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DECEMBER 2012

HP fights back on Autonomy 'fraud' (31 Dec 2012)
Auditors want no repsonsibility and liability protection: Big Four fight back over negligence claims (31 Dec 2012)
Judge OKs settlement in Thornburg Mortgage collapse (31 Dec 2012)
Verbal Clarity Could Ease IFRS Reporting (31 Dec 2012)
Oil trader Vitol in talks over tax-avoidance bill (31 Dec 2012)
209 rogue claims management firms shut down (31 Dec 2012)
Banks face £30m bill for 'immoral' mortgage fees (31 Dec 2012)
Autonomy former chief: Hewlett-Packard is watering down accusations (29 Dec 2012)
Autonomy's Lynch rejects fraud claims as US probe is launched (29 Dec 2012)
$117 million Settlement between Ernst & Young, Sino Forest shareholders heading to court (29 Dec 2012)
Ireland Government concerned about tax avoidance by banks (29 Dec 2012)
UK Domestic firms also minimising their tax costs (29 Dec 2012)
Facebook Pays Less Than 1 Percent In Foreign Taxes On $1.4 Billion Profit (29 Dec 2012)
Facebook Mirrors Google's Offshore Tax Scheme (29 Dec 2012)
Banks at risk of 'perpetual' cycle of bankruptcy (29 Dec 2012)
Lonmin boss quits mining group (29 Dec 2012)
Lawsuit Filed over Accounting for Hollywood Films (29 Dec 2012)
Profits up, but Britain gets less tax from big firms (28 Dec 2012)
UK firms 'paying less tax than 12 years ago' (28 Dec 2012)
PCAOB Finds Problems with Audits by Deloitte, Ernst & Young and Grant Thornton (28 Dec 2012)
US government's audit-oversight panel found 22 deficient audits conducted by Deloitte & Touche LLP and 20 by Ernst & Young LLP in its annual inspections of the two Big Four accounting firms (28 Dec 2012)
Banks have billions more in toxic debt (28 Dec 2012)
Lawyers and accountants need not have degrees, says minister (28 Dec 2012)
Hewlett-Packard reports US Justice Department fraud probe at Autonomy (28 Dec 2012)
HP reveals DoJ has opened probe into Autonomy fraud claims (28 Dec 2012)
Sino-Forest Corporation Notice of Proposed Settlement With Ernst & Young (28 Dec 2012)
Auditor Liability: Accountants Skirt Shareholder Lawsuits (28 Dec 2012)
ENRC oligarchs sued for $27m by former corporate financial adviser (28 Dec 2012)
ENRC admits to acquisitions probe (28 Dec 2012)
Marvell faces huge patent fine over hard disk chips (28 Dec 2012)
Loss In Patent Case Turns Marvell Technology Into Dead Money (28 Dec 2012)
FINRA fines Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Merrilll Lynch and Morgan Stanley $4.48 million for unfairly obtaining the reimbursement of fees they paid to the California Public Securities Association (Cal PSA) from the proceeds of municipal and state bond offerings (27 Dec 2012)
Unelected by members Japheth Katto Appointed On ACCA Council (27 Dec 2012)
Defenders have their say: Accounting rules are as blameless as tape measures (27 Dec 2012)
Number of Cityof London jobs average for 2012 estimated to be 255,000 compared with peak of 354,000 in 2007 (27 Dec 2012)
Herbalife CEO accused of running 'Ponzi scheme' (23 Dec 2012)
Accounting board trustee Stone resigns following US SEC charges (23 Dec 2012)
Peter Madoff sentenced to 10 years in prison for role in fraud (23 Dec 2012)
Finance workers 'earn 20pc more' than industry counterparts (23 Dec 2012)
India Auditors to face penalty if found involved in fraud (23 Dec 2012)
Fat Cats: Corp's head of demerged newspaper arm may take home £2.5m (23 Dec 2012)
News Corporation says publishing arm lost $2.1bn (23 Dec 2012)
Insolvency: MF Global UK creditors could recover all their money after US deal (23 Dec 2012)
The First-tier Tax Tribunal has decided that a scheme to avoid tax by temporarily devaluing consideration loan notes did not work (23 Dec 2012)
A Deloitte designed scheme to avoid capital gains tax thrown out: Blumenthal v Revenue & Customs [2012] UKFTT 499 (23 Dec 2012)
Auditor Rotation: Accountancy group under fire for research on audits (21 Dec 2012)
US Makes Arrest in Olympus Scandal (21 Dec 2012)
Banker Arrested in California Over Olympus Corp. Fraud (21 Dec 2012)
FASB Proposes Improvements to Accounting for Credit Losses on Financial Assets (21 Dec 2012)
FASB floats stronger bank credit risk accounting standard (21 Dec 2012)
FASB Wants Firms to Forecast Loan Losses (21 Dec 2012)
Shareholders preparing £4bn lawsuit against RBS (21 Dec 2012)
Former Anglo Irish Bank chairman in Dublin court over new fraud charges (21 Dec 2012)
Counting up the profits, losses in bailouts (21 Dec 2012)
Chancellor's bank ringfencing proposals 'not tough enough' (21 Dec 2012)
Commission's proposals show a welcome foresight on banking (21 Dec 2012)
Banking reform: Andrew Tyrie vs George Osborne (21 Dec 2012)
Rogue bank chiefs may end up in court under proposals to shield taxpayers (21 Dec 2012)
Get tough on banks or else, George Osborne's own advisers insist (21 Dec 2012)
UK Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards: First Report of Session 2012–13 (21 Dec 2012)
Director denies forging names of accountants (21 Dec 2012)
Private equity reporting must improve – BVCA (21 Dec 2012)
Bank accounting faces new probe (20 Dec 2012)
Candy & Candy accountant jailed over One Hyde Park fraud (20 Dec 2012)
Malaysia Auditors, audit firms told to buck up (20 Dec 2012)
UK Revenue & Customs offers deal on tax avoidance sheltering £3.5bn (20 Dec 2012)
Last year the big four British banks enjoyed £34 billion in subsidies because markets believe they are too big to fail (20 Dec 2012)
Sportingbet investors rebel over controversial pay-offs (20 Dec 2012)
US indicts Swiss bankers in offshore tax case (20 Dec 2012)
Facebook Ireland pays only €3.23m in tax as revenues surge past €1 billion (20 Dec 2012)
Insolvency: Bankrupt Kodak sells off patents to investors for $525m (20 Dec 2012)
Libor-rigging: two ex-UBS staff face criminal charges (20 Dec 2012)
How Libor rate rigging has put hospitals in crisis (20 Dec 2012)
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in '$3bn Libor loss' (20 Dec 2012)
Libor scandal threatens to create a banking crisis to rival 2008 (20 Dec 2012)
UBS fined over Libor-rigging: Banks should be banned not fined (20 Dec 2012)
Libor: interbank lending rate explained (20 Dec 2012)
What the UBS Libor emails said (20 Dec 2012)
UBS faces new rate-rigging probe in Hong Kong (20 Dec 2012)
Europe needs its own inquiry into accounting rules (19 Dec 2012)
Twenty years on, investors are still very unhappy with the auditors, whom they feel can get too close to management and lose their independence (19 Dec 2012)
Audit firms need to do more to improve the consistency of performance on individual audit engagements, says IFIAR releases first global survey of audit inspection findings (19 Dec 2012)
TheStreet.com, 3 executives settle SEC accounting fraud charges (19 Dec 2012)
Accounting body IASB signals pause after flurry of rules (19 Dec 2012)
The pernicious influence of US audit rules (19 Dec 2012)
India Companies Bill prescribes stringent rule for auditors (19 Dec 2012)
India Companies Bill: CSR spending sounds good, but has problems (19 Dec 2012)
Ex-KMPG partner faces seven years without cheap thrills (19 Dec 2012)
Insolvency: How did Comet fall to earth? (19 Dec 2012)
Auditors query NHS savings (19 Dec 2012)
UBS fined $1.5bn for Libor rigging (19 Dec 2012)
UBS Libor-rigging: how brokers and traders colluded (19 Dec 2012)
'I will ****ing do one humongous deal with you': UBS hit with £940m fine after regulators reveal traders made 2,000 requests to fix Libor (19 Dec 2012)
'Be a hero today': FSA reveals details of UBS Libor rigging (19 Dec 2012)
UBS: How big will the Libor bill be? (19 Dec 2012)
LIBOR: FINMA concludes proceedings against UBS and orders disgorgement of profits (19 Dec 2012)
UBS fined £160 million by UK regulators for significant failings in relation to LIBOR and EURIBOR (19 Dec 2012)
Accounting For HP's Bad Valuations (18 Dec 2012)
IBRC sues former auditors Ernst & Young over FitzPatrick 'B&B' loans (18 Dec 2012)
IBRC suing Ernst and Young over handling of Fitzpatrick transactions (18 Dec 2012)
IBRC look for Ernst & Young legal action to be fast tracked (18 Dec 2012)
SEC Charges Financial Media Company TheStreet Inc. and Executives Involved in Accounting Fraud (18 Dec 2012)
Bad governance to blame for creative accounting at Olympus (18 Dec 2012)
SEC Revokes Registration of Toronto-Based Broker and Bans Two Executives from U.S. Securities Industry for Allowing Layering (18 Dec 2012)
Telecoms face costly accounting change over handset revenue (18 Dec 2012)
Olympus: Let's Stop Japan's Revolving Door (18 Dec 2012)
Massachusetts Fines Morgan Stanley Over Facebook IPO (18 Dec 2012)
ICAEW applies to become probate and MDP regulator (18 Dec 2012)
Quinn Insurance undertaking 'forensic' inquiry for PwC case (17 Dec 2012)
RBS 'set to agree £350m payment for Libor scandal' (17 Dec 2012)
Insolvency: Comet secured creditors to receive £49.7m (17 Dec 2012)
Insolvency: Comet collapse leaves £50m bill for government to pick up (17 Dec 2012)
Barclay twins' Ritz hotel pays no corporation tax for 17 years (17 Dec 2012)
Barclay brothers' £1bn VAT windfall bid puts tactics in spotlight (17 Dec 2012)
KPMG partners hit as UK profits fall 13pc (17 Dec 2012)
Fat Cats: £3m farewell to KPMG chief in financial regulator's chair (17 Dec 2012)
They don't want reforms and public accountability, but blame others for their failure: Top KPMG Auditor Defends the Industry (17 Dec 2012)
Weavering Capital founder charged with fraud (16 Dec 2012)
Fortune 500 Corporations Holding $1.6 Trillion in Profits Offshore (16 Dec 2012)
Britain's biggest TV and net firms Virgin Media, Sky and Talk Talk used Luxembourg loophole to avoid £80 million in tax (16 Dec 2012)
U.K. Accountants Call for an End to Convergence (16 Dec 2012)
Insolvency: Comet collapse leaves taxpayer with £26m loss (16 Dec 2012)
European Banks Face Libor Liabilities (15 Dec 2012)
UBS to admit Japan criminal wrongdoing in Libor case (15 Dec 2012)
Prince Charles's £700m estate accused of tax avoidance (15 Dec 2012)
Insolvency: Comet set to disappear from high street (15 Dec 2012)
Actions Against China Auditors: SEC Walks a Tightrope (14 Dec 2012)
Banned former HBOS banker attacks City regulators (14 Dec 2012)
Who and what bust Halifax Bank of Scotland? (14 Dec 2012)
Fat Cats: Bet365 founder pays herself £20m dividend (14 Dec 2012)
Judges Application of `Scienter' test in Accounting Fraud Cases (14 Dec 2012)
Big Four given three months to prepare for PAC (14 Dec 2012)
Goldman lawyer says bank not liable for Dragon founders' losses (14 Dec 2012)
KPMG Plays Down China Concerns (14 Dec 2012)
Lehman Troubles Not Over For Ernst & Young (13 Dec 2012)
KPMG International revenues rise, but how much os from tax avoidance (13 Dec 2012)
Autonomy scandal to set new accounting standards (13 Dec 2012)
IASB publishes Exposure Draft: Sale or Contribution of Assets between an Investor and its Associate or Joint Venture (Proposed amendments to IFRS 10 and IAS 28) (13 Dec 2012)
UBS latest bank to be hit with multimillion Libor fine (13 Dec 2012)
UBS Faces $1 Billion Fine Over Libor (13 Dec 2012)
IASB publishes Exposure Draft: Acquisition of an Interest in a Joint Operation (Proposed amendment to IFRS 11) (13 Dec 2012)
Financial Instruments: IASB proposes limited changes to IFRS 9 classification and measurement requirements (13 Dec 2012)
SEC Sues 'Gatekeeper' for Chinese Firms (13 Dec 2012)
Mahindra Satyam settles Aberdeen Global claims in accounting fraud (13 Dec 2012)
Pearson CFO casts doubt on IFRS (13 Dec 2012)
U.K. Accountants Call for an End to Convergence (13 Dec 2012)
NY loses ruling on fees paid to Ernst & Young by Lehman (12 Dec 2012)
Ex-PwC consultant gets two years for insider trading (12 Dec 2012)
Eyebrows Go Up as Auditors Branch Out (12 Dec 2012)
SEC Sues 'Gatekeeper' for Chinese Firms (12 Dec 2012)
US Exceptionalism and Accounting Standards: Investors' Viewpoint (12 Dec 2012)
Deutsche Bank offices raided in carbon tax fraud probe (12 Dec 2012)
Deutsche Bank offices raided amid tax evasion inquiry (12 Dec 2012)
Google boss: I'm very proud of our tax avoidance scheme (12 Dec 2012)
Google boss says $2bn tax avoidance "is called capitalism" (12 Dec 2012)
Britain could end these tax scams by hitting the big four (11 Dec 2012)
US watchdog says auditors not doing their jobs much of the time (11 Dec 2012)
Former Farepak director Rollason accused over accounting (11 Dec 2012)
HSBC Holdings Plc. and HSBC Bank USA N.A. Admit to Anti-Money Laundering and Sanctions Violations, Forfeit $1.256 Billion in Deferred Prosecution Agreement (11 Dec 2012)
Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer Speaks at the HSBC Press Conference (11 Dec 2012)
HSBC pays record $1.9bn fine to settle US money-laundering accusations (11 Dec 2012)
HMV sells remaining live music assets in £7.3m deal (11 Dec 2012)
Can Lynch Force HP To Wash Its Fraud Claims in Public? (11 Dec 2012)
I believe in innovation except in accounting , say Autonomy's Mike Lynch (11 Dec 2012)
Carpetright slips deeper into red but says UK is "encouraging" (11 Dec 2012)
US Audit Regulator Criticizes Big Accounting Firms (10 Dec 2012)

Tax row turns to Microsoft over £1.7bn of online revenues (10 Dec 2012)
Microsoft avoids paying £159MILLION in corporation tax EVERY YEAR using Luxembourg tax loophole (10 Dec 2012)
'Big Four' auditors snagged by controversy (10 Dec 2012)
US watchdog PCAOB says auditors not doing their jobs much of the time (10 Dec 2012)
Ex-CFOs dominate audit committee chair role (10 Dec 2012)
A Clash of Auditors in H.P. Deal (10 Dec 2012)
Crocodile Tears and Jumping on Bandwagons: ICAEW chief backs EC's anti-tax avoidance discussions (10 Dec 2012)
India: '427 companies, 104 audit firms guilty of violating accounting norms' (10 Dec 2012)
Google Revenues Sheltered in No-Tax Bermuda Soar to $10 Billion (10 Dec 202)
MPs will escape George Osborne's pensions tax raid (10 Dec 2012)
Standard Chartered will pay more than $300m (£187m) to settle charges it violated US sanctions on Iran, Burma, Libya and Sudan (10 Dec 2012)
US Federal Reserve Board levies $100 million fine against Standard Chartered Bank (10 Dec 2012)
How Amazon Used Foreign Tax Havens To Avoid $700 Million In Tax (10 Dec 2012)
Revolving Doors: Wells Fargo Elect Ex-PricewaterhouseCoopers Partner To Board (10 Dec 2012)
The predatory practices of major accountancy firms: Despite the evidence of fraudulent schemes, no firm has ever been disciplined by any professional accountancy body (9 Dec 2012)
Police raid City office after warning on carbon tax credits (9 Dec 2012)
Dell founder 'turned down Autonomy' (9 Dec 2012)
JPMorgan Said to Ask Staff to Help Fund UK Tax Settlement (9 Dec 2012)
The tax choices faced by companies (9 Dec 2012)
Diamond Foods Swings to Fourth-Quarter Loss on Charges (8 Dec 2012)
JPMorgan 'close to £500m UK tax settlement' (8 Dec 2012)
Should auditors of Bina Goodyear warn people against audit report? (8 Dec 2012)
CFO | Hedge standard unlikely to be adopted (8 Dec 2012)
How Amazon Used Foreign Tax Havens To Avoid $700 Million In American Taxes (8 Dec 2012)
US-China Audit Clash Could Have Broad Reach (8 Dec 2012)
Sorting Out a Chinese Puzzle in Auditing (8 Dec 2012)
US firms fear audit war with China will rock stock market (8 Dec 2012)
RSM Tenon ditches PwC as auditor (8 Dec 2012)
'Immoral' financial advisers running rings around tax officials, MPs say (7 Dec 2012)
Starbucks' £10m tax offer angers critics (7 Dec 2012)
'Starbucks should pay proper tax' (7 Dec 2012)
Starbucks to change accounting practices, pay more tax in UK (7 Dec 2012)
FRC to use firms' revenues to calculate disciplinary fines (7 Dec 2012)
Gordon Ramsay facing tax fraud probe by HMRC investigators (7 Dec 2012)
Tate & Lyle hedges pension liabilities in £347m deal (7 Dec 2012)
Cupar-based Fishers Group has reported bigger losses in its latest accounts from £1.8m in 2010 to £3.5m last year (7 Dec 2012)
Footnotes: Oy, Derivative Accounting; Should Auditors Ditch Independence (7 Dec 2012)
UK Shares-for-rights scheme opens £250m tax loophole (7 Dec 2012)
Pirates of the Caribbean franchise partly funded by rich British investors trying to avoid paying tax (7 Dec 2012)
How Tax Arbitrage Ended GE’s Foray Into Silicon Valley (7 Dec 2012)
Interview: PwC chairman and senior partner Ian Powell (7 Dec 2012)
Ex-Hypo Alpe Managers Charged With False Accounting, Misuse (6 Dec 2012)
The Big Four auditors (7 Dec 2012)
HSBC set to pay more than $1.5bn to settle money laundering probe (6 Dec 2012)
Ex-Deutsche Bank staff say bank hid $12bn losses (6 Dec 2012)
Standard Chartered to pay $670m to settle Iran sanctions allegation (6 Dec 2012)
Rolls-Royce bribery claims abroad have implications at home (6 Dec 2012)
Rolls-Royce could face prosecution in corruption investigation (6 Dec 2012)
Grant Thornton fined £10,000 by ICAEW (6 Dec 2012)
Starbucks pledges to pay £20 million tax over next two years (6 Dec 2012)
Starbucks has reported a taxable profit only once in its 15 years of operating in the UK, often reporting losses (6 Dec 2012)
Starbucks US Annual Report for the Year Ended September 30, 2012 (6 Dec 2012)
Revolving Doors: Deloitte hires former SEC chief accountant (6 Dec 2012)
Accountancy firms that help multinational businesses to avoid tax should be banned from working for the government (5 Dec 2012)
Disney loses $319 million appeal in 'Millionaire' game show lawsuit (5 Dec 2012)
Transfer Pricing: Denmark uncovered backdoor deals amounting to more than 15 billion kroner in income (5 Dec 2012)
US, China in Cold War Over Accounting Rules (5 Dec 2102)
Auditors Must Figure Out China Soon (5 Dec 2012)
Ontario regulator spanks Ernst and Young over Sino-Forest audit (5 Dec 2012)
FASB, IASB union fragile amid SEC indecision on IFRS (5 Dec 2012)
ASIC puts auditing industry 'on notice' (5 Dec 2012)
Chinese auditing laws rock, meet SEC hard place (5 Dec 2012)
Pensions Regulator to scrutinise Pickfords pension deal (5 Dec 2012)
Pickfords offloads DB scheme via management buyout (5 Dec 2012)
Extra costs in new-look PFI spark row (5 Dec 2012)
The Phantom Accounts (4 Dec 2012)
OSC accuses Ernst & Young as firm settles Sino-Forest class action suit (4 Dec 2012)
Ernst & Young to Pay $117 Million to Settle Sino-Forest Claim (4 Dec 2012)
Ernst & Young accused of failing to meet standards (4 Dec 2012)
ASIC threatens auditors with mandatory rotation (4 Dec 2012)
Australia: Standards 'slipping' for audit firms (4 Dec 2012)
Big Four, China and the SEC: a game of chicken (4 Dec 2012)
Auditors Must Figure Out China Soon (4 Dec 2012)
Dealpolitik: Chinese Auditor Clash Heightens (4 Dec 2012)
Insolvent Abuse: KPMG administrators rack up £51.6m fees at MF Global (4 Dec 2012)
House Democrats: MF Global 'Blatantly Misled' Regulator (4 Dec 2012)
PwC review sees hike in Phoenix IT accounting irregularities (4 Dec 2012)
Auditor Independence: Ex-Schroders auditor becomes its CFO (4 Dec 2012)
Revolving Doors: Former FSA chief in talks to join Deloitte (4 Dec 2012)
Former HBOS chairman 'lived in cloud cuckoo land' before bank's near collapse (4 Dec 2012)
Tui Travel paid no corporation tax in UK (4 Dec 2012)
A Tax Evasion Bonanza Hidden in a Swiss Bank (4 Dec 2012)
Leumi expects heavy fine in US tax evasion affair (4 Dec 2012)
Tchenguiz brothers seek millions from Serious Fraud Office (SFO) (4 Dec 2012)
Massive German Tax Evasion Probe, Billions Stashed In Swiss Banks (4 Dec 2012)
Pickfords removal firm out of administration (4 Dec 2012)
SEC Charges China Affiliates of Big Four Accounting Firms with Violating U.S. Securities Laws in Refusing to Produce Documents (3 Dec 2012)
Deloitte: playing the transfer pricing game (3 Dec 2012)
Sharpen up, ASIC warns auditors (3 Dec 2012)
EU takes tax advice from Enron's auditor (3 Dec 2012)
UK MPs attack Amazon, Google and Starbucks over tax avoidance (3 Dec 2012)
Tax paid by some global firms in UK 'an insult' (3 Dec 2012)
Firms must pay their fair share of tax – this is war (3 Dec 2012)
Starbucks first to cave in over tax row (3 Dec 2012)
32 billion reasons to nail the tax-dodgers (3 Dec 2012)
Is UK government too scared of Google, Amazon and Starbucks? (3 Dec 2012)
MPs slate HMRC and big business for 'outrageous' tax avoidance (3 Dec 2012)
UK House of Commons Public Accounts Committee Press Release: Committee publishes findings on HMRC's Accounts 2011-12 (3 Dec 2012)
UK House of Commons Public Accounts Committee Report: HM Revenue & Customs: Annual Report and Accounts 2011–12 (3 Dec 2012)
Fat Cats: Chief executives enjoyed a 12 per cent rise in their pay packets this year, while ordinary workers saw their wages increase by 2.8 per cent (3 Dec 2012)
Ministers urged to curb soaring executive pay (3 Dec 2012)
'The State of Pay: One year on from The High Pay Commission' (3 Dec 2012)
HSBC to start selling £25bn of toxic US debt (3 Dec 2012)
UBS could pay $450m to settle Libor claims (3 Dec 2012)
Sarbanes-Oxley Has Failed to Address the Problem of Audit Firm Independence (2 Dec 2012)
Consulting By Auditors: NYU Stern Ross Roundtable Explores Post-Enron Reemergence (2 Dec 2012)
Anglo auditor Ernst & Young went on to win state contracts (2 Dec 2012)
ASIC boss Greg Medcraft to put rotation of audit firms on the agenda (2 Dec 2012)
Dolce and Gabbana tax fraud (2 Dec 2012)
Internet giants Google and Amazon face tax attack (2 Dec 2012)
Accountancy firms implicated in mis-sale of avoidance schemes (2 Dec 2012)
Investigate eBay over tax payments, says Margaret Hodge (2 Dec 2012)
Auditor's long tenure may hit integrity, says study (2 Dec 2012)
tarbucks opens negotiations with HMRC to start paying more UK tax (2 Dec 2012)
PCAOB inspectors come across some troubling marketing practices that conflict with audit quality (1 Dec 2012)
Audit firms turn their talents to other endeavors that may further damage public views on the relevance and value of audit (1 Dec 2012)
PCAOB Official: Auditors May Need to Reassess Economic Risks (1 Dec 2012)
A Clash of Auditors in HP Deal and Loss (1 Dec 2012)
Indian Railways to set up institute for accounting training (1 Dec 2012)
Google failed to declare £195m, say Italian police as they launch tax investigation (1 Dec 2012)
Banking Crash: How the blame game has shifted to the auditors (1 Dec 2012)
Investor worry following collapse of wine firm Vinance (1 Dec 2012)
Care home companies could be forced to open books to prevent another scandal (1 Dec 2012)

