a Discussion Paper: 'Improving the Financial Reporting of Income Tax'
(22 Dec 2011)
MF Global US trustee pursuing $700 million in UK
(22 Dec 2011)
Taxes Questioned,
Accountant
Quits on Heiress's Estate
(22 Dec 2011)
Insolvency: Barratts and Priceless to close 18 shoe shops
(22 Dec 2011)
Banks
snap up €500bn in
loans
from European Central
Bank
(22 Dec 2011)
Healthcare Locums
to appoint new advisers
(22 Dec 2011)
Time for Tax Transparency in the UK
(21 Dec 2011)
US Accounting
Board Finds Faults in Deloitte Audits
(21 Dec 2011)
Report on 2010 Inspection of Deloitte & Touche LLP
(21 Dec 2011)
New data on national insurance holiday reveals it has been a total failure
(21 Dec 2011)
Olympus Tokyo Offices Raided as Prosecutors Investigate $1.7
Billion Fraud
(21 Dec 2011)
Olympus headquarters raided in fraud investigation
(21 Dec 2011)
Japan Prosecutors raid the HQ of Olympus in earnings probe
(21 Dec 2011)
Ed Davey calls for single insolvency regulator
(21 Dec 2011)
Too poor to build?
Accounts
show housing associations in rude health
(21 Dec 2011)
Payments
by F1's
Ecclestone were a bribe
,
judge
rules
(21 Dec 2011)
Christmas in prison for Kweku Adoboli on £1.4bn UBS
fraud
charges
(21 Dec 2011)
Revolving Doors: Ex-KPMG global vice-chairman joins Prudential
(21 Dec 2011)
American Tower Corporation: Fooling Some Of The People...
(21 Dec 2011)
Thorntons
profit warning highlights retail woe
(21 Dec 2011)
Madoff's Former Controller Pleads Guilty
(21 Dec 2011)
PCAOB Reproposes Auditing Standard on Communications with Audit Committees, Amendments to Other PCAOB Standards
(21 Dec 2011)
HMRC has a cosy relationship with the tax avoidance industry: MPs have criticised the agency but remained silent on its links with the big accounting firms that help companies avoid tax
(20 Dec 2011)
The Secret State once again closes ranks – yet another cause for British shame
(20 Dec 2011)
Madoff Controller Says She Faked Books
, Was Unaware of
Theft
(20 Dec 2011)
SEC Charges Longtime Madoff Employee with Falsifying Documents to Deceive Regulators
(20 Dec 2011)
Olympus Executives to Take Pay Cuts After
Fraud
, Memo Shows
(20 Dec 2011)
MPs publish report on handling of tax disputes by HM Revenue and Customs
(20 Dec 2011)
HMRC hid 'sweetheart'
tax
deals for big business, MPs say
(20 Dec 2011)
HMRC let big firms off
£
25bn in taxes: As families are chased for
every penny
(20 Dec 2011)
HM Revenue & Customs 2010–11 Accounts: tax disputes
(20 Dec 2011)
Hopes fading for MF Global sale
,
KPMG admits
(20 Dec 2011)
KPMG defends role over MF Global
(20 Dec 2011)
AstraZeneca takes $381m hit
on two
drug setbacks
(20 Dec 2011)
India Cos bill bars non-audit ops of
auditors
(20 Dec 2011)
Holding Governments to Ransom: HSBC wins concessions after relocation threat
(20 Dec 2011)
George Osborne has handed HSBC what looks like a get-out clause
(20 Dec 2011)
Auditing auditors
(20 Dec 2011)
HMV
: his master has lost his voice with fears it might fall silent
(20 Dec 2011)
Vested Intewrest Groups Object to Mandatory Audit Firm Rotation
(20 Dec 2011)
Rule Change Would Shift Loan-Loss
Accounting
(19 Dec 2011)
Heads should roll at
Bank
, Treasury and the FSA
(19 Dec 2011)
Vince Cable says Vickers report will be accepted to prevent bank
bailouts
(19 Dec 2011)
Will Vickers demand
banks
lift capital ratios just as they need to lend more
(19 Dec 2011)
India Audit
firms involved in scams face heavy fines
(19 Dec 2011)
Will they really try to break up auditing's big four?Count on it
(18 Dec 2011)
Some of the city of London's biggest banks are behind a huge tax avoidance trade "cheating" European countries of hundreds of millions of euros a year
(18 Dec 2011)
Fitch
downgrades seven banking giants
(18 Dec 2011)
MF Global's U.K. Administrator
KPMG
Says It Knows Where Clients
Money Is
(18 Dec 2011)
Vickers report on
banks
to be accepted in full - Cable
(18 Dec 2011)
Farepak victims still without compensation
(18 Dec 2011)
NatWest
sued for £29m over
hotel's
collapse
(18 Dec 2011)
PwC subject of probe into BarCap compliance
(17 Dec 2011)
Dennis Nally of PwC: 'If auditors aren't doing enough, who's going to pay for them to do more?'
(17 Dec 2011)
National Audit Office to investigate Northern Rock sale
(17 Dec 2011)
Ex-Fannie Mae
and
Freddie Mac bosses charged with fraud
(17 Dec 2011)
SEC Brings Crisis-Era Suits
(17 Dec 2011)
Audited bank books understate bad loans: RBI
(17 Dec 2011)
PwC Investigated Over Barclays Capital U.K. Client Money Reports
(16 Dec 2011)
PwC probed over its
auditing
of BarCap
(16 Dec 2011)
SEC CHARGES FORMER FANNIE MAE AND FREDDIE MAC EXECUTIVES WITH SECURITIES FRAUD
(16 Dec 2011)
SEC details lawsuits against ex-Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac executives
(16 Dec 2011)
The Olympus Fraud: Enron-esque Off-Balance-Sheet Entities Combined with a New Twist on Abusive Business Acquisitions Accounting
(16 Dec 2011)
Olympus Fraud Reveals that Bank Confirmation Deficiencies Enabled Company to Hide $1.7 Billion in Losses for 13 Years
(16 Dec 2011)
SEC Charges Daniel “Rudy” Ruettiger and 12 Others in Scheme to Pump Stock in Sports Drink Company
(16 Dec 2011)
Accounting
bodies agree bank loans impairment rule
(16 Dec 2011)
FASB, IASB Make Progress on Netting, Leasing and Impairment
Standards
(16 Dec 2011)
HMV
prepares to report losses of £40m
(16 Dec 2011)
SEC Enforcement Director's Statement on Citigroup Case
(16 Dec 2011)
Tax adviser (former PwC senior consultant) pleads guilty to insider trading
(15 Dec 2011)
Insolvency: Focus DIY customers, unsecured creditors and staff get nothing after collapse, Ernst & Young's fees for handling the administration come to £4.6m, plus expenses of £72,000
(15 Dec 2011)
Lawyers mull Goodwin case over RBS
accounting
(15 Dec 2011)
Diamond Foods Faces Formal Probe
(15 Dec 2011)
Mind CTI sues
PwC
Israel Kesselman for NIS 8m
(15 Dec 2011)
Companies facing judge-led investigation over HMRC tax deals
(15 Dec 2011)
Olympus Eyes Extraordinary Shareholders Meeting In Spring
(15 Dec 2011)
Banks use accounting loopholes to inflate profits and bolster bonuses
(14 Dec 2011)
The Law of Opposites - Illusory profits in the financial sector
(14 Dec 2011)
Olympus Avoids Delisting, But Asset Drop Poses Hurdles Ahead
(14 Dec 2011)
Olympus Restates Earnings, Showing Loss
(14 Dec 2011)
Olympus meets deadline to avoid Tokyo delisting
(14 Dec 2011)
Olympus Takes $1.3 Billion Balance Sheet Hit to Dodge Delisting
(14 Dec 2011)
The Olympus scandal
(14 Dec 2011)
Olympus: Assets exceeded liabilities in 7 years to March 2009
(14 Dec 2011)
Accountant
Gets 14 Months in Connecticut Hedge-Fund Case
(14 Dec 2011)
Is Diamond Foods a Classic Case of
Accounting Fraud
?
(14 Dec 2011)
Accounting
rules saw
RBS
in a 'fools paradise'
(14 Dec 2011)
FSA: Fair value
accounting
contributed to
RBS
failure
(14 Dec 2011)
UK Watchdog considers probe of Deloitte's
RBS
audit
(14 Dec 2011)
UK Taxpayers have the right to see the RBS collapse fully investigated
(14 Dec 2011)
RBS report shows why we should break up this cosy boardroom
(14 Dec 2011)
Why Banking Regulation Doesn't Work
(14 Dec 2011)
Insolvency: Lingerie chain
La Senza
calls in restructuring experts
(14 Dec 2011)
Corzine: 'I'm not an
accounting
expert'
(13 Dec 2011)
Action is needed to stop companies avoiding legal liability for alleged human rights violations by hiding behind subsidiaries
(13 Dec 2011)
Olympus
accounts
deadline exposes auditors
(13 Dec 2011)
935000 policyholders still waiting for
Equitable Life
payout
(13 Dec 2011)
Offshore Shell Companies and Swiss Banks: Eight Former Senior Executives and Agents of Siemens Charged in Alleged $100 Million Foreign Bribe Scheme
(13 Dec 2011)
Auditors
fear loss of influence in Brussels
(13 Dec 2011)
America Loses: Corporations That Take "Tax Holidays" Slash Jobs
(13 Dec 2011)
Insurance Group asks FASB and IASB to Withdraw
Accounting
Guidance
(13 Dec 2011)
FSA Board publishes report into the failure of the Royal Bank of Scotland
(12 Dec 2011)
The failure of the Royal Bank of Scotland -
Financial Services Authority Board Repor
t (14 Dec 2011)
Action is needed to stop companies avoiding legal liability for alleged human rights violations by hiding behind subsidiaries
(13 Dec 2011)
RBS report: FSA's analysis of
banks
was 'deficient'
(12 Dec 2011)
RBS report: regulators need new rules to crack down when
banks
go bust
(12 Dec 2011)
RBS
investigation: Chapter 1 - NatWest and Beyond
(12 Dec 2011)
RBS investigation: Chapter 2 - the ABN Amro takeover
(12 Dec 2011)
RBS investigation: Chapter 3 - run up to the collapse
(12 Dec 2011)
RBS investigation: Chapter 4: the bail-out
(12 Dec 2011)
RBS investigation: Chapter 5: the new era
(12 Dec 2011)
RBS investigation: who's who
(12 Dec 2011)
RBS failed to grasp scale of sub-prime exposure
(12 Dec 2011)
Olympus ousted CEO to visit Japan
(11 Dec 2011)
JP Morgan: Investment
Banking
Revenue to Be Flat
(11 Dec 2011)
Olympus Tries to Clean up Its
Accounting
(11 Dec 2011)
'Biggest world bankruptcy, yet to come'
(11 Dec 2011)
European
banks
' $1.7 trillion asset burden
(10 Dec 2011)
Double-edged deferral: How lower taxes could hurt America’s big banks
(10 Dec 2011)
Lenders to
NCP
poised to take over indebted car park group
(10 Dec 2011)
Ex-
Anglo Irish
Bank head Sean FitzPatrick is arrested
(10 Dec 2011)
Amid Unrest in Moscow, Research Finds Russia Lost $501.3 Bln in Illicit Financial Flows from 2000-09
(9 Dec 2011)
KPMG Warned, Then Got 'Careless' in Olympus
Accounting
Fraud
(9 Dec 2011)
KPMG Warned Olympus, Then Got 'Careless'
(9 Dec 2011)
Olympus Auditors Face Scrutiny
(9 Dec 2011)
Ernst & Young agress external inquiry for Olympus
(9 Dec 2011)
The Olympus
scandal
The end of the beginning
(9 Dec 2011)
Effectively controlling assets, MF Global edition
(9 Dec 2011)
Deep Roots of Fraud at Olympus
(9 Dec 2011)
Want to boost tier one capital? Make losses and prosper
(9 Dec 2011)
Enron collapse, the scandal that shook Wall Street
(9 Dec 2011)
Corzine:
Tax
Changes Caused MF Global Demise, Not EU Debt Bets
(9 Dec 2011)
The Cost of Lease
Accounting
Changes: $2 Trillion
(9 Dec 2011)
Lease
Accounting
Changes Could Hurt Economy
(9 Dec 2011)
EU Regulator Tells Banks to Raise $153 Billion in Fresh Capital
(9 Dec 2011)
JPMorgan Has About $100 Billion of Notional GIIPS
Derivatives
(9 Dec 2011)
London has become home to the world's first trade repository for the £356 trillion interest rate derivatives market
(9 Dec 2011)
The Financial Reporting Review Panel announces priority sectors for 2012/13
(9 Dec 2011)
AUDIT MARKET INVESTIGATION: UK Competition Commission publishes issues statement
(8 Dec 2011)
AUDIT MARKET INVESTIGATION: Issues statement
(8 Dec 2011)
Olympus Sets Aggressive Stance in
Accounting
Probe
(8 Dec 2011)
Ernst & Young ShinNihon: Setting Up Outside Panel To Examine Olympus Audit
(8 Dec 2011)
Regulators diverge over MF Global collapse
(8 Dec 2011)
'I'm sorry... but I've got no idea where your money's gone': Jon Corzine apologises to MF Global clients with $1.2bn still missing
(8 Dec 2011)
Corzine: 'I Simply Do Not Know Where The MF Global Money Is'
(8 Dec 2011)
Auditors barred for life over Satyam
scandal
(8 Dec 2011)
A decade on: Lessons from Enron
(8 Dec 2011)
It Sounds Like KPMG Is ThisClose to Jumping Ernst & Young in Revenues
(8 Dec 2011)
Get Ready for More Sleaze: Accounting
body to apply for ABS licensing powers
(8 Dec 2011)
Barratts administration puts 3840 jobs at risk
(8 Dec 2011)
Insolvency: Barratts and Priceless become latest victims of High St squeeze
(8 Dec 2011)
Ernst
& Young Sued by M-Invest for $900 Million Over Five Years of Audits
(7 Dec 2011)
Report Focuses on Olympus's Relationship With 3 Banks
(7 Dec 2011)
Olympus
auditors
trashed by investigators
(7 Dec 2011)
Olympus board to resign by early 2012
(7 Dec 2011)
Europe's banks have
£
1.5 trillion of toxic assets
(7 Dec 2011)
FASB Pushes for 'Modified Incorporation' of IFRS
(7 Dec 2011)
CIMA disciplinary highlights office holders' risk
(7 Dec 2011)
Yell
Group at loggerheads with 40 debt funds over £2.6bn restructuring
(7 Dec 2011)
Satyam
accounts
: India CA institute debars two audit managers
(7 Dec 2011)
Insolvency Rip-off: How big a slice should administrators take?
(7 Dec 2011)
Potentially worthless
Blacks Leisure
put up for sale
(7 Dec 2011)
Olympus
to reveal £1.1bn hidden losses
(7 Dec 2011)
Scandal puts Iranian banks on the defensive
(7 Dec 2011)
BDO
applies to be named liquidator as Halliwells wind-up continues
(7 Dec 2011)
Nick Clegg's plan for shareholders to tackle fat-cat pay won't work
(6 Dec 2011)
Illicit Financial Outflows from Ethiopia Nearly Doubled in 2009 to US$3.26 Bln, Says New GFI Report
(6 Dec 2011)
At Deloitte, More Pain Before Any Quality Gain
(6 Dec 2011)
Olympus inquiry blames executives and auditors
(6 Dec 2011)
Olympus investigation panel finds 'rotten' management
(6 Dec 2011)
Olympus report
urges legal action
(6 Dec 2011)
Summary of the Independent Report on Olympus in Full
(6 Dec 2011)
Summary of the Independent Report on Olympus
(6 Dec 2011)
Probe finds elaborate cover-up at Olympus
(6 Dec 2011)
Ex Hogan Lovells partner Grierson faces four charges of false accounting
(6 Dec 2011)
Spurs 'stonewalled' West Ham's Karren Brady over phone records
(6 Dec 2011)
SEC Postpones IFRS Decision
(6 Dec 2011)
US Audit Watchdog Sets Sights on China Deal
(6 Dec 2011)
Powerful shareholder group ABI urges bank pay curbs
(6 Dec 2011)
Barclays offers to buy back
£
2.5bn of debt at a discount
(6 Dec 2011)
PCAOB Enters Into Cooperative Agreement with the Netherlands
(6 Dec 2011)
U.K. REIT Law Changes to Open Door to Takeovers From Overseas
Investors
(6 Dec 2011)
Inland Revenue risks 'own goal' with challenge to
insolvency
rule
(6 Dec 2011)
BP
says Halliburton 'destroyed evidence'
( 6 Dec 2011)
Hedge-fund head Rajaratnam begins 11-year prison term
(6 Dec 2011)
Accounting
Failures 'Exacerbated Banking Crisis'
(5 Dec 2011)
SEC Delays Call on
Accounting
Rules
(5 Dec 2011)
Mazars
finalises deal on PwC insolvency division
(5 Dec 2011)
Ex-Ernst & Young partner claims corruption at the firm
(5 Dec 2011)
How to Lose your LIFO Preserver
(5 Dec 2011)
HSBC
faces £40m bill for mis-selling to elderly in care
(5 Dec 2011)
HSBC
fined £10.5m for selling five-year bonds to over 80s
(5 Dec 2011)
Wage inequality 'getting worse' in leading economies, says OECD
(5 Dec 2011)
'Dismissed' partner accuses Ernst & Young of corruption
(4 Dec 2011)
Ireland Tax Haven: US MULTINATIONALS are set to be granted an additional five-year exemption by the Government from having to prepare a second set of accounts under Irish or global financial reporting rules
(4 Dec 2011)
Royal Bank of Scotland
collapse: the 10 questions the FSA must answer
(4 Dec 2011)
Fat Cats: RBS
to pay bonuses of £500m despite King alert
(4 Dec 2011)
SFO
chief calls for law to allow bank prosecutions
( 4 Dec 2011)
MF Global Customer Says $50 Million Commodity Account Gone
(3 Dec 2011)
Lawyers enjoy decade of post-Enron success
(3 Dec 2011)
Rip-off: UK
banks
charging as much as 800000% on overdrafts
(3 Dec 2011)
Wells Fargo to
pay
$75 million to settle Wachovia suit
(3 Dec 2011)
Fat Cats: Thomson
Reuters
boss Tom Glocer exits with £23m payout
(3 Dec 2011)
LAPFF blasts banks, regulators and accountants
(2 Dec 2011)
Investor group calls for overhaul of 'deficiencies' in accounting rules
(2 Dec 2011)
Barclays and Lloyds swallow £50m Southern Cross debt
(2 Dec 2011)
Brussels plans to overhaul audit rules gather pace
(2 Dec 2011)
They Like ineffective Regulation: Accountants angered by EC audit reforms
(2 Dec 2011)
US banks, Bank of America JP Morgan, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and GMAC sued over homes seizures
(2 Dec 2011)
Japan's 'Window Dressing' Hid Olympus
Fraud
: Douglas Skinner
(2 Dec 2011)
MF Global Accounting Technique Under Review, SEC's Schapiro Says
(2 Dec 2011)
US Regulators Pledge New Rules After MF Global's Demise
(2 Dec 2011)
MF Global proves Enron-era
accounting
lives on
(2 Dec 2011)
Has US learned the lesson of Enron 10 years later?
(2 Dec 2011)
Speculation and Sovereign Debt – An Insidious Interaction
(2 Dec 2011)
GLOBAL CORPORATE TAXATION AND RESOURCES FOR QUALITY PUBLIC SERVICES
(2 Dec 2011)
Ernst & Young Wind Hellas decision reversed by High Court
(1 Dec 2011)
Jailed: Money laundering
accountant
from Wilmslow who led life of
luxury
(1 Dec 2011)
Banks
must report leverage ratios by 2013, warns new super-regulator
(1 Dec 2011)
Ex-Olympus chief quits board seeking management change
(1 Dec 2011)
'Big Four'
accountants
face audit reform
(1 Dec 2011)
Enron's fall raised the bar in regulation
(1 Dec 2011)
Enron: 10 Years Later, it Pales In Comparison
(1 Dec 2011)
HM Revenue and Customs opens case against football creditors' rule
(1 Dec 2011)
Has MF Global changed the
insolvency
landscape?
(1 Dec 2011)
Seat CEO in last-ditch bid to avoid insolvency
(1 Dec 2011)
NOVEMBER 2011
Financial system reform: towards sounder auditing
(30 Nov 2011)
Restoring confidence in financial statements: the European Commission aims at a higher quality, dynamic and open audit market
(30 Nov 2011)
European Commission Proposal on specific requirements regarding statutory audit of public-interest entities
(30 Nov 2011)
European Commission Directive on statutory audits of annual accounts and consolidated accounts
(30 Nov 2011)
EU Seeks Rotation of Company
Auditors
in Regulatory Overhaul
(30 Nov 2011)
Weaker audit reform proposals unveiled
(30 Nov 2011)
European Commission proposes breaking up audit firms
(30 Nov 2011)
Europe Proposes Auditor Term Limits, Breaking Up Big Four
(30 Nov 2011)
Olympus Panel Said to Release
Accounting
Probe Report as Soon as Possible
(30 Nov 2011)
Mouchel shares crash despite
£
180m debt deal
(30 Nov 2011)
S&P downgrades British and US banks
(30 Nov 2011)
Paramount Pictures sued by financing partner for fraud
(30 Nov 2011)
Tanzania urged to take action over BAE
bribery
claim
(30 Nov 2011)
How American Airlines will use bankruptcy to cut costs
(30 Nov 2011)
In
Bankruptcy
, a Bid to
Cut Costs
at
American Airlines
(30 Nov 2011
Insolvency: Target Chartered
Accountants
enters administration
(30 Nov 2011)
First
Harry
Ramsden's restaurant to close in Leeds
(30 Nov 2011)
Country-by-Country Reporting in the EU: debating the case for full transparency
(29 Nov 2011)
Michel Barnier moves forward to break up Big Four audit firms
(29 Nov 2011)
Healthcare Locums PLC Statement re: AADB
(29 Nov 2011)
Healthcare Locums' audits face scrutiny
(29 Nov 2011)
Olympus
scandal
reaches a fever pitch
(29 Nov 2011)
PwC defends 'honest mistake' in JP Morgan audit disciplinary
(29 Nov 2011)
KPMG
Recovered $500 Million of MF Global U.K. Client Assets
(29 Nov 2011)
UK watchdog suggests
PwC
fine of up to £34m
(29 Nov 2011)
American Airlines
Parent Files for Bankruptcy
(29 Nov 2011)
Swiss banks could lose $1.2B from
tax
deals
(29 Nov 2011)
Occupy London calls for an end to tax havens, for lobbying transparency and personal accountability for executives
(28 Nov 2011)
PwC Should Get Record Fine in JPMorgan Case, UK Regulator Says
(28 Nov 2011)
Regulators to investigate BDO, ICAEW and ICAS
(28 Nov 2011)
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AADB announces investigation into ICAEW and ICAS members and member firms in connection with Healthcare Locums plc
(28 Nov 2011)
RBS pays $52m in Massachusetts sub-prime settlement
(28 Nov 2011)
Rip-off: Farepak
wind-up fees exceed compensation
(28 Nov 2011)
Insolvency: Farepak
fees reach £8.2m
(28 Nov 2011)
Citigroup
-SEC $285m toxic mortgage deal rejected
(28 Nov 2011)
One simple solution: Outside
auditors
(28 Nov 2011)
Questions over Thomas Cook auditors Ernst & Young
(27 Nov 2011)
£20billion
tax
shock looms for George Osborne
(27 Nov 2011)
Fat Cats: Lloyds
makes £6m 'golden hello' bid
(27 Nov 2011)
Ernst & Young partner Mark Otty received a £197,000 pay rise in 2011, an increase of 9.4% on the previous year, taking his salary to £2.3m
(27 Nov 2011)
Russian Tycoon Fights Extradition From London
(27 Nov 2011)
Japan Retail Investors Mull Olympus Suit Options
(26 Nov 2011)
MF
Global's Jon Corzine may decide silence is golden
(26 Nov 2011)
Thomas Cook secures £100m lifeline
(26 Nov 2011)
Thomas Cook to repay debt within the year
(26 Nov 2011)
Fat Cats: Sainsbury's boss has clear incentives – but are they right? Justin King's total earnings are more than £3m, not just the £900,000 salary he told Question Time
(26 Nov 2011)
Revealed: One Hyde Park's super-rich. But will they pay their
tax
?
(26 Nov 2011)
Super-rich costing the treasury £1bn a year by dodging stamp duty on their properties
(26 Nov 2011)
One in three £1m homes have no stamp duty paid on sale
(26 Nov 2011)
Tax evasion costs the world $3.1 trillion
(25 Nov 2011)
$3.1 trillion lost to tax evasion globally; cost to Britain: £69.9 billion
(25 Nov 2011)
Tax avoidance costs UK economy £69.9 billion a year
(25 Nov 2011)
The Cost of Tax Abuse
(25 Nov 2011)
MF's Missing Money Makes You Wonder About Goldman
(25 Nov 2011)
Company reports are of little use to investors
(25 Nov 2011)
Olympus
accounting
scandal: lessons learnt and questions raised
(25 Nov 2011)
British ex-CEO of Olympus embroiled in massive scandal
(25 Nov 2011)
Lenders face investigation over 'Big Four-only'
auditing
(25 Nov 2011)
"Fair value" accounting rule tweak raises concerns
(25 Nov 2011)
ESMA Concerned By Sovereign Exposure
Accounting
(25 Nov 2011)
ESMA Warns on Banks' Varied Sovereign-Debt Writedowns
(25 Nov 2011)
Blacks Leisure
shares drop on profit warning
(25 Nov 2011)
KPMG's Andrew Says 'Significant Fraud' Evident at Olympus
(25 Nov 2011)
UK Audit competition
inquiry accelerates
(25 Nov 2011)
Ernst & Young boosts income through
internal
services
(25 Nov 2011)
Court reserves ruling on Centro
(25 Nov 2011)
Austria drops probe on Erste CDS
accounting
(25 Nov 2011)
Tottenham accountants PKF give Karren Brady phone records to
West Ham
(24 Nov 2011)
Groupon's Questionable
Accounting
Is Nothing New
(24 Nov 2011)
Phone Hacking - Leveson inquiry: Elle Macpherson's former adviser 'urged to go to rehab'
(24 Nov 2011)
Arcadia set to close up to 260 stores as profits fall
(24 Nov 2011)
Arcadia suffers 40% slide in profit
(24 Nov 2011)
Centro auditor's rock and hard place
(24 Nov 2011)
Is PwC flogging a dead horse at Centro?
(24 Nov 2011)
Centro Improperly Shifted Money in Australian Reorganization,
PWC
Says
(24 Nov 2011)
Currys owner
Dixons
sees losses increase to £25.3m
(24 Nov 2011)
SEC Charges Longtime Madoff Employee With Creating Fake Trades
(24 Nov 2011)
US Regulators Push Chinese to Resume Auditor-Inspection Talks
(24 Nov 2011)
Ex-Olympus CEO meets Tokyo prosecutors on
scandal
(24 Nov 2011)
JPMorgan Said to Buy MF Global Stake in London Metal Exchange
(24 Nov 2011)
Bournemouth Lib Dems back whistleblowing
accountant
(24 Nov 2011)
No assurance over IFRS rules rewrite
(23 Nov 2011)
Thomas Cook faces restructuring as advisers called in
(23 Nov 2011)
Rip-off: Middle-class
motorists
hit hard as costs soar 14% a year
(23 Nov 0211)
Insolvency: MF Global Brokerage's Fees May Reach $100 Million in a Year
(23 Nov 2011)
Jon Corzine called to Congress to account for MF Global's collapse
(23 Nov 2011)
Where's $1.2 BILLION gone? MF Global bankruptcy trustee says missing customer cash is TWICE what firm reported to regulators
(23 Nov 2011)
How To Avoid Chinese
Accounting
Scandals
(23 Nov 2011)
MF Global:
Fraud
, Incompetence, or a Bit of Both?
(23 Nov 2011)
Portsmouth co-owner Vladimir Antonov is subject of arrest warrant
(23 Nov 2011)
Diamond Foods Says Director Death Unrelated to
Accounting
Probe
(23 Nov 2011)
Judge Extends Plea Deadline for Former UBS Trader
(23 Nov 2011)
Sen. Schumer Urges US Audit Watchdog to Act on China
(23 Nov 2011)
Fat Cats: In the UK 2,800 bankers earn over £1m
(23 Nov 2011)
Vince Cable vows to empower shareholders in bid to close pay gap
between executives and ordinary workers
(23 Nov 2011)
Pay gap widens between UK rich and poor
(23 Nov 2011)
Wage gap for men and women falls below 10% for first time - but 'real' pay down 3.5% for all
(23 Nov 2011)
Exposing the lost billions: How financial transparency by multinationals on a country by country basis can aid development
(22 Nov 2011)
Exposing the lost billions: How financial transparency by multinationals on a country by country basis can aid development
(22 Nov 2011)
Thomas Cook
shares collapse on news of bank talks
(22 Nov 2011)
Auditing Watchdog's Audit of PwC, KPMG Find Weaknesses
(22 Nov 2011)
Report on 2010 Inspection of KPMG LLP Issued by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
(22 Nov 2011)
Report on 2010 Inspection of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Issued by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
(22 Nov 2011)
After Five years of twiddling: RSM Robson Rhodes and former partner face £1m bill over iSoft Group case
(22 Nov 2011)
RSM Robson Rhodes LLP and Glyn Williams iSoft Group plc - Outcome of Disciplinary Hearing
(22 Nov 2011)
Missing
MF
Global cash tops $1bn
(22 Nov 2011)
EU Said to Reconsider Multiple-
Auditor
Plans Amid Cost Concerns
(22 Nov 2011)
Purported Auditor Of Provident Capital Pleads Guilty In Scheme
(22 Nov 2011)
A certified public accountant (CPA) and purported outside auditor for Provident Capital Indemnity Ltd. (PCI) pleaded guilty today for his role in a $670 million fraud
(22 Nov 2011)
US Senator Gets Deloitte Information on Federal
Audits
(22 Nov 2011)
Insolvency: Astraeus Airlines
in administration
(22 Nov 2011
Ex-chair of Japanese
Daio
Paper arrested for gambling
(22 Nov 2011)
Former Posterscope President, Finance Director Charged WIth
Fraud
(22 Nov 2011)
Fat Cats: High
executive pay
'corrosive' to the UK economy, report warns
(22 Nov 2011)
Fat Cats: Bob Diamond's
pay
deals show complexity of schemes
(22 Nov 2011)
Return to 'Victorian England' pay gap as Britain's top bosses are paid FIFTY times as much as in the Eighties
(22 Nov 2011)
Bosses' pay too high? Then 'move to Cuba'
(22 Nov 2011)
Fat Cats: Workers 'should be given powers' to help curb pay of top executives
(22 Nov 2011)
Final Report Of the UK High Pay Commission: Cheques With Balances: why tackling high pay is in the national interest
(22 Nov 2011)
Olympus's $687 Million Takeover Scam Lay Hidden in Cardiff Filing System
(21 Nov 2011)
Olympus
Accounting
Fraud May Have Involved Organized Crime
(21 Nov 2011)
Spurs'
accountants
PKF in possession of illegal phone records
(21 Nov 2011)
Lawyers and
auditors
bear brunt of bad debts
(21 Nov 2011)
EU watchdog to soften
accountancy
reforms
(21 Nov 2011)
GAAR: UK Independent study on general anti-avoidance rule published
(21 Nov 2011)
Written Ministerial Statement on publication of the GAAR Report
(21 Nov 2011)
GAAR STUDY:
A study to consider whether a general anti-avoidance rule should be introduced into the UK tax system
(21 Nov 2011)
UK's debts "biggest in the world" - 492% of GDP
(21 Nov 2011)
P&O re-registered the Pride of Hull and the Pride of York in the Bahamas to avoid UK employment laws
(21 Nov 2011)
Don't forget who were the biggest promoters of the failing Fidelity China fund
(21 Nov 2011
Indian
officials raid Vodafone in corruption probe
(21 Nov 2011)
The sale of state assets such as Northern Rock raises issues about
tax
(20 Nov 2011)
Mystery flight of Ansett
accounts
(20 Nov 2011)
EU probe into
auditors
set to be delayed
(20 Nov 2011)
RBS faces lawsuit over MF Global collapse
(20 Nov 2011)
No cash for shareholders as Tilney fund goes bust
(20 Nov 2011)
Fat Cats: Executive pay consultants behind escalating boardroom salaries
(20 Nov 2011)
PwC
sued for alleged bias, retaliation in Tampa office
(20 Nov 2011)
Bernie Ecclestone faces Serious Fraud Office inquiry into 'bribery, corruption and tax evasion' after F1 boss admits he paid German banker £27m
(19 Nov 2011)
Asset Stripping: Virgin
Money
used Northern Rock cash to fund deal
(19 Nov 2011
More deals in focus as Olympus scandal widens
(19 oNv 2011)
Bernard Madoff fraud
'
began 20 years earlier than admitted
'
(19 Nov 2011)
US Senators Seek Transparency For
Auditor
Discipline
(19 Nov 2011)
US Senate Bill Would Make PCAOB Disciplinary Hearings Public
(19 Nov 2011)
Ministry of Defence's £600m bill for expert help
(19 Nov 2011)
The Loophole Economy
(18 Nov 2011)
Brady Court Action Against Spurs' Accountants PKF
(18 Nov 2011)
Spurs adviser held Karren Brady's 'unlawfully obtained' phone records
(18 Nov 2011)
European Banks Face $270 Billion Goodwill Hangover for Past
Purchases
(18 Nov 2011)
MF Said to Have Shifted Hundreds of Millions
(18 Nov 2011)
Probe finds MF Global used funds of customers
(18 Nov 2011)
Ex-Olympus Chief Said to Face Questions From SEC in U.S.
(18 Nov 2011)
Billions Lost by Olympus May Be Tied to Criminals
(18 Nov 2011)
SEC Nearing Decision on
Accounting
Standards
(18 Nov 2011)
SEC Releases Long-Awaited IFRS Comparison Papers
(18 Nov 2011)
Work Plan for the Consideration of Incorporating International Financial Reporting Standards into the Financial Reporting System for U.S. Issuers: A Comparison of U.S. GAAP and IFRS
(18 Nov 2011)
Work Plan for the Consideration of Incorporating International Financial Reporting Standards into the Financial Reporting System for U.S. Issuers: An Analysis of IFRS in Practic
e (18 Nov 2011)
Uncertainty plagues hunt for
IASB
governance chief
(18 Nov 2011)
Warning to investors as land-banking scams top
£
200m
(18 Nov 2011)
DR Congo threatened by vulture fund loop hole
(18 Nov 2011)
Time to swoop on the
vulture funds
(18 Nov 2011)
Vulture funds – how do they work?
(18 Nov 2011)
Vulture funds – the key players
(18 Nov 2011)
Vulture funds await Jersey decision on poor countries' debts
(18 Nov 2011)
India PowerMin bans
Ernst & Young
due to evaluation errors
(17 Nov 2011)
Accounting Scandal Has a Silver Lining for Audit Firms
(17 Nov 2011)
Jailed Langbar executive faces wrath of audit regulator but no action against auditors
(17 Nov 2011)
Virgin Money buys Northern Rock for £747m in deal which leaves taxpayer £400m worse-off
(17 Nov 2011)
Will Virgin plus Rock challenge the big banks? Taxpayers face loss of between £650m and £400m
(17 Nov 2011)
Insolvency: SeaFrance placed into liquidation
( 17 Nov 2011)
TAX AVOIDANCE, CORRUPTION AND CRISIS - CALL FOR PAPERS
Country-by-Country Reporting: ACCA Opposed Transparency for Corporate Tax Cheats
(17 Nov 2011)
Country-by-Country Reporting: ICAEW Opposed Transparency for Corporate Tax Cheats
(17 Nov 2011)
Country-by-Country Reporting: PricewaterhouseCoopers Opposed Transparency for Corporate Tax Cheats
(17 Nov 2011)
Country-by-Country Reporting: Corporate Interested Opposed Transparency for Corporate Tax Cheats
(17 Nov 2011)
USA: Moving forward in incorporation transparency
(16 Nov 2011)
Goldman to Maintain Mark-toMarket Accounting Method
(16 Nov 2011)
The shenanigans of auditing
firms
(16 Nov 2011)
UK Watchdog launches tribunal against ex-Langbar chief
(16 Nov 2011)
FASB Trustees Support Slower IFRS Adoption
(16 Nov 2011)
Two Steps Back from Global
Accounting
?
