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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 finding
s (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)
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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 ₤220,000 in VAT repayments by pretending to sell a Bloomsbury hotel they didn’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
£
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
' £
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
£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 £7.2million, 55-count fraud case
(25 Oct 2012)
£5m
tax
scam accountant Robert Faichney is jailed
(24 Oct 2012)
Ex-Vantis
Tax
boss jailed for £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 £50m corporation tax bill by channelling payments through Luxembourg
(21 Oct 2012)
EBay 'pays £1.2m in UK tax' on sales of £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 £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 £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 £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)
T
ax 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 £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 adjustment� 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 £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
£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: Britain’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 £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 can’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: Glaxo’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 €2.1 trillion ($2.7 trillion), and total equity of €56 billion. In terms of simple leverage, the bank has just €1 in equity backing every €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)
£143bn of high quality mortgages on the books of Lloyds - and it holds just £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 £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)
We’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 £45000 bill for
accounting
errors
(3 Oct 2012)
SME Audit
rules relaxed in red tape cuts
(3 Oct 2012)
FRC undershoots annual budget by £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 £50m
tax
on bonuses
(3 Oct 2012)
UBS wins appeal against HMRC over £100m bonus scheme
(3 Oct 2012)
Another “off the shelf� tax avoidance scheme marketed by Deloitte:
UBS AG and DB GROUP SERVICES (UK) LIMITED v THE COMMISSIONERS FOR HER MAJESTY’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 £3bn in the UK... and paid just £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 – 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 & Youn
g (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” schem
e (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)