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DECEMBER 2014

Computer Sciences Corp to restate results, pay $190 mln penalty (31 Dec 2014)
RBS chief WILL take £1m 'bonus' a year after refusing it to avoid bad publicity (31 Dec 2014)
City Link announces 2356 job losses after rescue talks fail (31 Dec 2014)
Millions taken out of City Link in run up to its collapse as a going concern (30 Dec 2014)
Better Capital to recoup up to £20m from City Link collapse (30 Dec 2014)
City Link bosses set up firm with similar name weeks before collapse (30 Dec 2014)
Boots merger with Walgreens approved despite calls for remedies from Wall Street (30 Dec 2014)
Revolving Doors: IFRS Foundation makes interim appointments (30 Dec 2014)
Lancashire primary pupils get spending lesson in move to tackle debt problem (30 Dec 2014)
Goldman Sachs Readies for a Fight Over $835 Million Loan to Banco Espírito (30 Dec 2014)
Textual Differences in Chairman’s Statements of Australian Companies by Zilan Cen
Audit Report Timeliness of United States Local Governments: An investigation of Entities Exceeding Reporting Deadlines by Corey S. Cagle, Dale L. Flesher and Annette B. Pridgen
Serious Fraud Office targets JJB boss Chris Ronnie as a 'lifestyle criminal' (29 Dec 2014)
Insolvency: City Link private equity firm hopes to recover £20m despite job losses (29 Dec 2014)
FASB Improves Accounting For Private Company Intangibles (29 Dec 2014)
Big firms shake up auditor contracts (29 Dec 2014)
PwC under microscope (29 Dec 2014)
Equitable Life and Arch Cru: Two wrongs that must be made right (29 Dec 2014)
Tesco faces £3bn hole in pension fund (29 Dec 2014)
Tesco may have to find £300m a year to plug pensions hole (29 Dec 2014)
Audit tenders: a business cost like all others (29 Dec 2014)
FRS 102: accounting for loans and financial instruments (29 Dec 2014)
Scandals fail to dent accountancy's big four in 2014 in UK (27 Dec 2014)
The Virtues of Mandatory Audit Rotation (27 Dec 2014)
More Empty Gestures: IAASB Sets New Strategy and Work Plan for Audit Quality (27 Dec 2014)
Insolvency: City Link parcel delivery company goes into administration (27 Dec 2014)
Going Concern Presents: The Worst of Auditing 2014 (27 Dec 2014)
Bribery and Corruption: After BAE: Neoliberal political system needs deep cleansing (23 Dec 2014)
LuxLeaks tax source should not be charged (23 Dec 2014)
Tesco and PwC face fresh inquiry over £263m overstatement of profits (23 Dec 2014)
PwC probed as audit partner lined up for ICAEW presidency (23 Dec 2014)
Alstom Pleads Guilty and Agrees to Pay $772 Million Criminal Penalty to Resolve Foreign Bribery Charges (23 Dec 2014)
How Alstom Executives Made Bribery Their Business for Over a Decade (23 Dec 2014)
Are Big Four audits fit for purpose? (23 Dec 2014)
Banks Face Basel Limits on Risk Models for Capital Rules (23 Dec 2014)
Insolvency: Surge in number of UK retailers in 'significant' financial distress (23 Dec 2014)
Israel's Bank Leumi to Pay $400 Million to Settle Tax-Evasion Allegations in US (23 Dec 2014)
FRC Investigation announced in connection with the preparation, approval and audit of the financial statements of Tesco PLC (22 Dec 2014)
Tesco accounts face fresh inquiry (22 Dec 2014)
Tesco suppliers dragged into SFO investigation (22 Dec 2014)
FRC Investigation announced into PricewaterhouseCoopers in connection with Barclays Bank PLC's compliance with the FSA client asset rules (22 Dec 2014)
Did Property Mogul 'Scapegoat' Chief Accounting Officer? (22 Dec 2014)
Crazy Eddie CFO shares how companies trick auditors and fleece investors (22 Dec 2014)
Taxes can change fortunes? Well, PwC would know (22 Dec 2014)
Rolls-Royce pledges greater openness (22 Dec 2014)
Beijing eases way for Hong Kong accountants (22 Dec 2014)
More conflict of interests on the way: KPMG Capital Begins Funding of Tech Companies (22 Dec 2014)
Whistleblower reveals how fraud of Booking.com worked (22 Dec 2014)
OECD Paper: BEPS ACTION 4: INTEREST DEDUCTIONS AND OTHER FINANCIAL PAYMENTS (22 Dec 2014)
Ex-American Realty chairman accused of ordering accounting changes (19 Dec 2014)
KPMG faces sanctions over Bulgarian bank audit (19 Dec 2014)
IASB Amends Disclosure Guidance to Trim Glut (19 Dec 2014)
Increased audit responsibilities prompt FRC levy hike (19 Dec 2014)
PCAOB Announces Settled Disciplinary Action Against Partner of Grant Thornton Japan for Audit Failures (19 Dec 2014)
Grant Thornton partner lacked audit knowledge (19 Dec 2014)
FRC comments on IASB announcement on disclosure in financial reporting (19 Dec 2014)
FRC consults on EU Audit Directive and Regulation impact on auditing and ethical standards (19 Dec 2014)
RSBs to retain audit licensing powers (19 Dec 2014)
FINRA Fines Wells Fargo Advisors and Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network $1.5 Million for Anti-Money Laundering Failures: Firms Failed to Subject Over 200,000 New Accounts to Identity Verification (19 Dec 2014)
Some major Western firms sell life-saving medical equipment to Russia via obscure intermediaries who bump up prices (19 Dec 2014)
KPMG to move away from bell curve-based performance appraisal (19 Dec 2014)
What if accountants are no longer 'reliable'? (19 Dec 2014)
On the Capture of Luxembourg by Big Accountancy Firms (18 Dec 2014)
Tesco blackhole may be larger than feared (18 Dec 2014)
Bulgarian regulator raps KPMG over Corpbank audits (18 Dec 2014)
Bulgarian regulator points to lapses in KPMG's Corpbank audits (18 Dec 2014)
SEC Imposes Sanctions Against Hong Kong-Based Firm (Baker Tilly Hong Kong Limited) and Two Accountants for Audit Failures (18 Dec 2014)
Auditors ignored red flags (18 Dec 2014)
Royal Mail sell-off undervalued firm by £180m, report finds (18 Dec 2014)
Lease accounting: joint confusion on plans for new standard (18 Dec 2014)
Washington state’s health insurance exchange is withholding payments to its primary technology contractor, Deloitte, as a result of repeated problems (18 Dec 2014)
Bribery and Corruption: SEC Charges Avon With FCPA Violation: Avon Entities to Pay $135 Million to Settle SEC and Criminal Cases (18 Dec 2014)
Global insurance rule held hostage to accounting splits (18 Dec 2014)
Former Rite Aid Vice President and New Jersey Businessman Charged in $14.6 Million Fraud & Kickback Scheme (18 Dec 2014)
Dash for consultancy: Deloitte Australia acquires local IBM partner (18 Dec 2014)
MPs back gender pay disclosure obligation for big firms (17 Dec 2014)
Shell Companies Face Disclosure in EU Anti-Tax-Dodge Deal (17 Dec 2014)
Small investors who have lost money in Quindell to sue the company (17 Dec 2014)
Grant Thornton resigns Quarto audit over conflict of issue (17 Dec 2014)
Co-op Bank admits it will not make a profit until 2017 as it fails stress test (17 Dec 2014)
Visuals of alternative models of capitals (17 Dec 2014)
RBS raises £2bn to pass Bank of England stress test (17 Dec 2014)
Narcissistic CEOs should reflect on performance (17 Dec 2014)
‘I acted from conviction:’ PwC whistleblower speaks out (16 Dec 2014)
Whistleblowers should be protected, not prosecuted (16 Dec 2014)
Luxembourg tax whistleblower says he acted out of conviction (16 Dec 2014)
Ex-PwC Auditor Charged in Leaks of Luxembourg Tax Cases (16 Dec 2014)
Luxleaks: Former PwC employee admits he took tax files (16 Dec 2014)
Barclays is suing accountancy firm Grant Thornton for declaring that Von Essen Hotels was in good health just months before its collapse (16 Dec 2014)
JJB Sports boss Christopher Ronnie jailed over £1m fraud (16 Dec 2014)
EY launch multimillion pound claim against KPMG (16 Dec 2014)
New Study: Crime, Corruption, Tax Evasion Drained a Record US$991.2bn in Illicit Financial Flows from Developing Economies in 2012 (16 Dec 2014)
China Auditors See Settlement Nearing in Standoff With US SEC (16 Dec 2014)
UK Fraud Office seeks documents from Beny Steinmetz lawyer Mishcon for mining probe (16 Dec 2014)
CIPFA and Bangladesh accountancy institute agree partnership (16 DEc 2014)
Tesco tasks PwC with auditing stock management as it scraps supplier fees (16 Dec 2014)
Corruption, bribery rampant in US government contracting, key witness in case says (16 Dec 2014)
Luxembourg judge brings theft and trade secrecy charges: Charges against unnamed individual follow publication of journalistic investigation and PricewaterhouseCoopers complaint (15 Dec 2014)
Former PwC employee charged over leaked tax documents (15 Dec 2014)
Big Companies Can't Stop Cooking Their Books (15 Dec 2014)
Accountants to devise standards to increase confidence in banks' capital assessments (15 Dec 2014)
FRC consults on amendments to FRS101 (15 Dec 2014)
US Securities and Exchange Commission is clashing with federal auditing regulators over their priorities, suggesting they haven’t moved quickly enough to enact rules on how auditors do their jobs (15 Dec 2014)
Rewards of Tax Avoidance and Dodgy Audits: Bonus season spells festive cheer for accountants (15 Dec 2014)
Tougher capital audits loom for UK lenders (15 Dec 2014)
Tesco hunts for property boss to sell off assets (15 Dec 2014)
Rewarding the Pinstripe Mafia: EY wins $1M contract to craft internal trade barrier index (15 Dec 2014)
Assets collapse, loans go bad … Britain's banks brace for a serious stress test (15 Dec 2014)
MPs to vote on move to make firms publish gender pay gap figures (15 Dec 2014)
Heather Capital: How a $600m hedge fund disappeared (15 Dec 2014)
Petrobras scandal: Brazilian oil executives among 35 charged (15 Dec 2014)
Wall St. Wins a Round in a Dodd-Frank Fight (15 Dec 2014)
Finance’s contribution to GDP — another sleight of hand? (15 Dec 2014)
Country by country reporting: are the knives already out? (12 Dec 2014)
Boardroom greed: how to bring an errant multinational to heel (12 Dec 2014)
We already have enough self-interested accounting regulators (12 Dec 2014)
Would US companies use voluntary, additive IFRS option? (12 Dec 2014)
Insurers Use Deals to Avoid as Much as $100 Billion in Taxes (12 Dec 2014
The Guardian view on taming corporate power (12 Dec 2014)
Ex-TierOne exec pleads guilty to conspiracy (12 Dec 2014)
FINRA Fines 10 Firms (Barclays, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, Merril Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Weel Fargo, Needham) $43.5 Million for Allowing Equity Research Analysts to Solicit Investment Banking Business and for Offering Favorable Research Coverage in Connection With Toys"R"Us IPO (12 Dec 2014)
With Dodd-Frank Rollback, The Big Bad Banks Are Back (12 Dec 2014)
Corporate transparency: The openness revolution (12 Dec 2014)
Break the stranglehold of shareholders: Those who provide a fraction of company funding make all the key decisions. No wonder so few large corporations serve society (11 Dec 2014)
Accounting scandals: Some 13 years after Enron, auditors still can’t stop managers cooking the books. Time for some serious reforms (11 Dec 2014)
How Wal-Mart Made Its Crumbling China Business Look So Good for So Long (11 Dec 2014)
Wal-Mart report found inflated profit, unapproved sales in China (11 Dec 2014)
Audit Commission raises transparency concerns in final audit oversight report (11 Dec 2014)
EU bank ordered to reveal what it knows about Glencore tax allegations (11 Dec 2014)
Luxembourg tax files: Juncker 'solved problems' for Amazon move (11 Dec 2014)
PCAOB Announces Settled Disciplinary Orders Against Seven Audit Firms for Independence Violations When Auditing Broker-Dealers (11 Dec 2014)
There are alternatives to the government's slash and burn policies (10 Dec 2014)
Agreement negotiated with the Luxembourg authorities in June 2010 by Ernst & Young (now EY) outlined how Irish-registered company, Skype Limited, would licence intellectual property (IP) to Luxembourg company Skype Technologies SA (10 Dec 2014)
An agreement negotiated by Deloitte in December 2009, when 70 per cent of the Skype group was being bought from Ebay by US private investment firm Sliver Lake Partners and a consortium for $2.7 billion, mentions use of “deemed royalty payments” (10 Dec 2014)
Luxembourg tax files: how Juncker's duchy accommodated Skype and the Koch empire (10 Dec 2014)
Disney and Skype 'used Luxembourg tax deals' (10 Dec 2014)
Lux Leaks: Walt Disney and Korch Industries in Luxembourg tax row as new leaks emerge (10 Dec 2014)
Tesco boss pledges to stop 'artificially' boosting profits (10 Dec 2014)
BP expects $1bn restructuring charge over coming year (10 Dec 2014)
HMRC and Country-by-country reporting (10 Dec 2014)
NHS bill for management advisers doubles to £640m (10 Dec 2014)
Management consultants are 'making a killing' from shake-up of NHS (10 Dec 2014)
Would US companies use voluntary, additive IFRS option? (10 Dec 2014)
SEC Top Accountant Considers Supplemental, IFRS-Based Reporting (10 Dec 2014)
Advisory fees drive KPMG global sales to $25bn (10 Dec 2014)
Secret tax deals worth billions brokered by EY, Deloitte, KPMG (9 Dec 2014)
Aggressive tax structures are being brokered not only by PwC but also by Luxembourg-based law and tax firms and the other “Big 4” accounting firms: Ernst & Young, Deloitte and KPMG (9 Dec 2014)
Luxembourg tax files: how Juncker's duchy accommodated Skype and the Koch empire (9 Dec 2014)
New Leak Reveals Luxembourg Tax Deals for Disney, Koch Brothers empire (9 Dec 2014)
Secret tax deals worth billions brokered by EY, Deloitte, KPMG (9 Dec 2014)
PwC accused of 'lies' over mass sales of Luxembourg tax dodges (9 Dec 2014)
PwC sold 'tax avoidance on industrial scale' (9 Dec 2014)
PwC denies 'mass marketing' tax avoidance schemes (9 Dec 2014)
PriceWaterhouseCoopers chief Kevin Nicholson denies lying over tax deals (9 Dec 2014)
SEC Backs U.S. Accounting Rules in Debate Over Earnings Reports (9 Dec 2014)
US constituents generally are not supportive of full adoption [of IFRS] for a variety of reasons (9 Dec 2014)
SEC Considers Supplemental Use of IFRS by US Companies (9 Dec 2014)
EU Council would be smart to embrace outsiders that can keep an eye out for irregularities in beneficial ownership information (9 Dec 2014)
SEC Sanctions Eight Audit Firms for Violating Auditor Independence Rules (9 Dec 2014)
Luxembourg tax files: how Juncker's duchy accommodated Skype and the Koch empire (9 Dec 2014)
New Luxembourg leaks reveal Disney, Koch Industries tax deals (9 Dec 2014)
Supplier arrangements must be more transparent, warns FRC (9 Dec 2014)
Do preparers have answers to revenue recognition questions? (9 Dec 2014)
Ex-Madoff manager gets 10-year prison sentence (9 Dec 2014)
MPs blast Post Office over accounting software mediation (9 Dec 2014)
Citigroup sets aside $2.7bn for legal costs (9 Dec 2014)
Tesco shares slump 15pc as it issues major profit warning (9 Dec 2014)
RevolvingDoors: PwC snags top former IRS official (9 Dec 2014)
PwC and Shire to face Margaret Hodge over tax avoidance in Public Accounts Committee showdown (8 Dec 2014)
PwC tax chief faces MPs over Luxembourg tax structures (8 Dec 2014)
FRC urges clarity in the reporting of complex supplier arrangements by retailers and other businesses (8 Dec 2014)
Third of New Zealand auditors fail to meet standards (8 Dec 2014)
Press Release: New Zeland Financil Markets Authority releases Audit Quality Review Report (8 Dec 2014)
New Zeland Financil Markets Authority: 2014 Audit Quality Review Report (8 Dec 2014)
How the Bankruptcy Code Should Treat All Derivatives (8 Dec 2014)
US watchdog says flaws persist in public company audits (8 Dec 2014)
US Inspectors selected 219 "Big Four" audits and determined that the opinions in 85 of these audits should not have been issued (8 Dec 2014)
Former adviser found guilty in £23m investment fraud trial (8 Dec 2014)
In bed with big business: 10 Investment Firms Sign On to IASB Feedback Program (8 Dec 2014)
7 risk areas for the 2014 audit cycle (8 Dec 2014)
FRC publishes new disciplinary arrangements for accountants and actuaries (8 Dec 2014)
Audit Firm Rotation Leading to Lower Audit Fees in Europe (8 Dec 2014)
PwC to scrutinise Quindell's accounts (8 Dec 2014)
Accountants Increasingly Use Data Analysis to Catch Fraud (8 Dec 2014)
Australian Banks Seen Needing $25 Billion in Capital (8 Dec 2014)
SEC Charges Bank Holding Company with Improper Accounting (8 Dec 2014)
SEC Charges Virginia Beach-Based Bank Holding Company With Accounting Violations (8 Dec 2014)
Bribery and Corruption: Public contract bribes more common in western countries, report finds (8 Dec 2014)
Another Look at Auditor Nightmares (8 Dec 2014)
Facebook paid corporate tax of €2.3m as revenue hit €3bn (5 Dec 2014)
European Justice Ministers agree on modern insolvency rules (5 Dec 2014)
Banks' asset valuations come under fire (5 Dec 2014)
KPMG stays top dog in auditor ranking stakes (5 Dec 2014)
Not so sweet: Premier Foods faces backlash over payment practices (5 Dec 2014)
Swindon accountant swindles £218k from firm and clients (5 Dec 2014)
Co-op Bank says 'no surprise' if it fails stress test (5 Dec 2014)
Regulator Finds Deficiencies in 65% of BDO USA's Audits (4 Dec 2014)
US watchdog says flaws persist in public company audits (4 Dec 2014)
Ex-Sanofi worker says she was fired for reporting $34 mln in kickbacks: she discovered that nine contracts paying $34 million to accounting firm Deloitte LLP and consulting firm Accenture Plc were actually covers for kickbacks (4 Dec 2014)
Leaked Data Reveals A Big Gender Pay Gap At The Top Of Deloitte (4 Dec 2014)
Bankia presented flawed accounts for IPO year: report (4 Dec 2014)
Bankia Accounts for 2010 and 2011 Deemed Plagued With Errors (4 Dec 2014)
Changing Auditor Mindset Is Crucial To Fraud Detection (4 Dec 2014)
UK: How the HMRC helped tax avoiders stay ahead of the law – by shifting cash for Switzerland to Liechtenstein (4 Dec 2014)
Banks Flunking Audit Probe Remain Anonymous (4 Dec 2014)
Panel Calls for IASB to Further Gauge Impacts of International Standards (4 Dec 2014)
Bribery and Corruption: Former Bechtel Executive Pleads Guilty in Connection with a $5.2 Million Kickback Scheme (4 Dec 2014)
Schorsch's RCS Capital Jumps After Settling ARCP Lawsuit (4 Dec 2014)
Towergate invites unsecured bondholders to pitch for ownership (4 Dec 2014)
Two ex-Systemax executives plead guilty in bribery case (4 Dec 2014)
Study Finds That Bribery Propels Capitalism. Have We Really Sunk This Far? (4 Dec 2014)
IASB seeks to widen global investor engagement in IFRS (4 Dec 2014)
Airbus Raided in Probe Over Romania, Saudi Arabia Bribery (4 Dec 2014)
Make £2billion tax avoidance industry illegal, says Margaret Hodge (3 Dec 2014)
Saudi Govt to take strict action against errant audit firms (3 Dec 2014)
US Audit Regulator Softens Rule Aimed at Boosting Auditor Accountability (3 Dec 2014)
MOL Global shares tumble on Vietnam accounting glitch, profit slump (3 Dec 2014)
Kpmg was towergate auditor when client money misallocation took place (3 Dec 2014)
Liquidator sues Sloyan family firm's former accountants (3 Dec 2014)
Five Biggest U.S. Banks Control Nearly Half Industry's $15 Trillion In Assets (3 Dec 2014)
AS2014: Country-by-country rules implemented (3 Dec 2014)
Autumn statement 2014: Osborne to introduce 'Google tax' (3 Dec 2014)
Autumn Statement: George Osborne promises tax crackdown on multinationals (3 Dec 2014)
Autumn Sattement UK Treasury Document - Tackling aggressive tax planning: implementing the agreed G20-OECD approach for addressing hybrid mismatch arrangements (3 Dec 2014)
Autumn Statement: Tax and tax credit rates and thresholds for 2015-16 (3 Dec 2014)
FRC comments on publication of the report of the IASB Effects Analysis Consultative Group (3 Dec 2014)
Watchdog to shame worst bank auditors (2 Dec 2014)
Deloitte confirms Saudi Arabia audit business ban (2 Dec 2014)
FRC publishes review of audit of banks’ loan loss provisions (2 Dec 2014)
FRC Report: The audit of loan loss provisions and related IT controls in banks and building societies (2 Dec 2014)
FRC review finds bank audits in need of 'significant improvements' (2 Dec 2014)
China to Monitor Foreign Company Profits to Prevent Tax Evasion (2 Dec 2014)
Dave Lewis takes over day-to-day running of Tesco UK supermarkets (2 Dec 2014)
Suspended Tesco executive to return as Dave Lewis overhauls team (2 Dec 2014)
OECD report reveals bribes in company deals average $14m (2 Dec 2014)
OECD Foreign Bribery Report: An Analysis of the Crime of Bribery of Foreign Public Officials (2 Dec 2014)
Document raises questions on HP's $8.8bn writedown of Autonomy (2 Dec 2014)
Saudi regulator suspends Deloitte from auditing listed firms - circular (1 Dec 2014)

Revolving Doors: £1BILLION NHS sell-off scandal: Tory MP works for firm (KPMG) targeting huge health service deal (1 Dec 2014)
Ireland: Balance sheet for banking sector 'didn't exist' in 2010 (1 Dec 2014)
Turf Battles: EY goes multi-disciplinary as it gains legal services licence (1 Dec 2014)
MP criticises HSBC for directors' threats to quit over accountability rules (1 Dec 2014)
Directors suspected of wrongdoing in 30% of insolvencies (1 Dec 2014)
Banks' $650bn bet on oil backfires as Brent prices slump (1 Dec 2014)
Starbucks UK boss: 'There is nothing abnormal about the way we are run' (1 Dec 2014)
Fat cats: BG Group cuts Helge Lund's 'golden hello' after shareholder pressure (1 Dec 2014)
PCAOB may soon require naming of engagement partner (1 Dec 2014)