(16 Nov 2011)
Puma completes first environmental profit and loss account
(16 Nov 2011)
Puma completes environmental
impact costs
(16 Nov 2011)
Olympus Said to Face Formal Probe by UK Serious
Fraud
Office
(16 Nov 2011)
Olympus
Accounting
Facing Formal Probe From UK Prosecutors
(16 Nov 2011)
Olympus steps up fight for survival
(16 Nov 2011)
SFO's Olympus inquiry may lack focus
(16 Nov 2011)
Why we should celebrate the death of
PFI
(16 Nov 2011)
Investors urge Vince Cable to rid accounting rules of profit distortion
(15 Nov 2011)
MF Global and the Problems With Murky
Accounting
(15 Nov 2011)
Olympus accounting tricks queried back in 1990s
(15 Nov 2011)
Olympus Used Bermuda Fund To 'Invent' Assets
(15 Nov 2011)
Barclays Bank criticizes 'fair value'
accounting
(15 Nov 2011)
ASB and FASB publish revised proposal for revenue recognition
(15 Nov 2011)
Accounting Boards Revisit Rules on Booking Revenue
(15 Nov 2011)
Sage faces court battle over pulled £854m MYOB bid
(15 Nov 2011)
Credit Suisse to reveal details of super-rich US '
tax
evaders'
(15 Nov 2011)
UK HOUSE OF COMMONS EARLY DAY MOTION 2399: ETHICAL CONSUMER AND USE OF TAX HAVENS BY COMPANIES OPERATING PUBLIC SERVICES
(15 Nov 2011)
Accountancy Firm sues solicitors over unpaid invoices
(15 Nov 2011)
MF Global: Where Is The Missing Money?
(14 Nov 2011)
Barclays Bank finance director criticizes 'fair value'
accounting
(14 Nov 2011)
Barclays calls for clarity on fair value debt
(14 Nov 2011)
Vendetta: CIMA
spent £179000 on May's misconduct
(14 Nov 2011)
Olympus: Where were the auditors?
(14 Nov 2011)
Schroders worst hit by eurozone crisis
(14 Nov 2011)
U.K. Business Secretary Says He May Legislate to Limit Executive Pay
(14 Nov 2011)
Fat Cats: Departing
River Island
boss bags £15m leaving present
(14 Nov 2011)
The Nazi Banksters' Crimes - Ripple Effect
(13 Nov 2011)
A history of audit failures
(13 Nov 2011)
Olympus 'faces more revelations' about its practises, says former CEO Woodford
(13 Nov 2011)
Olympus Faces New Pressure
(13 Nov 2011)
MF Global's collapse bolsters Dodd-Frank aims, efforts
(13 Nov 2011)
MF Global fires all 1066 staff as trustees hunt for lost $600m
(12 Nov 2011
MF
Global's dive shows few changes on Wall Street
(13 Nov 2011)
PwC chief Frank Blin to step down
(13 Nov 2011)
What Olympus-Like Audit Timebombs Lurk in Japan?
(12 Nov 2011)
US prosecutors target
accounting
fraud
(12 Nov 2011)
Deloitte under scanner in Jagan case
(12 Nov 2011)
Auditor (Deloitte) admits to fudging accounts of Jagan's firms
(12 Nov 2011)
KPMG pontificates on "Who is a typical frauster?, but no reflection on the practices of accounting firms
(12 Nov 2011)
Goldman May Consider Shift From Fair Value
(12 Nov 2011)
Three Former Directors at Military Body Armor Supplier Settle SEC Accounting Fraud Charges
(12 Nov 2011)
SEC Charges China-Based Longtop Financial Technologies for Deficient Filings
(12 Nov 2011)
SEC Charges UBS With Faulty Recordkeeping Related to Short Sales
(12 Nov 2011)
U.S. watchdog faults
audits
of accounting controls
(12 Nov 2011)
In MF Global's Wake, Regulators to
Audit
All Futures Firms
(12 Nov 2011)
Perceptions of Ethics in the City Today
(12 Nov 2011)
BSkyB chairman James
Murdoch
under fire from
investor
group
(12 Nov 2011)
Accounting
for Financial Institutions Is a Mess
(11 Nov 2011)
Wall Street banks/
Accounting
(11 Nov 2011)
Body Armor Execs Settle
Accounting
Fraud Charges
(11 Nov 2011)
CIMA's Margaret May guilty of misconduct
(11 Nov 2011)
Alcoholic
accountant
back behind bars
(11 Nov 2011)
Tokyo Police Investigate Olympus
Accounting
(10 Nov 2011)
Olympus scandal puts auditors under scrutiny
(10 Nov 2011)
Bank Quandary: Valuing the Assets
(10 Nov 2011)
Goldman, Morgan Stanley mull reducing mark-to-market accounting
(10 Nov 2011)
Datasouth's Former director charged with NZ$103m Ponzi scam
(10 Nov 2011)
HSBC's Investment
Bank
Profit Drops, US Bad Loans Increase
(10 Nov 2011)
MF Global Commodity-Account Transfers to Brokers 'Substantially
Complete
(10 Nov 2011)
Hedge brawl
accountant
: 'It wasn't just trimmed it was butchered'
(10 Nov 2011)
Ecclestone
: I paid German banker Gribkowsky £27m to avoid
tax
probe
(10 Nov 2011)
I want the right to see Bob Diamond's tax return
(9 Nov 2011)
Transfer pricing - the video
(9 Nov 2011)
The three lessons from the Olympus debacle
(9 Nov 2011)
Former Vantis accountants faked documents to siphon money from scheme marketed to well-known and wealthy people
(9 Nov 2011)
Fairyland Accounting: HSBC profit rises after
accounting
gain
(9 Nov 2011)
Olympus Casts Spotlight on
Accounting
(9 Nov 2011)
Olympus reveals details of
accounting
scandal
(9 Nov 2011)
Japan regulator talking to Olympus auditors-report
(9 Nov 2011)
Ex-Olympus Officials Face Prison If Fraud Allegations are Proved
(9 Nov 2011)
MF Global 'Starting to Smell Like'
Fraud
: Ex-SEC
Accounting
Chief
(9 Nov 2011)
Lehman: Ernst & Young Wins Home Court
(9 Nov 2011)
Comet
sold for £2 to former-MFI owner
(9 Nov 2011)
Poachers and Gamekeepers: HMRC appoints two more, including an accountant, commissioners
(9 Nov 2011
New York accountant admits filing false tax return
(9 Nov 2011)
FASB Seeks Comments on Proposal to Defer Changes to Presentation of Reclassification of Other Comprehensive Income on Financial Statements
(9 Nov 2011)
Fraud: A review and research agenda
by Gary Pan, Poh-Sun Seow,
Themin Suwardy and Evelyn Gay
Accounting body may change its "fair value" rule
(8 Nov 2011)
Japan's Olympus admits wrongdoing in
accounting
scandal
(8 Nov 2011)
Olympus admits hiding losses for 20 years
(8 Nov 2011)
Vindication for sacked British boss of Olympus as Japanese firm admits £1bn fraud he wanted to investigate
(8 Nov 2011)
Standard setters say 'no thanks' to IFRS for SMEs
(8 Nov 2011)
US High Court Orders Fla Court To Reconsider KPMG Appeal In Case Tied To Madoff
(8 Nov 2011)
High court tells Florida to reconsider arbitration of claims against auditor in Madoff case
(8 Nov 2011)
MF Global paid bonuses just hours before bankruptcy
(8 Nov 2011)
Regulator pulls out of MF inquiry
(8 Nov 2011)
Q&A: How MF Global's Bankruptcy Affects Customers
(8 Nov 2011)
Banking Scams: Coutts fined £6.3m for failings relating to its sale of an AIG fund
(8 Nov 2011)
Regulatory Charades: APB consults on amendments to Ethical Standards
(8 Nov 2011)
Lloyds
Banking Group slumps to £3.8bn loss
(8 Nov 2011)
Charged in $8.5M Ponzi scheme to be announced by N.J. attorney general
(8 Nov 2011)
SEC Chief Accountant Blasts AICPA Private Company Resolution
(8 Nov 2011)
EU official hits out at Kevin Cardiff over €3.6bn
accounting
blunder
(7 Nov 2010)
Accountant
is told to mop up or face a fine
(7 Nov 2011)
Olympus ditched auditor over accounting disagreement
(7 Nov 2011)
Rentokil
profit hit by continued City Link slump
(7 Nov 2011)
More than 1000 jobs under threat as Carphone Warehouse closes all Best Buy stores
(7 Nov 2011)
UK is the world's biggest country – judged by its liabilities
(7 Nov 2011)
China and US in standoff over
auditors
(6 Nov 2011)
Olympus
removed
auditor
after dispute
(6 Nov 2011)
PwC
Didn't Do CME Group Any Favors
(5 Nov 2011)
KPMG
queried Olympus purchases and payments
(5 Nov 2011)
The Mysterious Disappearance of MF Global's $630 Million
(5 Nov 2011)
MF Global Trustee Can Probe, Not Share Information, Judge Says
(5 Nov 2011)
PwC facing £840m legal action from sub-prime lender
Cattles
(4 Nov 2011)
Cattles
Claims 'Gross Misstatement' of Debt in PwC Audits
(4 Nov 2011)
Cattles
Claims 'Gross Misstatement' of Bad Debt in PwC Audits
(4 Nov 2011)
Jon Corzine resigns as
MF
Global chief
(4 Nov 2011)
Auditor
PwC Should Have Been on Top of MF Global
(4 Nov 2011)
MF Global had objected to stricter government regulations
(4 Nov 2011)
Some
MF
Global Client Funds Are Found at JPMorgan
(4 Nov 2011)
PwC escapes- Germany admits accounting blunder but no scapegoats
(4 Nov 2011)
RBS profits hit £2bn, boosted by debt
accounting
gain
(4 Nov 2011)
How Groupon's
accounting
changes hide what's really going on at the company
(4 Nov 2011)
Ireland Civil servant in €3.6bn error still supported for EU position
(4 Nov 2011)
Germany admits
accounting
blunder but no scapegoats
(4 Nov 2011)
Insolvencies: UK Company failures at two-year high
(4 Nov 2011)
Inequality: How It’s Fuelling The Crisis
by Stewart Lansley
MF Global
Auditor
PricewaterhouseCoopers Subpoenaed for Client Fund Data
(3 Nov 2011)
SEC Said to Review Possible Insider Trading in MF Bonds
(3 Nov 2011)
US regulators have been monitoring MF Global for months
(3 Nov 2011)
Investors call for reform to the way companies reveal risks
(3 Nov 2011)
HCA Holdings -
Where Did the $15.8 Billion Go? by ABRAHAM J. BRILOFF and LEONORE A. BRILOFF
(3 Nov 2011)
Could Tighter Regulation Have Protected
MF
Global's Client Accounts?
(3 Nov 2011)
After the Event: Sharman Panel recommends improvements to reporting of going concern and liquidity risks
(3 Nov 2011)
THE SHARMAN INQUIRY: GOING CONCERN AND LIQUIDITY RISKS: LESSONS FOR COMPANIES AND AUDITORS
(3 Nov 2011)
Sharman:
Going concern
too black and white
(3 Nov 2011)
Many Big US Corps. Pay No Federal Income Taxes
(3 Nov 2011)
280 Most Profitable U.S. Corporations Shelter Half Their Profits from Taxes; Thirty Companies Paid Less Than Zero in Taxes In The Last Three Years
(3 Nov 2011)
Corporate Taxpayers & Corporate Tax Dodgers 2008-10
(3 Nov 2011)
Thirty of biggest US companies paid zero income tax over last three years
(3 Nov 2011)
Mandatory auditor rotation
– the
best motivation
?
(3 Nov 2011)
Kodak may face cash crisis if patent sales fail
(3 Nov 2011)
Female
accountants
more critical of economic crisis responses than men
(3 Nov 2011)
Barnier’s tilt at auditors - Academics and trade assicoaitions line to defend audit failures
(3 Nov 2011)
Olympus
Deals Were Approved by Its First Outside Directors
(3 Nov 2011)
Germany Confirms Breach-of-Trust Charge Against
Olympus
Managers
(3 Nov 2011)
Accounting error lowers Republic's general debt
(2 Nov 2011)
Ireland makes 3.6 billion euro account error
(2 Nov 2011)
MF Global
accused of failing to separate clients' money from own
accounts
(2 Nov 2011)
Did
accounting
help sink MF Global?
(2 Nov 2011)
Why
MF Global's auditor
isn't liable to brokerage investors
(2 Nov 2011)
Corzine's Lack of
MF Global
Controls Exposed With Missing Money
(2 Nov 2011)
Jon Corzine firm admits using clients' money as financial troubles mounted at MF Global
(2 Nov 2011)
The London arm of MF Global collapses into administration
(2 Nov 2011)
Auditors Probing Suspicious
Olympus
Deals Named
(2 Nov 2011)
Olympus
appoints high court
judge
to head 'improper payments
inquiry
(2 Nov 2011)
They don't like reforms - BIS: Joint audit and pure audit firms 'inappropriate'
(2 Nov 2011)
Judge orders former Delphi CEO, CAO to pay $330000 for securities violations
(2 Nov 2011)
SMEs
'
owed
£
33.6bn
in late
payments
'
(2 Nov 2011)
Korea Prosecutors Indict More Than 100 on Savings Bank Probe
(2 Nov 2011)
JP Morgan Securities Limited - PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
(1 Nov 2011)
Barclays
' (audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers)
profits blasted as 'tricks
' by City
analysts
(1 Nov 2011)
MF Global : 99 Problems And Auditor
PwC
Warned About None
(1 Nov 2011)
Regulators Investigating MF Global
(1 Nov 2011)
Asia Regulators Suspend Local MF Global Units
(1 Nov 2011)
MF Global's UK division enters special administration
(1 Nov 2011)
Paranoia and confusion among
MF
Global staff
(1 Nov 2011)
PWC Saw No Sign of FMS Accounting Errors, Reports Now Adjusted
(1 Nov 2011)
KPMG
restructuring of JJB cost £107m
(1 Nov 2011)
Lease accounting
changes 'little known'
(1 Nov 2011)
PCAOB Enters Into Cooperative Agreement for the Exchange of Confidential Information with the Israel Securities Authority
(1 Nov 2011)
OCTOBER 2011
Carry on casino banking:
The Vickers Report on banking fails to provide durable reforms
(31 Oct 2011)
FTSE companies' tax rate drops in 2011
(31 Oct 2011)
Britain's largest firms paying less tax despite rising profits
(31 Oct 2011)
Rolling back
accounting
fraud protections will kill, not create, jobs
(31 Oct 2011)
The Myth of Shareholder Control
(31 Oct 2011)
The UK's banks will have to write off £3bn more in bad loans than currently expected
(31 Oct 2011)
Losses widen again at JJB Sports
(31 Oct 2011)
The Bank of England's deliberations during the financial crisis should remain secret, its most senior independent director has insisted
(31 Oct 2011)
The myth of shareholder and director alignment - Reforming banks: The wrong numbers
(30 Oct 2011)
We economists have a Plan B that will work, Mr Osborne
(30 Oct 2011)
Plan B
: the ideas designed to restart a stalled UK economy
(30 Oct 2011)
Plan B could have been even more aggressive, but it would definitely work
(30 Oct 2011)
Christmas comes early for Germany after 55-billion-euro accounting error
(29 Oct 2011)
PwC defends its Luminar
auditor
role
(29 Oct 2011)
North Carolina jury convicts Beazer Homes
accounting
head
(29 Oct 2011)
Auditor
rotation for FDs' credibility?
(29 Oct 2011)
Accountant
Pleads Guilty in Houston in Fake Insurance Scheme
(29 Oct 2011)
UK Charity Examines Aggressive Transfer Pricing’s Effect on Third World
(28 Oct 2011)
Doubts raised over future of Blacks after dire half-year results
(28 Oct 2011)
Blacks Leisure reports a £16m loss
(28 Oct 2011)
Big firm's Poodle: BIS called on European counterparts to resist proposals such as mandatory joint audits and auditor rotation
(28 Oct 2011)
Accounting wizardry erases red ink
(28 Oct 2011)
Zetas drug cartel '
accountant
' detained
(28 Oct 2011)
AngloGold Ashanti Makes First
Tax
Payment to Tanzania This Year
(28 Oct 2011
Goldman Sachs Envy Gains New Meaning at Big Four
(27 Oct 2011)
Olympus
Stock Surges as Kikukawa Quits, Woodford Goes to FBI
(27 Oct 2011)
Olympus
chairman quits amid takeover scandal
(27 Oct 2011)
Olympus
Defends Payments to UK Firm
(27 Oct 2011)
Risk reporting
gets stakeholders in a twist
(27 Oct 2011)
Named and shamed: the worst government annual reports
(27 Oct 2011)
Volkswagen sales up, net boosted by accounting for options related to Porsche takeover
(27 Oct 2011)
Investors
'want
direct dialogue
' with financial report preparers
(27 Oct 2011)
Obama jobs group raps fraud-busting
Sarbanes
-
Oxley
(27 Oct 2011)
Records raise conflict of interest question at Olympus
(27 Oct 2011)
The Greens response to the EU commitment on country-by-country reporting
(26 Oct 2011)
The EU says it is committed to country-by-country reporting
(26 Oct 2011)
Green Mountain Falls After Tilson Comments on
Accounting
Fraud
(26 Oct 2011)
Auditing
has moved into the realms of sitcom
(26 Oct 2011)
Profession's umbrella body continues without
CIMA
(26 Oct 2011)
FASB Chair Seidman Favors 'Condorsement' Approach
(26 Oct 2011)
Romney Trumps Obama in
Accounting Firm
Donations to Presidential
Candidates
(26 Oct 2011)
Luminar to go into
adminstration
(26 Oct 2011)
A Closer Look At Executive Pay Clawbacks
(25 Oct 2011)
Accounting
tweak hides bank wipeout
(25 Oct 2011)
Concerns raised on independence of
audit
processes
(25 Oct 2011)
UBS admits failure of internal controls
(25 Oct 2011)
87% of CFOs support mandatory
auditor
rotation
(25 Oct 2011)
Audit committee reporting needs to improve
(25 Oct 2011)
U.S. watchdog warns on China audit inspections
(25 Oct 2011)
UK small businesses subject to credit ratings "lottery"
(25 Oct 2011)
Auditors
quit over Olympus payments
(25 Oct 2011)
Koss Settles SEC Action and Shareholder Class Action
(25 Oct 2011)
UBS Profits Fall After Trading
Scandal
(25 Oct 2011)
Companies do not have a duty to maximise their profits or to avoid tax
(24 Oct 2011)
Accountants and Firms Fund US Presidential Candidates
(24 Oct 2011)
Chief Financial Officers supportive of rotation of auditors
(24 Oct 2011)
What next for Olympus and its shareholders?
(24 Oct 2011)
Olympus
Plunges on Report FBI Is Investigating Advisor Payments
(24 Oct 2011))
Bank Of America's Earnings: Was It A Gimmick?
(24 Oct 2011)
KPMG confidence: Regulation will never force audit split
(24 Oct 2011)
S
ilvercorp says audit backs firm's integrity
(24 Oct 2011)
Swiss Banks to Hand Over Names of U.S.
Tax
Evaders
(24 Oct 2011)
Swiss Banks May Pay Billions, Disclose Names
(24 Oct 2011
Ethical dilemmas easier with personal morals
(24 Oct 2011
SMEs want
accountants
to work online
(24 Oct 2011))
David Cameron gave MP top job in mistaken belief she was an
accountant
(24 Oct 2011)
Welcome to Britain, a haven for
tax
dodgers
(23 Oct 2011)
Olympus
scandal: KPMG quit over Gyrus accounts
(23 Oct 2011)
S&P 500 Earnings Get Boost From Bank
Accounting
Quirk
(23 Oct 2011)
Olympus
Extends Decline as Shareholders Question Past Acquisition Payments
(23 Oct 2011)
India Government to standardise bank
accounting
(23 Oct 2011)
FASB Proposes Changes in Investment
Accounting
(22 Oct 2011)
Thomas Cook secures easier borrowing terms from
banks
(22 Oct 2011
PwC criticised in Gaines-Cooper ruling
(22 Oct 2011)
Stolen Money and Lost Lives: How Capital Flight Drains Africa
(21 Oct 2011)
UK Watchdog orders auditors inquiry
(21 Oct 2011)
OFT refers audit market to Competition Commission
(21 Oct 2011)
Protests should prompt accountants
'
serious questions
(21 Oct 2011)
CapitaLand's Profit Falls 83% on
Accounting
Change
(21 Oct 2011)
Accounting
Trickery Flourishes In Financial Sector
(21 Oct 2011)
Deloitte's Quandary: Defy the SEC or China
(21 Oct 2011)
Corporate Accounts:
Accounting
substandard
(21 Oct 2011)
California court says no to importing New York standard for auditor suits
(21 Oct 2011)
Olympus
M&A fees scandal: Q&A
(21 Oct 2011)
Verizon earnings double on revenue rise,
accounting
change
(21 Oct 2011)
Six years prison for National Finance director
(21 Oct 2011)
Court appearance for UBS trader
(21 Oct 2011)
China Doubts US Audit Firms
(20 Oct 2011)
Chinese Government Asking Big 4 Firms to Take Another Look at Their Audits
(20 Oct 2011)
JP Morgan (JPM) Uses Parlor Tricks to Mask its Awful Earnings
(20 Oct 2011)
Morgan Stanley's Gorman Calls
Accounting
Gain `Anomaly'
(20 Oct 2011)
European Commission raids RBS offices in Euribor probe
(20 Oct 2011)
Mercedes Chief Lieb Dismissed Over Expenses
(20 Oct 2011)
A scandal behind Mercedes' US chief's removal?
(20 Oct 2011)
IASB clarifies accounting for costs associated with waste removal in surface mining
(20 Oct 2011)
Deloitte
and Eversheds join Aberystwyth University inquiry
(20 Oct 2011
Accounting
Boosts Morgan Stanley Profit
(19 Oct 2011)
How
accounting
distorts Morgan Stanley's results
(19 Oct 2011)
Brothers claim €2.4m loss because of alleged fraud in Sligo site investment
(19 Oct 2011)
Citigroup to Pay $285 Million to Settle SEC Charges for Misleading Investors About CDO Tied to Housing Market
(19 Oct 2011)
SFO looks into Olympus
' $687m '
advisory fees
' during Gyrus deal
(19 Oct 2011)
CSC rocked by Danish
accounting
scandal
(19 Oct 2011)
AICPA Prepares for Canadian CPA Expansion
(19 Oct 2011)
Fairylaind Accounting: Morgan Stanley Beats Estimates on Accounting Gain
(19 Oct 2011)
Rupert Murdoch's Tax Play: News Corp. Lobbied For Trade Pact With Favored Tax Haven Panama
(19 Oct 2011)
Procter & Gamble and the dark art of
tax avoidance
(19 Oct 2011)
US Oversight board faults Deloitte audits
(18 Oct 2011)
Audit Firms that Failed to Address Quality Control Criticisms Satisfactorily
(18 Oct 2011)
US Board Statement Regarding Publication of Inspection Report Quality Control Criticisms
(18 Oct 2011)
Wife of former Deloitte partner to pay $1 million to settle insider allegations
(18 Oct 2011)
FRC
restructuring points to more power
(18 Oct 2011)
AICPA, CIMA Plan Push for New Management Credential
(18 Oct 2011)
Olympus
shares plunge after chief fired
(18 Oct 2011)
Olympus ex-boss takes case to SFO
(18 Oct 2011)
Bank of America earns $6.2B on accounting gains
(18 Oct 2011)
Accounting gain helps Citi beat profit forecasts
(18 Oct 2011)
Assured Guaranty Restates Earnings for Accounting Errors
(18 Oct 2011)
'Incompetent' Treasury rejected our offer to help, say
Equitable
Life victims
(18 Oct 2011)
U.S. bank
accounting
rule has big earnings impact
(18 Oct 2011)
Accounting
Gain Boosts Citigroup Profit
(17 Oct 2011)
Feather Duster Regulation: FRC wants power to settle cases
(17 Oct 2011)
Accountancy rules aim to cut probes backlog
(17 Oct 2011)
BP reaches $4bn settlement over Deepwater Horizon disaster
(17 Oct 2011)
Mouchel
interim chairman resigns after four days
(17 Oct 2011)
Google Caught In
Transfer Pricing
Balancing Act
(17 Oct 2011)
Transfer Pricing Games: Many FDI firms in Vietnam found to fake losses
(17 Oct 2011
Berating the Beancounters
(16 Oct 2011)
Vodafone
pays just £1400
tax
on profits of £3.5bn
(16 Oct 2011)
UK Taxman accused of 'cover-up' over Goldman's bill
(16 Oct 2011)
EU chief wants law change to target rogue bankers
(16 Oct 2011)
APB issues Bulletin for auditors providing assurance to the FSA in relation to client assets held by regulated firms
(16 Oct 2011)
Zynga's
accounting
change sets off alarms
(15 Oct 2011)
Fitch Says Erste's CDS
Accounting
Wasn't Standard Practice
(15 Oct 2011)
Experts Weigh In on
Auditor
Term Limits
(15 Oct 2011)
Painful choices loom on China's
accounting
problem
(15 Oct 2011)
News Corp faces revolt
by quarter of
shareholders
(15 Oct 2011
Bankrupt companies must fill
pension
gaps before paying others
(15 Oct 2011)
Pension priority in UK bankruptcies
(15 Oct 2011)
What is a "debit valuation adjustment," and why did it boost
J.P. Morgan
's third-quarter earnings so much?
(14 Oct 2011)
How JP Morgan Just Made $1.9 Billion By Everyone Betting Against Them
(14 Oct 2011)
Accounting gain spares JP Morgan's blushes in Q3 results
(14 Oct 2011)
Every good boy deserves fudged profits
(14 Oct 2011)
The book-cooking index
(14 Oct 2011)
Benford's Law and the Decreasing Reliability of Accounting Data"
(14 Oct 2011)
Hypotheticals, intangibles and imprudent
accounting
(14 Oct 2011)
Erste faces questions over CDS
accounting
change
(14 Oct 2011)
News Corp. Makes List of 10 Riskiest Companies for Investors
(14 Oct 2011)
Ten high-risk US companies named by governance firm
(14 Oct 2011)
RBS the 'most vulnerable
'
bank in Europe
(14 Oct 2011)
Mouchel Opens Books to Lenders, Expects to Breach Covenants
(14 Oct 2011)
Mouchel hires former Serco man as chief in shake-up
(14 Oct 2011)
Administrators claim another £2bn for Lehmans creditors
(14 Oct 2011)
ICAEW
makes shrewd move in legal privilege battle
(14 Oct 2011)
Dillard's Fires PWC After
Accounting
Dispute, Hires KPMG as Auditor
(14 Oct 2011)
Kiwi
accountants
' body to merge with Australia
(13 Oct 2011)
US IRS Auditing How Google Shifted Profits
Offshore
to Avoid Taxes
(13 Oct 2011)
FTSE 100 Auditors Survey 2011:audit fees £522m, non-audit fees £809.5m
(13 Oct 2011)
Who Really Does Your Audit?
(13 Oct 2011)
The places and people who help Barclays ‘minimize’ its taxes
(13 Oct 2011)
Leasing Standard: re-exposure of IAS 17 may not simplify the framework
(13 Oct 2011)
UK Taxpayer nursing huge losses on RBS and Lloyds
(13 Oct 2011)
Farepak
victims still £36m out of pocket
(13 Oct 2011)
Evergrande Ordered to Pay Fine for
Accounting
Irregularities
(13 Oct 2011)
University of Wales helps 650 stranded Tasmac students
(13 Oct 2011)
SEC Charges Bank Executives With Hiding Millions of Dollars in Losses During 2008 Financial Crisis
(13 Oct 2011)
US Feds file charges against execs of failed United Commercial Bank
(13 Oct 2011)
PCAOB Auditor Identification Proposal Signals Slow But Steady Reform
(13 Oct 2011)
PCAOB Strikes Deal with Japan on Audit Firm Inspections
(13 Oct 2011)
China Companies Evading Rule With US Listings Stump Regulators
(13 Oct 2011)
Former police officer admits £300m VAT
fraud
(13 Oct 2011
US Oversight board proposes plan to make
accountants
more accountable
(12 Oct 2011)
US Rule Aims to Reconcile Audit Partners, Firms
(12 Oct 2011)
New Jersey Revives Lehman Suit Against Ernst & Young
(12 Oct 2011)
Former managing partner at Arthur Andersen to serve three months of home confinement after admitting he engaged in insider trading
(12 Oct 2011)
Five Satyam
accounting
fraud accused granted bail
(12 Oct 2011)
Scale of multi-national
tax
avoidance revealed
(12 Oct 2011)
Why Britain's biggest businesses are addicted to
tax havens
(12 Oct 2011)
Goldman Sachs let off paying £10m interest on failed tax avoidance scheme
(12 Oct 2011)
Goldman Sachs 'escaped paying £20m National Insurance bill in HMRC deal'
(12 Oct 2011)
Two Swiss Bankers Charged With US Tax-Evasion Conspiracy
(12 Oct 2011)
Julius Baer Will Cooperate With US
Tax
Evasion Probe
(12 Oct2 011)
Evergrande Says
Accounting
Issues Linked to Guangzhou Unit
(12 Oct 2011)
FSA wrong to use
Keydata
emails
(12 Oct 2011)
Tax and Sustainability: A framework for businesses and socially responsible investors
(11 Oct 2011)
Quarter of FTSE 100 subsidiaries located in
tax
havens
(11 Oct 2011)
British firms attacked for routine use of
tax
havens
(11 Oct 2011)
Martin Hearson: We identified over 8000 firms hiding in tax havens
(11 Oct 2011)
Tax havens and the FTSE 100: the full list
(11 Oct 2011)
FTSE 100 tax haven tracker
(11 Oct 2011)
Top 100 British multinationals have declared full or joint ownership of 34,216 companies - 25% of which are located in jurisdictions classed as tax havens
(11 Oct 2011)
Addicted to tax havens: The secret life of the FTSE 100
(11 Oct 2011)
U.K. Regulator Criticizes Auditing of French Banks
(11 Oct 2011)
Barnier leak may hang the Big Four out to dry
(11 Oct 2011)
Auditors
rap 29 parish councils over missing annual returns
(11 Oct 2011)
KPMG
recruiting more women
(11 Oct 2011)
Recent Comments On European and U.S. Audit Reform
(10 Oct 2011)
REPEAT-Corporate audit fees up? Beware of trouble ahead
(10 Oct 2011)
Google Ireland legally transfers profits to Bermuda
tax haven
(10 Oct 2011)
UK Taxman clamps down on private tutors
(10 Oct 2011
PCAOB to Consider Proposing Amendments to Improve Transparency Through Disclosure of Engagement Partner and Certain Other Participants in Audits
(10 Oct 2011)
The £127m 'fraud' never revealed by
Société Générale
(10 Oct 2011)
Cheyne Capital
in £32m PAYE dispute with HMRC
(10 Oct 2011)
Clifford Chance finally exhausts £26m special fund
(10 Oct 2011)
FTSE 350 leaves gaps in risk reporting
(10 Oct 2011)
Give US Work, Black Accountants Plead With Minister Gigaba
(10 Oct 2011)
Rupert and James
Murdoch
should leave News Corp board
(10 Oct 2011
Alarm bells ring as Mouchel stumbles
(10 Oct 2011)
Google paid only €5.6m
tax
despite €10bn turnover
(9 Oct 2011)
Judge puts brakes on SEC's Deloitte case
(9 Oct 2011)
Police inquiry at Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce business trust
(9 Oct 2011)
Hovis
maker Premier Foods faces an uphill struggle
(9 Oct 2011)
A More Progressive Tax System Makes People Happier
(9 Oct 2011)
SEC Asks Judge to Order
Deloitte
Unit to Court in Dispute
(8 Oct 2011)
SME cash
accounting
'a good idea'
(8 Oct 2011)
New Grifphon
lawsuit
targets accountants
(8 Oct 2011)
“Fraud Triangle” Needs Review
(8 Oct 2011)
Prestige Telecom stock halted for failing to use new accounting standard
(8 Oct 2011)
Investors should make tax an ethical issue
(7 Oct 2011)
Mouchel (audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers) CEO resigns in wake of error that forced profits warning
(7 Oct 2011)
Mouchel chief Richard Cuthbert resigns as accounting error hits profits
)7 Oct 2011)
Deutsche Bank Makes Provision for CO2
Tax
Fraud Suit
(7 Oct 2011)
UK Government Statistics show that Accountancy firms are the Biggest Promoters of Tax Avoidance
(7 Oct 2011)
PwC
asks judge to withdraw from the Centro case
(7 Oct 2011)
Ernst & Young
sued
for PE firm's lost insolvency business investment
(7 Oct 2011)
Accountants question "£600m" audit exemption plan
(7 Oct 2011)
'Muted' impact of UK audit exemptions
(7 Oct 2011)
Hovis maker
Premier Foods
faces an uphill struggle
(7 Oct 2011)
Audit
split could be stalemate for Big Four
(7 Oct 2011)
Soros fails in bid to quash insider trading conviction for $2.9m Societe Generale deal
(7 Oct 2011)
UBS
suspends three managers over rogue trading scandal
(6 Oct 2011)
Accountants disciplined over audit governance
(6 Oct 2011)
Hoogervorst Urges US Support for IFRS
(6 Oct 2011)
Ernst & Young
sees partners' profits rise
(5 Oct 2011)
US Panel Plans Private-Firm
Accounting
Changes
(5 Oct 2011)
Bribery, Corruption and Money Laundering: Provident Capital Indemnity Ltd. (PCI), its president and its auditor charged -
Superseding Indictment Filed in $670 Million Fraud Scheme
(5 Oct 2011)
Lawson
applauds Barnier's
audit
reform
(4 Oct 2011)
Corporations That Take "Tax Holidays" Slash Jobs
(4 Oct 2011)
US wins three tax cases involving big banks, KPMG
(4 Oct 2011)
US-Chinese Progress on
Accounting
Is Dealt Setback
(4 Oct 2011)
US Justice Department Prevails in Three Tax Shelter Cases on Same Day
(4 Oct 2011)
US Court Judgment:
WFC Holdings Corporation v. United States - Wells Fargo paid KPMG $3 million for a scheme that had no business purpose other than tax avoidance
(4 Oct 2011)
Auditors face greater demands from investors
(3 Oct 2011)
PricewaterhouseCoopers becomes world's biggest accounting company - $29.2bn revenues
(3 Oct 2011)
Questions raised over MPs’ conflicts of interests
(1 Oct 2011)
SEPTEMBER 2011
KPMG
sells Alexon in pre-pack deal
(30 Sep 2011)
US Justice Department probing Chinese
accounting
(29 Sep 2011)
Solyndra Said to Be Investigated by FBI for
Accounting Fraud
(29 Sep 2011)
Google Joins Apple in Push for Tax Holiday
(29 Sep 2011)
Mazars accountancy
firm
to finance spin-off from
Audit
Commission
(28 Sep 2011)
Leaked European Audit Rotation Proposal Offers U.S. Preview
(28 Sep 2011)
Deloitte Sued For Allegedly Failing To Detect Mortgage Fraud
(27 Sep 2011)
Don't Count On Europe To Reform Auditors And Accounting
(27 Sep 2011)
Barnier vows to break the big four accounting firms
(27 Sep 2011)
How best to audit the auditors
(27 Sep 2011)
Accounting Firms
Face 'Big Impact' From Draft EU Restrictions
(27 Oct 2011)
Deloitte & Touche Sued for $7.6 Billion in Taylor Bean Collapse
(27 Sep 2011)
All bets are off on another financial calamity
(26 Sep 2011)
Accounting Firms
Face 'Big Impact' From Draft EU Restrictions
(27 Oct 2011
EU
to propose
audit
-only
firms
and mandatory rotation
(26 Sep 2011)
Silvercorp Says KPMG to Issue
Fraud
Allegation Report 'Soon'
(26 Sep 2011)
FSA
staff jump ship as City regulator nears split
(26 Sep 2011
The BBC bill for advisers such as Deloitte,
Ernst & Young
and Equals Consulting was £8.23million
(26 Sep 2011)
BBC spent £8m on consultants while cutting programmes
(26 Sep 2011)
UBS rogue trader:
KPMG
to lead investigation into bank failings
(26 Sep 2011)
CEOs - the new corporate fraudsters
(26 Sep 2011)
Audit rotation and the consultation conundrum
(26 Sep 2011)
Nevada’s Big Bet on Secrecy:
Consultants—including some with criminal pasts—are selling the gambling center as a haven from taxes and legal liability
(26 Sep 2011)
SEC Cuts Off Some Aggressive
Accounting
At Groupon
(25 Sep 2011)
Bill Gates Supports the Financial Transactions
Tax
(25 Sep 2011)
Tax
wars: A fight worth billions
(25 Sep 2011
How to Hide (and Find) Assets: Layers of companies can serve to mask the owners of assets, but be careful whom you alienate
(24 Sep 2011)
Accounting
Change Cuts Groupon's Revenue
(24 Sep 2011)
Solyndra executives plead Fifth Amendment at hearing
(24 Sep 2011)
Fat Cats: Nice work if you can get it: 43000 jobs lost, but Lloyds bank boss exits
with £5 million
(24 Sep 2011)
Chilean Banking Regulator Says It Has Filed Charges Against PwC
(23 Sep 2011)
Deloitte reveals $28.b bn record revenues as it benefits from financial crisis
(23 Sep 2011)
FASB Issues Accounting Standards Update to Improve Employer Disclosures for Multiemployer Pension Plans
(23 Sep 2011)
Pressure Mounts to Create Private
US Accounting
Standards Board
(23 Sep 2011)
Investors demand chairmen reveal plans for employing
female directors
(23 Sep 2011)
Investors
:
IFRS unfit for purpose
(23 Sep 2011)
Fraud
and the Family Business: It's Not So Unusual
(23 Sep 2011)
SinoTech Says Ernst & Young China Arm Resigns As Auditor
(23 Sep 2011)
Russia's banks: Collateral damage
(23 Sep 2011)
Accountant
jailed to 15 years for fraud
(15 Sep 2011)
First stop Australia as China's
accountants
go global
(23 Sep 2011)
The Pin-stripe Mafia
(22 Sep 2011)
Anonymous U.S. “Shell” Corporations: A National Security Code Red
(22 Sep 2011)
UK refuses to sign up to oil, mining and gas transparency initiative
(22 Sep 2011)
UBS trader charged with fraud relating to activities between 2008 and 2010, in addition to two allegations of false accounting and one of fraud in 2011
(22 Dec 2011)
Professional judgment and decisions are never free from bias
(22 Sep 2011)
PFI
schemes 'taking NHS trusts to brink of financial collapse'
(22 Sep 2011)
Accountants
flustered by Greek inconsistency
(22 Sep 2011)
UK Audit inspectors 'pleased' with smaller firms' progress
(22 Sep 2011)
Former Goldman
Sachs
trader
and his father
charged with insider
trading
(22 Sep 2011
Lotto winner fleeced and murdered by
accountant
(22 Sep 2011)
1,210 billionaires with a total net worth of $4.5 trillion
(22 Sep 2011)
Forbes 400 fuels 'class warfare' fire: The rich, yes, are getting richer
(22 Sep 2011)
Disastrous £11.4bn NHS IT programme to be abandoned
(22 Sep 2011)
US commits to joining the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
(21 Sep 2011)
Babcock & Brown directors and auditor Ernst Young avoid Australia court showdown
(21 Sep 2011)
AIU calls for improvements to small firm audit
(21 Sep 2011)
UK Audit Inspection Unit publishes report on firms auditing ten or fewer entities within AIU scope
(21 Sep 2011)
MORE than one third of subsidiaries of the world's 10 leading oil and mining companies are listed in offshore tax havens
(21 Sep 2011)
Piping Profits:
Mapping the 6,038 subsidiaries owned by ten of the world’s most powerful Extractive Industry giants
(21 Sep 2011)
New Colonialism: ICAEW signs MoU with Kenyan accounting body
(21 Sep 2011)
Ideology Wars: KPMG
to double number of students in paid-for accountancy degree
(21 Sep 2011)
UBS
Trader Scandal: Deja Vu All Over Again
(20 Sep 2011)
Tax Evasion Investigation Focuses on Eight Offshore Banks
(20 Sep 2011)
Full Tilt
Poker accused of running 'massive Ponzi scheme'
(20 Sep 2011)
Full Tilt Poker, a Dublin-based online poker company, has been accused by US authorities of being a "global Ponzi scheme" that used players' money to enrich its directors
(20 Sep 2011)
SEC asks companies to disclose
offshore
cash
(20 Sep 2011)
FASB's Convergence Timeline Moves to Next Year
(20 Sep 2011)
Ex-SEC Counsel's Actions on Madoff Referred to Justice Department
(20 Sep 2011)
Senior HMRC official tells Treasury select committee of mistakes in high-profile cases: Vodafone and Goldman Sachs tax settlements in spotlight
(20 Sep 2011)
The how but not why of UBS's losing bets
(20 Sep 2011)
Fair Value
Accounting
Is Alive And Well
(19 Sep 2011)
Scandal
Lingers at SocGen Bank
(19 Sep 2011)
Non execs
have 'little idea' on risk
(19 Sep 2011)
FASB Issues Accounting Standards Update to Simplify Testing Goodwill for Impairment
(19 Sep 2011)
Peacocks under review as UK downturn bites
(19 Sep 2011)
UBS
probe to be run by
Deloitte
(19 Sep 2011)
UBS
raises trading losses to $2.3bn
(19 Sep 2011)
UBS's
Controls and Culture in Question
(19 Sep 2011)
Casino
banking does more damage than riots
(19 Sep 2011)
Silvercorp CEO writes open letter to shareholders responding to allegations
(19 Sep 2011)
UBS
Has Some Explaining to Do
(18 Sep 2011)
UBS trading losses fuel push for split banking
(18 Sep 2011)
Bank Of America
Reportedly Keeping Countrywide Bankruptcy As Option
(18 Sep 2011
NZ Inland Revenue Department says Alesco avoided millions of dollars in tax by claiming deductions on financial instruments called optional convertible notes
(18 Sep 2011)
Ontario regulator suspends trading of Chinese company Zungui Haixi
(18 Sep 2011)
Three years after UK’s banking crisis, will reforms deliver?