NOVEMBER 2012

Accountant Ernst & Young to be sued over Anglo Irish Bank collapse (30 Nov 2012)
Watershed moment in Irish banking crisis as accountancy giant is sued (30 Nov 2012)
Deloitte and KPMG drawn into Autonomy accounting row (30 Nov 2012)
City of London Corporation: 'last rotten borough' faces calls for reform (30 Nov 2012)
Accountant faked an audit for Provident Capital Indemnity as part of a multi-million-dollar life insurance scam (30 Nov 2012)
Accountant invented to facilitate alleged fraud, defrauding AIB out of £740 million in property loans, prosecutor claims (30 Nov 2012)
AIB executives were 'greedy rats', Kallakis tells London fraud trial (30 Nov 2012)
Ernst and Young will 'vigorously defend' legal action taken by IBRC (30 Nov 2012)
Accounting black hole hits Phoenix (30 Nov 2012)
Auditor Independence: India's leading private firms retain the same auditor for over 10 years (30 Nov 2012)
Auditor Independence: 1-in-4 India listed firm has the same auditor for 10 years (30 Nov 2012)
Drafting Intercompany Agreements with an Eye on Transfer Pricing (30 Nov 2012)
Dodd-Frank, Basel III impact on transfer pricing puts big banks on alert (30 Nov 2012)
UK accountancy regulation 'toothless' (30 Nov 2012)
Venture capital industry run by accountants - Richards (30 Nov 2012)
Companies House: the story of a UK regulatory failure (29 Nov 2012)
Anglo Irish Bank in legal action against Ernst & Young (29 Nov 2012)
Deloitte and KPMG drawn into Autonomy accounting row (29 Nov 2012)
Hewlett-Packard accountants KPMG and Deloitte sued over Autonomy purchase (29 Nov 2012)
KPMG disputes role in Autonomy writedown (29 Nov 2012)
Deloitte Denies Knowledge of Fraud at Autonomy (29 Nov 2012)
KPMG expects claims against MF Global UK to hit $3.9 billion (29 Nov 2012)
At last the Bank is tackling the regulatory fiasco of Britain's accounting system (29 Nov 2012)
Phoenix IT Group tumbles off a cliff: £63m in losses (29 Nov 2012)
The SEC And Accounting Fraud Enforcement: No "There" There (29 Nov 2012)
IASB proposes limited changes to IFRS 9 classification and measurement of financial measurements (29 Nov 2012)
UK banks face £60bn black hole (9 Nov 2012)
RBS faces Bank of England pressure to look at new asset sales (29 Nov 2012)
Banks giving 'misleading' details about bad debts (29 Nov 2012)
Revolving Doors: Ex-Schroders auditor becomes its CFO (29 Nov 2012)
Deloitte says Nama exposed to conflict of interest (29 Nov 2012)
Revolving Doors: Wells Fargo Elects Ex-PwC Partner Richardson to Board (29 Nov 2012)
Two ex-Ernst& Young partners' convictions reversed in tax-shelter case (29 Nov 2012)
Ex-Ernst & Young Lawyers Get Tax Convictions Reversed (29 Nov 2012)
Aspen Technology's Awkward Mix Of Accounting Failure And Insider Sales: Is Aspen The Next HP? (28 Nov 2012)
Olam Refutes Muddy Waters Claims Citing S$10 Billion Liquidity (28 Nov 2012)
Auditor rotation critical for better corp governance (28 Nov 2012)
'Immoral' Amazon paid just £1.8m to Treasury despite making £3.35 BILLION in sales in the UK (28 Nov 2012)
Amazon UK sales top £7bn confidential figures show (28 Nov 2012)
Amazon claimed sales in the UK of £207m last year. How much did amazon.co.uk actually take? £2.9bn (28 Nov 2012)
Italian tax probe says Google failed to declare £240m income (28 Nov 2012)
Thomas Cook reports £590m loss (28 Nov 2012)
Olam Says Muddy Waters Allegations Are False and Misleading (28 Nov 2012)
Mervyn King to challenge bank accounting that fails to show true levels of risk (27 Nov 2012)
Muddy Waters Attacks Olam's Acquisitions, Likens It to Enron (27 Nov 2012)
HP investors sue over Autonomy writedown (27 Nov 2012)
HP Says It Has Evidence of Accounting Improprieties (27 Nov 2012)
Hewlett-Packard accountant 'sold $1.1m of shares before Autonomy problems became public (27 Nov 2012)
Eyes Wide Shut: Behind the Masks of Accounting Fraud (27 Nov 2012)
Tribunal finds against Iliffe Media over tax avoidance scheme - designed by Ernst & Young (27 Nov 2012)
Revealed: the real identities behind Britain's secret property deals (27 Nov 2012)
Cuisine de France founder loses legal challenge in €5m tax avoidance case (27 Nov 2012)
UK accountancy regulation 'toothless' (27 Nov 2012)
Accountancy regulation “toothless”, say Citi analysts (27 Nov 2012)
Muddy Waters report faults Olam accounting, warns on risks (27 Nov 2012)
Muddy Olam Call Spurred by Rule Accountants Call Ambiguous (27 Nov 2012)
Autonomy co-founder Mike Lynch pens angry letter to HP board (27 Nov 2012)
Long Before HP Deal, Autonomy's Red Flags (27 Nov 2012)
Going Concern Guidance To Be Brought into GAAP (27 Nov 2012)
Kabul Bank 'diverted £540 million to group of 12 in massive fraud' (27 Nov 2012)
Nationwide profits slump on PPI and property losses (27 Nov 2012)
IFRS Valyuation standard: “It’s a terrible accounting standard, it shouldn’t be used at all,” says a fund manager (26 Nov 2012)
FSA fines UBS £29.7 million for significant failings in not preventing large scale unauthorised trading (26 Nov 2012)
Hewlett-Packard, A Cautionary Tale About Mark-To-Market Risk (26 Nov 2012)
Advisory group says raised Autonomy auditor concerns (26 Nov 2012)
Muddy Olam Call Spurred byAccounting Rule Seen as Ambiguous (26 Nov 2012)
UK could break with Europe and US over banks' accounting rules (26 Nov 2012)
Questions mount for Deloitte over relationship with Autonomy (26 Nov 2012)
Deloitte in focus over Autonomy claims (26 Nov 2012)
Offshore secrets revealed: the shadowy side of a booming industry (26 Nov 2012)
The 'Sark Lark' Britons scattered around the world: From the Caribbean to Cyprus, former Channel islanders are taking money to disguise the ownership of thousands of companies (26 Nov 2012)
Sham directors: the woman running 1,200 companies from a Caribbean rock (26 Nov 2012)
Offshore secrets: British Virgin Islands, land of sand, sea and secrecy (26 Nov 2012)
The offshore trick: how BVI 'nominee director' system works: Three pieces of paper are vital in setting up ready-made companies (26 Nov 2012)
Tax evasion flourishing with help from UK firms (26 Nov 2012)
Offshore secrets: how many companies do 'sham directors' control? (26 Nov 2012)
BBC's Panorama shows staff admitting nominee directors are often a sham (26 Nov 2012)
2 tax evasion cases by Cadbury India detected: Govt (26 Nov 2012)
Profit warning sends SDL shares tumbling (26 Nov 2012)
Land of the corporate giants: Economies of scale run out at a certain point. The largest firms in America may be beyond it (26 Nov 2012)
Hewlett-Packard and Autonomy dig in for a long war (25 Nov 2012)
Thomas Cook to face new cutbacks (25 Nov 2012)
The Olympus scandal (25 Nov 2012)
The pernicious influence of US audit rules (25 Nov 2012)
Now Man Utd stand accused over low level of corporation tax (25 Nov 2012)
Eclipse Film Partnership 35: Backers rush to sue adviser firm over film tax plan mis-selling (25 Nov 2012)
HP's accounts bombshell: a guide for the perplexed (24 Nov 2012)
The £7bn bust-up over Autonomy could leave loser fatally wounded (24 Nov 2012)
Prospect of global insurance accounting standard dims (24 Nov 2012)
Complying with accounting standards is not always 'true and fair' (24 Nov 2012)
Michael Woodford: the man who blew whistle on £1bn Olympus fraud (24 Nov 2012)
The weird and wonderful world of accounting: Tricks of the trade that fool investors (24 Nov 2012)
Ugandan officials colluded in elaborate €12m Irish aid fraud (24 Nov 2012)
FSA should have 'smelt a rat' at HBOS, says Lord Turnbull (24 Nov 2012)
Autonomy accounts and business model was suspect, analysts say (23 Nov 2012)
Deloitte undertook too much non-audit work for Autonomy (23 Nov 2012)
Mike Lynch saw Autonomy as 'Trojan horse to take over Hewlett-Packard' (23 Nov 2012)
Senior investors have slammed the IFRS for prioritising ‘neutrality over prudence’ (23 Nov 2012)
Financial Reporting Council (FRC) issues FRS 100 Application of Financial Reporting Requirements and FRS 101 Reduced Disclosure Framework (23 Nov 2012)
Are Investors Finally Getting Groupon? (23 Nov 2012)
Accountant at Land Securities 'forced out of her job because of her foreign accent' (23 Nov 2012)
Aberdeen 'corruption case' oil firm Abbot Group to pay £5.6m (23 Nov 2012)
Cadbury India faces probe for tax evasion (23 Nov 2012)
MTN to face tax fraud charges in Uganda (23 Nov 2012)
Global giants' tax scheme sandwich leaves bitter taste (23 Nov 2012)
State Street Bank 'defrauded' national pension fund of €3.2m - claim (23 Nov 2012)
UBS trader: What next for the UBS bank after Adoboli conviction? (23 Nov 2012)
UBS faces large fine from Swiss and UK regulators after trial (23 Nov 2012)
Network Rail pleads for more cash as its debt soars (23 Nov 2012)
Network Rail debt mountain grows to more than £28bn (23 Nov 2012)
Hewlett-Packard ignored red flags ahead of Autonomy misstep (21 Nov 2012)
Deloitte: We didn't see alleged flaws at Autonomy (21 Nov 2012)
Deloitte Denies Knowledge of Fraud at Autonomy (21 Nov 2012)
$8.8b accounting charge after HP cites irregularities (21 Nov 2012)
PwC finds $5bn black hole in HP's Autonomy deal (21 Nov 2012)
More than a dozen firms advised on HP-Autonomy deal, none found errors (21 Nov 2012)
Graphic: A Long Line of Accounting Scandals (21 Nov 2012)
SEC Charges Hedge Fund Firm CR Intrinsic and Two Others in $276 Million Insider Trading Scheme Involving Alzheimer's Drug (21 Nov 2012)
Olam Sues Muddy Waters, Carson Block After Accounting Questioned (21 Nov 2012)
PwC auditor sidelined until 2015 for $2.1b Centro debt bungle (21 Nov 2012)
Corporation tax black hole raises spectre of further UK cuts (21 Nov 2012)
Tax avoidance schemes 'costs UK billions in lost revenue' (21 Nov 2012)
Independent bookshops fight back with tax campaign (21 Nov 2012)
High-street shops turn fire on Amazon's tax avoidance (21 Nov 2012)
HMRC tax avoidance rules fail to clamp down on schemes (21 Nov 2012)
HMRC criticised over £10.2bn backlog of 41000 avoidance cases (21 Nov 2012)
UK National Audit Office Report:Tax avoidance: tackling marketed avoidance schemes (21 Nov 2012)
Banking changes will not stop the gambling: Despite the banking crash, the financial sector remains addicted to gambling (20 Nov 2012)
Stanford's Accountants Guilty of Hiding $7 Billion Fraud (20 Nov 2012)
UBS trader Kweku Adoboli guilty of one count of fraud (20 Nov 2012)
Olam shares slump on Muddy Waters claims about debt (20 Nov 2012)
Commodity trader Olam battles Muddy Waters accounting claims (20 Nov 2012)
Sky magazine tax loophole saved broadcaster up to £40m a year (120 Nov 2012)
Early Dividend for Wal-Mart Is Latest Move in Tax Tactics (20 Nov 2012)
IFRS helps banks, hinders investors (20 Nov 2012)
Audit needs to adapt or risk becoming “irrelevant” say experts (20 Nov 2012)
US says KBR boosted cost of trailers for troops in Iraq (20 Nov 2012)
Gang kidnapped Berlusconi accountant and demanded £28million (20 Nov 2012)
Bank profits distorted by audit rules, warn investors (19 Nov 2012)
ASIC bans PwC auditor that signed off on Centro accounts (19 Nov 2012)
Ex-Refco Lawyer Guilty of Aiding $2.4 Billion Fraud (19 Nov 2012)
HealthSouth whistleblower to discuss 'crossing the line' (19 Nov 2012)
IAASB proposes that auditors expand review of “other information” (19 Nov 2012)
'Shadow Banking' Up to $67 Trillion, Financial Group Says (19 Nov 2012)
Heat turned up on 'Big Four' accountants (18 Nov 2012)
Deloitte Escapes Class Action over Longtop Audit (18 Nov 2012)
Fancy a tax break? Try an Irish coffee and a Dutch Sandwich (18 Nov 2012)
Insolvency: Faulty breast implant firm plunges into bankruptcy... to avoid paying compensation (18 Nov 2012)
Outrage as AA's owner Acromas pays just 2.7% in corporation tax (18 Nov 2012)
British banks shares becoming uninvestable, ABI warns (18 Nov 2012)
What Amazon didn't tell MPs on the Public Accounts Committee (18 Nov 2012)
Tragedy as medical student son of Bernie Madoff's accountant shoots himself (17 Nov 2012)
US prosecutors: Stanford accountants helped hide Ponzi scheme (17 Nov 2012)
JP Morgan Chase and Credit Suisse pay $416.9m in penalties over mortgages (17 Nov 2012)
SEC Charges J.P. Morgan and Credit Suisse With Misleading Investors in residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) Offerings (17 Nov 2012)
The Hut avoids VAT by shipping via US (17 Nov 2012)
Early Day Motion 695 in the UK House of Commons - PriceWaterhouseCoopers, KPMG, Deloitte and Ernst Young condemned for devising, marketing and implementing abusive tax avoidance schemes, several of which have been declared unlawful (16 Nov 2012)
It is time parliamentary committees looked at how the likes of PricewaterhouseCoopers, KPMG, Accenture and McKinsey devise ever more elaborate tax dodges (16 Nov 2012)
Toothless UK Watchdog challenges Ernst & Young over Farepak (16 Nov 2012)
Outcome of the investigation into the conduct of: Ernst & Young LLP, Member Firm of ICAEW and Alan Flitcroft, Member of ICAEW (16 Nov 2012)
Netcare to Post Loss After UK Property Accounting Adjustments (16 Nov 2012)
Former US SEC official named to global accounting board (16 Nov 2012)
FRC Foreword to Accounting Standards (16 Nov 2012)
Move to Fair-Value Pension Accounting Gathers Steam (16 Nov 2012)
BP is hit with a record $4.5bn penalty over Gulf spill damage (16 Nov 2012)
UK may never recover £66bn spent to rescue banks - MPs (16 Nov 2012)
Iliffe News avoidance scheme spiked by FTT (14 Nov 2012)
A tax avoidance scheme, marketed by Ernst & Young, that claimed to license newspaper mastheads to avoid tax, has been thrown out by a tax tribunal (12 Nov 2012)
Another Ernst & Young tax avoidance scheme blocked: Iliffe News and Media Ltd v HMRC (12 Nov 2012)
Stanford Accountants Actively Hid Ponzi Scheme, US Tells Jury (14 Nov 2012)
Accounting Fraud Cases Are Dead. Long Live Accounting Fraud Cases (14 Nov 2012)
Google India slapped with Rs 76 crore ($13 million )fine for false accounting (14 Nov 2012)
Boeing Considers Pension Accounting Change (14 Nov 2012)
Diamond Foods Inc. cleaning up improper accounting of payments (14 Nov 2012)
PCAOB Finds Audit Failures in PwC Inspections (13 Nov 2012)
Report on 2011 Inspection of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (13 Nov 2012)