NOVEMBER 2014

Vincent Tchenguiz sues accountants Grant Thornton and bank for £2.2bn (28 Nov 2014)
Suspended Tesco chiefs to leave next week with more to follow (28 Nov 2014)
Tesco executive under suspension leaves company (28 Nov 2014)
ACCA members criticise irresponsive leadership and ask "Why should I retain membership?" (28 Nov 2014)
One in four FTSE 350 companies switch auditor (28 Nov 2014)
Accountant fined €3000 for false auditor reports (28 Nov 2014)
PwC's creative accounting: FTSE 100 pay £80bn in taxes (28 Nov 2014)
Audit Committees Found to Have Little Influence on Audit Fees (28 Nov 2014)
Giants that dodge corporation tax can find ways round other levies too (28 Nov 2014)
IFRS standard-setter must work closer with national bodies (28 Nov 2014)
Rolls-Royce break up would boost shareholder value, says Investec (28 Nov 2014)
Dash for consultancy: KPMG makes bid for Crimsonwing (28 Nov 2014)
Mergers help boost BDO global revenues (28 Nov 2014)
Tchenguiz Sues 'Conspirators' at Grant Thornton for $3.5 Billion (27 Nov 2014)
UK MPs summon PwC tax chief to attend Luxembourg tax deal hearing (27 Nov 2014)
Three of Tesco's 'Cheshunt Eight' have left following accounting scandal (27 Nov 2014)
Propaganda is how PwC bat for their clients: The cost of Brussels' banking reforms: 300000 jobs and €20bn (27 Nov 2014)
IFRS committee backs fair-value accounting for longevity swaps (27 Nov 2014)
Revolving Doors: Veteran Tory MP and former health minister Stephen Dorrell to stand down after 35 years and join KPMG (27 Nov 2014)
Former Enron CFO: 'I wasn't thinking this was fraud' (27 Nov 2014)
Is This the Beginning or End of Hertz's Accounting Woes? (27 Nov 2014)
Two greedy RBS bankers who used their jobs to run £3 million proprty fraud escape jail because judge says they "have sufferred" (27 Nov 2014)
AICPA Wasted Member Dues On IRS Lawsuit (27 Nov 2014)
Dash for consultancy: KPMG acquires SGA (27 Nov 2014)
BDO concerned over patchy roll-out of EU auditor rules (27 Nov 2014)
Advisory Work May Cloud Audit Integrity, PCAOB Member Says (26 Nov 2014)
SEC Charges HSBC’s Swiss Private Banking Unit With Providing Unregistered Services to U.S. Clients:Firm Admits Wrongdoing to Settle Case (26 Nov 2014)
Microsoft to pay China $140 million for 'tax evasion' (26 Nov 2014)
David Gauke's speech on the PwC total tax contribution report (26 Nov 2014)
Banking's toxic culture 'will take generation to clean up', says report (26 Nov 2014)
A report on the culture of British retail banking (26 Nov 2014)
Insurance executives to take the blame for failure under new rules (26 Nov 2014)
PwC, ING Bank reach agreement on handling OW Bunker's Danish assets (26 Nov 2014)
Accountancy firms Deloitte, EY PwC and KPMG earned £6.6m from Greater Manchester hospitals (25 Nov 2014)
UK law firm solicits Tesco shareholders for lawsuit following profits scandal (25 Nov 2014)
Black hole in mining sector profits leads to 'vanishing' returns (25 Nov 2014)
Bermuda refuses David Cameron's request to lift 'cloak of secrecy' on ownership of companies (25 Nov 2014)
The New Revenue Reporting Rules: Simplifying Gets Complicated (25 Nov 2014)
SRA reopens consultation on accountants' reports for law firms (25 Nov 2014)
Analysts support increased transparency to fight tax havens (25 Nov 2014)
Casey's General Stores to Revise Financials on Ethanol Accounting (25 Nov 2014)
HMRC Research Report 317 - Reasons behind incorporation (25 Nov 2014)
PricewaterhouseCoopers, KPMG, Deloitte and Ernst & Young – as evidenced by PwC's role in the recent LuxLeaks scandal – are intimately involved in facilitating tax avoidance (24 Nov 2014)
Talk Of Converging Islamic, IASB Accounting Standards (24 Nov 2014)
SEC Charges CEO and Close Friend With Insider Trading Ahead of Company Sale (24 Nov 2014)
Accountant guilty of destroying evidence in JJB fraud (24 Nov 2014)
JJB Sports boss Christopher Ronnie guilty of £1m fraud (24 Nov 2014)
More futile FRC gestures about empowering shareholders (24 Nov 2014)
Deloitte to probe Bank payment systems collapse (24 Nov 2014)
CEO suspended at Saudi telecoms group hit by accounting scandal (24 Nov 2014)
Saudi Phone Company Mobily Suspends CEO After Auditing Errors (24 Nov 2014)
Credit Suisse Judge Accepts $2.6 Billion Tax Plea Deal (24 Nov 2014)
Credit Suisse Sentenced for Conspiracy to Help U.S. Taxpayers Hide Offshore Accounts from Internal Revenue Service (24 Nov 2014)
US concerned over country-by-country reporting (24 Nov 2014)
Anonymous groups that bet against Quindell and Blinkx unmasked (21 Nov 2014)
HSBC Swiss private banking arm faces tax investigation (21 Nov 2014)
GASB Releases Preliminary Views on Lease Accounting (21 Nov 2014)
UK FRC rejects call for companies to publish audit inspection grade (21 Nov 2014)
Royal Bank of Scotland admits overstating financial strength in stress test (21 Nov 2014)
FASB, IASB Considering Revenue Recognition Deferral (21 Nov 2014)
Tax relief schemes 'losing billions' for Treasury claims Whitehall watchdog (21 Nov 2014)
Insolvency: Nougat London appoints administrators (21 Nov 2014)

US Audit Regulator Scrutinizing PwC Over Caterpillar Tax Advice (20 Nov 2014)
Thought auditing was boring? McLaren is turbocharging it (20 Nov 2014)
KPMG announces partnership with McLaren (20 Nov 2014)
KPMG and McLaren Group forge predictive analytics partnership (20 Nov 2014)
RBS fined £50m for 2012 computer chaos (20 Nov 2014)
Ex-JJB Sports chief executive Christopher Ronnie guilty of £1m fraud (20 Nov 2014)
Banking culture breeds dishonesty, scientific study finds (20 Nov 2014)
IT meltdown: Ulster Bank group fined £56m (20 Nov 2014)
FRC Statement: Transparency of Audit Quality Review (AQR) Findings (20 Nov 2014)
FRC warns against disclosing audit inspection grade (20 Nov 2014)
LLP accounting: handling remuneration reporting (20 Nov 2014)
Ownership and control: the myth of shareholder supremacy (19 Nov 2014)
Deloitte, PWC and Shell to offer enhanced paternity packages (19 Nov 2014)
Tesco board fury at PwC denials over profit scandal (19 Nov 2014)
Tesco poised to dump auditor after accounting scandal (19 Nov 2014)
As of 1 December 2014, all Members of the Commission are expected to make public all contacts and meetings with stakeholders and lobbyists (19 Nov 2014)
BNP execs probed for suspected insider trading (19 Nov 2014)
Insolvency: Duff & Phelps trio arrested over alleged 'fraudulent' Rangers takeover (19 Nov 2014)
Audit tender, rotation and independence: Accountants warn on audit market reforms (19 Nov 2014)
Nothing For Nothing: HP Pays Dearly For Ernst & Young Tax Testimony (19 Nov 2014)
FASB Weighs Delaying New Revenue Rule (19 Nov 2014)
Seven of the 30 largest corporations in US paid more to their CEOs than they did in taxes (19 Nov 2014)
BNP Paribas faces possible insider trading probe (19 Nov 2014)
Thousands join Lloyds investor lawsuit over HBOS takeover (19 Nov 2014)
Piling Up For PwC (18 Oct 2014)
UHY Hacker Young fined over audit family tie (18 Nov 2014)
Manchester insolvency practitioner appears in court over Rangers sale (18 Nov 2014)
HSBC faces charges of fraud and money laundering from Belgian state (18 Nov 2014)
Insolvency in Europe (18 Nov 2014)
U.S. Audit Regulator Scrutinizing PwC Over Caterpillar Tax (18 Nov 2014)
Improving the corporate governance of 10 000 listed companies (18 Nov 2014)
Ps tell HMRC to pick up the pace of UK tax investigations (18 Nov 2014)
UK MPs slam the taxman amid £2bn blunder and catalogue of failures (18 Nov 2014)
UK House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts Report: HMRC’s progress in improving tax compliance and preventing tax avoidance (18 Nov 2014)
Crackdown on celebrity tax avoidance branded a failure (18 Nov 2014)
Put people before profits, Pope urges accountants' group (17 Nov 2014)
Tesco accounting shenanigans a warning to investors (17 Nov 2014)
Collapse of Phones 4U to cost UK taxpayer £78m (17 Nov 2014)
Fat cats: New RBS row over £1m payout to ex-chief Stephen Hester (17 Nov 2014)
Convergence between Shari'a and traditional accounting standards? (17 Nov 2017)
City shamed again but fines fail to stop banks behaving badly (17 Nov 2014)
FASB to Start Project on Simplifying, Easing Derivatives and Hedge Accounting (17 Nov 2014)
Dash for consultancy: KPMG acquires German cyber security firm (17 Nov 2014)
EU Commission: State aid – Netherlands Alleged aid to Starbucks (17 Nov 2014)
KPMG denies role in alleged theft from Australia's richest Aboriginal land trust (17 Nov 2014)
Regulators to focus on 'shadow banking' (17 Nov 2014)
Serco chastened by costly lesson in outsourcing risk (17 Nov 2014)
US judge upholds 'gross negligence' ruling against BP in Gulf of Mexico disaster (17 Nov 2014)
Luxembourg leaks reveal the organised hypocrisy of the modern corporation (14 Nov 2014)
He shot the sheriff (14 Nov 2014)
“Shareholder value maximisation” belongs in the trash heap of economic history (14 Nov 2014)
Greater Manchester Police has spent more than any other force in the country on the audit firms Deloitte, KMPG, PwC and EY (14 Nov 2014)
The finance curse as a new grand narrative? (14 Nov 2014)
HMRC defeats three more corporate avoidance schemes: promoted by PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte (14 Nov 2014)
HMRC beats Vocalspruce over £85m corporate avoidance scheme (14 Nov 2014)
Another PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) tax avoidance scheme thrown out by the courts: Vocalspruce Ltd v Revenue & Customs [2014] EWCA Civ 1302 (30 October 2014) (14 Nov 2014)
See previous decision: Vocalspruce Ltd v Revenue & Customs [2012] UKFTT 36 (TC) (21 December 2011) (14 Nov 2014)
Another Deloitte inspired scheme: Biffa (Jersey) Ltd v Revenue & Customs [2014] UKFTT 982 (TC) (23 October 2014) (14 Nov 2014)
Starbucks tax deal may be illegal, says EU (14 Nov 2014)
EU says Starbucks' Dutch tax deal may be illegal (14 Nov 2014)
True Lies and silence on Luxembourg and other avoidance schemes: PwC reveals its economic and social impact (14 Nov 2014)
Lots of rhetoric but silence on failure and abuses: Speech by Sir Winfried Bischoff at PWC Meet the Experts Conference - 10 November 2014 (14 Nov 2014)
Broker, Auditor Independence Remains “Troubling” (14 Nov 2014)
Brazilian police arrest 18 in Petrobras corruption raids (14 Nov 2014)
Country-by-country reporting: Multinational tax details to be kept secret (14 Nov 2014)
PwC in secret tax deals while advising ATO (13 Nov 2014)
The banking industry's bill for bad behaviour: $300bn (13 Nov 2014)
Banks pay out £166bn over six years: a history of banking misdeeds and fines (13 Nov 2014)
FRC calls for five-year audit partner switch (13 Nov 2014)
Madoff Trials in Geneva Loom Years After Fraudster Confessed (13 Nov 2014)
Who helped Bernie Madoff get away with his crimes? (13 Nov 2014)
City bosses fund house moves by loaning company shares (13 Nov 2014)
FRS 102: tax treatment for a Libor-based loan (13 Nov 2014)
Labour received £600000 of advice from PwC to help form tax policy (12 Nov 2014)
Five banks fined £2bn by regulators over forex failings (12 Nov 2014)
Six Banks to Pay $4.3 Billion in First Wave of Currency-Rigging Penalties (12 Nov 2014)
FCA fines five banks £1.1 billion for FX failings and announces industry-wide remediation programme (12 Nov 2014)
CFTC Orders Five Banks to Pay over $1.4 Billion in Penalties for Attempted Manipulation of Foreign Exchange Benchmark Rates: Citibank, HSBC, JPMorgan, RBS, and UBS Coordinated Trading with Other Banks in Private Chat Rooms in Their Attempts to Manipulate (12 Nov 2014)
Forex scandal: Read transcripts of traders' conversations in full (12 Nov 2014)
FRC consults on new UK and Irish interim reporting requirements (12 Nov 2014)
Sign of the times as vandals steal the "P" from PwC (12 Nov 2014)
Ulster Bank fined £2.75m over IT meltdown (12 Nov 2014)
Diageo drops KPMG for PwC in auditor shake-up (11 Nov 2014)
Patent Box: George Osborne waters down flagship controversial tax break (11 Nov 2014)
UK and Germany reach compromise over patent box tax break (11 Nov 2014)
Tesco mis-statement puts audit materiality into focus (11 Nov 2014)
MEPs call for EU tax haven probe as Luxembourg furore grows (11 Nov 2014)
FTSE 100 Auditors Survey 2014 (11 Nov 2014)
Diageo drops KPMG for PwC in auditor shake-up (11 Nov 2014)
Thanks to the Luxembourg tax leaks, we know exactly what an international dodge looks like – and who's responsible (11 Nov 2014)
Number's up for Big Four accountants behind tax avoidance schemes and duff audits of banks (10 Nov 2014)
Banks to Be Forced to Hold Big Capital Cushions (10 Nov 2014)
A Sure-Fire Way to Harm The Economy: A proposal to count leases as liabilities would cost 3.3 million jobs and add $2 trillion to company balance sheets (10 Nov 2014)

OW Bunker says at risk of bankruptcy after discovering fraud (10 Nov 2014)
FRS 102: handling derivatives and hedge accounting (10 Nov 2014)
Serco shares plunge after it unveils plans to raise £550m (10 Nov 2014)
FTSE 100 Auditors Survey 2014 (10 Nov 2014)
American Realty Capital Accounting Errors Tied to Employee Bonuses (10 Nov 2014)
Quindell faces questions over loans backed by company shares made to senior director (10 Nov 2014)
Investors join race to sue tax-payer backed Lloyds bank over emergency takeover of HBOS (10 Nov 2014)
Whistleblower accuses several Irish politicians of tax evasion (10 Nov 2014)
Mackintosh predicts period of calm for financial reporting (10 Nov 2014)
Corporate inversions and the tax race to the bottom (7 Nov 2014)
International PwC tax schemes exposed (7 Nov 2014)
New SEC Chief Accountant Weighing Switch to Global Accounting Rules (7 Nov 2014)
Luxembourg, the country where accountants outnumber police 4:1 (7 Nov 2014)
How GSK used Ireland and Luxembourg to avoid tax on $9.8 bn (7 Nov 2014)
Salix Shares Plunge as Accounting Revision Showed Weak Drug Sales (7 Nov 2014)
Salix Shares Plummet on Disclosure of Accounting Scandal (7 Nov 2014)
KPMG, PwC take different tack in bid for bigger legal services market share (7 Nov 2014)
PwC responds to Luxleaks: “Everything was legal” says PwC chief (7 Nov 2014)
PWC and Luxembourg: no, this wasn’t ‘legal’ behaviour (6 Nov 2014)
Glanbia and members of Sisk family feature in PwC tax documents (6 Nov 2014)
Big four audit firms behind global profit shifting (6 Nov 2014)
Unanswered questions in Tesco's accounting scandal (6 Nov 2014)
Tesco scare sparks M&S to ask Deloitte to conduct health check on accounting figures (6 Nov 2014)
Accountant arrested over suspected £2m VAT fraud (6 Nov 2014)
Pinstripe Mafia: Global accounting giants are prime architects of the offshore money maze (5 Nov 2014)
PricewaterhouseCoopers helped three Brazilian banks use Luxembourg’s accommodating tax regime to claim write offs for “intangible assets” that allowed them to sidestep nearly $90 million in taxes (5 Nov 2014)
International PwC tax schemes exposed (5 Nov 2014)
Tory Ministers and Dodgy Accountants (PwC) Are Ruining Local Democracy in London (5 Nov 2014)
Glanbia and members of Sisk family feature in confidential PwC tax documents (5 Nov 2014)
Buybacks Can Juice Per-Share Profit, Pad Executive Pay (5 Nov 2014)
KPMG in dock over admitted audit code breaches (5 Nov 2014)
US Senator Levin Slams FASB-IASB Convergence Work; Urges U.S. Panel to Fortify Revenue Rules (5 Nov 2014)
American Realty Accounting Errors Roil Real Estate Empire (5 Nov 2014)
Dyson, Glanbia Among British and Irish Firms Using Luxembourg to Cut Tax Bills (5 Nov 2014)
Society must call business' bluff on its fixation with profit maximisation (5 Nov 2014)
Luxembourg: the tax haven and the $870m loan company above a stamp shop (5 Nov 2014)
Havens like Luxembourg turn 'tax competition' into a global race to the bottom (5 Nov 2014)
Exposed: Ikea, Pepsi amongst 340 companies with secret Luxembourg tax deals (5 Nov 2014)
Lawyers brought in to study background of Phones 4u's collapse (4 Nov 2014)
Financial statements more difficult post IFRS - 100 Group (4 Nov 2014)
JPMorgan sets aside $6 billion to cover potential fines in currency probe (4 Nov 2014)
KPMG LLP, a Member Firm of the ICAEW, Mr James Marsh, a partner of KPMG, a Member of the ICAEW (4 Nov 2014)
KPMG Audit Plc, a Member Firm of the ICAEW, Mr Greg Watts, a partner of KPMG LLP, the parent of KPMG Audit Plc, and a Member of the ICAEW (4 Nov 2014)
FRC launches KPMG investigation (4 Nov 2014)
Going Offshore: How development finance institutions support companies using the world’s most secretive financial centres (4 Nov 2014)
Going Offshore: How development finance institutions support companies using the world’s most secretive financial centres (4 Nov 2014)
RBS ditches auditors Deloitte after £45bn taxpayer bailout (4 Nov 2014)
UBS Loses KWL Case as Judge Says Bank Wasn't Honest, Fair (4 Nov 2014)
Accounting For The Glass Ceiling (4 Nov 2014)
KPMG administrators make redundancies at PCS Brands (4 Nov 2014)
PwC review criticises Tower Hamlets allocation of voluntary sector grants (4 Nov 2014)
Tax revenues are under relentless attack – the government needs to take action (3 Nov 2014)
Argentina’s capital flight and transfer pricing: new report (3 Nov 2014)
PWC see the opportunity in country-by-country reporting…to make money (3 Nov 2014)
Tesco investigation comes amid calls for greater trust in the City (3 Nov 2014)
Argentina accuses Procter & Gamble of tax fraud, says suspends operations (3 Nov 2014)
Transfer Pricing: Argentina suspends P&G over tax claims (3 Nov 2014)
FBI Opens Criminal Probe Into American Realty Capital Amid Accounting Meltdown (3 Nov 2014)
Saudi telecoms firm Mobily cuts profit after accounting error (3 Nov 2014)
SEC investigates CAT's accounting of Bucyrus (3 Nov 2014)
HSBC sets aside $378m in currency probe (3 Nov 2014)
HSBC Hit by $1.7 Billion of Provisions (3 Nov 2014)
Auditing is improving but there's more to do (3 Nov 2014)
Recession-Era Audit Fees Vary By CFO Tenure: Study (3 Nov 2014)
Future of audit requires a change in thinking (3 Nov 2014)
Don't worry about Facebook's $18.1 billion in goodwill from WhatsApp (3 Nov 2014)
Facebook, Inc. Now Has A Massive Risk Just Sitting On Its Balance Sheet (3 Nov 2014)
Goodwill vs Other Intangible Assets: What's the Difference? (3 Nov 2014)
Tesco warned of junk grading by ratings agency Moody's (3 Nov 2014)
Aggressive tax avoidance troubles large investors (3 Nov 2014)
How supermarket staff demand payments from suppliers for an 'easy' bonus as cost of secretive deals said to run to billions (3 Nov 2014)
RBS Profit Weighed Down by $1.25 Billion for Legal Costs (3 Nov 2014)
Transfer pricing: arms length alternatives needed (3 Nov 2014)