(17 Sep 2011)
UBS Trader Charged With Fraud, False
Accounting
Dating to 2008
(17 Sep 2011)
We should not be distracted by the UBS '
lone trader
'
myth
(17 Sep 2011)
UBS
rogue trader:
Investigations focus on fictitious hedges
(17 Sep 2011
Lawsuit Against SemGroup, PwC Over Failed Oil Futures Trades Back to Tulsa
(17 Sep 2011)
SemGroup lawsuit returns to US district court - PricewaterhouseCoopers implicated
(17 Sep 2011)
Canada regulator probing China's Zungui Haixi
(17 Sep 2011)
Ex-UBS trader says Swiss bank was probably trying to cover up its losses
(16 Sep 2011)
Without a proper inquiry into what went wrong, Vickers is wasting his time
(16 Sep 2011)
ICAEW fines high street firms for audit failings
(16 Sep 2011)
Another Blacks Leisure director quits
(16 Sep 2011)
UBS
rogue trader: You were warned about ETFs, says Terry Smith
(16 Sep 2011
UBS Bank unaware that 'rogue trader' had lost £1.3bn until he blew the whistle
(16 Sep 2011)
UBS
did not notice Adoboli's £1.3bn loss
(16 Sep 2011)
UBS
trader is
charged
with
fraud
(16 Sep 2011)
Why Bother Trying To Value Bank Of America?
(16 Sep 2011)
Accountants split on next IASB project
(16 Sep 2011)
Satyam
fraud
: India Supreme Court agrees to hear bail pleas of accused
(16 Sep 2011)
US
tax
-evasion probe turns to Israeli banks
(16 Sep 2011)
HMRC Tackles Manufactured Overseas Dividends
Tax Avoidance
Scheme
(16 Sep 2011)
Baker Tilly
quits over Citizens Advice accounts
(16 Sep 2011)
Ernst & Young to face disciplinary hearing over role in Anglo collapse
(15 Sep 2011)
Three years after UK’s banking crisis, will reforms deliver?
(15 Sep 2011)
Undisclosed loans and IL&P deposits led to Ernst & Young investigation
(15 Sep 2011)
Ernst & Young to answer questions over Anglo Irish audit
(15 Sep 2011)
European Bank Blowups Hidden With Shell Games
(15 Sep 2011
Parmalat Judge Reaffirms Dismissal of
Grant Thornton
Cases
(15 Sep 2011)
Norway and U.S. Strike Deal on
Accounting
Oversight
(15 Sep 2011)
PCAOB Enters into Cooperative Agreement with Norway
(15 Sep 2011)
Transfer Pricing: How Hollywood
Accounting
Can Make a $450 Million Movie 'Unprofitable'
(15 Sep 2011)
Undeclared Beneficial Ownership and Licence to Loot: Governments and campaigners want tighter scrutiny of company registration
(15 Sep 2011)
KPMG
administrators launch Aero Inventory business
(15 Sep 2011)
Stakeholder Pensions: Over-inflated Assets Report on Greek Debts
(15 Sep 2011)
Theresa May scraps Harman's plan to force
boards
to appoint more
women
(15 Sep 2011)
TJN's Prem Sikka has blasted open the BCCI case
(14 Sep 2011)
Does
Corporate Governance
Matter?
(14 Sep 2011)
EU lawmakers give backing to
auditing
shake-up
(14 Sep 2011)
U S court fight may not solve Chinese
accounting
mess
(14 Sep 2011)
Councils reported over anti high-speed rail fighting fund
(14 Sep 2011)
Privately-Held Companies Urge Separate US
Accounting
Standards
(14 Sep 2011)
How rotten is News Corp, shareholders ask
(14 Sep 2011)
James Murdoch under pressure as News
Corp shareholders
start lawsuit
(14 Sep 2011)
UK Probe of HSBC Clients Said to Widen Over Swiss
Tax
Dodge
(14 Sep 2011)
U.K.
Tax
Evasion Probe of HSBC Clients With Swiss Accounts
(13 Sep 2011)
US agency handling of Madoff, other assets blasted
(13 Sep 2011)
Lehman
Brothers: three years of denial
(13 Sep 2011)
PwC Partners Making Deloitte Counterparts Look Like Peasants
(13 Sep 2011)
PwC partners' avoid pay reductions
(13 Sep 2011)
Risk,
accounting
standards and the pensions puzzle
(12 Sep 2011)
Accenture Pays U.S. $63.675 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations: or caused to be submitted false claims for payment under numerous contracts with agencies of the United States
(12 Sep 2011)
Investors' anger as
SFO
drops probe into Weavering fund
(12 Sep 2011)
80 of the world's biggest 100 firms use Dutch trust offices
(12 Sep 2011)
Businesses should link environmental and financial impact, investors urge
(12 Sep 2011)
Framework Proposed for Integrating Financial, Environmental and Social Reporting
(12 Sep 2011)
PwC defends itself from audit critics
(12 Sep 2011)
PricewaterhouseCoopers growth defies market turmoil
(12 Sep 2011)
Fat cat pay returns to pre-crunch excesses
(12 Sep 2011)
Executive pay is on the increase again
(12 Sep 2011)
UK Independent Commission on Banking: publication of Final Report
(12 Sep 2011)
UK Independent Commission on Banking: Final Report and Recommendations
(12 Sep 2011)
Banks
face biggest shake-up for decades
(12 Sep 2011)
Vickers report: banks get until 2019 to ringfence high street operations
(12 Sep 2011)
Sir John Vickers' banking report: bankers pay too low a price for high risks
(12 Sep 2011)
ICB report: Banks barred from putting depositors' money at risk as reforms increase costs by up to £7 billion
(12 Sep 2011)
Deloitte
Squeezed by SEC, Chinese Regulators
(11 Sep 2011)
Evolution shareholders query CEO share options before bid
approach
(11 Sep 2011)
PwC
swamped by 22000 applications for graduate jobs
(11 Sep 2011)
Growth is about so much more than just the top rate of tax
(11 Sep 2011
UK Treasury loses five-year fight to conceal 40 names linked to collapsed bank BCCI
(10 Sep 2011)
Deloitte Hides From SEC Behind Chinese Wall Over Longtop
(10 Sep 2011)
CPA Sentenced to 42 Months for Mail
Fraud
, Tax Evasion
(10 Sep 2011)
Ex-Ernst & Young partner's insider trading conviction upheld
(9 Sep 2011)
Healthcare Locums' former chief Kate Bleasdale votes against £64m fundraising
(9 Sep 2011)
SEC Files Subpoena Enforcement Action Against Deloitte & Touche in Shanghai
(9 Sep 2011)
SEC Move Against Deloitte Underscores Frustrations With China
(9 Sep 2011)
Audit Commission mutual choked by cap on market share
(9 Sep 2011)
FASB Adds Intangible Assets Project to Agenda
(9 Sep 2011)
TNK-BP
internal
fraud probe leads to 37 criminal cases
(9 Sep 2011)
UK Government forced to scrap tax evasion measures: Accounting firms rejoice
(9 Sep 2011)
Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) Scandal: UK Government Forced to Publish the Sandstorm Report
(8 Sep 2011)
SEC Clashes With Deloitte in China Over Fraud
(8 Sep 2011)
SEC takes China-based Deloitte unit to court
(8 Sep 2011)
European Banks Apply Slippery Standards on Greek Bonds
(8 Sep 2011)
Bernard
Madoff
: HSBC's £39m settlement with Irish investors
(8 Sep 2011)
Credit Suisse Defends
Accounting
Methods
(8 Sep 2011)
Auditor to face disciplinary action after Oct 3 in Satyam scam
(8 Sep 2011)
Explain
tax avoidance
reports, ActionAid tells Glencore
(8 Sep 2011)
Greece Names 6000 Businesses For
Tax Evasion
(8 Sep 2011)
Corporate America Untaxed: Tax Avoidance on the Rise
(8 Sep 2011)
UK
banks
handed £46bn taxpayer subsidy
(8 Sep 2011
Insolvency: Saab
faces collapse after bankruptcy protection rejected by court
(8 Sep 2011)
UK Pensions contributions fell 10% during recession
(8 Sep 2011)
Pension
accounting
has caused closure of 'perfectly viable' schemes
(7 Sep 2011)
NAPF calls for overhaul of retirement
pension accounting
(7 Sep 2011)
More than half of the private companies winning UK Government contracts, including KPMG, have subsidiaries in tax havens
(7 Sep 2011)
US House of Representatives debates mandatory human rights disclosure
(7 Sep 2011)
Dutch regulator clarifies banks' reporting policy
(7 Sep 2011)
Fat Cats: Top bosses' pension pots increase to £3.9 million
(7 Sep 2011)
A TUC report on directors’ pensions in the UK’s top companies
(7 Sep 2011)
FTSE directors'
pension
pots average record £3.9m
(7 Sep 2011)
Average UK occupational pension is £184 a week or £9,568 year
(7 Sep 2011)
Average UK public sector pension, based on the five largest schemes, is £6,497
(7 Sep 2011)
Insolvency: Saab
Files for Bankruptcy Protection While It Awaits Chinese Cash
(7 Sep 2011
Former iSoft auditors (Robson Rhodes) to face accountancy board - six years too late
(6 Sep 2011)
The battle for Foster’s is turning ugly after SABMiller claimed the brewer made “misleading and deceptive” statements in its full year results presentation
(6 Sep 2011)
Facts go against accused
CIMA
council member
(6 Sep 2011)
UK
SFO
Will Look for Tax Deductions for
Bribes
, Alderman Says
(6 Sep 2011)
Will mandatory US
auditor
rotation help?
(6 Sep 2011)
UK banks turned blind eye to faulty loans in run-up to credit
crunch
(6 Sep 2011)
European banks face collapse under debts
(6 Sep 2011
The EU is to ask IASB to change its priorities to include public policy concerns
(5 Sep 2011)
The Berkshire Hathaway Corporate Governance Performance
(5 Sep 2011)
More than half of the private companies winning UK Government contracts have subsidiaries in tax havens
(5 Sep 2011)
How ethical are the companies that will run our public services?
(5 Sep 2011)
Trainee accountant in dock for £500,000 fraud
(5 Sep 2011)
Fat Cats: Bosses' bonuses up by 187% since 2002, report suggests
(5 Sep 2011)
Fat Cats: Bosses of banks saved by taxpayer earn more now than before crisis
(5 Sep 2011
Shareholders are mugs to keep paying
executive
bonuses
(5 Sep 2011)
UK directors' earnings doubled in 10 years
(5 Sep 2011)
Directors' pay: shareholders suffer while fat cats grab the cream
(5 Sep 2011)
Boardroom pay packages soar to average of £4.5m in 2010
(5 Sep 2011)
What are we paying for? Exploring executive pay and performance
(5 Sep 2011)
RBS faces billion dollar bill in US lawsuit
(5 Sep 2011
German company involved in talks to take over
NHS
hospitals
(5 Sep 2011)
Bank ring-fencing
gets backing from
leading investors
(5 Sep 2011
How did the US debt of $15.5 trillion get so bad?
(5 Sep 2011)
Accounting
rules hit DB pension schemes
(4 Sep 2011)
Auditors
poised for £170 million town hall deals
(4 Sep 2011)
SEC says clawbacks are
fraud
drawbacks
(4 Sep 2011)
UK Taxpayers face '£3.7bn
RBS
lawsuit' as US agency takes 17 banks to
court
(4 Sep 2011
FTSE 100 companies give 'two fingers' to
women
-on-
boards
target
(4 Sep 2011
Silvercorp (audited by Ernst & Young) Says Accounting-Fraud Allegation in Anonymous Letter Is False
(3 Sep 2011)
Trainee
accountant
was 'inside man' in £470k bank scam
(3 Sep 2011)
Madoff Trustee Defends $19B
JPMorgan
Suit
(3 Sep 2011)
Measuring social performance is difficult but essential
(3 Sep 2011)
Accountant
pleads guilty to $1.1M foundation theft
(3 Sep 2011)
Insolvency: Icesave
liquidators find money to compensate UK savers
(3 Sep 2011
US lawsuit
against auditor pared
(3 Sep 2011)
Watchdog didn't even sniff Babcock (audited by Ernst & Young), Australia's biggest corporate collapse, with losses of A$10 billion
(2 Sep 2011)
If the cap fits: Pitching auditor liability cap
(2 Sep 2011)
Auditor
rotation:
Regulators are considering forcing companies to change their auditors
(2 Sep 2011)
Transfer Pricing: Companies shift losses to high-
tax
countries to trim taxes
(2 Sep 2011)
Governments concerned that some corporations unfairly claim losses to avoid taxes
(2 Sep 2011)
FRC moots
auditor
switches for UK firms
(2 Sep 2011)
FASB, IASB Preview XBRL Taxonomy Updates
(2 Sep 2011)
Accounting watchdog to overhaul all UK company accounts
(2 Sep 2011)
Audit Commission: Tenders for public audits to encourage new bidders
(2 Sep 2011)
How foreign IT cos reduce
tax
liability in India
(2 Sep 2011
Accountant's plea on insider trading shocks Denver business community
(2 Sep 2011)
PwC and Crowe Sued over Colonial Bank Audits
(1 Sep 2011)
To save its skin the FRC acts to increase transparency in corporate reporting - myopic promises
(1 Sep 2011)
Professional scepticism and auditors
(1 Sep 2011)
SEC Accuses Ex-Syntax-Brillian (audited by Ernst & Young) Executives of
Accounting Fraud
(1 Sep 2011)
SEC Charges TV Makers with Financial Fraud
(1 Sep 2011)
Tempe-based Syntax-Brillian Corp. rises, falls fast
(1 Sep 2011)
Private finance deals allow investors to rip off taxpayers twice say MPs
(1 Sep 2011)
Investors 'using tax havens to cash in on PFI contracts'
(1 Sep 2011)
PFI Firms make 'easy money' from state
(1 Sep 2011)
Lessons from PFI and other projects
(1 Sep 2011)
Oracle's
Africa dealings come under FBI scrutiny
(1 Sep 2011)
Hard to see the wood for the trees in China frauds
(1 Sep 2011)
Pension funds sue Sino-Forest for $6.5B
(1 Sep 2011)
SEC Recovers CFO's Bonus and Stock Sale Profits Received During Beazer Homes Accounting Fraud
(1 Sep 2011)
AUGUST 2011
Alleged 'malpractice' puts PricewaterhouseCoopers in bad light
(31 Aug 2011)
KPMG keeps lead in listed client rankings
(31 Aug 2011)
Ex-Rite Aid exec released after re-sentencing in $1.6B
accounting
scandal
(31 Aug 2011)
Special forces raid
BP
Moscow offices
(31 Aug 2011)
25 Top CEOs Earn More Than Their Firms Pay in
Taxes
(31 Aug 2011)
Where Pay for Chiefs Outstrips US
Taxes
(31 Aug 2011)
Executive Excess 2011: The Massive CEO Rewards for Tax Dodging
(31 Aug 2011)
Hollinger: Conrad Black not ashamed of prison
(31 Aug 2011
)
Former Beazer Homes CFO to return bonus
(31 Aug 2011)
Longtop (audited by Deloitte) Violates SEC Rules
(30 Aug 2011)
Longtop Financial Fraud Investigation Reaches 'Final Step'
(30 Aug 2011)
HORMEL FOODS CORPORATION v WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE: Ernst & Young tax avoidance scheme "had no economic substance and served no business purpose other than tax avoidance"
(30 Aug 2011)
European Banks Need Bigger Greek-Bond Writedowns, IASB Says
(30 Aug 2011)
Wiping out Wisconsin taxes: David Cay Johnston with help from
PricewaterhouseCoopers
(30 Aug 2011)
S&P downgrades Sino-Forest amid
accounting scandal
(30 Aug 2011)
Lehman Legal Problems Appear to Be Fading
(30 Aug 2011)
India High Court dismisses bail pleas of Raju in Satyam case
(30 Aug 2011)
BNP Paribas Says Greek Debt Provisions Agreed With
Auditors
(30 Aug 2011)
Insolvency: Chorion faces uncertain future
(30 Aug 2011)
Insolvency: Pre-pack delay debated
(30 Aug 2011)
Japan, US
accounting
standards boards in talks over IFRS-GAAP
(29 Aug 2011)
Stanford Liquidators Win Bid to Get $20 Million in UK Assets
(29 Aug 2011)
Impression Management: Glencore
to declare support for ethical mining to spruce up its image
(29 Aug 2011
Lobbyist quizzed over Korea bank
scandal
(29 Aug 2011
Nothing Learnt: Bank
regulation 'risks recovery'
(29 Aug 2011)
Transfer Pricing: There is no moral case for tax havens
(29 Aug 2011)
Insolvency: KPMG
will put Aero Inventory up for sale
(29 Aug 2011)
Here comes the scarey crew: Govt. intervention threatens global mining-
Grant Thornton
(29 Aug 2011)
Auditors PricewaterhouseCoopers and Crowe Horwath Missed $1.8 Billion in Funny Money, Failed Bank Says
(28 Aug 2011)
$1.1 billion in Khadafy-government assets stashed in Manhattan-based banks
(28 Aug 2011)
Madoff
Firm Liquidator Seeks $95 Million From Kuwait Bank, Feeder Fund
(28 Aug 2011)
Lloyds failed to heed debt warning in luxury hotel chain von Essen
crash
(28 Aug 2011)
Judge authorizes Mount Real Corp lawsuit by Canadian investors - Deloitte & Touche, BDO Dunwoody and Schwartz, Levitsky, Feldman -- are named in the suit
(27 Aug 2011)
Madoff Whistleblower Talks IPOs
(27 Aug 2011)
The Biggest Wall Street Scams of All Time
(27 Aug 2011)
Libya investment
'missing $2.9bn'
(27 Aug 2011
Canada's Top Securities Regulator Halts Sino-Forest Trading
(27 Aug 2011)
IASB Proposes to Exempt Investment Entities From Consolidation Requirements
(26 Aug 2011)
Santander
raises PPI claims cost
(26 Aug 2011)
JPMorgan
to Pay $88.3 Million for Sanctions Violations
(26 Aug 2011
Insolvency Sharks: KPMG
bills £285000 for insolvency firm collapse
(26 Aug 2011)
Accounting Fraud
In US-listed Chinese Companies
(26 Aug 2011)
More than 120 police investigate Murdoch empire's operations
(26 Aug 2011)
China and US Seek Closer Cooperation on Audit Oversight
(26 Aug 2011
HMRC misses out on £
27bn of unpaid tax as UK company failures soar
(26 Aug 2011)
Shell company fraud: is the UK Serious Fraud Office doing its job?
(25 Aug 2011)
PCAOB to Host Roundtable on the Auditor’s Reporting Model
(25 Aug 2011)
UK Government and FRC consider reducing financial reporting burdens for the smallest businesses
(25 Aug 2011)
Insolvency: Lehman Pays Managers, Advisers Almost $1.4 Billion in Fees Through July
(25 Aug 2011)
Lehman
Officers Seek $90 Million to End Investor Suit
(25 Aug 2011)
Bank of America still haunted by
Lehman
Brothers's ghost
(25 Aug 2011)
Salesforce.com Boosts Profits With Aggressive
Accounting
(25 Aug 2011)
Former Koss employee in talks to settle SEC case
(25 Aug 2011)
Insolvency: Pre-pack
reforms
delayed
(24 Aug 2011)
File Under Regulatory Capture:
Deloitte's
"Fireside Chats"
(24 Aug 2011)
Luminar ditches auditor PwC amid debt talks
(24 Aug 2011)
End to fancy-footed
accounting
overdue
(24 Aug 2011)
Ofgem
to investigate energy giants' profits
(24 Aug 2011)
Accounting Fraud In US-listed Chinese
Companies
(24 Aug 2011
PFI
: the conjuring trick exposed
(23 Aug 2011)
Three sentenced to jail for operating £27.5m boiler room scam
(22 Aug 2011)
Surprise Surprise!!: UK Accountancy Institutes attack US mandatory
rotation
plan
(20 Aug 2011)
KPMG
degree sponsorship 'morally questionable'
(19 Aug 2011)
PFI 'ripping off taxpayers'
(19 Aug 2011)
PCAOB
Opens Discussion on Audit Firm Rotation
(18 Aug 2011)
House of Commons Treasury Committee Report: Private Finance Initiative (PFI) Volume 1
(18 Aug 2011)
House of Commons Treasury Committee Report: Private Finance Initiative (PFI) Volume 2
(18 Aug 2011)
PFI poor value for money, say MPs
(18 Aug 2011)
Private finance initiatives a costly 'drug' to taxpayer, MPs tell chancellor
(18 Aug 2011)
Auditor Rotation
Proposal Just More Spin
(18 Aug 2011)
Chinese financial scandals
(18 Aug 2011)
AICPA Urges Optional Adoption of
IFRS
(17 Aug 2011)
Warning over 'undue influence' as KPMG sponsors university places
(17 Aug 2011)
FSA fines Sir Ken Morrison £210,000 for Disclosure and Transparency Rules failings
(16 Aug 2011)
PCAOB Issues Concept Release on Auditor Independence and Audit Firm Rotation
(16 Aug 2011)
PricewaterhouseCoopers faces fine over JP Morgan's client assets
(15 Aug 2011)
PCAOB
to Deliberate on Requiring Auditor Rotations
(12 Aug 2011)
Former BDO Partner Gets Probation For Cheating on His Taxes
(5 Aug 2011)
Grant Thornton Dodges the Koss Bullet
(5 Aug 2011)
Royal Caribbean hit with
lawsuit
over
accounting
error
(6 Aug 2011)
Insolvency: Stanford liquidators to access $20m of assets
(5 Aug 2011)
FASB Meetings to Address Private Company Accounting Issues
(5 Aug 2011)
Does Dreier Decision Foreshadow Trouble For Madoff Trustee?
(5 Aug 2011)
Accounting
Firm Won't Be Held Liable In Sachdeva Embezzlement Scheme
(5 Aug 2011)
Veolia Shares Plummet Again On Overhaul,
Fraud
Disclosure
(5 Aug 2011)
Decades-old auditor ties under scrutiny in U.S.
(4 Aug 2011)
Can an auditor still be independent after 100 years on a corporate payroll?
(4 Aug 2011)
SEC Charges Biopharmaceutical Company and Executives with Securities Fraud
(4 Aug 2011)
Can
IFRS
9 withstand the Greek effect?
(4 Aug 2011)
US regulators seek Chinese help to counter stock scandals
(4 Aug 2011)
India Supreme Court asks ICAI to proceed against Satyam auditor after October 3
(4 Aug 2011)
Birmingham City Council awarded
PwC
£250k contract without tendering
(4 Aug 2011)
Grant Thornton dismissed from Koss shareholder
lawsuit
(4 Aug 2011)
Insolvency: Ernst & Young
appointed Hotel Verta administrators
(4 Aug 2011)
Oil in Nigeria: a history of spills, fines and fights for rights
(4 Aug 2011)
UN to release landmark Nigerian oil pollution report
(4 Aug 2011)
Shell
accepts liability for Nigeria oil spills
(4 Aug 2011)
Shell
oil spills in the Niger delta: 'Nowhere and no one has escaped'
(4 Aug 2011)
Lloyds insists branch sales on track after posting £3.3bn loss
(4 Aug 2011)
R(MR IAN ISAAC SHINER & ANR) v HER MAJESTY’S REVENUE & CUSTOMS; another
PricewaterhouseCoopers scheme thrown out by the UK courts
(4 Aug 2011)
HOWARD PETER SCHOFIELD v THE COMMISSIONERS FOR HER MAJESTY’S REVENUE AND CUSTOMS; Another Pricewaterhouse capital gains tax avoidance scheme is thrown out
(4 Aug 2011)
Ernst & Young Lehman Litigation: It’s No Victory If You’re Going To Trial
(3 Aug 201)
UK Tax
tribunal rules against £11.3m PricewaterhouseCoopers designed CGT avoidance scheme
(3 Aug 2011)
Lehman Case Hints at Need to Stiffen Audit Rules
(3 Aug 2011)
Negligent auditors have liability shields, says US Lehman judge
(3 Aug 2011)
Ex-Bridge partner's licence revoked by
ICAEW
(3 Aug 2011)
Rip-Off: Insolvency profession bonuses soar
(3 Aug 2011)
US Incorporation Transparency and Law Enforcement Assistance Act Introduced Today
(3 Aug 2011)
In sudden reversal, PricewaterhouseCoopers drops bid for US tax incentives
(3 Aug 2011)
Keeping the Promise of Global Accounting Standards
(3 Aug 2011)
Investors
' £
200m loss prompts land-banking warning
(3 Aug 2011)
Former Ernst & Young Executives Barred by PCAOB Over Fake Papers
(2 Aug 2011)
PCAOB Announces Settled Disciplinary Orders Against Former Ernst & Young Partner and Senior Manager For Providing Misleading Documents to PCAOB Inspectors And Altering Working Papers
(2 Aug 2011)
Judge Dismisses Claims against Ernst & Young over Lehman Audits
(2 Aug 2011)
Banks on track to adopt IFRS impairment accounting rules
(2 Aug 2011)
US Court Overturns 5 Gen Re and AIG Fraud Convictions
(2 Aug 2011)
Insolvency: Legal Fees Keep Surging in Class-Action Lehman Suit
(2 Aug 2011)
Levin, Grassley Introduce Bill to Combat U.S. Corporations with Hidden Owners
(2 Aug 2011)
Payback time for bent
accountant
who almost destroyed company
(2 Aug 2011)
Insolvency: Ernst & Young
appointed Hotel Verta administrators
(2 Aug 2011)
U.K. '
Zombie
'
Companies
Kept on Life Support by Banks
(2 Aug 2011
Special Report: China's shortcut to Wall Street
(2 Aug 2011)
After five-year legal battle, truth about BCCI collapse may finally be revealed
(1 Aug 2011)
The Big Four
auditors
face a new challenge from breakaway company
(1 Aug 2011)
A new jury to put the British public interest first
(1 Aug 2011)
Public jury campaign launched to take power away from UK's 'feral' elite
(1 Aug 2011)
Lease
accounting
-- the pendulum continues to swing
(1 Aug 2011)
Aquascutum secures financial lifeline
(1 Aug 2011)
Transfer pricing and developing countries
(1 Aug 2011)
Actions of Madoff Victims' Trustee Will Be Reviewed
(1 Aug 2011)
Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street
(1 Jul 2011)
The Risks of Quantification
(1 Aug 2011)
JULY 2011
Big Four accountancy firms furious at prospect of competition probe
(30 Jul 2011)
Competition inquiry into Big Four Audit Firms
(30 Jul 2011)
Audit
referral: Big Four resigned, mid-tier rejoice
(30 Jul 2011)
'Audit the
auditors
' call by UK consumer watchdog
(30 Jul 2011)
Audit Commission lives to scrutinise another five years
(30 Jul 2011)
Obfuscating GAAP – IPO Buyers Beware
(30 Jul 2011)
Getting to grips with IFRS 9 reforms
(30 Jul 2011
Apple holds more cash than
the
U.S. government
(30 Jul 2011)
Accounting
changes too demanding for charity shops, says CFDG
(30 Jul 2011)
LA Judge Rules Crash Producer Engaged in Creative
Accounting
(30 Jul 2011)
OFT provisionally decides to refer audit market to Competition Commission
(29 Jul 2011)
Big Four accountancy firms face Competition Commission probe
(29 Jul 2011)
Judge Kaplan: Ernst & Young Must Defend Lehman Investor
Lawsuit
(29 Jul 2011)
Repo 105 - Lehman and Ernst & Young: plaintiffs win ground on 'misleading' risk and leverage statements
(29 Jul 2011)
Accounting
problem hurts Royal Caribbean shares
(29 Jul 2011)
OTS proposes dropping GAAP for small businesses
(29 Jul 2011)
Actions of Madoff Victims
'
Trustee Will Be Reviewed
(29 Jul 2011)
Greenlining Institute Report Looks at Effects of Corporate Tax Havens
(29 Jul 2011)
Corporate America Untaxed: Tax Avoidance on the Rise
(29 Jul 2011)
Greece as a test for
auditors
(29 Jul 2011)
Diageo pays $16m to settle
bribery
claims
(29 Jul 2011
Siemens fined for worldwide
corruption
(29 Jul 2011)
Land Value Taxation, debt and human rights: A Gramscian perspective
by
Peter Latham
Effects of the European Convention on Human Rights on the Turkish Taxation Policy and Management
by
Ayşe Nil Tosun
and Oytun Canyaş
Some Interesting
Accounting
From Groupon
(28 Jul 2011)
Pickles: 100% of public audit to private sector
(28 Jul 2011)
IFRS 9 delayed two years to 2015
(28 Jul 2011)
Lehman execs, auditor must defend investor
lawsuit
(28 Jul 2011)
SEC urged against IFRS 'condorsement'
(28 Jul 2011)
Next Accounting Standard Project: Dairy Cows?
(28 Jul 2011)
Beyond accounting Convergence
(28 Jul 2011)
Insolvency: Lehman
administrators lose insolvency case
(28 Jul 2011)
Clueless New Zealand Ministry of Economic Development Provides Regulatory Cover to Bogus Financial Companies
(28 Jul 2011)
Childwall
accountant
who stole £1.3m from city heritage firm jailed
(28 Jul 2011)
UK regulators slam big four audit firms, others
(27 Jul 2011)
UK Regulator slams six largest audit
firms
(27 Jul 2011)
Santander UK profits hit by £538m
PPI
provision
(27 Jul 2011)
There Appears to Be Some Fuss About PwC Tapping $2 million in Subsidies Once They Spend $78 million and Hire 200 People
(27 Jul 2011)
Groupon Initial Public Offering May Be Delayed by SEC Scrutiny
(27 Jul 2011)
How Companies Fake It (With Cash Flow)
(27 Jul 2011)
Insolvency: Lehman
Paid Bankruptcy Managers, Lawyers $27.5 Million in
Fees
Last Month
(27 Jul 2011)
Insolvency: Lehman Creditors
With $100 Billion Claims Support Revised Liquidation Plan
(27 Jul 2011)
Lehman
Brothers investors rank ahead of
creditors
, rules Supreme Court
(27 Jul 2011)
Accountant
conman told to repay £200000 by Carlisle court
(27 Jul 2011)
Fiji property and car firm loans part of $3 5m
fraud
(27 Jul 2011)
US Fed Targets RBS Over Money-Laundering Compliance
(27 Jul 2011)
Biggest audit
firms
hit by scathing regulator's verdict
(26 Jul 2011)
Audit inspection reports for the six largest UK firms published
(26 Jul 2011)
Lack of
audit
scepticism trips Ernst & Young
(26 Jul 2011)
KPMG must improve review procedures
(26 Jul 2011)
Deloitte criticised over AIM audit client work
(26 Jul 2011)
PwC must improve goodwill impairment auditing
(26 Jul 2011)
Grant Thornton slips in biennial audit review
(26 Jul 2011)
BDO urged to avoid cross-selling
(26 Jul 2011)
TV stars'
accountant
blacklisted by taxman
(26 Jul 2011)
True and fair requirement 'essential' part of accounting, says
FRC
(26 Jul 2011)
More US lawsuits target Chinese reverse mergers
(26 Jul 2011)
China's Shady
Accounting
Practices and Bad Apples
(26 Jul 2011)
Tyco
Accountant Loses Retaliation Suit
(26 Jul 2011)
Prem Sikka wins the BCCI Freedom of Information case: UK government ordered to publish most of the missing information
(25 Jul 2011)
BCCI Freedom of Information Case: The arguments made by Prem Sikka for publication of information
(25 Jul 2011)
Report sees no role for the Big Four in auditing banks (see pages 17-18)
(25 Jul 2011)
Taxman triggers rebellion over powers to put accountants out of business
(25 Jul 2011)
Toothless Auditors: We have to train financial watchdogs to bark more
(25 Jul 2011)
Head in the Sand: FRC defends ‘comply or explain’ to EU
(25 Jul 2011)
Will they ever Learn? FRC says 'comply or explain' principle has important place in EU Corporate Governance
(25 Jul 2011)
OFT
edges toward decision on
audit
market
(25 Jul 2011)
Satyam scam: Proceedings against auditors to finish in 4 months
(25 Jul 2011)
Insolvency: Administrators
BDO
issue £21m Halliwells claim
(25 Jul 2011)
EU directive would force banks to disclose
€
1m-plus pay deals
(25 Jul 2011)
Muddy Waters files suit alleging fake report, blackmail
(25 Jul 2011)
PwC Hedges Bet Between Bank of America And Federal Home Loan Banks
(23 Jul 2011)
SFO Action on Macmillan Publishers Limited
(23 Jul 2011)
Macmillan pays out record £11m amid African bribery concerns
(23 Jul 2011)
10 years in prison for Germany's 'Mini-
Madoff
'
(23 Jul 2011)
German Ponzi man jailed after ripping off Barclays
(23 Jul 2011)
Will pensions
accounting
wipe out profits?
