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DECEMBER 2015

Drug company taken over by Martin Shkreli seeks bankruptcy protection (31 Dec 2015)
Martin Shkreli hired same audit firm for KaloBios used at Retrophin (31 Dec 2015)
ICBA Launches One Last Attack on FASB Loan-Loss Proposal (31 Dec 2015)
U.S. ties ex-Panamanian president to SAP software bribery scheme (31 Dec 2015)
NHS blows £40million on an out-of-date IT system launched last year (31 Dec 2015)
Facebook to face class action lawsuits over claims it inflated share price (30 Dec 2015)
Apple 'to pay €318m' to settle Italy tax fraud case (30 Dec 2015)
PwC audit found no problems at Third Avenue's failed junk bond fund (30 Dec 2015)
Julius Baer to Pay $547 Million to Resolve U.S. Tax Probe (30 Dec 2015)
Julius Baer earmarks extra $200 million provisions to resolve US tax case (30 Dec 2015)
NHS hospital trust pays accountancy giant Ernst & Young £15 million for advice on how to save money (29 Dec 2015)
Barclays fined $13.75m by US regulators (29 Dec 2015)
FINRA Sanctions Barclays Capital, Inc. $13.75 Million for Unsuitable Mutual Fund Transactions and Related Supervisory Failures (29 Dec 2015)
'Big Four' accountancy firms push forward in consulting (29 Dec 2015)
Malaysia's 1MDB Sent $850 Million to Entity Set Up to be Owned by Abu Dhabi Wealth Fund (29 Dec 2015)
India: Fraud reporting norms increase responsibility on auditors (28 Dec 2015)
China Telecom shares fall after chairman held in corruption crackdown (28 Dec 2015)
Commerzbank Sues Banks in US Over Mortgage-Backed Securities Losses (28 Dec 2015)
UK Small business owners 'better off on the dole' if proposed tax return changes go through (28 Dec 2015)
Toshiba accounting scandal shows nonfeasance by biggest audit firm (27 Dec 2015)
KaloBios CFO, Accounting Firm Resign After Shkreli's Arrest (27 Dec 2015)
FASB to Issue Instruments Classification Rule in January (27 Dec 2015)
Do you actually understand your business' accounts? (27 Dec 2015)
Self Interest: ICAEW still concerned about new small company accounting regime (27 Dec 2015)
Safra, Coutts Boost Swiss Bank Program Fines Over $1 Billion (27 Dec 2015)
PwC to replace KPMG after nearly 20 years at AstraZeneca (27 Dec 2015)
Japan fines Ernst & Young affiliate $17.4 mln over Toshiba audit (23 Dec 2015)
EY's Japanese unit reprimanded by regulator over Toshiba audits (23 Dec 2015)
Five of world's biggest investment banks pay no UK corporation tax (23 Dec 2015)
Anger at City banks paying little or no corporation tax (23 Dec 2015)
Number of big company CFOs hit by HMRC penalties doubles (23 Dec 2015)
HMRC: Number of personal penalties issued to corporate accounting officers doubles in a year (23 Dec 2015)
Advisers and banks share £106m fees bonanza from Royal Dutch Shell's £36bn takeover of BG Group (23 Dec 2015)
How did the Auditors Assess Internal Control: RBS Supervisor Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Multi-Million-Dollar Securities Fraud (23 Dec 2015)
PwC to win key Australia government training contract (23 Dec 2015)
Do Accountants Lack a Moral Compass? (23 Dec 2015)
Time to investigate the Big 4 over the financial crash (22 Dec 2015)
Vodafone has a long way to go before it is doing country-by-country reporting (22 Dec 2015)
US Corporations Don't Need Tax Breaks on Foreign Profits (22 Dec 2015)
US issues country-by-country reporting requirements (22 Dec 2015)
UK Accountancy watchdog investigates Grant Thornton over Globo audits (22 Dec 2015)
KPMG UK's year to forget: revenue falls and audit probes (22 Dec 2015)
Ernst and Young accountant jailed after hidden spy-cams in toilet videos (22 Dec 2015)
UK Finance watchdog bars former iSoft directors from accountancy work (22 Dec 2015)
Seven big investment banks in UK paid just $30 million (£21 million) tax in 2014 (22 Dec 2015)
ICAS president rules out ICAEW merger (22 Dec 2015)
Insolvency: R3 disappointed by scrapping of 'no win no fee' exemption (22 Dec 2015)
Evidence that the FRC is unfit to be a Regulator: Review of the UK Audit Firm Governance Code Feedback statement and proposed revisions (22 Dec 2015)
Fat cats: Record number of accountants expecting £4 billion bonus pot in 2016 (22 Dec 2015)
Bradford & Bingley investors call for probe: Watchdogs accused of sweeping lender's collapse under the carpet (22 Dec 2015)
Exhuming a buy-to-let lender: The downfall of Bradford & Bingley has some unique lessons for regulators (22 Dec 2015)
Lloyds bondholders to seek Supreme Court hearing (22 Dec 2015)
FRC issues draft Plan and Budget for 2016/17 (22 Dec 2015)
FRC Draft Plan & Budget and Levy Proposals 2016/17 (22 Dec 2015)
Turf Wars: ICAEW mulls options to expand its legal services licensing (22 Dec 2015)
The rise in accountancy mergers (22 Dec 2015)
If the International Accounting Standards Board want peace and joy its about time they delivered it for everyone (21 Dec 2015)
A former Ernst & Young partner was sentenced to eight years in jail at the end of last week for his role in a tax fraud scheme (21 Dec 2015)
The Pinstripe Mafia: Former Ernst & Young partner faces eight years in prison for movie tax fraud (21 Dec 2015)
Investigation announced in respect of Grant Thornton’s audits of Globo plc (21 Dec 2015)
Japan FSA to punish auditor for failing to discover Toshiba's illicit accounting practices (21 Dec 2015)
Toshiba says 7000 more jobs to go as net loss to hit record $4.5 billion (21 Dec 2015)
Netflix paid no corporation tax despite 4.5m UK subscribers, report claims (21 Dec 2015)
Netflix does not pay UK corporation tax despite generating £200m of revenue (21 Dec 2015)
The Observer view on unethical corporate behaviour (21 Dec 2015)
FRCOutcome of disciplinary case against Timothy Whiston and John Whelan in connection with iSoft Group plc (21 Dec 2015)
FRC and iSoft: Settlement Agreement: Timothy Whiston (21 Dec 2015)
FRC and iSoft: Settlement Agreement: John Whelan (21 Dec 2015)
FRC and iSoft: Formal Complaint: John Whelan, Timothy Whiston (21 Dec 2015)
Accountancy regulator should not be allowed to sweep questions over KPMG's audit of HBOS under the carpet (21 Dec 2015)
Revolving Doors: UKGovernment's 'buddy' scheme has now paired ministers with 83 global firms (21 Dec 2015)
The Big Short: Was It Greed Or Accounting Rules? (21 Dec 2015)
Report: Four Big Law Firms Earned Millions From Suspect States (21 Dec 2015)
Morgan Stanley accounting guru explains why we could see some big upcoming earnings surprises (21 Dec 2015)
Accounting watchdog scrutinising KPMG over HBOS failures (18 Dec 2015)
Transcript of Treasury Committee Oral evidence: Independent review of the report into the failure of HBOS, Monday 14 December 2015 (18 Dec 2015)
Transcript of Treasury Committee Oral evidence: Independent review of the report into the failure of HBOS, Tuesday 15 December 2015 (18 Dec 2015)
IASB postpones accounting changes for associates and joint ventures (18 Dec 2015)
Accountant and Financial Advisor jailed for major film tax fraud (18 Dec 2015)
J.P. Morgan to Pay $267 Million for Disclosure Failures (18 Dec 2015)
Confidence restored: Bank audit has turned a corner post crisis (18 Dec 2015)
Japan to fine Ernst affiliate, suspend business over Toshiba audit (18 Dec 2015)
Workers could hold key to unlocking executive pay gap (18 Dec 2015)
Workers demotivated by executives' high pay – survey (18 Dec 2015)
Revenue recognition clarifications affirmed by FASB, IASB (18 Dec 2015)
SEC Charges Martin Shkreli With Fraud (18 Dec 2015)
Martin Shkreli resigns from Turing Pharmaceuticals after fraud charges (18 Dec 2015)
Bullets, prostitutes and ‘mass corruption’: How a tobacco giant’s Mr Fix-It turned whistleblower (18 Dec 2015)
Audit Report Modifications and Emphasis of Matter (18 Dec 2015)
KPMG profits dip as it becomes smallest of 'big four' (18 Dec 2015)
KPMG 2.6% revenues boost thanks to rise in tax and auditing services (18 Dec 2015)
FRC tells MPs it is still considering examining auditing of HBOS (17 Dec 2015)
Tax Court criticizes CIBC for slow discovery in Enron case (17 Dec 2015)
Fact Sheet - Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act: Companies: Transparency (17 Dec 2015)
UK Legislation: Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (17 Dec 2015)
Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 obliges companies to take reasonable steps to identify the ultimate beneficial owners of holdings of over 25% in the company or who can exercise power over such holdings, and all intermediate bodies (17 Dec 2015)
Pharma boss Martin Shkreli arrested on fraud charges (17 Dec 2015)
Former JJB Sports boss Chris Ronnie ordered to pay £633000 over fraud (17 Dec 2015)
Martin Shkreli arrested by FBI over hedge fund investigation (17 Dec 2015)
FRC Letter: Summary of key developments for 2015 annual reports (17 Dec 2015)
Value of fines imposed by City's financial regulator drops 40% (17 Dec 2015)
Michael 'The Situation' Sorrentino's Accountant Admits Tax Fraud Conspiracy (17 Dec 2015)
Capitalism is running rings round democracy (17 Dec 2015)
Sports Direct's corporate governance needs a radical overhaul (17 Dec 2015)
Behind Chinese walls consultants prosper (17 Dec 2015)
Accounting industry and SEC hobble America's audit watchdog (17 Dec 2015)
UK tax fraud costs UK government £16bn a year, audit report says (17 Dec 2015)
National Audit Office (NAO) Report: Tackling tax fraud: how HMRC responds to tax evasion, the hidden economy and criminal attacks (17 Dec 2015)
Which of Australia's biggest companies are not paying tax (17 Dec 2015)
ATO report shows nearly 600 big companies paid no tax in 2013-14 (17 Dec 2015)
Governments for Sale - Revealed: how Google enlisted members of US Congress it bankrolled to fight $6bn EU antitrust case (17 Dec 2015)
MPs pile pressure on the accounting watchdog and KPMG over HBOS failures (16 Dec 2015)
HBOS review offers the chance to expose the flaws in our accounting system (16 Dec 2015)
Corruption also poses big costs – countries lose an estimated $3.1 trillion (5.1% of the world’s GDP) because of tax evasion (16 Dec 2015)
Northern Ireland accountant held in major fraud probe (16 Dec 2015)
FCA fines Threadneedle Asset Management Limited £6m (16 Dec 2015)
Chinese Water Accounting Is Slippery When Wet (16 Dec 2015)
Swiss banks to pay $130 million, avoid charges on aiding U.S. tax evasion (16 Dec 2015)
Isle of Man accountant sentenced for £5m fraud (16 Dec 2015)
Accounting firms, SEC hobble US audit watchdog (16 Dec 2015)
UK accounting framework is legal, FRC tells large plcs (16 Dec 2015)
PCAOB Adopts New Form for Naming Audit Partner (16 Dec 2015)
PCAOB Adopts Rules Requiring Disclosure of the Engagement Partner and Other Accounting Firms Participating in an Audit (16 Dec 2015)
The rise in accountancy mergers (16 Dec 2015)
BDO gives mixed assessment on audit committee reports (16 Dec 2015)
Rolls-Royce sacks two top managers (16 Dec 2015)
Accounting watchdog accused of flunking HBOS probe (15 Dec 2015)
HBOS investigation should have included CEO Hornby, lawyer says (15 Dec 2015)
MPs pile pressure on accountancy watchdog to investigate HBOS auditors (15 Dec 2015)
Japan regulator seeks punishment of Ernst-affiliate over Toshiba audit (15 Dec 2015)
MP queries possible conflict of interest over ex PwC partner watchdog role (15 Dec 2015)
Revolving Doors: Care Quality Commission: PwC veteran Peter Wyman's new role at regulator questioned (15 Dec 2015)
Revolving Doors: FCA investment boss joins PwC (15 Dec 2015)
Ryanair and Brookfield embroiled in tax evasion investigation and 'letterbox company' allegations (15 Dec 2015)
Stress Testing International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS): Accounting for Stability and the Public Good in a Financialized World (15 Dec 2015)
Brussels wants more information on Apple's Irish taxes (15 Dec 2015)
Curbing Tax Avoidance, Tax Evasion And Tax Havens (15 Dec 2015)
Ryanair and Brookfield embroiled in tax evasion investigation and 'letterbox company' allegations (15 Dec 2015)
Starbucks pays £8m in UK tax as profits surge (15 Dec 2015)
House of Commons Treasury Committee - Evidence on Failure of HBOS (15 Dec 2016)
Sports Direct crisis grows as MPs and investors question business (15 Dec 2015)
The time has come to investigate KPMG for audit failure at HBOS (14 Dec 2015)
MP calls for FRC accounting body to investigate KPMG over HBOS (14 Dec 2015)
MPs call for action against auditor over HBOS fiasco (14 Dec 2015)
KPMG’s Regulatory Arbitrage Culture (14 Dec 2015)
Too many instances where companies and their auditors have not discharged their responsibilities adequately (14 Dec 2015)
SEC's White: Too many auditors not following US securities laws (14 Dec 2015)
Accounting change will show up state subsidy to privatised UK train companies (14 Dec 2015)
Outcry over royal warrant handed to foreign-owned firms 'who legally avoid paying tax' (14 Dec 2015)
Royal warrant companies accused of using tax havens and moving their manufacturing out of Britain (14 Dec 2015)
Aurum Holdings which owns Mappin & Webb 'paid no corporation tax on £66m profit' (14 Dec 2015)
FRC proposes limited amendments to FRS 101 and FRS 103 (14 Dec 2015)
Revealed: how Sports Direct stripped USC assets before it collapsed (14 Dec 2015)
FRC puts pressure on fund managers to get involved in companies (14 Dec 2015)
Turf Wars: Advisers and accountants should not 'guzzle from same plate' (14 Dec 2015)
Ryanair Caught Up In Brookfield Aviation Tax Evasion Probe (14 Dec 2015)
Ernst & Young loses four more laptops (14 Dec 2015)
Second Tesco director quits in a week (14 Dec 2015)