OCTOBER 2014

EBA stress test needs to use tougher metrics when assessing banks’ solvency (31 Oct 2014)
Citigroup sets aside another $600m to cover legal costs (31 Oct 2014)
Royal Bank of Scotland sets aside £400m for forex-rigging fines (31 Oct 2014)
What you need to know about the Bank of England's leverage ratio (31 Oct 2014)
Dash for consultancy: Deloitte to resell Oracle products in Australia (31 Oct 2014)
Transfer pricing: arms length alternatives needed (31 Oct 2014)
Revolving Doors: FRC's Roger Marshall joins EFRAG Board (31 Oct 2014)
Internal auditors hope they are no longer seen as the enemy within (31 Oct 2014)
Barclays sets aside £500m towards forex-rigging fines (30 Oct 2014)
Accounting Firms' Anti-Hong Kong Protest Stance Prompted by Pressure (30 Oct 2014)
Accounting Firms Came Out Against Protests Under Pressure from Beijing (30 Oct 2014)
Tesco chiefs face jail as Serious Fraud Office probe inflated profits (30 Oct 2014)
IFRS defends global standards in face of EU criticism (30 Oct 2014)
Church trustee Patrick Coppeard jailed for £5m fraud (30 Oct 2014)
Judge Dismisses AICPA Lawsuit against the IRS (30 Oct 2014)
Whistleblower suit targets accounting, controls in Wachovia's investment bank (30 Oct 2014)
Serious Fraud Office starts Tesco criminal investigation (29 Oct 2014)
Tesco suppliers call in audit teams over accounting scandal (29 Oct 2014)
American Realty Plunges After Reporting Accounting Errors (29 Oct 2014)
SEC to Open Inquiry Into American Realty Capital Properties' Accounting (29 Oct 2014)
PricewaterhouseCoopers partners Google to offer business solutions to clients (29 Oct 2014)
How should the UK tackle tax avoidance? Let's look at the practical steps (28 Oct 2014)
UBS Sets Aside $2 Billion For Currency Rigging And Tax Evasion Settlements (28 Oct 2014)
KPMG US audits slammed (28 Oct 2014)
Tesco puts $35m private jet up for sale (28 Oct 2014)
Pfizer Hasn't Ruled Out Potential Inversions, Chief Says (28 Oct 2014)
Tesco boss Dave Lewis gets £4m golden hello from crisis-hit supermarket (28 Oct 2014)
Ryanair ordered to pay €8.3m by French court (28 Oct 2014)
Tesco's woes sees 'materiality' question raised (28 Oct 2014)
Why auditing fails us all – or an explanation for Tescos (27 Oct 2014)
KPMG Audits Had 46% Deficiency Rate in PCAOB Inspection (27 Oct 2014)
PCAOB Finds Continuing Quality Control Issues at KPMG (27 Oct 2014)
Judge criticises delay in decision on KPMG in €6bn IBRC action (27 Oct 2014)
Ireland Watchdog defers inquiry into KPMG audit role (27 Oct 2014)
Dave Lewis says pay deal is 'under review' in exclusive interview after £263m Tesco accounting scandal (27 Oct 2014)
Profit warnings surge as UK companies feel the squeeze (27 Oct 2014)
SEC Sanctions Auditor for Circumventing Rules Lead Audit Partners To Periodically Rotate Off Their Audit Engagements (27 Oct 2014)
Failed MG Rover bosses to pocket £5m payout despite 6500 workers losing jobs (27 Oct 2014)
Ex-Bank of New York Mellon employee pleads guilty to insider trading (27 Oct 2014)
200 female employees join class action against KPMG US (27 Oct 2014)
Twenty-four European banks fail EBA stress test (27 Oct 2014)
Twenty-four European banks fail financial stress tests (27 Oct 2014)
Italy under pressure as 9 banks fail stress tests (27 Oct 2014)
EBA publishes 2014 EU-wide stress test results (27 Oct 2014)
Results of EU-wide stress test: Aggregate Results (27 Oct 2014)
Results of EU-wide stress test: Summary of bank-level results (27 Oct 2014)
Dash for consultancy: KPMG dives into strategy business with new practice (27 Oct 2014)
Rengan Rajaratnam Agrees to Settle Insider Trading Charges: pays more than $840,000 and accept securities industry bars (27 Oct 2014)
Investors Suggest External Auditor Review of Audit Committees (27 Oct 2014)
Tesco hit with US investor lawsuit over accounting irregularities (24 Oct 2014)
Accounting watchdog studying Tesco statements (24 Oct 2014)
Of the 10 directors on the Tesco board (leaving aside the relatively new chief executive and chief financial officer), two are formerly of PwC (24 Oct 2014)
A number of giant institutions admitted that the audited accounts they had been publishing at regular intervals were little more than fiction (24 Oct 2014)
Tesco and accounting (24 Oct 2014)
Tesco's profits black hole bigger than expected and runs back several years (23 Oct 2014)
Tesco admits £263m hole in accounts (23 Oct 2014)
The Guardian view on Tesco’s auditing debacle: a systemic shambles? (23 Oct 2014)
Seven things we have learned from Tesco's results (23 Oct 2014)
Tesco profits down 92% as scandal costs supermarket £263 million (23 Oct 2014)
Tesco, what went wrong? (23 Oct 2014)
Deloitte's Tesco probe finds prior reporting period issues (23 Oct 2014)
Tesco chairman Sir Richard Broadbent resigns following accounting scandal (23 Oct 2014)
UK failed by Co-op accounting black hole (23 Oct 2014)
Co-op report criticises KPMG and regulator (23 Oct 2014)
KPMG and financial watchdog criticised over Co-op Bank fiasco (23 Oct 2014)
KPMG, Market Watchdog Missed Co-Op Shortfall, Report Says (23 Oct 2014)
UK House of Commons Treasury Committee Report: Project Verde (also covers Cooperative Bank) (23 Oct 2014)
Deloitte to take cut in Quinn fees (23 Oct 2014)
Tesco's results set to reveal extent of accounting scandal (22 Oct 2014)
Tesco, what went wrong? (22 Oct 2014)
Auditors Face a Crisis of Relevance in the Capital Markets (22 Oct 2014)
Facebook pays no UK corporation tax for a second year (22 Oct 2014)
Facebook pays its UK staff an average of £237000 - and gets £182000 credit from the taxman despite record sales (22 Oct 2014)
Facebook London staff get tens of millions in shares – but social media giant pays no tax in the UK (22 Oct 2014)
KPMG pulls sponsorship of LSE sports union over 'offensive' leaflets (22 Oct 2014)
HBOS whistleblower given the cold shoulder because he's 'too hot to handle' (22 Oct 2014)
Quinn Insurance auditors paid €114000 in fees (22 Oct 2014)
Italian police uncover €1.7bn corporate fraud (21 Oct 2014)
Bank bosses mugging shareholders – the facts are laid bare (21 Oct 2014)
AbbVie: "risks and uncertainty" of US tax policy behind decision to drop Shire bid (21 Oct 2014)
AbbVie and Shire call off deal after US tax rule change (21 Oct 2014)
Should Business Schools Teach Shareholder Value Maximization? (21 Oct 2014)
EU Commission settles cartel on bid-ask spreads charged on Swiss Franc interest rate derivatives; fines four major banks (RBS, UBS, JP Morgan and Crédit Suisse) € 32.3 million (21 Oct 2014)
Probe into £250m accounting scandal at Tesco uncovers evidence that small group of staff involved in cover-up lasting more than a year (20 Oct 2014)
Tesco staff 'misled auditors' over black hole (20 Oct 2014)
SEC Ends Keurig Investigation With No Enforcement Action (20 Oct 2014)
How to prepare for auditing in a digital world of Big Data (20 Oct 2014)
Regulators Are Gauging Health of Europe's Banks, and the Remedy May Sting a Little (20 Oct 2014)
Some 6,000 people involved in review of EU bank files, loans and stress tests (20 Oct 2014)
Transfer Pricing - The Bermuda connection: Profit shifting and unaffordability at Lonmin 1999-2012 ( Oct 2014)
Concerns over insolvency 'no win no fee' reforms (20 ct 2014)
Tesco's fall from grace compounded by accounting error (17 Oct 2014)
Simpler accounting for smaller companies (17 Oct 2014)
Accountant jailed over role in £35m mortgage fraud (17 Oct 2014)
Accountant funded surgery with fake goods (17 Oct 2014)
Rolls-Royce shares tumble 15% after profit warning (17 Oct 2014)
Controversy over 'double Irish' raises issue of EU's power over tax regimes (17 Oct 2014)
Private equity owners of Game Group used tax havens for payments (17 Oct 2014)
Revolving Doors: Veteran Deutsche banker to join KPMG (17 Oct 2014)
Lonmin guilty of transfer pricing (17 Oct 2014)
Gloomy outlook from IMF, but it is still not facing up to what caused the banking crash (16 Oct 2014)
EU auditors and policymakers continue accountability dialogue (16 Oct 2014)
Audit Commission calls for outsourced audit deals to last to 2020 (16 Oct 2014)
The great British money launderette: At least 19 UK firms under investigation for an alleged conspiracy to make $20bn of dirty money seem legitimate (16 Oct 2014)
UK money laundering: How they get away with it (16 Oct 2014)
Tesco branded 'leaderless' by suppliers following accounting scandal (16 Oct 2014)
BP loses court battle over Mexico Gulf oil spill claims (16 Oct 2014)
Shire shares crash 28% as AbbVie reconsiders £34bn takeover bid (15 Oct 2014)
After Tax Rule Changes, AbbVie to Reconsider Inversion Deal for Shire (15 Oct 2014)
Fat cats: BG Group ignites pay row over new boss £29m pay package (15 Oct 2014)
Tesco to suspend more senior staff over £250m accounting scandal (14 Oct 2014)
Ten UK companies fall short of FRC reporting standards (14 Oct 2014)
Six FTSE 350 companies fail to meet FRC reporting standards (14 Oct 2014)
FRC’s Corporate Reporting Review Annual Report emphasises areas of reporting focus for boards (14 Oct 2014)
Accounting Firm Must Pay Insurer Over Analyst's Fraud (14 Oct 2014)
Tesco considers possible successors to Chairman Richard Broadbent (14 Oct 2014)
Audit Rotation Best Practices (14 Oct 2014)
KPMG releases diversity data (14 Oct 2014)
Revolving Doors: Former PwC partner takes Findel non-exec role (14 Oct 2014)
Directors at collapsed Yellow Pages owner Hibu accused of sales fraud (13 Oct 2014)
FASB and IASB: A Difficult Duet on Leases (13 Oct 2014)
Wetherspoon boss Tim Martin slams 'absurd' board rules (13 Oct 2014)
Former UBS high-flier set for US tax fraud trial (13 Oct 2014)
Audit Report: In auditing, long is the new short (13 Oct 2014)
status prominent at 'Big Four' firm Ernst & Young (13 Oct 2014)
Mystery of Dyson's £10m dispute with taxman (13 Oct 2014)
Royal Mail: Analysis shows half of the 16 priority investors have sold more than 90pc of holdings, with most of the 23m shares assigned to them having changed hands (13 Oct 2014)
Kingfisher Airlines faces scrutiny for accounting lapses (13 Oct 2014)
High-flying Tesco executives come down to earth as jets division wound up (13 Oct 2014)
Billionaire Reuben brothers' horseracing group canters to a loss (13 Oct 2014)
Auditing Special Purpose Frameworks: Stockholders' Equity (13 Oct 2014)
Big Six UK energy companies asked by Ofgem to reveal costs and profits (10 Oct 2014)
Vodafone Wins Another Indian Tax Case; This Time Over Transfer Pricing (10 Oct 2014)
Ireland likely to phase out 'Double Irish' tax regime (10 Oct 2014)
Brussels in crackdown on 'double Irish' tax loophole (10 Oct 2014)
Q&A: What is the double Irish? (10 Oct 2014)
MG Rover Group: Deloitte & Touche, Mr Maghsoud Einollahi (9 Oct 2014)
Regents demand Deloitte receipts (9 Oct 2014)
Royal Mail sets aside £18m for French fine and legal fees (9 Oct 2014)
PwC questions Carbures' accounting treatment (9 Oct 2014)
Investor Carl Icahn urges Apple to step up share buybacks (9 Oct 2014)
Woolf: reliable and honest reporting? Not yet (9 Oct 2014)
Barclays pays $20m to settle US class-action lawsuit over Libor fixing (9 Oct 2014)
Named and shamed: The FTSE 250 companies with no women at the top (9 Oct 2014)
State aid: Commission investigates transfer pricing arrangements on corporate taxation of Amazon in Luxembourg (9 Oct 2014)
Google's Tax Setup Faces French Challenge (9 Oct 2014)
Transfer Pricing: Foreign manufacturers use foreign parts suppliers to avoid tax (9 Oct 2014)
ATO alleges complex Chevron scheme slashed tax bill by $258m (9 Oct 2014)
Country by country reporting: news from Finland, Netherlands, France (8 Oct 2014)
At Tesco everyone is at fault and no one to blame (8 Oct 2014)
Analyst Predicted A Year Ago That Tesco's Dodgy Accounting Would Hurt It (8 Oct 2014)
UK accounting standard for smaller companies has to be withdrawn – because it is illegal (8 Oct 2014)
Audit Deficiencies Surge (8 Oct 2014)
Accountant Claims Comcast Got Him Fired From His Job for Reporting a Customer Service Issue (8 Oct 2014)
Spain's Carbures shares suspended after auditor questions accounts (8 Oct 2014)
KFC owner Yum Brands issues profit warning on China food scandal (8 Oct 2014)
SodaStream shares collapse after company warns of weak results (8 Oct 2014)
KPMG to deliver Royal Mail audit (8 Oct 2014)
Tesco probe: Fifth executive suspended amid investigation into £250m profit hole (7 Oct 2014)
'Accounting trick' hid £5bn in poor performance of alternatives (7 Oct 2014)
Get ready for UK extractive industries disclosure rules (7 Oct 2014)
FRC to name and shame companies (7 Oct 2014)
FRC formalises increased transparency of its review of company accounts (7 Oct 2014)
KPMG Female Employees Receive Notices about Gender Discrimination Suit (7 Oct 2014)
Thousands of female staff offered chance to join anti-KPMG lawsuit (7 Oct 2014)
Banker admits Libor fraud conspiracy (7 Oct 2014)
FRC: Reporting watchdog needs sharper teeth (7 Oct 2014)
Two directors of HSBC's UK bank to quit over new rules (7 Oct 2014)
Goldman Sachs ‘plied naive Gaddafi bankers with alcohol' to make $1bn deals that ultimately proved worthless (7 Oct 2014)
Auditors: Blue-chips slow to ditch top accountants despite reforms (6 Oct 2014)
Grant Thornton queries Big Four's legal services push (6 Oct 2014)
EY snubs Osborne's attack on tax abuse (6 Oct 2014)
Tesco strengthens board after accounting scandal (6 Oct 2014)
FRC reaches compromise rather than consensus over going concern (6 Oct 2014)
FRC: Accounting watchdog criticised over lack of SME representation (6 Oct 2014)
Hewlett-Packard 'to split into two companies' (6 Oct 2014)
Cashflow concerns see ICAEW Council vote down 'subs-by instalments' (6 Oct 2014)
New firm to take on key Audit Commission roles (6 Oct 2014)
Walt Disney is backing the €1bn refinancing of the Paris themed park (6 Oct 2014)
10 Issues That Are Keeping Accountants Up at Night (6 Oct 2014)
Grant Thornton ups partner profits as firm clears £500m (6 Oct 2014)
KPMG 'will not compete with big law practices' (6 Oct 2014)
Tesco board faces new questions after purchase of $50m corporate jet (4 Oct 2014)
Medtronic Alters Covidien Financing as Tax Rules Shift (4 Oct 2014)
Huddersfield University loses £600000 'tax avoidance' case (4 Oct 2014)
Revenue recognition lies at the heart of more than half of US company restatements (4 Oct 2014)
UBS face €5bn fine over alleged tax avoidance scheme (4 Oct 2014)
Is Fair Value Foul? (4 Oct 2014)
Philips Loses $466 Million Verdict in Masimo Patent Trial (4 Oct 2014)
Trilogy Funds accuses KPMG, partner of misleading investors (3 Oct 2014)
Country-by-Country Reporting: Publishing banks' taxes and turnover will help the economy (3 Oct 2014)
EU Directive on Country-by-Country Reporting (3 Oct 2014)
KPMG wins Royal Mail audit contract and a licence to practise law (3 Oct 2014)
Dash for Consultancy: KPMG Acquires Certain Assets Of Cybersecurity Firm Qubera Solutions (3 Oct 2014)
Bank of America's Latest Move Defies Good Governance (3 Oct 2014)
Warren Buffett: Tesco shares 'a huge mistake' (3 Oct 2014)
Maybe being an accountant isn't so boring: EY partners' average salary rises to £727,000 as profits jump (3 Oct 2014)
Deloitte says MG Rover charges "unfair" (3 Oct 2014)
Ernst & Young (EY) partners share in rising profits amid M&A and IPO boom (3 Oct 2014)
IASB takes first steps toward full-on review of pensions accounting (2 Oct 2014)
Wonga to write off £220m of customer debts (2 Oct 2014)
Tesco accounting questioned by Sainsbury's (2 Oct 2014)
Sainsbury's cuts sales forecast and reviews dividend (2 Oct 2014)
Ernst & Young agrees to pay C$8 million to settle Sino-Forest allegations (2 Oct 2014)
Ernst & Young reaches C$8-million settlement over Sino-Forest audit (2 Oct 2014)
5 Ways to Prepare for New Lease Accounting Rules (2 Oct 2014)
Audit Commission: LGA creates local audit oversight company (2 Oct 2014)
Qatar loses more than £1.5bn on Sainsbury's (2 Oct 2014)
Pimco flagship bond fund emptied of $23.5bn by fleeing investors (2 Oct 2014)
The Modern Corporation Statement on Accounting (1 Oct 2014)
Tesco to be probed by Financial Conduct Authority (1 Oct 2014)
Tesco to face FRC accounts inquiry (1 Oct 2014)
Fair Value Continues to Trip Up Auditors (1 Oct 2014)
US Compromise Is Floated on Auditor Identification (1 Oct 2014)
Accountancy is just basic maths and guesswork (1 Oct 2014)
Former ATT president ordered to repay £1.6m (1 Oct 2014)
Ex ATT president must repay £1.6m lost in £5m pension fraud (1 Oct 2014)
With over 1000 affiliate companies, BP controls a complex network of corporate entities (1 Oct 2014)
Tesco taps banks for 2.5 billion pounds (1 Oct 2014)
Apple may have to repay billions from Irish government tax deal (1 Oct 2014)
EU Believes Apple, Fiat Tax Deals Broke Rules (1 Oct 2014)
Vince Cable to review number of ethnic minority board members
Wonga profits halve after customer damages payouts (1 Oct 2014)
TRUTHFULNESS IN ACCOUNTING: HOW TO DISCRIMINATE ACCOUNTING MANIPULATORS FROM NON-MANIPULATORS (1 Oct 2014)