(23 Jul 2011)
Bernie Ecclestone insists he has nothing to hide despite bribery claims
(23 Jul 2011)
ICAS: 30% of financial reports must go
(23 Jul 2011)
Accounting
Cops Delay New Rule on Leases
(22 Jul 2011)
FASB, IASB Set to Re-Expose Leasing Proposals
(22 Jul 2011)
UK Annual reports 'far too large'
(22 Jul 2011)
US Judge Allows Shareholder Suits Against China Accountants
(22 Jul 2011)
Judge Lets Chinese Audit
Lawsuit
Proceed
(22 Jul 2011)
Big-spending
accounting
thief gets 5 years' jail
(22 Jul 2011)
Financial Services Authority will release bank reports
...
eventually
(22 Jul 2011)
Breakthrough for BCCI “Sandstorm Report” FOI request
(21 Jul 2011)
“SANDSTORM” PERSONAL DATA AND THE BCCI COLLAPSE
(21 Jul 2011)
Ernst
&
Young
Deaf, Dumb, And Blind About News Corp.
(21 Jul 2011)
Importance of true and fair view in both UK GAAP and IFRS reaffirmed by the Accounting Standards Board and Auditing Practices Board
(21 Jul 2011)
IASB recommends streamlining company reports
(21 Jul 2011)
Hard lessons from Enron
(21 Jul 2011)
Sloppy
auditing
found in UK arms of foreign banks
(21 Jul 2011)
Exotic financial instruments contributed to the financial crisis, they are as potent as eve
r (21 Jul 2011)
Over half of companies in FTSE 350 'lying dormant'
(21 Jul 2011)
Going In Circles: A Few Remarks On Audit Reform
(20 Jul 2011)
US judge allows lawsuit over China audits
(20 Jul 2011)
Britain loses out in Google's
tax avoidance
(20 Jul 2011)
Google under scrutiny as it pays just
£
1m to UK taxman
(20 Jul 2011)
Publication of Audit Inspection Unit 2010/11 Annual Report
(20 Jul 2011)
US Feds hit Chevron with $1.1 million fine for offshore
accounting
(20 Jul 2011)
MPs rap BAE in corruption inquiry
(20 Jul 2011)
Former beauty queen
Chiesi
faces four years in jail for insider trading as she awaits
sentence
(20 Jul 2011)
Prime Minister's call for greater financial transparency ‘very welcome’
(19 Jul 2011)
Banking trio fail to meet
accounting
standards, claims Financial Reporting Council
(19 Jul 2011)
UK auditors failing on accounting standards
(19 Jul 2011)
Sloppy auditing found in UK arms of foreign banks
(19 Jul 2011)
Fitch Cites China
Accounting
Standards As Risks In Review
(19 Jul 2011)
World to continue with different
accounting standards
(19 Jul 2011)
Bank of America
falls to record loss but rules out raising fresh capital
(19 Jul 2011)
UK Treasury to list PFI liabilities in new accounts
(19 Jul 2011)
Audit watchdog eyes banks' sovereign debt
(19 Jul 2011)
Helphire
ditches Deloitte for KPMG
(19 Jul 2011)
Fat Cats: City
bonus row
is
reignited
after £
14bn
is
paid out
(19 Jul 2011)
Fat Cats: Bonus payments in 2010-11
(19 Jul 2011)
HSBC alerts US clients to offshore tax evasion probe
(17 Jul 2011)
RALPH NADER: Corporate tax escapees and you
(17 Jul 2011)
Carbon tax to lift banks,
accountants
: report
(17 Jul 2011)
US inquiry into Credit Suisse over tax evasion
(15 Jul 2011)
SEC Charges Forex Ponzi Operator Who Fled After Scheme Unraveled
(15 Jul 2011)
SEC Charges Armor Holdings, Inc. With FCPA Violations in Connection With Sales to the United Nations
(13 Jul 2011)
Good Banking:
Why we need a bigger public debate on financial reform
(13 Jul 2011)
Polygon Faces Accusations It Used Tetragon For Cash
(12 Jul 2011)
Alleged Ponzi Scheme
Accountant
Settles SEC Complaint
(11 Jul 2011)
Metro Bank loses £23m in first year
(9 Jul 2011)
Google Profits From Tax Credit for $750M Energy Plan
(9 Jul 2011)
Caterpillar Accused of Demoting Tax Whistleblower
(9 Jul 2011)
Vodafone Trying to Intimidate India in Tax Dispute, Attorney General Says
(9 Jul 2011)
Three Banks Fail; 2011 US Tally Now 51
(9 Jul 2011)
Making Mortgage Fraudsters Pay…But Via Private Lawsuits (And Some Attorneys General) Not Law Enforcement
(8 Jul 2011)
Auditors and
Audit
Reports: Is The Firm's “John Hancock” Enough?
(8 Jul 2011)
US, China to Meet Next Week on Auditor Inspections
(8 Jul 2011)
Homeform adminstration: Cheque rules must change as
Moben
collapse cost us £6k
(8 Jul 2011)
Homeform Group customers stand to lose £1.5m
(8 Jul 2011)
JP Morgan
agrees further fraud settlement
(8 Jul 2011)
KPMG, CIMA fly the flag for Islamic finance
(8 Jul 2011)
Insolvency: BDO
moves to recoup £21m property payout from ex-Halliwells
partners
(8 Jul 2011)
Investors hesitant on foreign
accounting
rules
(7 Jul 2011)
Financial Firms Push U.S. to Adopt Global
Accounting
Standards
(7 Jul 2011)
Audit Commission
axe will bring both 'opportunities and risks'
(7 Jul 2011)
Block the Big Four from
Audit Commission
takeover
(7 Jul 2011)
Portugal Banks' Bad Loans To Jump After
Accounting
Change
(7 Jul 2011)
Auditor independence is vital, say MPs
(7 Jul 2011)
Bridge
collapsed under weight of significant irregularities
(7 Jul 2011)
FRC's annual review points to change
(7 Jul 2011)
FRC says its structure is hard to understand
(7 Jul 2011)
US in Talks with China about Audit Inspections
(7 Jul 2011)
Accountant
struck off for breaching ASBO
(7 Jul 2011)
China Discusses Allowing SEC Probes
(7 Jul 2011)
'Rogue Executives' From Chinese Firms Dodge Singapore Laws by Staying Home
(7 Jul 2011)
US Firms Clash Over
Accounting
Rules
(6 Jul 2011)
Deloitte
Wants Software Lawsuit Kept Away From Jury
(6 Jul 2011)
CIMA
disciplinary 'bad faith and bias'
(6 Jul 2011)
CIMA
goes deep cover for 'public' disciplinary hearing
(6 Jul 2011)
US in Talks with China about Audit Inspections
(6 Jul 2011)
FRC: No inquiry into
BDO's
Healthcare Locums audit
(6 Jul 2011)
Investors warned of bogus Invesco Perpetual funds
(6 Jul 2011)
SEC probes St Joe's land
accounting
(6 Jul 2011)
How to Ensure Strong Boards and Proper
Accounting Standards
in China
(6 Jul 2011)
Extended remit:
KPMG's
audit model
(6 Jul 2011)
Women Attracted to
Accounting Firms
for Flexibility Despite 'Old Boys' Networks'
(6 Jul 20101)
Insolvency: Whelan Construction goes into administration
(6 Jul 2011)
Insolvency: Discount store TJ Hughes now in the hand of administrators
(6 Jul 2011)
Self-Interest Speaks: Call is less for audit revolution, more for return to old values
(6 Jul 2011)
PwC
staff gripped by office envy
(6 Jul 2011)
The Netherlands supports Country-by-Country reporting
(4 Jul 2011)
Healthcare Locums probes two execs over 'misconduct'
(4 Jul 2011)
Audit Commission had to go, Pickles tells PF
(4 Jul 2011)
Queen's accounts to face full
NAO
scrutiny
(4 Jul 2011)
Big Four tour de farce as FRC recruits 13 new members
(4 Jul 2011)
China listings in US could slow on
accounting
scandals
(4 Jul 2011)
Common sense controls for executive pay and revitalising UK business
(4 Jul 2011)
IMF Paper: Inequality, Leverage and Crises
(4 Jul 2011)
Banking reform is still leaving us with a flawed system
(3 Jul 2011)
BDO faces questions in Healthcare Locums inquiry
(3 Jul 2011)
Accounting
Standards Are Behind the times
(3 Jul 2011)
Multinational profit shifting ‘erodes taxes’
(3 Jul 2011)
Australia Audit inspection program public report for 2009–10
(3 Jul 2011)
Australian Securities and Investments Commission: Auditors lack scepticism
(3 Jul 2011)
ASIC warns auditors to back judgments with evidence
(3 Jul 2011)
Australia Corporate cop ASIC takes on auditors
(3 Jul 2011)
Bank Of Moscow to Receive $10.6 Billion
Bailout
(3 Jul 2011)
Bank linked to fraud probe fails to meet another payback deadline
(3 Jul 2011)
Bexley female
accountant
sentenced after Orpington stint
(3 Jul 2011)
Shareholders call for two LSE directors to quit
(3 Jul 2011)
Corporate and Big Four take-over of the Fianancial Reporting Council
(2 Jul 2011)
May gives evidence at
CIMA
disciplinary hearing
(2 Jul 2011)
Report: How NBA owners turn profits into paper losses
(2 Jul 2011)
The Creative
Accounting
Behind NBA Team 'Losses'
(2 Jul 2011)
Ebix Shares Drop Following Accusations of Inflated Earnings
(2 Jul 2011)
The BCCI Affair: A Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations United States Senate
(1 Jul 2011)
They're Everywhere! Big Four Auditors Mixed Up In Mortgage
Fraud
(1 Jul 2011)
Suit Alleges KPMG “Mommy-Tracked” Women
(1 Jul 2011)
Taylor Bean (audited by PwC) Ex-Chairman Farkas Sentenced to 30 Years for $3 Billion
Fraud
(1 Jul 2011)
Alert
- '
audit expectation gap
'
(1 Jul 2011)
Audit Commission attacks public audit consultation
(1 Jul 2011)
SEC Announces Agenda and Panelists for Roundtable on International Financial Reporting Standards
(1 Jul 2011)
Tough Justice Persists in White-Collar Crime Cases
(1 Jul 2011)
SEC's
Casey Pushes to Incorporate IFRS
(1 Jul 2011)
Japan May Delay
Accounting
Shift
(1 Jul 2011)
Accounting
woes threaten Chinese listings in Singapore
(1 Jul 2011)
IMF
Said to Raise Flags Over Two Afghan Banks
(1 Jul 2011)
Ebix Inflated Earnings as Software Maker Ignored Bad Debt,
Lawsuit
Alleges
(1 Jul 2011)
SEC Charges Company CEOs and Penny Stock Promoters in Kickback Schemes
(1 Jul 2011)
China Red Cross Says
Accounting
Errors Caused Irregularities
(1 Jul 2011)
Nigeria's move to IFRS seen boosting stock valuations
(1 Jul 2011)
JUNE 2011
Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) Scandal – US Congress Library Archives Part 6 (752 pages)
(30 Jun 2011)
Healthcare Locums could be forced to restate its accounts
(30 Jun 2011)
Sacked Healthcare Locums boss claims she blew whistle on
accounting
problems
(30 Jun 2011)
Investors to sue Healthcare Locums
(30 Jun 2011)
Energy Cos Face Big Tax Hit If Congress Ends
Inventory Valuation (LIFO) Accounting
Method
(30 Jun 2011)
RBS faces $100m lawsuit amid allegations of
fraud
and lies
(30 Jun 2011)
Debenhams and Arcadia face legal action from shareholders
(30 Jun 2011)
Accounting
Firm Owner Sentenced for Not Remitting Payroll Taxes to IRS
(30 Jun 2011)
JPMorgan Scores Victory for Repeat Offenders: Jonathan Weil
(30 Jun 2011)
SEC charges Madoff employee with
fraud
(30 Jun 2011)
Fannie Mae Silence on Taylor Bean Mortgages Opened Way to $3 Billion
Fraud
(30 Jun 2011)
Insolvency: discount store TJ Hughes now in the hand of administrators
(30 Jun 2011)
Birmingham boss Yeung charged over £59m
money laundering
allegations
(30 Jun 2011)
Lehman Europe, Citigroup Settle on Custody Assets
(30 Jun 2011)
Large
Accounting
Firms Bungled 17% of Australia Audits, Regulator Says
(29 Jun 2011)
US regulator sets out possible audit model changes
(29 Jun 2011)
The Cost of Chinese Auditors
(29 Jun 2011)
Private Company Committee Hears from FASB on Convergence Status
(29 Jun 2011)
Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) Scandal – US Congress Library Archives Part 5 (997 pages)
(29 Jun 2011)
Basel Regulators Said to Scrutinize Banks' 'Flawed' Risk-Weighting Methods
(29 Jun 2011)
Accounting
could stall France's Greek debt plan
(29 Jun 2011)
Auditors Sharpen Queries In China
(29 Jun 2011)
Fat Cats: Pension pots of FTSE 100 directors widen gap between boards and workers
(29 Jun 2011)
FTSE directors now retire
with £
2.8m pensions
(29 Jun 2011)
Insolvency: Jane Norman sells stores in pre-pack as TJ Hughes prepares to call in administrators
(29 Jun 2011)
Centro ruling reminds directors where their responsibilities lie
(29 Jun 2011)
EU says tax on derivatives, other financial transactions could raise $43 billion a year
(29 Jun 2011)
Light-touch regulation, yes - but we mustn't be soft-touch
(29 Jun 2011)
Morgan Keegan Judge: No Fraud
(29 Jun 2011)
Ex-
KPMG
Officials Rejected by Top U.S. Court on Tax Convictions
(28 Jun 2011)
KPMG finds £27m hole in Helphire books (audited by Deloitte)
(28 Jun 2011)
Read 2010 Annual Accounts of Helphire
(28 Jun 2011)
Ireland Central Bank considers compulsory quarterly reports
(28 Jun 2011)
Accountant
convicted for £356m Langbar fraud
(28 Jun 2011)
Former Citigroup
Accountant
Accused of Embezzling $19.2 Million
(28 Jun 2011)
Fat salaries push audit companies to raise fees
(28 Jun 2011)
A-Power Energy's Auditor Quits; Annual Report To Be Delayed
(28 Jun 2011)
A DIY Guide to Exposing Dodgy Companies
(28 Jun 2011)
Should firms periodically change auditors?
(28 Jun 2011)
Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) Scandal – US Congress Library Archives Part 4 (775 pages
)
(28 Jun 2011)
Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) Scandal – US Congress Library Archives Part 4 - A censored version of the Sandstorm report which is a state secret in the UK
(28 Jun 2011)
Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) Scandal – Confidential reprots by Price Waterhouse on BCCI accounts
(28 Jun 2011)
Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) Scandal – US Congress Library Archives Part 4 - A Declassified CIA Report on BCCI
(28 Jun 2011)
We Need The Suspension Of Mark To Market
Accounting
, Now
(27 Jun 2011)
Boon to US leverage ratios as FASB ditches netting proposals
(27 Jun 2011)
Helphire find £29m. of
accounting
errors
(27 Jun 2011)
Accounting
rules change leads to worries of overestimated gas reserves
(27 Jun 2011)
Citigroup former executive charged with embezzlement
(27 Jun 2011)
All directors should study the Centro judgment
(27 Jun 2011)
Insolvency: Fashion chain
Jane Norman
goes into administration
(27 Jun 2011)
Insolvency: TJ Hughes
puts administrators on standby
(27 Jun 2011)
HMV
confirms sale of stores in Canada for £2m
(27 Jun 2011)
Morgan Keegan & Company and Morgan Asset Management have agreed to pay $200 million to settle fraud charges related to subprime mortgage-backed securities
(27 Jun 2011)
Does The American Accounting Association Exist? An Example of Public Document Research
(27 Jun 2011)
Southern Cross rent is sent to tax havens by landlords
(26 Jun 2011)
Langbar International: the greatest stock market heist of all?
(26 Jun 2011)
Insolvency: Von Essen hotel chain founder Andrew Davis 'exaggerated its assets'
(26 Jun 2011)
Insolvency: Jane Norman
'on verge of administration'
(26 Jun 2011)
Bank profits distorted by IFRS accounting rules, says Bank of England Governor
(25 Jun 2011)
Ernst & Young has come out in defence of two of its tax consultants implicated in the Norwegian tax evasion case against rig giant Transocean
(25 Jun 2011)
Grant Thornton loses round in Koss case
(25 Jun 2011)
China Tells Domestic Companies to Favor Chinese Auditors
(25 Jun 2011)
China Asks Companies To Favor Local
Accounting Firms
(25 Jun 2011)
Insolvency: Rise and fall of the empire that shaped Britain's
habitat
(25 Jun 2011)
Accountants of the World Unite!: Business Class
(25 Jun 2011)
Hollinger: Conrad Black Sent Back to Prison for 13 Months
(25 Jun 2011)
Merging interests: bringing accountants and lawyers together?
(25 Jun 2011)
Insolvency: The popping of Southsea
(25 Jun 2011)
London and County Securities: a case study in audit and regulatory failure)
(25 Jun 2011)
What happens when accounts aren't fit for purpose
?
(24 Jun 2011)
Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) Scandal – US Congress Library Archives Part 3 (755 pages
) (24 Jun 2011)
China
accounting
scandals put Big Four auditors on red alert
(24 Jun 2011)
Factbox: Big Four
audit
firms on approach to risk in China
(24 Jun 2011)
India Government plans more changes in IFRS
(24 Jun 2011)
Accounting
: The balladeer of the balance-sheet
(24 Jun 2011)
Bankruptcy looms for
Saab
as it runs out of cash to pay staff their wages
(24 Jun 2011)
Accountant
pays back just £1 after stealing £26k
(24 Jun 2011)
Insolvency: Moben and Dolphin shops collapse
(24 Jun 2011)
Insolvency
profession not exempt from legal
reforms
(24 Jun 2011)
Habitat: Door shuts on furniture chain that took Swinging Sixties by storm
(24 Jun 2011)
Accounting: The balladeer of the balance-sheet
(24 Jun 2011)
Auditing firm Ernst & Young has come out in defence of two of its tax consultants implicated in the Norwegian tax evasion case against rig giant Transocean
(23 Jun 2011)
Two Norwegian tax advisers from Ernst & Young who were working with the companies in Norway indicted
(23 Jun 2011)
Koss' Suit Against
Grant Thornton
Will Proceed
(23 Jun 2011)
British banks ignore money-laundering rules, says FSA
(23 Jun 2011)
OFT
: Tight-lipped but ready to act?
(23 Jun 2011)
CIMA teams up with Manchester Metropolitan University for degree
(23 Jun 2011)
Sino-Forest, auditors facing class-action lawsuits
(23 Jun 2011)
Is BAE sidestepping Tanzania government over £29m compensation?
(23 Jun 2011)
IASB Proposes Several IFRS Amendments
(23 Jun 2011)
Saab
teeters on brink as cash runs dry
(23 Jun 2011)
Dixons
posts £224m loss after one-off costs, Greek hit
(23 Jun 2011)
Hong Kong's Li Says Exchange Will Avoid Worst of China
Accounting
Scandals
(23 Jun 2011)
Auditors Urged to Tell More
(22 Jun 2011)
New pension accounting rules to cost finance sector £325 million
(22 Jun 2011)
UK case considers interaction between accounting standards and taxation
(22 Jun 2011)
PCAOB Issues Concept Release on Auditor's Reporting Model
(22 Jun 2011)
IAS 19
accounting
standard 'to alter profit reports'
(22 Jun 2011)
No More Gains and Losses Off Balance Sheet for Companies Under Revised IAS 19 on pension accounting
(22 Jun 2011)
J.P. Morgan to Pay $153.6 Million to Settle SEC Charges of Misleading Investors in CDO Tied to U.S. Housing Market
(22 Jun 2011)
Are
accountants
to blame for the food price spike?
(22 Jun 2011)
Allied Irish
Bank
has 'defaulted' says derivatives body
(22 Jun 2011)
PIRC tells Tesco investors to vote against remuneration report
(22 Jun 2011)
Ex-
Mazars
partners settle legal battle with former firm
(22 Jun 2011)
ASB DRAWS ATTENTION TO NEW/REVISED INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING STANDARDS
(22 Jun 2011)
Point Blank Solutions Directors Offer to Settle SEC Claims Over
Fraud
(22 Jun 2011)
Can IRS Force Your
Accountant
To Talk?
(22 Jun 2011)
PFI equity moved to
tax havens
(21 Jun 2011)
Say Anything: The Big 4 Defense Of Overtime Exemptions
(21 Jun 2011)
Former Langbar chief jailed for fraud
(21 Jun 2011)
Langbar chief Stuart Pearson (former Baker Tilly partner) jailed over 'grand scale' AIM fraud
(21 Jun 2011)
Langbar chief executive jailed for misleading the market about £357 million asset value of company
(21 Jun 2011)
SEC Warns Outside Directors With
Accounting Fraud
Suit
(21 Jun 2011)
Small companies "lack confidence" in
non
-
execs
(21 Jun 2011)
PCAOB Set to Expand Under New Mandates
(21 Jun 2011)
Compensating Stanford's Investors
(21 Jun 2011)
Commercial property
accounting
– a law unto itself?
(21 Jun 2011)
SEC
Considering
Fraud
Charges Against Ratings Agencies
(21 Jun 2011)
US regulators sue RBS and JP Morgan for $800m lost in credit crisis
(21 Jun 2011)
Ex-IRS Commissioner Links Financial Crisis to Lawyers and Accountants
(21 Jun 2011)
Chinese Firms Need to Open Up Books
(20 Jun 2011)
Japan Mulls Putting Off New Accounting Standards
(20 Jun 2011)
UK Treasury in talks to cut higher rate pension tax relief
(20 Jun 2011)
More than 90 private finance initiative projects have been moved into offshore tax havens
(20 Jun 2011)
The £10bn Sale of Shares in PPP Companies: New source of profits for builders and banks
(20 Jun 2011)
Fraud
at senior management level is highlighted
(20 Jun 2011)
PwC partner resigns amid Satyam Computers issue
(20 Jun 2011)
Japan's brash Livedoor tycoon heads to jail
(20 Jun 2011)
Greece - The End of The Road for The Euro? Accounting Implications?
(20 Jun 2011)
Insolvency: BDO
moves to recoup £21m property payout from ex-Halliwells partners
(20 Jun 2011)
Lawyers and Accountants Once Put Integrity First
(19 Jun 2011)
Internet firms using unusual
accounting
(19 Jun 2011)
Southern Cross asks
banks
for more time
(19 Jun 2011)
Top banker named in mortgage fraud case
(19 Jun 2011)
Lunatics like irresponsibilty: Proportionate
liability
'essential' for
audit
reform
(19 Jun 2011)
Forget shareholders
,
maximise consumer value instead
(19 Jun 2011)
PwC Wins Round on Overtime Class-Action Lawsuit
(18 Jun 2011)
PWC India managing partner quits
(18 Jun 2011)
IAS19 changes will fuel shift away from equities
(18 Jun 2011)
IFRS doubters stung by government audit report verdict
(18 Jun 2011)
Fat Cats: Scottish Power chairman has pay package doubled
(18 Jun 2011)
Investors warned of 'risky
'
exchange-traded funds
(18 Jun 2011)
UK government offers tax break to wealthy non-doms
(18 Jun 2011)
RBS joins market for Madoff claims
(18 Jun 2011)
Avoid Companies Where You Can't Assess the Risk
(18 Jun 2011)
Brutally Honest
Accountants
Confess To Being Boring
(18 Jun 2011)
SEC
: Investors in Alleged Stanford Ponzi Should Be Paid
(18 Jun 2011)
SEC
investigates role of ratings agencies Moody's and Standard & Poor's in financial crisis
(18 Jun 2011)
FASB and IASB Align Presentation of Other Comprehensive Income
(17 Jun 2011)
Santander bank's ruling family faces tax fraud probe
(17 Jun 2101)
Santander UK chief Botin and family face Spanish
tax evasion
probe
(17 Jun 2011)
Southern Cross landlord channelled 9million in rents through six countries
(17 Jun 2011)
Vince Cable rejects Lords' criticism of accounting rules
(17 Jun 2011)
Cable backs away from UK audit reform
(17 Jun 2011)
Ex-
Colonial Bank
(audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers) Exec Gets 8-Year Prison Sentence In $2.9B Fraud
(17 Jun 2011)
New
pension
accounting standard 'could cost companies £10bn'
(17 Jun 2011)
IASB publishes final IAS19 standard
(17 Jun 2011)
Southsea Mortgage
and Investment Company closed down
(17 Jun 2011)
Insolvency: BDO are liquidators of Southsea Mortgage and Investment Company Limited
(17 Jun 2011)
Lloyds sitting
on £
500m loss from property group
Targetfollow
(17 Jun 2011)
Egg-citing protests as Annual general meetings start to turn nasty
(17 Jun 2011)
Bank of Ireland bosses face barrage of anger and eggs
(17 Jun 2011
Madoff Claims Lure
Banks
(17 Jun 2011))
CAMPBELL v.
PricewaterhouseCOOPERS
, LLP
(17 Jun 2011)
Academies face losing cash in
accountancy
blunder
(17 Jun 2011)
Accounting 'Convergence' Hits a
Bump
(16 Jun 2011)
Have they pushed the self destruct button at the International Financial Reporting Standard Foundation?
(16 Jun 2011)
UK Government rejects Lords' call for mandatory audit dialogue
(16 Jun 2011)
UK
Government Response to the House of Lords Report on Auditors: Market concentration and their role
(16 Jun 2011)
FASB and IASB Re-open Revenue Recognition Standards
(16 Jun 2011)
Democratic erosion, profiteering and tax havens: PFI equity sales exposed
(16 Jun 2011)
Southern Cross given four months to find solution
(16 Jun 2011)
Southern Cross strikes deal with landlords in bid to stave off collapse
(16 Jun 2011)
'Messy, nasty problem' of Southern Cross rent
(16 Jun 2011)
SEC seeks stronger post-Madoff audits
(16 Jun 2011)
Appeals court sides with PwC in overtime lawsuit
(16 Jun 2011)
Ninth Circuit Rules for PwC in California Overtime Lawsuit
(16 Jun 2011)
Adelphia's Rigases Lose Bid to Dismiss Criminal
Tax
Case
(16 Jun 2011)
Orion seeks SEC's OK on
accounting
change, may restate earnings
(16 Jun 2011)
China-Biotics delays filing of annual report
(16 Jun 2011)
Hyundai Development chief accused of
tax evasion
, embezzlement
(16 Jun 2011)
Southern Cross 'to avoid administration'
(15 Jun 2011)
Southern Cross: Q&A
(15 Jun 2011)
Southern Cross to lose hundreds of care homes
(15 Jun 2011)
Hacker Young
paid out £1m over negligent advice
(15 Jun 2011)
MP fails to introduce ‘prudent accounting’ bill
(15 Jun 2011)
FSA secures its first criminal conviction for boiler room fraud.
Approved person also fined and prohibited from significant influence functions
(15 Jun 2011)
Accounting
Scandals Galore, China Not Enron-Bound
(15 Jun 2011)
£2bn profit for PFI companies selling debt on public projects
(15 Jun 2011)
PCAOB Adopts Interim Inspection Program for Broker-Dealer Audits And Broker and Dealer Funding Rules
(15 Jun 2011)
PCAOB Adopts Temporary Inspection Plan For Broker-Dealer Audits
(15 Jun 2011)
FSA warns wealth management firms of 'significant failings'
(15 Jun 2011)
Two More Chinese Companies Come Under From SEC Over Alleged
Fraud
(15 Jun 2011)
SEC settles
fraud
case against former US Technologies chief Earls
(15 Jun 2011)
Seeking New Clients Rises to Top of
CPA Firm
Issues
(15 Jun 2011)
Beazer Chief Is Dismissed by the Board
(15 Jun 2011)
UK Treasury 'in dark' on
PFI
profits
(14 Jun 2011)
Imagine if Groupon's wacky
accounting
caught on
(14 Jun 2011)
SEC Stop Order Proceedings Instituted Against China Intelligent Lighting and Electronics, Inc., and China Century Dragon Media, Inc.
(14 Jun 2011)
The BIG FOUR Hook:
KPMG man is appointed Interim Chairman of the Professional Oversight Board
(14 Jun 2011)
Accounting
fraud prompts SEC to issue stop order proceedings against 2 firms
(14 Jun 2011)
Financial engineering and the crisis in
care
(14 Jun 2011)
Hedge Fund Manager of A&O Entities Convicted in $100 Million Fraud Scheme
(14 Jun 2011)
India calls for strong measures to reverse the ongoing trend of illicit outflows from developing countries and exploitation of their natural resources through abusive transfer pricing schemes
(14 Jun 2011)
UK
bank
profits under pressure as provisioning falls
(14 Jun 2011)
Hedge Fund Manager of A&O Entities Convicted in $100 Million Fraud Scheme
(14 Jun 2011)
The Importance of Being Audited
(14 Jun 2011)
ENRC loses fifth executive in less than a week
(14 Jun 2011)
Three Wall Street traders paid bribes to coax information
from
lawyers
(14 Jun 2011)
Analyst at
Insider
Trial Says He Heard Jiau Phone In Confidential Data
(14 Jun 2011)
Unusual trades precede one in five takeovers
,
watchdog reveals
(14 Jun 2011)
Fuzzy
Accounting
Enriches Groupon
(13 Jun 2011)
Accounting
issues at insurance company spark auditors' resignation
(13 Jun 2011)
The European Parliament's Review of The Future of Audit
(13 Jun 2011)
Landlords to seek break-up of ailing Southern Cross
(13 Jun 2011)
Freedom of Information - Heritage Property case: Jeffery Lampert v IC and Financial Services Authority
(13 Jun 2011)
NHP controls fate of Southern Cross
(13 Jun 2011)
Revolving Doors: Former Minister Jacqui Smith signs up for KPMG
(13 Jun 2011)
Deep Throat throws light on CIMA disciplinary
(13 Jun 2011)
Crunch week for Glencore as share price props are removed
(13 Jun 2011)
Ernst & Young Didn’t Appreciate the Threat of ‘Action’ By Audit Client Who Wanted Rubber-Stamped Financial Statements
(12 Jun 2011)
Life Partners' Auditor Ernst & Young Quits, Withdraws Opinion on 2010 Results
(12 Jun 2011)
Top 35 International networks, associations and alliances 2011
(12 Jun 2011)
Sale-and-lease-back deals haunt Southern Cross as company faces £5bn rent bill
(12 Jun 2011)
Proposed NZ levy targets financial
auditors
and advisers
(12 Jun 2011)
UK corporates oppose two-
firm auditing
(12 Jun 2011)
American Banks 'High' On Drug Money
(12 Jun 2011)
Banking giant gets slap on the wrist for money laundering
(12 Jun 2011)
SEC
halts trading in local penny stock, Cascadia, long after hype is over
(12 Jun 2011)
Groupon: Growth,
Accounting
and SEC Questions
(11 Jun 2011)
Only a 'fool
'
would invest in Groupon
, claims analyst
(11 Jun 2011)
Auditors face suits over Chinese blowups in US
(11 Jun 2011)
Charity
accountant
warns of burdensome new standards
(11 Jun 2011)
Court may shed light on
Lehman
winners and losers
(11 Jun 2011)
IASB, Japanese Board Provide Update on
Standards
Convergence
(11 Jun 2011)
Shareholders feel boardroom failings where it hurts most
(11 Jun 2011)
SPECIAL REPORT-In $22 billion Saudi family feud, who knew what?
(11 Jun 2011)
Regulators Warn Investors on 'Reverse-Merger' Companies
(10 Jun 2011)
SEC Issues Bulletin on Risks of Investing in Reverse Merger Companies
(10 Jun 2011)
Auditors face suits over U.S.-listed Chinese blowups
(10 Jun 2011)
New
accounting
rule will require charities to value unsold shop stock
(10 Jun 2011)
Another KPMG Client Gets ID’d in a PCAOB Inspection Report
(10 Jun 2011)
Troubled Audit Opinions
(10 Jun 2011)
HMRC opens 16 criminal cases over
tax
evasion
(10 Jun 2011)
Rampant private equity will mean more Southern Crosses
(10 Jun 2011)
Life Partners' Auditor Quits, Withdraws Opinion on 2010 Results
(10 Jun 2011)
Thousands of HSBC clients face
tax
probe over secret Swiss accounts
(10 Jun 2011)
Hong Kong Auditor Rejected by U.S.
(10 Jun 2011)
Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) Scandal – US Congress Library Archives Part 2 (614 pages)
(10 Jun 2011)
Two Wildly Different Stories About Deloitte: Or Are They?
(9 Jun 2011)
Again With the Auditors!
Accounting
Irregularities Are Not Something New
(9 Jun 2011)
Dirty Secrets Fester in 50-Year KPMG Audit Relationships
(9 Jun 2011)
Korean Accounting
firms next to face scrutiny
(9 Jun 2011)
IFRS
critics see momentum gathering
(9 Jun 2011)
Groupon will reap 'wild profits', says chairman
(9 Jun 2011)
Grouponistically Acclaimed Accounting Procedures – Welcome to the NEW (GAAP)
(9 Jun 2011)
Groupon IPO: Pass on this deal
(9 Jun 2011)
Salesforce.com are reporting GAAP EPS that excludes "stock based compensation”
(9 Jun 2011)
Provisioning for losses
(9 Jun 2011)
ENRC
shareholders vote four directors off board after bitter wrangle
(9 Jun 2011)
Dick Cheney's Halliburton: a corporate case study
(9 Jun 2011)
Halliburton
securities fraud lawsuit reinstated
(9 Jun 2011)
Bean counter deals blow at
Punch
Taverns
(9 Jun 2011)
Ex-oil company
accountant
accused of embezzlement
(9 Jun 2011)
'Total upfront cost' of bankruptcy 'rises to £700'
(9 Jun 2011)
Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) Scandal – US Congress Library Archives Part 1 (554 pages)
(9 Jun 2011)
BCCI Scandal – see page 301 for a confidential report by Price Waterhouse on BCCI Loans
(9 Jun 2011)
Can Eric Pickles' armchair auditors really be relied on to manage the country's finances?
(8 Jun 2011)
MoJ may exclude
insolvency
in latest reforms
(8 Jun 2011)
Syncora Guarantee Sues JPMorgan Unit Over
Bear Stearns
Mortgage Securities
(8 Jun 2011)
KPMG fails to fairly promote women, lawsuit says
(8 Jun 2011)
Need for Global Insurance Standards Driven by Financial Crisis, Solvency II
(8 Jun 2011)
HSBC
pays £38m to settle Madoff lawsuit
(8 Jun 2011)
PwC Falls Victim in the Competitive Poaching Game to...WTP Advisors
(8 Jun 2011)
Blow for Glencore over Zambian tax avoidance allegations
(8 Jun 2011)
US Millionaires Group: Tax Us to Cut the Deficit
(8 Jun 2011)
Commissioner of Taxation v SNF (Australia) Pty Ltd (2011): Practical implications for the application of the Comparable Uncontrolled Price (“CUP”) transfer pricing methodology
(8 Jun 2011)
Transfer Pricing – Business Incentives, International Taxation and Corporate Law
(8 Jun 2011)
Multiple Roles of Transfer Prices: One vs. Two Books
(8 Jun 2011)
Transfer Pricing: A Report on the OECD Discussion Draft on Business Restructurings
(8 Jun 2011)
Repatriation taxes and foreign direct investment: Evidence from tax treaties
(8 Jun 2011)
Why don't ministers believe in transparency, accountability and supplying information to ensure free markets work?