Serial directors warned by pension funds (14 Dec 2015)
Accounting for Asset Purchase vs. Stock Purchase (14 Dec 2015)
Lonmin underwriters could be left with large stake as rights issue flops (12 Dec 2015)
How an accounting rule is vanishing billions of barrels of oil (12 Dec 2015)
Legal and General scraps quarterly reporting (12 Dec 2015)
L&G swells ranks of quarterly report refuseniks (12 Dec 2015)
Almost half of firms failing to meet corporate governance standards (12 Dec 2015)
Country-by-Country regime passed by Australian Parliament (11 Dec 2015)
VW admits emissions scandal was caused by systematic failures (11 Dec 2015)
SEC Suspends Public Accountants for Bad Auditing (11 Dec 2015)
KPMG Global Revenue Falls in U.S. Dollar Terms (11 Dec 2015)
RBC and KPMG say they are not to blame for massive fraud on Whitecap Dakota First Nation (11 Dec 2015)
ASIC review finds auditors must try harder (11 Dec 2015)
IFRS: SEC to Consider Letting US Companies Use Global Accounting Rules as Add-On (11 Dec 2015)
International Accounting Regulators Not Doing Cartwheels Over SEC's Idea (11 Dec 2015)
Corporate tax avoidance damaging public trust (11 Dec 2015)
City traders jailed in film tax scam (11 Dec 2015)
Vanguard Whistleblower Could Get Billions in Tax Dodge Complaint (11 Dec 2015)
Confidential data sent out by Grant Thornton to be returned (11 Dec 2015)
It’s time for KPMG to answer questions on Tax Reporting Standards (10 Dec 2015)
Toshiba to pay high price for tricking investors with fraudulent accounting (10 Dec 2015)
RBS sells £1.6bn of Irish real estate loans (10 Dec 2015)
RBS's Coutts Unit Fined in Germany Over Alleged Tax Evasion (10 Dec 2015)
RBS pays €23.8m to settle tax evasion inquiry into Coutts' Swiss operation (10 Dec 2015)
PCAOB Hits Roadblock in Inspecting Chinese Audit Firms (10 Dec 2015)
SEC to Consider Letting U.S. Companies Use Global Accounting Rules as Add-On (10 Dec 2015)
New Study: Illicit Financial Flows Hit US$1.1 Trillion in 2013 : US$7.8 Trillion drains from Developing World from 2004-2013 (10 Dec 2015)
China, Russia, Mexico, India, Malaysia are Biggest Exporters of Illicit Capital over Decade (10 Dec 2015)
ATO targets adviser firms on offshore tax evasion (10 Dec 2015)
Shareholders sue Toshiba, ex-execs for accounting fraud (9 Dec 2015)
IASB Advisers Call for Voluntary Guidance on Materiality (9 Dec 2015)
Jersey: the fall of a Finance-Cursed tax haven (9 Dec 2015)
The fall of Jersey: how a tax haven goes bust (9 Dec 2015)
Ten EU countries agree on aspects of a financial-transaction tax (9 Dec 2015)
Orica ran $900m tax scheme to lift its share price (9 Dec 2015)
Kenya: Auditors Summoned Over Book 'Cooking' (9 Dec 2015)
Taxmen tackle illicit financial flows, tax evasion (9 Dec 2015)
<>China moves closer to IFRS (9 Dec 2015)
Google, Apple and Starbucks would face 'laughable' fines for tax dodging under new rules (7 Dec 2015)
Cadbury owner 'paid no tax in Britain' for last five years (7 Dec 2015)
Cadbury owner paid no UK corporation tax last year (7 Dec 2015)
Toshiba Accounting Scandal Draws Record Fine From Regulators (7 Dec 2015)
Japan securities watchdog recommends record $60 million fine for Toshiba (7 Dec 2015)
Accounting standards are holding banks back (7 Dec 2015)
Bank of England approves capital models for 19 UK insurers (7 Dec 2015)
More useless gestures: Audit quality and transparency key to Audit Firm Governance Code’s provisions (7 Dec 2015)
Serco profit warning sends shares crashing (7 Dec 2015)
How they protect their Patch with lies and misinformation: Accountants warn new red tape cuts bring risk of fraud (7 Dec 2015)
Westpac accounting tip of the iceberg, experts say (7 Dec 2015)
Vatican appoints PricewaterhouseCoopers to audit accounts (7 Dec 2015)
Pursuing transparency, Vatican orders external audit of assets (7 Dec 2015)
FRC tells IFRS trustees to get a grip (7 Dec 2015)
E&Y becomes first Israeli accounting firm to unionize (7 Dec 2015)
Basel to Propose New Leverage Ratio Accounting for Cleared Derivatives (7 Dec 2015)
Mandating CSR spends akin to taxation: Ratan Tata (7 Dec 2015)
Surge in companies set up to dodge George Osborne's tax rise on buy-to-lets (7 Dec 2015)
French parliament approves public country-by-country-reporting (4 Dec 2015)
France backs country-by-country corporate tax reporting from 2016 (4 Dec 2015)
Now the Financial Reporting Council is realising tax is a risk that needs to be reported (4 Dec 2015)
Grant Thornton Put Auditor's Career Above Investor Interests (4 Dec 2015)
SEC slams Grant Thornton audit failures (4 Dec 2015)
LAPFF publishes ‘Sorry, Wrong Number’ on accounting standards (4 Dec 2015)
‘Sorry, Wrong Number’; Regulatory catastrophe in UK accounting oversight (4 Dec 2015)
State aid: European Commission opens formal investigation into Luxembourg's tax treatment of McDonald's (4 Dec 2015)
Households forced to plug corporate tax gap, says OECD (4 Dec 2015)
Individuals are shouldering more of the tax burden as companies find ways to pay less (4 Dec 2015)
Tax systems: A channel for corruption – or a way to fight it? (4 Dec 2015)
Exxon and Chevron keep U.S. tax payments secret, undermine government transparency push (4 Dec 2015)
Accountant convicted of evading more than £6m in tax (4 Dec 2015)
High profile accountant convicted of £6m tax evasion (4 Dec 2015)
Forming an Opinion on Financial Statements: Part 3 (4 Dec 2015)
Barclays to lose £200m on Italian retail bank sale (4 Dec 2015)
Tell Another One: Extended auditor reports restoring trust in audit in post-HBOS world (4 Dec 2015)
Grant Thornton Ignored Red Flags in Audits - pays $4.5 million penalty (3 Dec 2015)
Audit firm Grant Thornton settles SEC charges over audits (3 Dec 2015)
Grant Thornton seeks order over confidential information (3 Dec 2015)
FRC: UK pension funds urge firms to disregard certain regulator guidance (3 Dec 2015)
Sage punters puzzled by accounting change (3 Dec 2015)
UK Revenue chalks up win in £54m Ladbrokes case (3 Dec 2015)
Court rules against Ladbrokes over £54m corporation tax avoidance scheme (3 Dec 2015)
UK Tax Tribunal Judgement - Another Deloitte tax scheme : Travel Document Service & Anor v Revenue & Customs (INCOME TAX/CORPORATION TAX : Anti-avoidance) [2015] UKFTT 582 (TC) (19 November 2015) (3 Dec 2015)
PwC expands into legal market (3 Dec 2015)
Disgruntled investors attack FRC (3 Dec 2015)
SEC Charges Bitcoin Mining Companies (3 Dec 2015)
The need for Tax Reporting Standards (2 Dec 2015)
Yacht maker Fairline goes into administration with 450 jobs at risk (2 Dec 2015)
Denbighshire council pays £17m to get out of PFI contract (2 Dec 2015)
British banks brace for another £40bn bill for wrongdoing (2 Dec 2015)
McDonald's to be investigated over suspected sweetheart tax arrangements (2 Dec 2015)
Pfizer Merger Shows Need for U.S. Tax Changes, Lawmaker Says (2 Dec 2015)
SPFL sponsor Ladbrokes loses £54million in tax avoidance case (2 Dec 2015)
KPMG appoints London legal firm as part of tax four probe (1 Dec 2015)
British American Tobacco accused of bribing government officials (1 Dec 2015)
The secret bribes of big tobacco paper trail (1 Dec 2015)
FRC calls for transparent disclosure of tax risks in corporate reports (1 Dec 2015)
BDO seek to appeal Rangers tax case decision over use of EBTs (1 Dec 2015)
The Snowden Of Swiss Bank Accounts Is Sentenced To Prison While White Collar Criminals Go Free (1 Dec 2015)
Chinese Accounting Standards And IFRS (1 Dec 2015)
EU Investigation into tax avoidance continues (1 Dec 2015)
EU committee to vote on plans to curb tax avoidance (1 Dec 2015)
Germany Investigating Volkswagen Employees For Emissions Scandal Related Tax Evasion (1 Dec 2015)

NOVEMBER 2015

Dear Prime Minister: letter to David Cameron - Don't Bomb Syria (30 Nov 2015)
The fight for country-by-country reporting is under way and has to be won (30 Nov 2015)
American big business faces the G20 in a fight for $2.1tn in unpaid tax (30 Nov 2015)
Demand overseas territories crack down on tax dodging shell firms, PM told (30 Nov 2015)
Accounting body IASB sees EU approval for bank loans provisioning rule soon (30 Nov 2015)
The secret bribes of big tobacco (30 Nov 2015)
SFO agrees first UK Deferred Prosecution Agreement ( DPA) with Standard Bank (30 Nov 2015)
Uptick in mergers sees number of accountancy firms fall (30 Nov 2015)
Leasing tax changes will affect fleet account books (30 Nov 2015)
Tax avoidance is the corporate American way. So spare us the Pfizer hypocrisy (30 Nov 2015)
Deutsche Bank created complex tax avoidance strategies (30 Nov 2015)
Banks braced for verdict on tougher stress tests tonight (30 Nov 2015)
Incoming Barclays boss needs to ensure the gung-ho era is past (30 Nov 2015)
George Osborne under fire after ending tax relief for small firms (30 Nov 2015)
The Autumn Statement confirms that we are on a path of never-ending austerity (27 Nov 2015)
KPMG tax evasion probe widens after four partners are held (27 Nov 2015)
Arrested KPMG partners questioned over finance company (27 Nov 2015)
KPMG denies £100m negligence allegation by Heather Capital Limited liquidator (27 Nov 2015)
HSBC whistleblower Herve Falciani sentenced to five years in jail (27 Nov 2015)
Google and PwC to establish joint base in Belfast (27 Nov 2015)
AirAsia's planned accounting change seen boosting transparency (27 Nov 2015)
ICBC Standard Bank agrees deferred prosecution settlement with SFO (27 Nov 2015)
Barclays Fined for Anti-Money-Laundering Control Failings (27 Nov 2015)
Raphaels fined £1.3m for improper controls (27 Nov 2015)
Four top KPMG accountants arrested over alleged tax fraud (26 Nov 2015)
Four KPMG partners in Belfast put on leave as HMRC begin investigation (26 Nov 2015)
Tesco agrees $12m payout to US shareholders over accounting scandal (26 Nov 2015)
Toshiba's third-party accounts probe comes under fire from lawyer group (26 Nov 2015)
Barclays fined £72m by FCA for poor checks on wealthy clients (26 Nov 2015)
Brazil corruption probe widens; Senate leader, BTG Pactual CEO arrested (26 Nov 2015)
Deutsche Bank unit to pay $31 million, avoid US charges on aiding tax evasion (26 Nov 2015)
FRC has called on the IASB to reconsider its proposed Conceptual Framework (26 Nov 2015)
China seeks to deepen ties with global accounting rules (26 Nov 2015)
India Government to set up new agency to probe corporate accounting frauds (26 Nov 2015)
Accounting Error Is Latest Problem at Fifth Street (26 Nov 2015)
Big banks accused of interest rate-swap fixing in US class action suit (26 Nov 2015)
India tops in corporate responsibility reporting (26 Nov 2015)
Ernst & Young Merges in NorthPoint Digital (26 Nov 2015)
The Biggest Concerns Of Small Accounting Firms (26 Nov 2015)
Accountants caused the current economic crisis, Charles T. Munger, the Vice-Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Corporation (25 Nov 2015)
The secret stock market accounting trick (25 Nov 2015)
HBOS and KPMG tensions exposed by report (24 Nov 2015)
Pfizer's $155bn takeover of Allergan set to prompt tax row (24 Nov 2015)
5 global drugmakers pay the lowest taxes (24 Nov 2015)
Corruption rife among accountants, says survey of profession (24 Nov 2015)
Unethical practices rife among accountants (24 Nov 2015)
To Whom Does “Related Parties” Refer In Auditing Standard No. 18? (24 Nov 2015)
Europe's banks still weighed down by €1 trillion of bad debts (24 Nov 2015)
Questionable benefits for mid-tier firms under EU audit rules (24 Nov 2015)
BIS consults on simplified LLP accounting regime (24 Nov 2015)
UK's biggest care home provider Four Seasons shuts loss-making homes (24 Nov 2015)
CPA Pleads Guilty in Accounting Fraud Scheme (24 Nov 2015)
HBOS report does little to tackle systemic problems (23 Nov 2015)
Among those to escape lightly from HBOS report are advisers, including KPMG, which failed to sound disaster warning (23 Nov 2015)
HBOS reports don't go far enough, says Lloyds shareholder group (23 Nov 2015)
Clash of the Bentley brands: Car group launches legal battle against menswear firm over the use of its name (23 Nov 2015)
Welbeck Solutions: Whistleblower exposes secretive city firm at the heart of vast tax avoidance operation (23 Nov 2015)
UK failing to stop the flow of dirty cash - Anti-money laundering controls in the UK not fit for purpose (23 Nov 2015)
Don't Look, Won't Find: Weaknesses in the supervision of the UK’s anti-money laundering rules (23 Nov 2015)
Only concerned with their short-term gains: HSBC shareholder Standard Life would back moving HQ (23 Nov 2015)
In his clumsy way, Guy Hands has revealed a dark truth about private equity (23 Nov 2015)
UN Principles for Responsible Investment engagement guidance: Engagement guidance on corporate tax responsibility (23 Nov 2015)
What's Worse Than the SEC's Revolving Door? (23 Nov 2015)
Inside the Money Laundering Scheme That Citi Overlooked for Years (23 Nov 2015)
Pfizer gets tax boost in record-breaking $160bn Allergan deal (23 Nov 2015)
Pfizer and Allergan poised to announce history's biggest healthcare merger (23 Nov 2015)
The Norwegian shareholder registry is now open for all (20 Nov 2015)
Why we need public country by country reporting (20 Nov 2015)
HBOS collapse: Pressure grows for fresh inquiry into auditor KPMG's role (20 Nov 2015)
MP calls for renewed investigation into KPMG's role in HBOS collapse (20 Nov 2015)
FRC reprimands ICAI member (20 Nov 2015)
PwC Poised To Acquire Hong Kong Agency Fluid (20 Nov 2015)
Audit - too narrow a tool for effective financial oversight of Kids Company (20 Nov 2015)
Pfizer Heads for Fight With US on Tax-Saving Allergan Deal (20 Nov 2015)