Another Whitewash: Equitable Life Assurance Society - Investigation into the conduct of an accountant and Member of the ICAS (13 Nov 2012)
Financial regulators drag their feet as victims die waiting for justice (13 Nov 2012)
Starbucks: your tax questions answered (13 Nov 2012)
The 'immoral' tax avoiders: Amazon, Starbucks and Google lashed by MPs over elaborate schemes that deprive Britain of millions (13 Nov 2012)
Accounting Rulemakers Still Simplifying Revenue Recognition (13 Nov 2012)
Bogus Accounting Hides Real Risks (13 Nov 2012)
FASB to Participate in New IASB Accounting Standards Group (13 Nov 2012)
150 Audit Commission staff join Ernst & Young (13 Nov 2012)
Olympus Sued by Manulife, 47 Investors for $241 Million (13 Nov 2012)
Vodafone posts loss after £6bn eurozone write-down (13 Nov 2012)
Early Day Motion 695 in the UK House of Commons - PriceWaterhouseCoopers, KPMG, Deloitte and Ernst Young condemned for devising, marketing and implementing abusive tax avoidance schemes, several of which have been declared unlawful (12 Nov 2012)
Cape sinks following discovery of accounting irregularities (12 Nov 2012)
Starbucks is leeching tax revenue from UK - "accountants have conspired to allow that to happen" (12 Nov 2012)
Prudential Records $618 Million Loss on Derivatives (12 Nov 2012)
SEC Charges Executives and Auditor of Electronic Game Card Company with Fraud (12 Nov 2012)
Moneygram International Inc. Admits Anti-Money Laundering and Wire Fraud Violations, Forfeits $100 Million in Deferred Prosecution (12 Nov 2012)
SEC Investigating Accuracy of Molycorp's Public Disclosures (12 Nov 2012)
JPMorgan Posts Trading Loss on 10 Days as Derivative Bet Unwinds (12 Nov 2012)
Accountant seeks to prove he is Princess Margaret's secret son (12 Nov 2012)
A Tale of Two Lawsuits -- PricewaterhouseCoopers and Colonial Bank (11 Nov 2012)
Going Concern Is Management's Job: FASB (11 Nov 2012)
Margaret Hodge's family company pays just 0.01pc tax on £2.1bn of business generated in the UK (11 Nov 2012)
Britain Examines 4000 HSBC Accounts in Tax Haven Jersey (11 Nov 2012)
Austrian Watchdog to Gain Company Accounts Oversight in Proposal (11 Nov 2012)
JJB Sports owed £210m to creditors (11 Nov 2012)
How can Viagra maker Pfizer pay no UK tax? (11 Nov 2012)
Viagra maker Pfizer pays virtually no corporation tax in UK despite £1.8 billion turnover (11 Nov 2012)
Happy Birthday Tax Justice Network (9 Nov 2012)
US sees talks with China on corporate audits (9 Nov 2012)
Auditors under the blowtorch (9 Nov 2012)
HSBC investigation: Drug dealers, gun runners and Britain's biggest bank (9 Nov 2012)
HSBC Jersey Account-Holders List Probed by U.K. Tax Authorities (9 Nov 2012)
HSBC accused of opening accounts in Jersey for British drugs and arms dealers (9 Nov 2012)
HSBC investigation: Offshore stash of man found with a house full of guns (9 Nov 2012)
HSBC investigation: Mexican subsidiary investigated over money laundering (9 Nov 2012)
HSBC May Face Charges in a US Laundering Inquiry (9 Nov 2012)
The International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Foundation, parent of the IASB, has set aside nearly half a million pounds following an HMRC probe into the organisation (9 Nov 2012)
Ex-Paramus man, Madoff's first employee, pleads guiilty in fraud (9 Nov 2012)
The Ostrich Postion: ICAEW denies large firms' involvement in tax avoidance (9 Nov 2012)
News Corp takes US$67m charge over phone hacking scam (9 Nov 2012)
Alaska to collect $255m for BP pipeline leaks (9 Nov 2012)
SocGen Profit Dives on Debt Charge (8 Nov 2012)
Complying with standards is not always 'true and fair' (8 Nov 2012)
IN 2008 the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) was the biggest bank in the world, with assets of £2.4 trillion ($3.5 trillion). It was sunk by a loss of £8 billion (8 Nov 2012)
Accountant accused £1 million fraud (8 Nov 2012)
A US bill to end secrecy surrounding shell companies (8 Nov 2012)
Auditors put errors in EU spending at €5 billion (8 Nov 2012)
Kingfisher Airlines auditor hints scam? (7 Nov 2012)
Tax Justice Focus - The Transfer Pricing Edition (7 Nov 2012)
IASB Head Cites 'Uphill Battle' on Lease Accounting (7 Nov 2012)
FCA chairman with KPMG links defends HBOS audit (7 Nov 2012)
Nicholas Levene, City financier, jailed for fraud (7 Nov 2012)
Transfer Pricing and Double Tax: Rethinking Conventional Wisdom (7 Nov 2012)
BDO and PKF in advanced talks over merger (7 Nov 2012)
Expanding Legal Professional Privilege for parliament to decide, court told (7 Nov 2012)
EADS offices searched in corruption probe (7 Nov 2012)
Why tinkering with transfer pricing rules will never solve the UK’s tax problem with multinational companies (6 Nov 2012)
MF Global customers sue PricewaterhouseCoopers in amended lawsuit (6 Nov 2012)
PricewaterhouseCoopers Added As Defendant in MF Global Customer Lawsuit (6 Nov 2012)
Accounting standards organisation IASB in HMRC tax probe (6 Nov 2012)
Ebix Accounting Practices Said to Be Probed by SEC (6 Nov 2012)
Accounting chief says leases reform in danger (6 Nov 2012)
Pearson's CFO criticises recent IFRS work (6 Nov 2012)
Expect more tax avoidance tricks: ICAEW makes case for legal professional privilege for accountants (6 Nov 2012)
Kazakh billionaire Mukhtar Ablyazov suspected of 'epic' £3billion fraud could be stripped of £18m mansion on Hampstead's billionaires' row (6 Nov 2012)
Ireland asks AIB directors to return pensions (6 Nov 2012)
Bankers must be made to bear the cost of their reckless risk-taking: Separating retail and investment banking is not enough. Speculative banking needs to have unlimited liability (5 Nov 2012)
Transfer Pricing Games: How Apple paid a tax bill of just 1.9% on its overseas profits by using complex avoidance schemes (5 Nov 2012)
All sides must be clear on bank transparency (5 Nov 2012)
City trader Nicholas Levene gets 13-year sentence for £32m Ponzi scam (5 Nov 2012)
New accounting rules to force banks to book anticipated losses on loans (5 Nov 2012)
HSBC profits hurt as fines charge hits $1.5bn (5 Nov 2012)
HSBC sets aside further £500m for US money laundering fines (5 Nov 2012)
UK accounting body says banks may need bespoke rules (5 Nov 2012)
After Olympus scandal, Japan Inc. wants less scrutiny (5 Nov 2012)
British banks face new crisis as a result of accounting rules (4 Nov 2012)
Complex audits 'threaten security of pension funds' (4 Nov 2012)
Insolvency: 'Rescue' investors who bought Comet stores for £2 'may walk away with £60m' (4 Nov 2012)
SFO gives up on Keydata's missing £103m (4 Nov 2012)
UK State school teachers employed by tax-avoiding firm (4 Nov 2012)
Apple pays 1.9pc tax on overseas profits (4 Nov 2012)
Struggling UK Coal teeters on verge of administration (4 Nov 2012)
A Few Bad Fraudsters; Sir Tweedie Dum Defends IFRS (3 Nov 2012)
FDIC files first lawsuit against auditor of failed bank, targets PwC (3 Nov 2012)
Groupon responds to SEC inquiry on accounting (3 Nov 2012)
Asil Nadir told: pay £5m or stay in jail for six more years (3 Nov 2012)
Accounting standards, corporate transparency, and developing countries (3 Nov 2012)
Foreign firms could owe UK £11bn in unpaid taxes (3 Nov 2012)
Small US Private Firms Getting Their Own Accounting Standards (3 Nov 2012)
Regulation Has Big Banks Rethinking Transfer Pricing (3 Nov 2012)
Would the minister like to answer a straight question on country-by-country reporting? Apparently not (2 Nov 2012)
Starbucks' European arm paid just $1.2m in taxes last year (2 Nov 2012)
FRC’s Financial Reporting Lab announces the commencement of a second project in relation to remuneration reporting (2 Nov 2012)
Tweedie contradicts Haldane's stance on accounting rules (2 Nov 2012)
RBS faces fines to settle Libor probe (2 Nov 2012)
Chinese audit firms set to challenge the world (2 Nov 2012)
HMRC allows hundreds of tax evaders to avoid courts (2 Nov 2012)

Ex-FASB Chair: Accounting Rules Support Money Funds' Stable Value (2 Nov 2012)
PWC are taking country-by-country reporting seriously. Now it’s time for serious dialogue (1 Nov 2012)
Birmingham City's owners' auditors BDO resign (1 Nov 2012)
PPI mis-selling charge reaches £5.3bn at Lloyds (1 Nov 2012)
Lloyds Banking Group raises PPI bill by a further £1bn (1 Nov 2012)

Starbucks's European tax bill disappears down $100 million hole (1 Nov 2012)
Barclays faces $470m energy fine from US regulators (1 Nov 2012)
Insolvency - Comet: most high-profile retail casualty since financial crisis (1 Nov 2012)

OCTOBER 2012

On MF Global Anniversary Something Still Missing - A focus on PricewaterhouseCoopers (31 Oct 2012)
UBS trader Kweku Adoboli tells court: 'I lost control' (31 Oct 2012)
Barclays hit as it warns of US fine and fresh probes (31 Oct 2012)
Barclays posts third-quarter loss of £47m as PPI costs rise (31 Oct 2012)
Audit Commission: Argument erupts in parliament committee over draft audit bill (31 Oct 2012)
Barclays appropriately provisioned? You must be joking (31 Oct 2012)
Black cab maker Manganese Bronze appoints PwC as administrator (31 Oct 2012)
A third accountants employed by the Estonian state lose jobs (31 Oct 2012)
Top 10 law firms increase their dominance (31 Oct 2012)
There is an alternative to austerity: General Federation of Trade Unions (30 Oct 2012)
Overly processed accounting — who eats this stuff?! (30 Oct 2012)
Ex-Deloitte Partner Gets 21 Months for Insider Trades (30 Oct 2012)
Audit Commission: Argument erupts in parliament committee over draft audit bill (30 Oct 2012)
More Drivel: Seven principles to enhance bank risk disclosures (30 Oct 2012)
PFI deals crippling the NHS with £1.5bn of handouts needed: PAC report (30 Oct 2012)
£207m debt at PFI-saddled hospital trust 'should be written off' (30 Oct 2012)
PFI bill for Worcestershire Royal Hospital is likely to tot up to £852 million over its 30-year life whereas the original estimate was £95 million (30 Oct 2012)
Indian Committee Reports On Accounting Standards (30 Oct 2012)
Ford posts best-ever third quarter despite European loss (30 Oct 2012)
Mark-to-Market advantage on forex derivatives may go (30 Oct 2012)
US: Iraqi audit points to huge money laundering (30 Oct 2012)
Tackling tax havens: country-by-country reporting (29 Oct 2012)
Congratulations to Francine McKenna - re: The Auditors Is Six Years Old (29 Oct 2012)
UK Governemnt will not do seek to recover legal costs of fighting sham tax avoidance schemes marketed by PricewaterhouseCoopers, KPMG, Deloiite and Ernst & Young (29 Oct 2012)
UK governemnt to take no action of tax avoidance schemes designed , marketed and implemented by PricewaterhouseCoopers, KPMG, Deloiite and Ernst & Young (29 Oct 2012)
Barclays Libor case could have severe consequences for banks (29 Oct 2012)
MF Global Problems Started Years Ago (29 Oct 2012)
Authority upholds ICAI order against 2 Satyam auditors (29 Oct 2012)
Banks to admit profits have been wiped out by PPI costs (29 Oct 2012)
Investor fury at Asos pay clause (29 Oct 2012)
Capture of the State: Deloitte, KPMG, Ernst and Young and PwC staff seconded to the UK Treasury (29 Oct 2012)
FastJet being sued by two suppliers over unpaid bills (29 Oct 2012)
UK Governemnt ahs no worthwhile data about derivatives trading by banks (29 Oct 2012)
Three company directors, who fraudulently claimed almost â‚¤220,000 in VAT repayments by pretending to sell a Bloomsbury hotel they didnâ€™t own (29 Oct 2012)
Transfer Pricing: Keeping intra-group services at arm's length (29 Oct 2012)
UK adviser jailed for vat fraud gambled proceeds (29 Oct 2012)
Ernst & Young involved: Nobody Should Have Audits Crammed Down Throat (26 Oct 2012)
19 Audit Firms Face PCAOB Disciplinary Proceedings (26 Oct 2012)
Auditor gave Banksia accounts a tick (26 Oct 2012)
Lloyds latest UK bank to face Libor-rigging inquiry (26 Oct 2012)
RBS suspends another trader over Libor (26 Oct 2012)
Nine more banks added to Libor probe (26 Oct 2012)
LIBOR Liabilities: How litigation will drive down banks profitability for years to come (26 Oct 2012)
Auditors debate FTSE 350 market definition (26 Oct 2012)
Diamond Foods expands accounting restatement period (26 Oct 2012)Asos shares tumble as directors sell Â£50m of shares (26 Oct 2012)
Changes proposed to pension liability accounting treatment (26 Oct 2012)
PCAOB Hears Views on Mandatory Firm Rotation (25 Oct 2012)
Santander makes 'mystery' Â£232m provision (25 Oct 2012)
Foreign Tax Reserves Are `Crack Cocaine' For Earnings Manipulation (25 Oct 2012)
Amazon to be stripped of tax advantage on sale of ebooks (25 Oct 2012)
Eddie Stobart reports fall in revenue and profit (25 Oct 2012)
Stobart cuts Â£1m off value of properties acquired from directors (25 Oct 2012)
Baker Tilly quits as Safeland auditor over conflict of interest (25 Oct 2012)
Stanford Group Accountants Start Final Criminal Fraud Trial (25 Oct 2012)
Ex-accountant in Â£7.2million, 55-count fraud case (25 Oct 2012)
Â£5m tax scam accountant Robert Faichney is jailed (24 Oct 2012)
Ex-Vantis Tax boss jailed for Â£70m charity tax scam (24 Oct 2012)
Former PwC worker to be sentenced for insider trading (24 Oct 2012)
IASB Overseers Push Back on SEC's IFRS Report (24 Oct 2012)
Amazon to be stripped of tax advantage on sale of ebooks (24 Oct 2012)
Universal insolvency undermined by Supreme Court decision (24 Oct 2012)
US sues Bank of America for $1bn over 'hustle' mortgage fraud scheme (24 Oct 2012)
IFAC and IVSC Renew Financial Reporting Collaboration (24 Oct 2012)
Audit Tender: BG Group chooses Ernst & Young over PwC for audit (24 Oct 2012)
RBS to Pay Nevada $42 Million to Resolve Subprime Loan Probe (24 Oct 2012)
UBS "rogue trader" was warned about SocGen scandal, court told (24 Oct 2012)
Country-by-country reporting for banking, construction and telecommunications would help to address corruption, tax evasion and other malpractice (22 Oct 2012)
eBay dodges UK taxes though accounting schemes (22 Oct 2012)
Facebook boss under fire over tax put on UK public payroll - and is paid as much as the Prime Minister (22 Oct 2012)
Nike, Microsoft and Apple admit to offshore tax shenanigans (22 Oct 2012)
E-bay is latest overseas company to pay little UK tax (22 Oct 2012)
Watchdog Audit Scotland questions college reform (22 Oct 2012)
They have failed by still say that Auditors should say more in financial reports (22 Oct 2012)
MF Global 'most traded bankruptcy claim' (22 Oct 2012)
Insolvency: Black cab maker Manganese Bronze to appoint administrators (22 Oct 2012)
Local authority made accounts worse to push through cuts (21 Oct 2012)
Anger grows over large companies' tax bills as attention turns to eBay and Ikea (21 Oct 2012)
eBay avoids Â£50m corporation tax bill by channelling payments through Luxembourg (21 Oct 2012)
EBay 'pays Â£1.2m in UK tax' on sales of Â£800m (21 Oct 2012)
SFO needs to bounce back and catch some big ones (21 Oct 2012)
Female executives failing to get foothold in top firms, survey shows (21 Oct 2012)
Third quarter profit warnings highest in four years (21 Oct 2012)
Fines not imposed by statute are tax deductible - advised by KPMG: McLaren Racing Limited v The Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (21 Oct 2012)
Romney's Accountants (PricewaterhouseCoopers) Busted in New Tax Justice Network Study (18 Oct 2012)
Financial Secrecy, Banks and the Big 4 Firms of Accountants (19 Oct 2012)
PCAOB Hears Input on Auditor Independence and Firm Rotation (19 Oct 2012)
Why didn't the auditor dog bark in 2008? (19 Oct 2012)
Capture of the state: UK Treasury appoints for Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting) partnerdirector-general of tax and welfare (19 Oct 2012)
Competition Commission delay won't halt EU audit reforms (19 Oct 2012)
African Nations Join OECD Tax Transparency Initiative (19 Oct 2012)
Bill may top $24 billion as Barclays takes further PPI hit (19 Oct 2012)
St Austell accountant charged with Â£1m tax fraud (19 Oct 2012)
SFO needs to bounce back and catch some big ones (19 Oct 2012)
Firm that ran Jimmy Carr tax avoidance scheme 'in legal scrap with accountants RSM Tenon (18 Oct 2012)
EU lawmaker tells accounting industry to prepare for change (18 Oct 2012)
Andersen to Pay Additional $38M for WorldCom Audits (18 Oct 2012)
Morgan Stanley Posts Loss on Accounting Charge (18 Oct 2012)
UK Government lays out narrative reporting future (18 Oct 2012)
Integrated reporting will hand back more trust to investors (18 Oct 2012)
Barclays increases provision for PPI mis-selling by Â£700m (18 Oct 2012)
FTSE 350 chairmen still failing to give corporate governance sufficient prominence in company annual reports (18 Oct 2012)
Transfer Pricing: Canada Supreme Court sides with Glaxo in tax fight (18 Oct 2012)
Is The SEC's Ponzi Crusade Enabling Companies To Cook The Books (18 Oct 2012)
Models Sue for 'Shoddy Accounting' at Top Agencies (18 Oct 2012)
Aussies get nod to license NZ auditors (18 Oct 2012)
Accounting rules are holding banks back (17 Oct 2012)
Stanford Accountants Face Final Criminal Trial Over Ponzi Scheme (17 Oct 2012)
Offshoring: More US audit work moves to India, concerns rise (17 Oct 2012)
RSM Tenon posts Â£100m loss but agrees new lending terms (17 Oct 2012)
UBS Fixed Loophole Used by Adoboli, Risk Officer Says (17 Oct 2012)
Five questions answered on Starbucks' low UK tax payments (17 Oct 2012)
Soft-Core Porn Mogul Sues Accountants BDO Seidman (17 Oct 2012)
FRC publishes paper to enhance disclosure in financial reporting (17 Oct 2012)
The Disclosure Dilemma: Why More Disclosure has Led to Less Information (17 Oct 2012)
Fat Cats: Citigroup CEO Walks Off With $260 Million After His Bank Loses 88 Percent Of Its Value (17 Oct 2012)
Tax Avoidance and Transfer Pricing: first Facebook, then Starbucks, now it's Cirque du Solei (16 Oct 2012)
Britain extends accounting competition probe (16 Oct 2012)
Auditors of banks 'failed lamentably' (16 Oct 2012)
Non-disclosure of geographic earnings can be a marker of tax avoidance (16 Oct 2012)
Starbucks 'paid just Â£8.6m UK tax in 14 years' (16 Oct 2012)
Starbucks paid no tax on UK earnings in the past three years. Is this OK? (16 Oct 2012)
Nat Rothschild's Bumi resignation letter (16 Oct 2012)
As more US audit work moves to India, concerns arise (16 Oct 2012)
FASB Will Propose New Credit Impairment Model (16 Oct 2012)
Simplistic political solutions won't improve the quality of audits (16 Oct 2012)
Denmark Toughens Rules On Holding Companies (16 Oct 2012)
Fraudster Concocted Fake Investors for Broadway Musical (16 Oct 2012)
Transfer pricing may appear mundane but the wellbeing of hundreds of millions of people is at stake (15 Oct 2012)
Report raises questions over auditing profession's role in crisis (15 Oct 2012)
How Starbucks avoids UK taxes (15 Oct 2012)
UK fund managers concerned at 'opaque' audit reports (15 Oct 2012)
SFO ends Kaupthing collapse investigation (15 Oct 2012)
Insolvency relationships with asset lenders too 'cosy' (15 Oct 2012)
The state lines their pockets: KPMG investigates property company tax (15 Oct 2012)
More than 100 UK advisers targeted after tax avoidance schemes unravel (15 Oct 2012)
Lenders need more capital to break free of the slump says Lord Turner (15 Oct 2012)
From US Sub Prime to London Prime: Shadow Bankers in London (15 Oct 2012)
Students are exploited: "ACCA could do more to investigate the reasons why some students continue to fail the exams and to advise them how to improve", says the Financial Reporting Council (12 Oct 2012)
ACCA forced to change its exams - "we have agreed that they will make further changes", says the Financial Reporting Council (12 Oct 2012)
Debt valuation adjustmentâ€� knocks $211m off the JP Morgan $5.7bn third quarter profits (12 Oct 2012)
Accounting Option Facilitates Multinational Earnings Manipulation (12 Oct 2012)
Ruling Extends SOX Whistleblowing Protections (12 Oct 2012)
CFOs on earnings misrepresentation (11 Oct 2012)
The 10 Most Corrupt Tax Loopholes (12 Oct 2012)
Facebook (audited by Ernst & Young) criticised for Â£238000 UK tax bill last year (11 Oct 2012)
MEPs back mandatory accounts for emissions (11 Oct 2012)
Oil Companies' Lawsuit Seeks to Undermine Global Transparency (11 Oct 2012)
How the state supports capitalism: Post reform burst, UK pushes India for opening legal and accounting firms(11 Oct 2012)
Another Pleads Guilty in Petro America Corporation Fraud (11 Oct 2012)
Avoiding the Pitfalls in Creative Accounting (11 Oct 2012)
McLaren Â£49m 'cheat' fine is tax deductible (11 Oct 2012)
Insolvency: Montpelier late filing accounts and faces a winding up order (11 Oct 2012)
England v San Marino: meet the accountants, electricians and students (11 Oct 2012)
AASB, QBE say insurance industry standard reduces transparency (10 Oct 2012)
Moving Leases to Balance Sheets Has Landlords and Tenants Off Balance (10 Oct 2012)
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Files Mortgage Fraud Lawsuit Against Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Seeking Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars In Damages For Fraudulently Certified Loans (10 Oct 2012)
Investors must break their 'silence' on reform (10 Oct 2012)
US Reaches Auditing Deal With China (10 Oct 2012)
Reserve Fund Lied About Losses on Lehman, SEC Lawyer Says (10 Oct 2012)
'Hacking' alleged ahead of Bumi showdown (10 Oct 2012)
Law Surrounding Third-Party Liability of Law Firms in Spotlight (10 Oct 2012)
No curbs on predatory and calamitous capitalism: Britainâ€™s financial regulators are still asleep and more scandals could follow (9 Oct 2012)
Audit Commission's ex-head: its abolition will affect public services (9 Oct 2012)
Pfizer's U.S. Losses Questioned as Overseas Profit Soars (9 Oct 2012)
Pfizer Won't Get A Slap On The Wrist From The SEC (9 Oct 2012)
Sajjad Karim on steering EU audit reform (9 Oct 2012)
Should Corporate Accountants Spill the Beans? (9 Oct 2012)
It's time to eliminate anonymous shell companies (9 Oct 2012)
Insolvency: JJB Sports landlords set to lose more than Â£40m a year (9 Oct 2012)
Newcastle United sponsorship by Wonga criticised by insolvency experts (9 Oct 2012)
Oh dear, the head of tax at the ACCA canâ€™t calculate a tax bill (8 Oct 2012)
Big Four alumni's influence could restrict competition (8 Oct 2012)
Big Four criticised for auditing monogamy (8 Oct 2012)
Lehman Brothers Cited For Repo 105 In Promissory Note Case (8 Oct 2012)
Michael Page profits hit by 'challenging' conditions (8 Oct 2012)
HSBC, RBS and Barclays - each have gross loans and investments equivalent to annual British economic output, GDP, or more (8 Oct 2012)
Madoff fraud's last days recounted in NYC document (8 Oct 2012)
Leverage: Glaxoâ€™s assets were 4.7 times its equity. For Barclays, the ratio was 24 times its equity (8 Oct 2012)
Allen Stanford Fraud Suits Draw U.S. High Court Inquiry (8 Oct 2012)
Deutsche Bank has total assets of close to â‚¬2.1 trillion ($2.7 trillion), and total equity of â‚¬56 billion. In terms of simple leverage, the bank has just â‚¬1 in equity backing every â‚¬38 of assets (8 Oct 2012)
Press barons may be for good or ill, but it's the accountants you have to watch (7 Oct 2012)
How British companies pour cash into the American elections (7 Oct 2012)
Ahold recruits PwC to replace Deloitte as auditors (7 Oct 2012)
RBS trader suspended in LIBOR rate-rigging investigation (6 Oct 2012)
Lehman's brokerage, Europe units settle $38 billion of claims (6 Oct 2012)
Insolvency: Big Pictures paparazzi agency goes into administration after 20 years (6 Oct 2012)
E&Y: Steve Varley and audit rebels (6 Oct 2012)
Phoenix IT bids farewell to auditor (Deloitte) and chief executive (5 Oct 2012)
Â£143bn of high quality mortgages on the books of Lloyds - and it holds just Â£314m of capital against the specific risk of these mortgages going bad (5 Oct 2012)
Accounting Makeover for Global Companies Seen Within US: Taxes (5 Oct 2012)
Defence says ex-Nortel execs 'did not deliberately' commit fraud (5 Oct 2012)
United Carpets jobs at risk in pre-pack administration (5 Oct 2012)
Anne Robinson 'avoided tax on Â£4m of income' (5 Oct 2012)
BBC told by MPs to make presenters pay fair share of tax (5 Oct 2012)
MPs decry tax ploy at BBC (5 Oct 2012)
Can personal service companies save you tax? (5 Oct 2012)
UK House of Commons Public Accounts Committee Report: Off-payroll arrangements in the public sector (5 Oct 2012)
Should medium-sized businesses be exempt from statutory audit? (5 Oct 2012)
MIliband pledges to end quarterly accounting (4 Oct 2012)
Impossible for Nortel CEO to know if balance sheets accurate, fraud trial hears (4 Oct 2012)
FASB, IASB keep time value of money in revenue recognition standard (4 Oct 2012)
Weâ€™ll change share rules to limit the influence of speculators, say Labour (4 Oct 2012)
PwC examined doomed West Coast deal (4 Oct 2012)
SEC Charges Hedge Fund Managers with Defrauding Investors (4 Oct 2012)
Ernst & Young Baltic Stands by Audit on Now Defunct Snoras, BNS Says (4 Oct 2012)
US audit watchdog sees China crunch time in 2013 (4 Oct 2012)
Consulting helps push PwC's revenues to $31.5 billion (4 Oct 2012)
Tax Injustice Following the Tax Trail, a report by Christian Aid and TASC (4 Oct 2012)
Unicorns, Higgs Bosons, and the state of macroeconomics (4 Oct 2012)
RBS facing loss after Spanish property firm collapse (4 Oct 2012)
Overseas Cash and the Tax Games Multinationals Play with help fro Ernst & Young (3 Oct 2012)
Haringey Council faces extra Â£45000 bill for accounting errors (3 Oct 2012)
SME Audit rules relaxed in red tape cuts (3 Oct 2012)
FRC undershoots annual budget by Â£1.1m (3 Oct 2012)
Banker weeps at UBS rogue trader trial (3 Oct 2012)
UBS Co-Worker Says He Used Adoboli's Umbrella Account (3 Oct 2012)
The Hand of Ernst & Young in another tax avoidance scheme: BOYER ALLAN INVESTMENT SERVICES LIMITED (formerly BOYER ALLAN INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LIMITED) v THE COMMISSIONERS FOR HER MAJESTY'S REVENUE & CUSTOMS (3 Oct 2012)
Deutsche Bank ordered to pay Â£50m tax on bonuses (3 Oct 2012)
UBS wins appeal against HMRC over Â£100m bonus scheme (3 Oct 2012)
Another â€œoff the shelfâ€� tax avoidance scheme marketed by Deloitte: UBS AG and DB GROUP SERVICES (UK) LIMITED v THE COMMISSIONERS FOR HER MAJESTYâ€™S REVENUE AND CUSTOMS (3 Oct 2012)
FRC issues Exposure Draft of limited scope amendments to FRED 48 (draft FRS 102) The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (3 Oct 2012)
Retired accountant 'beaten to death by Russian escort girl' (3 Oct 2012)
Aerospace predator poised to take over BAE made Â£3bn in the UK... and paid just Â£10m in tax (2 Oct 2012)
Ex-Madoff Workers Face More Charges in Fraud Indictment (2 Oct 2012)
The Ostrich Position: Interview with Hendrik Descheemaeker, managing partner, European regulatory affairs, Deloitte (2 Oct 2012)
JPMorgan sued by New York Attorney General over mortgage-backed securities (2 Oct 2012)
Insolvency: Drinks supplier WaverleyTBS calls in administrators (2 Oct 2012)
Revolving Doors: Ex-Deloitte partner takes JPMorgan trust role (2 Oct 2012)
High-level Expert group on reforming the structure of the EU banking sector presents its report (2 Oct 2012)
High-level Expert Group on reforming the structure of the EU banking sector (2 Oct 2012)
Executive Pay: Report by Finnish central bank governor also suggests paying bankers part of their bonuses in bonds (2 Oct 2012)
Derivatives: the new way to shift profits without going near a transfer pricing issue (1 Oct 2012)
UBS trader's colleague says took part in some false accounting (1 Oct 2012)
Big Four audit tenders benefit from 'virtuous circle' (1 Oct 2012)
JJB goes into administration â€“ with 133 shop closures and 2200 job losses (1 Oct 2012)