(7 Jun 2011)
Findel profits hit by
accounting
irregularities
(7 Jun 2011)
Twelve people, including lawyers and accountants, who help Scotland's most dangerous gangs are under investigation by the body fighting serious crime
(7 Jun 2011)
POLICE have put "the dirty dozen" of Scotland’s most corrupt lawyers and accountants out of business
(7 Jun 2011)
IMF warns on UK
banks
masking bad debts
(7 Jun 2011)
UK
banks
may have 'masked' risks with forbearance
(7 Jun 2011)
HSBC Agrees to
Pay
$62.5 Million to Settle U.S. Class-Action Madoff Suit
(7 Jun 2011)
Bernard
Madoff's
payroll manager pleads guilty to part in Ponzi fraud
(7 Jun 2011)
PricewaterhouseCoopers opts out of Government's welfare-to-work programme
(7 Jun 2011)
Care homes
firms 'on brink' of collapse, union says
(7 Jun 2011)
HMV thrown £220m lifeline by
banks
(7 Jun 2011)
Life on planet Zug - the town of 25k people, and 29k international businesses
(7 Jun 2011)
Opinions Differ on Separate US Standards Board for Private Companies
(7 Jun 2011)
How to prevent ChinaCo
accounting fraud
(7 Jun 2011)
SEC Charges Longtime Madoff Employee With Fraud
(6 Jun 2011)
Hedge
accounting
proposal is not enough
(6 Jun 2011)
How Serious Would a Criminal Indictment Against Goldman Be?
(6 Jun 2011)
Delaware banks: Wilmington Trust accused of fraud in
lawsuit
(6 Jun 2011)
FSTE350 firms using generous
accounting
assumptions to calculate liabilities
(6 Jun 2011)
Irregular bidding process puts
Deloitte
in hot seat
(6 Jun 2011)
Irish Central Bank pressing for 'prudent'
accounting
(6 Jun 2011)
The Big Four increase their dominance in Poland
(6 Jun 2011)
UNCTAD, Viet Nam ministry of finance co-host round table on how to bolster corporate reporting, accounting
(6 Jun 2011)
Low and middle income UK earners have suffered a 30 year income squeeze
(6 Jun 2011)
UK Wage study shows rich-poor divide
(6 Jun 2011)
Britain’s Livelihood Crisis
(6 Jun 2011)
Madhouse economics with lunatics in charge: Where has all the wealth of this country actually gone?
(5 Jun 2011)
Acer: European Writedown On
Accounting
Issues, One-Off Charge Is Final
(5 Jun 2011)
Southern Cross
forced to shed
180
care homes to survive
(5 Jun 2011)
US regulator
'
almost ended Barclays' Protium deal
'
(5 Jun 2011)
Treasures of alleged Ponzi schemer
Stanford
auctioned
(5 Jun 2011)
FSA
to assess levels of risk behind big banks' profits
(5 Jun 2011)
Insolvency: NUJ calls for creditors meeting over Sunday and Daily Sport debts
(5 Jun 2011)
Deloitte
attacked for appointing former RBS auditor as chairman
(4 Jun 2011)
Tax
shelters put BDO Seidman in middle of firestorm with federal prosecutors
(4 Jun 2011)
Irish banks may have to declare extra losses under
accounting
rules change
(4 Jun 2011)
IASB publishes 'near final' draft of IAS19
(4 Jun 2011)
KPMG Sued for Gender Discrimination
(4 Jun 2011)
US accounting watchdog mulls audit rule changes
(4 Jun 2011)
PCAOB May Require Mandatory
Audit Firm
Rotation
(4 Jun 2011)
The Companies (Disclosure of Auditor Remuneration and Liability Limitation Agreements) (Amendment) Regulations 2011
(4 Jun 2011)
Explanatory Text Draft Companies (Disclosure of Auditor Remuneration and Liability Limitation Agreements) (Amendment) Regulations 2011
(4 Jun 2011)
SEC Enforcers Said to Weigh Release of Report on Lehman Abuses
(4 Jun 2011)
Primeo Fund Seeks to Take Madoff
Bankruptcy
Trustee Suit to District Court
(4 Jun 2011)
Analysis: What IAS19 changes will mean for you
(4 Jun 2011)
SEC subpoenas American Tower
(4 Jun 2011)
FRSME respondents give
standard
setters a headache
(4 Jun 2011)
Europe pushes for end to small company audits
(4 Jun 2011)
We are already in serious trouble
(3 Jun 2011)
Accounting Giant
KPMG
LLP Faces $350 Million Gender Discrimination Class Action
(3 Jun 2011)
KPMG Sued for $350 Million in Gender Discrimination Lawsuit
(3 Jun 2011)
Rethinking the Relevance, Credibility and Transparency of Audits
(3 Jun 2011)
The financial lessons of Southern Cross
(3 Jun 2011)
US Board Weighs Mandatory Rotation of Auditors
(3 Jun 2011)
US Companies May Face Rule to Shift Audit
Firms
(3 Jun 2011)
Deja Vu: Groupon's Bubble 1.0 Approach To
Accounting
(3 Jun 2011)
SEC Probes China Auditors
(3 Jun 2011)
'Naked
Auditors
' Case Shows Wall Street Not Cured: Susan Antilla
(3 Jun 2011)
Billion Dollar Fund Managers Agree: The Government Never Fixed the Underlying Economic Problems, So We'll Have Another Crash
(3 Jun 2011)
Royal Bank of Scotland told by MPs to explain £25bn
accounting
'distortion'
(2 Jun 2011)
Dud accounting standards 'inflated RBS assets'
(2 Jun 2011)
BDO
censured by Financial Services Authority for Shore Capital deal failures
(2 Jun 2011)
Enron whistle blower: Recipe for scandal still remains
(2 Jun 2011)
Insolvency: Quinn administrators Grant Thornton charge €1.7m for three months' work - hourly rate of
€475
(2 Jun 2011)
Insolvency: Liquidation of Stanford Bank taken over by
Grant Thornton - mor easy fees
(2 Jun 2011)
EU agrees to cut red tape for smallest firms
(2 Jun 2011)
India High Court rejects auditors PricewaterhouseCoopers plea on disciplinary action
(2 Jun 2011)
Former RSM Man Accused of
Fraud
, Embezzling $822000
(2 Jun 2011)
India Allows
Accounting
Firms to Set Up LLPs
(2 Jun 2011)
FSA censures BDO LLP for failings as a sponsor
(1 Jun 2011)
The 'fifth-largest
accountant
' BDO censured by City regulator
(1 Jun 2011)
BDO
Faulted for Advice Failure in Shore Capital's Puma Takeover
(1 Jun 2011)
Massive
accounting
changes could see pension deficits balloon by £10bn
(1 Jun 2011)
Big Four dominance remains at UK blue chips
(1 Jun 2011)
US Investors accuse BDO auditors of ignoring signs of 'pervasive fraud' at Stanford
(1 Jun 2011)
Auditors in China burned by cash balance scandals
(1 Jun 2011)
12 US Corporations Pay Effective Tax Rate of Negative 1.5% on $171 Billion in Profits; Reap $62.4 Billion in Tax Subsidies
Exxon Mobil, Boeing, Verizon, Others Illustrate Why Revenue-Raising Reform is Needed
(1 Jun 2011)
400 Highest-Income Americans Paid an Effective Rate of 18.1% in 2008
(1 Jun 2011)
Glencore in Zambia Tax Probe
(1 Jun 2011)
European Investment Bank halts loans to Glencore
(1 Jun 2011)
'ICAI can probe 2 auditors of Satyam'
(1 Jun 2011)
Navistar Sues Deloitte Proving No Statute of Limitations On Idiocy
(1 Jun 2011)
India Govt allows auditors to set up LLPs
(1 Jun 2011)
MAY 2011
VODAFONE’S NEW TAX WINDFALL
(31 May 2011)
EU agrees to cut red tape for smallest firms
(31 May 2011)
Tax incentives don't create jobs: economist
(31 May 2011)
SMALL BUSINESS TAXATION: Revamping Incentives to Encourage Growth
(31 May 2011)
ICAEW expects legal privilege court role
(31 May 2011)
Light-footed Google in $4.6bn tax dodge
(31 May 2011)
FSA asks ex-directors of
RBS
why it failed
(31 May 2011)
Ex-Anglo executive alleges '
tax evasion
issues' at bank
(31 May 2011)
Nothing wrong with lease agreement between councillor, ex-lover - Deloitte
(30 May 2011)
HSBC accused of 'profiting from Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme'
(30 May 2011)
UK Tax burden 'increases on workers'
(30 May 2011)
Bribery and Corruption: SFO probes EADS defence contract with Saudi Arabia
(30 May 2011)
Fat Cats: Top UK bosses 'see their pay increase by 32%'
(30 May 2011)
SFO
saved by cabinet revolt
(29 May 2011)
SEC Releases Work Plan for How IFRS Transition Might Work
(29 May 2011)
Insolvency: Focus DIY chain collapse sparks fury over role of private equity
(29 May 2011)
The Audacity of Chinese Frauds
(29 May 2011)
Liquidation of Stanford Bank taken over by
Grant Thornton
(29 May 2011)
Two Funds Sued by Madoff Trustee Picard File Claims Against Custodian
HSBC
(29 May 2011)
Accountant
siphons millions from trust
(29 May 2011)
They like abusing the public: Insolvency reform will cost businesses say Big Four and R3
(29 May 2011)
New Labour taxed and spent much less than Thatcher
(28 May 2011)
SEC IFRS Plan Would Change FASB's Role
(28 May 2011)
Stanford Investors Sue BDO
(28 May 2011)
Corporation tax cuts do not create jobs
(28 May 2011)
Corporation tax cuts fail to create jobs, says TUC
(28 May 2011)
Corporate Tax reform and competitiveness
(28 May 2011)
Crooked
accountant
gambles away NZ$50m
(28 May 2011)
Mahindra Satyam reports loss after settling
lawsuit
(28 May 2011)
HSBC shareholders stage embarrassing bonus revolt at agm
(28 May 2011)
KPMG links to Libyan dictator Gaddafi
(27 May 2011)
KPMG UK Report Shows Libya’s Qaddafi Held Billions in US and UK Banks
(27 May 2011)
Libyan Investment Authority: Management Information Report 30 June 2010
(27 May 2011)
European Parliament makes clear it wants full country-by-country reporting
(27 May 2011)
Stanford Investors Sue Former Auditor BDO US for $10.7 Billion Over Fraud
(27 May 2011)
Funding Concerns Still Surround IASB
(27 May 2011)
The way forward for FRSSE
(27 May 2011)
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) agree to offer new CGMA designation
(27 May 2011)
US Financial Accounting Standards Board may ease new lease
standard
(27 May 2011)
SEC Releases Work Plan for How IFRS Transition Might Work
(27 May 2011)
Ex Rite Aid exec released from federal prison, is free pending new
sentence hearing
(27 May 2011)
This
Accountant
Underwent Counseling for an Addiction to Sausages
(27 May 2011)
Accountant
jailed for stealing NZ$5m from employer
(27 May 2011)
Why are
accountants
scared of LLPs?
(27 May 2011)
China gold firm halts trade after flawed
accounting
report
(27 May 2011)
Accounting Fraud
: A 'How-To' Guide
(27 May 2011)
SEC's Schapiro Says Investors Expect More from Accountants
(26 May 2011)
Goldman Sachs Needs a New Audit Committee
(26 May 2011)
About to Settle that Case? Might Want to Check With
Auditors
First
(26 May 2011)
Former BDO Seidman CEO Convicted of
Tax
Fraud
(26 May 2011)
Banks Were Complicit In Longtop
Fraud
(26 May 2011)
SEC Adopts Rules to Establish Whistleblower Program
(26 May 2011)
EU
green paper calls for softer stance on
audit
(26 May 2011)
The OFT must try to keep Brussels at bay on audit competition
(26 May 2011)
SEC
Investigates Hybrids for Insider Trading
(26 May 2011)
Jenkens & Gilchrist Attorneys, Former BDO Seidman CEO and Deutsche Bank Broker Found Guilty in New York of Multi-Billion Dollar Criminal Tax Fraud Scheme
(25 May 2011)
US Government Tax Shelter Case In New York Will Send Former
BDO
CEO To Prison
(25 May 2011)
JJB
reports hefty losses
(25 May 2011)
KPMG accountant avoids jail on Promentum insider trading charge
(25 May 2011)
FSA fines Bank of Scotland £3.5 million for complaint handling failures and secures £17 million compensation for customers
(25 May 2011)
Don't Worry, There's Still Plenty of
Accounting Fraud
Out There
(25 May 2011)
SEC approves new rewards for whistleblowers
(25 May 2011)
Corporate America Not Totally Thrilled With New Whistleblower Rules
(25 May 2011)
APB issues revised guidance on the audit of credit unions in the UK
(25 May 2011)
Philips Probes Mexico Health-Care Unit in Accounting Review
(25 May 2011)
Philips to probe 'accounting errors' in Mexico
(25 May 2011)
Former
KPMG
adviser Andrew Dalzell receives Intensive Correction Order
(24 May 2011)
Insider trading guilty ex-
KPMG
manager to spend 2 years behind bars
(24 May 2011)
Deloitte
Quits as Auditor of Hong Kong's Longtop as US SEC Probes Claims
(24 May 2011)
Accountant
led lavish lifestyle paid for by theft
(24 May 2011)
OFT
: Frightening future for the Big Four?
(24 May 2011)
Standard
setters await EU before launching FRSSE consultation
(24 May 2011)
Market-collapse criminal prosecutions are scarce
(24 May 2011)
COSCO hit by parent
firm's accounting
woes
(24 May 2011)
Prosecutors Faulted on Failing to Catch Credit-Crunch 'Bandits'
(24 May 2011)
Ex-
Lehman
MP raises pressure on auditors
(23 May 2011)
A banker's boot on the throat of small businesses is a boot on the throat of the whole economy
(24 May 2011)
Longtop Financial: The $1 Billion Chinese Accounting Disaster Whose Accountant (Deloitte & Touche) Just Resigned
(23 May 2011)
Longtop's Financial Chief, Auditor Resign; Probes Statements
(23 May 2011)
Independent body should review Insolvency Practitioners'
fees
(23 May 2011)
US Justice Department Lawsuit to Stop H&R Block Inc. from Buying TaxACT
(23 May 2011)
Koss settles suit against directors in embezzlement case
(23 May 2011)
Insolvency: Lehman
Paid Bankruptcy Lawyers, Managers $27.1 Million in Fees in April
(23 May 2011)
Accounting
changes, follow-on offer drag down Bhel's stock
(23 May 2011)
FBI joins
inquiry into
Libor manipulation
claims against banks
(23 May 2011)
Glencore IPO will put employee benefits law to the fore
(23 May 2011)
Citi Hires Ex-CEO of
PwC
as Senior Banker
(23 May 2011)
Singing
accountant
helps boost business
(23 May 2011)
From the poor to the rich!
(22 May 2011)
Big Bad Banks and Beancounters
(22 May 2011)
SEC asks Wipro to prove its
auditor
KPMG India's independence
(22 May 2011)
Wirral
accountant
stole £170k from firm – and boasted about luxury lifestyle
on facebook
(22 May 2011)
Bienvenue! French
Audit Firm
Mazars Arrives In US
(22 May 2011)
Corporate reporting in 'critical state'
(22 May 2011)
Conviction finalized for ex-Livedoor
accountant
(22 May 2011)
Fraudbuster
SFO
claims victory in fight for survival
(22 May 2011)
Insolvency: Oddbins
leaves its creditors to drown sorrows
(22 May 2011)
OECD may detract from UN work on transfer pricing
(21 May 2011)
American Apparel Gets Subpoena From US Over
Transfer Pricing
Policies
(21 May 2011)
China Unicom Uncovers Improper
Accounting
But Says No Impact On Results
(21 May 2011)
Keydata directors cleared by Insolvency Service
(21 May 2011)
Southern Cross auditor warns of 'significant doubt' over its survival
(21 May 2011)
£2.8 billion corporate tax avoidance casts doubt on Scotland corporation
tax
plans
(21 May 2011)
Plans to break-up Serious Fraud Office in disarray
(21 May 2011)
Conservative MP leads charge for tougher bank audits
(20 May 2011)
Banks
in race to shed commercial property debt
(20 May 2011)
Get Ready for More Audit Failures: Increased role for UK
auditors
under PRA
(20 May 2011)
Accounting
rules for mining projects are absurd
(20 May 2011)
Account ability
(20 May 2011)
Sort out the CIMA spat before it goes too far
(20 May 2011)
City lawyer dismissed over £1m in wrongful expenses
(20 May 2011)
SEC Proposes Rules to Increase Transparency and Improve Integrity of Credit Ratings
(20 May 2011)
Proposed SEC Rules for Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations
(20 May 2011)
Bernie
Madoff
lawyer sacked for faking £1million in expenses
(20 May 2011)
Bernie
Madoff's
wine collection raises $41530 for Ponzi scheme victims
(20 May 2011)
Insurance giant Munich Re admits it
used prostitutes to reward staff
(20 May 2011)
BP
reaches Deepwater Horizon settlement with MOEX
(20 May 2011)
Tenaris to Pay $5.4 Million in SEC's First-Ever Deferred Prosecution Agreement over allegations of bribing Uzbekistan government officials
(20 May 2011)
US
offshore
accounting may leave investors in dark
(19 May 2011)
US watchdog sees cross-border audit deal with China this year
(19 May 2011)
IAASB Looks to Revamp Auditor Reports
(19 May 2011)
Amec Appoints
John Connolly Deloitte
UK Chief As Its New Chairman
(19 May 2011)
Banks
face 'intensive'
regulation
(19 May 2011)
CIMA
council member charged with misconduct
(19 May 2011)
Tilley gives evidence at
CIMA
disciplinary
(19 May 2011)
Britain's auditing oligopoly
(18 May 2011)
Can the stranglehold of Big Four auditors be broken?
(18 May 2011)
UK
Audit
Market Scrutinized
(18 May 2011)
Greater auditing competition is overdue
(18 May 2011)
"Next tier" outline benefits from OFT
audit inquiry
(18 May 2011)
Accounting
for derivatives is not that complex
(18 May 2011)
Oppositions storm FASB's proposed
accounting standards
on derivatives
(18 May 2011)
UK Financial Ombudsman received over a million enquiries and more than 200,000 disputes
(18 May 2011)
There is a way of knowing how much tax Boots paid - it's called country-by-country reporting
(17 May 2011)
The OFT has provisionally decided that there are competition problems in the audit market that pass the statutory test for
referral to the Competition Commission
(17 May 2011)
FRC comments on OFT Statement regarding Audit Market Competition
(17 May 2011)
Stars' accountant faces £14m tax avoidance claim
(17 May 2011)
Greater
auditing
competition is overdue
(17 May 2011)
Should Boots' profitable parent company pay more UK
tax
?
(17 May 2011)
Lower taxation is key to Boots' strategy
(17 May 2011)
Boots faces a taxing time after Switzerland headquarters switch
(17 May 2011)
Bribery and corruption: BAE Systems will pay a $79m (£49m) fine to the US government to settle a civil prosecution linked to an earlier criminal investigation in which BAE admitted to "defrauding the US"
(17 May 2011)
Ex-
Lehman
Brothers broker pleads guilty in insider trading case
(17 May 2011)
Take on the accountants, Grove tells government
(16 May 2011)
Ernst & Young
call
police
to von Essen administration
(16 May 2011)
Equitable Life
payments to start in June, Treasury says
(16 May 2011)
Google's £6bn of UK revenue but only £8m in corporation
tax
( 16 May 201)
GSI Group Settles SEC Accusations Related To
Accounting
Practices
(16 May 2011)
The fat-cats paid 145 TIMES more than their workers
(16 May 2011)
Fat Cats: Pay gap widening to Victorian levels
(16 May 2011)
Pay boom
for top 0.1% of earners
(16 May 2011)
Fat Cats: Salaries for top executives are rocketing 'out of control'
(16 May 2011)
More for Less: what has happened to pay at the top and does it matter?
(16 May 2011)
UK Deficit, national debt and government borrowing - how has it changed since 1946?
(16 May 2011)
Ex-CSK Auto CFO Pleads Guilty to Earnings Scheme, US Says
(15 May 2011)
Southern Cross seeks £100m cash injection to avoid collapse (15 May 2011)
Justice at last for victims of the Equitable Life scandal
(15 May 2011)
Police alerted over Von Essen Hotels stately
homes
loan
(15 May 2011)
Microsoft Structured Acquisition Of Skype To Avoid US Taxes
(14 May 2011)
Ernst & Young fails to halt inquiry into its conduct as Anglo Irish auditor
(14 May 2011)
High Court blocks Ernst and Young challenge to Anglo inquiry
(14 May 2011)
HIG's 'pre-pack' deal leaves
Silentnight
pensioners in nightmare
(14 May 2011)
Pfizer
eyes $772m for drug claims
(14 May 2011)
Thor Industries Agrees to Pay $1 Million to Settle SEC
Accounting
probe
(14 May 2011)
Former CFO of National Auto Parts Retailer Pleads Guilty to Scheme to Manipulate Corporate Earnings
(14 May 2011)
EADS Performance Overshadowed By
Accounting
Revaluations
(14 May 2011)
Skype Deal: A Lesson In
Offshore
Accounting
(13 May 2011)
Australia Accountants
sued over $20m loan scam
(13 May 2011)
CIPFA survey shows audit committees fail on governance
(13 May 2011)
IASB presses ahead with joint venture rule
(13 May 2011)
Financial
crisis
-inspired standards released
(13 May 2011)
Big US banks oppose derivatives
accounting
plan
(13 May 2011)
Accounting
, certainty and tax
(13 May 2011)
'Fair Value'
Accounting
Guidelines Tweaked
(13 May 2011)
Has The Apprentice damaged
accountancy's
reputation?
(13 May 2011)
Accounting
Boards Issue Converged Fair-Value Standards
(13 May 2011)
Southern
Cross seeks 30pc rent cut
(13 May 2011)
Markhams audit boss banned over Boston Finance
(13 May 2011)
Bayou Group Estate Wins $13 Million From Hedge Funds for
Fraud
Investors
(13 May 2011)
FASAB Modifies Definition of "Deferred Maintenance"
(13 May 2011)
SEC staff's 'revolving door' prompts concerns about agency's independence
(13 May 2011)
U.S. Senate Hearings: Fraud In For-Profit Education Industry
(13 May 2011)
Kaplan Higher Education, who runs courses at several English universities, is being sued in the US for falsifying attendance records and grade inflation
(13 May 2011)
FOR-PROFIT COLLEGES: Undercover Testing Finds Colleges Encouraged Fraud and Engaged in Deceptive and Questionable Marketing Practices
(13 May 2011)
Kaplan Suspends Enrollment at Campuses Where Federal Investigators Found Recruiting Abuses
(13 May 2011)
UK Insider-Trading Probes to Target 'Bigger Fry,'
FSA's
McDermott Says
(12 May 2011)
Chinese stock scams are the latest US import
(12 May 2011)
Fighting for Fees: Competition, price pressure and innovation in the UK accountancy market
(12 May 2011)
The Apprentice 2011:
Accountant
Edward Hunter is first to be fired
(12 May 2011)
Artful
banks
dodge the truth about how much is really in their accounts
(12 May 2011)
Closing Arguments in Ex-Jenkens Partners
Tax
Fraud Case Begin
(12 May 2011)
Deloitte: Clients are tired of accounting
standards
upheaval
(12 May 2011)
Centro
accountant
tells of discrepancies in statements
(12 May 2011)
Why CEOs Avoided Getting Busted in Meltdown: William Black
(12 May 2011)
More charities than expected will face highest level of
accounting
disclosure
(12 May 2011)
Billionaire hedge fund boss faces jail as he is found guilty of insider dealing
(11 May 2011)
Study Finds Tax Burden Rising on Workers
(11 May 2011)
Tax burden for single-parent families rises in 2010: OECD
(11 May 2011)
Ex-Langbar CEO Pearson Should Have Known About
Fraud
, UK Prosecutor Says
(11 May 2011)
Former Torex Retail chairman charged with false
accounting
(11 May 2011)
Going concern
and liquidity, Sharman
Inquiry
calls for evidence
(11 May 2011)
FRC probes firms over liquidity risks
(11 May 2011)
APB issues a Bulletin outlining developments in Corporate Governance affecting auditors of Irish companies
(11 May 2011)
Google
Sets Aside $500 Million for
Ad
Probe
(11 May 2011)
Being Expedient: PwC Settles Satyam U.S. Class Action
(10 May 2011)
Former Chairman and CEO charged following collapse of Torex Retail Plc
(10 May 2011)
Transfer Pricing: U.S. Companies Dodge $60 Billion in Taxes With Global Odyssey
(10 May 2011)
To avoid Greek restructuring losses – an
accounting
loophole for banks
(10 May 2011)
Ex-chief's fraud charge over collapse of Torex
(10 May 2011)
RBS succumbs to PPI pressure and sets aside £850m
(10 May 2011)
HSBC
first quarter profit hit by PPI provision
(10 May 2011)
Critics unearth 'second thoughts' over IFRS
(10 May 2011)
FASB and IASB Re-deliberate Standards
(10 May 2011)
Lease-
Accounting
Rules Change Delayed as Complexity Complaints Addressed
(10 May 2011)
Disciplinary funding costs leap at the ICAEW
(10 May 2011)
Pre-pack sale of Silentnight arranged by
KPMG
administrators
(10 May 2011)
China's second-tier
firms
target the Big Four's Achilles heel
(10 May 2011)
Tax is not a cost
(9 May 2011)
Barclays reported to accounts regulator by investors
(9 May 2011)
MG
Rover's 'Phoenix Four' banned from being directors
(9 May 2011)
PwC compensates Satyam investors — but not Indian ones
(9 May 2011)
PricewaterhouseCoopers PA jailed over expenses fraud
(9 May 2011)
Scandal involving PwC employee ends up in imprisonment
(9 May 2011)
Britain could slash its £30bn a year corporate tax avoidance industry in one swoop
(9 May 2011)
KPMG
called in to aid Helphire with £25m overstatement
(9 May 2011)
Parallel accounting bill presented to Commons
(9 May 2011)
Banking
industry gives up on PPI mis-selling battle
(9 May 2011)
PPI: a rotten product that made the banks billions
(9 May 2011)
S African Indian is youngest chartered
accountant
at 18
(9 May 2011)
SFO
boss Richard Alderman 'talks of quitting' in row over new agency
(8 May 2011)
EU tax-scam body stuffed with
tax avoidance
experts
(8 May 2011)
Flybe
profit warning
sends share price crashing down
(8 May 2011)
Thorntons profits
warning: what the analysts say
(8 May 2011)
Banks
' payment insurance protection was in fact a racket
(8 May 2011)
Transfer pricing 'deprives' the poor
(7 May 2011)
Helphire admits £25m
accounting
error blunder
(7 May 2011)
New PCAOB Chairman Pushes for Audit Overhaul
(7 May 2011)
The Reliability, Role and Relevance of the Audit: A Turning Point
(7 May 2011)
Big US banks oppose derivatives accounting plan
(7 May 2011)
The Grand Illusion:
PwC
Settles Satyam U.S. Class Action Claims
(7 May 2011)
Today in Chinese Company Auditor Resignations:
KPMG
Doesn't Appreciate Being
Ignored
(7 May 2011)
FASB Chair Answers Push for Private-Company GAAP
(7 May 2011)
Former Brocade CEO's case heads to federal appeals court
(7 May 2011)
US targets bankers in HSBC
laundering
probe: source
(7 May 2011)
Venezuelan Accountant Pleads Guilty in PDVSA $500 Million Ponzi in USA
(7 May 2011)
US Regulators close Florida
bank
,40th failure of 2011
(7 May 2011)
Helphire plunges 60% after profit warning and
accounting
error
(6 May 2011)
Helphire dives on profits warning,
accounting
errors
(6 May 2011)
BDO USA Settles Bankest Suit With Former Client Banco Espirito Santo
(6 May 2011)
SFO charges Torex trio with
fraud
(6 May 2011)
Three charged following collapse of Torex Retail Plc
(6 May 2011)
Royal Bank of Scotland investigation: the full story of how the 'world's biggest bank' went bust
(6 May 2011)
RBS still hamstrung by Ulster Bank impairments in Ireland
(6 May 2011)
RBS losses widen, hit by debt charges
(6 May 2011)
RBS reports £116m loss
(6 May 2011)
Revamp of
accounting
standards greatest risk to Manulife: CEO
(6 May 2011)
US auditor watchdog hopeful of access to China
(6 May 2011)
'Big Four' Audit
Firms
May Face UK Antitrust Investigation This Month
(6 May 2011)
Insolvency: Silentnight
creditor meeting postponed
(6 May 2011)
Transocean Profit Drops on Higher Costs and Rig-Demand Slump
(6 May 2011)
CEOs keep finance and
accounting
in-house despite outsourcing trends
(6 May 2011)
Lloyds TSB Vs Businessman Keith Elliot
(5 May 2011)
PPI claims could cost Lloyds £3bn
(5 May 2011)
FSA
blocks questions about director's qualifications
(5 May 2011)
Accountant
Admits To Hedge Fund Fraud Cover-Up
(5 May 2011)
BCCI: UK governemnt considering release of the misisng parts of the Bingham Report
(5 May 2011)
India IFRS implementation faces more delays
(5 May 2011)
Insolvency: Number of store firms going bust jumps 30% in first quarter, says report
(5 May 2011)
PwC reported to accounting regulator after taking out criticism of client from report
(4 May 2011)
Greed Inc: A special investigation into pollution, dubious tax practices and exploitation of African workers at Glencore
(4 May 2011)
Livent co-founders deny directing
accounting
of kickbacks
(4 May 2011)
Firms suffer from banks' fear of avoidance
(4 May 2011)
Boeing Auditors Not Protected by Sarbanes-Oxley, Court Says
(4 May 2011)
Two auditors not entitled to whistleblower protection, court rules
(4 May 2011)
Corporate Boards Getting Whiter While America Is Not
(4 May 2011)
UK
banks
RBS and Barclays sued over collapse of Thornburg
(4 May 2011)
Barclays,
RBS
, Goldman sued over US mortgages
(4 May 2011)
United States Sues Deutsche Bank and Subsidiary Mortgage for Years of Reckless Lending Practices
(4 May 2011)
Irish "bad
bank
" loss soars on impairment charge
(4 May 2011)
Keydata
inquiry dropped by Serious Fraud Office
(4 May 2011)
Keydata
£100m bonds scheme: case closed
(4 May 2011)
Renren IPO Outlook Strong Despite
Accounting
Concerns
(4 May 2011)
Energy Deals Derailed by Obscure Accounting Rule
(3 May 2011)
PwC in $25.5 Million Satyam Settlement
(3 May 2011)
Glencore
float is hit by new allegations of profiteering and environmental violations
(3 May 2011)
Thornburg Trustee Sues Wall Street
Banks
for $2.2 Billion
(3 May 2011)
South Korea bank executives charged with illegal loan,
accounting
fraud
(3 May 2011)
SME
accounting
standards response 'bigger than expected'
(3 May 2011)
Global
Accounting
Rules at Risk
(3 May 2011)
Proposed
Standard
Will Bring Changes in Revenue Recognition
(3 May 2011)
IASB & FASB to Hold Financial Asset and Financial Liability Round-table Meeting
(3 May 2011)
Long before its closure in July 1991 Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) pleaded guilty to money laundering
(2 May 2011)
Every US company has all the data it needs to do country-by-country reporting
(2 May 2011)
How the Coalition is transferring wealth from many to a few
(2 May 2011)
Satyam Investors' US Suit Settled by
PwC
for $25.5 Million
(2 May 2011)
Discard
PricewaterhouseCoopers
: BofA investors urged
(2 May 2011)
Ernst & Young awaits Anglo Irish ruling on challenge to ICAI
(2 May 2011)
Firms urged to show how profits are split between bonuses and investment
(2 May 2011)
Carbon
accounting
system is mad as a hatter
(2 May 2011)
HSBC
under fire over leading role in land deals for Mubarak regime
(2 May 2011)
Accounting
Board Tries to Close Lehman Loophole
(1 May 2011)
FASB Issues Accounting Standards Update to Improve Financial Reporting of Repurchase Agreements
(1 May 2011)
US
Accounting
Board Changes Rule on Repurchase Transactions
(1 May 2011)
The
FSA's
silence on RBS is now untenable
(1 May 2011)
UK Private companies face
accounting
upheaval
(1 May 2011)
Insolvency Examiner appointed to Xtra-vision
(1 May 2011)
Still profiting! Fraudster Conrad Black's $9.9m Palm Beach mansion sells for $23.1m
(1 May 2011)
APRIL 2011
Sign the Petition:Public Inquiry into White Collar Crimes
(30 Apr 2011)
Political Facebook Groups Deleted On Royal Wedding Day
(30 Apr 2011)
Barclays to Make Claims for 'Several Billion Dollars' From
Lehman
Trustee
(30 Apr 2011)
ISS says shareholders should cut Bank of America
audit
chief
(30 Apr 2011)
Brussels open anti-trust probes into 16 of world's biggest investment
banks
(30 Apr 2011)
EU Commission probes Credit Default Swaps market: JP Morgan, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Morgan Stanley, Royal Bank of Scotland, UBS, and Société Générale to be probed
(30 Apr 2011)
SEC Halts Ponzi Scheme by Co-Founder of China Voice Holding Corp.
(30 Apr 2011)
Obama backs country-by-country reporting
(29 Apr 2011)
Insolvency: Lehman
Pays Managers, Advisers $31.9 Million in March, SEC Filing Shows
(29 Apr 2011)
White House Presses Extractive Disclosure Abroad
(29 Apr 2011)
Barclays' Protium move throws up memories of corporation
tax
row
(29 Apr 2011)
Barclays haunted by smoke and mirrors
accounting
(29 Apr 2011)
UK taxman has been asked to investigate Barclays over the $12.3bn (£7.4bn) sale of toxic assets to a Cayman Islands company to ensure the high street bank has not broken the tax compliance code it signed last year
(29 Apr 2011)
Zambia lost an estimated income of USD 175 million in tax revenue between 2003 and 2008 from tax avoidance practices’ by Glencore AG International owned Mopani Copper Mines
(29 Apr 2011)
Banks rail against FASB netting proposals
(29 Apr 2011)
Glencore's
methods make me uneasy
(29 Apr 2011)
Former Banco Santander Analyst Agrees to Settle Insider Trading Charges
(29 Apr 2011)
Closing time for
accountants
-only firms?
(29 Apr 2011)
Morgan Keegan, SEC Settle Bond-Fund
Fraud
Case
(29 Apr 2011)
$15.4 million sought from 5 former Health South executives
(29 Apr 2011)
Accountants
lent Ponzi scheme credibility
(29 Apr 2011)
Schapiro Aide Said to Be Leaving SEC for PwC
Accounting
Firm
(29 Apr 2011)
Why have
accountants
won the top FTSE 100 roles?
(29 Apr 2011)
Sign the Petition:Public Inquiry into White Collar Crimes
(28 Apr 2011)
It's Free: ‘Growth, Fairness and Stability - Unpicking the 2011 Budget’ Breakfast Event
(28 Apr 2011)
Barclays' Protium Deal is 'all that's wrong in the City'
(28 Apr 2011)
Glencore "paid almost no corporation tax"
(28 Apr 2011)
Press Release - Lessons from PFI and other projects
(28 Apr 2011)
NAO Report :
Lessons from PFI and other
Projects
(28 Apr 2011)
Public Finance Initiative (PFI) schemes will cost every household nearly £400 next year
(28 Apr 2011)
PFI projects not best value for money, says watchdog
(28 Apr 2011)
Accounting makes PFI value for money difficult to gauge
(28 Apr 2011)
New derivatives
accounting
rules could distort assets, liabilities
(28 Apr 2011)
Insolvency: Failed debt management group DCM Money Solutions had paid off less than £1m of its customers' £32m debts when it went into administration last month
(28 Apr 2011)
Deloitte US sued $500m for bad advice
(28 Apr 2011)
48-Year-Old Woman Realizes Her Dream of an
Accounting
Degree After 19 Years
(28 Apr 2011)
Baker Tilly favours two-tier accounting standards
(28 Apr 2011)
SEC
Proposes to Delete References to Credit Ratings
(28 Apr 2011)
Litigation Piling Up At
Ernst & Young
(27 Apr 2011)
Navistar Sues Its Former Auditor Deloitte & Touche
(27 Apr 2011)
Fraud complaint against
accounting
firm filed after misleading work
(27 Apr 2011)
Barclays
accounting
distorts profits, warns Pirc
(27 Apr 2011)
Investor Group Says Barclays Hasn't Disclosed Cost Of Bonuses
(27 Apr 2011)
Barclays
to bring £
10.2bn of toxic assets
back on
books
as profits slide
(27 Apr 2011)
BP profits
dip as Deepwater Horizon costs continue to mount
(27 Apr 2011)
Banks
rail against FASB netting proposals
(27 Apr 2011)
Investors
'do care' about
audit
competition
(27 Apr 2011)
Gulf Keystone denies paying for clients to attend strip clubs
(27 Apr 2011)
Barclays
'
profiting from hunger
'
through
'
food speculative activities
'
(27 Apr 2011)
Tax cuts stimulate growth? No they don't.