SEPTEMBER 2014

Awkward questions for Tesco should be answered by its accountants too (30 Sep 2014)
Problems by the bagful for beleaguered Tesco (30 Sep 2014)
How hapless haggling caused Tesco's headaches (30 Sep 2014)
Tesco shareholders prepare to grill harried chairman Sir Richard Broadbent over profits howler (30 Sep 2014)
Bank of America (audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers) Settles SEC Case on $4 Billion Accounting Error (30 Sep 2014)
Bank of America Pays $7.65 Million to Settle SEC Charges (30 Sep 2014)
SEC Charges Bank of America With Securities Laws Violations in Connection With Regulatory Capital Overstatements (30 Sep 2014)
Ex-Morrisons treasurer is charged over insider trades (30 Sep 2014)
Two Former Wells Fargo Employees Charged With Insider Trading in Advance of Research Reports Containing Ratings Changes (30 Sep 2014)
Secret tapes pull back curtain on Goldman Sachs (30 Sep 2014)
The leaking of confidential conversations with the Federal Reserve reveals an alarming truth about financial oversight: Wall Street regulators are paid by Wall Street to take Wall Street at its word (30 Sep 2014)
KPMG called in to review project controls at Balfour Beatty (audited by Deloitte) (30 Sep 2014)
Apple's Irish tax deal questioned by European Commission (30 Sep 2014)
Apple Irish Tax Deal Deviated From Arm's Length Concept, EU Says (30 Sep 2014)
The Future of the Accounting Firm: No Billable Hours (30 Sep 2014)
Accounting firm owner charged with bank fraud (30 Sep 2014)
Tesco's £250m accounting black hole first flagged during Phil Clarke's reign (29 Sep 2014)
Tesco whistleblower's warnings were initially ignored (29 Sep 2014)
It's time for Tesco to stock a new brand of auditor (29 Sep 2014)
Don't shred or delete any documents, new Tesco chief warns staff as profit shortfall probe digs deeper (29 Sep 2014)
Balfour Beatty's shares plunge on profits warning (29 Sep 2014)
Balfour Beatty shares plunge 25% after forecast profits dive by £75m (29 Sep 2014)
IFRS 9 signals the return of prudence (29 Sep 2014)
Deloitte launches £14m FRC appeal (29 Sep 2014)
EU to accuse Apple of taking illegal tax aid from Ireland, reports say (29 Sep 2014)
Apple hit by Brussels finding over illegal Irish tax deals (29 Sep 2014)
FCA charges former Treasurer and Head of Tax at Wm Morrison with insider dealing (29 Sep 2014)
Lloyds fires staff and axes bonuses for Libor rigging (29 Sep 2014)
UBS warns it could be hit with 'material' fine over forex rigging (29 Sep 2014)
Investigation into Tesco's £250m profit shortfall unearths 'corruption' of culture (28 Sep 2014)
Tesco – the crisis that doesn't add up (28 Sep 2014)
De La Rue (audited by KPMG) shares plunge after profit warning (28 Sep 2014)
Tesco pulled £3bn financing deal two days before profit warning (28 Sep 2014)
Inside Tesco's bonus-fuelled regime of fear and machismo (28 Sep 2014)
Rise of shell companies: Why tax authorities continue to wage a tax battle with them (28 Sep 2014)
L-3 Reveals More Accounting Problems, Revisions (28 Sep 2014)
PwC-Booz Merger: How Will It Affect The Middle East (28 Sep 2014)
Social Closure and Turf Battles: PwC, EY lead the charge as accountants look to muscle in lawyer territory (28 Sep 2014)
KPMG party shows there's no accounting for taste (28 Sep 2014)
Tesco bosses could face UK parliamentary scrutiny over accounting scandal (26 Sep 2014)
Tesco's finance director will receive £1m farewell payoff (26 Sep 2014)
Pressure mounts on Tesco chief as second-largest shareholder cuts stake (26 Sep 2014)
De La Rue shares plunge after printer warns on profits (26 Sep 2014)
FRC Closure of investigation into the conduct of Ernst & Young LLP (26 Sep 2014)
Bentham accountant jailed for £2m 'Ponzi' scheme (26 Sep 2014)
The tax accountant who runs brothel from Belfast Terrace (26 Sep 2014)
EY revenues rise on back of advisory work (26 Sep 2014)
Trolley load of trouble in store for Tesco and its bean counters (25 Sep 2014)
Stock markets shaken by Apple slide (25 Sep 2014)
Tesco accounting error 'stratospheric' (25 Sep 2014)
Tesco was warned in 2010 about 'aggressive accounting' (25 Sep 2014)
SEC Charges JDA Software Group for Inadequate Internal Accounting Controls Over Its Financial Reporting (25 Sep 2014)
Share buy-backs: Companies have been gobbling up their own shares at an exceptional rate. There are good reasons to worry about this (25 Sep 2014)
BP cannot claw back 'excessive' gulf spill payments (25 Sep 2014)
Dash for consultancy: KPMG and Oracle partner to provide cloud offering (25 Sep 2014)
SRA backs down on accountant report requirements (25 Sep 2014)
Why regulators are watching auditors at letterbox companies (25 Sep 2014)
SEC Charges Software Company in Silicon Valley and Two Former Executives Behind Fraudulent Accounting Scheme: CEO Agrees to Return $2.5 Million Under Clawback Provision (25 Sep 2014)
KPMG helps staff up property ladder with mortgage move (25 Sep 2014)
Revolving Doors: Deloitte's Ian Smith to take top role at Clydesdale (25 Sep 2014)
Every little helps to pay fines: Deloitte Annual Global Revenue Rises 5.7% in US Dollars (25 Sep 2014)
How to pull the plug on irresponsible capitalism (24 Sep 2014)
Tesco crisis: Embattled supermarket giant faces probe from accountants watchdog (24 Sep 2014)
Tesco director kept out of monitoring by accountancy watchdog, says FRC (24 Sep 2014)
FRC statement about Tesco's trading announcement (24 Sep 2014)
Tesco's accounting problems (24 Sep 2014)
Tesco's chairman 'shocked' by accounts mess (24 Sep 2014)
Tesco could be forced to restate accounts (24 Sep 2014)
Five embarrassing accounting blunders (24 Sep 2014)
Deloitte's record fails to delight... (24 Sep 204)
Nine questions Tesco's investors will now be asking themselves (24 Sep 2014)
Tesco rushes in new finance director to deal with accounting scandal (24 Sep 2014)
The backroom deals that have cost Tesco dear: Finances skewed by promotions with suppliers (24 Sep 2014)
Former JJB boss in court accused of £1m fraud (24 Sep 2014)
SEC probes Pimco ETF over pricing irregularities (24 Sep 2014)
Barclays fined £38m for putting clients' assets 'at risk' (24 Sep 2014)
SEC Charges Barclays Capital with Systemic Compliance Failures After Acquiring Lehman’s Advisory Business (24 Sep 2014)
Auditors Can't Leave Going Concern Evaluation to Management (24 Sep 2014)
Auditors still responsible for going-concern evaluation under PCAOB rules (24 Sep 2014)
SEC Charges Purported Health Food Company and CEO with Issuing False Press Releases in Microcap Fraud (24 Sep 2014)
Tate & Lyle shares plunge after it warns on profit (24 Sep 2014)
Law Society accuses SRA of helping large accountancy firms over others (24 Sep 2014)
Accountant Sentenced for Conspiring with Members of Organized Crime Family in Fraud Scheme (24 Sep 2014)
KPMG overhauls approach to its audit reports (24 Sep 2014)
KPMG calls for expanded commentary in audit reports (24 Sep 2014)
Fighting Corporate Abuse (22 Sep 2014)
Investors do not take pension liabilities at face value (22 Sep 2014)
Alibaba feeding frenzy shows how little we have learnt (22 Sep 2014)
Tesco Trading Update (22 Sep 2014)
Tesco cuts outlook after finding accounting error (22 Sep 2014)
Tesco said the profits overstatement was "principally due to the accelerated recognition of commercial income and delayed accrual of costs" (22 Sep 2014)
Tesco has been paying suppliers later and taking monies from them earlier than it should have (22 Sep 2014)
What went wrong at Tesco? (22 Sep 2014)
Tesco (audited by PwC) suspends execs as inquiry launched into profit overstatement (22 Sep 2014)
Four Tesco employees go on leave over accounting issue (22 Sep 2014)
Tesco accounting scandal Q&A: what happens next? (22 Sep 2014)
Former JJB boss faces fraud trial (22 Sep 2014)
UK 'leading' country-by-country reporting, claims Treasury (22 Sep 2014)
Ernst & Young in tentative deal in Canada on Sino-Forest audit (22 Sep 2014)
Ernst & Young settles with OSC in Sino-Forest, Zungui cases (22 Sep 2014)
£100m private equity deal creates new Uk accounting group (22 Sep 2014)
US Regulators, Accounting Firms Bicker Over Audit Rule (22 Sep 2014)
G20 countries agree to exchange tax information by 2017 to stamp out evasion (22 Sep 2014)
Monumental Incompetence at ACCA (19 Sep 2014)
More austerity will do yet more damage (19 Sep 2014)
UN transfer pricing manual: what Brazil, India and China do differently (19 Sep 2014)
Audit NZ slated over Citifleet 'fraud' (19 Sep 2014)
Alibaba’s corporate structure: just look at those British tax havens (19 Sep 2014)
Phones 4U bondholder write-down offer 'not feasible' says PwC (19 Sep 2014)
Dash for consultancy: KPMG Recognized as Leader in Litigation Consulting Services (19 Sep 2014)
Insolvency gravy train: Phones 4U administrator hires top law firm Allen & Overy to probe retailer's collapse (19 Sep 2014)
Insolvency: Phones 4U's private equity owner walks away with an £18m profit (18 Sep 2014)
Insolvency: Phones 4U creditors launch 11th-hour rescue plan (18 Sep 2014)
6 Years Later, 7 Lessons from Lehman's Collapse (18 Sep 2014)
UBS in $1.4 Billion Test of French Tax-Evasion Crackdown (18 Sep 2014)
The Overpaid CEO: There have been many attempts to curb exorbitant executive pay. But we won’t fix the problem until we address the nature of the corporation (18 Sep 2014)
Barclays accused of hiding and lying about 'predatory' high-frequency traders by New York attorney (18 Sep 2014)
UBS Clients Lead Canada Surge in Admitting Hidden Income (18 Sep 2014)
Anger at DS Smith boss's £200k relocation allowance for 40 mile move (18 Sep 2014)
Intangible Assets: The Case of the Vanishing Assets (17 Sep 2014)
All companies will have to justify executive pay under City code (17 Sep 2014)
Boards told they must justify bonuses (17 Sep 2014)
UK Corporate Governance Code September 2014 (17 Sep 2014)
FRC Guidance on Risk Management, Internal Control and Related Financial and Business Reporting (17 Sep 2014)
FRC Guidance for Directors of Banks on Solvency and Liquidity Risk Management and the Going Concern Basis of accounting (17 Sep 2014)
Extracts from International Standards on Auditing (UK and Ireland) 260, 570 and 700 (Revised September 2014) (17 Sep 2014)
Feedback Statement - Revisions to the UK Corporate Governance Code September 2014 (17 Sep 2014)
FRC publishes final guidance on going concern (17 Sep 2014)
Phones 4U rivals in contact with administrator PwC in attempt to buy firm on cheap (17 Sep 2014)
The era of country-by-country reporting is arriving (16 Sep 2014)
Keep cash accounting, say US legislators (16 Sep 2014)
AgFeed Industries Agrees to Pay $18 Million to Settle Accounting Fraud Case (16 Sep 2014)
AgFeed to Pay $18 Million Over Fake Revenue in China (16 Sep 2014)
US SEC announces settlement with AgFeed over accounting fraud (16 Sep 2014)
FRC fines Worthington Nicholls external auditor (16 Sep 2014)
Bosses and cash vanish at shoe firm Ultrasonic (16 Sep 2014)
AICPA Reorganizes Attestation and Auditing Standards (16 Sep 2014)
SEC Yields on One Aspect of Revenue Recognition Adoption (16 Sep 2014)
Insolvency: Rileys snooker hall chain has to shut quarter of sports bars (16 Sep 2014)
Asos shares fall 14% on poor outlook (16 Sep 2014)
International tax rule updates to be agreed by G20 countries (16 Sep 2014)
OECD: Global firms need new tax rules (16 Sep 2014)
PwC chairman to receive £3.7m share of rising profits as business grows (15 Sep 2014)
PwC provided more than 6,000 hours of free technical support, worth £400,000 to political parties during the year, up by more than 20%, with almost 4,500 hours going to Labour and the balance mainly to the Liberal Democrats (15 Sep 2014)
PwC partners awarded £722000 each in highest pay-out since 2010 (15 Sep 2014)
Insolvency: Phones 4u goes into administration – with 5600 jobs at risk (15 Sep 2014)
Insolvency bonanza for PwC: Phones 4U shops closing down across UK (15 Sep 2014)
European Banks Get New Capital Hit From Accounting Rule (15 Sep 2014)
Firms told to talk to shareholders about executive pay to avoid further revolts (15 Sep 2014)
Outcomes of the disciplinary hearing against Paul Newsham, Member of the ICAEW and of the disciplinary case against Sixonethreeone Limited (formerly known as HWCA Limited), former Member Firm of the ICAEW (15 Sep 2014)
Sir Richard Branson's West Coast line earnings drop to £9.2m (15 Sep 2014)
Canadian computer dealer claims Ernst & Young breach (15 Sep 2014)
Deloitte decides against legal ABS move (15 Sep 2014)
What is really driving capital from the UK? (15 Sep 2014)
Fixing international corporate taxation (15 Sep 2014)
Professions: The privileged few are tightening their grip on the arts (15 Sep 2014)
Checking the corporate tax cheats (13 Sep 2014)
US House wants cash accounting to stay (13 Sep 2014)
HSBC settles mortgage case with US regulators for $550m (13 Sep 2014)
HSBC to pay $550m in US to settle mortgage mis-selling suit (13 Sep 2014)
FHFA Announces Settlement with HSBC (13 Sep 2014)
HSBC Settlement Agreement with FHFA (13 Sep 2014)
SEC Charges Bank Holding Company, Wilmington Trust Company , in Delaware with Improper Accounting and Disclosure of Past Due Loans (12 Sep 2014)
M&T Bank unit to pay $18.5 mln to settle SEC accounting violations (12 Sep 2014)
Wilmington Trust Concealed Problem Construction Loans: SEC (12 Sep 2014)
Debt From KPMG Tax Shelter Survives Bankruptcy (12 Sep 2014)
What makes accountants unhappy? (12 Sep 2014)
Judicial review opens ACCA disciplinaries to judges' findings (12 Sep 2014)
SEC Announces Fraud Charges Against Biotech Company and Former Executive Who Failed to Report Insider Stock Sales (12 Sep 2014)
Hewlett-Packard Russia Pleads Guilty to and Sentenced for Bribery of Russian Government Officials (12 Sep 2014)
HP subsidiaries plead guilty in bribery cases (12 Sep 2014)
Mike Lynch hits back over Autonomy fraud allegations by HP (12 Sep 2014)
Lynch fires back at HP's 'excessive' forecasts on Autonomy deal (12 Sep 2014)
SEC Targets Timing of Insiders' Trade Notices (12 Sep 2014)
SEC Announces Charges Against Corporate Insiders for Violating Laws Requiring Prompt Reporting of Transactions and Holdings (12 Sep 2014)
PwC to face US lawsuit over Colonial Bank collapse - court ruling (11 Sep 2014)
Criticism leads to U-turn on lease accounting standards (11 Sep 2014)
Insolvency: RadioShack seeks rescue and warns of bankruptcy (11 Sep 2014)
UK banks grapple with threat of 5 percent leverage ratio (11 Sep 2014)
SeaWorld faces lawsuit claiming it misled investors following release of 'Blackfish' (11 Sep 2014)
How many UK companies are actually foreign-owned? (11 Sep 2014)
Five facts about foreign-owned businesses in the UK (11 Sep 2014)
Hewlett-Packard Russia Pleads Guilty to and Sentenced for Bribery of Russian Government Officials (11 Sep 2014)
The Modern Corporation - Corporate governance for the 21st century: Accounting and Maximisation of Shareholder Wealth (10 Sep 2014)
PCAOB Warns about Deficiencies in Auditing Revenue (10 Sep 2014)
PCAOB alert calls for auditors to focus on revenue (10 Sep 2014)
Ernst & Young accused by Canadian used computer dealer of data breach (10 Sep 2014)
PWC Can't Duck Shoddy Work Claims Over Colonial Bank Fraud (10 Sep 2014)
Pensions accounting: FRS 102 and impact on P&L (10 Sep 2014)
US Companies Increasing Audit Committee Transparency (10 Sep 2014)
State-owned East Coast paid £225m to UK Treasury – but still faces privatisation (10 Sep 2014)
MG Rover Group: Deloitte & Touche, Mr Maghsoud Einollahi (10 Sep 2014)
Corporate Welfare: PwC Team To Bid for Pentagon's $11B EHR Modernization Contract (10 Sep 2014)
Split for PwC too in City power couple's billion-pound divorce (10 Sep 2014)
KPMG offers generous advice that will help tax cheats (9 Sep 2014)
Hertz CEO steps down after accounting errors (9 Sep 2014)
Former TierOne Bank Executive Pleads Guilty for His Role in Scheme to Defraud Bank’s Shareholders and Regulators (9 Sep 2014)
Ongoing gender pay gap in accountancy profession (9 Sep 2014)
UK accountants: Men earn more (9 Sep 2014)
Non-IFRS Accounting Zones Dwindle in Number (9 Sep 2014)
Satyam Founder Appeals Order to Pay $300 Million (9 Sep 2014)
SEC Charges Offshore Business and Two Individuals Behind Scheme to Conceal Ownership of Microcap Stocks (9 Sep 2014)
US Punishments for Insider Trading Are Growing Stiffer (9 Sep 2014)
Belize Firm Charged in $500 Million Tax-Evasion Scheme (9 Sep 2014)
Feds Charge 6 With Running $500 Million Offshore Laundering Scheme (9 Sep 2014)
US 10th Circ. Boots Ex-Grant Thornton Tax Partner's RICO Appeal (8 Sep 2014)
Court Judgement: US 10th Circ. Boots Ex-Grant Thornton Tax Partner's RICO Appeal (8 Sep 2014)
EU Concerned Banks Are Ignoring Rules on Bonus Limits (8 Sep 2014)
EU moves to crackdown on banks dodging bonus cap (8 Sep 2014)
How UK bank lending fell by £365 BILLION in five years... much to the delight of controversial payday loan firms (8 Sep 2014)
Trade mispricing: Tanzania among top five revenue losers (8 Sep 2014)
Sweden's Eniro finds accounts inaccuracies, may call in police (7 Sep 2014)
Eniro shares slide in wake of accounting irregularities (7 Sep 2014)
Logitech makes minor adjustments amid accounting probe (7 Sep 2014)
Revolving Doors: Allen & Overy hires Deloitte's Richard Punt as new CEO (7 Sep 2014)
The nonsense of shareholder ownership: what we should know (5 Sep 2014)
Investors expect banks to raise $67.02 billion after ECB tests (5 Sep 2014)
Investors urged to reject Betfair's accounts (5 Sep 2014)
BP's Cash Flow Still Under the Gavel (5 Sep 2014)
HP court filing claims Autonomy in 2010 headed for financial 'plane crash' (5 Sep 2014)
Punch Taverns inches closer to restructuring deal (5 Sep 2014)
SUMMARY: FUNDAMENTAL RULES OF CORPORATE LAW (5 Sep 2014)
The Institutional Investor Stewardship Myth in a Dutch Context (5 Sep 2014
Investors fire warning shot at Betfair executive bonuses (4 Sep 2014)
BP's reckless conduct caused Deepwater Horizon oil spill, judge rules (4 Sep 2014)
BP faces up to $18bn fines after Gulf of Mexico 'gross negligence' ruling (4 Sep 2014)
What's an accounting puzzle like Alibaba (really) worth? (4 Sep 2014)
Phones4U debts under review for downgrade after split with Vodafone (4 Sep 2014)
SFO investigating £120m Axiom fund and founder (4 Sep 2014)
South Africa: Clamour to end transfer pricing abuse (4 Sep 2014)
Firm of cards: The politics of partnerships (4 Sep 2014)
SEC Too Lax on Accountants, Commissioner Says (3 Sep 2014)
Corruption 'impoverishes and kills millions' (3 Sep 2014)
THE WORLD’S POOREST COUNTRIES ARE DEPRIVED OF AT LEAST $1 TRILLION EACH YEAR BY CRIMINALS WHO EXPLOIT IMPENETRABLE SECRECY TO SIPHON OFF CASH THROUGH MONEY LAUNDERING, TAX EVASION AND EMBEZZLEMENT (3 Sep 2014)
Lease Accounting Changes May Trip Up Bank Loans (3 Sep 2014)
PwC's Potential Role at Standard Chartered Draws Attention of NY Regulator (3 Sep 2014)
Is the SEC being too soft on Affiliated Computer Services? (3 Sep 2014)
Goldman Sachs lent Banco Espirito Santo $835ma month before bail-out (3 Sep 2014)
Corporate Control of Accounting Regulation: FRC appoints new members to the Accounting Council and Audit and Assurance Council (3 Sep 2014)
Sino-Forest fraud result of ‘deceitful conduct' by management, hearing told (3 Sep 2014)
Former Arthrocare Executives Sentenced for Orchestrating $750 Million Securities Fraud Scheme (3 Sep 2014)
BIS and FRC consult on new small accounting regime (3 Aug 2014)
BIS consults on implementation of EU Accounting Directive (3 Sep 2014)
BIS Consultation: Audit exemptions and change of accounting framework (3 Sep 2014)
BIS Consultation: EU Accounting Directive: financial reporting (3 Sep 2014)
Halliburton reaches $1.1bn settlement over Deepwater Horizon oil spill (3 Sep 2014)
Betfair attacks Pirc over accounts (3 Sep 2014)
Bribery: U.K. Prosecutors Plan More Arrests in Rolls-Royce Probe (3 Sep 2014)
UK accounting watchdog fines Mazars two million pounds ( 2 Sep 2014)
Outcome of disciplinary case against Mazars LLP, Member Firm of the ICAEW and Richard Karmel, Member of the ICAEW (2 Sep 2014)
Mazars accountancy firm fined for pension fund advice misconduct (2 Sep 2014)
The Big Number: Changes in Lease Accounting Rules Draws Closer (2 Sep 2014)
Insolvency: Deloitte's controversial redundancy chief handed his own P45 (2 Sep 2014)
Neville Kahn quits ICAEW insolvency group (2 Sep 2014)
Nearly half of EY inspected audits found wanting (2 Sep 2014)
Arthur Andersen name revived by independent tax firm in California (2 Sep 2014)
Arthur Andersen returns 12 years after Enron scandal (2 Sep 2014)
More spin than substance: UK Companies face prosecution if they fail to stop economic crime (2 Sep 2014)
Apple owns most valuable brand in the world, worth £70 billion (2 Sep 2014)
Expert Insight Into The World Of Offshore Company Incorporation (2 Sep 2014)
Barclays loses £500m after Spanish banking clearout (1 Sep 2014)
FRC consults on accounting standards for small entities (1 Sep 2014)
US Regulators find deficiencies in audits (1 Sep 2014)
KPMG Refuses To Approve BES Accounts, Warns Of Further Losses (1 Sep 2014)
They may be mocked as boring but accountants have a first-class ticket for the gravy train (1 Sep 2014)
FCA reveals 28% surge in 'suspicious transaction' reports (1 Sep 2014)
The Accountancy Rich List (1 Sep 2014)

AUGUST 2014

Burger King has brewed up a whopping great tax avoidance problem (31 Aug 2014)
Ernst & Young to Return $100000 in Revel Fees (31 Aug 2014)
Co-op Group members vote in favour of reforms (31 Aug 2014)
IKEA pays a low amount of tax (31 Aug 2014)
US government helpless as tax-avoiding firms head for the exit (31 Aug 2014)
KPMG, Ernst & Young and conflict of interests: Calls for greater disclosure on NHS chiefs' meetings with private US health insurer (31 Aug 2014) (31 Aug 2014)
Companies find other ways to move offshore and avoid US taxes (31 Aug 2014)
KPMG Faces Criticism for Espírito Santo Audit Work (29 Aug 2014)
Ernst & Young 2013 Audit Deficiency Rate 49%, Regulators Say (29 Aug 2014)
EY Hits 50% Failure Rate on PCAOB Inspection, Gets a Grade of LOL on AS5 (29 Aug 2014)
Deutsche Bank AG London Branch (Deutsche), audited by KPMG, has been fined £4,718,800 by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for incorrectly reporting transactions between November 2007 and April 2013 (29 Aug 2014)
Accounting for brands: Untouchable Intangibles (29 Aug 2014)
Shareholder groups warn of corporate governance breakdown at AA (29 Aug 2014)
UK Unveils Draft Rule on Extractive Industry Disclosure (29 Aug 2014)
FCA consults on EU Transparency Directive reporting for extractives: Early implementation of the Transparency Directive’s requirements for reports on payments to governments (29 Aug 2014)
UK Stock Market statistics - July 2014 (29 Aug 2014)
Abercrombie & Fitch shares tank after second quarter earnings miss estimates (29 Aug 2014)