SEPTEMBER 2012

Big Four auditors face monopoly interrogation (30 Sep 2012)
Shape shifters: Big 4 accounting firms (30 Sep 2012)
Profiting from Regulatory Capture: Auditors handed greater reporting role by FRC (30 Sep 2012)
Nortel auditors, board not shown report on excess reserves, Crown tells court (30 Sep 2012)
Bank of America Earnings Seen Including Higher Accounting Charges (30 Sep 2012)
Investors push hard for audit reforms (30 Sep 2012)
UK watchdog says firms should review accountants every 10 years (28 Sep 2012)
Mandatory audit tendering introduced in UK governance code (28 Sep 2012)
FRC publishes updates to UK Corporate Governance Code and Stewardship Code (28 Sep 2012)
Financial Reporting Council: UK Corporate Governance Code - September 2012 (28 Sep 2012)
Financial Reporting Council: The UK Stewardship Code - September 2012 (28 Sep 2012)
Financial Reporting Council: September 2012 Guidance on Audit Committees (28 Sep 2012)
Discover's Accounting Leaves Room For Discovery (28 Sep 2012)
Adoboli co-operated with fellow traders at UBS who 'stabbed him in the back' (28 Sep 2012)
FRC issues revised auditing standards to enhance communications to audit committees and auditor reporting (28 Sep 2012)
Auditing Standard: Communication with those charged with governance (28 Sep 2012)
Auditing Standards: The auditor’s report on financial statements (Revised) (28 Sep 2012)
Auditing Standard: Modifications to the opinion in the independent auditor’s report (28 Sep 2012)
Auditing Standard: Emphasis of matter paragraphs and other matter paragraphs in the independent auditor’s report (28 Sep 2012)
Auditing standard: The auditor’s responsibilities relating to other information in documents containing audited financial statements (28 Sep 2012)
Balance sheets beware: Lease accounting standard changes to show more liabilities (28 Sep 2012)
Divisions within Europe over audit rotation (28 Sep 2012)
'Fraud on public' by ex-Nortel execs (28 Sep 2012)
Tax authorities back country-by-country reporting to prevent transfer pricing abuse (27 Sep 2012)
Auditors set to face tender process in industry shakeup (27 Sep 2012)
When Will the SEC Finally Go After the Auditors? (27 Sep 2012)
Perspective revenue bump dented by accounting write-down (27 Sep 2012)
The Big Four accounting firms (27 Sep 2012)
Alleged Nortel fraud a 'cookie jar accounting' scheme (27 Sep 2012)
Houlihan Lokey’s Annual European Goodwill Impairment Study Finds 2011 Goodwill Impairments Are at Highest Levels Since 2007 (27 Sep 2012)
HOULIHAN LOKEY PUBLISHES FOURTH ANNUAL EUROPEAN GOODWILL IMPAIRMENT STUDY (27 Sep 2012)
EU companies write off £60bn of goodwill (27 Sep 2012)
EU companies write off €76bn of goodwill (27 Sep 2012)
Polly Peck: Asil Nadir tells compensation hearing he is penniless (27 Sep 2012)
How the Big Four firms expand their profits: FTSE 350 reporting leaves a lot to be desired (27 Sep 2012)
Freddie Mac Wins Dismissal of Securities Fraud Lawsuit (27 Sep 2012)
FRC publishes FRRP’s Annual Report 2012 (27 Sep 2012)
Banks continue to publish opque accounts but FRRP sees improvement in principal risks reporting (27 Sep 2012)
FRC publishes Lab report on 'Net debt reconciliations' (27 Sep 2012)
Olympus and Ex-Executives Plead Guilty in Accounting Fraud (26 Sep 2012)
Romney Accountant's (PricewaterhouseCoopers) Letter - Exercise In Obfuscation ? (26 Sep 2012)
Big Four on scaremongring mission to shield their failures:Auditing changes ‘could damage foreign investment into Ireland’, they say (26 Sep 2012)
Derivatives and Speculation: Some 62% of hedges in the oil and gas industry don’t qualify for hedge accounting (26 Sep 2012)
JP Morgan reports $1.7 trillion in gross derivative assets in notes to its financial statements, it includes just $85.5bn on its balance sheet (26 Sep 2012)
Overseas consulting work grows rapidly in 2012 (26 Sep 2012)
Former top accountant Tweedie to push for global valuation rules (26 Sep 2012)
UBS 'rogue trader' Kweku Adoboli had been 'told off' (26 Sep 2012)
HSBC and the Global Drug Trade (26 Sep 2012)
Bumi Resources pledges to act swiftly over financial investigation (26 Sep 2012)
Who benefits from the NHS 'surplus'? Not the patients or staff (26 Sep 2012)
Olympus and former executives plead guilty (25 Sep 2012)
Former Olympus executives plead guilty in fraud trial (25 Sep 2012)
AICPA Book Urges Firms to Tie Pay to Performance (25 Sep 2012)
Schroders bows to new mood on audits (25 Sep 2012)
Former stockbroker Nicholas Levene faces jail over £32 million fraud (25 Sep 2012)
Hornby in profits warning as Olympics sales disappoint (25 Sep 2012)
Rothschild's Bumi dives on launch of Indonesia investigation (25 Sep 2012)
Tyco to Pay $26 Million to Resolve US Bribery Cases (25 Sep 2012)
Subsidiary of Tyco International Ltd. Pleads Guilty, Is Sentenced for Conspiracy to Violate Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (25 Sep 2012)
Adding Up the US Government's Legal Bills for Fannie and Freddie (25 Sep 2012)
Bribery and Corruption: SEC Charges Tyco for Illicit Payments to Foreign Officials (25 Sep 2012)
Accountant spared over theft from soldiers' fund (25 Sep 2012)
Alcatel-lucent Subsidiary Agrees to Pay U.S. $4.2 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations (25 Sep 2012)
New report: big countries are the worst offenders on shell companies (24 Sep 2012)
UK competition watchdog sees no audit market collusion (24 Sep 2012)
Big four audit firms 'do not collude over market share' (24 Sep 2012)
Competition Commission Report: UK AUDIT MARKET INVESTIGATION - Evidence of tacit coordination (24 Sep 2012)
Insolvency: JJB Sports calls in administrators (24 Sep 2012)
Rothschild-linked firm Bumi faces investigation for alleged irregularities (24 Sep 2012)
US audit watchdog in tentative deal to observe in China: official (23 Sep 2012)
Two Conservative donors with an offshore trust are facing £11.5m tax bill (23 Sep 2012)
Mental health-care group Cambian plots £500m hospitals exit (23 Sep 2012)
AA 'to be sold off' in £5bn deal (23 Sep 2012)
Welcome to the world of aid-funded business (23 Sep 2012)
Tax taskforces: Why lawyers and not accountants? (23 Sep 2012)
Ex-Lloyds security boss Jessica Harper jailed for £2.5m fraud (22 Sep 2012)
Bernard Madoff victims to receive $2.5bn in latest round of payouts (22 Sep 2012)
People think accounting’s precise, and it’s nothing of the sort (22 Sep 2012)
Scores of British MPs and superstars linked to offshore tax havens (22 Sep 2012)
Irish subsidiaries helped Microsoft reduce US tax bill by €1.87bn in 2011 (22 Sep 2012)
Launderers Anonymous:A study highlights how easy it is to set up untraceable offshore shell companies (22 Sep 2012)
US and China Reach Tentative Agreement on Audit Inspections (22 Sep 2012)
Vodafone hints at paying tax on Hutch deal (22 Sep 2012)
JJB accounting errors revealed as it seeks new owner (20 Sep 2012)
JJB Sports sale hit by HMRC tax investigation (20 Sep 2012)
Lessor defends aircraft industry in accounting spat (20 Sep 2012)
HMRC wins landmark tribunal in battle to beat stamp duty avoidance (20 Sep 2012)
Stamp Duty ruling boosts UK fight against tax avoidance (20 Sep 2012)
Another Deloitte Scheme Foiled - VARDY PROPERTIES v THE COMMISSIONERS FOR HER MAJESTY’S REVENUE AND CUSTOMS (20 Sep 2012)
Disclosures and Paperwork Burdens Under Fair Value Rules (20 Sep 2012)
Microsoft 'used offshore units to avoid paying $4.5bn in taxes', Senate claims (20 Sep 2012)
Microsoft Avoided Billions in U.S. Tax, Senate Memo Says (20 Sep 2012)
Poachers and Gamekeepers: Ex-PwC partner to head US accounting body for private companies (20 Sep 2012)
Revolving Doors: Segro names former KPMG vice-chairman as non-exec (20 Sep 2012)
Yesterday’s EU decision on country-by-country reporting: a big step forward (19 Sep 2012)
Tax-Free Capitalism (19 Sep 2012)
Firearms merchant, a certified accountant (ACCA), jailed for "Ponzi" style fraud (19 Sep 2012)
Dubai bank art dispute settled with fines for Ernst & Young (19 Sep 2012)
EU MEPs push back ‘diluted’ audit reform plans (19 Sep 2012)
New Accounting Rules Could Expand Hedging Activity (19 Sep 2012)
UBS Accountant First Found Adoboli Trading Discrepancies (19 Sep 2012)
Kweku Adoboli Missed Chance to Erase Losses, Ex-UBS Boss Says (19 Sep 2012)
Germany and Spain challenge watered down audit reform proposals (19 Sep 2012)
US Lawyers Urge Fresh Transfer Pricing Guidance (19 Sep 2012)
IAS 29 is not an alternative accounting model to HCA (19 Sep 2012)
Revolving Doors: Former BDO chief Newman confirmed as Audit Commission chairman (19 Sep 2012)
Accounting Rulemakers Nearing Impairment Models (19 Sep 2012)
Hoogervorst criticises US approach to impairment accounting (19 Sep 2012)
Deloitte revenues reach $31.3 billion on Asia growth (19 Sep 2012)
UK Companies Looking Ripe for an Auditor Revolution (18 Sep 2012)
Firms in EU face joint checks in auditing shake-up (18 Sep 2012)
US Regulators still are finding a high level of serious deficiencies in the work of major audit firms (18 Sep 2012)
Dubai-based Financial Markets Tribunal (FMT) orders Arqaam Capital and Ernst and Young each to pay $50,000 for failing to comply with reporting and auditing standards (18 Sep 2012)
Mining and oil industry faces new transparency regime (18 Sep 2012)
Vodafone to put £1.35bn aside for Indian tax bill (18 Sep 2012)
Peregrine Financial Group boss admits $100m fraud (18 Sep 2012)
UBS was aware of Kweku Adoboli's billion-dollar trading problems (18 Sep 2012)
Managing director of Chinese firm faces jail sentence in Hong Kong (18 Sep 2012)
The regulator of Dubai’s international financial centre is accusing Ernst & Young and the Dubai-based investment bank Arqaam Capital of accounting irregularities (17 Sep 2012)
Audit reform is vital to reassure shareholders (17 Sep 2012)
Investors make last ditch attempt to sway audit reforms (17
US tax law exemption to save UK pension schemes 'billions' (17 Sep 2012)
Vodafone Considers $2.2 Billion Tax Provision on Indian Law (17 Sep 2012)
Four years since the collapse of Lehmans – has anything changed? (17 Sep 2012)
UBS trader Kweku Adoboli lost thousands on spread bets (17 Sep 2012)
Partner pay falls at PwC as profits rise (17 Sep 2012)
Accountant jailed for murdering lottery winner (17 Sep 2012)
Infrastructure as Asset Class: A Critical Look at Private Equity Infrastructure Funds (16 Sep 2012)
Shareholders join forces in support of audit reform (16 Sep 2012)
Lehman Blame Game Still Played Four Years, $12.8 Trillion Later (16 Sep 2012)
JPMorgan faces money laundering probe -source (16 Sep 2012)
Mutual insurers warn over accounting rules switch (16 Sep 2012)
Rip-off: Wonga profits treble as Britons struggle to get credit (16 Sep 2012)
Tax dodgers are a cancer eating away at the British economy and are making 'monkeys' of the government (15 Sep 2012)
Lehman Brokerage Payout Call Gets Louder After Four Years (15 Sep 2012)
UBS 'rogue trader' Kweku Adoboli almost cost the bank £7.4bn, court hears (15 Sep 2012)
"Rogue trader" bets nearly broke UBS - prosecutor (15 Sep 2012)
UBS rogue trader told accountant 'I take full responsibility', court hears (15 Sep 2012)
BIS to legislate on narrative reporting (15 Sep 2012)
Dragon's Den PR guru to sue accountants and HMRC (15 Sep 2012)
Chicago lawyer pleads guilty in tax shelter scheme - other defendants include former chief executive of BDO Seidman (14 Sep 2012)
Peregrine CEO set to leave jail after guilty plea (14 Sep 2012)
Poachers and Gamekeepers: Law and accountancy firms queue up for FSA banks panel (14 Sep 2012)
Accounting Council to issue ED on FRS 102 defined benefits (14 Sep 2012)
Mid-tier chiefs challenge "unhealthy" audit market (14 Sep 2012)
Audit committtee's independence called into question (14 Sep 2012)
Investor fears over 'aggressive' accounting (13 Sep 2012)
Under New Accounting Standard, CFOs Could Change Hedging Strategies (13 Sep 2012)
FSA issues ban and fine of £500,000 against former HBOS executive, Peter Cummings (13 Sep 2012)
Ex-HBOS banker Cummings banned for life and fined £500000 (13 Sep 2012)
Going Concern Opinions on Life Support With Investors (13 Sep 2012)
Ex-NAMA executive embroiled in new row over leaks (13 Sep 2012)
BDO ordered to release Halliwells' Deloitte files (13 Sep 2012)
Scope of appropriate content, structure in auditor's report under debate (12 Sep 2012)
Delay Urged on Peregrine Outlays (12 Sep 2012)
IASB proposals align hedge accounting closer with risk management (12 Sep 2012)
G4S battles with Olympic chiefs over unpaid fee (12 Sep 2012)
Revolving Doors: Groupon Names Ex-KPMG Executive as New Accounting Chief (12 Sep 2012)
They promote tax avoidance but like taxpayers monies: PwC administers £60m Government training scheme (12 Sep 2012)
SEC Charges Asset Manager Lied to Investors, Hid Major Losses While Boasting Remarkable Performance During Financial Crisis (12 Sep 2012)
Investment Advisory Firm and Founder Settle SEC Charges for Fraudulent Management of CDOS (12 Sep 2012)
Revolving Doors: EX-Deloitte tax guru hired as RBC Wealth UHNW head (12 Sep 2012)
Banks face higher bill for PPI mis-selling (12 Sep 2012)
Company: CFO stole to pay for murder of wife (12 Sep 2012)
Judge won't toss lawsuit claiming fraudulent audit of Tom Hicks former sports empire (audited by KPMG) (11 Sep 2012)
City trader accused of gambling away £1.5bn in biggest fraud in British corporate history goes on trial (11 Sep 2012)
BlackRock fined £9.5m by FSA for failing to protect client money‎ (11 Sep 2012)
Questions Surround Overhaul of Auditor's Boilerplate (11 Sep 2012)
Burberry shares fall 19% after profit warning‎ (11 Sep 2012)
UBS Whistleblower Gets $104 Million (11 Sep 2012)
Xstrata chairman on collision course with investors over Glencore merger (10 Sep 2012)
City trader Kweku Adoboli in court over £1.4bn UBS loss (10 Sep 2012)
Lend Lease is at sixes and sevens over Abigroup accounting mess‎ (10 Sep 2012)
Regulators should look at the “leverage ratio”, the relationship between a bank’s equity capital and the assets on its balance-sheet (10 Sep 2012)
Leverage ratio would have been a better predictor of which bank would go bust (10 Sep 2012)
The dog and the Frisbee: Paper by Andrew G Haldane, Executive Director, Financial Stability and member of the Financial Policy Committee and Vasileios Madouros, Economist, Bank of England (10 Sep 2012)
Fortune 500 Companies Reserved More for Taxes Than They Paid in Taxes (10 Sep 2012)
European audit reforms watered down‎ (10 Sep 2012)
EU DRAFT REPORT on Auditing Reforms (10 Sep 2012)
IPA to handle insolvency solicitor complaints‎ (10 Sep 2012)
EU waters down restrictions on big four accountancy firms‎ (9 Sep 2012)
European audit reform hit by polarised views‎ (9 Sep 2012)
Primary Greek tax evaders are the professional classes (9 Sep 2012)
Equitable Life chief Chris Wiscarson calls for MOTs for CEOs‎ (9 Sep 2012)
New code of conduct for internal auditors‎ (9 Sep 2012)
US Secret service opens investigation into 'theft' of Mitt Romney's tax returns, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has said it is co-operating with the investigation (8 Sep 2012)
How governments fund Accounting firms: Canada hires KPMG to conduct review of F-35 costs (8 Sep 2012)
IASB Previews New Hedge Accounting Rules‎ (8 Sep 2012)
Detecting Accounting Fraud: The Felon Speaks‎ (8 Sep 2012)
RBS could be fined £300m to settle Libor probe‎ (8 Sep 2012)
They have Friends in High Places: EU lawmaker proposes ditching core parts of auditing shake up‎ (7 Sep 2012)
Foxes guarding the Henhouse: Ex-PwC and Ernst & Young partners head up FRC councils‎ (7 Sep 2012)
Ex-UBS Trader Adoboli's $2.3 Billion Trading-Loss Trial to Begin (7 Sep 2012)
When Should Accountants Spill the Beans?‎ (7 Sep 2012)
Equitable Life's 250th anniversary: Did anyone learn anything from its failure? (7 Sep 2012)
Citigroup Sued in New York Over $137 Million in Mortgage Bonds (7 Sep 2012)
Empty Gestures: UK lowers audit exemption threshold (7 Sep 2012)
Fat Cats: Diageo boss Paul Walsh's salary tops £11m after share price boost‎ (7 Sep 2012)
MBIA Settles Shareholder Lawsuit Alleging Misstatements‎ (6 Sep 2012)
Libor Scandal Spurs U.K. Accounting Body to Draft Auditor Advice‎ (6 Sep 2012)
Ex-Porsche CFO Haerter Stands Trial Over $12.5 Billion Bank Loan‎ (6 Sep 2012)
Ex-Porsche CFO Haerter 'Aghast' at Criminal Case Over Bank Loan (6 Sep 2012)
MF Global Judge Seeks Changes to Trustee Lawsuit Agreement‎ (6 Sep 2012)
Barclays was at fault over tax avoidance scheme, says George Osborne (6 Sep 2012)
Barclays backs away from tax row with Chancellor (6 Sep 2012)
UK Treasury Committee publishes letter from the Chancellor on retrospective tax action against Barclays (6 Sep 2012)
India: '316 cos,73 audit firms guilty of violating accounting norms'‎ (6 Sep 2012)
They always defend their class: PwC slams politicians’ calls for tax on wealthy (6 Sep 2012)
Feather-Duster Regulation: BDO and RSM Tenon reprimanded by ICAEW (6 Sep 2012)
Fat Cats: Top bosses' pension pots increase to £4.3 million (6 Sep 2012)
Pensions Watch 2012: A TUC Report on directors' pensions in the UK's top companies (6 Sep 2012)
May Gurney issues profit warning as chief executive departs‎ (6 Sep 2012)
Clean up and mutualise banking: serial corruption within banks requires urgent democratic solutions (5 Sep 2012)
We're Not Broke, nationwide U.S. screening tour starts (5 Sep 2012)
Poachers and Gamekeepers of Crony Capitalism: FRC announces membership of the Actuarial, Audit and Assurance and Accounting Councils (5 Sep 2012)
PwC competition research earns mid-tier backlash‎ (5 Sep 2012)
Top tips for celebrity tax avoidance - TUC gossip mag urges Chancellor to act (5 Sep 2012)
KERCHING! A Celebrity Guide to Tax Dodging (5 Sep 2012)
Deepwater Horizon: BP accused of gross negligence‎ (5 Sep 2012)
Next cancels buy-back bonanza‎ (5 Sep 2012)
UK Insolvency Service reform scrapped‎ (5 Sep 2012)
PwC overtakes KPMG as Britain's biggest auditor‎ (5 Sep 2012)
We have a Register of Companies open to anyone to abuse (4 Sep 2012)
NHS PFI firms avoid millions in tax‎ (4 Sep 2012)
Accountants draft standards to audit Libor submissions‎ (4 Sep 2012)
Phoenix shares slump on news of £14m blackhole (4 Sep 2012)
Shares of tech firm Phoenix collapse after accounting errors are uncovered (4 Sep 2012)
Chartered Accountant jailed for £10m Majorca investment fraud‎ (4 Sep 2012)
BP sued 'for hiding truth over safety' in Gulf oil disaster (4 Sep 2012)
Poachers and Gamekeepers: BoI appoints Ernst & Young auditors after IMF criticism (4 Sep 2012)
PwC to investigate computer meltdown at RBS‎ (4 Sep 2012)
PwC overtakes KPMG as small cap auditor‎ (4 Sep 2012)
Capture of the state: Steve Varley, the UK boss of Ernst & Young, discusses trade trips with the prime minister (2 Sep 2012)
Accountants shoulder blame for financial crisis ‎ (2 Sep 2012)
Audit of KPMG Finds Weaknesses‎ (1 Sep 2012)
Report on 2011 Inspection of KPMG LLP - Issued by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (1 Sep 2012)
The Bean Counters Look the Other Way at Fraud‎ (1 Sep 2012)
Fat Cats: Darty 'error' on CEO pay angers investors‎ (1 Sep 2012)
A FORMER president of the National Institute of Accountants has accepted that she will spend time in jail for tax offences (1 Sep 2012)
35 accounting textbook forgers nabbed (1 Sep 2012)
Audit reporting rules could see duel accounting (1 Sep 2012)
Actor Tommy 'Tiny' Lister, accountant agree to plead guilty in $3.8M mortgage fraud (1 Sep 2012)