(26 Apr 2011)
Having Their Cake and Eating It Too: Business Profits, Taxes, and Investment in Canada: 1961 Through 2010
(26 Apr 2011)
Financial Reporting Council's future up for debate
(26 Apr 2011)
Japan Livedoor tycoon Horie 'to be jailed'
(26 Apr 2011)
For Livedoor's Horie, Next Venture is Jail
(26 Apr 2011)
SEC Announces Roundtable on International Financial Reporting Standards
(26 Apr 2011)
SMEs in UK slower to adopt cloud computing than Europe's
firms
(26 Apr 2011)
Majority of European
firms
fail on carbon reporting
(26 Apr 2011)
SEC Report Recommends No New SOX 404(b) Exemptions
(26 Apr 2011)
Madoff Said Picower May Have Suspected
Fraud
(26 Apr 2011)
Accountants sued in Sean Mueller Ponzi scheme
(26 Apr 2011)
Slippery People: Corporate Governance at Berkshire Hathaway
(25 Apr 2011)
Ford's 1st-quarter earnings could ease Wall Street's doubts
(25 Apr 2011)
Fat Cats: Bob Diamond
faces shareholder storm over £27m pay deal
(25 Apr 2011)
PricewaterhouseCoopers
creates new role to boost its public image
(25 Apr 2011)
Deloitte's
$250 million state contract object of court fight
(25 Apr 2011)
Was Cadbury a sweet deal for Kraft investors
?
(25 Apr 2011)
Do you know the difference between Guernsey and Ireland? The ratings agencies didn't
(25 Apr 2011)
The Role of Professionals in Anti-Social Financial Practices: The Case of Nigeria
by Olatunde Julius Otusanya (25 Apr 2011)
IASB optimistic on US rules timing
(23 Apr 2011)
Boiler rooms
: 'I
lost
£
400000 in a share scam
'
(23 Apr 2011)
PricewaterhouseCoopers
creates new role to boost its public image
(23 Apr 2011)
Judge lashes ANZ over attempt to delay class action
(23 Apr 2011)
Alterra Investors Should Oppose
KPMG
Reappointment, ISS Says
(23 Apr 2011)
Glass Lewis Recommends That Alterra Shareholders Drop
KPMG
-Bermuda as Auditor
(23 Apr 2011)
Francine McKenna at American Accounting Association Public Interest Conference
(22 Apr 2011)
The Future of the US Accounting Profession
(22 Apr 2011)
Fat Cats: PwC billed £1.4m for 7 weeks' work on EMI
(22 Apr 2011)
FASB Amends
Accounting
Proposal To Simplify Impairment Test
(22 Apr 2011)
FASB Issues Proposed Accounting Standards Update on Testing Goodwill for Impairment
(22 Apr 2011)
AIB failed to pay 'close attention' to big loans
(22 apr 2011)
Former executive of failed Atlanta bank set to be sentenced on
fraud
charges
(22 Apr 2011)
New York Lawyer Jason Goldfarb Pleads Guilty in Probe of Ex-
Galleon
Trader
(22 Apr 2011)
Galleon
Defense: Witnesses Lied About Insider Trading
(22 Apr 2011)
India Supreme Court cancels bail to
Satyam
auditors
(21 Apr 2011)
India Supreme Court cancels bail plea of Price Waterhouse auditors
(21 Apr 2011)
William Hill Shares Surge On Strong Earnings, Lower
Tax
(21 Apr 2011)
Consultants: Sunderland Council's £1.4million bill for private
accountants (KPMG)
(21 Apr 2011)
FASB, IASB Extend Timetable For Some
Accounting
Projects
(21 Apr 2011)
Insolvency: Von Essen in administration
after defaulting on interest
(21 Apr 2011)
Silentnight
forced asks for debt help
(21 Apr 2011)
Are CFOs getting it right on internal auditing?
(21 Apr 2011)
Citigroup
investigated by Greece on debt restructuring rumours
(21 Apr 2011)
Debate over value of
SME
audits rages
(21 Apr 2011)
SME
audits – why they should
(21 Apr 2011)
Banks' toxic
accounting
(20 Apr 2011)
New
Accounting
Changes Could 'Cost' Housing Associations £1.1bn
(20 Apr 2011)
Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has raised concerns about the quality of audits at the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Lloyds TSB at the time of the financial crisis
(20 Apr 2011)
Bailout banks let off £30bn loans failure: Treasury refused to punish Lloyds and RBS
(20 Apr 2011)
House of Commons Public Accounts committee Report:
Maintaining financial stability of UK banks: update on the support schemes
(20 Apr 2011)
Auditors cut fees to win work
(20 Aupr 2011)
Former Chairman of Taylor, Bean & Whitaker Convicted for $2.9 Billion Fraud Scheme That Contributed to the Failure of Colonial Bank
(20 Apr 2011)
BP's
Gulf of Mexico oil spill
bill
could hit $60bn
(20 Apr 2011)
Report blames greed and a complicit public for Irish banking collapse
(20 Apr 2011)
Auditors did not challenge banks' actions – Nyberg
(20 Apr 2011)
Nyberg report criticises role of auditors in Ireleand banking collapse
(20 Apr 2011)
Misjudging Risk: Causes Of The Systemic Banking Crisis In Ireland - Report Of The Commission Of Investigation Into The Banking Sector In Ireland
(20 Apr 2011)
Charities should offer their view of
accountancy
plans
(20 Apr 2011)
Why the Black-Scholes model overvalues illiquid hedge fund assets
(20 Apr 2011)
Alterra Investors Should Oppose KPMG Reappointment, ISS Says
(20 Apr 2011)
Madoff Investors' Suit Claiming
SEC
Was Negligent in Oversight Dismissed
(20 Apr 2011)
Insolvency: Red Sky goes into administration
(20 Apr 2011)
Plight of Baby Boomer
accountants
(20 Apr 2011)
Auditors Coopers & Lybrand (now part of PricewaterhouseCoopers) negligent in Castor Holdings collapse, Qubec judge rules
(19 Apr 2011)
Quebec judge found that Coopers & Lybrand, Castor’s auditors “failed to perform their professional services as auditors”
(19 Apr 2011)
Castor's auditor found negligent: Coopers & Lybrand (part of PricewaterhouseCoopers) 'failed to perform'
(19 Apr 2011)
Read the 831 page Qubec Superior Court judgement in
The Estate of
Peter N. Widdrington v Elliott C. Wightman and Al. – Coopers & Lybrand negligent in the audit of
Castor Holdings Limited
(18 Apr 2011)
Banks acquitted in
Parmalat
case
(19 Apr 2011)
Four Banks Acquitted in
Parmalat
Case
(19 Apr 2011)
Citi's Basel-dodging, capital-avoiding,
accounting
switch
(19 Apr 2011)
Judgment reserved in Anglo auditors' [Ernst & Young] case
(19 Apr 2011)
Ruling next month on Ernst & Young Anglo Irish action
(19 Apr 2011)
Federal appeals court in San Francisco reinstated a lawsuit filed by investors against the Ernst & Young for its alleged role in a $2.2 billion stock options backdating scheme at Broadcom
(19 Apr 2011)
Canada Audit regulator finds ‘too many’ deficiencies
(19 Apr 2011)
Canadian Public Accountability Board Report on the 2010 Inspections of the Quality of Audits Conducted by Public Accounting Firms
(19 Apr 2011)
Investment Funds Allege in Suit That
Banks
Conspired to Manipulate Libor
(19 Apr 2011)
Legal professional
privilege
battle goes to Supreme Court
(19 Apr 2011)
What Do We Make of All These Non-
Accountant
CFOs?
(19 Apr 2011)
Do PWC know no shame?
(18 Apr 2011)
Investors seek Government help to reduce advisers'
bank
charges
(18 Apr 2011)
Satyam auditing not the only slip-up in India, admits Price Waterhouse India
(18 Apr 2011)
Accounting changes will hit housing associations
(18 Apr 2011)
Landlords warn switching accounting standards 'hugely expensive'
(18 Apr 2011)
Glencore
faces investor questions over billion pound litigation claims
(18 Apr 2011)
A fraudster took control of half a London investment bank without apparently paying a penny for the shares
(18 Apr 2011)
Shareholders pay the price for buybacks
(18 Apr 2011)
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined Norwich and Peterborough Building Society (N&P) £1.4 million for failing to give its customers suitable advice in relation to the sale of Keydata products
(18 Apr 2011)
Australia: Accountants
, lawyers take potshot at each other over professional privilege
(18 Apr 2011)
Merger creates first black
accounting
giant in South Africa
(18 Apr 2011)
Making sense of the collapse of Barings Bank
(18 Apr 2011)
The Forensics of Legal Fraud
(17 Apr 2011)
The Forensics of Legal Fraud – on the Unscrupulousness of White Collar Criminals
(17 Apr 2011)
Zale Says No
SEC
Penalty
(17 Apr 2011)
List of US banks closed since the current financial crisis
(17 Apr 2011)
Online poker sites
shut down and charged with fraud in
US crackdown
(17 Apr 2011)
Claims of multi-million pound
race fixing
scandal to be investigated
(17 Apr 2011)
PricewaterhouseCoopersC paid £322m for closing down
Lehman's
EU ops
(17 Apr 2011)
PricewaterhouseCoopers' Total Tax Contribution Research is fundamentally flawed and blatantly misleading
(16 Apr 2011)
Ernst & Young Fails to Gain Dismissal in Broadcom Case
(16 Apr 2011)
Ernst & Young must face class action over Broadcom's option backdatin
g (16 Apr 2011)
Ernst
&
Young
granted court go-ahead to challenge Anglo inquiry
(16 Apr 2011)
Insolvency: PwC
administrators rack-up £322m fees on Lehmans
(16 Apr 2011)
US Senate Report details elaborate Wall Street Mortgage Fraud
(16 Apr 2011)
Goldman Sachs Ripped Off And Misled Clients, Senate Report Says
(16 Apr 2011)
Doing God’s Work How Goldman Sachs Rigs the Game
(16 Apr 2011)
ENRC
in 'fiery' boardroom split
(16 Apr 2011)
Accountancy Age stops printing to go online
(16 Apr 2011)
PwC
offers conflicting views on IFRS
(16 Apr 2011)
Incisive Media discontinues the print edition of
Accountancy
Age
(15 Apr 2011)
FASB, IASB Delay Global
Accounting
Rules on Leasing, Insurance
(15 Apr 2011)
For Global
Accounting
Rules, 'Convergence' Is Delayed
(15 Apr 2011)
PwC
kept quiet on extent of Centro debt
(15 Apr 2011)
Did a
PwC
Auditor Work Herself to Death?
(15 Apr 2011)
Ernst & Young challenges Anglo inquiry
(15 Apr 2011)
Ernst & Young wants Anglo conduct probe halted
(15 Apr 2011)
Terry Smith slams share buybacks as value destroyers
(15 Apr 2011)
FSA and HM Treasury publish joint consultation paper on covered bond regulation
(15 Apr 2011)
Zale Says No SEC Penalty
(15 Apr 2011)
SME accounting standards poised for international revamp
(15 Aug 2011)
Southern Cross – a sorry tale of recklessness and regulatory failure
(14 Apr 2011)
Commodities giant Glencore poised for float amid
tax
avoidance row
(14 Apr 2011)
Glencore and first quantum are subjects of tax evasion complaint to OECD
(14 Apr 2011)
In Financial Crisis, a Dearth of Prosecutions Raises Alarms
(14 Apr 2011)
Zenergy
accountants
to leave after shareholder revolt
(14 Apr 2011)
Why Would Fourteen Baker Tilly Partners Give Up Equity for Salary?
(14 Apr 2011)
Former nursing home
accountant
to serve 18 months for embezzlement
(14 Apr 2011)
Insolvency: PricewaterhouseCoopers has earned record £322m from
Lehman
collapse
(14 Apr 2011)
Lehman
Brothers administrators return further £2.1bn
(14 Apr 2011)
Insolvency: Lehman
, creditors agree on plan approval timeline
(14 Apr 2011)
Regulatory,
Accounting
and Tax Changes to Challenge Insurers
(14 Apr 2011)
Insolvency: More failing retailers turn to CVA deals
(14 Apr 2011)
BBC Scotland's news chief leaves to lead
ICAS
(14 Apr 2011)
US Senate panel urges
Goldman
'mis-selling' investigation
(14 Apr 2011)
US Senator Levin Says Goldman Sachs Misled Congress, Duped Clients
(14 Apr 2011)
US Senate Panel Says Goldman Misled Clients, Lawmakers on CDOs
(14 Apr 2011)
Deutsche Bank Sold CDO 'Pigs' as Market Buckled, US Lawmakers Say
(14 Apr 2011)
US Senate Investigations Subcommittee Releases Levin-Coburn Report On the Financial Crisis
(14 Apr 2011)
US Senate Report - WALL STREET AND THE FINANCIAL CRISIS: Anatomy of a Financial Collapse
(14 Apr 2011)
Bank ring-fencing cannot work because we have no accounting concepts which can handle reporting for it
(13 Apr 2011)
Rip Off Merchants: Insolvency Service practitioners receive the most complaints
(13 Apr 2011)
Insolvency consultation sees industry in the spotlight
(13 Apr 2011)
Glencore rocked by tax evasion complaint ahead of London stock market float
(13 Apr 2011)
Footsie flag of convenience - Glencore and its tax avoidance
(13 Apr 2011)
Public
audit
and the great independence debate
(13 Apr 2011)
Federal inquiry into HSBC signals wider crackdown on American tax evaders
(13 Apr 2011)
ICAI hints foreign audit cos fuel
fraud in India
(13 Apr 2011)
Insolvency: More firms in financial difficulty as consumers cut back
(13 Apr 2011)
Big Four
'reframed competition debate'
(13 Apr 2011)
Not Over Until It’s Over: Price Waterhouse India Settles Satyam
(12 Apr 2011)
Why aren't the honest bankers demanding prosecutions of their dishonest rivals?
(12 Apr 2011)
NHS cash 'destined for tax haven': HSBC sent money
to Guernsey investment firm HICL
(12 Apr 2011)
HSBC Client Guilty Plea in Offshore US Tax Evasion Case
(12 Apr 2011)
Crown Currency's liabilities grow to £19.7m
(12 Apr 2011)
Accountant Boss jailed for £1m theft which nearly bled building company dry
(12 Apr 2011)
Audit Commission
may be protected from sell-off
(12 Apr 2011)
New US coalition challenging corporate secrecy
(12 Apr 2011)
Finra Fines UBS For Playing Down
Lehman
Brothers Risk
(12 Apr 2011)
Bank of America Kept Executives in Dark on Dividend
(12 Apr 2011)
Top
accounting firm
is Deloitte
(12 Apr 2011)
CPA Pleads Guilty to
Fraud
and Money Laundering
(12 Apr 2011)
Ex-
Mazars
partner wins unpaid expenses claim
(12 Apr 2011)
Accounting
rules on inflation need consistency
(11 Apr 2011)
KPMG partners' investment
firm
JEAP loses £2.8m
(11 Apr 2011)
Fake cancer drugs given to thousands: Chartered Accountant conman jailed for importing two million doses
(11 Apr 2011)
Public
audit
– to mutual, or not to mutual?
(11 Apr 2011)
FRC- Watchdog set for radical revamp after coalition calls for reform
(11 Apr 2011)
Banking commission – full reaction
(11 Apr 2011)
Does the banking commission report go far enough?
(11 Apr 2011)
Bank
reform plan sparks cabinet rift
(11 Apr 2011)
FACTBOX
-Proposals for UK
bank
reform
(11 Apr 2011)
UK's Independent Commission on Banking Report: Main Findings
(11 Apr 2011)
UK Independent Commission on Baking Interim Report: Consultation on Reform Options Executive Summary
(11 Apr 2011)
UK Independent Commission on Baking Interim Report: Consultation on Reform Options Full Report
(11 Apr 2011)
Accounting standards
fiasco blamed on auditors
(9 Apr 2011)
Johnson & Johnson Agrees to Pay $21.4 Million Criminal Penalty to Resolve US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and Oil for Food Investigations
(9 Apr 2011)
Why SFO failed to pursue
Equitable Life
(9 Apr 2011)
Enriching a Few at the Expense of Many
(9 Apr 2011)
How Do You Get 19000 Corporations Into One Building In The Cayman Islands?
(9 Apr 2011)
UK Official fears over white collar crime
(9 Apr 2011)
US Justice Department Asks Court to Allow IRS to Seek HSBC India Bank Account Records
(8 Apr 2011)
Ex-
Deloitte
Partner's Wife Pleads Guilty in Insider Case
(8 Apr 2011)
PwC junior sparked Centro Property affair
(8 Apr 2011)
Centro auditor made error, ASIC admits
(8 Apr 2011)
PCAOB Announces Settled Disciplinary Order Against PricewaterhouseCoopers International Firms in India for Audit Violations Related to Satyam
(8 Apr 2011)
Case studies relating to the application of the proposals on the future of UK Financial Reporting (as set out in FREDs 43 and 44)
(8 Apr 2011)
SEC's Kroeker Says
Lehman
Report Prompted Closer Look at Audits
(8 Apr 2011)
How Secrecy Undermines Audit Reform
(8 Apr 2011)
Weak
accounting firms
targeted by PCAOB and Swiss regulator pact
(8 Apr 2011)
PCAOB Enters into First Cooperative Agreement with Swiss Regulators
(8 Apr 2011)
US Watchdog calls for open hearings on accounting firm probes
(8 Apr 2011)
Italy Court To Examine
Parmalat
AGM Delay Complaint
(8 Apr 2011)
Madoff
rips JPMorgan
(8 Apr 2011)
Meaningless Goodwill Figures: America's Most Inflated Balance Sheets Belong to Banks
(28 Dec 2011)
Madoff
Trustee Sues Pictet & Cie for $156 Million Over Knowledge of Fraud
(8 Apr 2011)
Fallen American financier
Madoff
tries to spread the Ponzi blame
(8 Apr 2011)
Comverse Technology INC. to Pay $1.2 Million Penalty to Resolve Violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
(8 Apr 2011)
SEC to Warren Buffett: We Know How to Value Stocks Better Than You
(8 Apr 2011)
US Trustee Seeks Information on
Lehman
Liquidation Plans
(8 Apr 2011)
Corporate governance: The shareholder awakens
(8 Apr 2011)
CPA Receives $4.5M IRS Whistleblower Award
(8 Apr 2011)
Barclays' earnings targets: too good to be true?
(7 Apr 2011)
Insolvency's mixed fortune on pre-packs
(7 Apr 2011)
IFRS system not conducive for taxation purposes
(7 Apr 2011)
The management of Satyam Computer Services made 6,603 fake invoices to inflate financials
(7 Apr 2011)
US watchdog wants to see audits of China-based cos
(7 Apr 2011)
JGC Corporation Resolves Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Investigation and Agrees to Pay a $218.8 Million Criminal Penalty
(7 Apr 2011)
Can they put audit together again
?
(7 Apr 2011)
Enron's
Skilling denied new trial
(7 Apr 2011)
Trader and lawyer arrested over '$31.6m insider trading scam': US authorities say Garrett Bauer and Matthew Kluger ran decades-long scheme profiting from mergers and acquisitions
(7 Apr 2011
US Congress Probes
Accountants
' Role in Financial Crisis
(7 Apr 2011)
SEC's ex-chief
accountant
: Is agency a lapdog or watchdog?
(7 Apr 2011)
US Senator Reed Questions Public Company Audit System
(7 Apr 2011)
The Role of the Accounting Profession in Preventing Another Financial Crisis:
Testomony by Mr. James R. Doty
Chairman Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
(7 Apr 2011)
The Role of the Accounting Profession in Preventing Another Financial Crisis:
Testomony by Ms. Leslie F. Seidman
Chairman Financial Accounting Standards Board
(7 Apr 2011)
The Role of the Accounting Profession in Preventing Another Financial Crisis: Testomony by
Mr. James L. Kroeker
Chief Accountant U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
(7 Apr 2011)
The Role of the Accounting Profession in Preventing Another Financial Crisis: Testominy by
Mr. Anton R. Valukas
Chairman Jenner & Block LLPExecutive Director Center for Audit Quality
(7 Apr 2011)
The Role of the Accounting Profession in Preventing Another Financial Crisis: Testomony by
Ms. Cynthia M. Fornelli
Executive Director
Center for Audit Quality
(7 Apr 2011)
The Role of the Accounting Profession in Preventing Another Financial Crisis: Testomony by
Mr. Thomas Quaadman
Vice President, Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness U.S. Chamber of Commerce
(7 Apr 2011)
The Role of the Accounting Profession in Preventing Another Financial Crisis: Testimony by
Mr. Lynn E. Turner
Former Chief Accountant U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
(7 Apr 2011)
Satyam Computer Services and its former auditor PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) have agreed to pay a combined $17.5m (£10.7m) in fines in the US
(6 Apr 2011)
Satyam and Ex-Auditor (PricewaterhouseCoopers) Settle
Accounting
Fraud Case
(6 Apr 2011)
Indian affiliates of PricewaterhouseCoopers fined for botched audits
(6 Apr 2011)
SEC Charges India-Based Affiliates of PWC for Role in Satyam Accounting Fraud
(6 Apr 2011)
Read the SEC Litigation against PricewaterhouseCoopers for Satyam audit failures
(6 Apr 2011)
SEC Charges Satyam Computer Services With Financial Fraud
(6 Apr 2011)
ECJ: States may not prohibit canvassing by qualified accountants
(6 Apr 2011)
Bans on 'canvassing' for work are restrictive, court says
(6 Apr 2011)
EC proposes
'
say on pay' and quotas for women in the boardroom
(6 Apr 2011)
Debate starts on ways to improve governance of European firms
(6 Apr 2011)
Green Paper: The EU corporate governance framework
(6 Apr 2011)
ASB publishes Report on Cutting Clutter from Annual Reports
(6 Apr 2011)
Cutting clutter: FRC discussion paper
(6 Apr 2011)
Shapps will 'eat his hat' if abolishing
Audit Commission
fails to save £50m
(6 Apr 2011)
Former head of L'Oréal faces accusations of money laundering
(6 Apr 2011)
Latest SEC Investigation into China Century Dragon Media Sheds Light on the Importance of Audit Confirmations for Investors
(6 Apr 2011)
Insurers Face Volatile Earnings on Accounting Change
(6 Apr 2011)
AUDIT COMMITTEES IN GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS
(6 Apr 2011)
Banks threaten to call in American Apparel loans
(6 Apr 2011)
Shortcomings in FASB's impairment model raised
(6 Apr 2011)
Bribery Trial Begins In Germany For Former Siemens Executive
(6 Apr 2011)
Rip-Off: Lehman
Brokerage Trustee Law Firm Got $19.5 Million in Fees in Four Months
(6 Apr 2011)
FASB Updates Standards for Troubled Debt Restructurings
(6 Apr 2011)
SEC Announces Securities Laws Violations by Wachovia Involving Mortgage-Backed Securities
(6 Apr 2011)
Read the SEC Order Against Wells Fargo Securities for Wachovia violations
(6 Apr 2011)
Tax Season Leads to Poor Work/Life Balance for
Accountants
(6 Apr 2011)
Don't kill off pre-packs, says insolvency chief
(6 Apr 2011)
'Big Four' auditors on back foot after UK parliamentary report exposes failures
(5 Apr 2011)
Watchdogs caught nuzzling and wagging tails; auditor sales pitches exposed
(5 Apr 2011)
Auditors sell their soul for private profits and care nothing about any public responsibilities
(5 Apr 2011)
US Senators To Examine Role Of
Accounting
In Preventing Financial Crises
(5 Apr 2011)
The Role of the Accounting Profession in Preventing Another Financial Crisis
(5 Apr 2011)
Bank auditors say they did their job to the letter of the law. They well know they are paid to enact the spirit of it too
(5 Apr 2011)
Scrapping Audit Commission risks market concentration, warns think-tank
(5 Apr 2011)
Swiss
Accounting
Firms to Get U.S. Oversight
(5 Apr 2011)
Scrapping of UK
audit
body Audit Commission to save £50m
(5 Apr 2011)
SEC Probes Backdoor Mergers by Chinese Firms
(5 Apr 2011)
HMV
issues third profit warning of the year
(5 Apr 2011)
Insurers
warn of '
dire
'
outcome
under
Solvency II
(5 Apr 2011)
Corporate governance framework for European companies: what needs to be improved?
(5 Apr 2011)
Wareham Town
Accountant
fired after audit reports $919k discrepancy
(5 Apr 2011)
IRS Penalties Despite Dead/Embezzling
Accountant
!
(5 Apr 2011)
Insolvency: Don't kill off pre-packs, says insolvency chief
(5 Apr 2011)
An Honest Services Crisis: Professional Poison and a Chicago Connection
(4 Apr 2011)
The corporate looting of America
(4 Apr 2011)
Global
Accounting Standard
Delayed Years by Crisis, Quigley Says
(4 Apr 2011)
PFI hospitals 'asset stripping'
(4 Apr 2011)
Stock options swell CEO
pay
(4 Apr 2011)
Local government audit regime 'must be driven by armchair
auditors
'
(4 Apr 2011)
Audit Commission prepares for mutual future
(4 Apr 2011)
SEC Eyes Wachovia Over Sale Of CDOs
(4 Apr 2011)
Under Siege: Deprofessionalization within Accounting
(4 Apr 2011)
Multi-million pound
fraud
probe at Mersey kitchenware factory
(4 Apr 2011)
Northern
Rock
in common ownership is
a better deal for taxpayers
, study finds
(4 Apr 2011)
Lords took a leap on international accounting
standards
(4 Apr 2011)
IMF Working Paper: Taxing Financial Transactions: Issues and Evidence
(4 Apr 2011)
Who is to blame for Ireland’s crisis? Easy: they need to sue KPMG, PWC and E&Y
(3 Apr 2011)
Crooked race lawyer 'invented claims to stop his firm's financial problems being exposed'
(3 Apr 2011)
Auditors
added to the financial crisis
(3 Apr 2011)
Improper
Accounting
Adjustments Held Insufficient Basis for Securities
Fraud
Claims
(3 Apr 2011)
Ex-Taylor Bean Official Will Enter Conspiracy Plea in TARP Bailout Case
(3 Apr 2011)
Watchdog attacks plan for council audits
(3 Apr 2011)
Auditors
raise doubts about First Mariner bank's future
(3 Apr 2011)
They are above the law: How Wachivia, a big US bank, laundered billions from Mexico's murderous drug gangs
(3 Apr 2011)
€24 billion is not it - so Ireland should brace itself for more - so long as International Accounting Standards are in use
(2 Apr 2011)
Fraud
charges against sports company linked with KPMG's 'clean audit'
(2 Apr 2011)
Insolvency: Lawyers and
accountants
to pocket $1 BILLION in Madoff clean up fees
(2 Apr 2011)
Insolvency: Lehman Brokerage Trustee Law Firm Got $19.5 Million in Fees in Four Months
(2 Apr 2011)
SEC considers Dave Sokol's Lubrizol inquiry
(2 Apr 2011)
Poor performance
in banking crisis weakens case for
Big Four
status quo
(2 Apr 2011)
American Apparel
in new bankruptcy warning
(2 Apr 2011)
Deutsche Bank fights tax ruling on £92m bonus pool - dodge designed by Deloitte
(2 Apr 2011)
American Apparel
Glamour Fades Amid Cash Crunch
(2 Apr 2011)
AICPA Highlights Need for IASB Funding, Independence
(2 Apr 2011)
Insolvency: Daily Sport
and Sunday Sport cease publication after parent company folds
(2 Apr 2011)
Judge tosses fraud suit against 2 ex-Qwest figures
(2 Apr 2011)
Resist
accountancy
at its most illusory
(2 Apr 2011)
Insolvency: Axe to fall on 400 workers after collapse of
Oddbins
(2 Apr 2011)
Dirty Little Secret Unravels in Bermuda Blunder - KPMG- Bermuda and Alterra Capital Holdings
(1 Apr 2011)
Too many
accounting
bodies, bemoan Lords
(1 Apr 2011)
NZ MPs water down new rules for auditors
(1 Apr 2011)
Pace of change to new accounting rules frightens EC
(1 Apr 2011)
2/3rds of US Corporations Pay Zero Federal Taxes
(1 Apr 2011)
Bank Of America Paid Nothing In Federal Income Taxes Last Year And Got Almost $1 Billion From Taxpayers
(1 Apr 2011)
BAYER is carefully adjusting its accounting in order to appear poor to the tax authorities
(1 Apr 2011)
Audit Commission
consultation rings in the changes
(1 Apr 2011)
Ministers publish plans for future of local
audit
(1 Apr 2011)
Promise of choice after abolition of Audit Commission
(1 Apr 2011)
UK Government consults on plans to increase accountability and efficiency in local auditing
(1 Apr 2011)
Insolvency: Oddbins
to go into administration
(1 Apr 2011)
Ireland's
ailing banks need another €24bn of capital
(1 Apr 2011)
Auditors Should Match Risk With Fees Charged
(1 Apr 2011)
Bean counters wanted: Why the Big 4 are in a hiring frenzy
(1 Apr 2011)
Were Big Four
auditors
just guilty of failing to see wood for trees?
(1 Apr 2011)
No federal
tax
expense for
Bank of America
in 2010
(1 Apr 2011)
Lords Audit report is another indictment of investors
(1 Apr 2011)
MARCH 2011
UK House of Lords Skewers Auditors; Over To You, US Congress
(31 Mar 2011)
UK Lawmakers Call for Competition Probe of 'Big Four' Auditors
(31 Mar 2011)
Lords call for mandatory retendering and greater role for audit committees
(31 Mar 2011)
US Tax ruling prompts Office Depot to restate 2010
(31 Mar 2011)
Is Audit Commission the new player in town?
(31 Mar 2011)
Audit shortcomings 'hard to miss' but solutions prove elusive
(31 Mar 2011)
Audit Commission axe risks local authority audit fee hike, warns CIPFA
(31 Mar 2011)
A new breed of activists have put big companies' accounts under the microscope
(31 Mar 2011)
Google-affiliated company investigated for
tax
fraund in China
(31 Mar 2011)
UK Middle class sees biggest rise in insolvencies
(31 Mar 2011)
Retailers shares slump in wake of
Dixons
' profit warning
(31 Mar 2011)
Anglo Irish
Bank posts €17.7bn loss ahead of stress tests
(31 Mar 2011)
IFRS doesn't fit with XBRL technology, says US watchdog
(31 Mar 2011)
‘Complacency’ of auditors contributed to financial crisis
(30 Mar 2011)
UK House of Lords Report - Auditors: Market concentration and
their role (Volume 1)
(30 Mar 2011)
UK House of Lords Report - Auditors: Market concentration and
their role (Volume 2)
(30 Mar 2011)
Auditors 'complacent' in banking crisis
(30 Mar 2011)
The horse has bolted, but at least the Lords have started to clean out accountancy’s Augean stables
(30 Mar 2011)
Lords auditing report is warm-up act for Brussels
(30 Mar 2011)
Big Four accountancy firms face probe over bank failures: key points of the Lords report
(30 Mar 2011)
Auditors are blasted for failing to raise bank alarm
(30 Mar 2011)
Financial Crisis: Finally, it's time to have a closer look at the auditors
(30 Mar 2011)
Lords accuse auditors of 'dereliction of duty'
(30 Mar 2011)
House of
Lords
report attacks 'complacency' of Big Four auditors in financial
crisis
(30 Mar 2011)
EU body tells
accounting
rule setter to slow down
(30 Mar 2011)
Don't replace UK GAAP with IFRS, say
Lords
(30 Mar 2011)
Big Four branded an 'oligopoly'
(30 Mar 2011)
GE Auditor KPMG: Supporting Their
Tax
Strategy For 102 Years
(30 Mar 2011)
Rise in middle-class insolvencies
(30 Mar 2011)
SFO
raids Tory donor David Rowland's bank over Kaupthing
(30 Mar 2011)
China Unicom Quarterly Profit Doubles on
Accounting
Change
(30 Mar 2011)
Colorado falls as Australian lenders lose patience
(30 Mar 2011)
APB issues revised guidance on the Audit of Banks and Building Societies in the United Kingdom
(30 Mar 2011)
Videocon's '
tax haven
' ops come under ED scanner
(30 Mar 2011)
Irish Life
withdraws its shares
(30 Mar 2011)
BP
executives may face jail for manslaughter over Gulf disaster
(30 Mar 2011)
'Criminal charges' over Deepwater Horizon explosion cause
BP
shares to plunge
(30 Mar 2011)
SEC Charges FDA Chemist With Insider Trading Ahead of Drug Approval Announcements
(30 Mar 2011)
BCCI Case: Prem Sikka establishes a new legal precedent in the UK for freedom of information appeals
(29 Mar 2011)
'Fatally flawed'
accounting
standards inflated RBS's worth
(29 Mar 2011)
Blackburn Rovers sever links with
accountants
(29 Mar 2011)
Transocean the subject of
tax
loophole investigation
(29 Mar 2011)
Berkshire takes big
accounting
hit
(29 Mar 2011)
AICPA, CIMA Mull Joint Management
Accounting
Credential
(29 mar 2011)
"Greener" corporate accounts urged to aid nature
(29 Mar 2011)
Lords
report ties auditors in knots
(29 Mar 2011)
China Century's
Accounting
Firm Resigns; Says Co Faces Delisting
(29 Mar 2011)
Ex-Enron Broadband Executive Sentenced for Insider Trading
(29 Mar 2011)
Fair Value
Reporting to be Major Change for U.S. REITs Under IFRS
(29 Mar 2011)
Equitable Life savers get surprise pension boost
(29 Mar 2011)
UK's soft bank rules 'dragging down' reform
(29 Mar 2011)
Subverting Safer Finance: How the UK holds back global financial regulation
(29 Mar 2011)
Why No Warnings? Investors Press
Audit
Regulator
(28 Mar 2011)
AA and Saga owner Acromas paid £5.5m
tax
on £1.6bn sales
(28 Mar 2011)
BDO
lines up complaint against
KPMG
Brazil
(28 Mar 2011)
Equitable Life to hand back millions to policyholders
(28 Mar 2011)
On fire: Market dominance of Big Four in banking sector
(28 Mar 2011)
Oddbins seeks administration
(28 Mar 2011)
AstraZeneca Says UK, US Governments Reach Tax Pact on
Transfer Pricing
(28 Mar 2011)
AstraZeneca settles
tax
dispute and saves $1bn
(28 Mar 2011)
SEC Halts $47 Million Investment Fraud at Payday Loan Companie
s (28 Mar 2011)
Berkshire Wrote Down US Bancorp, Swiss Re After
SEC
Query
(28 Mar 2011)
Work Product Privilege: The Future of Tax Accrual Work Paper Discovery in the Eleventh Circuit After Textron
(28 Mar 2011)
Lords inquiry to damn Big Four auditors' role in financial crisis
(27 Mar 2011)
Time for the 'Big Four' accountancy firms to enter the dock
(27 Mar 2011)
Lords are unlikely to usher in revamp of top auditing market
(27 Mar 2011)
Ten giant US companies avoiding income taxes: Sen. Bernie Sanders list
(27 Mar 2011)
8 investors sue
SEC
in Stanford case
(27 Mar 2011)
What does going concern mean?
(27 Mar 2011)
Lloyds writ draws Bank of England into HBOS dispute
(27 Mar 2011)
UK Football clubs owe taxman
£
21.7m
(27 Mar 2011)
FSA wants auditors disciplined over 'serious failings'
(26 Mar 2011)
FSA confirms final rules for auditors’ client assets reports
(26 Mar 2011)
Big Four differ on “restrictive covenants”
(26 Mar 2011)
Auditor clause investigation 'not a foregone conclusion'
(26 Mar 2011)
GE's Strategies Let It Avoid Taxes Altogether
(26 Mar 2011)
General Electric: King of the Tax Dodgers
(26 Mar 2011)
Conrad Black: The Hollinger hash
(26 Mar 2011)
Mahindra Satyam bank a/c frozen
(26 Mar 2011)
Lehman
UK Mortgage Bond Ruling May Trigger $14 Billion Default Requests
(26 Mar 2011)
Mining companies accept country-by-country reporting is good for them
(25 Mar 2011)
Audit deals to be probed by
Office of Fair Trading
(25 Mar 2011)
Healthcare Locums
accounts
for another director as Diane Jarvis resigns
(25 Mar 2011)
Auditors respond to Big Four clause investigation
(25 Mar 2011)
Millionaires cautioned over bank fraud
(25 Mar 2011)
Manchester United's owners the Glazer family report heavy loss last year
(25 Mar 2011)
How General Electric pays no tax at all and actually MAKES $3.2billion from the rest of us
(25 Mar 2011)
Allen Stanford Drops Lawsuit Against Government Lawyers
(25 Mar 2011)
ASB's
accounting
proposals risk multi-tiered confusion
(25 Mar 2011)
Stanford Withdraws $7.2B Lawsuit Against US Government
(25 Mar 2011)
Ex-CSK Auto CEO Jenkins Settles SEC Clawback Lawsuit, Court Records Show
(25 Mar 2011)
Denmark: Dismissal of CEO follows mounting questions about privately-owned subsidiary’s finances
(25 Mar 2011)
Pacific National Bank Assessed $7 Million Penalty By US Treasury Agencies
(25 Mar 2011)
Will Auditors Be Held Accountable? The PCAOB Has A Plan
(24 Mar 2011)
The links between Britain's banks and the biggest accountancy firms are to be investigated
(24 Mar 2011)
Insolvency: OFT to investigate bank loan clauses on auditing
(24 Mar 2011)
Anglo investigator sends findings to accounts
firm
(24 Mar 2011)
UK to probe bank covenants favouring big
auditors
(24 Mar 2011)
Dolce and Gabbana May Face a Criminal Trial for Tax Evasion
(24 Mar 2011)
Tribunal delay for Anglo's Seán FitzPatrick
(24 Mar 2011)
IAS39: the IASB’s Achilles’ heel?