PwC must face $1 billion lawsuit over MF Global advice (28 Aug 2014)
Wachtell to pursue Deloitte in HP Autonomy row (28 Aug 2014)
Ex-Porsche boss faces trial over failed VW takeover scandal (28 Aug 2014)
SEC Approves Rules Aimed at Hidden Risks of Asset-Backed Securities (28 Aug 2014)
SEC Wants More Detail on Loans Backing Securities (28 Aug 2014)
Dash for Comsultancy: EY Acquires Net Balance (28 Aug 2014)
Old boy's club still dominates public life, according to major new report (28 Aug 2014)
Press Releqase: Elitist Britain? (28 Aug 2014)
The Report: Elitist Britain? (28 Aug 20014)
Lawsuit alleges former LandCastle Title CEO embezzled $30 million (28 Aug 2014)
More Accounting Deficiencies Linked to Inventory (27 Aug 2014)
Hewlett-Packard plans to sue Deloitte's UK arm over Autonomy audit (27 Aug 2014)
A former director of audit firm KPMG fiddled the company out of more than £40,000 by fraudulently claiming expenses on hotels and flights (27 Aug 2014)
There were 6,962 accountancy firms registered in the UK in 2013, a 4% drop on the previous year when there were 7,239 (27 Aug 2014)
What is a corporation: Opportunist shareholders must embrace commitment (27 Aug 2014)
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and NatWest fined £14,474,600 for serious failings in their advised mortgage sales business (27 Aug 2014)
Complaints against insolvency practitioners rise 25% (27 Aug 2014)
Big 4 Auditing Firms Fall Afoul of Russia's Security Services (27 Aug 2014)
The Big Number: The Second-Most Reported Accounting Deficiency (27 Aug 2014)
Revolving Doors: US SEC hires former Deloitte executive as chief accountant (27 Aug 2014)
ISA 720: potential changes to auditor reporting responsibilities (27 Aug 2014)
Kenyan law soft on negligent auditors (27 Aug 2014)
IASB confirms line-up of IFRS 9 implementation group (27 Aug 2014)
HP to sue Deloitte unit over Autonomy merger: lawyer (26 Aug 2014)
HP sues Deloitte over its auditing of Autonomy's accounts in the two years prior to its acquisition (26 Aug 2014)
US judge questions shareholder settlement with HP over Autonomy (26 Aug 2014)
Big Four step up services to hedge funds (26 Aug 2014)
Accounting Firms Profit From Hedge-Fund Regulation (26 Aug 2014)
Your Whopper May Soon Come With A Side Of Tax Avoidance (26 Aug 2014)
Deloitte slashes partner payouts by £17m (26 Aug 2014)
Grant Thornton denies conflict in O'Flynn case (26 Aug 2014)
Investigation into PWC auditing of Quinn insurance suspended (26 Aug 2014)
Cutting the Corporate Tax Would Grow Other Problems (26 Aug 2014)
Netcare critical on KPMG decision (26 Aug 2014)
10 corporate tax dodgers you should know about (26 Aug 2014)
Holding governments to ransom: Deloitte warns on UK political risks (26 Aug 2014)
Autonomy deals raise questions as HP row escalates (24 Aug 2014)
Goldman Sachs agrees to $1.2bn settlement over mortgage bonds (24 Aug 2014)
HSBC sued for 'ignoring warning signs of British businessman's fraud (24 Aug 2014)
Vince Cable plans to widen disclosure of executive pay (24 Aug 2014)
US hedge funds tighten grip on Punch Taverns (24 Aug 2014)
Co-op Bank reports loss of £75.8m (22 Aug 2014)
Regulators Struggle With Conflicts in Credit Ratings and Audits (22 Aug 2014)
Shareholders, public deserve tax transparency (22 Aug 2014)
Barclays to Pay $23 Million to Settle Thornburg Mortgage Lawsuit (22 Aug 2014)
Bank of America Admits Disclosure Failures to Settle SEC Charges: Bank Also Resolves Separate SEC Case in $245 Million Settlement (22 Aug 2014)
Accounting scandal just the latest of Penn West's problems (22 Aug 2014)
Accountancy rule could wipe up to £500m from the balance sheets of housing associations (22 Aug 2014)
Consultants set for €500m fee windfall in European bank audit (22 Aug 2014)
Canada Province launches consultations on new chartered professional accountant designation (22 Aug 2014)
Accountant gets 11-year ban (22 Aug 2014)
BofA Could See $4 Billion in Tax Savings From $16.65 Billion Settlement (22 Aug 2014)
BofA Grabs $12 Billion Tax Write-Off From $17 Billion Mortgage Settlement (22 Aug 2014)
ECB bank audit to cover consultants in cash (21 Aug 2014)
Deutsche Bank Downgrades Hertz Global Due To Accounting Complications (21 Aug 2014)
More UK companies reviewing their auditors (21 Aug 2014)
US Watchdog Reviews Auditing of Estimates, Mark-to-Market Accounting (21 Aug 2014)
FRC clarifies pension accounting question (21 Aug 2014)
Holding auditors blameless (21 Aug 2014)
Audits and inspections are never enough: a critique to enhance food safety (21 Aug 2014)
Bank of America to Pay $16.65 Billion in Historic Justice Department Settlement for Financial Fraud Leading up to and During the Financial Crisis (21 Aug 2014)
Fat cats: Under-fire Ladbrokes boss in £1 million share award (21 Aug 2014)
Ghanaian Government Asked To Tighten Up On Transfer Pricing (21 Aug 2014)
IASB publishes proposed amendments to IAS 12 Income Taxes (21 Aug 2014)
ESSAY: TELLING STORIES OF SHAREHOLDER SUPREMACY (21 Aug 2014)
Repeat fraudster going by the name 'Simon Fraser' swipes £80k from accountants in another case of NatWest business account fraud (21 Aug 2014)
Keeping the accountants accountable on tax avoidance (21 Aug 2014)
US Audit Regulator Considers Revamp of Rules on Accounting Estimates (20 Aug 2014)
Deloitte accused over £50m taxpayer bill (20 Aug 2014)
Linklaters, Travers Smith, Weil in £184m PwC Lehman pensions settlement (20 Aug 2014)
Monitoring Standard Chartered Means Dumping Big Audit Firms (20 Aug 2014)
FRC proposes amendments to FRS 102 relating to pension obligations (20 Aug 2014)
Standard Chartered pays $300m over money laundering failures (20 Aug 2014)
NYDFS ANNOUNCES STANDARD CHARTERED BANK TO SUSPEND DOLLAR CLEARING FOR HIGH-RISK CLIENTS IN HONG KONG; PAY $300 MILLION PENALTY; TAKE OTHER REMEDIAL STEPS AFTER ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING COMPLIANCE FAILURES (20 Aug 2014)
Moelis Australia blames $8m loss on accounting methods (20 Aug 2014)
PwC Didn't Want to Say Mean Things About Its Client (19 Aug 2014)
Accounting firm PwC nailed for whitewashing client's sanctions violations (19 Aug 2014)
Altered Bank Study Draws Fine for Giant Auditor PwC (19 Aug 2014)
UK Insolvency Service figures show Deloitte involved in more than 20 insolvencies in which workers laid off incorrectly (19 Aug 2014)
PCAOB Finds Continuing Problems with Auditors of Broker-Dealers (19 Aug 2014)
Problems Persist in Audits of Broker-Dealers, Audit Regulator PCAOB Says (19 Aug 2014)
Fabrinet Postpones Financial Reports Pending Accounting Investigation (19 Aug 2014)
11% of UK businesses say slavery in their supply chains (19 Aug 2014)
Gender pay gap: women bosses earn 35% less than male bosses (19 Aug 2014)
Bank Overseer PwC Faces Penalty and Sidelining of Regulatory Consulting Unit (18 Aug 2014)
PwC to Settle With New York Regulator Over Consulting for Japanese Bank (18 Aug 2014)
PwC to pay NY $25 million over work with Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi (18 Aug 2014)
PricewaterhouseCoopers was hired to prepare a report for regulators that detailed Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ’s dealings with Iran and other countries blacklisted by the United States. Bowing to pressure from the bank, PricewaterhouseCoopers watered down the report (18 Aug 2014)
NYDFS ANNOUNCES PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS REGULATORY ADVISORY SERVICES WILL FACE 24-MONTH CONSULTING SUSPENSION; PAY $25 MILLION; IMPLEMENT REFORMS AFTER MISCONDUCT DURING WORK AT BANK OF TOKYO MITSUBISHI (18 Aug 2014)
SEE HOW PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS SANITISED ITS REPORT ON THE BANK OF TOKYO MITSUBISHI (18 Aug 2014)
COURT ORDER BY NEW YORK DEPARTMENT OF FINANCIAL SERVICES AGAINST PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS FOR ITS WORD ON ON THE BANK OF TOKYO MITSUBISHI (18 Aug 2014)
Alibaba May Draw SEC Accounting Scrutiny Before IPO (18 Aug 2014)
Doubt Is Cast on Vetting of Deals by Alibaba (18 Aug 2014)
Alibaba Flops in Accounting for Acquisition Binge (18 Aug 2014)
One in seven FTSE 350 companies to tender audit in 2014 (18 Aug 2014)
Holding Auditors Blameless (18 Aug 2014)
FASB Looks to Uncomplicate Accounting–A Little, At Least (18 Aug 2014)
Insolvency: Some creditors at collapsed stores chain JJB Sports 'got pennies' (18 Aug 2014)
Fat cats: CEOs earning 143 times more than company averages (18 Aug 2014)
Insolvency: Punch Taverns Announces Terms of $3.9 Billion Debt Restructuring (18 Aug 2014)
Social Closure: Things to come - accountancy body handed power to grant ABS licences (15 Aug 2014)
Alibaba Discovers Suspicious Accounting at Film Unit (15 Aug 2014)
Accounting Scandal Hits as Alibaba Plans Big IPO (15 Aug 2014)
IASB Goes Its Own Way on Lease Accounting (15 Aug 2014)
International accounting standards 'riven by faultlines' (15 Aug 2014)
Banks Unprepared for Upcoming Accounting Standards (15 Aug 2014)
IFRS 'disconnected' from true and fair, investors claim (15 Aug 2014)
What's the deal? Why do accounting firms use initials instead of names (15 Aug 2014)
SEC 'Moves the Chains' on Financial Reporting (15 Aug 2014)
Ocwen to Restate Results After Accounting Change (15 Aug 2014)
Ernst & Young Role in Gowex Fraud Questioned by Exchange (14 Aug 2014)
Penn West in talks with creditors amid accounting review (14 Aug 2014)
Accounting issue hits Telekom Austria results (14 Aug 2014)
Madmen and dreams of world domination - IASB official: Global accounting standards are “achievable,” “inevitable” (14 Aug 2014)
US Regulator Says Rule to Identify Lead Audit Partners Ready in September (14 Aug 2014)
Barclays could face extra £1.2bn in legal costs and fines (14 Aug 2014)
SEC Charges Atlanta-Based Accountant With Insider Trading on Confidential Information From Client (14 Aug 2014)
Auditors should be a company's conscience – Madonsela (14 Aug 2014)
FRC nears end of Sisyphean task of implementing going concern (14 Aug 2014)
IASB Vice-Chair Points to Convergence Failures (14 Aug 2014)
KPMG "not responsible" for loss of holy books (14 Aug 2014)
'Taking the top part of my clothing off and getting paid $400 - I thought why not': Meet the 140 kilo former accountant who works as a fattogram to support her two children (14 Aug 2014)
Hertz Delays Quarterly Earnings on Accounting Review (13 Aug 2014)
Former Autonomy director says HP trying to shift blame for disastrous deal (13 Aug 2014)
Revolving Doors: Accounting watchdog chairman Bischoff to take job at JPMorgan (13 Aug 2014)
FRC to probe Grant Thornton's AssetCo audit work (13 Aug 2014)
I ndia: In a move towards IFRS, tax accounting standard on cards (13 Aug 2014)
20 big profitable US companies paid no taxes (13 Aug 2014)
The tale of KMPG, the Sikh businessman and the missing holy books (13 Aug 2014)
Essex fire authority £15m in debt because of accounting mistake (13 Aug 2014)
Ernst & Young Seeks US Affirmation of Lehman Accounting Decision (13 Aug 2014)
Proposed Accounting Change Could Catch Lenders Unprepared (13 Aug 2014)
The Silence of the Academics: KPMG Establishes Chair of Accountancy at UM (13 Aug 2014)
Prison inmates in a Serco run prison held without electricity or running water for over two days (13 Aug 2014)
Investigation announced in connection with Grant Thornton UK LLP and AssetCo plc. (12 Aug 2014)
Troubled Punch Taverns forced to delay announcement of plan to tackle £2.5bn debt (12 Aug 2014)
Arbitrators Ease Blame on Ernst & Young for Audits of Lehman Brothers (12 Aug 2014)
UK accounting changes could slash pensions on balance sheets (12 Aug 2014)
Depositors of Snoras bank seek penalty for Ernst & Young Baltic (12 Aug 2014)
IFRS 9: rewriting the rules on impairment (12 Aug 2014)
Troubled Serco makes loss of £7.3m (12 Aug 2014)
India Court reserves judgment in Satyam case (12 Aug 2014)
Five Australian banks face class actions on fees (12 Aug 2014)
IFRS 9 leaves much open to interpretation (12 Aug 2014)
Ex-Autonomy finance chief hits back at HP 'fraudster' claims (12 Aug 2014)
Appeals Court Refuses to Void Madoff Settlements (12 Aug 2014)
Private Equity Is Taking Over Wall Street (12 Aug 2014)
Everything about a set of accounts is subjective, even the year end date (11 Aug 2014)
Three accounting blunders and embarrassment (11 Aug 2014)
Caledonia Mining revises first quarter results (11 Aug 2014)
Private equity has plenty of willing suckers… I mean, investors (11 Aug 2014)
EC consults on impact of IFRS (11 Aug 2014
Oil and gas company debt soars to danger levels (11 Aug 2014)
SEC Charges Bahamas-Based Brokerage Firm and President With Facilitating Fraudulent Scheme by Hedge Fund Manager (11 Aug 2014)
Dash for Consultancy: Deloitte to boost R&D tax practice with Leyton Ireland merger (11 Aug 2014)
Revoking banker's bonuses is not nearly enough (9 Aug 2014)
MF Global Asks Judge Not to Toss Suit Against PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) (9 Aug 2014)
Is BlackRock shifting the blame for its misguided flotations? (9 Aug 2014)
Accounting Rule Makers Diverge on Lease Expensing (9 Aug 2014)
David Cameron sends former boss of tax-dodging Google to the House of Lords (9 Aug 2014)
KPMG retains £12m Old Mutual audit contract (9 Aug 2014)
IASB drops dual model for lease accounting (8 Aug 2014)
IASB Reverses Stance on Lease Accounting (8 Aug 2014)
Co-op unveils 'Myners' reforms to overhaul ailing mutual (8 Aug 2014)
FRC investigates EY C2000 audit (8 Aug 2014)
Insolvency: RBS begins to dismantle controversial restructuring division (8 Aug 2014)
Ex-Calpers Board Member Faces Bribery Conspiracy Charge (8 Aug 2014)
California wine collector jailed for 10 years for fraud (8 Aug 2014)
AICPA Aims to Enhance Audit Quality for Private Companies (8 Aug 2014)
Bank of America agrees to pay $16-17bn in US deal with regulators source says (7 Aug 2014)
Obama Blames Accountants for Inversion Trend (7 Aug 2014)
Iowa Regents to require expense receipts from Deloitte (7 Aug 2014)
Lloyds investors file for losses they claim were incurred in HBOS rescue (7 Aug 2014)
FRC Extension of scope of investigation in connection with Computer 2000 Distribution Ltd (7 Aug 2014)
Lawyers warn of 'increased litigation risk' for accountants (7 Aug 2014)
Betfair breaks accountancy rules (7 Aug 2014)
Robots tipped to take over from doctors, accountants (7 Aug 2014)
New rules on banker bonuses are more bark than bite (6 Aug 2014)
BP, Cobalt Angola Money Shows More Transparency Needed, NGO Says (6 Aug 2014)
IFRS 9: the new impairment model (6 Aug 2014)
British Bank Standard Chartered Faces Action, Again, by New York State (6 Aug 2014)
Accounting Tops List of Most Profitable Industries (6 Aug 2014)
Barclays can keep $6bn Lehman assets, court rules (6 Aug 2014)
SABMiller risks governance row as it recruits Rio Tinto chairman (6 Aug 2014)
Robots tipped to take over from doctors, accountants (6 Aug 2014)
US judge reluctantly approves SEC-Citigroup $285 mln deal (6 Aug 2014)
Hobby Lobby Ruling May Have Poked A Hole in The 'Corporate Veil' (6 Aug 2014)
Corporate Veil and Hobby Lobby (6 Aug 2014)
How Hobby Lobby Undermined The Very Idea of a Corporation (6 Aug 2014)
Hobby Lobby, Corporate Law, and the Theory of the Firm (6 Aug 2014)
Legal Experts, Advocates React to Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby Ruling (6 Aug 2014)
US Supreme Court Decision: BURWELL, SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, ET AL. v. HOBBY LOBBY STORES, INC., ET AL. (6 Aug 2014)
Another KPMG Tax Avoidance Scheme Defeated: US Court Deals Blow to KPMG, Others Marketing Bond-Linked Tax Shelters (5 Aug 2014)
US Court Judgment: Shasta Strategic Inv. Fund, LLC v. United States, N.D. Cal., No. 3: 05–cv-03887, 2014 BL 2127157/31/14 (5 Aug 2014)
Hewlett-Packard accuses Autonomy founder of fraud as row escalates (5 Aug 2014)
Four 'double-default' charities give no reason for late filing of accounts (5 Aug 2014)
Banco Espirito Santo board accused of 'harmful acts' (5 Aug 2014)
Credit Agricole writes off entire Banco Espirito Santo stake (5 Aug 2014)
Espírito Santo Saga Entangles Swiss Company: Eurofin Employed Espírito Santo Auditor, Helped Structure Its Debt (5 Aug 2014)
Capture of the State: Met signs £90m IT deal with Lockheed-Capita-KPMG partnership (5 Aug 2014)
SEC Cuts Wylys' Damages Demand by Half to $750 Million (5 Aug 2014)
KPMG deflectsa attention away from audit failures and talks about The Future Of Audit (5 Aug 2014)
Dash for consultancy: KPMG Acquires Workday Consulting Practice From AXIA Consulting (5 Aug 2014)
F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone to pay £60m to end German bribery trial (5 Aug 2014)
ICAEW wins power to licence probate ABSs (5 Aug 2014)
Walgreens to buy Alliance Boots in £5bn deal (5 Aug 2014)
Betfair (audited by KPMG) 'paid £60m illegal dividends' (4 Aug 2014)
Betfair breaks accountancy rules (4 Aug 2014)
Betfair admits to £80m payouts mistake (4 Aug 2014)
And Remember the KPMG Director who had an account at Betfair - KPMG director earning £100000 falsely claimed £45000 in expenses (4 Aug 2014)
Class action lawsuit against Penn West announced (4 Aug 2014)
HSBC profits fall as bank adds $194m to PPI costs (4 Aug 2014)
Espírito Santo Saga Entangles Swiss Company (4 Aug 2014)
Number's up for accountant who stole almost £200000 from Leeds shoe firm (4 Aug 2014)
Aviva plans to cut millions from tax bill (4 Aug 2014)
Accountant fleeced sick aunt of £100k to fund gambling addiction (4 Aug 2014)
KPMG boss fears audit rules more than Nationwide fallout (4 Aug 2014)
Russian politicians take aim at global consultants (2 Aug 2014)
Insolvency: Vince Cable looks at ways to reclaim taxpayers' cash lost in Comet collapse (2 Aug 2014)
Citigroup Could Lose up to $80 Million From Argentina Default (2 Aug 2014)
MP criticises Uber for 'opting out' of UK tax regime (2 Aug 2014)
Messi’s alleged tax evasion scheme relied on hiding the owners of UK and other companies (1 Aug 2014)

L-3 Reveals Accounting Problems, Takes Charge (1 Aug 2014)
L-3 fires 4 workers over accounting misconduct (1 Aug 2014)
Robert Tchenguiz considers Grant Thornton action (1 Aug 2014)
Greek Tax Official and Accountant Arrested for Bribery in Athens (1 Aug 2014)
Easy Money Leads to Record Corporate Debt Amid Mounds of Cash Abroad (1 Aug 2014)
KPMG and Crowe Clark Whitehill win audit tenders (1 Aug 2014)
The new breed of shareholder activist: taking on the big boys at the AGM (1 Aug 2014)
Dash for consultancy: Deloitte buys KD Johns & Co (1 Aug 2014)

JULY 2014

Proposals to revoke bankers’ bonuses don’t go far enough (31 Jul 2014)
The Portugese central bank also faulted KPMG, the auditing firm long used by the Banco Espírito Santo group (31 Jul 2014)
Why there is never such a thing as a single true and fair view (31 Jul 2014)
Investors slam Penn West after accounting irregularities revealed (31 Jul 2014)
Penn West to restate results amid accounting probe, shares slump (31 Jul 2014)
Lloyds half-year profits hit by PPI mis-selling charges (31 Jul 2014)
Revolving Doors: SEC Considering Former Deloitte Official for Top Accounting Job (31 Jul 2014)
Anglo Irish Bank chiefs face community service over illegal loan scheme (31 Jul 2014)
SFO settles $500 million Tchenguiz damages claim (31 Jul 2014)
Ireland Judge gives deadline for KPMG co-defendant issue (30 Jul 2014)
Canadian energy giant Penn West reveals accounting irregularities (30 Jul 2014)
Fahie calls for 'surgery' as PWC collects $325K (30 Jul 2014)
Bank of England to unveil bonus clawback plan (30 Jul 2014)
Prudential Regulation Authority and Financial Conduct Authority consult on proposals to improve responsibility and accountability in the banking sector (30 Jul 2014)
Barclays' PPI claims rise by £900m as profits fall (30 Jul 2014)
Can Software Really Replace Accountants? (30 Jul 2014)
Bernie Ecclestone attempts to halt £26m German bribery trial (30 Jul 2014)
Cheques and the City: pay for top lawyers and accountants (29 Jul 2014)
Bribery and Corruption: SEC Charges Smith & Wesson With FCPA Violations (29 Jul 2014)
Grant Thornton could face £200m civil suit over Tchenguiz SFO raids (29 Jul 2014)
Swiss UBS pays millions to Germany in settlement over tax evasion (29 Jul 2014)
Glaxo is Probed by the FBI and the SEC Over China Bribery Scandal (29 Jul 2014)
Madoff Five Face September Sentencing US Assails Denial (29 Jul 2014)
Personal insolvencies in steepest rise for five years (29 Jul 2014)
Auditors need to bark louder in wake of financial crisis (29 Jul 2014)
Bank of England governor blasts 'unlawful' Lloyds over bailout funding (29 Jul 2014)
East Sussex NHS finance head jailed for £2.2m fraud (29 Jul 2014)
Insolvency: City of London's £650m Gherkin put up for sale by receivers (29 Jul 2014)
Dash for Consultancy: Ernst & Young acquires Sweeney Research (29 Jul 2014)
Bank of England governor blasts 'unlawful' Lloyds over bailout funding (29 Jul 2014)
Why CPA Firms Gobble Each Other to Grow (29 Jul 2014)
Timothy (Ted) O'Leary: Academic who helped transform the discipline of accounting (28 Jul 2014)
Tycoon to sue Grant Thornton for millions (28 Jul 2014)
Vincent Tchenguiz to sue Grant Thornton after £3m SFO deal (28 Jul 2014)
Care Quality Commission drags Grant Thornton into libel court case (28 Jul 2014)
British accountant charged with money laundering (28 Jul 2014)
US investor sues three banks over silver price (28 Jul 2014)
Drug Maker Hospira and France's Danone in Talks on $5 Billion Tax Inversion Deal (28 Jul 2014)
Sara McCabe: KPMG partners face a bath on Tesco punt (28 Jul 2014)
Shareholder spring crushed as UK executive pay soars (28 Jul 2014)
Lloyds fined £218m over Libor rigging scandal (28 Jul 2014)
CFTC Charges Lloyds Banking Group and Lloyds Bank with Manipulation, Attempted Manipulation, and False Reporting of LIBOR: Banks agree to a $105 million settlement and agree to changes in systems and controls (28 Jul 2014)
Lloyds Banking Group fined £105m for serious LIBOR and other benchmark failings (28 Jul 2014)
Lloyds Banking Group Admits Wrongdoing in LIBOR Investigation, Agrees to Pay $86 Million Criminal Penalty (28 Jul 2014)
Court orders Russia to pay $50bn to Yukos shareholders (28 Jul 2014)
Woolf: translation issues with going concern (28 Jul 2014)
Dash for consultancy: Ernst & Young acquires Sweeney Research (28 Jul 2014)
Deloitte University Launches MOOC On Additive Manufacturing (28 Jul 2014)
Deutsche Bank, HSBC Accused of Silver Fix Manipulation (28 Jul 2014)
Deloitte administrators referred to accountant regulator over Comet collapse (26 Jul 2014)
Nevada's $16 million no-bid project with Deloitte reveals firm's growing inlfuence in health care (26 Jul 2014)
KPMG says it will defend Poseidon claim (26 Jul 2014)
$5.6 million settlement (Ernst & Young) in Sino-Forest case approved (26 Jul 2014)
Auditor of collapsed Spanish company Gowex freed on bail Gowex (26 Jul 2014)
Gowex Auditor Evaded Taxes After Covering Accounts, Judge Says (26 Jul 2014)
Boss Paid Maid $405 to Hide His $2.6 Billion Fraud (26 Jul 2014)
SEC drops probe into Facebook over disastrous IPO (26 Jul 2014)
Vincent Tchenguiz in £3m settlement with Serious Fraud Office (26 Jul 2014)
Corporate Takeover of Universities: Imperial and KPMG back £20m big data partnership (26 Jul 2014)
Volvox hires PwC to explore sale options (26 Jul 2014)
Banks Outside US Get New Rules on Accounting for Bad Loans (25 Jul 2014)
Accounting rules for banks (25 Jul 2014)
Tremont, Ernst & Young Must Face Madoff Investment Suit (25 Jul 2014)
Another Whitewash is inevitable: Deloitte IPs referred to ICAEW over Comet (25 Jul 2014)
Insolvency: Comet administrators referred to accountants watchdog by Vince Cable (25 Jul 2014)
US Accountants Barred From Overtime Pay By FLSA Professional Exemption, Court Rules (25 Jul 2014)
Dash for consultancy: KPMG buys boutique firms (25 Jul 2014)
Social Closure: ICAEW wins power to licence probate ABSs (25 Jul 2014)
VAT not recoverable on fees for accountants' report to banks on a refinancing, says court of appeal (25 Jul 2014)
FRC pushing the same defunctand disrcredited ideas: Speech by Sir Winfried Bischoff at launch of new IBE paper: "Ethics, Risk & Governance" (25 Jul 2014)
FRC reveals 'struggle' in IASB discussions (25 Jul 2014)
UBS to pay €1.1bn while French court investigates tax evasion allegations (24 Jul 2014)
THE STATUTORY AUDIT SERVICES FOR LARGE COMPANIES MARKET INVESTIGATION (24 Jul 2014)
STATUTORY AUDIT SERVICES MARKET INVESTIGATION: Draft explanatory notes – Formal Consultation (24 Jul 2014)
Competition and Markets Authority case: Statutory audit services market investigation (24 Jul 2014)
CMA reconsults on audit reforms with UK opt-outs (24 Jul 2014)
Bribery and Corruption: $80 Million Judgment Entered Against BNP Paribas for False Claims to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (24 Jul 2014)
IFRS accounting rules change forces banks to alter view of losses (24 Jul 2014)
IASB completes reform of financial instruments accounting (24 Jul 2014)
IASB Releases Its Own Financial Instruments Standard (24 Jul 2014)
Last piece of the IFRS 9 jigsaw in place (24 Jul 2014)
IFRS 9 Financial Instruments (24 Jul 2014)
IFRS 9: A Complete Package for Investors (24 Jul 2014)
Banks may have to set aside more to cover bad loans (24 Jul 2014)
Banks to provision earlier on bad loans under new global rule (24 Jul 2014)
Lawyers and accountants join multi-million pay club as nearly 1,400 partners were paid more than £1m last year, study claims (24 Jul 2014)
270 Big Four partners earn more than £1m (24 Jul 2014)
Alstom Network charged with corruption by SFO (24 Jul 2014)
Insolvency: Car parts supplier Unipart goes into administration (24 Jul 2014)
Credit Suisse Loses $779 Million After Settling Tax Evasion Case (23 Jul 2014)
Deutsche Bank Suffers From Litany of Reporting Problems, Regulators Said (23 Jul 2014)
Excerpts from New York Fed's Letter to Deutsche Bank (23 Jul 2014)
Deutsche Bank's Shoddy Reporting: Analysts React (23 Jul 2014)
NY Fed hits at Deutsche Bank's 'unreliable' regulatory reports (23 Jul 2014)
GlaxoSmithKline affirms policy of anti-corruption amid 14% profits fall (23 Jul 2014)
Accounting firm reaches $1.8 million settlement with US state (23 Jul 2014)
FRC amends FRSs 101 and 102 (23 Jul 2014)
What the PCAOB's new related-party standard means for auditors (23 Jul 2014)
Dash for Consultancy: Ernst & Young to Buy Consulting Firm Parthenon Group (23 Jul 2014)
Top 50+50 LLPs make cash call due to tax changes (23 Jul 2014)
The Ostrich Position: LLP transparency: more harm than good (23 Jul 2014)
Auditors did “cheapest job”, says Haddrill (23 Jul 2014)

US panel says Barclays, Deutsche Bank helped funds avoid taxes (22 Jul 2014)
US Senate alleges hedge fund and banks avoided $6bn tax bill (22 Jul 2014)
US Senate Subcommittee finds “basket options” misused to dodge billions in taxes and bypass federal leverage limits(22 Jul 2014)
US Senate Subcommittee REPORT: ABUSE OF STRUCTURED FINANCIAL PRODUCTS: MISUSING BASLET OPTIONS TO AVOID TAXES AND LEVERAGE LIMITS. (22 Jul 2014)
Fast-Track to New FASB Lease Accounting Standard (22 Jul 2014)
Nigerian accountant's £4million 'fraud' at academies Gove hailed: Staff member said to have spent cash on extravagant lifestyle (22 Jul 2014)
HP settlement with shareholders challenged by former Autonomy CFO (22 Jul 2014)
MPs to grill FRC over going concern (22 Jul 2014)
Serious Fraud Office launches criminal probe into forex manipulation (22 Jul 2014)
Former Senior Executive of Qualcomm Pleads Guilty to Insider Trading and Money Laundering Charges (22 Jul 2014)
Art of Accounting: How I Got a Mercedes as a Fee (22 Jul 2014)
How UK business enables corruption in poor countries (22 Jul 2014)
Dash for Consultancy: KPMG buys Momentum Partners (22 Jul 2014)
Credit Suisse Set for Biggest Loss Since 2008 on Tax Fine (22 Jul 2014)
ACBC chief Duncan Calder, who is also a senior partner with KPMG in Perth, charged with encouraging indecent act of minor (21 Jul 2014)
Tax dodge should cost corporations their political rights (21 Jul 2014)
Serious Fraud Office set to launch criminal probe into forex rigging (21 Jul 2014)
Florida Tobacco Lawsuit Ends With $23.6 Billion In Damages (21 Jul 2014)
Lawmakers urge SEC chair not to allow choice of accounting rules (19 Jul 2014)
PCAOB Strikes Deal with Denmark for Overseeing Audits (19 Jul 2014)
AbbVie to buy Shire in $55-billion deal that slashes tax rate (19 Jul 2014)
Barclays, Deutsche Bank executives to testify at tax avoidance hearing (19 Jul 2014)
Grant Thornton insurance chair leaves after just four months (19 Jun 2014)
FRC warns of 'engagement deficit' among investors (19 Jul 2014)
Espírito Santo International Files for Creditor Protection (19 Jul 2014)
Accounting Firm PricewaterhouseCoopers Must Face FDIC Suit Over Colonial Bank Fail (17 Jul 2014)
Transparent company ownership: how does the UK government’s proposed action live up to its rhetoric? (17 Jul 2014)
Company account checks to become free for public (17 Jul 2014)
Spanish court issues search warrant for missing Gowex auditor (17 Jul 2014)
Michel Prada defends IFRS Foundation governance (17 Jul 2014)
EY Runs Afoul of Auditor-Independence Rules Again (17 Jul 2014)
Ireland Accountancy supervisor calls for more staff (17 Jul 2014)
Former Executive of French Power Company Subsidiary Alstom SA Pleads Guilty in Connection with Foreign Bribery Scheme (17 Jul 2014)
CIPFA treasurer quits over pension deficit concern (17 Jul 2014)
Problems at Espírito Santo Were Apparent Since 2012 (17 Jul 2014)
Kaplan once again appointed approved ACCA content provider (17 Jul 2014)
FRC repeats the usual discredited mantras: Long Termism, Stewardship and Growth: Are Markets Meeting the Challenge? (17 Jul 2014)
An Aspiring Scientist’s Frustration with Modern-Day Academia: A Resignation (17 Jul 2014)
Lloyds debt collection letters 'calculated to mislead' - MP (17 Jul 2014)
IFRS chair opens door for 'prudence' reintroduction (17 Jul 2014)
Conceptual differences hamper lease accounting project (15 Jul 2014)
Lobbying for audit clients costs Ernst & Young $4 million (15 Jul 2014)
Deloitte ordered to pay another C$33-million in Livent negligence case (15 Jul 2014)
How the mining companies and audit firms collude to evade tax in DRC (15 Jul 2014)
Fitch Sees Diminishing Prospects for IFRS in US (15 Jul 2014)
Sign of a Rotten Business Model: Clients must be put first: KPMG (15 Jul 2014)
Gowex Chief Orchestrated Sham by Hiding Lies in Plain Sight (15 Jul 2014)
Satyam Founder Ordered to Pay Back Alleged Accounting-Fraud Gains (15 Jul 2014)
US audit watchdog says Chinese inspections may start this year (15 Jul 2014)
Dewey Leaders Seek Dismissal of Criminal Charges (15 Jul 2014)