US Treasury and IRS Propose Rules to Curb Corporate Relocations for Tax Reasons (20 Nov 2015)
ICAEW challenges IASB over conceptual framework proposals (20 Nov 2015)
CompaniesVolkswagen cuts 2016 investment budget to €12bn (20 Nov 2015)
Auditors missed 'fundamental risk' in Kids Company business model, says MP Bernard Jenkin (19 Nov 2015)
Big Four audit quality can differ widely — even at the same firm (19 Nov 2015)
Bank trading reform would lift capital needs by up to ninefold (19 Nov 2015)
EY's US outfit liable for huge fine over Madoff Ponzi audit (19 Nov 2015)
FRC statement following PRA/FCA review of HBOS (19 Nov 2015)
HBOS: Banking and the failure of policing (19 Nov 2015)
HBOS collapse: report recommends formal investigation into executives (19 Nov 2015)
HBOS report: a damning indictment of failed bankers and regulators (19 Nov 2015)
Up to 10 former HBOS executives could be banned over collapse, damning report (19 Nov 2015)
The report said that the role of KPMG — HBOS's auditor — falls within the remit of the Financial Reporting Council, a body that has already concluded that the auditor will not be investigated (19 Nov 2015)
The demise of HBOS: how it happened (19 Nov 2015)
Politicians lambast audit firms (PwC, PKF Littlejohn and Kingston Smith) over Kids Company collapse (19 Nov 2015)
FCA warns it could force investment managers to provide value for money (19 Nov 2015)
Outcome of disciplinary case against Philip Black in connection with Presbyterian Mutual Society (19 Nov 2015)
HBoS whistleblower lambasts KPMG (18 Nov 2015)
Japan's Lixil to Cut Executives' Pay Amid China Accounting Problems (18 Nov 2015)
Moore Stephens wins restraint of trade injunction after accounting firm deal (18 Nov 2015)
NYDFS ANNOUNCES BARCLAYS TO PAY ADDITIONAL $150 MILLION PENALTY, TERMINATE EMPLOYEE FOR AUTOMATED, ELECTRONIC FOREIGN EXCHANGE TRADING MISCONDUCT (18 Nov 2015)
SEC Charges Pump-and-Dump in Marley Coffee Stock (18 Nov 2015)
Billionaire investor opposes £2bn Ladbrokes merger with Coral (18 Nov 2015)
Transfer pricing: Shifting profits from hard-to-value intangibles (18 Nov 2015)
Flintshire accountant's £48000 tax swindle (18 Nov 2015)
UK Gender pay gap almost unchanged, says ONS (18 Nov 2015)
Revenue Recognition Accounting Changes Could Have Long Tentacles (17 Nov 2015)
Almost half of FTSE 350 companies pay less than 20% corporation tax (17 Nov 2015)
Top SEC Accountant Urges Supplemental Use of Global Rules for US Companies (17 Nov 2015)
Vale and BHP to pay $260m more for Brazilian dam burst (17 Nov 2015)
SEC Chief Accountant: Auditors Need to Keep Improving (17 Nov 2015)
Proposals would deter auditors from warning boards of deleted disclosures (17 Nov 2015)
Insolvency: Redcar owner loses £530m on steel plant liquidation (17 Nov 2015)
Ernst & Young Loses Trial for Not Vetting Madoff-Tied Audits (16 Nov 2015)
Jury Says Ernst & Young Liable for Madoff Investor's Losses (16 Nov 2015)
Alstom Sentenced to Pay $772 Million Criminal Fine to Resolve Foreign Bribery Charges (16 Nov 2016)
Insight - How Pfizer has shifted US profits overseas for years (16 Nov 2015)
HBOS Bosses 'Leant On Auditors', Probe To Say (16 Nov 2015)
Whistleblower at HBOS attacks 'ludicrously bad' City regulation (16 Nov 2015)
HBoS saga continues as chiefs facing criticism can't be fined because report on failings took too long to complete (16 Nov 2015)
Iceland has jailed 26 bankers, why won't we? (16 Nov 2015)
HMRC grows Affluent Unit in tax avoidance crackdown (16 Nov 2015)
PCAOB Faults KPMG in Latest Inspection Report (13 Nov 2015)
Accounting standards are holding banks back (13 Nov 2015)
Wells Fargo's Tax-Credit Scheme Ruled a Sham - Designed by KPMG and Barclays (13 Nov 2015)
US Justice Department Announces Banque Internationale à Luxembourg (Suisse) SA (BIL Switzerland) and Zuger Kantonalbank (ZGKB) Reach Resolutions Under Swiss Bank Program (13 Nov 2015)
FASB VOTES TO PROCEED WITH FINAL STANDARD ON LEASES (13 Nov 2015)
FASB VOTES TO PROCEED WITH FINAL STANDARD ON RECOGNITION AND MEASUREMENT OF FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS (13 Nov 2015)
Barclays to pay $120 million in US Libor litigation - lawyers (13 Nov 2015)
Rolls-Royce's troubles run deep – it's odd no one spotted them sooner (13 Nov 2015)
City Link directors acquitted over firm's 2014 collapse (13 Nov 2015)
ACCA's Lousy Pass Rates - students continue to be milked (13 Nov 2015)
Report into HBOS's £40bn collapse to be published after years of delays (13 Nov 2015)
New Colonialism: ICAEW and BICA Sign Reciprocal Membership Agreement (13 Nov 2015)
Revolving Doors: Ex-PwC managing partner lined up as Interserve chair (13 Nov 2015)
UK House of Commons Early day motion - ACCA VOTING PROCEDURES (13 Nov 2015)
Lease-Accounting Overhaul Gets Green Light, Could Swell Balance Sheets by $2 Trillion (12 Nov 2015)
France backs country-by-country corporate tax reporting from 2016 (12 Nov 2015)
Clawbacks Trigger Disputes Between CFOs and Auditors (12 Nov 2015)
Collapse of Olympus fraud case fuels calls for UK law reforms (12 Nov 2015)
Olympus Scandal: A company misleading its auditors is not committing a crime (12 Nov 2015)
Leverage, Goodwill and Forex Are 'Eating' US Firms, Goldman Says (12 Nov 2015)
Turf Wars: Accountants are eating away at mid-tier law firms and will tareget the big boys next (12 Nov 2015)
Toshiba lawsuit highlights Japan governance reform still lacking - lawyers (12 Nov 2015)
Telenor suspends CFO amid VimpelCom corruption probe (12 Nov 2015)
US Audit Regulator Finds 28 Deficient Audits By KPMG in Annual Report (11 Nov 2015)
PCAOB Faults KPMG in Latest Inspection Report (11 Nov 2015)
FASB Vote on Lease Accounting Overhaul Is Imminent (11 Nov 2015)
Coming to a Balance Sheet Near You: $2 Trillion in Leases (11 Nov 2015)
Bank of England's Carney: Markets 'tainted' by misconduct (11 Nov 2015)
Choosing the right FRS: accounting for government grants (11 Nov 2015)
Facebook, McDonald's and Amazon Among 11 Companies to Face EU Tax Grilling (11 Nov 2015)
More Details Emerge on US External Auditor Oversight (11 Nov 2015)
Serious Fraud Office drops charges against camera-maker Olympus (10 Nov 2015)
US Supreme Court Overturns MF Global Ruling, Exonerating PricewaterhouseCoopers (10 Nov 2015)
Too big to fail banks need to raise €460bn in capital (10 Nov 2015)
US banks said to hold $10tn of 'risky' trades (10 Nov 2015)
Turf Wars: Legal market expert predicts that Big Four accountancy giants will challenge top law firms (10 Nov 2015)
Accountant jailed for fleecing Leeds firm out of almost £100000 (10 Nov 2015)
Power and the diffusion of management ideas: The case of McKinsey & Co (10 Nov 2015)
Toshiba Sues Five Former Executives Over Accounting Scandal (9 Nov 2015)
Toshiba Shares Fall After Loss, Lawsuits (9 Nov 2015)
Lonmin joins the list of corporate catastrophes (9 Nov 2015)
Harlequin SFO probe sees evidence from troubled firm's former accountants (9 Oct 2015)
Nigeria Court Restrains FRCN from Sanctioning KPMG over Stanbic IBTC Report (9 Nov 2015)
The $7 Billion Accounting Gain Behind Berkshire Hathaway's Record Quarter (9 Nov 2015)
New local audit regulatory powers for ICAEW (9 Nov 2015)
Executive Pay: Britain's largest firms failing to disclose bonus criteria (9 Nov 2015)
Shareholders and boards at odds over bosses pay (9 Nov 2015)
Fat cats: Average CEO of Eurotop 100 company earns 5.5 million (9 Nov 2015)
Arriva may face SFO fraud inquiry over NHS deal (9 Nov 2015)
Changing Hiring Patterns of Accounting Firms (9 Nov 2015)
Facebook user wins defamation case against a Perth accountant (9 Nov 2015)
Kraft Heinz losses widen after merger (6 Nov 2015)
Ofcom to investigate Royal Mail's compliance with USP accounting and auditing requirements (6 Nov 2015)
British bankers convicted in New York Libor trial (6 Nov 2015)
Internal auditors turn focus to organisational culture (6 Nov 2015)
Fannie Mae: An Accounting Mess – Bove (6 Nov 2015)
The Top Accounting Firms of the World's Biggest Corporations (6 Nov 2015)
Europe to stress-test its banks again, but none can fail (6 Nov 2015)
StanChart rights issue terms are a tax on shareholders (6 Nov 2015)
Toshiba braces for massive losses following accounting scandal (5 Nov 2015)
The Accounting Technique Valeant Used to Help It Buy Company After Company (5 Nov 2015)
Gerasimos Bonanos: Globo's last executive throws in the towel (5 Nov 2015)
Court puts mobile technology company Globo under administration (5 Nov 2015)
GLOBO Plc Enters Administration: Was It A Fraud All Along? (5 Nov 2015)
Turf Wars: EY launches UK legal trainee scheme (5 Nov 2015)
Takeover Panel delivers public wrist-slap to Bumi advisers (5 Nov 2015)
ACCA public sector head moves to new CIPFA role (5 Nov 2015)
ACCA: The government’s double standards on trade unions look like class war (4 Nov 2015)
Venture Fund Sues PricewaterhouseCoopers for Alleged Audit Deficiencies (4 Nov 2015)
HMRC must report full scale of tax avoidance - MPs (4 Nov 2015)
HMRC: U.K. Offshore Tax Enforcement `Woefully Inadequate,' Panel Says (4 Nov 2015)
1000s 'are stuck on wrong tax rate because HMRC doesn't answer phones' (4 Nov 2015)
Millions could have filled out tax returns wrong due to HMRC phone failures (4 Nov 2015)
FRC proposes limited scope improvements to FRS 102 (4 Nov 2015)
RBS denies allegations it manipulated swaps compensation review (4 Nov 2015)
US Fed mulling higher capital cushion for banks handling commodities (4 Nov 2015)
VimpelCom Sets Aside $900 Million Amid Bribery Investigation (4 Nov 2015)
10 Former SNS Reaal bankers face prosecution for bribery and fraud (4 Nov 2015)
Britain's biggest care home provider Four Seasons will run out of cash next year, warns credit rating agency (4 Nov 2015)
Vatican inspectors suspect key office was used for money laundering (4 Nov 2015)
ACCA Voting Procedures Condemennd in the UK House of Commons (3 Nov 2015)
SEC Charges Private Equity Firm Fenway Partners LLC and Four Executives With Failing to Disclose Conflicts of Interest (3 Nov 2015)
FTSE 100 Auditors Survey 2015 (3 Nov 2015)
Tilley: CIMA focus will remain despite new global association (3 Nov 2015)
SEC Audit Proposal Not a Hit in Many Boardrooms (3 Nov 2015)
Barclays in $94 million Euribor accord, other banks may follow (3 Nov 2015)
Revolving Doors: Former reviewer of anti-terror laws co-owns firm with ex-MI6 chief (3 Nov 2015)
EU's plan gives opportunity to restore audit confidence (3 Nov 2015)
JPMorgan to Pay California $50 Million for Credit-Card Abuse (3 Nov 2015)
Grant Thornton settles lawsuit for $4.4 million (2 Nov 2015)
Parmalat settles dispute with Grant Thornton (2 Nov 2015)
Clever accounting means wrongdoing can offer tax benefits (2 Nov 2015)
Scandal-hit Globo teetering on brink after its main lender Barclays warns that company is in default on loan agreements (2 Nov 2015)
Tech firm Globo receives letter of default from creditor (2 Nov 2015)
Thomas Cook 'puts profit above customer safety', report finds (2 Nov 2015)
Foreign banks use US repo deals to 'window-dress' risk (2 Nov 2015)
Valeant: Why Enron-era accounting never really died with Enron (2 Nov 2015)
Largest US banks face $120 billion shortfall under new rule (2 Nov 2015)
JPMorgan to pay Parmalat 43 mln euros to settle dispute (2 Nov 2015)
Insolvency: Controversial pre-pack reforms begin (2 Nov 2015)
Differences Between Positive and Normative Accounting (2 Nov 2015)
Revolving Doors: FRC’s executive director appointed to IFRS Advisory Council (2 Nov 2015)
Kohlberg Kravis Posts Big Loss as Private Equity Struggles (2 Nov 2015)
The Satyam accounting scandal: Elaborate crafting of fraud (2 Nov 2015)

OCTOBER 2015

Starbucks and Fiat’s tax deals upended in new approach to tackling avoidance (30 Oct 2015)
Google paid €28.6m corporation tax on revenues of €18.3bn in 2014 (30 Oct 2015)
Google pays €28m in Irish tax (30 Oct 2015)
PwC acquires technology start-up Kusiri (30 Oct 2015)
PwC buys former RBS tech innovator's security start-up (30 Oct 2015)
EY welcomes ‘10 plus 10 regime' as BIS publishes EU ADR consultation (30 Oct 2015)
Pfizer CEO Says US Tax Regime Pushing Him to Seek Alternative (30 Oct 2015)
EY and LinkedIn announce deal (30 Oct 2015)
UK paying millions in aid money to fund overseas tax havens (30 Oct 2015)
Globo story highlights role of incentives (30 Oct 2015)
Starbucks sales set to break $20bn – a latte for everyone on Earth (30 Oct 2015)
Pharmacy's Sales Tactics Disclosed: Mail-order company used by Valeant gave staffers instructions for boosting payments (29 Oct 2015)
Barclays third-quarter profit falls after settlements (29 Oct 2015)
Fat cats: Jes Staley to earn as much as £8.25m a year as Barclays boss (29 Oct 2015)
UK government update on the implementation of the EU Audit Directive and Regulation (29 Oct 2015)
Auditors to be hit with increased FRC levy demands as government funding ends (29 Oct 2015)
Accounting standards are highly political:Comments on the Proposed Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting by Prof Martin Walker (29 Oct 2015)
IASB publishes draft guidance to help management apply the concept of materiality (29 Oct 2015)
International Accounting Regulator Offers New Guidance on Materiality (29 Oct 2015)
FRC raises concerns about how boards assess materiality (29 Oct 2015)
Shell posts $7.1bn loss as crashing oil price and writedowns sink profits (29 Oct 2015)
GAAP Guidelines for Contingent Liabilities (29 Oct 2015)
IBM being investigated over Irish, UK and US accounting by SEC (28 Oct 2015)
Valeant: Not Accounting Fraud, But The Business Model Is Dead (28 Oct 2015)