AUGUST 2012

Paradigm Shifts: Capitalist booms and bust (30 Aug 2012)
Four Years After Madoff, Audits and Auditors of Broker-Dealers Still Lousy (30 Aug 2012)
Firms may have to elaborate on goodwill impairment‎ (30 Aug 2012)
Citigroup pays $590m to end toxic loans case (30 Aug 2012)
JJB Sports puts itself up for sale‎ (30 Aug 2012)
Greece would have avoided bailout if it were not for tax havens, says former PM George Papandreou (30 Aug 2012)
SEC Charges Eight, incluidng an Accountant, in Insider Trading Ring (29 Aug 2012)
Poachers and Gamekepers: Former BDO chief chosen to wind down Audit Commission‎ (29 Aug 2012)
Insolvency: Rangers supporters group slams Duff & Phelps over £3.3m fees (29 Aug 2012)
Citigroup in $590 Million Settlement of Subprime Lawsuit (29 Aug 2012)
Citigroup pays £373m to settle debt claims (29 Aug 2012)
Barclays faces SFO investigation (29 Aug 2012)
Barclays says SFO to start investigation into Qatar payments (29 Aug 2012)
Rangers FC administrators reveal finances at collapsed club (29 Aug 2012)
Hong Kong regulator takes Ernst & Young to court for work papers (28 Aug 2012)
Ernst & Young in Hong Kong court over audit files (28 Aug 2012)
HK regulator in legal action against big fours (28 Aug 2012)
G4S confirms £50m hit on Olympics security contract‎ (28 Aug 2012)
Ireland: Appleby defends Anglo probe (28 Aug 2012)
Fat Cats: Former Lotus boss Dany Bahar seeks £6.7m for unfair dismissal‎ (28 Aug 2012)
HK regulator launches legal proceedings against Ernst & Young‎ (27 Aug 2012)
UniCredit be swept up by money laundering probe into Iran dealings‎ (27 Aug 2012)
Accountant embezzled £200000 to repay money she stole (27 Aug 2012)
Big payouts to shareholders are holding back prosperity‎ (27 Aug 2012)
Revolving Doors and conflict of interests: BofA Names Ex-Deloitte Chairman Allen Among 4 New Directors‎ (27 Aug 2012)
Audit Failures: Northern Ireland’s Fourth Estate has a vital role in upholding quality of economic debate (26 Aug 2012)
Asil Nadir, Polly Peck and the headless chickens‎ (26 Aug 2012)
The £29m riddle: Why DID Asil Nadir come back? (26 Aug 2012)
London-listed firms must take corporate responsiblity seriously (26 Aug 2012)
Using Hedge Accounting May Benefit Your Firm (26 Aug 2012)
Cash Moves by HSBC in Inquiry (25 Aug 2012)
HSBC on verge of settling US laundering claims with $1billion (25 Aug 2012)
Insolvency: Mouchel's restructuring deal leaves shareholders with nothing‎ (25 Aug 2012)
Mouchel is a tale of missed opportunity‎ (25 Aug 2012)
Top U.S. tax expert in savage attack on transfer pricing rules (24 Aug 2012)
Bad Grades Are Rising for Auditors‎ (24 Aug 2012)
Businesses wary of proposed lease accounting standardization‎ (24 Aug 2012)
HSBC in talks to settle US money laundering claims (24 Aug 2012)
Stockport council jobs risk as errors create £5m hole in accounts‎ (24 Aug 2012)
Insolvency: Invoice finance firms’ "abuses costing taxpayer millions" (24 Aug 2012)
Mining Firm's Defamation Complaint Is Dismissed‎ (24 Aug 2012)
Gawker publishes audits of Mitt Romney's offshore financial accounts (24 Aug 2012)
KPMG's cuts set out harsh truth about profits‎ (24 Aug 2012)
Sir Malcolm Bruce MP says we want country-by-country reporting, now (23 Aug 2012)
The House of Commons International Development Committee say its time for country-by-country reporting (23 Aug 2012)
SEC Adopts Rules Requiring Payment Disclosures by Resource Extraction Issuers (23 Aug 2012)
Asil Nadir jailed for 10 years for Polly Peck thefts‎ (23 Aug 2012)
Asil Nadir fraud: true scale could exceed £380m, says SFO‎ (23 Aug 2012)
The rise and fall of Nadir's empire‎ (23 Aug 2012)
Two Former Senior Executives of Arthrocare Corp. Arrested in $400 Million Securities Fraud Scheme (23 Aug 2012)
Scientific Games Corp's High Accounting Risk (23 Aug 2012)
SEC Adopts Rule for Disclosing Use of Conflict Minerals (23 Aug 2012)
Accountant jailed over A$5m tax fraud‎ (23 Aug 2012)
CIMA members earn £58k on average in 2012 (23 Aug 2012)
Regulators to clear up advisors' whistleblowing rules (23 Aug 2012)
Polly Peck: the South Sea Company of the 1980s (22 Aug 2012)
Asil Nadir convicted of £29m Polly Peck thefts (22 Aug 2012)
How Asil Nadir stole Polly Peck's millions (22 Aug 2012)
Asil Nadir fraud: true scale could exceed £380m, says SFO (22 Aug 2012)
Tories refuse to repay Polly Peck donations (22 Aug 2012)
Ex-council member to take CIMA to High Court (22 Aug 2012)
US Regulator Says Broker Audits Fail to Include Required Work (22 Aug 2012)
Already Behind The Eight-Ball: Auditors of Broker-Dealers Are A Disaster (22 Aug 2012)
US Accounting industry watchdog finds deficiencies in audits of 23 brokerages (22 Aug 2012)
PCAOB REPORT ON THE PROGRESS OF THE INTERIM INSPECTION PROGRAM RELATED TO AUDITS OF BROKERS AND DEALERS (22 Aug 2012)
Railway users v financial engineers‎ (22 Aug 2012)
Deloitte says accountant's suicide unrelated to Standard Chartered‎ (21 Aug 2012)
Accountability is more important than accounting (21 Aug 2012)
Unfairpak looking for more funding‎ (20 Aug 2012)
Insider dealers ordered to pay £1.5m in confiscation (20 Aug 2012)
Poacher and Gamekeepers: EADS appoints PwC to investigate £2bn Saudi deal (20 Aug 2012)
How IBM manages to pay just 7 per cent tax despite billion pound profits from UK government deals (18 Aug 2012)
Deloitte sees revenues jump as recruitment drive looks to the future (17 Aug 2012)
Accounting disciplinary board drops investigation into Equitable Life actuaries (17 Aug 2012)
SEC Charges Oracle Corporation With FCPA Violations Related to Secret Side Funds in India (16 Aug 2012)
Bribery Chargesheet Against Oracle (16 Aug 2012)
The Accounting Trick Behind Thirty Years of Scandal (15 Aug 2012)
Manganese Bronze loses third of value after revealing hole in accounts (14 Aug 2012)
Manganese Bronze reveals £3.9m accounting error (14 Aug 2012)
STATEMENT FROM BENJAMIN M. LAWSKY, SUPERINTENDENT OF FINANCIAL SERVICES, REGARDING STANDARD CHARTERED BANK (14 Aug 2012)
THE ROLE OF DELOITTES - STANDARD CHARTERED BANK and MONEY LAUNDEIRNG: THE OFFICIAL CHARGESHEET (14 Aug 2012)
PwC faces investigation over RSM Tenon audits (13 Aug 2012)
Practice groups' mixed reaction to ICAEW avoidance guidelines (8 Aug 2012)
Deloitte's role cited in Standard Chartered Iran deceit (6 Aug 2012)
Auditors question PwC reform role (5 Aug 2012)
Rivals question PwC role in EU accounting reforms‎ (5 Aug 2012)
RBS announces losses of £1.5bn and reveals £125m cost of computer glitch (3 Aug 2012)
RBS runs up £310m bill in charges (3 Aug 2012)
RBS mis-selling redress provision one ninth of Barclays' (3 Aug 2012)
Banks face valuation losses as Libor discarded (3 Aug 2012)
Top 50+50 Accounting Firms Income for 2012 (3 Aug 2012)
ICAEW welcomes fair value decision for farmers (3 Aug 2012)
Knight Capital Group in crisis after $440m trading loss‎ (3 Aug 2012)
BHP Billiton writes down shale gas assets by £2.8bn‎ (3 Aug 2012)
Japan's FSA raps Nomura Holdings for confidential data leak (3 Aug 2012)
More Obfuscation: AADB to handle public interest tax avoidance cases‎ (3 Aug 2012)
L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt sells island for £39m amid tax evasion claims (3 Aug 2012)
Former tax boss pleads not guilty to £5m fraud using 'fictitious' scheme (3 Aug 2012)
BAE revenues hit by drop in US and UK demand‎ (3 Aug 2012)
The Peregrine Fraud Case Is Worse Than You Thought‎ (2 Aug 2012)
Olympus facing bribery investigation by US authorities‎ (2 Aug 2012)
Hillshire: Coffee Spinoff Probes Accounting Issues at Brazil Operations (2 Aug 2012)
Rewards for Failure: Auditors To Cash In On Bank Mis-Selling‎ (2 Aug 2012)
Auditor watchdog: US directors can ask for inspection reports (2 Aug 2012)
PCAOB Issues Release Concerning its Inspection Process: Provides approaches an audit committee might consider for initiating or enhancing inspection-related discussions with an audit firm (2 Aug 2012)
PCAOB Offers Advice to Audit Committees on Inspections (2 Aug 2012)
When double-entry accounting gets ugly‎ (2 Aug 2012)
Insolvency: Mouchel shareholders lose out as banks leave them with just 1p per share (2 Aug 2012)
NYSE looks into 'irregular trading' in 140 stocks (2 Aug 2012)
Stock price rebound no bar to fraud damages-US court‎ (2 Aug 2012)
Struggling Thomas Cook reports quarterly loss‎ (2 Aug 2012)
Insolvency: Motorbike clothing retailer Hein Gericke folds‎ (2 Aug 2012)
Polymetal Loses Transfer Pricing Dispute In Russia‎ (2 Aug 2012)
Insider trading increases due to pay freezes (2 Aug 2012)
They like fees for no responsibility: An auditor's mandate does not include detection of fraud‎ (2 Aug 2012)
Online poker sites settle fraud charges for $731m‎ (1 Aug 2012)
Accountants convicted of offshore tax scams (1 Aug 2012)
Olympus Refers Possible Corrupt Practice Incident to US (1 Aug 2012)
US Report on Future of Accounting Education Released (1 Aug 2012)
US Pathways Commission releases final report; three-year implementation begins (1 Aug 2012)
Audit reporting rules could see duel accounting‎ (1 Aug 2012)
Facebook launch 'cost UBS £227m' (1 Aug 2012)
Mouchel misses rescue deal deadline‎ (1 Aug 2012)
Patimas tumbles on unresolved accounting, audit queries‎ (1 Aug 2012)
Former Citigroup Manager Cleared in Mortgage Securities Case (1 Aug 2012)
China local accounting firms see fast growth (1 Aug 2012)
Insolvency: Coryton creditors to get up to 6.4 pct of claims -PwC‎ (1 Aug 2012)