Serial Offenders: SEC Charges Ernst & Young With Violating Auditor Independence Rules in Lobbying Activities (14 Jul 2014)
Ernst & Young to Pay $4 Million to Settle SEC Allegations (14 Jul 2014)
Private companies practising ‘questionable’ accounting: AASB (14 Jul 2014)
Welcome tax-based takeovers, says PwC boss (14 Jul 2014)
Zander wins $8M verdict against accounting firm (14 Jul 2014)
Ex-Fisher Phillips partner jailed for eight years for £2m fraud (14 Jul 2014)
US Justice Department, Federal and State Partners Secure Record $7 Billion Global Settlement with Citigroup for Misleading Investors About Securities Containing Toxic Mortgages (14 Jul 2014)
Key dates in the unravelling of Portugal's Banco Eepirito Santo (14 Jul 2014)
Just 6% of UK companies switched auditors ahead of incoming rules (14 Jul 2014)
Audit reforms unlikely to increase competition (14 Jul 2014)
Vince Cable: UK to remove takeover 'wiggle room' (14 Jul 2014)
Accounting fraud (12 Jul 2014)
Ex-Cobbetts partners to face claims as KPMG appoints PwC for final wind-down (12 Jul 2014)
Credit Suisse seeks tax evasion sentence delay (12 Jul 2014)
Rebus launches Icebreaker settlement scheme (12 Jul 2014)
Welcome tax-based takeovers, says PwC boss (12 Jul 2014)
PricewaterhouseCoopers must face $1 billion lawsuit over MF Global collapse (10 Jul 2014)
Former top union boss to advise the bosses in plum KPMG role (10 Jun 2014)
'Inappropriate Relationship' Sinks Ernst & Young Audit (10 Jul 2014)
Time to Surrender the Accounting Convergence “Pipedream”: Report (10 Jul 2014)
Accounting fraud (10 Jul 2014)
What to Do About Banco Espirito Santo of Portugal (10 Jul 2014)
UK Taxpayers 'lost £1bn' on Royal Mail sale, MPs say (10 Jul 2014)
Former Bradford & Bingley FD fined again over botched rights issue (10 Jul 2014)
Ventas Audit Reports Pulled Due to Inappropriate Relationship (9 Jul 2014)
Ventas Dismisses Ernst & Young as Auditor Due to Ernst & Young's Determination It Lacks Independence and Withdrawal of Its 2012 and 2013 Audit Reports (9 Jul 2014)
When Taxes and Profits Are Oceans Apart (9 Jul 2014)
DWF in High Court battle with Government over Insolvency Service tender (9 Jul 2014)
Corporate Inversions: In Deal to Cut Meditronic Corporate Taxes, Shareholders Pay the Price (9 Jul 2014)
KPMG says it will defend Poseidon claim (9 Jul 2014)
American Apparel to Get $25 Million in Financing From Hedge Fund (9 Jul 2014)
SFO arrests Airbus staff in corruption investigation (9 Jul 2014)
Bermuda accountants unite under single umbrella organisation (9 Jul 2014)
UK Judge rules out HMRC appeal in BPP VAT case (9 Jul 2014)
US Regulators Bar Former PricewaterhouseCoopers Partner From Auditing Public Companies (8 Jul 2014)
PCAOB Disciplines Former PwC Partner for Audit Failures (8 Jul 2014)
FRC drops investigation into jailed Torex exec (7 Jul 2014)
Gowex chief resigns after Spanish Wifi provider admits false accounting (8 Jul 2014)
Let's Gowex chief quits, admitting accounts were wrong (8 Jul 2014)
Court bid to add KPMG as defendant in INBS case (8 Jul 2014)
Ex-INBS director seeks to join KPMG as defendant in €6bn case (8 Jul 2014)
Investors slam FRC going concern proposals (8 Jul 2014)
FRC faces Lords committee grilling over going concern (8 Jul 2014)
Commerzbank facing $500m US fine (8 Jul 2014)
WH Smith drops Deloitte for PwC audit contract (8 Jul 2014)
Big accountancy firms have a human rights problem (4 Jul 2014)
Ian Fraser: RBS is a 'Rogue Institution' and is Dangerously in Denial About Tomlinson (4 Jul 2014)
Systematic bribery at GlaxoSmithKline China 'credible' - investigator (4 Jul 2014)
Can investors win in a new era of accounting? (4 Jul 2014)
SunTrust Mortgage Agrees to $320 Million Settlement in Criminal Mortgage Probe (4 Jul 2014)
KPMG to audit Arrow Group (4 Jul 2014)
Social CIosure: CAEW could regulate ABSs by end of year (4 Jul 2014)
EU orders Luxembourg to hand over Amazon tax files (4 Jul 2014)
Closure of FRC investigation into the conduct of Christopher Moore relating to Torex Retail plc (4 Jul 2014)
The Big 4: the Big obstacles to progress (3 Jul 2014)
Accounting rule to blame for US crash, says top US economist Brian Wesbury (3 Jul 2014)
Gang leader (ec Deloitte) who trafficked more than 100 women to Britain is jailed for 31 years (3 Jul 2013)
Dash for Consultancy: KPMG Acquires Rothstein Kass Hedge Fund Assets (3 Jul 2014)
How Accountancy firms Rely on the State: Oregon gives Deloitte $18.4 million contract to oversee federal exchange hookup (3 Jul 2014)
Deloitte loses out to KPMG in Arrow Group audit tender (3 Jul 2014)
Serco to write down detention centre and healthcare contracts (3 Jul 2014)
Goldman Sachs accused of "boys club" bias (3 Jul 2014)
Europe's bank stress tests were unreliable (3 Jul 2014)
Press Release: European Commission hires transparency opponent PricewaterhouseCoopers to assess corporate transparency (2 Jul 2014)
EU Commission urged to fire auditors PwC from bank transparency study (2 Jul 2014)
SEC Bars Firm From Auditing US-Traded Companies Based in China (2 Jul 2014)
Goldman Sachs fined over dark pool pricing (2 Jul 2014)
Ex Fisher Phillips partner admits £1.6m theft (2 Jul 2014)
Mike Ashley wins approval for controversial Sports Direct bonus (2 Jul 2014)
Red faces at Serious Fraud Office over taxman's fine (2 Jul 2014)
Use 'The Lab' to end going concern concerns (2 Jul 2014)
Barclays publishes first country-by-country report (2 Jul 2014)
Deferred tax issue among those raised by auditors (2 Jul 2014)
THE CHIMERA OF GLOBAL CONVERGENCE (2 Jul 2014)
Barclays and country-by-country reporting: what we learned (1 Jul 2014)
Bully tactics by accounting firms (1 Jul 2014)
Amnesty International attacks 'Big Four' accountancy firms for opposition to Hong pro-democracy movement (1 Jul 2014)
US Inspection Finds Defects in 19 PricewaterhouseCoopers audits (1 Jul 2014)
BDO refuses to submit documents backing fake Pescanova 2012 (1 Jul 2014)
Barclays made £1.4bn profits in Luxembourg – £100m for each worker (1 Jul 2014)
Barclays publishes first country-by-country report (1 Jul 2014)
BNP Paribas pleads guilty to criminal charges in sanctions case (1 Jul 2014)
Inadequate risk management of US sanctions: FINMA closes proceedings against BNP Paribas (Suisse) (1 Jul 2014)
Dash for consultancy: Deloitte acquires restructuring specialist Kavanagh Fennell (1 Jul 2014)
Novartis faces criminal charge in Japan (1 Jul 2014)
Insolvency: La Senza lingerie chain falls back into administration (1 Jul 2014)

JUNE 2014

Barclays: the bank that just loves Luxembourg and Jersey, but not the UK (30 Jun 2014)
Employees from 'Big Four' accounting firms disown anti-Occupy Central ad (30 Jun 2014)
Big Four Accountancy Firms Take Flak for Anti-Occupy Stance (30 Jun 2014)
Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) to Settle Shareholder Suits Over Autonomy (30 Jun 2014)
US computer giant Hewlett-Packard rakes in £140m a month from Whitehall (30 Jun 2014)
Chinese workers die at their desks (30 Jun 2014)
It's Time for Prince Charles to Join Twenty-First Century (29 Jun 2014)
40m documents being collected for €1bln legal action over alleged negligent auditing (PricewaterhouseCoopers) of Quinn Insurance (29 June 2014)
Police to meet FCA over Wonga fake letter furore (29 Jun 2014)
South Africa biggest losers of transfer pricing (29 Jun 2014)
SEC Judge Suspends Two KPMG Auditors From Auditing Public Companies (28 Jun 2014)
SEC judge suspends two KPMG auditors over bank case (28 Jun 2014)
After a decade, Parmalat lawsuit versus Grant Thornton is back (28 Jun 2014)
Barclays dark pool fine 'could top Libor' (28 Jun 2014)
KPMG Acquires Boutique Investment Bank St. Charles Capital (28 Jun 2014)
HP settles investors' lawsuit over Autonomy deal, say reports (28 Jun 2014)
FASB and IASB Unlikely to Come Together on Accounting for Rate Regulated Utilities (28 Jun 2014)
Vestas settles US lawsuit (28 Jun 2014)
Ex-CPA Gets 15 Years in Billion-Dollar Tax Fraud (28 Jun 2014)
Evidence that Big Four Firms Collaborate: Hong Kong Accountants Say Protests May Spur Exodus of Companies (28 Jun 2014)
'Big Four' accounting firms oppose Hong Kong demonstrations (28 Jun 2014)
Big four accounting firms warn Hong Kong over democracy push (27 Jun 2014)
Big Four Accounting Firms Oppose HK's Occupy Central (27 Jun 2014)
Big Four Sell Out Hong Kong (27 Jun 2014)
Canadian accountants merge under CPA designation (27 Jun 2014)
Era of men-only FTSE boards over (27 Jun 2014)
Parmalat's US Suits Against Grant Thornton Reinstated (27 Jun 2014)
Barclays and 'deceit' – here we go again (27 Jun 2014)
HP in talks to settle Autonomy lawsuits (27 Jun 2014)
MFS Octaviar class action against accounting firm KPMG settled out of court for $20 million (27 Jun 2014)
Hong Kong Accountants Say Protests May Spur Exodus of Companies (27 Jun 2014)
PCAOB Releases Staff Guidance for Auditors of SEC-Registered Brokers and Dealers (27 Jun 2014)
Standard Chartered bank issues profit warning (27 Jun 2014)
Barclays sued by New York attorney general over alleged 'dark pool' fraud (26 Jun 2014)
A.G. Schneiderman Announces Fraud Charges Against Barclays In Connection With Marketing And Operation Of Its Dark Pool: Investigation Into Barclays’ Dark Pool And Electronic Trading Business Uncovered An Alleged Pattern Of Fraud And Deceit, Misrepresentations to Investors (26 Jun 2014)
Prison-Bound KPMG Ex-Partner Remorseful for Insider Tips (26 Jun 2014)
Regions Financial to Pay $51 Million Over Alleged Accounting Violations (26 Jun 2014)
Booz Allen Sues Deloitte for Poaching Employees (26 Jun 2014)
SEC Announces Fraud Charges Against Three Former Regions Bank Executives in Accounting Scheme (26 Jun 2014)
Insolvency: Key pre-pack measures are unworkable (26 Jun 2014)
Glencore, last all-male FTSE 100 board, appoints Patrice Merrin as director (26 Jun 2014)
Former Jenkens & Gilchrist Attorney Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison for Orchestrating Multibillion Dollar Criminal Tax Fraud Scheme (26 Jun 2014)
'Complex' tax reliefs cost Britain £100bn a year, say MPs (26 Jun 2014)

UK House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts Report: Tax reliefs (26 Jun 2014)
Joint Accounting Rule on Leases May Not Happen in 2014 (25 Jun 2014)
Ex-Madoff accountant pleads guilty to aiding fraud (25 Jun 2014)
Private colleges investigated amid fears of fraud (25 Jun 2014)
Wonga ordered to pay £2.6m compensation after using fake law firms to chase customers (25 Jun 2014)
Ex-SEC chief likens convergence of accounting standard to dead parrot (25 Jun 2014)
FRC reminds audit firms of approaching deadline for terminating or amending contracts for tax services provided on a contingent fee basis (25 Jun 2014)
Fat cats: RBS to face fury of investors at AGM over bonuses for bank bosses (25 Jun 2014)
Fat cats: WPP Investors Approve CEO Sorrell's $51 Million Pay Deal (25 Jun 2014)
PWC publicly oppose country-by-country reporting, but have won the job of objectively appraising it for the EU (24 Jun 2014)
Carpetright sees losses widen again as sales fall (24 Jun 2014)
Ernst Young finally produces docs for ongoing (24 Jun 2014)
The NHS has been offered up to the private sector (24 Jun 2014)
2nd accountant pleads guilty in Madoff scam (24 Jun 2014)
Dash for consultancy: KPMG to Boost Health-Care Practice with Zanett Purchase (24 Jun 2014)
Booz Allen sues Deloitte for stealing proprietary info to 'lift out' an entire team (24 Jun 2014)
BNP Paribas 'to pay $9bn over sanctions breach' (24 Jun 2014)
Insolvency: Deloitte could face prosecution over Comet redundancies (23 Jun 2014)
Ireland Central Bank paid €53m in legal, accounting fees during crisis (23 Jun 2014)
IAS19 discount rates for FTSE 100 pensions on the rise (23 Jun 2014)
Deloitte accountant Kunal Chaudhary led double life as sex trafficker (23 Jun2014)
China banks seek profit boost through their bad debts (23 Jun 2014)
Documents Said to Tie Former RBS Unit to bin Laden Family Members (23 Jun 2014)
Auditing Special Purpose Frameworks: Materiality Levels (23 Jun 2014)
China Government proposes independent body overseeing accountants (22 Jun 2014)
Dash for consultancy: The accountants really are coming (22 Jun 2014)
Low rates, tax avoidance drive takeovers: analysts (22 Jun 2014)
Corporate ‘inversions’ are destroying the tax base (21 Jun 2014)
Public Virtues and Private Vices Accounting Standards, Crisis, and the Common Good (22 Jun 2014)
Exclusive: American Apparel finds CEO misused funds (21 Jun 2014)
Sacked American Apparel boss: the exploits that didn't get him fired (21 Jun 2014)
Banks need to anticipate impact of IFRS 9 (21 Jun 2014)d
FASB updates accounting for stock compensation (21 Jun 2014)
Inversions: Tax is the drug again as US rival bids £27bn for Shire (21 Jun 2014)
Auditors Favor Curbs on Changes to the Audit Report (21 Jun 2014)
Is the Sarbanes-Oxley Act Working? (21 Jun 2014)
FRC proposes joint tribunals for accountants and actuaries (20 Jun 2014)
Avoidance scheme promoter threatens to sue Deloitte (20 Jun 2014)
Banks expect to set aside more capital following IFRS 9 accounting changes (20 Jun 2014)
Banks' loan loss provisioning could jump by half (20 Jun 2014)
Puda Investors' Suit Against the Auditor Moore Stephens Is Dismissed (20 Jun 2014)
Audit firm EY appealing HK court ruling that says China law does not protect papers (20 Jun 2014)
Major UK companies line up 2017 for audit tenders (20 Jun 2014)
Accounting change means banks will need to put aside more capital (19 Jun 2014)
KPMG class action settles out of court (19 Jun 2014)
Icebreaker threatens to sue Deloitte (19 Jun 2014)
Ex-Madoff accountant expected to plead guilty (19 Jun 2014)
American Apparel ousts founder over alleged misconduct (19 Jun 2014)
UBS Belgium boss held in tax fraud investigation (19 Jun 2014)
New Revenue Recognition Standard Could Affect Tax Practitioners (19 Jun 2014)
UBS and Credit Suisse urged to improve leverage ratios (19 Jun 2014)
Another Private Sector Scandal: Siren police IT project's £15m failure a 'debacle' (19 Jun 2014)
Report to the Police and Crime Commissioner for Surrey Chief Constable for Surrey: Termination of the SIREN ICT project (19 Jun 2014)
Shareholder Primacy in UK Corporate Law: An Exploration of the Rationale and Evidence (19 Jun 2014)
Tax avoidance company threatens to sue Deloitte (18 Jun 2014)
Paul Reddam's KPMG Tax Shelter Stunk In More Ways Than One (18 Jun 2014)
More accountants seek help for mental health issues (18 Jun 2014)
FRS 102 and goodwill amortisation (18 Jun 2014)
Tax implications on application of New UK GAAP, FRS 102 (18 Jun 2014)
HMRC takes pole position in tax ruling on McLaren fine - KPMG involved (18 Jun 2014)
KPMG loses McLaren appeal over tax relief for spying fine (18 Jun 2014)
THE COMMISSIONERS FOR HER MAJESTY’S REVENUE AND CUSTOM - and –MCLAREN RACING LIMITED [2014] UKUT 0269 (TCC) Appeal number FTC/93/2012 (18 Jun 2014)

McLaren Racing Ltd v Revenue & Customs [2012] UKFTT 601 (TC) (07 September 2012) (18 Jun 2014)
Accountancy Services accountant jailed for fiddling VAT (17 Jun 2014)
Fmr KPMG Partner Scott London Shares Cautionary Tale Before Prison (17 Jun 2014)
Northumbria NHS trust saves £67m by freeing itself from PFI deal (17 Jun 2014)
'Just one fund manager in 100 beats the market' (17 Jun 2014)
MP calls for prosecution of tax avoidance advisers (17 Jun 2014)
Insolvency: Pre-pack administrations to face voluntary scrutiny (17 Jun 2014)
From The Namibian: an open letter to De Beers on transfer pricing (16 Jun 2014)
British public wrongly believe rich pay most in tax, new research shows (16 Jun 2014)
Medical Merger Part of 'Tax Inversion' Wave (16 Jun 2014)
Tax avoidance advisers 'should be prosecuted' (16 Jun 2014)
'Misleading' marketing fines for Credit Suisse and Yorkshire BS (16 Jun 2014)
Review of pre-packaged administrations backs voluntary scrutiny (16 Jun 2014)
Insolvency: Graham review into Pre-pack Administration (16 Jun 2014)
ICAEW criticises "crooked accountants" Bill (16 Jun 2014)
IASB 'killed off global market standards plan' (15 Jun 2014)
US Rule Makers Tighten Accounting for 'Repos' (15 Jun 2014)
Insolvency: Deloitte did not follow proper procedures when carrying out Comet's administration (15 Jun 2014)
EY partners not sceptical enough (15 Jun 2014)
Bain Cap sues EY over loss in Lilliput Kidswear (15 Jun 2014)
DOJ Seeks More Than $10B to Settle Citigroup Probe (15 Jun 2014)
SEC Charges Four in Insider Trading Case (15 Jun 2014)
What's the worst question to be asked in a job interview? (15 Jun 2014)
FASB to Tweak Accounting for Inventories and Income Statements (14 Jun 2014)
Banksia auditor banned by ASIC (14 Jun 2014)
Bain Capital sues EY over $60 million loss in Lilliput Kidswear (14 Jun 2014)
Tycoon Ketan Somaia guilty of $19.5m swindle (14 Jun 2014)
Auditor banned over Banksia failure (14 Jun 2014)
Court rules against HealthSouth in auditor dispute (14 Jun 2014)
Deloitte could end ties with Rangers over poor season ticket sales (14 Jun 2014)
Bain Sues Ernst & Young for $60 Million (13 Jun 2014)
Non-audit clients provide largest fee growth for firms (13 Jun 2014)
Global Rules for Auditors? Don't Hold Your Breath (13 Jun 2014)
Network Rail profits hit £1bn but misses punctuality target (13 Jun 2014)
B&M paid just £6.9million in ‘income tax expenses’ on sales of £1.2billion for 2014 (13 Jun 2014)
UK Watchdog drops probe into PwC's Berkeley audit (13 Jun 2014)
City scandals prompt review of UK anti-bribery standards (13 Jun 2014)
Ernst & Young (EY) wins Dignity audit as PwC bows out over non-audit fees (13 Jun 2014)
Big Four audit fees dwarf mid-tier (13 Jun 2014)
Beijing to keep door open to Hong Kong accountants (13 Jun 2014)
Dash for consultancy: The accountants are coming... (13 Jun 2014)
Accountant 'imprisoned three women as sex slaves in drug-filled house of horrors for months (13 Jun 2014)
US Audit Regulator Rebukes Ernst & Young (12 Jun 2014)
PCAOB Dings Ernst & Young and Grant Thornton for Not Fixing Audit Problems (12 Jun 2014)
Accounting Treatment of Earnouts Can Mask Leverage (12 Jun 2014)
FASB Revises Accounting Standards for Repo Agreements (12 Jun 2014)
Apple, Starbucks and Fiat's tax affairs examined by European commission (12 Jun 2014)
Investigation in connection with the conduct of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors to the Berkeley Group Holdings plc (12 Jun 2014)
FRC scraps investigation into PwC's Berkeley Group audit (12 Jun 2014)
Audit Commission finds £229m lost to fraud (12 Jun 2014)
UK watchdog expects progress on global accounting rules (11 Jun 2014)
Former SEC Chair Cox Declares IFRS “Bereft of Life” (11 Jun 2014)
Former SEC Chairman Cox Now Doubts IFRS in US (11 Jun 2014)
EU to launch probe into Apple's Irish tax deal: report (11 Jun 2014)
Transfer Pricing: EU to investigate Apple's tax affairs (11 Jun 2014)
EU investigates tax rulings on Apple, Starbucks, Fiat (11 Jun 2014)
Beijing says it won't shut out Hong Kong auditors under rule change (11 Jun 2014)
Can Accounting Reform Help US Balance Sheets? (11 Jun 2014)
FRC launches Baker Tilly investigation (11 Jun 2014)
SEC Official Points to Disclosure Failings by Private Equity Firms (11 Jun 2014)
Oil rig builder Lamprell sees shareholders revolt over pay again (11 Jun 2014)
New Corporate Audit Rules Require Greater Scrutiny of Insider Deals (11 Jun 2014)
PCAOB approves new related-party auditing requirements (11 Jun 2014)
More tax-free profits for Thames Water as it rakes in the cash (11 Jun 2014)
FASB Aims to Simplify Accounting Standards (11 Jun 2014)
Whistleblowing ruling: what it means for LLPs (11 Jun 2014)
Ex-BDO Seidman Executive Bee Gets 16 Months for Fraud (10 Jun 2014)
Two ex-BDO vice chairmen get prison for tax shelter scheme (10 Jun 2014)
Former SEC Chairman Cox Now Doubts IFRS in US (10 Jun 2014)
Former SEC Chair Cox Backs Away from IFRS Support (10 Jun 2014)
SEC Ex-Chairman Cox Does a 180, Now Predicts US Won't Switch to Global Accounting Rules (10 Jun 2014)
Nadir prison move after CIA research paper reveals Polly Peck links to Saddam supergun (10 Jun 2014)
FRC issues Key Facts and Trends in the Accountancy Profession - The UK has 328,000 professionally qualified accountants (10 Jun 2014)
2014 FRC Report: Key Facts and Trends in the Accountancy Profession (10 Jun 2014)
Banks search for loopholes in leveraged loan guidelines (10 Jun 2014)
No Tax-Checked Firms Blocked From UK Public Tenders (10 Jun 2014)
Financial Reporting Council wants clear and concise annual reports (9 Jun 2014)
Bank annual reports too long or 'complex' (9 Jun 2014)
SEC Charges New York-Based Dark Pool Operator With Failing to Safeguard Confidential Trading Information (9 Jun 2014)
Gordon Ramsay restaurant empire plunges £6.4m into the red (9 Jun 2014)
Barclays faces a £300m lawsuit from Amanda Staveley over Abu Dhabi investors deal during financial crisis (9 Jun 2014)
Dash for consultancy: Deloitte prepares to take on the UK legal market (9 Jun 2014)
Cheniere CEO Risks Losing $133 Million Amid Investor Suit (9 Jun 2014)
Social Closure: Association warns on accountant use (9 Jun 2014)
Wanted: a dose of ethical tablets (8 Jun 2014)
City must clear up governance clutter (8 Jun 2014)
The vanished grandeur of accounting: Once, bookkeepers were valorized in great art. Sound funny now? (8 Jun 2014)
Why Diamond Foods, Inc. Shares Got Crunched (8 Jun 2014)
Audit reports: what next? (8 Jun 2014)
Hertz's Accounting Woes Wider Than Thought (7 Jun 2014)
Hertz to Revise Financial Reports (7 Jun 2014)
Hertz shares plunge on accounting probe (7 Jun 2014)
Did Hertz CFO Leave Because of Accounting Flubs? (7 Jun 2014)
California governor claims 'creative accounting' lured Apple (7 Jun 2014)
Fat cats: Burberry award chief executive shares worth almost £15m (7 Jun 2014)
Bank of America could pay $12bn to settle mortgage claims (7 Jun 2014)
Fat cats: Royal Bank of Scotland chief receives shares worth almost £1.5 million (7 Jun 2014)
Queen's bank Coutts warns thousands of investors on risky deals (7 Jun 2014)
Pope Francis sacks entire board of Vatican's financial watchdog (6 Jun 2014)
Annie's: PwC to resign as accounting firm (6 Jun 2014)
Pfizer Reaps $69bn in Profits From 128 Tax Haven Subsidiaries in 2013 (6 Jun 2014)
PCAOB to Consider Adopting an Auditing Standard on Related Parties, Amendments Regarding Significant Unusual Transactions, and Other Amendments (6 Jun 2014)
Medtronic a big user of tax havens, holding $20.5 billion overseas (6 Jun 2014)
BP faces billions in fines over Deepwater Horizon pollution (6 Jun 2014)
FRC: True and fair overrides accounting standards (6 Jun 2014)
Corrupt accountants targeted by new serious crime bill (6 Jun 2014)
More firms poaching senior talent (6 Jun 2014)
UK regulator: “True and fair” trumps accounting standards (5 Jun 2014)
What investors must know about new revenue recognition accounting rules (5 Jun 2014)
Walmart's Executive Bonuses Have Cost Taxpayers $104 Million Since 2009 (5 Jun 2014)
Officials raid KPMG broker in Amsterdam (5 Jun 2014)
US Accounting Rule Makers Sharpen Focus on Needs of GAAP-Users (5 Jun 2014)
PCAOB to consider new rules for auditing related-party transactions (5 Jun 2014)
Insight on Vodafone audit switch to PwC (5 Jun 2014)
G4S security guards violently remove protesters from AGM (5 Jun 2014)
Rotork ends 50 year audit relationship with KPMG (5 Jun 2014)
In the Pocktes of Big Four: ICAEW has a new president from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) (5 Jun 2014)
AN OVERVIEW OF THE REVISED ACCOUNTING MODEL FOR REVENUE RECOGNITION (5 Jun 2014)
The FRC's true and fair view (5 Jun 2014)
PCAOB Sees 'Unacceptably High' Problems in Broker-Dealer Audits (5 Jun 2014)
Bryan Shaw sentenced to prison in KPMG insider trading case (4 Jun 2014)
Informant in KPMG insider trading case sentenced to 5 months in prison (4 Jun 2014)
IBM Avoids SEC Penalty Over Accounting of Cloud Computing (4 Jun 2014)
US Regulator Finds Deficiencies in 15 Deloitte & Touche Audits (4 Jun 2014)
US Regulators: Deficiencies in 28% of Deloitte audits (4 Jun 2014)
FRC publishes ‘True and Fair’ statement (4 Jun 2014)
Dash for consultancy: KPMG acquires IT consultancy Safira (4 Jun 2014)
Smaller Auditors Add Market Share (4 Jun 2014)
IBM, PwC fight US Army award to Ernst & Young (4 Jun 2014)
China-US standoff may help Hong Kong auditors in lobbying efforts (4 Jun 2014)
SEC rethinking auditing penalties (4 Jun2014)
Two more guilty of record boiler room fraud (4 Jun 2014)
Pentagon seeks $211 mln repayment from Pratt for accounting issue (4 Jun 2014)
FRS102 and Auditors (4 Jun 2014)
Auditor's liability to shareholders for negligent auditing (4 Jun 2014)
'Big Four' China accounting units in settlement talks with US SEC - filing (3 Jun 2014)
Big Four Audit Firms in China in Settlement Talks With SEC Enforcers (3 Jun 2014)
US-style 'Soprano's law' to jail lawyers, accountants and couriers who work for criminals (3 Jun 2014)
Former CEO and CFO of Arthrocare Corporation Convicted for Orchestrating $400 Million Securities Fraud Scheme (3 Jun 2014)
Latest stats show audit revolution's a long way off (3 Jun2014)
New Look makes £55m loss after French writedowns (3 Jun 2014)
ICAEW financials improve but falls short on student numbers (3 Jun 2014)
Shareholder value and Adam Smith (3 Jun 2014)
Suppliers lend £327bn to businesses in form of late payments (2 Jun 2014)
British businesses have a £75bn burden of debt (2 Jun 2014)
Asset-backed securities poised for comeback, says Bank (2 Jun 2014)
Auditor's liability to shareholders for negligent auditing (2 Jun 2014)
77000 foreign banks to share tax info with US IRS (2 Jun 2014)
Europe's banks don't add to economic growth, academics say (2 Jun 2014)
Accountancy firms increasingly looking to poach staff from rivals (1 Jun 2014)
Investors want to ban 'junk' companies from London (1 Jun 2014)
UBS Probed in Belgium Over Money Laundering, Organized Crime (1 Jun 2014)
RBS could fail due to '£100bn black hole' - with British taxpayers in line to lose their £45 billion stake (1 Jun 2014)
Half of VAT fines incorrect – UHY Hacker Young (1 Jun 2014)
The Ostrich Position: ICAEW calls for clarity over country-by-country reporting (1 Jun 2014)
Phil Mickelson and Carl Icahn subject of insider trading investigation (1 Jun 2014)
Information Content of Income, Tax Avoidance and Taxable Income Management (1 Jun 2014)