Lloyds Bank PPI mis-selling charges total £14 billion (28 Oct 2015)
Volkswagen pushed into loss by emissions scandal (28 Oct 2015)
Inside the Secretive World of Tax-Avoidance Experts (28 Oct 2015)
Londonderry accountant James Joesph Heaney jailed for £70k fraud (28 Oct 2015)
Lloyds profits jump despite £500m rise in PPI costs (28 Oct 2015)
Serious Fraud Office investigating 'money-laundering' related to Fifa (28 Oct 2015)
Walgreens Boots Alliance to create drug giant with $17bn deal (28 Oct 2015)
IBM (audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers) Says the SEC Is Investigating Accounting for Revenue Recognition (27 Oct 2015)
Globo sails too close to the wind (27 Oct 2015)
Globo Plc's CEO and CFO quit after disclosing 'irregularities' (27 Oct 2015)
Valeant accounting scandal: 4 critical questions that have been left unanswered (27 Oct 2015)
Marvell Stock Plummets After Accounting Firm PwC Resigns (27 Oct 2015)
Marvell's stock rocked as accounting fears grow (27 Oct 2015)
Fairer corporate taxes: EU Special Committee on Tax Rulings votes recommendations (27 Oct 2015)
Ed Bramson leaks private mail in board battle with Electra (27 Oct 2015)
Four more investment institutions sign up to help IASB (27 Oct 2015)
Corruption and natural resources – A fight for light: NGOs and governments grapple over ownership of mining and energy firms (27 Oct 2015)
Michael Meacher: a loss felt by the reviving, regenerating Labour Party (26 Oct 2015)
Globo Plc's CEO and CFO quit after disclosing 'irregularities' (26 Oct 2015)
Globo (audited by Grant Thornton) in chaos as CEO quits and confirms false accounting (26 Oct 2015)
Globo Plc 2014 Annual Accounts (26 Oct 2015)
Padarn Buses: Ex-employee admits false accounting (26 Oct 2015)
Social Closure: ICAEW launches advertising campaign (26 Oct 2015)
Toshiba to sue former top brass over role in accounting scandal (26 Oct 2015)
Valeant CEO Staunchly Defends Drugmaker's Accounting, Ethics (26 Oct 2015)
Valeant Forms Board Committee to Review Philidor Arrangement (26 Oct 2015)
UK investors could start forex lawsuits after banking trio settle for $1bn in US (26 Oct 2015)
Audits give little to investors (26 Oct 2015)
Mexico Regulator Seeks to Penalize OHL Unit for Accounting (26 Oct 2015)
TalkTalk shares fall another 7% after cyber-attack (26 Oct 2015)
Gender pay gap: UK firms forced to reveal bonuses (26 Oct 2015)
Challenger bank Virgin Money replaces KPMG with PwC as auditors for 2016 (26 Oct 2015)
Audit Risks to Look Out For (26 Oct 2015)
Valeant's accounting problems: It gets worse (23 Oct 2015)
HSBC, Barclays and RBS in $1.2bn settlement over currency-rigging lawsuit (23 Oct 2015)
£34BILLION in UK tax went uncollected for the second year as evasion rose by 7% (23 Oct 2015)
William Hill issues profit warning as tough gambling taxes begin to bite (23 Oct 2015)
Inside PwC's $750 million ad agency (23 Oct 2015)
Four Seasons launches emergency review of finances (23 Oct 2015)
Valeant's Pharma Formula: Deals, Drugs and Lots of Questions (22 Oct 2015)
Valeant dismisses 'erroneous' report on revenue recognition (22 Oct 2015)
Ex-Countryside police chief in prison loses six-figure pension (22 Oct 2015)
Debenhams chief Michael Sharp quits after shareholder pressure (22 Oct 2015)
The European Commission attempts to outlaw sweetheart tax deals (22 Oct 2015)
Gender pay gap reporting: is it anything more than a policy gimmick? (22 Oct 2015)
Insurers haggling over Solvency II rules weeks before deadline (22 Oct 2015)
After Blow to Europe Tax Havens, Some Promise More Staying Power (22 Oct 2015)
FRC publishes Corporate Reporting Review Annual Report (22 Oct 2015)
Revolving Doors: African Potash strengthens board with Ernst & Young senior partner (22 Oct 2015)
David Copperfield sues accountant (22 Oct 2015)
Grant Thornton delivers £521m UK fee income (22 Oct 2015)
Insolvency: KPMG appointed administrator of Ultrasis UK Ltd (22 Oct 2015)
Valeant Plummets on Allegation of Enron-Like Accounting (21 Oct 2015)
New global lease accounting rules likely to commence from 2019 (21 Oct 205)
PCAOB Report Encourages Auditors to Take Action in Response to Risk Assessment Deficiencies Identified in Inspections (21 Oct 2015)
Starbucks and Fiat sweetheart tax deals with EU nations ruled unlawful (21 Oct 2015)
EU Commission decides selective tax advantages for Fiat in Luxembourg and Starbucks in the Netherlands are illegal under EU state aid rules (21 Oct 2015)
Barclays bid for investment bank to own retail arm could flout ringfencing rules (21 Oct 2015)
Whistleblower letter backs Lloyds investor claims over HBOS purchase - lawyers (21 Oct 2015)
Lloyds shareholders resume claim for £6bn of HBOS losses (21 Oct 2015)
Barclays joins list of banks seeking ringfencing waiver (21 Oct 2015)
Number of Accountants Grew Worldwide Post-Crisis (20 Oct 2015)
IFAC Report: The Accountancy Profession, Behind the Numbers (20 Oct 2015)
Number of professional accountancy organisations membership currently stands at 2.8m (20 Oct 2015)
Uber London Ltd under fire for paying no corporation tax on profits made in 2014 (20 Oct 2015)
Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank Admits to Sanctions Violations, Agrees to Forfeit $312 Million (20 Oct 2015)
Insolvency: PwC called in as Caparo steel enters administration (20 Oct 2015)
Former Swisher Hygiene execs charged in accounting-fraud scheme (20 Oct 2015)
Two UBS Advisory Firms Settle Charges Arising From Failure to Disclose Change in Investment Strategy (20 Oct 2015)
Carney: regulation tweaks may be needed to preserve bank financial stability (20 Oct 2015)
Starbucks and Fiat Chrysler's tax avoidance deals to be ruled illegal (20 Oct 2015)
Companies must wake up: diversity in the workplace is sound business sense (20 Oct 2015)
Two Former Swisher Hygiene Inc. Executives Indicted on Securities Fraud and Obstruction of Justice Charges (20 Oct 2015)
Deloitte to be investigated over Bloxham's collapse (19 Oct 2015)
Volkswagen faces €40bn lawsuit from investors (19 Oct 2015)
Three FTSE 100 giants forced to seek new auditors (29 Oct 2015)
True and fair remains at heart of battle over bank accounting rules (19 Oct 2015)
Insurance claims processor Quindell spends £11m in bid to bolster its own share price (19 Oct 2015)
LAPFF claims IFRS 9 adviser misapplied EU law (19 Oct 2015)
Grafton drops KPMG after 22 years as auditor, appoints PwC (19 Oct 2015)
PwC and Cattles settle long running legal spat (19 Oct 2015)
Reminder: Auditors Can't Check Their Own Work (19 Oct 2015)
Wal-Mart Bribery Probe Finds Few Signs of Major Misconduct in Mexico (19 Oct 2015)
Wal-Mart paid millions of dollars in bribes in India (19 Oct 2015)
Ray Ball given honorary ICAEW membership (19 Oct 2015)
Deutsche Bank divides investment arm in two as part of overhaul (19 Oct 2015)
Accounting for Investments: Cost or Equity Method (19 Oct 2015)
Could the UK's professional firms be leaving us exposed to money laundering? (16 Oct 2015)
PwC settles Cattles lawsuit (16 Oct 2015)
PwC and Cattles settle £1.6bn auditors' negligence claim (16 Oct 2015)
McDonald's error leads to £130m in overstated UK revenues (1`6 Oct 2015)
UBS to Pay $19.5 Million Settlement Involving Notes Linked to Currency Index accounting fraud (16 Oct 2015)
UK banks could be forced to hold £3.3bn under ringfencing plans (16 Oct 2015)
Attacks on IFRS 9 are getting serious now (16 Oct 2015)
FRC responds to HMRC consultation - Improving Large Business Tax Compliance (16 Oct 2015)
Gender equality: Women less likely to get bonuses than men, study shows (16 Oct 2015)
PCAOB Warns of Deficiencies in Audit Firms' Risk Assessment (16 Oct 2015)
The hidden truth of banks enabling corruption and the devastating human cost (15 Oct 2015)
Tesco sells mothballed supermarket sites for £250m (15 Oct 2015)
PwC settles lawsuit with subprime lender Cattles (15 Oct 2015)
MF Global Lawyers Want To Get Paid (15 Oct 2015)
FRC proposes new guidance to enhance reporting on risks and the going concern basis of accounting (15 Oct 2015)
ED: Guidance on the Going Concern Basis of Accounting and Reporting on Solvency and Liquidity Risks (15 Oct 2015)
Revolving Doors: Former Treasury minister Hoban joins PwC (15 Oct 2015)
Soma Oil & Gas lobbies UK for help in Somalia despite Serious Fraud Office inquiry (15 Oct 2015)
Starbucks, Fiat Decisions Expected in First Wave of EU Tax Cases (15 Oct 2015)
Buck will stop at the top, right across financial sector (15 Oct 2015)
Good corporate governance can improve a company's bottom line (15 Oct 2015)
Ernst & Young Confronts Madoff's Specter in Trial Over Audits (14 Oct 2015)
Three City Link directors to face criminal charges over firm's collapse (14 Oct 2015)
Accounting restatements spur misreporting by other companies, study finds (14 Oct 2015)
USC administrator charged with Dave Forsey over job losses (14 Oct 2015)
MetLife Stock Falls on News of Accounting Error (14 Oct 2015)
Lawyers Seek $42 Million Payday in MF Global Litigation (14 Oct 2015)
Grafton Group ends 22-year audit relationship with KMPG (14 Oct 2015)
Revolving Doors: FRC Codes & Standards Committee and Council Appointments (14 Oct 2015)
Banks Face Ring-Fencing Capital Bombshell (14 Oct 2015)
Ex-Auditor Sues Bank of Internet (14 Oct 2015)
What’s wrong with Facebook UK’s accounts and what reforms are now needed? (13 Oct 2015)
Madoff victims bring auditor to trial (13 Oct 2015)
Bernie Madoff investors seek $100M from Ernst & Young (13 Oct 2015)
SEC Readies Clawback Rules for Punishing Bad Accounting (13 Oct 2015)
FRC launches probe into PwC and FD over Connaught accounts (13 Oct 2015)
Sophos rebounds after accounting defence (13 Oct 2015)
Audit Fees for US Public Companies Up 3.4% (13 Oct 2015)
AstraZeneca funnels billions into Dutch tax-avoidance scheme (13 Oct 2015)
Now the Tories are allowing big business to design their own tax loopholes (13 Oct 2015)
Pfizer's CEO Faces The Drug Pricing Firestorm (13 Oct 2015)
Tableau forms alliance with consulting giant Deloitte (13 Oct 2015)
US funds sue Tesco over its profits scandal as grocery giant's earnings collapse (12 Oct 2015)
Facebook paid only £4327 in UK tax last year – less than the average worker (12 Oct 2015)
Supply Chain Corruption: Procurement's Dirty Secret (12 Oct 2015)
Ex-Arrow Trucking CEO sentenced for fraud, tax evasion (12 Oct 2015)
Formal Complaints against Mr Stephen Harrison and PwC, and Mr Stephen Hill and David Wells relating to Connaught plc (12 Oct 2015)
These are the top employers of UK university graduates (12 Oct 2015)
The Graduate Market in 2015: Accountancy Sector comes top (12 Oct 2015)
Tax transparency: Keeping the public in the dark? (12 Oct 2015)
Inequality is the great concern of our age. So why do we tolerate rapacious, unjust tax havens? (12 Oct 2015)
VMware: A History Of Accounting Gimmicks (12 Oct 2015)
Latest draft of the EU Shareholder Rights Directive (12 Oct 2015)
UK Government planning £7bn assault on 'gold plated' final salary pension schemes (12 Oct 2015)
Sports Direct chief executive charged with criminal offence over collapse of USC (9 Oct 2015)
CRA 'special adviser' joined industry lobby group amid probe of KPMG (9 Oct 2015)
Bank of England warns financial institutions over commodities exposure (9 Oct 2015)
FRC and the Charity Commission consult on conventions for electronic tagging of charity accounts (9 Oct 2015)
Banks are 'locked in' to Glencore's $100 billion debt mountain (9 Oct 2015)
Advocacy groups want SEC chair out of vote for auditor watchdog (9 Oct 2015)
Why do governments allow Apple to use transfer pricing to tax havens to evade billions in taxes? (9 Oct 2015)
India: Vodafone wins transfer pricing battle against IT department (9 Oct 2015)
1MDB should be prosecuted, says Malaysia Central Bank (9 Oct 2015)
OECD corporate tax proposals fall flat (8 Oct 2015)
OECD's new tax proposals won't stop companies shifting profits to tax havens (8 Oct 2015)
Does virtue bring its own reward for accountancy firms? (8 Oct 2015)
Tangled web: Playing games with Apple's accounting games (8 Oct 2015)
Tax transparency: Keeping the public in the dark? (8 Oct 2015)
Blackstone Charged With Disclosure Failures (8 Oct 2015)
Blackstone in $39 Million SEC Settlement (8 Oct 2015)
Shell employees are worth more than those at Apple or Google, research finds (8 Oct 2015)
Deutsche Bank shocks with warning of €6bn losses (8 Oct 2015)
Fund managers: don't ask us to be transparent over fees (8 Oct 2015)
Booming tax fees push BDO towards £400m mark (8 Oct 2015)
Credit Suisse Drops on Report of Capital Raising Plan (8 Oct 2015)
Tesco profits tumble by more than half (7 Oct 2015)
Tesco in 'secret talks' with fraud office over accounting black hole (7 Oct 2015)
Diesel scandal will wipe out VW for at least two years (7 Oct 2015)
Emissions scandal could cost VW more than $35 billion (7 Oct 2015)
PCAOB Targets 3 Areas in 2015 Audit Inspections (7 Oct 2015)
Lawyers, accountants to cash in on TPP (7 Oct 2015)
EY buys French analytics and big data power (7 Oct 2015)
HMRC's penalty regime for country-by-country reporting encourages non-compliance (6 Oct 2015)
Tesco in 'secret talks' with fraud office over accounting black hole (6 Oct 2015)
SEC Charges Former Executives at OCZ Technology Group Inc With Accounting Fraud and Other Accounting Failures (6 Oct 2015)
BP in $20bn settlement over fatal US oil spillage (6 Oct 2015)
FCA introduces new rules to boost financial whistleblowing (6 Oct 2015)
The five US firms holding the most cash in tax havens (6 Oct 2015)
Report: Fortune 500 reliant on tax havens (6 Oct 2015)
PwC ousts Deloitte as biggest firm in the world (6 Oct 2015)