(23 Mar 2011)
Accounting lessons from Enron: fraud, aggressive accounting or the wrong conceptual framework?
(23 Mar 2011)
Fair values in global accounting - ideal way or wrong track?
(23 Mar 2011)
POTENTIAL AUDIT IMPLICATIONS OF FASB-IASB JOINT PROJECTS AND RELATED EFFECTIVE DATES AND TRANSITION METHODS
(24 Mar 2011)
Auditing Implications of COSO Project to Update the COSO Internal Control
(24 Mar 2011)
PCAOB: AUDITING FINANCIAL STATEMENT DISCLOSURES
(24 Mar 2011)
Justice Department,
SEC
cracking down on U.S. companies engaging in bribery abroad
(24 Mar 2011)
BBC drama costs fall but
auditors
unclear on value for money
(24 Mar 2011)
UK Budget changes to tax haven rules could cost poor countries 4 billion pounds
(24 Mar 2011)
Budget 'non-event' as real tax increases hit this year
(24 Mar 2011)
BUDGET 2011: George Osborne's raid on tax and benefits to cost families £30bn
(24 Mar 2011)
BUDGET 2011: Middle earners squeezed AND you'll work longer for a pension
(24 Mar 2011)
PCAOB Discussed Changes to the Auditor's Reporting Model in Preparation for Concept Release
(23 Mar 2011)
Crown Currency investigators raid
French properties and make
new arrest
(23 Mar 2011)
Bad
accounting
doesn't equal securities fraud, judge says
(23 Mar 2011)
Accountants
"don't understand marketing"
(23 Mar 2011)
JJB
Sports saved by landlords
(23 Mar 2011)
Insider Trading: Ex-Intel man tipped
Rajaratnam
(23 Mar 2011)
Interest-rate swap ruling blow to
banks
(23 Mar 2011)
Punch
proposal to split business in two
risks collision with bondholders
(23 Mar 2011)
Lex supports country-by-country reporting
(22 Mar 2011)
Google Questioned by
SEC
Over Earnings in Low-Tax Countries
(22 Mar 2011)
Greenberg's Starr Sues China MediaExpress, Alleging Fraud - Deloitte Implicated
(22 Mar 2011)
Audit
inspection extended to
mutuals
(22 Mar 2011)
The Professional Oversight Board announces the Scope of the Audit Inspection Unit's Work for 2011/12
(22 Mar 2011)
New
accounting
standards may make debt instruments costlier
(22 Mar 2011)
Madoff Accountant — Now
Auditing
To Save His A#$
(22 Mar 2011)
When Financial and Tax
Accounting
Diverge
(22 Mar 2011)
JJB
Sports and creditors agree rescue deal
(22 Mar 2011)
Vitesse Semiconductor
SEC
Settlement Is Approved by Judge
(22 Mar 2011)
FASB and IASB Reconsider Lease
Accounting
Rules
(22 Mar 2011)
THE ETHICS OF TRANSFER PRICING
(22 Mar 2011)
US Fed to release
bank
loan data after Supreme Court rejects appeal
(22 Mar 2011)
Northern Rock: Back to old habits?
(22 Mar 2011)
Northern Rock returns to the securitisation market
(22 Mar 2011)
Urgent Help Needed - BCCI and Freedom of Information Case
(21 Mar 2011)
Auditors in the Doghouse as US government agency finally sets about investigating their role in the 2008 crisis
(21 Mar 2011)
PCAOB Slides: The Financial Crisis - The Watchdog that Didn’t Bark … Again
(21 Mar 2011)
PCAOB Slides: Auditor's Report and The Role of the Auditor
(21 Mar 2011)
PCAOB Slides: Improving Global Audit Quality and Transparency
(21 Mar 2011)
PCAOB: issues of the governance of audit firms, their transparency, the quality of the global audits
(21 Mar 2011)
Audit Failures
(21 Mar 2011)
US Banks Face Tighter Rules on Loan-Rate Disclosure
(21 Mar 2011)
F.D.I.C. Sues Ex-Chief of Big Bank That Failed
(21 Mar 2011)
Punch
Taverns considers breaking up firm to
tackle
£3bn
debt
(21 Mar 2011)
Revealed: Where the despots of the Middle East hide their money in London
(21 Mar 2011)
Financial weapons of mass destruction still primed to detonate: The current uncorrected political course means another banking crisis is inevitable
(20 Mar 2011)
Seven big firms still stay silent on
tax
havens
(20 Mar 2011)
Director speaks out over plan to strip Serious Fraud Office of
prosecution powers
(20 Mar 2011)
HSBC Bank Was Warned Twice By Auditors About Madoff
(20 Mar 2011)
Three key ways for auditing profession to implement European Commission's Green Paper on Audit Policy
(20 Mar 2011)
Cable urged to reveal 'secret
HBOS
dossier'
(20 Mar 2011)
HSBC Was Warned About Madoff '
Fraud
Risks' in 2006 and 2008
(19 Mar 2011)
Lehman
trustee is suing Citibank
(19 Mar 2011)
Moral for CEOs Is Choose Your
Fraud
Carefully
(19 Mar 2011)
IBM
pays out $10m over bribery charges
(19 Mar 2011)
Greedy solicitor gets four years for
laundering
drugs
money
(19 Mar 2011)
Oddbins begs creditors to slash its bills
(18 Mar 2011)
U.S. Agency Ends Deloitte Afghan Contract
(18 Mar 2011)
U.S. officials have suspended the contract of Deloitte advising the Afghan Central Bank because the team did not disclose early signs of widespread corruption at the country’s largest private bank
(18 Mar 2011)
SEC
moves to charge Fannie, Freddie execs
(18 Mar 2011)
UK House of Lords Debate on tax avoidance, corruption and money laundering
(18 Mar 2011)
Vince Cable
: '
No new rules for three years
'
(18 Mar 2011)
PENSIONS AT A GLANCE 2011: UNITED KINGDOM
(18 Mar 2011)
Britain's state
pension
is one of developed world's meanest
(18 Mar 2011)
British
pension
provision 'worse than in Turkey'
(18 Mar 2011)
Green MP launches campaign for country-by-country reporting in the UK
(17 Mar 2011)
Tax and Financial Transparency Bill Tabled in the UK House of Commons
(17 Mar 2011)
US urged to probe auditors' role in credit crisis
(17 Mar 2011)
PCAOB statement on the role of auditors in the financial crisis
(17 Mar 2011)
Does Comic Relief tackle poverty?
(17 Mar 2011)
Report: Nearly 20% of Financial Statement Users Think the Auditor's Report Is
Worthless
(17 Mar 2011)
Deloitte Fired For Kabul Bank But
PwC
Missed Fraud
(17 Mar 2011)
Five arrested in fraud inquiry into Wales mining sites sale
(17 Mar 2011)
SFO Investigation into sale of South Wales mining sites
(17 Mar 2011)
PCAOB: Audits of Chinese Reverse Mergers Create Compliance Concern
(17 Mar 2011)
CIMA joins forces with US
accountants
(17 Mar 2011)
SEC Charges Former Supervisor at Colonial Bank for Role in Securities Fraud Scheme
(17 Mar 2011)
Robert and Vincent Tchenguiz divert attention to
SFO's
motives
(17 Mar 2011)
SEC Charges Hedge Fund Managers At Juno Mother Earth Asset Management With Fraud
(17 Mar 2011)
SEC Charges Three Executives With Conducting $230 Million Investment Scheme at Ohio-Based Company
(17 Mar 2011)
Former Freddie CEO May Face
SEC
Action
(17 Mar 2011)
Country-by-country reporting a step closer in Norway
(16 Mar 2011)
US Oversight board investigates lack of warnings by
auditors
before financial crisis
(16 Mar 2011)
Weatherford Cuts Earnings View; Top Accountant Exits
(16 Mar 2011)
Investor wins money back in Bernard
Madoff
row
(16 Mar 2011)
US
audit
reform debate not as raucous as in UK?
(16 Mar 2011)
Accountancy firm
boss jailed
(16 Mar 2011)
Are Audit Committees Really Independent of Management?
(16 Mar 2011)
Mixed reception for UK
small company audit
proposals
(16 Mar 2011)
Bradford & Bingley shares worth nothing, says review
(16 Mar 2011)
Audit resignations throw suspicion on Chinese
accounting
(16 Mar 2011)
NHS reforms: will family doctors become
accountants
?
(16 Mar 2011)
Tchenguiz
property firm hit by £43m loss
(16 Mar 2011)
Tchenguiz
bros can sue Kaupthing
(16 Mar 2011)
Most Audit Execs Don't Believe in Repealing SOX
(16 Mar 2011)
Three global accountancy associations merge
(16 Mar 2011)
Poachers and Gamekeepers: FRC appoints new members of Accountancy and Actuarial Discipline Board and Board for Actuarial Standards
(16 Mar 2011)
In Lehman's Demise, a Dwindling Chance of Charges
(15 Mar 2011)
Statement by the Financial Reporting Review Panel in respect of the report and accounts of Rio Tinto Plc
(15 Mar 2011)
Auditors
must be more thorough with accounts: FSA
(15 Mar 2011)
China MediaExpress CFO Quits, Auditor Calls for Inquiry of Bus Advertiser
(15 Mar 2011)
US Audit cop PCAOB finds flaws in audits of Chinese companies
(15 Mar 2011)
PCAOB Issues First Research Note on Chinese Reverse Mergers
(15 Mar 2011)
Enron Whistleblower Scores $1.1M Reward from IRS
(15 Mar 2011)
Former President of Taylor, Bean & Whitaker (TBW) Pleads Guilty to Fraud Scheme
(15 Mar 2011)
SEC Charges Managers Of Juno Mother Earth Asset Management With Fraud
(15 Mar 2011)
Taking Stock of India's New Accounting Standards
(15 Mar 2011)
The party is surely over for property tycoon Vincent
Tchenguiz
(15 Mar 2011)
Valeant, SEC settle over alleged Biovail fraud
(15 Mar 2011)
Sunderland chartered accountant jailed for tipping off a client about a secret police money laundering investigation
(15 Mar 2011)
Jury Awards $1.3M to CPAs Who Sued Former Firm
(15 Mar 2011)
Can complete Satyam audit probe in 3 months after verdict: ICA
(15 Mar 2011)
Tax Haven USA attracts over $3 trillion in foreign dirty money
(15 Mar 2011)
United States, nonresident aliens are estimated to have deposited over $3 trillion in U.S. financial institutions
(15 Mar 2011)
UBS under investigation over alleged manipulation of key interest rate
(15 Mar 2011)
Inside The Mind of An Inside Trade
r (14 Mar 2011)
Police dossier says former HBOS directors failed to act on fraud allegations
(14 Mar 2011)
JJB
Sports is to tap shareholders for a further £65m
(14 Mar 2011)
Lehman Auditor May Bear The Brunt
(14 Mar 2011)
Peter Wyman says IFRS may not be fit for purpose
(14 Mar 2011)
SEC
may charge former head of Fannie Mae
(14 Mar 2011)
Big Business Rules:
FRC welcomes Elizabeth Corley and Nick Land as new Non-Executive Directors
(14 Mar 2011)
UK Banks
have £1.6 trillion exposure to ailing quartet of Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain
(14 Mar 2011)
UK Companies let off hook for up to £16bn in
tax
(14 Mar 2011)
500,000 missing people: £16 billion of lost tax How the UK mismanages its companies
(14 Mar 2011)
British
bank
accounting standards 'not fit for purpose'
(13 Mar 2011)
Retail tycoon Sir Philip Green tells why he didn't reveal his subsidiaries
(13 Mar 2011)
RBS
to reveal 300 staff each paid average of more than £1m
(13 Mar 2011)
Accounting
giant PricewahterhouseCoopers keen to avoid NZ court hearing
(13 Mar 2011)
Human Rights: Chevron appeals over Amazon fine
(13 Mar 2011)
Taxpayers stuck in middle of Fannie Mae
lawsuit
(13 Mar 2011)
Serious Fraud Office plans new Kaupthing raids
(13 Mar 2011)
Robert Tchenguiz
and a £1m fee to fix handshake for property investor
(13 Mar 2011)
UK Lawyer Pleads Guilty in US to KBR
Bribery
Scheme
(12 Mar 2011)
JD Sports walks away from
JJB
bid over lack of financial information
(12 Mar 2011)
Lehman Probe Stalls; Chance of No Charges
(12 Mar 2011)
Darling seeks full release of BCCI report
(12 Mar 2011)
Insolvency: Lehman
Fee Overseer Seeks to Ensure Adviser Pay 'Reasonable'
(12 Mar 2011)
Revealed: Reckless UK lending of
Lehman
arm
(12 Mar 2011)
SFO
focuses on role of Robert Tchenguiz
(12 Mar 2011)
Shell
money laundering
of Al-Yamamah proceeds
(12 Mar 2011)
European Council calls for country-by-country reporting
(11 Mar 2011)
Public sector pensions are far more efficient than private pensions
(11 Mar 2011)
Auditors Abandon Investors On Liability Limits
(11 Mar 2011)
IFRS Outlook: Hurry Up and Wait
(11 Mar 2011)
Probes ordered by FSA surge
(11 Mar 2011)
Auditors unconvinced of moves to beef up scepticism
(11 Mar 2011)
Wakefield brewery
accountant
stole over £50000
(11 Mar 2011)
Tchenguiz brothers on bail
as police
probe widens
(11 Mar 2011)
Santander
boss handed jail term
(11 Mar 2011)
Women's Share of Top Private-Company Jobs Falls, Study Shows
(11 Mar 2011)
Forbes Rich List 2011: World's 100 wealthiest
(11 Mar 2011)
All Points Bulletin: Auditor Litigation Spans The Globe
(10 Mar 2011)
Ex-chief executive of
BDO
Seidman on trial in
tax
-shelter case
(10 Mar 2011)
Auditors unconvinced of APB's aims on scepticism
(10 Mar 2011)
Auditors would deflate
accounting
bubbles
(10 Mar 2011)
Auditors reject lack of scepticism concerns
(10 Mar 2011)
The Big Four react defensively to the Auditing Practices Board’s discussion paper on auditor scepticism
(10 Mar 2011)
Empty Words: Enhancing the auditor’s contribution to prudential regulation
(10 Mar 2011)
More Empty Gestures - AUDITOR SCEPTICISM: RAISING THE BAR FEEDBACK PAPER
(10 Mar 2011)
Accounting
for your carbon
(10 Mar 2011)
Ex-AIG CEO Greenberg: Judge in NY AG case biased
(10 Mar 2011)
Chinese
accounting
scandals spur auditor upgrades
(10 Mar 2011)
Sir Fred Goodwin, former
RBS
chief, obtains super injunction
(10 Mar 2011)
The 100 most valuable companies in the FTSE 100
(10 Mar 2011)
Raging
accountant
'drove her car into bin man who blocked the road'
(10 Mar 2011)
How two
accountants
turned £1000 into £1.5bn
(10 Mar 2011)
Tchenguiz
brothers arrested in Kaupthing investigation
(9 Mar 2011)
Losses of £230million force
Northern Rock
to cut costs again
(9 Mar 2011)
Banks refuse to tell
FSA
how many of their staff earn more than £1m
(9 Mar 2011)
Dynegy's
Accountant
Agrees: They're in Big Trouble
(9 Mar 2011)
Satyam Seeks SEC Approval To Shorten Period of Earnings Restatement
(9 Mar 2011)
Taxpayers caught in the middle of costly Fannie
lawsuit
(9 Mar 2011)
Sports Direct reveals new facility and says
SFO
investigation has ended
(9 Mar 2011)
Feminisation of the accountancy profession
(9 Mar 2011)
MEPs back Robin Hood tax on banks
(8 Mar 2011)
MEPs call for the introduction of a tax on financial transactions
(8 Mar 2011)
EU Parliament approves Tobin tax on transactions
(8 Mar 2011)
FRC announces Inquiry into Going Concern Assessments
(8 Mar 2011)
Male accountants under 30 earned an average of £8,000 more than their female counterparts
(8 Mar 2011)
Harbinger hedge fund escapes £66m loss on Inmarsat stake
(8 Mar 2011)
Audit cool on reform
(8 Mar 2011)
Audit
Commission outstayed its welcome, say local authorities
(8 Mar 2011)
Oddbins
to close a third of stores
(8 Mar 2011)
The SEC's Curious Case of Insider Trading
(8 Mar 2011)
Universal, Sony Hit With
Accounting Lawsuit
Over 'Smokey and the Bandit
(8 Mar 2011)
The FT says it is time for country-by-country reporting
(7 Mar 2011)
Brussels pushes US on
accounting
(7 Mar 2011)
Are Auditors Becoming Irrelevant?
(7 Mar 2011)
No allegation of misconduct, but AADB probing Deloitte and ICAEW
(7 Mar 2011)
Audit industry
faces major overhaul
(7 Mar 2011)
UK Insolvency
clampdown to benefit unsecured creditors
(7 Mar 2011)
Cable and the audit challenge
(7 Mar 2011)
Fairfax Claims in Lawsuit Third Point Chief Lied to Investors
(6 Mar 2011)
US Group Set to Address Nonpublic Accounting Standards
(6 Mar 2011)
Cable calls for fines on firms failing to disclose tax havens
(6 Mar 2011)
HSBC considers quitting London over tax row
(6 Mar 2011)
Former Wegelin Banker Held By FBI Admitted to Aiding Tax Evasion
(6 Mar 2011)
Fraud boss tells Osborne: You're being too soft on bribery in the City
(6 Mar 2011)
FSA
delays report on RBS amid questions over thoroughness of probe
(6 Mar 2011)
JJB to landlords: halve our rent or we will close
(6 Mar 2011)
Think Tank: Standard setters march on - but not to the same beat
(6 Mar 2011)
Losses force Northern Rock to cut costs again
(5 Mar 2011)
'Beano' Levene charged with 11 counts of fraud
(5 Mar 2011)
City Stockbroker Nicholas Levene charged with fraud, forgery, money laundering and false accounting
(5 Mar 2011)
Serious Fraud Office charges Nicholas Levene with 16 offences
(5 Mar 2011)
Cargill, ADM Accused of Tax Evasion in Probe Targeting Argentine Exporters
(5 Mar 2011)
Are Rule Makers Backing Off New
Accounting Standards
For Leases?
(5 Mar 2011)
Former UBS Client Sentenced for Hiding Millions in Offshore Bank Accounts
(5 Mar 2011)
No chance of payout for Bradford & Bingley investors
(5 Mar 2011)
Insider Trading: Wall Street's secretive 'expert networks'
(5 Mar 2011)
Raj Rajaratnam: Wall Street's biggest insider trading trial in a generation: a Q&A
(5 Mar 2011)
U.S. Accuses Ex-Chapter 7 Trustee Of Bilking $16M
(5 Mar 2011)
The EU is going for country-by-country reporting for the extractive industries
(4 Mar 2011)
Auditors and Consulting: Claims Of No Conflict Strain Credibility
(4 Mar 2011)
Banks
Face More Loan Write-Downs
(4 Mar 2011)
Deloitte's role as auditor to Aero Inventory under investigation
(4 Mar 2011)
SEC fines KPMG Australia over broken rules
(4 Mar 2011)
Ford
Accounting
Move May Add $13 Billion to Profit, Expert Says
(4 Mar 2011)
SEC Charges Former UBS Financial Adviser With Defrauding Life Settlement Fund Investors
(4 Mar 2011)
Weatherford Shares Plunge As Tax
Accounting
Errors Disclosed
(4 Mar 2011)
SEC Obtains Settlement With Beazer CEO to Recover Compensation and Stock Profits He Received During Company's Fraud
(4 Mar 2011)
Eurotunnel
reports 57m euro loss on insurance dispute
(4 Mar 2011)
China Forestry Ex-CEO Should Face Hong Kong
Lawsuit
, City's Watchdog Says
(4 Mar 2011)
Transparency that auditors value is symbolic and of no use to anyone
(4 Mar 2011)
Shell stands out against transparency
(3 Mar 2011)
CIMA quits CCAB
(3 Mar 2011)
AADB announces investigation in connection with Aero Inventory Plc
(3 Mar 2011)
Aero Inventory auditors investigated
(3 Mar 2011)
Celebrity
Accountant
Starr Sentenced to 7-1/2 Years
(3 Mar 2011)
Whitehall riddled with financial mismanagement, says watchdog
(3 Mar 2011)
Accountant
in court over Fidentia fraud
(3 Mar 2011)
More
audit
reporting changes
(3 Mar 2011)
Shell chief’s warning on Dodd-Frank and tax transparency
(3 Mar 2011)
India to delay overhaul of
accounting
rules
(3 Mar 2011)
JJB
Sports landlords offered incentives to back recovery plan
(3 Mar 2011)
Sharp drop in Standard Chartered tax payment
(3 Mar 2011)
UBS banker bailed in tax evasion case
(3 Mar 2011)
All the biggest Spanish companies use tax havens, says a new NGO report
(3 Mar 2011)
Small companies pay most corporation tax as Britain fuels new race to the bottom
(2 Mar 2011)
FTSE 100 defends UK tax payments as report shows 37pc paid no corporation tax in 2010
(2 Mar 2011)
ExxonMobil uses Spain as a tax shelter, pays zero:Multinational giant has just one employee in the country
(2 Mar 2011)
CIMA
uninterested in catching a CCAB
(2 Mar 2011)
Packaging firm
Macfarlane Group boosts profits by
cutting
pension
costs
(2 Feb 2011)
Lawsuits could cost Goldman
Sachs
up to $3.4bn
(2 Mar 2011)
SEC
Sues
Rajat Gupta for Role in Galleon Insider-Trading Scheme
(2 Mar 2011)
Weatherford Shares Plunge As
Tax
Accounting Errors Disclosed
(2 Mar 2011)
PWCs total tax contribution is corporate spin that should be rejected not praised by ministers
(1 Mar 2011)
SEC Charges Body-Armor Supplier For 'Massive
Accounting
Fraud'
(1 Mar 2011)
SEC Charges Military Body Armor Supplier and Former Outside Directors With Accounting Fraud
(1 Mar 2011)
HMV shares plunge on new profits warning
(1 Mar 2011)
Accounting
for Egg
(1 Mar 2011)
Accounting advisory fees
(1 Mar 2011)
Fifth Third Discloses SEC Subpoena
(1 Mar 2011)
Ex-
Apple
employee guilty of fraud
(1 Mar 2011)
WestLB Says Breaks Even in 2010 Under German
Accounting
Rules
(1 Mar 2011)
Suncorp Bank's $2m human error exposed schoolboy's eBay fraud
(1 Mar 2011)
Former Lion Foundation CEO guilty of fraud
(1 Mar 2011)
FEBRUARY 2011
Insolvency: Accountancy institute investigates Ernst & Young's administration of Greek telecoms company
(28 Feb 2011)
Australia Towns and
Lehman
to Go to Trial Over CDO Collapse
(28 Feb 2011)
Lehman
case set for UK's top court
(28 Feb 2011)
What KPMG said in their resignation letter to TUI Travel Plc
(28 Feb 2011)
Insolvency: ICAEW
investigates E&Y pre-pack of Wind Hellas
(28 Feb 2011)
Lexi drops £50m claim against Pannone
(28 Feb 2011)
BP oil spill fund sued for fraud and negligence
(28 Feb 2011)
Auditors add disclaimer to Instore
accounts
(28 Feb 2011)
RGI director 'traded in close period'
(28 Feb 2011)
Gordon Ramsay's crisis-hit restaurant empire 'being sued' for sexual discrimination by accountant
(28 Feb 2011)
Madoff
to NY magazine: Government a Ponzi scheme
(28 Feb 2011)
Bank of America,
KPMG
Settlement With Countrywide Shareholders Is Approved
(27 Feb 2011)
Calpers, BlackRock, Others Reject Countrywide Settlement
(27 Feb 2011)
Judge OKs Countrywide settlement but big investors opt out
(27 Feb 2011)
A1 Grand Prix race firm faces fraud inquiry
(27 Feb 2011)
'Nightmare' ahead as firms declare leases
(27 Feb 2011)
Blue-chip giants face the heat on tax bills
(27 Feb 2011)
Insolvency: Auto Windscreens to cut more than 1000 staff jobs
(27 Feb 2011)
Bank
of America, Wells Fargo May Face Fines on Foreclosures
(27 Feb 2011)
Indicted ex-Credit Suisse banker says he won't name clients in US
tax evasion
case
(27 Feb 2011)
Lloyds hit by €5bn Irish impaired loans
(26 Feb 2011)
Lloyds will not pay corporation tax until profits hit £15bn
(26 Feb 2011)
Lloyds pays zero tax despite £2.2bn profit
(26 Feb 2011)
Walmart State and Local Tax Avoidance Exceeds $400 Million Annually
(26 Feb 2011)
Tax evasion glare turned on Credit Suisse
(26 Feb 2011)
Barclays still on the hook for US$4bn in
Lehman
ruling
(26 Feb 2011)
Aer Lingus takes euro32.5 mln charge in tax dispute
(25 Feb 2011)
Lloyds' Irish Impairment Charge Rises to 4.3 Billion Pounds
(25 Feb 2011)
FASB Sounds Retreat on New
Accounting
Standards for Leases
(25 Feb 201)
Retailers resist
lease
obligation plans
(25 Feb 2011)
Football and
accounting
set to collide
(25 Feb 2011)
Questions for insolvency
(25 Feb 2011)
Bank
of America, Wells Fargo May be Fined by Regulators
(26 Feb 2011)
US watchdog lawyer's family 'made $1.5m from
Madoff
scheme'
(25 Feb 2011)
SEC's Top Lawyer Becker Sued for Inheriting
Madoff
Ponzi Profits
(25 Feb 2011)
Scrushy talks HealthSouth, prison life
(25 Feb 2011)
Lehman
shortcut could slash value of derivatives claims
(25 Feb 2011)
Wealthy accountant who gave autistic son cannabis to calm him gets 51-week sentence
(25 Feb 2011)
The International Accounting Standards Board - needing to fulfil its mandate, not reform it
(24 Feb 2011)
SEC Charges IndyMac Execs: No Sign Of
Ernst & Young
(24 Feb 2011)
Mabey & Johnson director David Mabey jailed over Iraq
bribes
(24 Feb 2011)
Housing associations could breach loan agreements in
accounting
shake-up
(24 Feb 2011)
NY suit against Ernst & Young over Lehman takes detour
(24 Feb 2011)
Mystery of £150000 'hole' in Mears brothers' Lapland accounts
(24 Feb 2011)
Just seven percent ready for new lease
accounting
standards
(24 Feb 2011)
Barclays, After Victory, May Face Writedown of
Lehman
Assets
(24 Feb 2011)
Barclays faces £1.4bn writedown after US ruling on
Lehman
deal
(24 Feb 2011)
call for help in Connaught probe
(24 Feb 2011)
UK Government Consultation on reforms to the regulation of insolvency practitioners
(24 Feb 2011)
Bleasdale resigns from Healthcare Locums board
(24 Feb 2011)
Ohio AG Leads Class-Action
Lawsuit
Against Fannie Mae
(24 Feb 2011)
2013 abolition timetable for
Audit Commission
(24 Feb 2011)
Justice Denied: Why Countrywide Chief Fraudster Mozilo Isn't Going to Prison
(24 Feb 2011)
Beckstead and Watts Settles Inspection Case with PCAOB
(24 Feb 2011)
Crown Currency Exchange founder Peter Benstead arrested
(23 Feb 2011)
Six arrests in Crown Currency firm case
(23 Feb 2011)
Charity
accounting
risks bank covenant breach
(23 Feb 2011)
Commerzbank Profit Beats Estimates, Plans to Repay State Aid
(23 Feb 2011)
Lehman
Brothers $11bn case against Barclays fails
(23 Feb 2011)
Spain's Cajas Have $137 Billion of Potential Bad Loans, Central
Bank
Says
(23 Feb 2011)
Accountant
tied to Hialeah jeweler's Ponzi scheme sentenced
(23 Feb 2011)
New transparency laws could help millions, says Publish What You Pay
(22 Feb 2011)
BAA's turbulent year lands it a pre-
tax
loss of almost £317m
(22 Feb 2011)
Decrypting
Bank
of America's $20 Billion Writedown
(28 Dec 2011)
Audit
Commission closure 'delay'
(22 Feb 2011)
Sonray founder and CEO Scott Murray arrested, admits to theft,
fraud
(22 Feb 2011)
APB issues Revised Guidance on Bank Reports for Audit Purposes in the UK
(22 Feb 2011)
APB issues Revised Guidance on Auditors Attendance at Stocktaking
(22 Feb 2011)
HSBC boss Stuart
Gulliver not employed by bank's main holding company for employment purposes
(22 Feb 2011)
GAAP Vs. IFRS Part III
(22 Feb 2011)
PWC, Deloitte and the ICAEW, all supporting corruption
(21 Feb 2011)
Halifax
mortgage mix-up costs Lloyds £500m
(21 Feb 2011)
Alibaba chiefs resign after
fraud
(21 Feb 2011)
Healthcare Locums hires senior independent non-executive directors
(21 Feb 2011)
Mark-to-market
accounting
helps companies shift pension plan losses
(21 Feb 2011)
The banks are as great a threat to our national security as a foreign enemy. We collect intelligence on hostile powers. Why should we not collect it on the hostile City?
(21 Feb 2011)
Russian
tax
hits Carlsberg profit
(21 Feb 2011)
Cross-border
insolvency
confusion must end
(21 Feb 2011)
'
Glass ceiling
' in business still exists for women
(21 Feb 2011)
FDIC Makes A Case Against
Auditors
For
Bank
Failures
(20 Feb 2011)
Big companies reveal secret of hundreds of
tax haven
subsidiaries
(20 Feb 2011)
In Case You Were Wondering,
KPMG
Is Still Wells Fargo's Auditor
(20 Feb 2011)
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Blamed for Adding to Failed Banks List
(20 Feb 2011)
The Pure Logic of Accounting: A Critique of the Fair Value Revolution
(20 Feb 2011)
UK lags behind Nordic nations in equality for female executives
(20 Feb 2011)
The contrasting role of auditors in UK and Swiss banking supervision
(20 Feb 2011)
JPMorgan Says
Lehman
Left It `Goat Poo' Collateral
(20 Feb 2011)
Auditor and Audit Committee Independence in India
(20 Feb 2011)
Barclays has revealed it paid £113m in corporation tax to the UK in 2009, only 2.4% of its £4.85bn annual profit
(19 Feb 2011)
Barclays makes £11.6bn profits... but pays just £113m corporation tax
(19 Feb 2011)
Barclays bank forced to admit it paid just £113m in corporation tax in 2009
(19 Feb 2011)
Corporate tax avoidance: Impoverishing the public
(19 Feb 2011)
How the Guardian was gagged from revealing Barclays tax secrets
(19 Feb 2011)
Former directors sentenced in Torex Retail false profits case
(19 Feb 2011)
Healthcare Locums review claims two more boardroom scalps
(19 Feb 2011)
Healthcare Locums chairman forced out
(19 Feb 2011)
KPMG bares observation on FASB's and IASB's
impairment accounting
approach
(19 Feb 2011)
Go-ahead for
JJB
Sports cash call
(19 Feb 2011)
SEC Charges Seven in Global Warming Pump-and-Dump Scheme
(19 Feb 2011)
Banks
' millionaire earners could be revealed
(18 Feb 2011)
Stanford
files $7.2bn countersuit
(18 Feb 2011)
Stanford
sues FBI agents – and the US government
(18 Feb 2011)
UK Treasury unveils new financial services watchdog
(18 Feb 2011)
UK government paper on banking regulation: A new approach to financial regulation: judgement, focus and stability
(18 Feb 2011)
A new approach to UK financial regulation: judgement, focus and stability
(18 Feb 2011)
India likely to delay IFRS introduction
(18 Feb 2011)
Auditors
' role clarified by Pensions Regulator
(18 Feb 2011)
Satyam will pay $125 million to settle US suit over
fraud
(18 Feb 2011)
Auditors and Consulting: Claims Of No Conflict Strain Credibility
(17 Feb 2011)
Fiona Bruce's
accountant
under investigation
(17 Feb 2011)
HMRC estimates Lunn fraud at £117m
(17 Feb 2011)
What does the Lehman lawsuit mean?
(17 Feb 2011)
THE LEHMAN LAWSUIT: THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK - against - ERNST & YOUNG LLP
Satyam Computer Agrees to Pay $125 Million to Settle US Suit
(17 Feb 2011)
Deloitte survey: Only 7pc of companies confident to comply with new lease accounting standards
(17 Feb 2011)
How to solve a problem like Philip Green
(17 Feb 2011)
Farepak scandal: Now send the bosses to jail
(17 Feb 2011)
BNP Paribas takes €534m impairment hit on Axa stake
(17 Feb 2011)
Madoff claims banks
'
chose to ignore con
'
(17 Feb 2011)
What J.P. Morgan Knew About Madoff Fraud
(17 Feb 2011)
Bribery and Corruption: SECcharges Tyson Foods Inc. with violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) by making illicit payments to veterinarians
responsible for certifying chicken products
(17 Feb 2011)
Anglo Irish Bank to sue former boss David Drumm
(17 Feb 2011)
Barclays
' toxic Protium deal won't please
bank's
investors
(16 Feb 2011)
Auditor shopping helps US companies cut fees
(16 Feb 2011)
Auditors Want Overtime: California Lawsuit Against PwC Could Change Model
(16 Feb 2011)
Stars'
accountant
faces £117m fraud inquiry by UK Revenue
(16 Feb 2011)
Getting a grip on bad loan valuations
(16 Feb 2011)
Farepak
directors face court ban
(16 Feb 2011)
Ex-CBI boss may be barred over role in
Farepak
collapse
(16 Feb 2011)
Some Companies Willing to Drop a Big 4 Auditor Like a Bad Habit...For Another
Big 4 Auditor
(16 Feb 2011)
Bernard Madoff says banks and funds were
'
complicit' in $90bn fraud
(16 Feb 2011)
Madoff
: bankers were 'complicit'
(16 Feb 2011)
Panamericano
Accounting
Loss Hits 4.3 Billion Reais
(16 Feb 2011)
Bribery and corruption: MW Kellogg Ltd to pay £7 million in SFO High Court action
(16 Feb 2011)
Audits have failed and the firms say UK audits
must cover UK non-financial info
(16 Feb 2011)
IT delays implicated in Auto Windscreen's collapse
(16 Feb 2011)
Bribery and Corruption: Mabey & Johnson directors made illegal payments to Sadam Hussein's Iraq to gain contract
(16 Feb 2011)
Barclays: £6.1bn profits, bonus cuts, and staff pay increases of up to 20%
(15 Feb 2011)
Barclays profits: Looking behind the figures
(15 Feb 2011)
Barclays annual pretax profit up 32% as impairments reduce
(15 Feb 2011)
Good books, bad books at the banks
(15 Feb 2011)
APB issues a revision of ISA (UK and Ireland) 700 'The Auditor's Report on Financial Statements'
(15 Feb 2011)
Compendium of Illustrative Auditor's Reports on United Kingdom Private Sector Financial Statements for periods ended on or after 15 December 2010 (Revised)
(15 Feb 2011)
Fannie
, Freddie US bailout to peak at $169 billion
(15 Feb 2011)
New bank
audit
regime could learn from the
Swiss
(15 Feb 2011)
Fannie
, Freddie US bailout to peak at $169 billion
(15 Feb 2011)
How Kaupthing's dance of debt with Tchenguiz brothers ended
in £
2bn ruin
(15 Feb 2011)
Keep the corporate fat cats in check
(14 Feb 2011)
FRC chief wants better audits and more competition
(14 Feb 2011)
'Hidden subsidies' of £32bn for UK
banks
(14 Feb 2011)
Banks
'getting hidden subsidies'
(14 Feb 2011)
Feather-bedding Financial Services: Are British banks getting hidden subsidies?