Governing a Digital Business Ecosystem: Lessons from ONE.MOTORING Portal (1 Jun 2014)

MAY 2014

China defends ban on foreign accountants (31 May 2014)
Big Profit Engines for Banks Falter (31 May 2014)
U.K. Government Urged to Probe Alliance Boots Over Tax Affairs (31 May 2014)
Sterne Agee files lawsuit against KPMG (31 May 2014)
Netcare and KPMG blame one another for delaying inquiry (31 May 2014)
Report: Summary of Netcare v KPMG litigation (31 May 2014)
Beneficial owners suffer from 'democratic deficit' (31 May 2014)
Director’s duties and tax avoidance (30 May 2014)
Alliance Boots and the use and abuses of Limited Liability Partnerships (30 May 2014)
New global accounting rules aim to make it harder for firms to fib about their revenues (30 May 2014)
Shareholders claims corporate governance failings in Petroceltic placing (30 May 2014)
Revolving Doors: Lloyds appoints KPMG partner to head audit operations (30 May 2014)
EFRAG Report: The role of the business model in financial statements (30 May 2014)
'Conflict minerals' deadline looms for technology firms (30 May 2014)
BNP Paribas faces fine of more than $10bn in US sanctions investigation (30 May 2014)
IASB and FASB issue converged Standard on revenue recognition (30 May 2014)
In 2009-10, over 98 pct of Google’s and Oracle’s subsidiaries disappeared (29 May 2014)
ACCA members to lose out: Hong Kong lobby to raise fears over proposed ban on local accountants working in mainland (29 May 2014)
AQI 2014: PwC must challenge management over audits (29 May 2014)
AQI 2014: FRC calls on KPMG to tackle ethical issues (29 May 2014)
AQI 2014: Warning over Deloitte's tax advice to audit client (29 May 2014)
AQI 2014: FRC critical of EY handling of ‘letterbox’ company audits (29 May 2014)
Ex-UBS banker avoids prison time in US tax fraud case (29 May 2014)
American Corporations Tell IRS the Majority of Their Offshore Profits Are in 12 Tax Havens (29 May 2014)
The paradox of performance related pay systems: ‘Why Do we Keep Adopting them in the Face of Evidence that they Fail to Motivate?’ (29 May 2014)
Financial Reporting Council: bank and building society audits not good enough (28 May 2014)
Big Four accountants under fire over bank audits (28 May 2014)
Financial Reporting Council: Audit Quality Inspections Annual Report 2013/14 (28 May 2014)
FRC publishes Big Four audit reports (28 May 2014)
Financial Reporting Council 2014 Report : Deloitte LLP Audit Quality Inspection (28 May 2014)
Financial Reporting Council 2014 Report: Ernst & Young LLP Audit Quality Inspection (28 May 2014)
Financial Reporting Council 2014 Report: KPMG LLP and KPMG Audit Plc Audit Quality Inspection (28 May 2014)
Financial Reporting Council 2014 Report: PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Audit Quality Inspection (28 May 2014)
FRC critical of Ernst & Young (EY) handling of 'letterbox' company audits (28 May 2014)
New Global Accounting Rules to Affect How Companies Book Revenue (28 May 2014)
Regulators Set New Rules for Companies' Revenue Accounting (28 May 2014)
FASB and IASB Issue Revenue Recognition Standard (28 May 2014)
New accounting rule a boost for investors (28 May 2014)
Investor greed putting financial stability at risk, warns ECB (28 May 2014)
Mandatory audit firm rotation rules published in EU (28 May 2014)
REGULATION (EU) No 537/2014 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 16 April 2014 on specific requirements regarding statutory audit of public-interest entities and repealing Commission Decision 2005/909/EC (28 May 2014)
FRC comments on publication of the EU Audit Directive and Regulation (28 May 2014)
A$100m 'accounting fraud': police make arrest (28 May 2014)
Ernst Young made to hand over accounting records (27 May 2014)
Mainland China audit rules benefit its accountants, not the country (27 May 2014)
IASB rules on recognition of revenue set to change (27 May 2014)
Auditors warned on independence risks (27 May 2014)
IMF chief says banks haven't changed since financial crisis (27 May 2014)
Here is a suprise .... er not: ICAEW has significant concerns over Country-by-Country reporting (27 May 2014)
Lloyds Bank announces TSB flotation (27 May 2014)
China ruling does little to end foreign audit spat (26 May 2014)
Food giant Mars accused of putting squeeze on suppliers (25 May 2014)
Osborne to tell banks: increase SME lending (25 May 2014)
Amazon's £11bn tax trick (25 May 2014)
Insolvency: Furnisher Paul Simon's collapse leaves 7000 customers owed £2.3m, but bonanza for Deloitte (25 May 2014)
Sterne Agee files lawsuit against KPMG (24 May 2014)
Hong Kong Court Rules Against EY (24 May 2014)
Golden hellos look like a tax on shareholders (24 May 2014)
Logitech says audit committee investigating accounting matters (23 May 2014)
Hong Kong court rejects Ernst & Young's case that China law protects mainland audit papers (23 May 2014)
Hong Kong Ruling Complicates Global Fight on Auditing of Chinese Firms (23 May 2014)
Discredit Suisse: Still Too Big To Jail (23 May 2014)
HSBC shareholders revolt over executive pay plan (23 May 2014)
Accountancy is top sector for supporting and retaining female talent (23 May 2014)
Bank of America probed for ties to money laundering (23 May 2014)
SEC probes Schwab, Merrill, for anti-money laundering violations (23 May 2014)
IFRS Foundation to consult on effectiveness (23 May 2014)
Social Closure: ACCA Urges Check on Accountant Qualifications, but silence on how accountants damage society (23 May 2014)
I've applied the public interest test to the big pharma deal and Pfizer fails (22 May 2014)
SEC Charges Former Deloitte Chief Risk Officer for Violations of Auditor Independence Rules (22 May 2014)
Deloitte Partner Sanctioned Over Conflict of Interest With Casino Client (22 May 2014)
Ahold to Pay $297 Million to Settle Class-Action Lawsuit (22 May 2014)
Shares in Credit Suisse rose when they admitted helping tax evasion (22 May 2014)
Netcare is 'seeking to silence KPMG' (22 May 2014)
Auditing the Auditors (22 May 2014)
US regulator probes Wipro's audits (22 May 2014)
Carrefour ropes in KPMG to help it sell India assets (22 May 2014)
CIMA members face 5% subs hike as institute seeks move (22 May 2014)
Law Firm Partner Wins Whistle-Blower Case at UK Supreme Court (22 May 2014)
LLP Partners to receive protection under whistleblowing laws (22 May 2014)
In the Shade: the UK’s missing economy (20 May 2014)
In the Shade: the 10 minute (or less) summary of my new report (20 May 2014)
In the shade: Research on the UK’s missing economy (20 May 2014)
UK banks face yearly standards report (20 May 2014)
US Attorney General Eric Holder Announces Guilty Plea in Credit Suisse Offshore Tax Evasion Case (20 May 2014)
Vodafone writes £6.6bn off value of European operations (20 May 2014)
Fat cats: New RBS finance director receives nearly £2m in shares on day 1 (20 May 2014)
Investors legal claims against RBS reach nearly $7bn (20 May 2014)
Waste: The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has revealed it paid Deloitte £14.8m in consultancy fees over the past year (19 May 2014)
Massimo Cellini recruits forensic accountants to get to the bottom of Leeds finances (19 May 2014)
Sex and drugs? Real rock rebels are into tax-efficient accountancy abuse (19 May 2014)
China's ban on overseas auditors raises concern over transparency (19 May 2014)
GSK dodged millions in China drug tax scam - state media (19 May 2014)
RSA axes Deloitte legal action plans (19 May 2014)
Credit Suisse CEO says a few bankers are to blame for $10bn in tax evasion (19 May 2014)
Glencore faces investor revolt over accounting (18 May 2014)
Glencore must end secrecy around its finances, says Christian Aid (18 May 2014)
Nifty Fifty's accountant indicted in $15M tax evasion charges (18 May 2014)
New Glencore chief Tony Hayward opposed by investors (18 May 2014)
Co-op Group members approve governance shake-up (18 May 2014)
Charities that run public services 'should have open-book accounting' (17 May 2014)
Abuse of charitable tax reliefs worth £35m blocked by tribunal (17 May 2014)
IASB agrees standard-setting charter of co-operation (17 May 2014)
George Osborne's tax changes sweeten Alliance Boots liabilities pill by £100m (16 May 2014)
Boots' £2m tax bill: 'We don't have to justify ourselves' (16 May 2014)
Polly Peck and Asil Nadir: The Supergun plot, murders and a report we can't ignore (16 May 2014)
Fat cats: Kentz shareholders first to vote down pay policy and remuneration report (16 May 2014)
Transfer Pricing Games: Rough and Polished: South Africa Shortchanged on Diamon Trade (16 May 2014)

Rough and Polished: A case study of the diamond pricing and valuation system (16 May 2014)
AstraZeneca at risk from Pfizer tax avoidance plans, says company chief (16 May 2014)
Fat cats: Kentz shareholders first to vote down pay policy and remuneration report (16 May 2014)
Citigroup Fires 11 More Over Alleged Oceanografia Fraud (15 May 2014)
Accounting for Earnings Manipulation (15 May 2014)
£100m charity tax avoidance scheme defeated at tribunal (15 May 2014)
NT Advisors defeated again in tax tribunal (15 May 2014)
Fee caps and the black list prompt firms to rethink audit stratgey (15 May 2014)
AstraZeneca and the tyranny of shareholders (15 May 2014)
GlaxoSmithKline executive could face prison in China over bribery claims (15 May 2014)
Why it’s so hard to audit hedge funds and private equity (14 May 2014)
New research reveals a black hole at the heart of London's FTSE100 (14 May 2014)
Christian-Aid Report: FTSEcrecy: the culture of concealment throughout the FTSE (14 May 2014)
Speedy Hire earnings hit by accounting scandal at overseas unit (14 May 2014)
'Disappointing' year for Speedy Hire (14 May 2014)
EU Audit Rules May Trip Up US Banks, Insurers (14 May 2014)
Co-op Group in appalling state and unlikely to fully recover (14 May 2014)
Compass to return £1 billion to shareholders (14 May 2014)
Helping the SEC crack securities fraud cases using cutting analysis and data technology (14 May 2014)
Big four UK banks reserve £21.5bn to meet their fines and customer complaints (14 May 2014)
Icebreaker tax avoidance scheme crushed (14 May 2014)
Take That and Gary Barlow Tax Case: First Tier Tribunal Decision in 1) ACORNWOOD LLP, 2) BASTIONSPARK LLP, (3) EDGEDALE LLP, (4) STARBROOKE LLP, (5) HAWKSBRIDGE LLP and HMRC - Deloitte were advsiers (14 May 2014)
Revolving Doors: Former KPMG policy head and HMRC specialist joins R&D tax specialists (14 May 2014)
Head of KPMG's Netherlands Affiliate Resigns (13 May 2014)
Dutch KPMG hit by tax fraud scandal (13 May 2014)
Who Is Checking the Numbers at Alibaba? (13 May 2014)
Who Audits Alibaba? (ABABA) (13 May 2014)
Gary Barlow's tax avoidance as bad as Starbucks (13 May 2014)
Deloitte mentioned in the Tax Tribunal case relating to Gary Barlow and other stars (13 May 2014)
Banking and banksters: Empire built on frauds (12 May 2014)
Dutch head of KPMG resigns amid criminal investigation (12 May 2014)
Chairman of KPMG in the Netherlands resigns, company says (12 May 2014)
FRC Investigation announced in connection with Computer 2000 Distribution Ltd (12 May 2014)
Fannie and Freddie Accounting Disaster Here to Stay (12 May 2014)
Fannie Mae's Quiet $4 Billion Adjustment (12 May 2014)
IASB publishes amendments to IAS 16 Property, Plant and Equipment and IAS 38 Intangible Assets (12 May 2014)
The Cameron crony, the private jet company, and a crash landing that cost taxpayers £100m (11 May 2014)
We have not dealt with bank crisis, says ex-EU adviser (11 May 2014)
Vast hidden profits: from Asia's palm oil giants to a tiny British tax haven (11 May 2014)
Swiss company agrees to pay $4.4m fine for helping US tax dodgers (11 May 2014)
SEC Agrees to Hear Audit Appeal of 'Big Four' Accounting Firms' China Affiliates (10 May 2014)
Accounting Standard-Setters Offer Glimpse of 'Road Ahead' (10 May 2014)
EU banks binge on capital to avoid stress test failure (10 May 2014)
Alibaba warns over uninspected auditor (10 May 2014)
KPMG retains long-standing Greggs audit work (10 May 2014)
Revolving Doors: Cover Oregon to pay Deloitte $2.9 million to assess federal transfer needs (10 May 2014)
'I stopped being an accountant a long time ago': Nationwide's boss (9 May 2014)
Amazon's UK tax bill 10 million pounds on $7 billion sales (9 May 2014)
The average FTSE 100 CEO is a 54-year-old male accountant (9 May 2014)
Holding Auditors Accountable (9 May 2014)
Co-op bank to raise £400m as group cuts its stake (9 May 2014)
FMC directs MCX to drop Deloitte as auditor (9 May 2014)
IASB establishes principles for cooperation with other standard setters (9 May 2014)
Newsham facing FRC tribunal over Worthington Nicholls audit (9 May 2014)
MPs attack Sir Win Bischoff role at FRC regulator (8 May 2014)
Bischoff labelled 'odd choice' as new FRC chair (8 May 2014)
Alibaba Warns US-China Audit Dispute May Have Repercussions For Investors (8 May 2014)
SEC Announces Charges and Asset Freeze Against Hedge Fund Advisory Firm Distributing Falsified Performance Results (8 May 2014)
PCAOB asks for additional comments on standards reorganization (8 May 2014)
FRC Notice of disciplinary hearing: Worthington Nicholls Group - Mr Paul Newsham, Member of the ICAEW (8 May 2014)
U.S. Seeking Guilty Plea From Credit Suisse Parent (8 May 2014)
Standard Chartered Bank reprimanded for violating accounting rules (8 May 2014)
US Accounting Standard-Setters Offer Glimpse of 'Road Ahead' (8 May 2014)
Banks in UK face having to file two sets of accounts (7 May 2014)
Further consolidation of UK auditing firms would be disastrous says FRC chair (7 May 2014)
Co-op bosses 'don't know difference between credit and debit' (7 May 2014)
Caffe Nero accused over tax affairs (7 May 2014)
PCAOB Announces Settled Disciplinary Actions against Two Audit Firms and Four Individuals (7 May 2014)
FASB Anticipates Revenue Recognition Standard Release This Month (7 May 2014)
PWC in outright denial on falling tax revenues (6 May 2014)
KPMG 'failing to create right environment for female staff' (6 May 2014)
CalPERS wins $12.75M settlement against Ernst & Young (6 May 2014)
CalPERS recovers $12.75 million in lawsuit over collapse of Lehman Brothers (6 May 2014)
Barclays profits dragged down by investment bank slump (6 May 2014)
Marking to Market and Following the Fair Vale Accounting Debate (6 May 2014)
Balfour Beatty chief quits on profits warning (6 May 2014)
Profit-shifting by multinational companies costing Tax Office dearly (6 May 2014)
Mothercare renegotiates bank loan terms after profit warnings (6 May 2014)
Coles accused of 'unconscionable conduct' towards 200 small suppliers (6 May 2014)
Pfizer reports 15% fall in profits (6 May 2014)
US wants Credit Suisse to plead guilty in tax dispute - report (5 May 2014)
Countries slow race to bottom on tax competition (5 May 2014)
First they killed all the accountants: How big banks, corporations and governments made themsleves unauditable (5 May 2014)
Ernst & Young Settles With CalPERS Over Lehman Audit (5 May 2014)
Multinational giants line up for UK tax breaks (4 May 2014)
American companies target the UK for tax (4 May 2014)
Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei rejects 'greedy' public markets (3 May 2014)
RBS battles with bonus cap as its profits double (3 May 2014)
Royal Mail: did the government and bankers short-change Britain by £750m? (3 May 2014)
Mothercare turns screw on suppliers with 2.5% extra fee on all invoices (3 May 2014)
SEC Issues Partial Stay of Conflict Minerals Rules (3 May 2014)
Beware Pfizer, the mid-Atlantic floating tax avoider (3 May 2014)
Tax rules facilitate avoidance, with developing countries the biggest losers (3 May 2014)
FAF's 'gift' to the IASB: It's time to finally reject IFRS and the IASB for the U.S. (2 May 2014)
SEC Frets It's Not Getting Enough Accounting Questions (2 May 2014)
SEC Charges NYSE, NYSE ARCA, and NYSE MKT for Repeated Failures to Operate in Accordance With Exchange Rules (2 May 2014)
Greene King sells 275 tenanted pubs for less than book value (2 May 2014)
Greene King sells 275 pubs to new company (2 May 2014)
Bank of England warns housing market boom may turn to crash (2 May 2014)
The cat-and-mouse world of US tax (2 May 2014)
More trouble at the Co-op: Bank hit with fresh claims that former bosses may have massaged accounts to boost bonuses (1 May 2014)
The Co-op Bank is considering suing the investment bank JP Morgan Cazenove and its former auditor KPMG (1 May 2014)
Co-op Bank's near-collapse blamed on Britannia merger (1 May 2014)
Failings in management and governance: Report of the independent review into the events leading to the Co-operative Bank's capital shortfall by Sir Christopher Kelly (1 May 2014)
Co-op Bank ends 40-year KPMG relationship (1 May 2014)
Nine problems that caused the 'debacle' at the Co-operative Bank (1 May 2014)
BBC dumps KPMG as auditor after 18 years (1 May 2014)
Number of US Accounting Class Actions Steady Over Last Two Years (1 May 2014)