SEC Charges Home Loan Servicing Solutions for Misstatements and Inadequate Internal Controls (6 Oct 2015)
Bristol-Myers to pay SEC $14m to settle China bribery claim (6 Oct 2015)
Bribery and Corruption: SEC Charges Bristol-Myers Squibb With FCPA Violations (6 Oct 2015)
Sainsbury's questioned by accounting watchdog over income disclosures (audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers; PwC) (5 Oct 2015)
Ausbil sues auditors PwC, Deloitte over $18 million fee breach (5 Oct 2015)
UK could legislate to force tax havens to reveal offshore ownership, says Pickles (5 Oct 2015)
Ashcroft banks at centre of major US tax evasion probe (5 Oct 2015)
Glencore 'will listen to takeover' as it battles to cut debt mountain (5 Oct 2015)
Shareholders: Executive Pay Reform Too Limited (5 Oct 2015)
From slavers to accountants: looters in Africa (5 Oct 2015)
Work/Life Balance Varies for Accountants Worldwide (5 Oct 2015)
Liverpool accountant failed to pass on VAT (5 Oct 2015)
Insolvency: American Apparel files for bankruptcy protection (5 Oct 2015)
Will Deloitte be replaced as 1MDB's auditor, asks Tony Pua (5 Oct 2015)
SEC, Justice Department Investigate Corruption Allegations at Kinross Gold (5 Oct 2015)
Tax Court Decision in Altera Overturns Important Transfer Pricing Regulations (5 Oct 2015)
7 Ways to Prevent an Accounting Malpractice Suit (5 Oct 2015)
Insolvency: Redcar steelworks SSI UK goes into liquidation (5 Oct 2015)
KPMG tax 'sham' used by at least 25 wealthy Canadians, document says (2 Oct 2015)
Ernst & Young pay bonanza threatens to reignite City salaries row (2 Oct 2015)
Banks settle swaps market manipulation case for $1.86 billion (2 Oct 2015)
PCAOB Staff Inspection Brief Details Objectives and Scope of 2015 Inspections of Registered Auditors (2 Oct 2015)
PCAOB Refocuses Audit Firm Inspections (2 Oct 2015)
KPMG buys into Norse technology (2 Oct 2015)
Swiss Companies Seek `Blank Checks' for Bonuses, Ethos Says (2 Oct 2015)
SEC Charges Two Grant Thornton Firms With Violating Auditor Independence Rules (1 Oct 2015)
Autonomy Founder Lynch Sues HP for More Than $160 Million (1 Oct 2015)
Blur group makes restatements following FRC probe (1 Oct 2015)
China-Based Company Focus Media Holding Limited and CEO Jason Jiang To Pay $55.6 Million for Inaccurate Disclosures (1 Oct 2015)
HSBC must face Chicago predatory lending lawsuit - judge (1 Oct 2015)
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged two former executives of ContinuityX Solutions Inc. with fabricating nearly all of the company’s revenue: Seeks Return of Allegedly Ill-Gotten Executive Compensation (1 Oct 2015)
EY predicts flood of audit tenders ahead of FRC changes (1 Oct 2015)
Former Chief Financial Officer of Siemens Argentina Pleads Guilty to Role in Multimillion Dollar Foreign Bribery Scheme (1 Oct 2015)

SEPTEMBER 2015

Toshiba Adds $3.3 Billion Credit Line After Accounting Probe (30 Sep 2015)
Losing Sleep: Leaders of the accounting profession discuss its biggest nightmares (30 Sep 2015)
Volkswagen staff acted criminally, says board member (30 Sep 2015)
The VW and Glencore collapses have at least one thing in common - bad governance (30 Sep 2015)
Will Quindell PLC Legal Claim Be The First Of Many? (30 Sep 2015)
Findings of the FRC in respect of the accounts of blur Group plc for the year ended 31 December 2013 (30 Sep 2015)
VW investors ignored corporate governance warnings (30 Sep 2015)
Britain consults on EU's accounting shake up (30 Sep 2015)
How the banks ignored the lessons of the crash (30 Sep 2015)
Glencore to meet debt investors in London to ease fears (30 Sep 2015)
Arsenal: Annual accounts reveal £200m cash reserves (30 Sep 2015)
Quindell hit by potential £18m legal action (29 Sep 2015)
Quindell shareholders seeking up to £18m over restated accounts (29 Sep 2015)
FASB moves to simplify business combination accounting (29 Sep 2015)
SEC Charges Trinity Capital Corporation and Former Bank Executives With Accounting Fraud (29 Sep 2015)
Playboy Hit With $12M Lawsuit Over "Enron-Style Accounting" (29 Sep 2015)
SEC Charges UBS Puerto Rico and Two Individuals in Actions Relating to Former Broker’s Fraud: UBSPR Reaches $34 Million Settlement With SEC, FINRA (29 Sep 2015)
How the Big Four have returned to consulting with a bang (29 Sep 2015)
FRC's work to enhance justifiable confidence in audit through implementation of the EU Audit Regulation and Directive (29 Sep 2015)
FASB PROPOSES IMPROVEMENTS TO MATERIALITY TO MAKE FINANCIAL STATEMENT DISCLOSURES MORE EFFECTIVE (29 Sep 2015)
Ryanair defends use of auditor KPMG as new EU rules kick-in (29 Sep 2015)
Companies with women on the board perform better, report finds (29 Sep 2015)
Glencore says it is 'operationally and financially robust' (29 Sep 2015)
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Sues Petrobras, Auditor (PricewaterhouseCoopers) for Fraud (28 Sep 2015)
Ex-Autonomy chiefs say HP was warned over revenue growth (28 Sep 2015)
Hewlett Packard 'knew of controversial accounting practices at Autonomy' before it bought the firm (28 Sep 2015)
VW is further evidence that global business has become a law unto itself (28 Sep 2015)
Forty years of greenwashing - the well-travelled road taken by VW (28 Sep 2015)
Deloitte Sued for $500 Million by Estate of Ex-Pistons Owner (28 Sep 2015)
Ryanair's defence of KPMG role (28 Sep 2015)
SEC Chair Seeks to Oust Regulator Who Regulated Auditing Firms (28 Sep 2015)
SMEs paid out 63% of profits as dividends last year, up from (28 Sep 2015)
Daewoo E&C fined W2 bil. for accounting fraud (28 Sep 2015)
Hike in Japanese companies adopting IFRS (28 Sep 2015)
Ryanair to return £291m to shareholders (28 Sep 2015)
VW scandal: outgoing boss's €28m pension pot to pay out €1m a year (25 Sep 2015)
VW tried to cover up emissions scandal when regulators started probe (25 Sep 2015)
"Goodfellas" Producer Sues Studio, Claiming Buried Box Office Receipts (25 Sep 2015)
IASB to consult on interim measures for IFRS 9 (25 Sep 2015)
Davidson estate sues Deloitte Tax over $2.7B IRS bill (25 Sep 2015)
Transocean Mentioned in Petrobras Carwash Corruption Probe (25 Sep 2015)
Accountant at state-funded thinktank killed himself before trial (25 Sep 2015)
The emerging threat of trade-based money laundering in trade finance (25 Sep 2015)
Volkswagen chief quits over emissions scandal as car industry faces crisis (24 Sep 2015)
Volkswagen CEO Likely to Get $32 Million Pension After Leaving (24 Sep 2015)
Accounting standard setter proposes temporary fix for insurers (24 Sep 2015)
Stein Mart Faulted for Inventory Accounting (24 Sep 2015)
Draft Accounting Council advice - IASB conceptual framework Exposure Draft - September 2015 (24 Sep 2014)
Weaknesses in IASB's Conceptual Framework plans - FRC (24 Sep 2015)
PCAOB gains access to Luxembourg audit firms (24 Sep 2015)
Fat cats: JPMorgan C.E.O Jamie Dimon Says It's Pointless to Slash C.E.O. Pay (24 Sep 2015)
Fat cats: JPMorgan CEO explains why he's totally worth $20 million a year (24 Sep 2015)
Pulling the wool over the auditors' eyes (24 Sep 2015)
Ernst & Young Merges in Tax Law Firm Burt, Staples & Maner (24 Sep 2015)
Europe's shadow economy costs €454bn in 'lost' taxes (24 Sep 2015)
FCA publishes Final Notice for Keydata’s former finance director, Craig McNeil, fining him £350,000 and prohibiting him from performing any significant influence function (23 Sep 2015)
Volkswagen sets aside €6.5 billion to win back trust after it 'totally screwed up' over diesel emissions tests (23 Sep 2015)
Diageo faces £150m annual profit cut due to weak currencies (23 Sep 2015)
Auditors Rotation: Dutch MPs delay vote on accountancy law, want minister's explanation (23 Sep 2015)
Water bug to cost United Utilities £25m (23 Sep 2015)
The network risk shared by vicars and Big Four accountants (23 Sep 2015)
SEC Charges Retailer for Improper Valuation and Inadequate Internal Accounting Controls (23 Sep 2015)
Gateshead accountant fleeced the taxpayer out of more than £14000 spared jail (23 Sep 2015)
Deloitte global revenues up 7.6% to $35.2bn (23 Sep 2015)
Fourteen arrested in UK landfill tax fraud raids (23 Sep 2015)
Tesco's Yearlong Accounting Scandal Began With Tipster E-Mail (22 Sep 2015)
PwC escapes investor lawsuit over Tower Group loss reserves (22 Sep 2015)
Attorney and Auditors Settle Charges in Microcap Scheme Involving Purported Mining Companies (22 Sep 2015)
Deloitte failed to professionally audit 1MDB, says Pua (22 Sep 2015)
Audit Firms to Pay $318K Over Microcap Fraud (22 Sep 2015)
Bookkeeper stole £1.75m by doctoring company accounts with Tipp-ex (22 Sep 2015)
PCAOB: After backlash, US auditor watchdog head faces uncertain future (22 Sep 2015)
Washes Whiter Than White: KPMG reviews Swiss unit's auditing of FIFA (22 Sep 2015)
New accounting rules to challenge banking industry – ECB (22 Sep 2015)
Three jailed over Dundee 'cuckoo smurfing' cash scam (22 Sep 2015)
Art of Accounting: Auditor's Mindset (22 Sep 2015)
PwC benefits from changing of Hikma audit guard (22 Sep 2015)
Country by country reporting: lessons from Finland (21 Sep 2015)
Transfer Pricing: Coca-Cola hit with $3.3bn bill for back taxes (21 Sep 2015)
Coca-Cola Owes $3.3 Billion in Taxes Over Transfer Pricing (21 Sep 2015)
Auditor of Morgan Stanley-backed Chinese company resigns (21 Sep 2015)
Deloitte Resigns as Tianhe Chemicals Auditor (21 Sep 2015)
Deloitte can no longer claim ignorance over 1MDB's financials, says DAP (21 Sep 2015)
Pua puts 1MDB auditor on the spot over 'missing' billions (21 Sep 2015)
Worldpay and Hastings under fire over all-male boards (21 Sep 2015)
Ireland Audit probe says pre-crash bank numbers added up, under then rules, but look who is claiming this (21 Sep 2015)
Ireland External audit firms cleared of pre-crash failures, but look at who is sweeping things under their dust-laden carpets (21 Sep 2015)
FRC: Audit reforms will bite in 2016 (21 Sep 2015)
Revolving Doors: Ex-PwC insurance chief take Prudential board role (21 Sep 2015)
Fraud, fools, and financial crises (21 Sep 2015)
Lotus given seven days breathing space in HMRC insolvency proceedings (21 Sep 2015)
Why Corbynomics could actually be good for business (18 Sep 2015)
ACCA AGM reform proposals narrowly defeated (18 Sep 2015)
ACCA vote scuppers dissident's proposals (18 Sep 2015)
ACCA Exam Policy Criticised by Financial Reporting Council (18 Sep 2015)
ACCA satisfied with AGM despite low turnout (18 Sep 2015)
KPMG tax avoidance and privatization schemes costly for public (18 Sep 2015)
IFRS 9 is radical enough (18 Sep 2015)
Dewey & LeBoeuf Accounting Fraud Case Goes to Jury (18 Sep 2015)
Apple Inc., Amazon See Mounting Tax Investigations In European Union (18 Sep 2015)
ICAEW to develop Ghana's accountancy profession (18 Sep 2015)
Demands on Internal Audit Growing Faster Than Ever (18 Sep 2015)
Swiss bank La Roche settles with US authorities over tax offenses (18 Sep 2015)
Vast majority believe tax avoidance by multinationals to be morally wrong (18 Sep 2015)
Chevron’s tax schemes: piping profits out of Australia? (18 Sep 2015)
Walmart, Toshiba, and the audit firms: Wake up SEC! (17 Sep 2015)
Glencore chiefs pay $500m to maintain stakes after share placing (17 Sep 2015)
SABMiller approached by AB InBev for takeover that would create a $250 billion brewing colossus (17 Sep 2015)
Auditors' eyes wide shut as bad eggs rob economy blind (17 Sep 2015)
Can we trust Alibaba's numbers? Auditor (PwC) has never faced US regulatory scrutiny (17 Sep 2015)
KPMG in crowdfunding alliance (17 Sep 2015)
Bondholders lash out at Laiki auditors (PwC) and political establishment (17 Sep 2015)
Ernst & Young's Global Revenue Increases in Fiscal Year (17 Sep 2015)
The Private Fiefdom of ACCA: No Democracy at ACCA - Support 2015 AGM Resolutions (16 Sep 2015)
MEPs want accounting reforms explained (16 Sep 2015)
Hoogervorst says IFRS9 will lead to fundamental change (16 Sep 2015)
SEC Financial Reporting and Auditing Enforcement Review (16 Sep 2015)
Toshiba hit by record fine and put 'on alert' by Tokyo exchange (16 Sep 2015)
Former trader claims Lloyds made him redundant over whistleblowing (16 Sep 2015)
UK Trade unions are being held to tougher standards than businesses or government (15 Sep 2015)
Privatisation: Mis-sale of the century (15 Sep 2015)
Cantillon: Deloitte €41000 fine a long time coming (15 Sep 2015)
MEPs call on European Commission to explain accounting reforms (15 Sep 2015)
IASB formalises revenue recognition deferral (15 Sep 2015)
Tesco bosses' lack of shareholding raises eyebrows (15 Sep 2015)
Fannie Mae: FHFA Accounting Fraud Chorus Deepens (15 Sep 2015)
US Big Four more dependent on non-audit services (15 Sep 2015)
Insolvency Service ends pursuit of former Comet owners (15 Sep 2015)
Next to ditch auditors EY (15 Sep 2015)
Country by Country Reporting: lobbyists eviscerate OECD project (14 Sep 2015)
Deloitte is fined over audit failure (14 Sep 2015)
Wetherspoon lashes out at UK Government policies as profits slide (14 Sep 2015)
Wall Street Banks to Settle CDS Lawsuit for $1.87 Billion (14 Sep 2015)
Insolvency: Long and complex road to winding down Lehman Brothers' estate (14 Sep 2015)
Fat cats: PwC partners enjoy biggest payouts for five year (14 Sep 2015)
Accountants defend their tax record (14 Sep 2015)
BHS owner Retail Acquisitions secures £60m loan for turnaround plan (14 Sep 2015)
Defence companies face fresh scrutiny over contract charges and profits (14 Sep 2015)
IASB Formalizes 1-Year Deferral of Revenue Recognition Standard (14 Sep 2015)
MPs question how £3m grant was given to Kids Company (14 Sep 2015)