JULY 2012

US probe into Chinese client deals fresh challenge to Deloitte (31 Jul 2012)
Diversity among Analysts Makes Objective of FASB-IASB Lease Accounting Standard (31 Jul 2012)
BP's Deepwater Horizon costs rise $847m‎ (31 Jul 2012)
Fair Value Accounting: Finding the Middle Ground in the Mark-to-Market Accounting‎ (31 Jul 2012)
Former Innospec Exec. Admits to Iraq Bribery Conspiracy‎ (31 Jul 2012)
Bank of America, Barclays, Credit Suisse Sued Over Libor (31 Jul 2012)
Struggling Mouchel in talks with lenders to reduce £180m debts‎ (31 Jul 2012)
OFT issues Statement of Objections against Booking.com, Expedia and Intercontinental Hotels Group (31 Jul 2012)
EC looks to break the audit 'oligopoly' (30 Jul 2012)
HSBC sets aside $2 billion for US, UK problems (30 Jul 2012)
HSBC profits jump on asset sales (30 Jul 2012)
BBC boss in 'secret' champagne dinner paid for by KPMG‎ (30 Jul 2012)
FRS 102 plans take shape as replacement for UK GAAP (30 Jul 2012)
A decade on, is Sarbanes-Oxley working? (30 Jul 2012)
Sarbanes-Oxley 10 Years Later: Boards Are Still the Problem (30 Jul 2012)
The liquidators of Feltex are claiming more than NZ$12 million from auditors Ernst & Young (30 Jul 2012)
FRC Discussion Paper: Towards a Disclosure Framework for the Notes (30 Jul 2012)
Satyam to Pay $12 Million to Aberdeen to Settle Lawsuit‎ (30 Jul 2012)
Fraudulent accountants Skinner and Rowley declared bankrupt‎ (30 Jul 2012)
Ten years after Sarbox, time for an audit of the auditors‎ (30 Jul 2012)
Insolvency: Retail bankruptcies rise 10% as high street cull continues (30 Jul 2012)
Insolvency: More than 1500 construction firms went bust at the beginning of 2012 (30 Jul 2012)
'Britons evaded £200m in tax' using HSBC-owned Swiss bank (29 Jul 2012)
JJB Sports boss Keith Jones steps down‎ (29 Jul 2012)
Companies return record amounts of cash to shareholders - dividend payout forecast for 2012 from £76.3bn to a record-breaking £78.3bn(29 Jul 2012)
The battle for accountancy has begun‎ (29 Jul 2012)
Internal auditor at a major bank: 'In the US they can be very uncooperative' (29 Jul 2012)
HSBC to set aside £600m to cover mis-selling and money laundering scandals (29 Jul 2012)
HSBC is expected to make a $200m (£127m) provision for costs after the bank was forced to apologise for failing to combat money laundering in its US operations (29 Jul 2012)
Accountant who advised TV stars charged with tax fraud‎ (29 Jul 2012)
FTSE remuneration chiefs believe pay is too high ‎ (29 Jul 2012)
Time for Barclays to walk the talk on transparency (27 Jul 2012)
British Banks Under Pressure to Estimate Costs of Libor-Rigging (27 Jul 2012)
Deloitte tribunal appeal over MG Rover tax (27 Jul 2012)
Deloitte denies MG Rover accusations (27 Jul 2012)
Former Ernst & Young accountant struck off for "fraudulently preparing a letter" for his lenders (27 Jul 2012)
David Cameron must force extractive companies to be transparent‎ (27 Jul 2012)
Asil Nadir 'hid Polly Peck theft' behind success (27 Jul 2012)
Six jailed over insider trading in JP Morgan and UBS print room case (27 Jul 2012)
Court tells Rinehart to release tax advice given by PricewaterhouseCoopers (27 Jul 2012)
Another FSA probe at Barclays (27 Jul 2012)
Altera charged $27 million by US IRS for employee cost transfer pricing (27 Jul 2012)
Santander profits halved by Spanish property slump (27 Jul 2012)
BP ordered to pay $3.1bn in damages over Rosneft deal (27 Jul 2012)
FASB and IASB Not Ready to Agree on Impairment (26 Jul 2012)
Lloyds makes half-year loss after upping PPI provision (26 Jul 2012)
Nomura chief resigns following insider-trading scandal‎ (26 Jul 2012)
Mexico fines HSBC $27.5m for lax money-laundering control‎ (26 Jul 2012)
Accounting firms have no business on Facebook‎ (26 Jul 2012)
Leading barrister to face fraud charges over £600k VAT bill (26 Jul 2012)
Liverpool chartered accountant stole nearly £80000 from former exa-soldier (26 Jul 2012)
Two Blows Against Accounting Convergence (25 Jul 2012)
US Losing Most Favored Nation Status with International Accounting Standards (25 Jul 2012)
Will Accounting Charges Spoil Facebook's Earnings Debut?‎ (25 Jul 2012)
Gensler-Peregrine's auditors should have confirmed bank balances (25 Jul 2012)
Regulators Seek Outside Audit Advice After Peregrine Collapse (25 Jul 2012)
HSBC Fined $27.5 Million in Mexican Money-Laundering Probe (25 Jul 2012)
The Self-interest Gene: Audit reforms could lead to less protection, say firms‎ (25 Jul 2012)
Fat Cats: Barclays executive Jerry del Missier given £8.75m pay-off (25 Jul 2012)
Libor scandal: Barclays remuneration chief Alison Carnwath resigns‎ (25 Jul 2012)
Number of women on boards rises by a third (25 Jul 2012)
Manchester United puts off US flotation amid market turmoil‎ (25 Jul 2012)
Six found guilty of operating insider dealing ring (24 Jul 2012)
Insider-dealing ring at UBS and JP Morgan facing jail‎ (24 Jul 2012)
Six convicted of insider dealing by FSA ‎ (24 Jul 2012)
Ex-Anglo Irish Bank Chief Charged With Fraud (24 Jul 2012)
Ex-Anglo Irish head Sean Fitzpatrick held in fraud probe (24 Jul 2012)
Audit Confirmations Helped Unmask Peregrine Fraud (24 Jul 2012)
Is a fair value of fixed assets relevant? (24 Jul 2012)
Are CEOs heeding internal auditors? (24 Jul 2012)
'Shopaholic' accountant Brendan Joyce stole more than £500000 (24 Jul 2012)
Kay report criticises City's short-termism (23 Jul 2012)
Damning verdict on City: 'No longer fit for purpose' (23 Jul 2012)
Stock market review calls for end to cash bonuses and short-termism (23 Jul 2012)
THE KAY REVIEW OF UK EQUITY MARKETS AND LONG-TERM DECISION MAKING (23 Jul 2012)
Tax dodging accountants should be struck off, David Gauke says ‎ (23 Jul 2012)
HMRC to force accountants to hand over names of rich and famous who avoid tax (23 Jul 2012)
Revealed: global super-rich has at least $21 trillion hidden in secret tax havens (22 Jul 2012)
THE PRICE OF OFFSHORE REVISITED: NEW ESTIMATES FOR MISSING GLOBAL PRIVATE WEALTH, INCOME, INEQUALITY, AND LOST TAXES (22 Jul 2012)
Tax havens: Super-rich 'hiding' at least $21tn‎ (22 Jul 2012)
£13tn: hoard hidden from taxman by global elite (22 Jul 2012)
Bank secrecy masks a world of crime and destruction‎ (22 Jul 2012)
Big four banks look unlikely to reveal punishment for scandals as profits rise‎ (22 Jul 2012)
Major Tory donor forced to repay £2million after investing in tax-dodge scheme through a Guernsey trust favoured by footballers and city banks (22 Jul 2012)
HMRC attacked for £390m tax avoidance scheme: HMRC is facing fresh claims over tax avoidance after allegations that Britain’s £22bn recruitment industry is riddled with a multi-million-pound “avoidance” scheme (22 Jul 2012)
Kay review takes on executive pay‎ (22 Jul 2012)
US fraud case against Grant Thornton revived (21 Jul 2012)
New Details On Aegis' $20 Million Accounting Fraud (21 Jul 2012)
Singapore bourse toughens rules in wake of accounting scandals (21 Jul 2012)
China: Rocky road ahead for Big Four‎ (21 Jul 2012)
PCAOB Enters Into Cooperative Agreement with Spanish Audit Regulator (21 Jul 2012)
Congo probe into mining companies' disappearing tax payments (21 Jul 2012)
A company co-owned by former Conservative minister David Mellor defrauded a Russian investor of millions of pounds in a property deal (20 Jul 2012)
US Fraud case vs Grant Thornton over telecom audit revived (20 Jul 2012)
Microsoft reports first public loss after charge for aQuantive writedown‎ (20 Jul 2012)
US fraud case against Grant Thornton revived (20 Jul 2012)
SEC Charges Huron Consulting Group Inc. and Executives With Accounting Violations (20 Jul 2012)
2009 accounting scandal to cost Huron $1M in fines (20 Jul 2012)
Curse of Arthur Andersen Lives On (20 Jul 2012)
Accountants' Liability: KPMG court case strengthen protection on advice (20 Jul 2012)
Arrowhead Capital Finance Limited (in Liquidation) v KPMG LLP (20 Jul 2012)
IASB branded 'not fit for purpose” as it clashes with FASB (20 Jul 2012)
Consultation on post-implementation review of IFRS 8 kicks off (20 Jul 2012)
Global accounting standards (20 Jul 2012)
Morgan Stanley Profit Sinks on Revenue Declines ‎ (20 Jul 2012)
HSBC money laundering: Labour demands trade minister face Lords‎ (20 Jul 2012)
HSBC money laundering: where was the regulator?‎ (20 Jul 2012)
Vested interests Rule: POB rejects EU plans for audit regulation in oversight report (19 Jul 2012)
SEC Charges Mizuho Securities USA with Misleading Investors by Obtaining False Credit Ratings for CDO - pays $127.5 million to settle the SEC’s charges (19 Jul 2012)
PwC Designed Tax Avoidance Program Deemed Illegal (19 Jul 2012)
High Court gives MF Global administrators right to return £54m (19 Jul 2012)
Morgan Stanley's Second Quarter Earnings: Accounting Gimmicks And Collateral Calls (19 Jul 2012)
Big four bingo as the ex-chairman count the crises (19 Jul 2012)
Campaigner fights to get SFO's Equitable Life files (19 Jul 2012)
SEC Vote on IFRS Now Seems Pointless (19 Jul 2012)
Nokia losses deepen to 1.4bn euros in last quarter ‎ (19 Jul 2012)
SEC in Talks with Chinese Regulators on Document Sharing‎ (19 Jul 2012)
PWC, purveyor of tax abuse schemes (18 Jul 2012)
Country-by-country reporting is needed for true and fair accounts – the government just denies it (18 Jul 2012)
Loan-Loss Snag Threatens Progress in Uniting Accounting Rules (18 Jul 2012)
FASB Splits with IASB on Impairment Standards (18 Jul 2012)
The Ostrich Position: FRC Report on Independent Oversight of Regulation of the Audit, Accountancy and Actuarial Professions (18 Jul 2012)
EU queries US seat on global accounting body (18 Jul 2012)
Disciplinary hearing to take place on 26 July 2012: MG Rover Group - Deloitte & Touche, Former Member Firm of ICAEW - Mr Maghsoud Einollahi, Member of ICAEW (18 Jul 2012)
Institutes told to improve audit monitoring visits (18 Jul 2012)
FRC Report to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills for the year to 31 March 2012 (18 Jul 2012)
SEC delays court action seeking Deloitte China audit papers‎ (18 Jul 2012)
Ignite Restaurant Group Announces Restatement and Accounting Review: Non-cash pre-tax lease accounting adjustment of $3.4 to $3.8 million over six years (18 Jul 2012)
The LIBOR Scandal: Are There Lessons for Auditors?‎ (18 Jul 2012)
Equipment Leasing Plan Could Make Lessees Losers‎ (18 Jul 2012)
SEC in Talks with Chinese Regulators on Document Sharing (18 Jul 2012)
Insolvency: Ethel Austin administration puts hundreds of jobs at risk‎ (18 Jul 2012)
Auditors All Fall Down; PFGBest and MF Global Frauds Reveal Weak Watchdogs (17 Jul 2012)
Court blows PwC-marketed tax avoidance scheme out of the water‎ (17 Jul 2012)
The LIBOR Scandal: Are There Lessons for Auditors?‎ (17 Jul 2012)
US accounting pushback seen as temporary delay (17 Jul 2012)
HSBC Exposed U.S. Financial System to Money Laundering, Drug, Terrorist Financing Risks (17 Jul 2012)
HSBC 'acted as financier to drug gangs' - US Senate report (17 Jul 2012)
US Senate report: HSBC 'allowed drug money laundering' (17 Jul 2012)
US Senate Committee Report: U.S. Vulnerabilities to Money Laundering, Drugs, and Terrorist Financing: HSBC Case History (17 Jul 2012)
Suddeutsche reports leak of CD data implicating British Coutts bank in tax evasion (16 Jul 2012)
The UK’s tax profession shows its true colours – and gets edgy on tax dodging (16 Jul 2012)
Olympics Disaster: The G4S Security Scandal And Corporate Sponsors’ £600 Million Tax Avoidance (16 Jul 2012)
Barclays scandal shows flaws at heart of accounting (16 Jul 2012)
Accounting Panel Expresses 'Regret' Over US Stance (16 Jul 2012)
Do Peregrine, MF Global, and JP Morgan's Travails Have Anything in Common?(16 Jul 2012)
MF fundamentals: Accounting regulations that fund schemes must follow (16 Jul 2012)
Big shake-up for 'Big Four'‎ (16 Jul 2012)
The Pinnochio Moment: ICAEW chief executive lashed out at accountants who promote aggressive tax avoidance (16 Jul 2012)
Another PricewaterhouseCoopers Tax Avoidance Scheme Bites the Dust: HOWARD PETER SCHOFIELD v THE COMMISSIONERS FOR HER MAJESTY'S REVENUE AND CUSTOMS (16 Jul 2012)
SEC Staff Publishes Final Report on Work Plan for Global Accounting Standards (15 Jul 2012)
SEC Wary on Global Accounting Standard‎ (15 Jul 2012)
Global Panel 'Regrets' No US Move on Accounting Switch (15 Jul 2012)
This global financial fraud and its gatekeepers‎ (15 Jul 2012)
Agricultural accounting: Getting ready for the new fair value accounting (15 Jul 2012)
Auditors say billions likely wasted in Iraq work‎ (15 Jul 2012)
Accountants and auditors helped £34m tax conman‎ (15 Jul 2012)
Banks: US Is Building Criminal Cases in Rate-Fixing‎ (15 Jul 2012)
Barclays: 'Other banks to face Libor revelations'‎ (15 Jul 2012)
Offshore Tax Havens Cost US Government $100 Billion Per Year‎ (15 Jul 2012)
Peregrine Chief Wasendorf Charged With False Statements (13 Jul 2012)
Peregrine CEO Arrested (13 Jul 2012)
US probing failed broker PFGBest's use of small auditor‎ (13 Jul 2012)
Big four accountancy firms donate £1.9m in services to political parties since 2009 (13 Jul 2012)
JP Morgqan's Botched Trades May Generate $7.5B Loss (13 Jul 2012)
FSA cites tax and accounting in Barclays concern‎ (13 Jul 2012)
G4S fiasco: The firm at centre of the Olympics security shambles 'has seen fee rise almost tenfold to £60million’ (13 Jul 2012)
SEC decision over IFRS kicked into the long grass (13 Jul 2012)
Reebok's 2010 annual report show 2 accounting red flags‎ (13 Jul 2012)
A new lease of life for accounting rules (13 Jul 2012)
PFGBest founder 'attempts suicide as $200m goes missing from accounts' (13 Jul 2012)
Wells Fargo pays $175m in racial bias settlement‎ (13 Jul 2012)
Durable change a long way off for scandal-ridden UK banking system (10 Jul 2012)
Using Freedom of Information Laws to Frustrate Accountability: Two Case Studies of UK Banking Frauds (10 Jul 2012)
A US regulator has frozen the accounts of US futures brokerage Peregrine Financial Group (PFG) (10 Jul 2012)
After MF Global, Another Brokerage Firm Collapses With $200 Million Missing (10 Jul 2012)
Poor Company Accounts: TI study finds the world’s biggest companies need to be a lot more transparent (10 Jul 2012)
TI Report: Transparency in Corporate Reporting Assessing: the World’s largest companies (10 Jul 2012)
Revealed: The £93m City lobby machine (10 Jul 2012)
European Auditor Rotation Debate Hits Cost-Benefit Concerns (10 Jul 2012)
Barclays in tax row over India outsourcing deal‎ (10 Jul 2012)
Lawsuit accuses Indianapolis accounting firm DeWitt & Shrader of fraud (10 Jul 2012)
Embattled fraud office reopens inquiry into Weavering hedge fund (9 Jul 2012)
Most fraud is committed by bosses (9 Jul 2012)
Audit Commission to close before April 2015 (9 Jul 2012)
BP is dragged into SFO 'bribery' investigation (9 Jul 2012)
FBI Says Cartel Used Bank of America to Launder Money‎ (9 Jul 2012)
FBI alleges that a Mexican cocaine-trafficking cartel used accounts at Bank of America to hide money (9 Jul 2012)
Oxford University Press ordered to pay a fine of almost £1.9 million, following the discovery that two of its African subsidiaries had been involved in corrupt activity (9 Jul 2012)
PwC leapfrogs Deloitte as global networks boost revenues‎ (9 Jul 2012)
Bob Diamond would have known about Libor rigging, claims whistleblower (8 Jul 2012)
TRANSCRIPT OF ORAL EVIDENCE TAKEN BEFORE THE TREASURY COMMITTEE: EVIDENCE FROM BARCLAYS CEO BOB DIAMOND ON WEDNESDAY 4 JULY 2012 (8 Jul 2012)
Accounting - should it be a confidence trick? (8 Jul 2012)
Trillions hidden in offshore accounts (8 Jul 2012)
Tax advice group that devised film investment schemes for stars loses £5.5m after tax defeat (8 Jul 2012)
Rihanna sues her former accountants (8 Jul 2012)
BIS knows big financial firms fudge accounts (8 Jul 2012)
Norway will introduce so-called country-by-country reporting (7 Jul 2012)
Barclays insider lifts lid on bank's toxic culture‎ (7 Jul 2012
Satyam scam: SC notice to Sebi on Price Waterhouse auditors plea (7 Jul 2012)
Lloyds to pay extra £8m to savers with defunct Christmas club Farepak‎ (8 Jul 2012)
Wife of multi-millionaire accountant claims her husband faked bankruptcy to avoid divorce settlement (7 Jul 2012)
Olympus faces back taxes of 5 billion yen‎ (7 Jul 2012)
Japan regulator raps KPMG, Ernst & Young for Olympus work (6 Jul 2012)
Japan FSA imposes improvement plans on Olympus auditors (6 Jul 2012)
Where Was Auditor PwC When Its Client Barclays Gamed Libor? (6 Jul 2012)
Delay Seen (Again) For New Rules on Accounting‎ (6 Jul 2012)
PFI will ultimately cost £300bn‎ (6 Jul 2012)
PFI contracts: the full list‎ (6 Jul 2012)
PFI projects set to cost tax payers 'over £300 billion'‎ (6 Jul 2012)
Wells Fargo Boosts Bank Earnings Views (On Accounting Moves)‎ (6 Jul 2012)
Rihanna sues former accountants‎ (6 Jul 2012)
Farepak victims to get compensation of £8m‎ (6 Jul 2012)
Why the heck do we trust in KPMG? (4 Jul 2012)
It’s not just banks that need splitting in two – accounting does too – or we need something much more radical (4 Jul 2012)
Who has the most to answer for on Barclays after the board? Try PWC (4 Jul 2012)
Olympus ordered to pay £40m penalty (4 Jul 2012)
The team would become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Manchester United Ltd, a newly-formed holding company based in the Cayman Islands (4 Jul 2012)
Bob Diamond says banks across the world were fixing interest rates ‎ (4 Jul 2012)
Bankia board faces investigation over corruption claims‎‎ (4 Jul 2012)
Carbon reporting opens floodgate for new revenue streams‎ (4 Jul 2012)
Glaxo whistleblowers to share $250m windfall (4 Jul 2012)
You couldn’t make it up – new chair of HMRC is former KPMG senior partner (3 Jul 2012)
Senior figures at Ernst & Young covered up allegations that the big four accountant bribed a judge to obtain a favourable outcome in a tax trial (3 Jul 2012)
Former partner with Ernst and Young claims that the firm paid moneys to a Russian judge in order to secure a favourable verdict in a tax case (3 Jul 2012)
City devoted to accounting devices which attempt to put a favourable gloss on the underlying situation of firms or their clients, says Adair Turner (3 Jul 2012)
Oxford University Press fined £1.9m over bribery by African subsidiary firms (3 Jul 2012)
Nortel Trial: A matter of auditor judgment (3 Jul 2012)
Barclays' Bob Diamond resigns (3 Jul 2012)
Bank of England 'eased Diamond out' (3 Jul 2012)
Will Bob Diamond get a bumper payoff? Barclays CEO quits ahead of showdown with MPs (3 Jul 2012)
For Accounting Rule Makers Costs Are Clear, Benefits Murky (3 Jul 2012)
Microsoft takes $6.2-billion accounting charge as Internet hopes slow (3 Jul 2012)
Accounts alone cannot tell us what a charity achieves (3 Jul 2012)
Reebok's auditors give co clean chit, say no accounting fraud (3 Jul 2012)
Glaxo pays $3bn for illegally marketing depression drug‎ (3 Jul 2012)
Green Mountain's coffee distributor brews controversy (3 Jul 2012)
Insolvency: Julian Graves health food shop falls into administration (3 Jul 2012)
Banks agree Grant Thornton refinancing‎ (3 Jul 2012)
Banks are serially corrupt. But Vince Cable's shareholder plan won't work (2 Jul 2012)
Barclays Manipulates Libor While Auditor PwC Snoozes‎ (2 Jul 2012)
Scots accountancy firm (Peak Performance Accountants) behind Jimmy Carr tax avoidance scheme to be investigated by authorities (2 Jul 2012)
Political challenge to mark-to-market accounting gains pace‎ (2 Jul 2012)
In Guilty Plea, Peter Madoff Says He Didn't Know About the Fraud‎ (2 Jul 2012)
GlaxoSmithKline to Plead Guilty and Pay $3 Billion to Resolve Fraud Allegations and Failure to Report Safety Data (2 Jul 2012)
Crocodile Tears: ICAEW chief denounces promoters of abusive tax avoidance schemes‎ (2 Jul 2012)
Libor scandal: Now the FBI investigates 14 Barclays bank staff (2 Jul 2012)
Libor scandal and the law (2 Jul 2012)
Sir Mike Rake (ex-KPMG) is to preside over a "root and branch" audit of Barclays' (2 Jul 2012)
Profile: Sir Michael Rake‎ (2 Jul 2012)
Banks Stock Up On Accountants‎ (2 Jul 2012)
Brewer and pub chain Greene King loses up to £9 million in legal battle over tax avoidance scheme bought from its auditors Ernst & Young, who were going to reeive a share of the tax avoided(1 Jul 2012)
GREENE KING plc, GREENE KING ACQUISITIONS LIMITED v THE COMMISSIONERS FOR HER MAJESTY’S REVENUE AND CUSTOMS (1 Jul 2012)
Vince Cable tells shareholders: throw out bank cheats (1 Jul 2012)
SEC Charges Hedge Fund Billionaire Phil Falcone (1 Jul 2012)
Mark-to-market: JPMorgan's Trading Losses May Be Bigger Than Expected (1 Jul 2012)
Tax breaks are missed by 33% of small firms, new research suggests (1 Jul 2012)
Corporate accounting for pollution possible within a decade‎ (1 Jul 2012)