APRIL 2014

Royal Dutch Shell profits hit by refinery writedowns (30 Apr 2014)
Co-op Bank changes auditors after 40 years (30 Apr 2014)
BBC replaces KPMG as auditors (30 Apr 2014)
Bank of America's accounting blunder overlooked by auditors and regulators (30 Apr 2014)
What Bank of America's Accounting Mistake Can Teach the Market (30 Apr 2014)
The Accounting Mirage Behind Bank of America's Blunder (30 Apr 2014)
Merger Would Let Pfizer Duck A Billion Dollars In U.S. Taxes Each Year (30 Apr 2014)
Co-op Bank and Britannia merger 'should never have happened' (30 Apr 2014)
Bank of America's Bad Accounting (audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers) (29 Apr 2014)
BofA Pays $111 Million to Mortgage Investors for Servicing Error (29 Apr 2014)
Bank of America Finds a Mistake: $4 Billion Less Capital (29 Apr 2014)
Analysts React to Bank of America's $4 Billion Error (29 Apr 2014)
Bank of America shares drop after accounting error (29 Apr 2014)
Harlequin Group files High Court claim against Wilkins Kennedy (29 Aug 2014)
The good, bad and ugly of shareholder activism (29 Apr 2014)
SEC has accounting probes in the works, White says (29 Apr 2014)
Investors concerned with auditor objectivity, FRC says (29 Apr 2014)
Biggest LBO Ends in Bankruptcy as Energy Future Files; Ranks With Enron's collapse (29 Apr 2014)
Anglo Irish Bank pair avoid prison despite being found guilty (29 Apr 2014)
US Accounting Class-Action Settlements Rose for Second Year (29 Apr 2014)
Editor’s comment: competitive audit? (29 Apr 2014)
Serco warns of further fall in profits and need for emergency cash (29 Apr 2014)
Grant Thornton: Death Collectors (28 Apr 2014)
Range of scheme accounting assumptions narrows (28 Apr 2014)
Accountants fined over Pronanotect audit (28 Apr 2014)
No Accounting Skills? No Moral Reckoning (28 Apr 2014)
Bernie Ecclestone accused of biggest ever personal tax dodge (28 Apr 2014)
No Action against Failed Firms: FRC’s work to enhance justifiable confidence in audit (28 Apr 2014)
Fat cats: Icas chief enjoys 10% pay rise as membership grows (28 Apr 2014)
FTSE 250 auditors survey: winds of change (28 Apr 2014)
Insolvency: Deloitte partners take receivership of The Gherkin (28 Apr 2014)
ICAS profits fall but member numbers break 20000 (28 Apr 2014)
Bailed-out RBS snubs Osborne's bonus ban as top bankers get shares worth millions (27 Apr 2014)
Greene King loses tax appeal for second time (27 Apr 2014)
IAASB reconsiders auditors' “other information” duties (27 Apr 2014)
South Korea Prosecutors raid offices of accounting firm that worked for ferry company (27 Apr 2014)
India may sign transfer pricing pacts with Japan, UK (27 Apr 2014)
Don’t be misled by Vince Cable’s talk of corporate transparency (26 Apr 2014)
Insolvency abuses by banks and accountants: Inside Out Bank of Scotland investigation transcript (26 Apr 2014)
Royal Bank of Scotland faces lawsuits totalling £1bn from five of the UK's biggest investors over £12bn cash plea (26 Apr 2014)
France demands $1B from Google; tech giant accused of dodging tax man (26 Apr 2014)
Barclays Must Face Investor Lawsuit Over Libor Manipulation, Says US Appeals Court (26 Apr 2014)
Pfizer must be questioned about its tax affairs if the $100bn takeover bid for AstraZeneca goes ahead (26 Apr 2014)
Most CEOs back country by country reporting (25 Apr 2014)
Former KPMG partner Scott London jailed for 14 months for leaking information (25 Apr 2014)
Convicted KPMG inside trader sentenced to prison (25 Apr 2014)
Barclays in $280m settlement with US regulators (25 Apr 2014)
RBS plan for 200% bonuses blocked (25 Apr 2014)
Big 4 eye non-audit service to drive business (25 Apr 2014)
Insolvency: Gherkin skyscraper in receivership after defaults (25 Apr 2014)
Accounting watchdog pushes long-term pay rules (24 Apr 2014)
Starbucks suffers first UK sales drop after tax criticism (24 Apr 2014)
US court revives EU money laundering case vs RJ Reynolds (24 Apr 2014)
Ernst & Young lose again: HMRC wins appeal on Greene King tax planning scheme (24 Apr 2014)

Greene King Plc & Anor v Revenue And Customs [2014] UKUT 178 (24 Apr 2014)
RBS fined £460000 over illegal emerging market trades (23 Apr 2014)
India: ICAI to ban three auditors, including a Price Waterhouse partner, in Satyam case (23 Apr 2014)
FRC reviews Baker Tilly audit offering (23 Apr 2014)
FRC publishes Audit Quality Inspection Report on Baker Tilly (23 Apr 2014)
London Stock Exchange switches auditing from PwC to EY (23 Apr 2015)
Is the UK Ending Corporate Secrecy? More Spin Than Substance (22 Apr 2014)
Big business sides with the fraudsters, criminals and tax evaders (22 Apr 2014)
KPMG in Holland again under investigation, this time for tax fraud (22 Apr 2014)
Co-op Bank report to blame governance (22 Apr 2014)
Senate panel faults state, Deloitte on technology flaws (22 Apr 2014)
Baker Tilly criticised over deficient audit work (22 Apr 2014)
FASB, IASB to Hold More Lease Accounting Talks (22 Apr 2014)
Rentiers: Economic Policy in a Post-Piketty World (22 Apr 2014)
U.K. Tax Authorities Question Investment Banks on VAT Swindlers (22 Apr 2014)
Capital ratios dangerously low as banks continue to cry wolf (22 Apr 2014)
FASB Pushes Revenue Recognition Release to Late May (22 Apr 2014)
London 2012 Olympic shopping mall Westfields makes £40million profit but pays just £211,000 in tax (22 Apr 2014)
Guess What: UK Accountancy bodies like tax avoidance - OECD plan to tackle tax planning 'may erode tax base' (21 Apr 2014)
FASB, IASB to Hold More Lease Accounting Talks (21 Apr 2014)
Vince Cable presses ahead with public register on company ownership (21 Apr 2014)
Number of fines imposed by UK City regulator drops by 40% (21 Apr 2014)
Insolvency: RBS may sue over claims bank deliberately undermined SMEs (21 Apr 2014)
Social Closure: India CAs protest inclusion of other professionals under 'accountant' (21 Apr 2014)
FASB, IASB Plan to Resume Talks on Lease Accounting (20 Apr 2014)
Suit says SamTrans retaliated against ex-employee for questioning accounting practices (20 Apr 2014)
Big auditors must be made accountable to the public (19 Apr 2014)
Look Beyond the Firms for the Root Causes of Audit Deficiencies (19 Apr 2014)
James Franco's Ex-Manager, Accounting Firm Sued for Diverting Actor's Commissions (19 Apr 2014)
Vince Cable plans 'rogue directors' crackdown (19 Apr 2014)
US Supreme Court boosts shareholders' right to information (19 Apr 2014)
'Capital in the Twenty-First Century', by Thomas Piketty (19 Apr 2014)
'No evidence' RBS put SMEs out of business (18 Apr 2014)
RBS: no evidence bank forced small businesses to close – report (18 Apr 2014)
Insolvency & RBS: CLIFFORD CHANCE LLP INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF THE CENTRAL ALLEGATION MADE BY DR LAWRENCE TOMLINSON IN BANKS' LENDING PRACTICES: TREATMENT OF BUSINESSES IN DISTRESS (18 Apr 2014)
Anglo Irish trial: Pat Whelan and Willie McAteer found guilty (18 Apr 2014)
Anglo-Irish Bank: The background to Golden Circle deal (18 Apr 2014)
Profile of Anglo Irish guilty bankers (18 Apr 2014)
Former BP employee pays $224000 over insider trading charges (18 Apr 2014)
Fat cats: Co-operative Group comes under fire for handing out £3m in loss of office payments to executives (18 Apr 2014)
Five Reasons Accounting Firms Need More Diversity (18 Apr 2014)
Auditor liability changing as courts, companies speak up (18 Apr 2014)
Auditing Special Purpose Frameworks: Risk Assessment (18 Apr 2014)
PwC Takes Top Spot in Vault Accounting 50 for 2015 (18 Apr 2014)
The RBS accountancy firm PwC has moved staff inside the office of Labour’s shadow business secretary (17 Apr 2016)
Co-operative Group posts record £2.5bn loss after 'disastrous year' (17 Apr 2014)
EU Parliament adopts non-financial reporting rules (17 Apr 2014)
The EU law on non-financial reporting - how we got there (17 Apr 2014)
IASB publishes Discussion Paper on accounting for macro hedging (17 Apr 2014)
Deloitte appeals Livent compensation ruling (17 Apr 2014)
Citigroup shuns digital webcast for its shareholder meeting (17 Apr 2014)
SolarCity Corp Sued For Providing False And Misleading Information (17 Apr 2014)
India Government auditor can inspect private telecom companies: Supreme Court (17 Apr 2014)
Bank of America, Weighed by Legal Costs, Posts Loss (17 Apr 2014)
Former JJB boss 'faked bank statement to hide loan' (16 Apr 2014)
Accounting Fraud Is Still Widespread Among Chinese Companies (16 Apr 2014)
EU Parliament adopts non-financial disclosure requirements (16 Apr 2014)
Britain's accounting watchdog wants right to 'name and shame' (16 Apr 2014)
Bank of America reports $276m loss after $6bn legal hit (16 Apr 2014)
Former HealthSouth whistleblower addresses ethics (16 Apr 2014)
Corporate Welfare: Train operators pay £200m to shareholders after £1bn subsidy (16 Apr 2014)
Former Anglo Irish chairman cleared over share loans (16 Apr 2014)
Britain's accounting watchdog wants right to 'name and shame' (15 Apr 2014)
FASB changes discontinued operations reporting guidance (15 Apr 2014)
Long road ahead as IASB remedies governance concerns (15 Apr 2014)
Auditors critical of EU anti-corruption report (15 Apr 2014)
Accounting standards chair Hoogervorst dark on Ebitda, prefers'rough' measure of earnings (15 Apr 2014)
With ECB coming, banks brace with new provisions (15 Apr 2014)
US Appellate Court Faults SEC's 'Conflict Minerals' Rule (15 Apr 2014)
George Staubus, campus professor emeritus of accounting, dies at 87 (15 Apr 2014)
Five Reasons Accounting Firms Need More Diversity at Partner Level (15 Apr 2014)
Debenhams profits fall 25% after 'challenging' trading (15 Apr 2014)
Glaxo finds itself on the back foot again (15 Apr 2014)
A Tribute to Abraham J. Briloff 1917 - 2013 (14 Apr 2014)
Country-by-Country Template Won’t Require Entity-by-Entity Financial Details, Andrus, Head of OECD’s Transfer Pricing Unit Says (14 Apr 2014)
GlaxoSmithKline faces bribery allegations in Poland (14 Apr 2014)
Accounting at the London School of Economics: Opportunity Lost? (14 Apr 2014)
Insolvency: Punch Taverns brings in independent restructuring specialist (14 Apr 2014)
FRC proposes review changes (14 Apr 2014)
FRC consults on revised operating procedures for reviewing corporate reporting (14 Apr 2014)
Co-op rift risks £383m due to banking arm (13 Apr 2014)
Fresh details about collapse of JJB Sports in 2012 could emerge when the firm's chairman and son appear in court to face fraud charges (13 Apr 2014)
In search of an honest accountancy firm (12 Apr 2014)
US court accepts $1.8bn SAC insider trading settlement (12 Apr 2014)
Quality of global audits questioned (12 Apr 2014)
Dotcom crash fears wipe £20bn off FTSE (12 Apr 2014)
International Audit Regulators Home In on Fair Value, Internal Controls (11 Apr 2014)
Regulators suggest firms take deep dive into audit quality (11 Apr 2014)
Survey Finds Audit Flaws by the Big Accounting Firms (11 Apr 2014)
International Forum of Independent Audit Regulators Report on 2013 Survey of Inspection Findings (11 Apr 2014)
Co-op boss in line for £4.6m as bank losses hit £1.3bn (11 Apr 2014)
Co-op Bank expects years in the red after £1.3bn loss (11 Apr 2014)
Morrisons plans to appoint PwC as auditors (11 Apr 2014)
FRC’s Bulletin highlights the auditor’s responsibilities with respect to the Strategic Report and the Directors’ Remuneration Report (11 Apr 2014)
Audits around the world are riddled with problems - survey (10 Apr 2014)
Public Companies Show Persistent Audit Deficiencies across the Globe (10 Apr 2014)
Problem Audits Are Global Issue, Survey Finds -- Update (10 Apr 2014)
EU Plan To Loosen Big Four's Audit Market Grip (10 Apr 2014)
Accountant Simon Pearce jailed for tax fraud (10 Apr 2014)
Destined to Fail: EU proposes new shareholder powers over executive pay (10 Apr 2014)
Poster Child for Fair-Value Accounting: Student Loan Debt Swap (10 Apr 2014)
Norman Foster's architectural practice takes £130m writedown (10 Apr 2014)
Hewlett-Packard to pay $108m to settle scandal over bribery of public officials (10 Apr 2014)
Hewlett-Packard Russia Agrees to Plead Guilty to Foreign Bribery (10 Apr 2014)
Are high frequency traders rigging stock markets? Split-second sharks accused of profiting at expense of ordinary investors (10 Apr 2014)
US Attorney Asks Judge for Three Year Sentence for Former KPMG Partner (9 Apr 2014)
KPMG auditor should get 3 years for insider trading, prosecutors say (9 Apr 2014)
KPMG faces embarrassing questions over its role with the Co-operative Bank (9 Apr 2014)
Ireland: Legal firm named to review KPMG role as INBS auditor (9 Apr 2014)
Deloitte, BSR & Co can't audit MCX books, for now (9 Apr 2014)
Japan's Olympus sued by six banks (9 Apr 2014)
Olympus says being sued by six banks for $273 million over 2011 scandal (9 Apr 2014)
Olympus Sued for $273 Million After 13-Year Fraud (9 Apr 2014)
SEC Charges CVS With Misleading Investors and Committing Accounting Violations (9 Apr 2014)
CVS to Pay $20 Million to Settle SEC Allegations (9 Apr 2014)
Bribery and Corruption: SEC Charges Hewlett-Packard With FCPA Violations: Company to Pay $108 Million to Settle Civil and Criminal Cases ( 9 Apr 2014)
Leasing standard reform reaches transatlantic impasse (9 Apr 2014)
Nothing exonerates PwC for coming up with such a ludicrous name (9 Apr 2014)
British economy: faith in the figures (9 Apr 2014)
MNCs line up for transfer pricing pacts with tax authorities (9 Apr 2014)
US banks must hold $68bn extra cash, say regulators (9 Apr 2014)
U.S. Banks to Face Tougher Leverage Caps Than Competitors (9 Apr 2014)
For companies daunted by the up-front cost of green infrastructure, a simple accounting change using accelerated depreciation could make a world of difference (9 Apr 2014)
Submission to OECD on transfer pricing and developing countries (8 Apr 2014)
Struggling Co-op Bank delays results for second time (8 Apr 2014)
Insolvency: Deloitte administrators charge half a million for RSM Tenon (8 Apr 2014)
Livent decision could pave way for new suits against auditors (8 Apr 2014)
Goodwill, intangibles and everything (8 Apr 2014)
Credit Suisse faces threat of new US tax probe (8 Apr 2014)
Big Four accountants pose 'very serious' challenge to legal sector (8 Apr 2014)
Tax thread runs through pharma deals (8 Apr 2014)
Too many financial advisers not being clear about fees, says FCA (8 Apr 2014)
Insolvency: Deloitte administrators close 17 Paul Simon stores (8 Apr 2014)
Livent auditor Deloitte ordered to pay C$84.8-million for failing to detect fraud (7 Apr 2014)
Livent creditors win key ruling, awarded C$85-million (7 Apr 2014)
Lord Lawson says UK banking reforms won't make system safe (7 Apr 2014)
India: The Companies Act, 2013: Impact on auditors and audit firms (7 Apr 2014)
No accounting for Deloitte taste (7 Apr 2014)
Business prefers goodwill amortisation (7 Apr 2014)
Glaxo Investigates Bribery Accusations in the Mideast (7 Apr 2014)
Microsoft secures UK Government deal to help reduce tax bill (7 Apr 2014)
Coffee chain Caffe Nero hasn't paid a penny in corporation tax despite £100 million in profits since 2007 (7 Apr 2014)
Goldman Sachs's Earnings No Longer Roar (7 Apr 2014)
US Banks Brace for Even Tougher Leverage Ratio (7 Apr 2014)
Satyam case: Ramalinga Raju appears in court on money laundering charges (7 Apr 2014)
Punch Taverns seeks securitisation covenant waivers (7 Apr 2014)
PwC's Booz Deal Revives Specter of Enron-Era Conflicts (5 Apr 2014)
Ketan Somaia $23m fraud trial opens at the Old Bailey (5 Apr 2014)
Deflecting Attention away from failures: KPMG tests new long form audit report (5 Apr 2014)
Bribery and Corruption: GSK steps up compliance efforts in China in wake of scandal (5 Apr 2014)
Big Four auditors face disruption to their bread and butter work ahead of new regulations (4 Mar 2014)
PricewaterhouseCoopers look ridiculous with their nod to the past (4 Apr 2014)
Caterplillar Tax Dodge: PricewaterhouseCoopers partner, "What the heck, we’ll all be retired when this audit comes up on audit" (4 Apr 2014)
Myths are reproduced: "Caterpillar and its accountants have an obligation to shareholders to minimize their taxes". No they don't (4 Apr 2014)
Tax is not a cost, Senator - "It is a requirement that you try to minimize your costs. So rather than chastising Caterpillar we should be complimenting them" (4 Apr 2014)
De-equitisation: In particular, regulation and accounting appear to have played a significant role (4 Apr 2014)
Shell Rushed Rig to Arctic Sea to Avoid Alaska Tax: US (4 Apr 2014)
PricewaterhouseCoopers Renames Booz & Co. as 'Strategy&' (4 Apr 2014)
How would auditors' reporting affect “other information”? (4 Apr 2014)
Europe's auditors get ready to rotate (3 Apr 2014)
EU to Tighten Auditing Rules (3 Apr 2014)
The Sorry State of Corporate Taxes: What Fortune 500 Firms Pay (or Don’t Pay) in the USA And What they Pay Abroad — 2008 to 2012 (3 Apr 2014)
Accounting for Past Sins (3 Apr 2014)
How The Arthur Andersen And Enron Fraud Changed Accounting Forever (3 Apr 2014)
Reforming EU audit services to restore investors' confidence (3 Apr 2014)
Reform of the EU Statutory Audit Market - Frequently Asked Questions (3 Apr 2014)
Revolving Doors: KPMG partner to head OECD transfer pricing unit (3 Apr 2014)
Can Asean avoid the US-China regulatory feud? (3 Apr 2014)
PCAOB Weighs Feedback on Auditor Report Changes (3 Apr 2014)
Revamped US Audit Report Seen Launching 'Wave of Litigation' (3 Apr 2014)
Biggest environmental bankruptcy settlement ever (3 Apr 2014)
United States Announces $5.15 Billion Settlement of Litigation Against Subsidiaries of Anadarko Petroleum Corp. to Remedy Fraudulent Conveyance Designed to Evade Environmental Liabilities (3 Apr 2014)
PwC completes acquisition of Booz & Co (3 Apr 2014)
KPMG director earning £100000 falsely claimed £45000 in expenses (2 Apr 2014)
KPMG director 'stole £45k for gambling addiction' (2 Apr 2014)
PricewaterhouseCoopers Executives Grilled at US Senate Hearing Over Caterpillar's Taxes (2 Apr 2014)
Caterpillar's Offshore Tax Strategy: EXHIBITS - Part 1 of 2 (Exhibits 1-21) (2 Apr 2014)
Caterpllar's Offshore Tax Strategy: EXHIBITS - Part 2 of 2 (Exhibits 22-53) (2 Apr 2014)
India signs first batch of five advance pricing agreements (2 Apr 2014)
Environmental Profit & Loss Accounting: Can We Make It Work? (2 Apr 2014)
MF Global Blames Accountants for Fiasco (2 Apr 2014)
Royal Mail Privatisation: Law Firm Freshfields also received £1.8million in fees, while UBS, Deloitte, Goldman Sachs, Barclays and Merrill Lynch were all involved in the sale. The total cost to the taxpayer in adviser fees amounted to £12.7million (2 Apr 2014)
Grant Thornton and BDO merge in Isle of Man (2 Apr 2014)
Fat cats: Prudential reveal anonymous non-boardroom individual paid £17.5m (2 Apr 2014)
Goldman And SocGen Accused Of Defrauding Libya Out Of Billions (2 Apr 2014)
Caterpillar's Offshore Tax Strategies - with help from PricewaterhouseCoopers (1 Apr 2014)
US Corporate Tax: Caterpillar paid PwC $55m to move $8bn in profits to Switzerland (1 Apr 2014)
US Senate report claims Caterpillar avoided $2.4bn in US taxes (1 Apr 2014)
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC), tax consultant and auditor to Caterpillar (1 Apr 2014)
US Senate Report: Caterpillar's Offshore Tax Strategy (1 Apr 2014)
US Senate Report on Caterpillar (page 6): By acting as both Caterpillar’s independent auditor and tax consultant, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) auditors audited and approved the very Swiss tax strategy sold by PWC tax consultants to the company, creating an apparent, if not actual, conflict of interest. PWC was paid over $55 millionfor developing and implementing Caterpillar’s offshore tax strategy (1 Apr 2014)
US Senate Report on Caterpillar (page 7): Congress and the Public Company Oversight Accounting Board (PCAOB) should prohibit public accounting firms from simultaneously providing auditing and tax consulting services to the same corporation (1 Apr 2014)
Canada Audit firm regulator says it can't vouch for work outside Canada (1 Apr 2014)
Fat cats: Persimmon pay scheme slammed as 150 top managers are in line for £400m reward (1 Apr 2014)
Self-interest Rules: Law Society argues against 'prescriptive' insolvency fees reform (1 Apr 2014)
Insolvency: Quinn administrators Grant Thornton earn €13m (1 Apr 2014)
More Companies Bow to Investors With a Social Cause (1 Apr 2014)
New Zealand: Strategic Finance receiver PwC fails in bid against auditor (1 Apr 2014)

MARCH 2014

Investor giant warns banks on pay arrangements ahead of EU bonus cap (31 Mar 2014)
Extension of the investigation in connection with The Cup Trust (31 Mar 2014)
Accountant claims Lowry said fees 'fell to other parties' (31 Mar 2014)
The Big Four in the U.S. had combined revenue for 2013 of approximately $39.8 billion, and alone audit approximately 98 percent of the U.S. market by capitalization (31 Mar 2014)
PCAOB's Harris Wants Big Four's Financials (31 Mar 2014)
In 1999, Caterpillar paid PricewaterhouseCoopers, acting as both its tax consultant and auditor, over $55 million to develop and implement a tax strategy built around redirecting to Switzerland taxable profits (31 Mar 2014)
Xero strikes alliance deal with KPMG UK (31 Mar 2014)
HMRC revises cost of transfer pricing in underpaid tax (31 Mar 2014)
Men held over Vatican Bank 'three trillion euro bond fraud' (31 Mar 2014)
MEP calls for independent review into IASB (31 Mar 2014)
SEC Announces Fraud Charges Against Coal Company L&L Energy Inc and CEO for False Disclosures About Management (31 Mar 2014)
They like lining their pockets: Insolvency profession says fee changes will see fewer rescues (31 Mar 2014)
New rules could help reduce insolvency practitioner fees (31 Mar 2014)
Ian Fraser: speaking truth to power (30 Mar 2014)
Citigroup Auditing Weakness Seen in Stress-Test Failure, (30 Mar 2014)
Citigroup hurt by negligent auditing on failed stress test -Financial Times (30 Mar 2014)
Ex-Dewey finance director admits accounting was false (30 Mar 2014)
Goldman Sachs Must Face Lawsuit Over 2007 Mortgage Bonds (30 Mar 2014)
Charities need to prepare for new pension accounting standard (30 Mar 2014)
PCAOB's Franzel Sees 'Perfect Storm' of Internal Control Problems (30 Mar 2014)
Goldman Sachs President Says Markets 'Ignoring' Risks (30 Mar 2014)
Tax Justice Focus: the country-by-country reporting edition (29 Mar 2014)
MF Global Sues PricewaterhouseCoopers Over Its Accounting (29 Mar 2014)