Accounting regulation damaging business growth (14 Sep 2015)
Big banks in $1.865 billion swaps price-fixing settlement (14 Sep 2015)
Former BP chief executive says if businesses are to regain public trust then it is time for a little humility, starting by dumping overblown corporate social responsibility reports (14 Sep 2015)
Paternity packages at the big accountancy firms (14 Sep 2015)
BBC pulls the plug on £2bn IT system fiasco (14 Sep 2015)
Comment: Why we need a referendum on the monarchy (11 Sep 2015)
KPMG tax 'sham' could lead to criminal investigation, experts say (11 Sep 2015)
KPMG Scandal: Canada Greens Would Close Tax Haven Loopholes (11 Sep 2015)
Federal probe of KPMG tax 'sham' stalled in Canada court (11 Sep 2015)
Internal Auditors Press SEC to Require Their Job (11 Sep 2015)
Fitch: IFRS 9 Expected Losses Will Be a Step Change for Banks (11 Sep 2015)
FSCS reviews claims against advisers over tax avoidance schemes (11 Sep 2015)
FSCS considers 150 tax advice claims after legal go-ahead (11 Sep 2015)
US outlines new policy for investigating corporate executives (11 Sep 2015)
Revolving Doors: Rothschild head joins PwC corporate restructuring team (11 Sep 2015)
Lloyds Premier bank account holders' financial details 'stolen' (11 Sep 2015)
Proposal to open Bank of England books to auditors causes unease (11 Sep 2015)
The City's stranglehold makes Britain look like an oh-so-civilised mafia state (11 Sep 2015)
John Lewis says pensions to hit profits (11 Sep 2015)
SEC Charges BDO and Five Partners in Connection With False and Misleading Audit Opinions (10 Sep 2015)
BDO Admits Wrongdoing, To Pay $2.1 Million to Settle Audit Fraud Charges (10 Sep 2015)
US SEC charges accounting firm BDO, others over deficient audits (10 Sep 2015)
KPMG offshore 'sham' deceived tax authorities, CRA alleges (10 Sep 2015)
We must stop searching for the “Holy Grail” of international accounting standards, says SEC commissioner Kara Stein (10 Sep 2015)
UK Revenue & Customs 'winding down' inquiries into HSBC Swiss tax evaders (10 Sep 2015)
Accounting Rife with Estimates Haunted Toshiba (10 Sep 2015)
Wal-mart (WMT) Identifies Material Weakness in Accounting Controls for Leases in Q2 (10 Sep 2015)
Star of “Startup.com” Charged With Accounting Fraud (10 Sep 2015)
Sports Direct shareholders revolt over poor governance (10 Sep 2015)
Insolvency: Quiksilver files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US (10 Sep 2015)
Kit Digital Ex-Chief Tuzman Charged With Accounting Fraud (10 Sep 2015)
SEC steps up enforcement actions against CPAs for cooking books (10 Sep 2015)
SEC Charges Father and Son and Friend With Insider Trading (10 Sep 2015)
UK Government's sprawling financial services empire is out of control, says watchdog (10 Sep 2015)
Changes proposed for CPA exam would enhance higher-order skills testing (10 Sep 2015)
Revolving Doors: Three ex-Big Five staffers join FRC's Conduct Committee (10 Sep 2015)
Why Banks Haven't Finished Their Balance Sheet Diet (9 Sep 2015)
SEC Charges Bankrate and Former Executives With Accounting Fraud (9 Sep 2015)
Bankrate paying $15M to settle SEC charges on false results (9 Sep 2015)
Toshiba's accounting scandal is much worse than we thought (9 Sep 2015)
Shareholder demands Toshiba sue execs over accounting scandal (9 Sep 2015)
SEC Charges Video Management Company Executives With Accounting Fraud (9 Sep 2015)
Share buyback is a terrible advert for Glencore's abilities (9 Sep 2015)
Westpac accounting move criticised (9 Sep 2015)
SEC Charges Three RMBS Traders With Defrauding Investors (9 Sep 2015)
European banks may face 26 billion euro capital shortfall on new rules - JPMorgan (9 Sep 2015)
Fat cats: City star hedge fund manager took home £57m last year (9 Sep 2015)
New G20/OECD Principles of Corporate Governance will promote trust and improve functioning of financial markets (9 Sep 2015)
John Kay on why it could take another crisis to reform the finance sector - accounting is complicit in financial ills (8 Sep 2015)
British bankers top bonus list, according to EU financial watchdog (8 Sep 2015)
Toshiba Vows Revamp After Loss in Push to Regain Trust (8 Sep 2015)
Europe's banks could need €26bn in extra capital, says report (8 Sep 2015)
FTSE 100 sets aside almost £1.66bn for tax litigation (8 Sep 2015)
Poachers, gamekeepers and revolving doors: FRC Committee Appointments for Ernst and Young, KPMG and GlaxoSmithKline personnel (8 Sep 2015)
Study to quantify and analyse the VAT Gap in the EU Member States - 2015 Report: EU countries lost 168 billion euros ($187 billion) in sales-tax revenue in 2013 due to fraud and errors (8 Sep 2015)
Tax exemption may be key to move of Keurig's coffee buying to Switzerland (8 Sep 2015)
PFI is still crippling our public services (7 Sep 2015)
Country by Country Reporting A survey of FTSE100 companies’ views (7 Sep 2015)
Big Four accounting firms on the EU radar for their tax avoidance business: European Parliament TAXE Committee Draft Report: on tax rulings and other measures similar in nature or effect (2015/2066(INI)) (7 Sep 2015)
Toshiba posts $318m full-year loss (7 Sep 2015)
Fawcett Society: government must take action to address gender pay gap (7 Sep 2015)
Big UK companies halve provisions for disputed tax bills (7 Sep 2015)
Glanbia firms pay just €200000 tax on €40m profit (7 Sep 2015)
EU probe of Irish tax break could cost Apple $19 billion (7 Sep 2015)
Britain gained £300billion in tax on North Sea oil - and blew it like a reckless lottery winner says expert (7 Sep 2015)
Boardroom pioneer Sir Adrian Cadbury dies (7 Sep 2015)
The Cadbury Committee: A History (7 Sep 2015)
Quindell chairman Richard Rose launches extraordinary attack on ousted predecessor (7 Sep 2015)
Rangers announce new auditors (7 Sep 2015)
Gold Coast accountant charged as money laundering inquiry deepens (7 Sep 2015)
Deloitte buys leadership consultancy Kaisen Consulting (7 Sep 2015)
Big Four Auditors: Leaping Forward into Consultancy (4 Sep 2015)
Rise in US accounting salaries accelerates (4 Sep 2015)
LAPFF calls on MEPs to block IFRS 9 as FRC comes under fire (4 Sep 2015)
Why Tax Havens Will be at the Heart of the Next Financial Crisis (4 Sep 2015)
Pensions watchdog warns on late valuations of UK schemes (4 Sep 2015)
We will have to be whiter than white, say Co-op's new board (4 Sep 2015)
KPMG ends PwC's 11-year audit reign at Premier Foods (4 Sep 2015)
Fossil fuel bosses' soaring pay may spell trouble for the climate – and their firms (4 Sep 2015)
Using accounting methods to screen reality of war (3 Sep 2015)
Rio Tinto drags Ernst & Young into Vale case (3 Sep 2015)
Israel Ministry clamps down on lawyers, accountants to halt terror financing (3 Sep 2015)
UK seems to relax pressure on Caymans over company register (3 Sep 2015)
HSBC Argentina makes proposal to cenbank amid tax evasion probe (3 Sep 2015)
Argentina demands new local HSBC boss in tax evasion and money laundering row (3 Sep 2015)
UK seems to relax pressure on Caymans over company register (3 Sep 2015)
Once a nation of shareholders, the UK is now largely foreign-owned (3 Sep 2015)
Navistar slumps after saying SEC may file lawsuit (3 Sep 2015)
The UK’s banks have massively overstated their profits (2 Sep 2015)
Banks should not be able to game accounting rules (2 Sep 2015)
Banks to face €61.5bn hit from new accounting rules, says report (2 Sep 2015)
US bank profits hit $43 billion in second quarter, Wall Street Journal reports (2 Sep 2015)
Bank executive sentenced to 8 years behind bars in bailout's biggest criminal case (2 Sep 2015)
PwC India finally brings the curtain down on Satyam (2 Sep 2015)
PCAOB reveals focus for inspections of broker-dealer auditors (2 Sep 2015)
Former United Commercial Bank Chief Credit Officer Sentenced to Over Eight Years for Felony Fraud Conviction (2 Sep 2015)
Foreign investors own £1 trillion-worth of British companies (2 Sep 2015)
Ownership of quoted shares for UK domiciled companies, 2014 (2 Sep 2015)
Sports Direct chairman under pressure to go (2 Sep 2015)
Deloitte acquires business psychologists (2 Sep 2015)
KMART Corporation Pays $1.4 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations in Connection with Drug Manufacturer Coupons and Gas Discounts (2 Sep 2015)
ACCA 'needs to be more open' as members suggest governance changes (1 Sep 2015)
Toshiba scandal continues as more accounting errors found (1 Sep 2015)
Calpers, Calstrs oppose joint CEO-chairman role at Bank of America (1 Sep 2015)
Basis of bank accounting is deeply flawed, top QC warns (1 Sep 2015)
Accounting Standards: LAPFF obtains further Legal Opinion from George Bompas QC (1 Sep 2015)
Accounting Standards: Legal Opinion from Mr George Bompas QC finds significant flaws in the position of the Financial Reporting Council (1 Sep 2015)
UK business facing annual £98.6 billion fraud bill (1 Sep 2015)
Rolls-Royce entangled in Brazil's corruption scandal (1 Sep 2015)
Porsche Profits Once Driven By Hedge Fund Trading, Not Cars (1 Sep 2015)
Investors, Audit Committees Want Auditors to Expand Scope of Assurance (1 Sep 2015)
KPMG to open own Mayfair members club (1 Sep 2015)
Accounting Standards: Prudence redux (1 Sep 2015)
RadioShack Creditors Sue Hedge Fund Over Chain's Collapse (1 Sep 2015)

AUGUST 2015

Canada: Questions remain about Deloitte audit of Sen. Mike Duffy (31 Aug 2015)
Four Seasons Health Care reviews finances amid debt fears (31 Aug 2015)
New blow for RBS as it is sued over £1.1bn loan: State-backed bank could face a flood of actions linked to rate-rigging (31 Aug 2015)
Accounting Leads Most Profitable US Industries (31 Aug 2015)
British Airways in landmark pensions case (31 Aug 2015)
Rolls-Royce 'co-operating' with Brazilian bribery inquiry (31 Aug 2015)
KPMG buys Australian tech firm Hands-On Systems as Big Four tech push continues (31 Aug 2015)
Philip Clarke to be interviewed by fraud office over Tesco accounting scandal (28 Aug 2015)
Dewey & LeBoeuf's Ex-Chairman Wants Fraud Charges Dismissed (28 Aug 2015)
Professional services: Accounting for change - dash for consultancy (28 Aug 2015)
Non-Audit Fees Declining at US Auditing Firms (28 Aug 2015)
Why we're dreaming of being... accountants (28 Aug 2015)
Swiss Hypothekarbank Lenzburg AG resolves tax-avoidance allegations -US Justice Dept (28 Aug 2015)
KPMG buys human rights consulting firm Banarra (28 Aug 2015)
PwC Europe adds Turkish organisation to network (28 Aug 2015)
Dewey & LeBoeuf Inflated Key Financial Metrics, Witness Says (27 Aug 2015)
Former Tesco boss Philip Clarke 'to be quizzed by SFO' (27 Aug 2015)
BIS to consult further on EU audit directive (27 Aug 2015)
UK Update on the implementation of the EU Audit Directive and Regulation (27 Aug 2015)
Deloitte, KPMG, EY helping RBI in investigation of NPA cases (27 Aug 2015)
Dash for Cash - Professional services: Accounting for change (27 Aug 2015)
IFRS 9: would new standard have stopped Greek banking crisis (27 Aug 2015)
IFRS and Vietnamese Accounting Standards: Critical Differences (27 Aug 2015)
UK MPs to probe FCA and Treasury over pension freedoms advice (27 Aug 2015)
As Regulatory Costs Grow, the Accounting Chief's Duties Add Up (26 Aug 2015)
Fat cats: Deloitte partners share £593m profit pool as consultancy revenues surge (26 Aug 2015)
'Big Four' accounting firm Deloitte's 721 partners earned an average of £822,000 last year. (26 Aug 2015)
Deloitte reveals its gender pay gap (26 Aug 2015)
Grip on US Non-Audit Fees Grows Tighter (26 Aug 2015)
Former JP Morgan Analyst Charged in Insider Trading Case (26 Aug 2015)
Serious Fraud Office interviews Deutsche Bank traders as it steps up criminal probe into Libor rigging (26 Aug 2015)
Auditors' fears increase over Hong Kong companies (26 Aug 2015)
Department for Business, Innovation & Skills issues 'Update on the implementation of the EU Audit Directive and Regulation' (26 Aug 2015)
Fat cats: America's CEOs earn more than 200 times their workers (26 Aug 2015)
Human Capital: How much are people in the UK worth? (26 Aug 2015)
Big Four owe public interest not to ditch audit, says KPMG (26 Aug 2015)
FASB Issues ASU on Employee Benefit Plan Accounting (23 Aug 2015)
Kids Company faces investigation over financial collapse (23 Aug 2015)
Kids Company closure may cost taxpayer £1.2m (23 Aug 2015)
Toshiba audit raises red flag over quality and independence (23 aug 2015)
Crooked accountant Gail Henshall and her lover stole almost £300000 from taxpayers (23 Aug 2015)
SEC Charges Citigroup Global Markets for Compliance and Surveillance Failures (23 Aug 2015)
BNY Mellon to pay $14.8 million to settle intern bribery probe (23 Aug 2015)
Corruption: SEC Charges BNY Mellon With FCPA Violations (23 Aug 2015)
Strategic reports provide 'very little insight' into future (23 Aug 2015)
FCA drops Quindell probe to make way for fraud investigation (23 Aug 2015)
Surge of investment scams sparks alarm in City (21 Aug 2015)
Co-op Bank predicts two more years of losses after £204m loss in first half of 2015 (21 Aug 2015)
Deficiencies High in Audits of Broker/Dealers, PCAOB Finds (21 Aug 2015)
Unease at Reading over consultancy spend (PwC) ahead of job losses (21 Aug 2015)
ICAEW appoints non-chartered board members (21 Aug 2015)
UK Profession stacked against those with working class backgrounds (21 Aug 2015)
McDonald's faces global scrutiny at Brazilian senate's human rights hearing (21 Aug 2015)
"Boomerangs" May Make Better Auditors, Study Finds (21 Aug 2015)
Mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan proposes buying up London hospitals' PFI debt (21 Aug 2015)