JUNE 2012

SEC official backs shareholders on auditor independence (30 Jun 2012)
Ex-Citigroup Executive Foster Gets Eight Year-Term For Fraud (30 Jun 2012)
SEC Charges Peter Madoff With Fraud and False Statements to Regulators (30 Jun 2012)
Ed Miliband calls for public inquiry into banks‎ (30 Jun 2012)
UK Ministers to order Libor bank rate review‎ (30 Jun 2012)
Ernst & Young schemes: Brewer and pub chain Greene King loses up to £9 million in legal battle over tax avoidance scheme (30 Jun 2012)
Ernst & Young tax avoidance scheme fails : Greene King plc v HMRC (30 Jun 2012)
Barclays did not act despite THREE warnings over Libor‎ (30 Jun 2012)
PCAOB Hears Further Debate over Audit Firm Rotation (30 Jun 2012)
FRC launches consultation on changes to its disciplinary Schemes (30 Jun 2012)
Doctors, lawyers and accountants turn to payday loans to tide themselves over (30 Jun 2012)
The Auditing Racket: Ireland allowing the four big auditing firms to divide up and pass around the auditing of State-owned institutions (29 Jun 2012)
Big Four banks admit to mis-selling interest rate swaps‎ (29 Jun 2012)
Barclays missold financial products to small businesses (29 Jun 2012)
Banks 'guilty of serious failings' in small-business sales (29 Jun 2012)
20 more banks were rigging interest rates: British bankers now facing criminal inquiry over scandal that was kept secret for years (29 Jun 2012)
Switching auditors not enough to end fraud-experts‎ (29 Jun 2012)
Cable asks FSA to look at role of HBOS in collapse of Farepak (29 Jun 2012)
To maximise shared value, companies should examine how long-term competitiveness can also help address critical social problems (29 Jun 2012)
HMRC wrote off more than £5 billion in uncollected tax (29 Jun 2012)
HMRC Annual Report and Accounts 2011-12 (29 Jun 2012)
Yurun Denies Allegations of Accounting Misstatements (29 Jun 2012)
International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation, parent entity of the mighty International Accounting Standard Board, made a £460,000 provision last year for a potential tax settlement with Britain’s HM Revenue and Customs (28 Jun 2012)
Using 'economic accounting' helps Deutsche to double the returns of dividend benchmarks (28 Jun 2012)
Asil Nadir says doctors warned him against return to UK‎ (28 Jun 2012)
Tesco Boss Faces Grilling from Shareholders (28 Jun 2012)
Internal Audits: Regulators tighten up bank in-house checks‎ (28 Jun 2012)
Diamond Foods' board sued over financial problems (28 Jun 2012)
Tax affairs of more than 4000 UK companies being probed (28 Jun 2012)
Ernst & Young Tx Avoidance Schemes: Tax ruling dampens Greene King results (28 June 2012)
Tax officials reveal scale of UK probe‎ (28 Jun 2012
Madoff's Brother to Plead Guilty to Criminal Charges (28 Jun 2012)
EU shadow economy estimated to be around one fifth of GDP on average (€2 trillion) (28 Jun 2012)
Barclays rate-rigging scandal shows the 'corruption at the heart of banking (28 Jun 2012)
Barclays must face criminal investigation, says Ed Miliband (28 Jun 2012)
SEC Decision on International Accounting Standards Appears Close (27 Jun 2012)
Vodafone faces tax payment row‎ (27 Jun 2012)
Barclays fined $450 million for attempts to manipulate key bank rates (27 Jun 2012)
Key emails: how Barclays manipulated Libor (27 Jun 2012)
Nadir claims Polly Peck 'was not insolvent' during fraud trial (27 Jun 2012)
I had £70m to save Polly Peck, claims former fugitive Nadir (27 Jun 2012)
Asil Nadir suspected of trying to bribe judge in first trial (27 Jun 2012)
New auditors for FTSE companies (27 Jun 2012)
Why Better Reporting Won't Lead to Healthier Pensions (27 Jun 2012)
TRANSFER PRICING: WILL THE OECD ADJUST TO REALITY? (27 Jun 2012)
Xstrata and Glencore rewrite £50bn merger to stem shareholder revolt (27 Jun 2012)
FRC receives green light to reform its structure‎ (27 Jun 2012)
RBS directors including Fred Goodwin dismiss £3bn shareholder lawsuit (27 Jun 2012)
Rogue trader Jerome Kerviel faces five years in prison‎ (27 Jun 2012)
Decline in percentage of fee income for non-audit work for audit clients (26 Jun 2012)
Big Four non-audit fee income falls (26 Jun 2012)
Key Facts and Trends in the UK Accountancy Profession (26 June 2012)
US Companies See Rise in Audit Fees (26 Jun 2012)
SEC to Take Position in 'Weeks, if Not Days' on International Accounting Standards (26 Jun 2012)
Banned Kaupthing directors could run a bank again in 16 months (26 Jun 2012)
Gen Re, AIG Defendants Win Approval of Fraud Dismissals (26 Jun 2012)
Reform of the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) approved by parliament (26 Jun 2012)
Audit Reports: IAASB proposed mandatory auditor commentary‎ (26 Jun 2012)
SMEs Warm to GAAP Alternatives (26 Jun 2012)
More high-street shops poised to go bankrupt, insolvency body warns (26 Jun 2012)
The bottom fith of the UK households paid 38.2% of their income in taxes compared to 33.6% for the richest fifth (26 Jun 2012)
Norway will introduce so-called country-by-country reporting, which means that companies abroad must report the payments to foreign governments (25 Jun 2012)
New Look wins 'breathing space' from banks‎ (25 Jun 2012)
RBS boss blames software upgrade for account problems‎ (25 Jun 2012)
10 of the world’s most powerful oil, gas and mining companies own a staggering 6,038 subsidiaries with over a third located in ‘secrecy jurisdictions’ (25 Jun 2012)
New lease accounting would show more expense on balance sheets‎ (25 Jun 2012)
IAASB Offers Model for Future Auditor's Report‎ (25 Jun 2012)
NHS trust to be put in 'special measures' over £150m debt‎ (25 Jun 2012)
South London Healthcare faces being dissolved‎ (25 Jun 2012)
Top Tory donor Michael Hintze company earns £125million but only pays £77,000 tax in Britain‎ (24 Jun 2012)
ACCA and its anti-social policies: It attacks the UK governemnt for clamping down on tax avoidance (24 Jun 2012)
Farepak trial collapse: who's to blame (24 Jun 2012)
Probe ordered into allegations against Rangers administration accountants (24 Jun 2012)
Insolvency: Rangers in crisis: judge puts administrators Duff and Phelps under report (24 Jun 2012)
US companies urged to put natural capital in accounts (24 Jun 2012)
Lehman audit investigator takes no action against Ernst & Young‎ (23 Jun 2012)
US Judge Approves Lehman Settlement‎ (23 Jun 2012)
Accountancy firms in eye of the storm on tax avoidance (23 Jun 2012)
Former AIG Executives in a Deal Ending Prosecution (23 Jun 2012)
Gen Re, AIG Defendants Seek to Avoid Fraud Retrial (23 Jun 2012)
Tax avoidance, and the secret of bad British film‎ (23 Jun 2012)
JPMorgan's Profit Is Scarier Than Its Loss (22 Jun 2012)
No action should be taken against Ernst & Young for Lehamn audits (22 Jun 2012)
Ernst & Young Cleared by UK Regulator Over Lehman Work (22 Jun 2012)
ConAgra Swings to 4Q Loss on Pension Accounting Change (22 Jun 2012)
Banking without morals hits Farepak victims‎ (22 Jun 2012)
Italy's watchdog questions Fondiaria-SAI 2011 accounts (22 Jun 2012)
Three jailed for £9m Sainsbury's potato scam‎ (22 Jun 2012)
Hancock audit might need auditing (22 Jun 2012)
Guilty plea in multi-million dollar US accounting fraud scheme (22 Jun 2012)
Financial Reporting Council publishes report on 'A single figure for executive remuneration' (22 Jun 2012)
Moody's downgrades 15 major banks, including Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays, Lloyds and HSBC (22 Jun 2012)
'World of accounting imprecise,' Hoogervorst says (21 Jun 2012)
'The imprecise world of accounting' (21 Jun 2012)
Accounting transparency:EP vote for tougher EU rules would reduce scope for unethical corporations and tax avoidance
(21 Jun 2012)
Farepak farce heaps humiliation on Cable and his Insolvency Service (21 Jun 2012)
Farepak collapse caused by bankers, says judge (21 Jun 2012)
Farepak collapse: Judge partly blames HBOS bank‎ (21 Jun 2012)
Farepak: festive tale with an unhappy ending (21 Jun 2102)
Insider dealing trio sentenced to over five years - former Deloitte partner involved (21 Jun 2012)
Post-Convergence, IASB to Focus on Confusing Standards (21 Jun 2012)
Lawsuits against Healthcare Locums persist (21 Jun 2012)
'Out of balance' accounts under the microscope at Nortel trial (21 Jun 2012)
Film funding tax scheme abuse 'risking' UK inland revenue '£5bn at least'‎ (21Jun 2012)
Fat Cats: Xstrata's £173m bonus payments branded 'excessive' by ABI‎ (21 Jun 2012)
Vince Cable forces binding executive pay votes (20 Jun 2012)
Vince Cable's new executive pay rules branded a 'climbdown' (20 Jun 2012)
Executive pay rules 'could have unintended consequences'(20 Jun 2012)
Out-of-balance accounts under the microscope at Nortel trial (20 Jun 2012)
K2 Avoidance scheme ring-fences £168m from UK taxman (20 Jun 2012)
Take That stars 'put £26million in tax shelters'‎ (20 Jun 2012)
SEC seeks Big 4 audit papers from China (20 Jun 2012)
The effectiveness of internal audit in central government (20 Jun 2012)
National Audit Office Report: The effectiveness of internal audit in central government (20 Jun 2012)
NAO finds flaws in central government internal audit (20 Jun 2012)
One in five pension schemes report fraud‎ (20 Jun 2012)
Concern over growing range of pension accounting assumptions (20 Jun 2012)
Thousands of rich people in the UK are paying 1% income tax using "below the raider" accounting methods (20 Jun 2012)
US politicians attack 'London loophole' as JP Morgan boss explains $2bn loss (20 Jun 2012)
Court case against ex-Healthcare Locums CFO dropped (20 Jun 2012)
Country--by--Country Reporting Accounting for globalisation locally (19 Jun 2012)
The role of the Big 4 firms of accountants - PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC), Deloitte, Ernst & Young (E&Y) and KPMG – in the creation of the offshore secrecy space (19 Jun 2012)
Investors edge towards Centro payout(19 Jun 2012)
2.5 million professional accountants in the world (19 Jun 2012)
Comedian Jimmy Carr 'has £3.3m in Jersey tax avoidance scheme' (19 Jun 2012)
Hong Kong auditors battle against criminal liability law‎ (19 Jun 2012)
KPMG told to improve audit of impairments (19 Jun 2012)
Public Report on the 2011/12 inspection of KPMG LLP and KPMG Audit LLP (19 Jun 2012)
PwC warned to improve in-house audit training by FRC (19 Jun 2012)
Public Report on the 2011/12 inspection of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (19 Jun 2012)
AIU warns Deloitte against compromising audit quality (19 Jun 2012)
Public Report on the 2011/12 inspection of Deloitte LLP (19 Jun 2012)
FRC raises concerns in Ernst & Young audit review‎ (19 Jun 2012)
Public Report on the 2011/12 inspection of Ernst & Young LLP (19 Jun 2012)
FRC Audit Quality Inspections: Annual Report 2011/12 (19 Jun 2012)
International Auditing Board Seeks Facelift for Auditors' Boiler-Plate (19 Jun 2012)
Fraud in Chinese projects involving foreign loans uncovered (19 Jun 2012)
Gupta insider case puts focus on monitoring board members, financial-crisis challenges (19 Jun 2012)
Spain Delaying Full Bank Audit to September - Central Bank‎ (19 Jun 2012)
FSA 'lobbies on behalf of City firms it regulates'‎ (19 Jun 2012)
Calling Time: SABMiller should stop dodging taxes in Africa (19 Jun 2012)
FORMULARY APPORTIONMENT – MYTHS AND PROSPECTS (19 Jun 2012)
Brazil’s Approach to Transfer Pricing: A Viable Alternative to the Status Quo? (19 Jun 2012)
Challenging the Transfer Pricing Status Quo: The Case for Combined Reporting (19 Jun 2012)
Taxation of Multinational Banks Using Formulary Apportionment to Reflect Economic Reality (Part 1) (19 Jun 2012)
Fixing Double Nontaxation Under The Transfer Pricing Guidelines (19 Jun 2012)
The Two Worlds of Transfer Pricing Policymaking (19 Jun 2012)
It’s Not Just Academic: The OECD Should Reevaluate Transfer Pricing Laws (19 Jun 2012)
Making Transfer Pricing Work for Developing Countries (19 Jun 2012)
Untangling Double Taxation in Transfer Pricing Policymaking (19 Jun 2012)
Pragmatic Transfer Pricing for Developing Countries (19 Jun 2012)
A Two-Option Compromise for Intangibles Pricing Guidelines (19 Jun 2012)
Global Witness calls for action to end hidden company ownership in light of money laundering accusations (18 Jun 2012)
GRAVE SECRECY: How a dead man can own a UK company and other hair-raising stories about hidden company ownership from Kyrgystan and beyond (18 Jun 2012)
Policymakers must tighten rules on expense accounting (18 Jun 2012)
A$200m Centro settlement before judge - PricewaterhouseCoopers to make a huge payout (18 Jun 2012)
OECD: Financial crimes, including corruption, tax fraud and money laundering are 3.6% of global GDP (18 Jun 2012)
Missing trader intra-Community fraud explained (18 Jun 2012)
Insolvency Sharks: Accountants with insolvency expertise saw the largest salary increases last year (18 Jun 2012)
Households £34 a month worse off as slow wage growth cancels out falling inflation‎ (18 Jun 2012)
McKesson Ex-Chief McCall Loses Supreme Court Fraud Appeal‎ (18 Jun 2012)
RSM Tenon shifts listing to speed up deal-making (18 Jun 2012)
SFO drops investigation into Vincent Tchenguiz‎ (18 Jun 2012)
Morgan Stanley May Settle Sisters of Charity UK Bond Lawsuit (18 Jun 2012)
Vince Cable: RBS report recommends prosecution (17 Jun 2012)
Israeli banks in Europe cited in alleged US tax evasion (17 Jun 2012)
British banks vulnerable to private sector debt crisis in Spain and Italy‎ (17 Jun 2012)
Accountancy cannot stop reckless lending‎ (17 Jun 2012)
Can councils make their accounts digestible to the public? (16 Jun 2012)
Insolvency: Allders department store falls into administration‎ (16 Jun 2012)
Ex-Goldman director Gupta found guilty of insider trading (16 Jun 2012)
Trust linked to Gulf Keystone chief 'forgets' £12m share sale (16 Jun 2012)
10pc of UK audits are failing, according to new report from watchdog (15 Jun 2012)
Former Goldman Sachs director GUILTY of insider trading in largest ever hedge fund fraud case (15 Jun 2012)
Lease Accounting Change Renews Rules vs. Principles Debate‎ (15 Jun 2012)
How to Say 'Deceptive Accounting' in Spanish‎ (15 Jun 2012)
Abraham Briloff: Champion of Accounting and Accountability‎ (15 Jun 2012)
Abraham Briloff: More Fizzle Than Sizzle‎ (15 Jun 2012)
AIU highlights automation concerns at KPMG (15 Jun 2012)
AIU tells E&Y to train staff on goodwill impairment (15 Jun 2012)
AIU warns PwC over reducing audit hours (15 Jun 2012)
Company audits do not question "racy" judgements (15 Jun 2012)
Allen Stanford sentenced to 110 years in jail‎ (15 Jun 2012)
Allen Stanford gets 110-year prison sentence for $7 billion fraud (15 Jun 2012)
Former Chief Financial Officer of Taylor, Bean & Whitaker Sentenced to 60 Months in Prison for Fraud Scheme (15 Jun 2012)
FRC: Big Four risk swapping quality for quantity in audits (15 Jun 2012)
New Zealand: Witness recall looms in Skinner and Rowley accounting fraud case (15 Jun 2012)
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Agreement with BDO USA LLP To Pay $50 Million To Resolve Federal Tax Fraud Investigations (14 Jun 2012)
BDO Admits Generating $6.5 Billion In Phony Tax Shelter Losses, Pays $50 Million(14 Jun 2012)
BDO Seidman to Pay $50 Million in Deferred Prosecution (14 Jun 2012)
Accounting rules place box ticking above prudence (14 Jun 2012)
Accounting Boards Agree to Compromise Over Leases (14 Jun 2012)
FASB and IASB Resolve Disagreement on Lease Expenses (14 Jun 2012)
HMRC failures 'led to billions in lost tax' (14 Jun 2012)
UK Taxman criticized for Goldman tax deal (14 Jun 2012)
National Audit Office Press Release and Report: Settling large tax disputes (14 Jun 2012)
Uncontrolled Risk Taking, Not Bad Accounting, Did MF Global In‎ (14 Jun 2012)
UK Treasury has released a copy of the illustrative examples which left George Osborne "shocked" about wealthy tax avoidance (14 Jun 2012)
Illustrative Examples of Tax Avoidance by Millionaires (14 Jun 2012)
Non-members allowed onto CIMA council (14 Jun 2012)
Fifth of voters against ICAEW fee increase‎ (14 Jun 2012)
Former President Of International Outdoor Advertising Company Pleads Guilty In Manhattan Federal Court To Participating In $19.75 Million Accounting Fraud Scheme (14 Jun 2012)
New Zealand: Witness recall looms in Skinner and Rowley accounting fraud case (14 Jun 2012)
Nortel Trial: Auditor says 'macho' culture was problematic (14 Jun 2012)
UK Audit firms rebuked for slapdash work (13 Jun 2012)
FRC fires warning shot over audit quality (13 Jun 2012)
Bank audits need to be more critical - watchdog (13 Jun 2012)
UK Audit Quality Inspections: Annual Report 2011/12 (13 Jun 2012)
Deloitte to Settle Bear Stearns Case (13 Jun 2012)
Auditors of JPMorgan Should be Testifying Before Congress (13 Jun 2012)
Nothing Learnt: Sharman (ex KPMG) hands auditors enhanced going concern role (13 Jun 2012)
Auditor and Going Concern: Sharman panel publishes final report and recommendations (13 Jun 2012)
ING Bank N.V. Agrees to Forfeit $619 Million for Illegal Transactions with Cuban and Iranian Entities (13 Jun 2012)
UK-backed banks not obliged to warn investors‎ (13 Jun 2012)
JD Sports sales rise but it expects to lose up to £15m on Blacks ‎ (13 Jun 2012)
Australia Watchdog accuses auditor of conflicts‎ (13 Jun 2012)
Nortel executives clashed over accounting entries‎ (13 Jun 2012)
Not just “how” but “why”: A personal reflection on business ethics and the crisis (13 Jun 2012)
Fat Cats: WPP shareholders vote against £6.8m pay packet for Sir Martin Sorrell‎ (13 Jun 2012)
Fat Cats: France caps pay at state companies at $560000 (13 Jun 2012)
Deloitte Beefs Up China Workforce, Defends Auditing Record‎ (13 Jun 2012)
US City Sues Accounting Firm over Bungled Audits ‎ (13 Jun 2012)
WPP shareholders vote against £6.8m pay packet for Sir Martin Sorrell‎ (13 Jun 2012)
Norway becomes first OGP country to open its company data… and Belgium announces it will too (13 Jun 2012)
Birmingham City's accounts questioned by auditors‎ (13 Jun 2012)
How a flawed ideology provided cover for an epidemic of financial crime - Big auditing firms provide a perfect cover for white collar crime in exchange for inflated audit fees (12 Jun 2012)
FTSE 100 mining company ENRC must openly address Congo corruption concerns (12 Jun 2012)
Accounting Big 4 'a threat to democracy' as they help companies avoid tax (12 Jun 2012)
India Serious Frauds Investigation Office to probe KPMG role in Reebok case (12 Jun 2012)
KPMG UK chairman John Griffith-Jones to head Financial Conduct Authority (12 Jun 2012)
Deloitte Settles Bear Stearns Lawsuit for $19.9 Million (12 Jun 2012)
Stanford Victims Coalition Question Grant Thornton (12 Jun 2012)
Insolvency firms 'mis-selling to vulnerable Scots debtors' (12 Jun 2012)
OECD: Dealing Effectively with the Challenges of Transfer Pricing (12 Jun 2012)
India MNCs get flexibility in transfer pricing (12 Jun 2012)
OECD Working Party No. 6 releases a discussion draft on the Transfer Pricing Aspects of Intangibles (12 Jun 2012)
OppenheimerFunds to Pay $35 Million to Settle SEC Charges for Misleading Statements During Financial Crisis (11 Jun 2012)
Poachers and Gamekeepers - Reward for audiitng HBOS and Bradford and Bingley: KPMG chair John Griffith-Jones to head new market body (11 Jun 2012)
MoD under fire for employing more accountants than officers while frontline servicemen are being axed (11 Jun 2012)
Arguments against auditor rotation appear desperate‎ (11 Jun 2012)
EU backs adoption of revised IAS 19, Employee Benefits (11 Jun 2012)
Innospec Ltd: Former CEO admits making corrupt payments (11 Jun 2012)
Former chief executive of Innospec has pleaded guilty to paying bribes to officials in Iraq and Indonesia (11 Jun 2012)
Vince Cable signals easing of binding votes on executive pay (11 Jun 2012)
Olympus Whistleblower Woodford Gets $15M Settlement (11 Jun 2012)
Vodafone Paid No U.K. Corporation Tax in 2011, Sunday Times Says‎ (10 Jun 2012)
Vodafone paid zero UK corporation tax last year (10 Jun 2012)
Vodafone paid no corporation tax in the UK, but its chief executive saw his pay package more than double from £6.6m to over £14m last year (10 Jun 2012)
A LOAN firm who helped to set up Rangers’ notorious tax avoidance scheme were called Deepwater - Jersey based accountancy firm involved (10 Jun 2012)
Mahindra Satyam has filed a suit against its former Board of Directors, certain employees and audit firm PriceWaterhouse (10 Jun 2012)
Fat Cats: WPP rebels set to force cut in Sorrell's £29m pay award (10 Jun 2012)
Avoiding US Corporate Taxes with the Dutch Sandwich: Overseas Profits: When a 95% Tax Cut Doesn't Cut It (10 Jun 2012)
UK Revenue confident of being cleared on 'sweetheart' tax deals‎ (10 Jun 2012)
Accusations of 'Systemic Institutionalised Fraud' at RBS Fall on Deaf Ears (9 Jun 2012)
Accounting Backfired at MF Global‎ (9 Jun 2012)
Financial risk models that underpin market behaviour, economic theory and bank regulation dangerously underestimate the threat to taxpayers (9 Jun 2012)
Bear Stearns Shareholders Agree to Settle Suit for $275 Million‎ (9 Jun 2012)
Brazilian bank fraud hits mid-tier‎ (9 Jun 2012)
Mexico accounting regulator says no fraud at Pemex (9 Jun 2012)
FD leaves as CSC deals with NHS accounting errors (8 Jun 2012)
NAPF hits out at plans for bank-style pension reporting requirements (8 Jun 2012)
Bungled mergers could lead to restatements (8 Jun 2012)
US court awarded Aqua Finance $50 million after the company accused accounting firm Baker Tilly Virchow Krause of costing it tens of millions of dollars in profits (8 Jun 2012)
A dismal jubilee: Barclays shares lower than 60 years ago‎ (8 Jun 2012)
UBS 'rogue' trader Kweku Adoboli to be bailed‎ (8 Jun 2012)
Fat Cats: Former Olympus chief gets £10m payoff (8 Jun 2012)
Insolvency: Clinton Cards loses 400 jobs as more stores close ‎(8 Jun 2012)
Accountant spirited away £3/4million (8 Jun 2012)
Lloyds faces 'significant' losses on £112m Luminar debts (7 Jun 2012)
Blackstone, Morgan Stanley To Buy $1.8 Billion Lloyd's Loan Book (7 Jun 2012)
As local government prepares for the end of the Audit Commission and a new private market, there are warning signs from the NHS experience (7 Jun 2012)
Network Rail profits and debts rise (7 Jun 2012)
FRC consults on actuarial assumptions used in pension scheme projections (7 Jun 2012)
Insolvency: MF Global payouts could take 6 years‎ (7 Jun 2012)
China 'hire local' rule staring at Big 4 auditors‎ (7 Jun 2012)
MF Global – epicentre London (6 Jun 2012)
UK needs new accounting rules for banks - BoE's Haldane (6 Jun 2012)
US Regulator reviews JPMorgan's disclosures (6 Jun 2012)
Barclays bankers among 20 people charged with £198m 'tax fraud' in Italy (6 Jun 2012)
Audit Firm Deficiencies Have More than Doubled‎ (6 Jun 2012)
Time for audit of auditing practices‎ (6 Jun 2012)
Former Madoff employee pleads guilty in tax fraud scheme‎ (6 Jun 2012
Expected-loss model "well on the way", says IASB‎ (6 Jun 2012)
IASB Sees Expected Loss Model Coming for Impairment‎ (6 Jun 2012)
Ladbrokes sacks betting-odds boss following investigation‎ (6 Jun 2012)
South Africa: 'Much to be done' in black accountants tally‎ (6 Jun 2012)
Fat Cats: Pay for finance directors soars by 9.5% to £1.6million… with average bonus 127% of salary (6 Jun 2012)
Banks hit back at PIRC's £40bn accounting loss claim‎ (6 Jun 2012)
Afren shareholders revolt over pay for the third year running (6 Jun 2012)
UK accounting like trying to pin tail on boisterous donkey (5 Jun 2012)
BoE's Andrew Haldane calls for reforms in bank accounting rules‎ (5 Jun 2012)
UK banks sitting on £40bn of undeclared losses‎ (5 Jun 2012)
Let's turn up the heat before accounting books are cooked‎ (5 Jun 2012)
Barclays staff and top Italian banker Alessandro Profumo on trial over 'tax fraud (5 Jun 2012)
Public sector accounting practices still leave ordinary citizens baffled‎ (5 Jun 2012)
The ex-head of defunct law firm Jenkens & Gilchrist's Chicago office and the former top executive at accounting firm BDO Seidman LLP will get a new trial after a juror lied to sit on their high-profile tax-shelter- fraud case (5 Jun 2012)
Bank investors glum at taking back seat‎ (5 Jun 2012)
Brazil: another bank, another “accounting irregularity”‎ (5 Jun 2012)
Qantas issues shock profit warning‎ (5 Jun 2012)
Change in accounting principles may hit companies' ability to borrow‎ (5 Jun 2012)
MF Global's Jon Corzine 'could face negligence charge'‎ (5 Jun 2012)
Austerity – ensuring we are not all in it together (4 Jun 2012)
Insolvent Abuse: Wood Green in London: a Court of fair trials and justice or partiality and corruption? (4 Jun 2012)
Accountants ignored company law and protected bankers (4 Jun 2012)
Rewards for Failure: "Big Four" to audit Spain's banking sector‎ (4 Jun 2012)
IASB doubts new rules will ease boom-bust‎ (4 Jun 2012)
It's time we had an audit of our auditing practices‎ (4 Jun 2012)
Mexican lawmakers accuse Pemex of US$30-billion fraud (4 Jun 2012)
China Audits show malpractice by Big 4-responsible SOEs‎ (4 Jun 2012)
Jerome Kerviel appeals €4.9bn SocGen rogue trading scandal‎ (4 Jun 2012)
Overhaul role of pay advisers, urges Lord Myners‎ (4 Jun 2012)
In the corporate pay row, remuneration consultants are the arms dealers (4 Jun 2012)
Are corporate pay advisers worth it? For and against‎ (4 Jun 2012)
Big four break-up? One blue-chip has been with its auditor 122 years: PricewaterhouseCoopers ha audited Unilever since 1890 (3 Jun 2012)
Global accounting rules – an unfeasible aim‎ (3 Jun 2012)
New pension accounting rules casting a shadow‎ (3 Jun 2012)
Smaller councils want new agency to appoint their auditors‎ (3 Jun 2012)
SEC defers implementation of new accounting standards (3 Jun 2012)
UK Investors did not challenge banks in 2011‎ (3 Jun 2012)
Accounting Should Guide Volcker Rule on What Counts as a Hedge‎ (3 Jun 2012)
Country-by-country reporting: the most definitive report to date (2 Jun 2012)
Accountant wants a ‘bare knuckle fight’ on tax justice (2 Jun 2012)
A Challenge to the insolvency industry: Ultimatum to the Court - Let's Get on With It (2 Jun 2012)
Irish stockbroker Bloxham forced to close after accounting errors‎ (2 Jun 2012)
Adidas' Reebok Business in India Faces Fraud Investigation‎ (2 Jun 2012)
Vote against AICPA seats on CIMA council, urges ex-president‎ (2 Jun 2012)
When will the profession change? (2 Jun 2012)
'Cop-out' to say auditors can't do more: Grant Thornton CEO‎ (2 Jun 2012
Insolvency: Fitness First plans CVA for 81 clubs with 750 jobs put in the balance (2 Jun 2012)
Insolvency: Camera retailer Cecil Jacobs goes into administration‎ (2 Jun 2012)
Liquidators have been called in for the first time by the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) to help it collect outstanding £1.7m in tax (2 Jun 2012)