(14 Feb 2011)
Keydata victims secure funds to sue Goldmans, HSBC
(14 Feb 2011)
US oil firm
Chevron
fined over Ecuador pollution
(14 Feb 2011)
Auto Windscreens goes into administration
(14 Feb 2011)
US lawsuits against China companies face hurdles
(14 Feb 2011)
Vault Survey: 47% of
Accountants
Have Had an Office Romance
(14 Feb 2011)
Banks face pressure to reveal all on UK tax
(13 Feb 2011)
Europe Mulls Limits on
Audit
Firm Concentration
(13 Feb 2011)
Barclays
'
toxic Protium deal won't please bank's investors
(13 Feb 2011)
Deutsche Bank loses a £50million battle over tax ploy
(13 Feb 2011)
SEC charges former IndyMac executives with
fraud
(13 Feb 2011)
Keydata
group poised to take banks to court
(13 Feb 2011)
Zambia: Mines Audit Reveals Massive Tax Evasion
(13 Feb 2011)
TRANSFER PRICING MANIPULATION, TAX ETHICS AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
(13 Feb 2011)
Bloomberg: NYSE deal means US
accounting
for all
(12 Feb 2011)
FASB Talks Convergence with Japan
(12 Feb 2011)
New PCAOB Chair Wants Better Audit Quality
(12 Feb 2011)
JJB
to close 95 stores and asks for £31m funding
(12 Feb 2011)
Dick Fuld Doesn't Know Exactly When
Lehman
Collapsed
(12 Feb 2011)
First CDS traded and cleared under Dodd-Frank rules
(12 Feb 2011)
US plans to wind down
Fannie Mae
and Freddie Mac
(12 Feb 2011)
Singapore CPA charged with helping client evade tax
(12 Feb 2011)
Deloitte’s Troubles Bubble To Surface
(11 Feb 2011)
Accountancy firms face tougher regulation
(11 Feb 2011)
Consultation launched on overhaul of insolvency regulation
(11 Feb 2011)
Consultation on reforms to the regulation of the UK insolvency practitioners
(11 Feb 2011)
IASB must modernise, says incoming chief
(11 Feb 2011)
Cadbury
costs hit Kraft's profits
(11 Feb 2011)
Insolvency: Record label giant EMI in largest ever pre-pack
(11 Feb 2011)
Ernst & Young
Names Non-Executive Directors in U.K.
(11 Feb 2011)
India's Reliance ADAG denies
accounting
probe
(11 Feb 2011)
Top Ten Things I've Learned From Being An Accountant
(10 Feb 2011)
FSA and Bank of England announce new draft code of practice for auditors and supervisors
(10 Feb 2011)
Code of Practice for the relationship between the external auditor and the supervisor
(10 Feb 2011)
Guidance Consultation: Code of Practice for the relationship between the external auditor and the supervisor
(10 Feb 2011)
Market and regulatory failures, benefits and costs
(10 Feb 2011)
EU to present draft law curbing
auditors
in Nov
(10 Feb 2011)
Auditors
face rule changes in Europe
(10 Feb 2011)
Barking up the wrong tree: It is time to bring audit closer to investor needs, FRC Chief Executive tells European Commission Conference
(10 Feb 2011)
Audit
Commission's demise risks
audit
independence
(10 Feb 2011)
FASB Discussion Paper Seeks Input on Issues about Hedge Accounting
(10 Feb 2011)
Ernst & Young appoints first non-executives
(10 Feb 2011)
Impairment charges plunge Charles River into US$365 million loss
(10 Feb 2011)
Accounting
chief calls for more credible bank test
(10 Feb 2011)
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Xchanging shares fall 50pc on chief executive and profit woes
(10 Feb 2011)
Xchanging FD Ken Lever defends company against 'aggressive'
accounting
claims
(10 Feb 2011)
Rolls-Royce
takes £
56m A380 blowout hit
(10 Feb 2011)
SEC Proposes First in Series of Rule Amendments to Remove References to Credit Ratings
(10 Feb 2011)
Banking meltdown will cost Ireland €100bn
(10 Feb 2011)
Wall Street Justice Means Nobody Gets Pinched
(10 Feb 2011)
Just a domestic chartered accountant
(9 Feb 2011)
Global Audit Firm Heads Call for More Regulation
(9 Feb 2011)
IASB must modernise, says incoming chief
(9 Feb 2011)
Why over 50% of practicing
accountants
are making losses
(9 Feb 2011)
Mid tier firms join forces over audit reform
(9 Feb 2011)
Big Four challengers join forces to call for audit change
(9 Feb 2011)
UK bankers: 'audit appointments should stay with boards'
(9 Feb 2011)
JP Morgan seeks jury trial in Bernard
Madoff
lawsuit
(9 Feb 2011)
Fat Cats: RBS and Lloyds chief executives accept £3.49m in bonuses
(9 Feb 2011)
International Crime a $650 Billion Business Built on Poverty and Corruption in Developing World
(8 Feb 2011)
Transnational Crime In The Developing World
(8 Feb 2011)
Experts line up to slam 'hasty' abolition of
Audit
Commission
(8 Feb 2011)
Scrapping
audit
body risks 'independence'
(8 Feb 2011)
OFT backs 'reduced'
audit
to aid competition
(8 Feb 2011)
Responses to EU consultation on audit competition
(8 Feb 2011)
Michael Moore Accuses Weinsteins of 'Bogus
Accounting
'
(8 Feb 2011)
Two banned on ICAEW audit charges
(8 Feb 2011)
EC AUDIT REFORM: Big Four only clauses must go
(8 Feb 2011)
Hedge fund managers arrested after $30m
insider
trading probe
(8 Feb 2011)
Thomas Cook
braced for shareholder revolt over bonuses
(8 Feb 2011)
CalPERS Sues Ex-Lehman Execs & Underwriters, Alleging a 'Fraudulent Scheme'
(8 Feb 2011)
PriceWaterhouse guilty in Satyam scam: ICAI
(8 Feb 2011)
India: ICAI asks Big Four audit
firms
not to buy out Indian cos
(8 Feb 2011)
Anglo Irish
Bank
expects record loss of 17.6 billion euros
(8 Feb 2011)
Arrested in bed with a madame called Ping Ping, the 'respected' accountant who turned his house into a brothel
(8 Feb 2011)
Accountant
skimmed NZ$70k off wine firm
(7 Feb 2011)
Healthcare
Locums
shareholders call for chairman to quit
(7 Feb 2011)
Sickly staffing firm Healthcare
Locums
faces shareholder fury
(7 Feb 2011)
Tui could face questions over £117 million
(7 Feb 2011)
Bernie Madoff's Relationship With JPMorgan Should Shock No One
(7 Feb 2011)
Aberdeen Asset falls foul of tax tribunal over its £7m scheme
Tax avoidance
scheme fall foul of the Tribunal
(7 Feb 2011)
Follow the Dirty Money: Barclays was discovered to have systematically disguised the movement of hundreds of millions of dollars
(7 Feb 2011)
India has $1,456 billion parked in tax havens
(7 Feb 2011)
Bribery or Seduction?
(7 Feb 2011)
Intuit Releases 2020 Report on Future of the
Accounting
Profession
(7 Feb 2011)
The Time Bomb on Banks' Books
(6 Feb 2011)
Watchdog chief insists on 'absolute' confidence in discplinary staff
(6 Feb 2011)
Individual shareholders are too unempowered
(6 Feb 2011)
BP
seeks to calm investors over 'sketchy' plans
(6 Feb 2011)
Examining Mentoring in Public Accounting Organizations
by Alan Reinstein, David H. Sinason and Timothy J. Fogarty
Standard Business Reporting in Australia: voluntary take-up issues facing users, preparers and regulators of company financial and business reports
by Saiful Azam and Dennis Taylor
General Motors no longer dominated by
accountants
(5 Feb 2011)
FTSE chiefs face fines for unlisted
tax havens
(5 Feb 2011)
Breaking Down the Madoff-Mets Mess
(5 Feb 2011)
JPMorgan Hid Doubts on Madoff, Documents Suggest
(5 Feb 2011)
For J.P. Morgan, Madoff Suit Brings Reputational Risk
(5 Feb 2011)
Audit Commission
warns of dangers of its abolition
(5 Feb 2011)
PwC tenure as TUI
auditors
could be short-lived
(5 Feb 2011)
Prosecutors on defensive in BDO Seidman fraud case
(5 Feb 2011)
$55M settlement in Norbourg financial scam
(5 Feb 2011)
Banker jailed for tipping off barrister wife in £2m
insider trading
scam
(5 Feb 2011)
Insider Trading
: Ex-Atheros Exec To Pay $2600, Accept Ban In SEC Settlement
(5 Feb 2011)
Unremarkable couple who amassed a fortune from
insider trading
(5 Feb 2011)
Enron son dead: Ex-CEO Jeffery Skilling's son JT's 'overdose after break-up'
(5 Feb 2011)
The EU consultation on country-by-country reporting: first reactions
(4 Feb 2011)
EU Consultation Submissions on Country-by-Country Reporting
(4 Feb 2011)
Tui Travel in 11th-hour deal to quell investor rebellion over
auditors
(4 Feb 2011)
U.S. SEC pushes banks to disclose cost of lawsuits
(4 Feb 2011)
After audit failures at banks, auditing firms say that Audit Commission should be broken up and transferred completely to the private sector
(4 Feb 2011)
Rentokil Set to Buy Connaught Health-and-Safety Assets
(4 Feb 2011)
Connaught arm snapped up by private equity king Jon Moulton
(4 Feb 2011)
Bad debts
rule hits Banco Popular
(4 Feb 2011)
Bernard Madoff: JP Morgan warned UK authorities before confession
(4 Feb 2011)
Transocean to Book $1 Billion Impairment Charge for Older Rigs in Fourth Quarter
(4 Feb 2011)
SEC Charges AXA Rosenberg Entities for Concealing Error in Quantitative Investment Model
(4 Feb 2011)
KPMG
Australia to pay A$60m plus in Westpoint settlement
(4 Feb 2011)
Suit Alleges Mellon Created Fake Trades, Overcharged
(4 Feb 2011)
US states ramp up foreign currency trade probes
(4 Feb 2011)
Legerdemath: Tricks of the Banking Trade
(4 Feb 2011)
Securities and Exchange Commission to open up
derivatives
(4 Feb 2011)
A UK small company can expect a visit from HMRC - once every 250 years
(3 Feb 2011)
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Deloitte’s Troubles Bubble To Surface
(3 Feb 2011)
Accounting
change prompts rethink of US leverage ratios
(3 Feb 2011)
JJB
Sports 'could run out of cash in March'
(3 Feb 2011)
City banker gets record three-year jail term for insider dealing
(3 Feb 2011)
Legal,
accounting
costs cut into Green Mountain Coffee's earnings
(3 Feb 2011)
NZ Accountant
Embezzled 5.4 Million to Finance Blackjack Gambling Sprees
(3 Feb 2011)
Tanzania:
Accountant
Faces Case of Stealing Sh1.3 Billion
(3 Feb 2011)
If the OECD was really serious about tax avoidance it would back country-by-country reporting
(2 Feb 2011)
EMI
taken over by Citigroup in deal to write off debts
(2 Feb 2011)
Guy Hands: 'Securitisation is the crack
cocaine
of financial services'
(2 Feb 2011)
Citigroup
suffers £
2bn
losses after taking control of
EMI
(2 Feb 2011)
SEC probes Computer Sciences on
accounting
issue
(2 Feb 2011)
US Jury Rules Against BDO
(2 Feb 2011)
Traynor auditor barred for two years
(2 Feb 2011)
SEC Charges Eight Individuals and Three Companies in $33 Million International Microcap Fraud
(2 Feb 2011)
SEC Charges Maxwell Technologies for Long-Running Bribery Scheme in China
(2 Feb 2011)
Japan Tobacco to Adopt Global
Accounting
Standards
(2 Feb 2011)
Switch to IFRS may force India Inc to review ESOPs
(2 Feb 2011)
Westpoint auditor to pay $67m after ASIC ends pursuit of
KPMG
(1 Feb 2011)
Insolvency:
KPMG
forced to lower bill for administration
(1 Feb 2011)
Joint approach forged on
accounting
for loan losses
(1 Feb 2011)
NY v. Ernst & Young: Who Cares Whether Lehman Brothers Followed GAAP?
(1 Feb 2011)
Insolvency: EMI sold in pre-pack
(1 Feb 2011)
Insolvency: Auditors
are increasingly being sued by liquidators and in class actions
(1 Feb 2011)
Deloitte puts more women at the top of the firm
(1 Feb 2011)
The Financial Reporting Review Panel highlights challenges in the reporting of principal risks and uncertainties
(1 Feb 2011)
Batchelor wins lawsuit against BDO Seidman
(1 Feb 2011)
91M awarded in Batchelor case
(1 Feb 2011)
First
BP loss
in 20 yrs but dividend returns
(1 Feb 2011)
AA buys the UK's biggest driving school BSM - for just £1
(1 Feb 2011)
UK firm's partner, BHP Billiton, 'wanted Peru to curb priests in mine conflict areas'
(1 Feb 2011)
Former Dutch PM to be partner in accountancy firm Ernst & Young
(1 Feb 2011)
JANUARY 2011
Top 50 Blogs By Accounting Professors, Students and Professionals
(31 Jan 2011)
Harmonised
accounting
rules to hit US banks
(31 Jan 2011)
Standard setters work to 'align' blance sheet approach
(31 Jan 2011)
Accounting
scrutiny extended at Healthcare Locums
(31 Jan 2011)
Accounting errors revealed at Healthcare Locums
(31 Jan 2011)
Insolvency: Mulholland writes to
KPMG
over pub
(31 Jan 2011)
Luxembourg court releases Icelandic bank's documents to investigators
(31 Jan 2011)
Lehman
sued by Pulsar Re over $450 million
(31 Jan 2011)
FASB, IASB Unite on
Impairment Accounting
(31 Jan 2011)
IASB and FASB propose common solution for impairment accounting
(31 Jan 2011)
Jailed
accountant
forced to pay £400000 of stolen cash
(31 Jan 2011)
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Global leases undergo changes
(31 Jan 2011)
The 2010 Big Four Performance Analysis - Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers
(31 Jan 2011)
Japanese Lawmaker Ichiro Ozawa Indicted for Campaign Finance Law Violation
(31 Jan 2011)
Big four auditors 'embedded in
tax
haven world'
(30 Jan 2011)
Taxman eyes millions paid by
JPMorgan
via Guernsey
(30 Jan 2011)
Rulemakers mull change to US derivatives
accounting
(30 Jan 2011)
Lehman Had $200 Billion Overnight Repos Pre-Failure
(30 Jan 2011)
The great
carbon trading
scandal
(30 Jan 2011)
PricewaterhouseCoopers targets women
(30 Jan 2011)
Survey reveals shape of global profession
(29 Jan 2011)
NutraCea settles with SEC over alleged
accounting irregularities
(29 Jan 2011)
Blue-Ribbon Panel: Just Tweak GAAP for Now
(29 Jan 2011)
Fat Cats: Goldmans boss gets $15m
pay
award
(29 Jan 2011)
Goldman
Sachs
chief
Lloyd
Blankfein handed $12.6m stock bonus
(29 Jan 2011)
BP
set to restart dividend
(29 Jan 2011)
Fannie
, Freddie Got $21 Billion Back From Banks
(29 Jan 2011)
Final Report of the National Commission on the Causes of the Financial and Economic Crisis in the United States
(28 Jan 2011)
Auditors Under Pressure In The UK: Or Are They?
(28 Jan 2011)
Director of Drive Angry Is Pretty Sure Hell Is Run by an
Accountant
(28 Jan 2011)
Ex-HealthSouth CEO Scrushy Loses Appeal of $2.88 Billion Civil Judgment
(28 Jan 2011)
Lehman Brothers' Startling Emails: Repo 105 "
Accounting
Gimmick" Are "Another Drug We're On"
(28 Jan 2011)
Accounting
Boards Aim to Align Balance Sheet Netting
(28 Jan 2011)
Did Bear Stearns Know Its Mortgage Securities Were a House of Cards?
(28 Jan 2011)
The Path to Global Standards?
(28 Jan 2011)
US banks were on brink of oblivion
(28 Jan 2011)
Enron Whistleblower Would Go to WikiLeaks Now
(28 Jan 2011)
Quest for consistency in accounting still faces hurdles
(27 Jan 2011)
Kate Bleasdale : Multi-million entrepreneur suspended over 'accounting black hole'
(27 Jan 2011)
HSBC Is Said to Be the Focus of a Tax-Evasion Investigation
(27 Jan 2011)
Probe reveals Ikea tax structure
(27 Jan 2011)
Ikea skirts taxes with 'secret' foundation: report
(27 Jan 2011)
SEC, in Split Vote, Adopts 'Say on Pay' Rule
(27 Jan 2011)
SEC Adopts Rules for Say-on-Pay and Golden Parachute Compensation as Required Under Dodd-Frank Act
(27 Jan 2011)
US Report Recommends New Standard-Setting System, Board for Private Companies
(27 Jan 2-011)
Big Four accounting firm break-up threat
(27 Jan 2011)
More Fairy Stories: Lehmans
accounting
within US rules, says E&Y global chief
(27 Jan 2011)
Heaton
accountant
aided £10m savings con
(27 Jan 2011)
It is all about money and empire building: ACCA launches Foundations in Accountancy
(27 Jan 2011)
Prosecutors to search Silvio's
accountant
(27 Jan 2011)
Equitable Life
victims will get back just a QUARTER of their loss
(27 Jan 2011)
FSA confirms JJB Sports fined £455000 for failing to disclose information
(26 Jan 2011)
Healthcare Locums suspends founder Kate Bleasdale for 'serious
accounting
irregularities
(26 Jan 2011)
HCL suspends founder after
accounting
fiasco
(26 Jan 2011)
Healthcare Locums' chief suspended over 'black hole'
(26 Jan 2011)
Audit industry's 'Big Four' should reduce their dominance, says junior Business Minister Ed Davey
(26 Jan 2011)
UK not planning competition probe into auditors
(26 Jan 2011)
Tui Travel faces shareholder rebellion over re-employing PwC as auditor
(26 Jan 2011)
Banks win victory over US loan book proposals
(26 Jan 2011)
Retreat on 'Marking To Market'
(26 Jan 2011)
Union sues over treatment of ex-Connaught workers
(26 Jan 2011)
TUI investors angry over
KPMG
sacking
(26 Jan 2011)
Satyam fraud not an
accounting
failure
(26 Jan 2011)
Greece to sue Siemens for
bribery
(26 Jan 2011)
Prince Charles's wedding day bungler Sir Michael Peat quits
(25 Jan 2011)
Tui's tale of
accounting
errors and boardroom resignations
(25 Jan 2011)
Advisory Group Raises Concerns Over TUI Travel Auditing (by PricewaterhouseCoopers)
(25 Jan 2011)
Sex discrimination entrepreneur faces inquiry over 'irregularities' at own firm
(25 Jan 2011)
Accounting
Scandal At Healthcare Locums
(25 Jan 2011)
E-mails Suggest Bear Stearns Cheated Clients Out of Billions
(25 Jan 2011)
AIG Wins Approval for $90 Million Investor Settlement
(25 Jan 2011)
US Accounting
Board Backs Off 'Mark to Market' Push
(25 Jan 2011)
SEC Charges Former CEO of Innospec for Role in Bribery Scheme
(25 Jan 2011)
Fannie, Freddie spend lots on lawyers
(25 Jan 2011)
FASB Reverses Course on Fair Value
(25 Jan 2011)
US Taxpayers spend $160m defending Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac executives
(25 Jan 2011)
US Fed Uses
Accounting
Gimmick to Hide Losses
(25 Jan 2011)
'My face didn't fit in with the white, racist culture of accountancy giant PwC'
(24 Jan 2011)
Dunstan Pedropillai: £1m accountant blames racism for limiting his pay
(24 Jan 2011)
Plaintiffs get OK to press Bear Stearns case
(24 Jan 2011)
No contact
between watchdogs and
auditors
in the year before banking crisis
(24 Jan 2011)
Auditors seek to ease fears over risk
(24 Jan 2011)
Auditors Successful in Defending Against Investor Lawsuits
(24 Jan 2011)
Big Write-Downs Usually A Red Flag For Failed Management
(24 Jan 2011)
Baroness Ashton reaps benefits from EU
tax
loophole
(24 Jan 2011)
Carbon
fraud may force longer closure of EU emissions
trading
(24 Jan 2011)
Ministers face Lords committee on audit
(24 Jan 2011)
UK Insolvencies 'to jump' this year
(24 Jan 2011)
1000
tax haven
subsidiaries of the top 20 companies
(23 Jan 2011)
Shareholder group calls for shake-up of remuneration committees
(23 Jan 2011)
Morgan Stanley Linked to Galleon
Insider Trading
Case
(23 Jan 2011)
Verizon's
accounting
change, in brief
(23 Jan 2011)
Half of all investments recommended by banks, financial advisers and other intermediaries are wrong for consumers
(23 Jan 2011)
Grant Thornton 2010 Revenues of $3.7 Billion Up 2.3% From 2009. Tax, Europe Are Strong
(23 Jan 2011)
Former
Vivendi
boss found guilty of embezzlement
(22 Jan 2011)
Banks must reveal their highest paid
employees
(22 Jan 2011)
Analysis: Big wins elude investors in auditor lawsuits
(22 Jan 2011)
FACTBOX-Auditor lawsuits in wake of credit crisis
(22 Jan 2011)
Ernst
Files to Move New York AG Suit to Federal Court
(22 Jan 2011)
Man Group hit by client withdrawing $1bn
(22 Jan 2011)
Verizon to take $600m pension benefits charge
(22 Jan 2011)
Verizon To Take $600M Charge In
Accounting
Switch
(21 Jan 2011)
New
accounting
standards bring warnings of murky reporting
(21 Jan 2011)
DERIVATIVES:
Accounting
changes to see US bank balance sheets grow
(21 Jan 2011)
Ex-
Vivendi
bosses are convicted
(21 Jan 2011)
Vivendi and Warner Music chiefs convicted by French court
(21 Jan 2011)
Bad home loans contribute to
Bank of America's
$1.2bn loss
(21 Jan 2011)
SEC Charges New York Investment Advisers, Firms With
Fraud
(21 Jan 2011)
Finance director
jailed for £1.3m theft from
Leeds
firm
(21 Jan 2011)
Fed changes
accounting
rules
(21 Jan 2011)
UK
banks
battle to halt bonus disclosures
(20 Jan 2011)
Probe into the taxman's deals with big business amid claims Vodafone was let off £6bn bill
(20 Jan 2011)
UK Government thinking on audit market revealed
(20 Jan 2011)
Torex Retail bosses guilty of
fraud
(20 Jan 2011)
Directors convicted of defrauding shareholders of Torex Retail Plc
(20 Jan 2011)
Pair guilty of Torex shareholder fraud
(20 Jan 2011)
'Big four' auditing
firms
share €7m from Ireland regulator
(20 Jan 2011)
Shopping for Anonymous Shell Companies: An Audit Study of Anonymity and Crime in the International Financial System
(20 Jan 2011)
Ernst files to move Lehman suit to federal court
(20 Jan 2011)
US Court Revives Parmalat Lawsuit Against
Accounting Firm
(20 Jan 2011)
FSA confirms professional standards for investment advisers from 2013
(20 Jan 2011)
Accountant
Sets Bar for Idiotic Embezzlement Schemes
(20 Jan 2011)
Sponsored degrees may only churn out corporate clones
(20 Jan 2011)
Sherborne Investors attacks F&C over debt
(20 Jan 2011)
$55M settlement in Norbourg financial scam
(20 Jan 2011)
OFT should probe Big Four accountancy firms, says Lord Myners
(19 Jan 2011)
Myners denies giving bank auditors comfort
(19 Jan 2011)
Citi's Decent Results Marred by Fair Value
Accounting
(19 Jan 2011)
Crisis? What Crisis? Don't Blame The
Accounting
(19 Jan 2011)
The New Lease
Accounting
Paradigm
(19 Jan 2011)
HMV
shares hit new low over credit concerns
(19 Jan 2011)
Tsingtao planning to hire China
auditor
in HK
(19 Jan 2011)
Lehman
Lacks Creditor Support to Exit Bankruptcy, Paulson Fund Lawyer Says
(19 Jan 2011)
Accountants take charge of audit committees
(19 Jan 2011)
Wall Street’s Zero Sum Game: Phantom Wealth
(18 Jan 2011)
Myners denies giving
bank
auditors comfort
(18 Jan 2011)
Parmalat Suits Against Grant Thornton Revived by Court
(18 Jan 2011)
Standard Life backs calls for big four
accountancy
shake-up
(18 Jan 2011)
FSA fines Barclays £7.7 million for investment advice failings and secures as much as £60 million in redress for customers
(18 Jan 2011)
From Defending to Policing Wall Street
(18 Jan 2011)
HMV
distributors denied credit insurance
(18 Jan 2011)
Dear PCAOB Board: Your Job Is To Serve And Protect Investors
(17 Jan 2011)
FSA and FRC extend co-operation and information exchange on audit issues
(17 Jan 2011)
Insolvency: Connaught had 50000 unpaid bills
(17 Jan 2011)
Glaxo
takes £2bn Avandia charge
(17 Jan 2011)
Glaxo
Takes $3.4 Billion Charge on Legal Problems
(17 Jan 2011)
Investors call for overhaul of audit market
(17 Jan 2011)
Former City minister to face Lords audit inquiry
(17 Jan 2011)
Bribery and Corruption: Truckmaker MAN demands 237 million euros from former CEO
(17 Jan 2011)
Prosecutor Seeks
Bank
Assets Seizure in Parmalat Trial
(17 Jan 2011)
Two Britons arrested over
Zurich accounts
(17 Jan 2011)
Fair value
accounting
: The thorns in the path to IFRS
(17 Jan 2011)
Electricity boards may face losses after shift to IFRS
(17 Jan 2011)
Reforming hedge
accounting
rules
(17 Jan 2011)
Billionaire solution to the financial crisis
(16 Jan 2011)
Bank bail-out
adds £1.5 trillion to UK debt
(16 Jan 2011)
Fat Cats: Goldman Sachs
in the firing line over predicted $15.4bn wage bill
(16 Jan 2011)
Fat Cats: 'Winners' will get lion's share of Wall Street's $32bn in bonuses
(16 Jan 2011)
FASB Appoints 2 to Board
(16 Jan 2011)
Briloff Speaks - The Big Company's Way of Tax Avoidance: The Dutch Sandwich
(15 Jan 2011)
AT&T sees hefty charge on pension
accounting
change
(15 Jan 2011)
Nortel says Q4 will include a US$2-billion charge due to new
accounting
method
(15 Jan 2011)
NutraCea ex-execs accused of
fraud
(15 Jan 2011)
'30 Rock'
Accountant
Charged with Embezzlement
(15 Jan 2011)
SEC
Drops Suit Against Alleged Madoff Feeder Chais
(15 Jan 2011)
Fat Cats: JP Morgan's UK bankers handed
£
2bn
(15 Jan 2011)
The top ten UK tax shirkers – vote now
(14 Jan 2011)
Goldman
Reveals Details of $5 Billion of Crisis
Losses
(14 Jan 2011)
Fair value
accounting
: The thorns in the path to IFRS
(14 Jan 2010)
KPMG's accountancy degree adds up for school leavers and employers
(14 Jan 2011)
Accountants
offer to pay students £20000 to help balance books
(14 Jan 2011)
KPMG
launches six-year training scheme to turn school leavers into accountants
(14 Jan 2011)
Agreement reached on
accounting
for losses on bank loans
(14 Jan 2011)
IASB and FASB agree on new approach to credit loss accounting
(14 Jan 2011)
Don't scrap printed company reports
-
they're vital to small investors
(14 Jan 2011)
Court clears ex-Delphi chairman of
fraud
charges
(14 Jan 2011)
BP
'set for share swap with Russia's Rosneft'
(14 Jan 2011)
Insolvency: Bookshop
is first casualty of the year
(14 Jan 2011)
Bankers' bumper bonuses are the 'mistake' of flawed
accounting
rules
(13 Jan 2011)
US
Banks
Reporting Phantom Income on $1.4 Trillion Delinquent Mortgages
(13 Jan 2011)
JPMorgan's Reserve `Bleeds' Distort Record $16.7 Billion Earnings Estimate
(13 Jan 2011)
Bank of America Posts $595 Million Bond in Lehman Bankruptcy
(13 Jan 2011)
Citibank fraud: India Police rope in chartered
accountants
(13 Jan 2011)
AIG advisers escape investors' lawsuit
(13 Jan 2011)
Delaware Court Acquits PricewaterhouseCoopers, Other AIG Advisers from Accounting Fraud Charges
(13 Jan 2011)
Goldman's
accounting
still hazy, investors say
(13 Jan 2011)
Bank Auditors
say it's time for action
(13 Jan 2011)
Tsingtao's
Accounting
Move
(13 Jan 2011)
The New Haven Declaration on financial transparency and country-by-country reporting
(12 Jan 2011)
Accountancy Firms braced for
tax
protests
(12 Jan 2011)
Under Fire,
Goldman
Sachs Reveals New Information On Lucrative Trading Activities
(12 Jan 2011)
Accountancy
: Pay - a 'golden age' for the profession
(12 Jan 2011)
Big Four accounting firm split
backed by top UK investor
(12 Jan 2011)
Accountants
, Lawyer Accused in Ponzi Scam
(12 Jan 2011)
'British Madoff' admits running £14m
Ponzi
scheme
(12 Jan 2011)
Treasury Issues Proposed Regulations Requiring U.S. Banks to File Annual Information Statements With Respect to Payments of Interest Income to Non-resident Alien Individuals
(11 Jan 2011)
Lehman Brothers: US to inspect Ernst & Young's audit
(11 Jan 2011)
Accounting Regulators End Turf Battle
(11 Jan 2011)
UK and US regulators agree arrangements for sharing information and cooperation on audit inspections
(11 Jan 2011)
Goldman Sachs expected to announce
accounting
changes
(11 Jan 2011)
AIG advisers escape investors'
lawsuit
(11 Jan 2011)
Rotating
auditors
every five years set to become a norm for India Inc
(11 Jan 2011)
Fat Cats: Ministers cave in over
£
7bn bonuses
for
bankers
(11 Jan 2011)
SEC Charges Hedge Fund and Wall Street Professionals in Galleon-Related Isider Trading Enforcement Action
(11 Jan 2011)
US 'banking fraud' puts Nigeria in the shade
(11 Jan 2011)
Top six
firms
welcome US and UK audit co-operation
(11 Jan 2011)
Lehman's Repo-105 Auditors in UK Lose Shield From US Accounting Probe
(10 Jan 2011)
Time to hold auditors to account over the crisis
(10 Jan 2011)
US to be allowed to probe Lehman UK auditors
(10 Jan 2011)
UK will allow US investigators to probe British auditors of Lehman Brothers
(10 Jan 2011)
FSA paid PwC £7.6m for secret
RBS
report
(10 Jan 2011)
Santander prudence highlights IAS risks
(10 Jan 2011)
Deflecting Attention Away From Their Own Failures: PwC
chief defends auditor/regulator cooperation
(10 Jan 2011)
The PCAOB Is Finally Invited to Europe's Financial Statement Party
(10 Jan 2011)
Fat Cats: Barclays ponders giving £8m bonus to new boss Bob Diamond
(10 Jan 2011)
Carlsberg chief calls for hedge fund crackdown
(10 Jan 2011)
Key questions on
Equitable
Life for the UK Treasury
(10 Jan 2011)
About
1.8m leaseholders suffer
£
720m service charge rip off
(10 Jan 2011)
Indie bands are just full of accountants using a gap year to make music
(10 Jan 2011)
TUI directors stripped of bonuses over
accounting
errors
(8 Jan 2011)
Troubled
Tui
Travel loses two more directors
(8 Jan 2011)
Insolvency
industry takes bashing from SNP
(8 Jan 2011)
SEC Picks Former General Counsel Doty to Lead Auditors' Oversight Board
(8 Jan 2011)
AIG
to pay $450 mln to settle premium under-reporting lawsuit
(8 Jan 2011)
Banks get bashed by the
accountants
(8 Jan 2011)
20 Companies With Conservative
Accounting
Practices Hitting New Highs
(8 Jan 2011)
Diamond coaches: Wales' biggest holiday bus operator goes into administration
(8 Jan 2011)
Big4.com Releases Its 2010 Big Four
Firms
Performance Analysis
(8 Jan 2011)
How more transparency in accounting could help deal with tax avoidance
(7 Jan 2011)
Call for probe into
insolvency
payout delays
(7 Jan 2011)
Insolvency
industry 'cashing in'
(7 Jan 2011)
Bankruptcy experts accused of cashing in
(7 Jan 2011)
More Useless promises as FRC is deaf and blind to audit failures: FRC proposes enhancements to Company Reporting and Audit to deliver greater value to investors
(7 Jan 2011)
Judge delays
Stanford
fraud trial
(7 Jan 2011)
Stanford's
Fraud Trial Delayed While He Gets Treatment for Drug Addiction
(7 Jan 2011)
TUI
Travel did not 'sack' KPMG
(7 Jan 2011)
Office manager's dismissal 'tainted by race', tribunal told
(7 Jan 2011)
National Grid
fined £8m by Ofgem for false claims over maintenance work
(7 Jan 2011)
Green Mountain Coffee Still Too Dangerous
(7 Jan 2011)
PwC Prevails In Decision On AIG “In Pari Delicto” Case
(6 Jan 2011)
Teachers’ retirement System Of Louisiana And City Of New Orleans Employees’ Retirement System
,derivatively on behalf of nominal defendant American International Group, Inc. v PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS LLP
(6 Jan 2011)
Jury deliberations start in SEC-Delphi civil case
(6 Jan 2011)
India cautions against window dressing by
accounting firms
(6 Jan 2011)
Mothercare has issued a profit warning after the winter weather hit its business
(6 Jan 2011)
BP cost
-cutting blamed for 'avoidable' Deepwater Horizon oil spill
(6 Jan 2011)
Bad management' led to BP oil spill
(6 Jan 2011)
US oil spill panel finds BP guilty of mistakes
(6 Jan 2011)
Former AIG employee sues PwC, board over audits
(5 Jan 2011)
Ex AIG staff slams board, PwC for lax audit
(5 Jan 2011)
Lord Lawson baffled by
bank auditors
(5 Jan 2011)
The Subprime Crisis: Where Were the
Auditors
?
(5 Jan 2011)
Struggling
HMV
to close 60 stores
(5 Jan 2011)
Tesco and Sainsbury's attack lease accounting proposals
(5 Jan 2011)
US businesses push back on
lease accounting
change
(5 Jan 2011)
AICPA:
Lease
Proposal Fails to Address Application Issues
(5 Jan 2011)
Ireland Credit union probe over unregistered
auditors
(5 Jan 2011)
India Police File Case Against Citigroup's Pandit, Other Executives
(5 Jan 2011)
CEOs rewarded for wrong kind of growth
(5 Jan 2011)
Koss embezzler feared discovery from start
(5 Jan 2011)
Ivan Yates faces ruin as receiver appointed to
Celtic Bookmakers
(5 Jan 2011)
Ireland Surge in
accounting
cheats sparks probe into firms nationwide
(4 Jan 2011)
Oversight for
US accounting
standards board needed
(4 Jan 2011)
Bank
Of America To Buy Back Bad Loans
(4 Jan 2011)
Australia police will target bent lawyers, accountants and underworld money launderers as part of the biggest intelligence reforms
(4 Jan 2011)
OECD transfer pricing principle not rigorous enough
(4 Jan 2011)
THE HUMAN RIGHTS AUDITING STANDARDS
AND
PROCEDURES PROJECT
(4 Jan 2011)
The XBRL Mandate: Opportunities, And Threats, For Non-Big 4 Auditors
(3 Jan 2011)
New
accounting
norms may pose headaches for power firms
(3 Jan 2011)
India Examines Possible
Tax Evasion
in Kraft Takeover of Cadbury
(3 Jan 2011)
Audit
firms urge SEC: No to internal controls
audit
exemption for small companies
(3 Jan 2011)
JJB
Sports to tap investors for another cash injection
(3 Jan 2011)
IAS 36 IMPAIRMENT OF ASSETS
(2 Jan 2011)
Fat Cats: Directors at error-hit Tui awarded £4.9m in bonuses
(2 Jan 2011)
Ex-
HBOS
chiefs in watchdog probe: Directors accused of ignoring complaints
(2 Jan 2011)
Bernard
Madoff
investors to launch new wave of lawsuits against US regulator
(2 Jan 2011)
Disaster waiting to hapoen: Goodwill Hunting - The rise in Goodwill impairments on Banks Balance Sheet
(2 Jan 2011)
When the devil went down to Wall Street
(2 Jan 2011)
The Goodwill con: Transparency on
banks
'
balance sheets
?
(2 Jan 2011)
Banks
Now Permitted to Count
Goodwill
as Capital
(2 Jan 2011)
Dodging Repatriation Tax Lets U.S. Companies Bring Home Cash - Deloitte and KPMG involved
(1 Jan 2011)
Accountants and lawyers top UK Treasury supplier list
(1 Jan 2011)
Accounting Malpractice Lawsuit Launched against Giant Ernst & Young
(1 Jan 2011)
UK Taxpayers lose on RBS and Lloyds
(1 Jan 2011)
Pensioner insolvency rises fastest as baby boomers struggle to pay off debts
(1 Jan 2011)
Number of women filing for insolvency keeps rising
(1 Jan 2011)
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