Accountancy firm Ernst & Young supports Airbnb's view on tax relief (21 Aug 2015)
Ireland making 'little or no' effort to curb corruption - report (21 Aug 2015)
Corruption Currents: SEC Aids Germany in Ford Bribery Probe (21 Aug 2015)
Citigroup Affiliates to Pay $180 Million to Settle Hedge Fund Fraud Charges (19 Aug 2015)
British banks facing billions in fines over forex-rigging scandal (19 Aug 2015)
China Chemical Firm Warns That Auditor Questioning Finances (19 Aug 2015)
Unilever human rights report 2015 review: The first lever (19 Aug 2015)
Scandal-hit Toshiba to record loss after accounting malpractice (19 Aug 2015)
Will corporate human rights reports become the norm? (19 Aug 2015)
Inside Deloitte's $1.5 billion ad agency (19 Aug 2015)
Quindell breaks with past to appoint new CEO and adviser Indro Mukerjee (19 Aug 2015)
Digital consultancy Seren acquired by Ernst & Young LLP (19 Aug 2015)
Mid-tier firms avoid listed audits as high regulatory fees bite (19 Aug 2015)
The Labour party stands at a crossroads (17 Aug 2015)
KPMG has charged more than $10 million in fees to Alpari UK bankruptcy administration (17 Aug 2015)
GN Shares Drop as Headset Sales Fall, Accounting Fraud Detected (17 Aug 2015)
Half of small firms suffering as late payments of more than 30 days rocket (17 Aug 2015)
Accounting firms struggle with expansion into consulting (17 Aug 2015)
FASB Moves to Work with More National Standard-Setters (17 Aug 2015)
Walmart's use of tax havens hurts small businesses (17 Aug 2015)

Deutsche Bank shamed again as employees are charged with fraud (15 Aug 2015)
FASB Updates Accounting Standards for Electricity Contracts (15 Aug 2015)
ASB proposal would amend US auditor's report auditing standard (15 Aug 2015)
PCAOB Continues to Sharpen Focus on Internal Controls (15 Aug 2015)
Nine banks including RBS settle $2bn forex rigging claim in US court (15 Aug 2015)
World's big banks set to be sued in London over forex rigging (15 Aug 2015)
Dewey & LeBoeuf Time-Lapse Coverage: Trial Recap (15 Aug 2015)
ICAEW fellow charged over crime family probe (15 Aug 2015)
Noble Group Profit Drops While PwC Finds No Fault in Accounting (12 Aug 2015)
Study Links Earnings Manipulation to Success in Corporate Accounting (12 Aug 2015)
SEC Enforcement Moves Toward Automatic Detection of Possible Accounting Fraud (12 Aug 2015)
32 charged over 'insider trading hack' scheme (12 Aug 2015)
Nifty Fifty's accountant gets prison for tax evasion (12 Aug 2015)
Why FCA boss John Griffith-Jones resignation is well overdue (12 Aug 2015)
Don't call us accountants: KPMG to cross revenue tipping point (12 Aug 2015)
RBS hires PwC to investigate GRG division (12 Aug 2015)
Most Companies Have Same Auditor for Over a Decade (10 Aug 2015)
The Co-op bank: now it is time to play the blame game (12 Aug 2015)
Comment: Weakening leverage ratio undermines banks' accounting (12 Aug 2015)
The Inefficiency of Accounting Firm Talent Management (12 Aug 2015)
Toshiba - a case of internal audit failure (12 Aug 2015)
Miller Energy Resources, Former CFO, Current COO Charged With Accounting Fraud (7 Aug 2015)
US SEC charges Miller Energy with accounting fraud (7 Aug 2015)
SEC Adopts Rule for Pay Ratio Disclosure: Implements Dodd-Frank Mandate While Providing Companies with Flexibility to Calculate Pay Ratio (7 Aug 2015)
Michael Howard oil corruption probe: UN report reveals 'serious conflicts of interest' at Soma (7 Aug 2015)
Tough gambling taxes take a bite out of William Hill profits (7 Aug 2015)
No phones on desks as KPMG spends $7m on agile workspace for digital age (7 Aug 2015)
More Swiss banks settle tax evasion probe with US (7 Aug 2015)
The Private Fiefdom of ACCA: ACCA Publishes Opaque Accounts (6 Aug 2015)
Another desperate blow to auditors KPMG following Quindell saga (6 Aug 2015)
Serious Fraud Office opens inquiry into Quindell after it publishes late accounts (6 Aug 2015)
Quindell faces Serious Fraud Office probe for 'business and accounting practices' (6 Aug 2015)
Slater & Gordon 'did not rely upon' Quindell's accounting, stands by UK division due diligence (6 Aug 2015)
Scandal at Toshiba places spotlight on insufficient auditing at firms in nation (6 Aug 2015)
Toshiba delayed a $100 million loss during an accounting scandal with these two words (6 Aug 2015)
How long can Deloitte, KPMG, PwC, Ernst&Young keep buying other buisnesses (6 Aug 2015)
Former Madoff employee, Irwin Lipkin, jailed over £11bn Ponzi scheme fraud (6 Aug 2015)
Audit inspection first for PwC (6 Aug 2015)
Whitecap blames RBC, KPMG for not detecting fraud (6 Aug 2015)
Accounting Issues Mask a Seller's True Value (6 Aug 2015)
The Private Fiefdom of ACCA: Members are not allowed to vote on executive remuneration (5 Aug 2015)
Serious Fraud Office launches investigation into Quindell (5 Aug 2015)
FRC Announcement: Quindell Plc (5 Aug 2015)
KPMG faces probe over Quindell accounts (5 Aug 2015)
Quindell posts £238m loss and faces accounting probe (5 Aug 2015)
New US Rule to Lift Veil on Tax Breaks (5 Aug 2015)
Toshiba CEO apologizes to Japan PM office for accounting scandal (5 Aug 2015)
Deloitte suing Iowa Board of Regents to keep records secret (5 Aug 2015)
RBS sale: Fred Goodwin, the £45bn bailout and years of losses (5 Aug 2015)
RBS share sale: UK Taxpayers lose out on £1.1 billion in initial sell-off (5 Aug 2015)
Tax Inversions: Shire's $30 Billion Bid For Baxalta Is All About Drug Pipelines And Tax Savings (5 Aug 2015)
Microsoft's Offshore Profit Pile Surges Past $100 Billion Mark (5 Aug 2015)
ACCA Members Urged to Reclaim the Association by Supporting Members' Resolutions - Unelected leadership opposes change (4 Aug 2015)
Noble Group's accounting policy woes lead to 28pc share price drop (4 Aug 2015)
FASB Streamlines Accounting for Employee Benefit Plans (4 Aug 2015)
Accountancy firm scraps education 'barrier' (4 Aug 2015)
EY: Firm says it will not longer consider degrees or A-level results when assessing employees (4 Aug 2015)
US Dept of Justice initiates criminal probe against Deutsche Bank (4 Aug 2015)
Britain's big four banks rack up £50bn in fines since the financial crisis with HSBC set to pay £500m in US for rigging foreign exchange markets (4 Aug 2015)
Ernst & Young Japan arm launches internal probe of Toshiba audit (3 Aug 2015)
Toshiba scandal puts focus on Japan's cut-price company audits (3 Aug 2015)
HSBC profits rise 10% but $1.5bn in misconduct charges dent bank figures (3 Aug 2015)
Rolls-Royce may face break-up after activist hedge fund reveals stake (3 Aug 2015)
Gender pay gap widening in NZ accounting industry (3 Aug 2015)
Ex-boss of MtGox bitcoin exchange 'arrested in Japan' over lost $480m (3 Aug 2015)
KPMG buys human rights consultancy Banarra as social risks to businesses add up (3 Aug 2015)
Soma Oil and Gas investigated by Serious Fraud Office (3 Aug 2015)
Next banks £170m in interest charges from shoppers (3 Aug 2015)
Big four accountants step up turf wars (3 Aug 2015)
New accounting standards give India Inc tax jitters, companies put aside funds for potential penalties (3 Aug 2015)
US Securities Class-Action Lawsuits on the Wane (3 Aug 2015)

JULY 2015

China's securities watchdog probes automated trading as stocks slip again (31 Jul 2015)
Taxes Drove Valeant, Burger King Deals, US Senate Report Says (31 Jul 2015)
Lloyds Bank payment protection claims bill tops £13bn (31 Jul 2015)
Another ex-Rabobank trader banned in UK for Libor rigging (31 Jul 2015)
Holders of senior bank debt face rising risks (31 Jul 2015)
Deloitte ties up with Sage to target SME market (31 Jul 2015)
Global accounting standards advocates need to understand the problems (30 Jul 2015)
Toshiba accounting scandal claims ninth executive (30 Jul 2015)
IASB Proposes Changes in Revenue Recognition Standard (30 Jul 2015)
Turf Wars: Solicitors 'in denial' about threat from accountants (30 Jul 2015)
Yakub Memon: India executes former accountant for role in Mumbai bombings amid protests against death sentence (30 Jul 2015)
Innocent smoothie accountant 'ripped off her employers' (30 Jul 2015)
US watchdog refers PwC to ethics panel over audit of charity (29 Jul 2015)
Toshiba to cut interim CEO pay by 90 percent on accounting scandal (29 Jul 2015)
Bribery and Corruption: SEC Charges Mead Johnson Nutrition With FCPA Violations (29 Jul 2015)
Pemex tied by accounting Catch 22 (29 Jul 2015)
Barclays makes further provision for scandals and cuts costs (29 Jul 2015)
The Practitioner: Why my firm is quitting audit (29 Jul 2015)
British American Tobacco hit by currency fluctuations (29 Jul 2015)
UBS Too Dirty To Sue Billionaire Offshore Tax Cheat, Judge Rules (29 Jul 2015)
A Kinder, Gentler Type of Hedge Accounting (29 Jul 2015)
Self-regulation is not effective: reconsider (28 Jul 2015)
Moving Toward Exposing Corporate Secrecy in World Bank Contracting (28 Jul 2015)
PricewaterhouseCoopers US retirement plan violated ERISA- 2nd Circuit (28 Jul 2015)
FRC Annual Report: ACCA had not carried out audit monitoring visits to a small number of registered audit firms at least once every six years as required by the Companies Act (28 July 2015)
ACCA: FRC disappointed to find evidence that a small proportion of the more complex exemption applications continue to be processed incorrectly (28 Jul 2015)
ICAEW: FRC found that a small number of registered audit firms had not been visited within six years (28 Jul 2015)
Citigroup's Mexican Operations Under Wider Scrutiny For Possible Money Laundering (28 Jul 2015)
New Disclosure Rules for Shell Companies in New York Luxury Real Esatte Sales (28 Jul 2015)
Accountant fined after he admits filing 'imaginary' accounts (28 Jul 2015)
BP Has Worst Profit in 10 Years on Libya Write-Off, Trading (28 Jul 2015)
Smaller firms beat Big Four to ICAEW exam top scores (28 Jul 2015)
Shareholder power 'holding back economic growth' (27 Jul 2015)
In 1970, £10 out of each £100 of profits were typically paid to shareholders through dividends. Today, that figure was between £60 and £70 (27 Jul 2015)
The level of US investment is at its lowest since 1947. Last year, S&P 500 companies spent more than $500bn on share buybacks (27 Jul 2015)
US Companies Spend Nine Dollars On Shareholders For Every Dollar On Investment (27 Jul 2015)
Shareholders or fair shares (27 Jul 2015)
SFC wins Hong Kong case against EY accounting, but future problems loom (27 Jul 2015)
EY drops Hong Kong audit appeal (27 Jun 2015)
PCAOB Sanctions 7 Audit Firms and Individuals (27 Jul 2015)
Justice for sale: Big companies could soon escape prosecution for corporate corruption - by paying their way out (27 Jul 2015)
Regulators assess impact of leasing standard on loan (27 Jul 2015)
UK Small business commissioner to target late payments, but is toothless (27 Jul 2015)
More Useless Gestures: IAASB issues exposure draft over auditor public interest drive (27 Jul 2015)
Morrisons buyers demanded one-off payments from suppliers (27 Jul 2015)
Toshiba sued in U.S. over stock price plunge on accounting scandal (24 Jul 2015)
Drinks giant Diageo (now audited by PwC, previously KPMG) under investigation for artificially boosting sales figures (24 Jul 2015)
Big businesses should agree to renounce aggressive tax planning, says HMRC - Yes, no chance (24 Jul 2015)
US Justice Department Announces Swiss Bank Program Resolutions with Two More Banks (24 Jul 2015)
Citigroup's Mexico Unit Faces Widening U.S. Money-Laundering Probe (24 Jul 2015)
U.S. Authorities Probe Banks' Handling of FIFA Funds (24 Jul 2015)
Starbucks Profit Jumps 22%; Chief Cites Increase in Customer Traffic (24 Jul 2015)
Two UK groups in talks with SFO over bribery plea deals (24 Jul 2015)
How the Tories are redefining the state's relationship with its citizens (23 Jul 2015)
Scottish Left Review: 'The fight for workers' rights under the shadow of the Tories' (23 Jul 2015)
Former Toshiba auditor to step down from government panel (23 Jul 2015)
Here's all you need to know about the huge Toshiba financial scandal (23 Jul 2015)
IFRS 15 implementation deferral confirmed (23 Jul 2015)
IASB Follows FASB in 1-Year Delay on Revenue Recognition Standard (23 Jul 2015)
TSB says George Osborne's bank profits tax could hurt smaller outfits (23 Jul 2015)
Managing Fit between Organizational Functionality, Package Features andStakeholder Needs during Enterprise Accounting Systems Implementation: A Process Analysis by Gary Pan, Shan L Pan and Chu-Yeong Lim
Determinants Of The Accounting Students’ Preference To Practice As Chartered Accountant In Malaysia by Nahariah Jaffar, Norhazlin Ismail & Salmi Md Zahid,
Persistence of Value Relevance of the Employee Stock Options: An Investor Perspective in Biotech Industry by Sara Aliabadi, Alireza Dorestani and Danuta
Writedowns put Microsoft in the red (22 Jul 2015)
Joe Hockey spares the stick at PricewaterhouseCoopers tax summit (22 Jul 2015)
Deloitte to Work with Australian Bitcoin Lobby on 'Regulatory Changes' (22 Jul 2015)
Dash for Consultancy: KPMG acquires High-Point Rendel (22 Jul 2015)
Lloyds shareholders launch £350m HBOS lawsuit (22 Jul 2015)
Despite failures UK Institutes retain regulatory powers over auditors (22 July 2015)
Fraudster Woodbridge banned from profession for 10 years (22 Jul 2015)
Outcome of disciplinary case against Mark Woodbridge (22 Jul 2015)
FRC Tribunal Report: Mr. Mark Woodbridge (22 Jul 2015)
Ex-Healthcare Locums' finance chief settles accounts scandal (22 Jul 2015)
FRC Outcome of disciplinary case against Ms. Diane Jarvis, former Chief Financial Officer of Healthcare Locums Plc (22 Jul 2015)
FRC Settlement Agreement: Diane Jarvis (22 Jul 2015)