MAY 2012

Auditors must be held to account (31 May 2012)
Bloxham: Auditors need to keep an eye on their own backyard‎ (31 May 2012)
Hedge fund boss ordered to pay £289m for defrauding investors (31 May 2012)
Weavering boss Magnus Peterson committed fraud (31 May 2012)
Duff & Phelps liquidators win $450m for Weavering Capital (31 May 2012)
Reebok India fraud referred to Serious Fraud Investigation Office (31 May 2012)
Reebok India fraud case: SFIO, ICAI to probe auditors' role (31 May 2012)
More ineffective gestures: FRC sets path for audit scrutiny‎ (31 May 2012)
FASB and IASB narrow lessee accounting model options‎ (31 May 2012)
The Final Straw: Break Up the Banks‎ (31 May 2012)
Court papers show SEC's Green Mountain probe isn't over (31 May 2012)
RBS investors face lifetime wait to see shares recover (31 May 2012)
Fraud-hit Olympus 'plans 2500 job cuts'‎ (31 May 2012)
Ex-DEFRA head takes Insolvency Service CEO role‎ (31 May 2012)
Shadow banking, part 1: Failure to reform shadows hurts economy, endangers financial markets (31 May 2012)
Shadow Banking and the Limits of Central Bank Liquidity Support: How to Achieve a Better Balance between Global and Official Liquidity (31 May 2012)
The Nonbank-Bank Nexus and the Shadow Banking System (31 May 2012)
Shadow Banking and Bank Capital Regulation (31 May 2012)
EUROPEAN COMMISSION GREEN PAPER: SHADOW BANKING (31 May 2012)
You can do your bit for country-by-country reporting right now (30 May 2012)
Scrutiny of audit firms over crisis is critical‎ (30 May 2012)
Insolvency: Administrators to run up £17.9m bill at Rangers‎ (30 May 2012)
Auditing barrier is more like a gateway (30 May 2012)
Rangers in crisis: Administrators Duff & Phelps have run up £5m bill (30 May 2012)
Aqua Finance's $327M lawsuit against accounting firm Baker Tilly nears decision‎ (30 May 2012)
US Appeals Court Slaps Accounting Firm for Tax 'Screw Up'‎ (30 May 2012)
Could Dewey Bankruptcy Happen to an Accounting Firm? (30 May 2012)
Hedge fund 'liar' Alberto Micalizzi fined record £3m and banned‎ (30 May 2012)
TRANSFER PRICING: WILL THE OECD ADJUST TO REALITY? (29 May 2012)
Accounting for Hastie's Problems (29 May 2012)
Deloitte faces questions over Hastie collapse (29 May 2012)
Thomas Cook shareholders agree £330m sell-off‎ (29 May 2012)
Whistleblower Michael Woodford settles with Olympus (29 May 2012)
Deutsche Bank Accused of Improper Swap Sales in Unitech Lawsuit (29 May 2012)
US probe into whether BP lied to Congress over Gulf spill (29 May 2012)
Deloitte overtakes PwC as FTSE 250 auditor (29 May 2012)
$1 Billion Quantek Asset Management Hedge Fund Adviser Charged for Misleading Investors About "Skin in the Game" and Related-Party Deals (29 May 2012)
Accounting, it's so creative (28 May 2012)
Ireland's oldest stockbroking firm ordered to cease trading (28 May 2012)
Bloxham (audited by Deloitte) Ceases Regulated Activities After Overstating Income (28 May 2012)
Bloxham Suspends Operations Amid Probe Into Irregularities (28 May 2012)
Transocean Has A Major Accounting Problem (And Many Others)‎ (28 May 2012)
How a A$20 million fraud took down construction firm Hastie Group (28 May 2012)
Hastie auditors (Deloitte) come under fire following collapse (28 May 2012)
Deloiite collected A$2.1 million: Hastie Group Limited Annual financial report for the year ended 30 June 2011 (28 May 2012)
NZ Investors wrest $9m from PwC‎ (28 May 2012)
Grant Thornton's role in Tchenguiz case questioned (28 May 2012)
Mining firm Hargreaves Services issues profit warning‎ (28 May 2012)
Ex-Olympus CEO Woodford Said to Seek $60 Million in Lawsuit (28 May 2012)
UK Banks received 'implicit' taxpayer subsidy of up to £220bn, Bank of England says (28 May 2012)
Tweedie: Auditors must change “golf course” perception‎ (28 May 2012)
Lack of raids by Serious Fraud Office questioned‎ (28 May 2012)
Insolvency: Rangers administrators play down talk of deal with HMRC over debt‎ (27 May 2012)
Lord Taylor banned from legal profession following expenses scandal (27 May 2012)
Formula One drives its tax rate down to 5pc‎ (27 May 2012)
Pink Elephants: UK’s leading investigator of misconduct by accountants has pledged to work faster (27 May 2012)
A4e 'scandal' prompts scrutiny call‎ (26 May 2012)
SEC Ends Lehman Probe Without Finding Fraud (26 May 2012)
US House Representatives Warn FASB About Lease Accounting (26 May 2012)
FASB and IASB narrow lessee accounting model options (26 May 2012)
A nuanced view of Nortel accounting‎ (26 May 2012)
Ex-Lehman Executives' $90 Million Settlement Approved (26 May 2012)
JPMorgan political contributions pay dividends (26 May 2012)
RBS faces $100m action after trader caught lying‎ (26 May 2012)
Accountant jailed five years for $12 million fraud‎ (26 May 2012)
Fate of European auditors to hinge on UK probe‎ (25 May 2012)
Hedge Fund Case Questions Accounting Liability (25 May 2012)
Spanish bank audits to get international scrutiny (25 May 2012)
Farepak bosses accused of being 'unfit' to run a company (25 May 2012)
A4e whistleblowers gagged from revealing 'daming' allegations (25 May 2012)
Ministers' anger over A4e welfare-to-work whistleblower (25 May 2012)
Former Lloyds head of fraud and security Jessica Harper charged over £2.5m fraud (25 May 2012)
Fat Cats: 10% vote against HSBC pay report‎ (25 May 2012)
Hastie finds A$20m in accounting errors‎ (25 May 2012)
Dixons gets £300m debt package from banks (25 May 2012)5 May 2012)
Insolvency: HMRC loses football creditor rule court battle‎ (25 May 2012)
Bailout bill for Spanish lender Bankia continues to soar (25 May 2012)
JP Morgan and 'asymmetric accounting'‎ (24 May 2012)
Espirito Santo Downgrades Biocon, Questions Its Accounting Practices‎ (24 May 2012)
Key documents slipped by Nortel auditors, fraud trial hears (24 May 2012)
Mothercare reveals £103m loss (24 May 2012)
Mothercare hit by UK slowdown and Early Learning Centre writedown‎ (24 May 2012)
Former BDO partners chased for A$1.1 million in bad debts (24 May 2012)
Facebook and banks behind flotation face lawsuit (24 May 2012)
China Moves to Repatriate Its Auditing Profession‎ (24 May 2012)
FRC announces budget cut for coming year‎ (24 May 2012)
US Seventh Circuit Surprised To See Accounting Firm "Screw Up Its Taxes" (24 May 2012)
£1.1bn less tax recouped after HM Revenue and Customs job cuts (24 May 2012)
U.K. Watchdog Attacks Revenue Office for Advice on Tax Avoidance (24 May 2012)
House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts Report: HM Revenue and Customs: Compliance and Enforcement Programme (24 May 2012)
Insolvency: Accountants agree £18m of claims against Leeds United (24 May 2012)
Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg accused of misleading investors‎ (23 May 2012)
Nortel executives clashed with 'inflexible' auditors, court told (23 May 2012)
Former Rangers owner Sir David Murray was the biggest beneficiary of an Employee Benefit Trust operated by the Murray Group and Rangers FC (23 May 2012)
How Financial Criminalization Crashed the Economy, and the Culprits Got Off Scot-Free (23 May 2012)
Accounting Allegations Rising Again in Securities Class Actions (23 May 2012)
US Congressmen Urge FASB to Reconsider Lease Accounting Changes (23 May 2012)
Leases Suffer Identity Crisis‎ (23 May 2012)
IAS19 impact remains uncertain‎ (23 May 2012)
$35 Million Verdict in Delaware Hedge Fund Accounting Fraud Case‎ (23 May 2012)
Pink elephants: Barclays publishes three-year citizenship plan‎ (23 May 2012)
New US Council Created to Set Private Company Accounting Rules (23 May 2012)
New Slavery: Pan African Accountants Adopt International Standards (23 May 2012)
Accounting For The JP Morgan Whale Trades‎ (22 May 2012)
SEC says probing JPMorgan's financial reporting‎ (22 May 2012)
At US Senate Hearing, Regulators Discuss JPMorgan Investigation (22 May 2012)
Accidentally Released - and Incredibly Embarrassing - Documents Show How Goldman et al Engaged in 'Naked Short Selling' (22 May 2012)
Farepak victims await directors ruling‎ (22 May 2012)
Chinese Reverse Mergers Spawned US Class Actions, Report Says‎ (22 May 2012)
FRC publishes its priorities and funding for 2012/13 (22 May 2012)
Corporate Poodle: FRC appoints Mark Armour, Chief Financial Officer of Reed Elsevier, to the FRC Board (22 May 2012)
Crazy Eddie's one-time CFO offers tips on spotting financial fraud‎ (22 May 2012)
'Major failures' surround banks' interest rate swap scandal‎ (22 May 2012)
Insider-trading trial of former Goldman director gets underway (22 My 2012)
Ex-Goldman man faces insider dealing charges (22 May 2012)
SEC Charges Former Yahoo Executive and Former Ameriprise Manager with Insider Trading (22 May 2012)
UK Tribunal upholds FSA decision to ban and fine former UBS advisers £1.3m for not being fit and proper in relation to an unauthorised trading scheme (22 May 2012)
CIMA and ICAEW accounts: all in the presentation (21 May 2012)
Oxfam sues SEC to force completion of Dodd-Frank oil transparency rule (19 May 2012)
How did Deloitte — Nortel’s external auditor for more than a decade — justify signing off on multiple sets of books for 2002 and 2003 that were so materially different? (19 May 2012)
How serious is the £2bn Northern Rock loss?‎ (19 May 2012)
Facebook preaches accountability - but doesn't practise it (19 May 2012)
US, China Feud Over Audit Firms‎ (19 May 2012)
Accounting in China (19 May 2012)
US regulators 'examining' how Wall St invests excess deposits‎ (19 May 2012)
Tallaght hospital ignored the rules to hire €1.8m consultants PricewaterhouseCoopers (18 May 2012)
Northern Rock could cost taxpayers £2bn, National Audit Office warns (18 May 2012)
SEC and PCAOB Dispute Deloitte's Stance on China Work Papers (18 May 2012)
Insolvency: BCCI bill for Deloitte, lawyers and insolvency professionals runs up to $1bn (18 May 2012)
BCCI scandal: long legal wrangling over collapsed bank (18 May 2012)
Files close on BCCI banking scandal (18 May 2012)
Companies engaged in financial crime get 'plea-bargain' offer (18 May 2012)
Nokia 'could exhaust cash reserves next year' (18 May 2012)
JPMorgan's Trading Loss Is Said to Rise at Least 50%‎ (18 May 2012)
Auditing and Accounting Standards in Transition (18 May 2012)
SFO offered to do £50m deal with Tchenguiz brothers‎ (18 May 2012)
Budweiser's Buddies in Brussels (17 May 2012)
French Connection issues profit alert as sales falls (17 May 2012)
Strong support for the US Incorporation Transparency and Law Enforcement Assistance Act, which would require companies to disclose information about the real people who own or control them (17 May 2012)
Why Bankruptcy Should Matter in Lease Accounting (17 May 2012)
Businessman sued after dumping crates of coins in accountant's garden (17 May 2012)
FSA fines Habib Bank AG Zurich £525,000 and money laundering reporting officer £17,500 for anti-money laundering control failings (17 May 2012)
Can Carbon Accounting Survive Government's Cold Shoulder?‎ (17 May 2012)
Insolvency: Racing car maker Lola applies for administration‎ (17 May 2012)
Bankia shares plunge again on worries over finances‎ (17 May 2012)
Bankia Said to Plan Sale, Leaseback of EU400 Million of Property‎ (17 May 2012)
JP Morgan Hedge Exposed the Bank to More Risk (16 May 2012)
US Lawmakers Seek an Accounting on JP Morgan Trading Loss (16 May 2012)
Does JP Morgan loss show regulators' great failure? (16 May 2012)
Regulator to probe Lamprell over share dealing ahead of profit warning (16 May 2012)
Potato suppliers scammed Sainsbury's out of millions‎ (16 May 2012)
SEC Recommends Changes in Accounting for Derivatives‎ (16 May 2012)
Insolvency: Fines against IPs increased nearly fivefold in 2011‎ (16 May 2012)
Worldspreads and FSA were alerted (15 May 2012)
MarketSpreads posts €710000 pre-tax loss‎ (15 May 2012)
SEC charges China Natural Gas, chairman with fraud‎ (15 May 2012)
SEC Charges China-Based Company and Executive for Concealing Loans to Benefit His Family (15 May 2012)
16 Financial Shenanigans That Got Companies In Craploads Of Trouble (15 May 2012)
A4e fraud inquiry: Eighth person arrested‎ (15 May 2012)
SEC Microcap Fraud-Fighting Initiative Expels 379 Dormant Shell Companies to Protect Investors From Potential Scams (15 May 2012)
Potato company boss faces jail over Sainsbury's scam (15 May 2012)
JP Morgan: US Justice Department opens investigation into $2bn trading loss‎ (15 May 2012)
Fat Cats: JPMorgan chief gets nod for $23m pay despite loss (15 May 2012)
Insolvency: 21 IPs reported for non-compliance in pre-packs in 2011‎ (15 May 2012)
Investors Sue Auditor BDO for Stanford Ponzi Fraud (14 May 2012)
Thomas Cook shares slump 10% as holiday firm warns it needs fundraising (14 May 2012)
Centro class action opens lawsuit door (14 May 2012)
Accounting firms may take hit amid Korea savings bank crisis‎ (14 May 2012)
Yahoo chief Scott Thompson quits amid claims of fake qualification (14 May 2012)
UBM shareholders give company bloody nose over pay(14 May 2012)
British lawyer arrested over tax fraud scheme (14 May 2012)
JP Morgan investment boss Ina Drew quits over bank's $2bn losses (14 May 2012)
Capitalists and Other Psychopaths‎ (13 May 2012)
Poverty of Thinking in University Economics and Accountancy Departments (13 May 2012)
PwC accused over $900m Afghan bank scandal (13 May 2012)
Auditor Pay: More Outrageous Than CEO Pay? (13 May 2012)
Alliance Boots avoids paying £500m tax in past five years‎ (13 May 2012)
Ex-Nortel CEO was concerned over use of accounting reserves (13 May 2012)
Disciplinary figures boost ICAEW profits‎ (12 May 2012)
FRC publishes Audit Inspection reports on Baker Tilly, Crowe Clark Whitehill, Mazars and PKF (11 May 2012)
Watchdog calls for 'significant improvements' in Mazars' audit (12 May 2012)
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined Donald McKee Morgan, a partner in the firm of Donald Morgan Insurance Services (DMIS), £335,204 for committing insurance fraud (11 May 2012)
PKF urged to pay more attention to audit of impairments‎ (11 May 2012)
CPA Sentenced for Defrauding Clients (11 May 2012)
ICAEW warns against prohibiting the use of fair value (11 May 2012)
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Tax Avoidance: Major UK companies cut secret tax deals in Luxembourg (11 May 2012)
JP Morgan's London Whale, and Other Disastrous Trades (11 May 2012)
JPMorgan's Hedging Losses Invite A Political Response (11 May 2012)
JP Morgan $2bn loss: timeline (11 May 2012)
RBS boss 'nearly quit' over bonus (11 May 202)
SEC Is Investigating Accounting of Chinese Client of Deloitte in Shanghai (10 May 2012)
JPMorgan's Derivatives Whale Drags Down Banks (10 May 2012)
SEC Charges Deloitte & Touche in Shanghai with Violating U.S. Securities Laws in Refusal to Produce Documents (10 May 2012)
SEC Charges Scotland-Based Firm for Improperly Boosting Hedge Fund Client at Expense of U.S. Fund Investors (10 May 2012)
MF Global's KPMG and Lehman's PWC seek legal clarity (10 May 2012)
Centro and PwC near record A$200m payout (9 May 2012)
China orders Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, PWC, E&Y, KPMG to restructure (9 May 2012)
Risks loom as China orders Big 4 auditors to go local (9 May 2012)
China Wants Local Control of Foreign Auditing Firms (9 May 2012)
Centro Retail in Talks to Settle A$200 Million Lawsuit (8 May 2012)
PwC auditor banned over fiddling expenses (8 May 2012)
Country by country reporting is essential for detection of tax avoidance, say MEPs (8 May 2012)
Auditors and corruption‎ (7 May 2012)
Facebook could dodge $14bn in US taxes‎ (7 May 2012)