FRC Particulars of Facts and Acts of Misconduct: Diane Jarvis (22 Jul 2015)
Why are Apple shares plunging when it just reported record profits? (22 Jul 2015)
Two Singapore bank accounts linked to 1MDB scandal under police investigation (22 Jul 2015)
US Fed calls for $200bn of extra capital buffers in US banks (22 Jul 2015)
Toshiba (audited by Ernst & Young) scandal sheds harsh light on Japan's corporate scandal (21 Jul 2015)
Toshiba inflated profits by $1.2 billion with top execs' knowledge (21 Jul 2015)
Toshiba boss quits over £780m accounting scandal (21 Jul 2015)
Toshiba to Restate at Least 152 Billion Yen of Past Profits (21 Jul 2015)
US Audit Regulator Finds 17 Deficient Audits at PricewaterhouseCoopers (21 Jul 2015)
SFO mulls Barclays deal over banking crisis funding (21 Jul 2015)
The world's biggest accounting scandals (21 Jul 2015)
Big four accounting firms push into legal services (21 Jul 2015)
Fifa scandal: US securities commission investigates company dealings (20 Jul 2015)
US SEC launches civil probe into FIFA bribery case (20 Jul 2015)
British MPs to launch Fifa corruption probe: FA, Serious Fraud Office and sponsors to be asked why they did not do more (20 Jul 2015)
Fat cats: Betfair's boss gets whopping 800 per cent rise in pay and perks this year (20 Jul 2015)
Ammunition for 'armchair auditors' (20 Jul 2015)
PwC names a record number of new partners (20 Jul 2015)
Revolving Doors: Ex Pensions Regulator head moves to PwC (20 Jul 2015)
Morrisons accountant Andrew Skelton jailed over leaked data (20 Jul 2015)
FCA chief's departure means it's back to business as usual for the banks (20 Jul 2015)
Another Useless Labarotory Study to Appeasethe Acocunting Establishment: Study Questions Impact of Audit Firm Rotation on Auditor (20 Jul 2015)
Legal, audit firms wage turf war (20 Jul 2015)
Toshiba probe finds top executives involved in company-wide scandal (17 Jul 2015)
Accounting scandal set to shake up Toshiba (17 Jul 2015)
Accounting probe may pressure Toshiba to write down Westinghouse (17 Jul 2015)
Big Money Stalls Key Dodd-Frank Anti-Corruption Rule for 5 years and counting (17 Jul 2015)
FRS 105 takes its place in the standards suite (17 Jul 2015)
IAASB Revises International Auditing Standards to Emphasize Disclosures (17 Jul 2015)
Deutsche Bank probed by UK regulator for 'laundering Russian cash' (17 Jul 2015)
13 ICAEW members are MPs in the UK Parliamentm mostly Conservative (17 Jul 2015)
HMRC Annual Report and Accounts 2014-15: No of offices 170, compared to 539 in 2005 (17 Jul 2015)
UK's smallest companies liberated from FRSSE shackles (17 Jul 2015)
Toshiba faces $3 bln in charges over accounting scandal (16 Jul 2015)
Toshiba chiefs to quit as panel finds 'organized' accounting fraud (16 Jul 2015)
Lawyer denies bribery claim over £1bn Irish property sale (16 Jul 2015)
New accounting standards offer simplification for micro-entities and small entities (16 Jul 2015)
Closing Britain's gender pay gap will take more than David Cameron's audit (16 Jul 2015)
Hedge Accounting – a topic with seven seals? (16 Jul 2015)
Toshiba to book $2-$3 billion losses over accounting scandal (15 Jul 2015)
Toshiba's CEO Is Stepping Down Over an Accounting Scandal (15 Jul 2015)
'Accountant of Auschwitz' jailed for the murder of 300000 Jews (15 Jul 2015)
Risk disclosure in company reporting sub-standard, says CFA (15 Jul 2015)
Fresh exodus at Barclays as Sir Mike Rake moves on (15 Jul 2015)
BHP Billiton reveals $2bn write-down on US petroleum assets (15 Jul 2015)
HSBC Money-Laundering Case Yields $116 Million Bounty for Queens DA (15 Jul 2015)
Deutsche Bank 'faces money laundering probe' (15 Jul 2015)
$10bn fee boost belies issues faced by international firms (15 Jul 2015)
Rihanna reveals the hidden rock 'n' roll world of accountants (15 Jul 2015)
Annual reports are waste of time, say City analysts (14 Jul 2015)
Annual report is now a "corporate brochure" (14 Jul 2015)
Can corporate accounting ever be reformed? (14 Jul 2015)
David Cameron to set out plans to tackle gender pay gap (14 Jul 2015)
Italy's latest legislation on accounting fraud highlights the country's difficulty in pursuing real economic and political reform (14 Jul 2015)
Big Four consultancies EY, PwC, Deloitte and KPMG fencing staff with stricter exit clauses (14 Jul 2015)
Revolving Doors: Former SEC chief to advise auditors she previously regulated (14 Jul 2015)
Central Bank paid ex-Anglo auditor Ernst & Young €22m (14 Jul 2015)
Requiring large UK banks to report leverage ratio daily will avoid 'window dressing', says PRA (14 Jul 2015)
Markets are caught short by traders' wrong information (14 Jul 2015)
Accountancy firms Grant Thonrton, PwC, KPMG, Delitte, BDO, Bakeer Tilly and Mazars enjoy €55m Nama bonanza from property bust (13 Jul 2015)
MoD accused of 'Soviet'-style practices after giving KPMG 'impossible' rating and awarding contract (13 Jul 2015)
US Audit Regulator PCAOB Fines Seven Firms Over Conflicts of Interest (13 Jul 2015)
Brazil oil giant Petrobras faces $98bn shareholder lawsuit in US over corruption scheme (13 Jul 2015)
Biotech Investor Steven Burrill Is Sued by Fund (13 Jul 2015)
ABF ends 80-year audit relationship with KPMG (13 Jul 2015)
Baker drops Deloitte after RMV software snafus (13 Jul 2015)
If you're so into respect and inclusion Deloitte why are you assisting exploitation of the poorest (10 Jul 2015)
Grant Thornton Reaches $1.5 Million Settlement With FRC (10 Jul 2015)
Grant Thornton fined £975k over Manchester Building Society audit (10 Jul 2015)
Toshiba probe looking at management's role in accounting scandal (10 Jul 2015)
FRC launches formal investigation into RSA's Ireland accounts (10 Jul 2015)
UK and Irish authorities probe RSA accounts (10 Jul 2015)
Shareholder Rights Directive - Corporate governance: MEPs vote to enforce tax transparency (10 Jul 2015)
FASB Votes to Defer Revenue Recognition Standard (10 Jul 2015)
PCAOB Sanctions Firms for Broker-Dealer Audits (10 Jul 2015)
No prison for accounting executive in Madoff fraud case (10 Jul 2015)
Budget 2015: tax promises leave little room to drive a viable economic plan (6 Jul 2015)
Toshiba accounting errors may be over $800 million (6 Jul 2015)
EU accounting rules could mask onset of another financial crisis (6 Jul 2015)
Deloitte quit as Rangers auditors over 'threats' to staff (6 Jul 2015)
FBI Raids Accounting Firm (6 Jul 2015)
London is now the global money-laundering centre for the drug trade, says crime expert (6 Jul 2015)
Banks not liable in most vishing fraud, says Ombudsman (6 Jul 2015)
Revolving Doors: EY appoints PwC partner as new UK head of business (6 Jul 2015)
Three of Top Ten firms' websites 'unfit' for mobile use (6 Jul 2015)
76% of large companies are ‘most worried about country-by-country reporting’ (3 Jul 2015)
Barclays hires KPMG as its auditor after 120 years with PwC (3 Jul 2015)
External Confirmations (AU-C Section 505) – Part 1 (3 Jul 2015)
Government: Accounting exec earned leniency in Madoff case (3 Jul 2015)
European Madoff Victims Can't Sue UBS in Luxembourg, Court Says (3 Jul 2015)
Rajat Gupta loses bid to have insider trading case overturned (3 Jul 2015)
Insider trading and market abuse falls sharply (3 Jul 2015)
Outcome of disciplinary case against Mr. Hugh Bevan, former Finance Director of Aero Inventory plc (2 Jul 2015)
Ex-Aero Inventory FD struck off and fined by FRC (2 Jul 2015)
Deloitte to pay $1 mln to resolve SEC auditor independence rule charges (2 Jul 2015)
LuxLeaks firm (PricewaterhouseCoopers) advising EU commission on tax (2 Jul 2015)
RBS could face $13bn bill in US case over pre-2008 behaviour (2 Jul 2015)
'Accountant of Auschwitz' trial: Oskar Gröning admits guilt (2 Jul 2015)
SEC Solicits Public Comment on Audit Committee Disclosures (2 Jul 2015)
SEC Charges Deloitte & Touche With Violating Auditor Independence Rules: Deloitte agreed to pay more than $1 million to settle the charges (1 Jul 2015)
Deloitte to Settle Auditor Independence Violations (1 Jul 2015)
Vanishing act: how global auditor Grant Thornton failed to spot theft of 15% of Moldova's wealth (1 Jul 2015)
Court bid to block KPMG role in Clerys (1 Jul 2015)
US Accounting Regulator Proposes Plan for Naming Audit Partner (1 Jul 2015)
Revolving Doors - They have friends in high places: O'Donnell and King join PwC as non-execs (1 Jul 2015)
Fat cats: Thomas Cook confirms controversial £5.6m payout to former CEO (1 Jul 2015)
For AGMs to work the public must ask hard questions and leaders must listen (1 Jul 2015)
Banks' £30bn in compensation claims and fines 'pose risk to stability' (1 Jul 2015)
Micro-businesses overwhelmed by accounting (1 Jul 2015)
Libor legal battle could threaten validity of thousands of bank settlements (1 Jul 2015)

JUNE 2015

The watchdog's woes: Calls for Financial Conduct Authority chairman to resign over KPMG links (30 Jun 2015)
Fresh accounting scandal engulfs Quindell after law firm that bought rump of company said it had discovered errors in books (30 Jun 2015)
BNP Paribas unites with Ernst & Young in cross-border deal (30 Jun 2015)
US regulators plan first-ever inspection of audit firm in China (30 Jun 2015)
China's Auditor Says State Firms Falsified Revenue and Profit (30 Jun 2015)
Ten arrested in £4m VAT and money laundering fraud (29 Jun 2015)
UK tax policy dictated by companies not ministers says leading treasury expert (29 Jun 2015)
Mobily 2014 Loss to Rise by $221 Million After Accounting Change (29 Jun 2015)
Celebrity hotel Champneys launches £17m lawsuit against Lloyds Bank (29 Jun 2015)
Is IASB serious about return to prudence? (29 Jun 2015)
Slater & Gordon confirms ASIC probe, accounting error (29 Jun 2015)
Former Senior Executive of Qualcomm Sentenced to 18 Months and Fined $500,000 for Insider Trading and Money Laundering (29 Jun 2015)
SEC Charges KKR With Misallocating Broken Deal Expenses (29 Jun 2015)
Tesco faces shareholder unrest over executive pay (26 Jun 2015)
Toshiba may add more outside directors after accounting irregularities (26 Jun 2015)
Toshiba president apologizes to shareholders for accounting crisis (26 Jun 2015)
Can Anything Save Us from Lease Accounting Standards Madness (26 Jun 2015)
PCAOB has new plan for naming audit engagement partners (26 Jun 2015)
Quindell under investigation by UK financial regulator (24 Jun 2015)
FCA statement on Quindell PLC (24 Jun 2015)
TIMELINE-Once a market high-flyer, Quindell falls from grace (24 Jun 2015)
KPMG to be investigated over BNY Mellon audits (24 Jun 2015)
Amazon's UK business paid just £11.9m in tax last year (24 Jun 2015)
American Apparel details misconduct claims against former boss (24 Jun 2015)
Revolving Doors: Deloitte hires BNP executive in move into investment banking area (24 Jun 2015)
Tesco under fire as grocer's lavish executive pay is slammed by shareholders (24 Jun 2015)
How shedding light on company ownership will help beat financial crime (24 Jul 2015)
Julius Baer Sets Aside $350 Million to Settle US Tax Probe (24 Jun 2015)
Ryder Awaiting Lease Accounting Changes, CFO Says (24 Jun 2015)
Suppliers still unhappy with Tesco's deals, says watchdog (23 Jun 2015)
Toshiba accounting problems extended to chip, PC ops - Nikkei (23 Jun 2015)
MoD under fire for KPMG deal as critics say programme is a waste of money (23 Jun 2015)
Flybe chairman calls for more evidence-based regulation, criticises FRC for being "asleep on the job" during the financial crisis (23 Jun 2015)
Finally FRC Investigation into KPMG in connection with The Bank of New York Mellon’s compliance with the FSA’s client asset rules (23 Jun 2015)
Watchdog probes KPMG's Bank of New York Mellon auditing (23 Jun 2015)
Leading criminal barristers' chambers loses £250k to crooked accountant (23 Jun 2015)
Deloitte replaces PwC at Wolseley (23 Jun 2015)
Cargill and PwC link up on supply-chain sustainability (23 Jun 2015)
How Artificial Intelligence Can Boost Audit Quality (23 Jun 2015)
US CEO pay more than 300 times average workers in 2014 (23 Jun 2015)
The Micro and the Macro: Risk management and financial instability, a speech by Adair Turner (23 Jun 2015)
Slides for The Micro and the Macro: Risk management and Financial instability lecture by Adair Turner (23 Jun 2015)
Tycoon accused of using Scottish firms in $1bn fraud (22 Jun 2015)
Troubled Tesco faces investor showdown in first AGM since accounting scandal (22 Jun 2015)
Money laundering and shell companies: Scam sparks Scots fraud haven fears (22 Jun 2015)
Banks did not do enough to police FIFA transactions, says global agency (22 Jun 2015)
Bank of China fraud: Italy seeks trial for 300 people (22 Jun 2015)
One in 20 registered audit firms quit the UK market in last year (22 Jun 2015)
KPMG acquires transformation consultancy Boxwood (22 Jun 2015)
Compass Group subsidiary 'paid bribes to Kazakhstan customs officials' (22 Jun 2015)
Bankers more unethical under tougher rules (22 Jun 2015)
Regulators invite feedback on proposed changes to Charity Sorp accounting standards (22 Jun 2015)
RBS and other banks have 'creaking IT systems' (19 Jun 2015)
SEC Charges Microcap Oil Company, CEO, and Stock Promoter With Defrauding Investors (19 Jun 2015)
A quarter of shareholders refuse to back BA's pay policy (19 Jun 2015)
A tale of ‘prudence’ (19 Jun 2015)
IASB proposes narrow-scope amendments for pension accounting (19 Jun 2015)
They would say that wouldn't they because they approved the rules - EU report: international accounting rules did not worsen 2008 crisis (19 Jun 2015)
REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL EVALUATION OF REGULATION (EC) N° 1606/2002 OF 19 JULY 2002 ON THE APPLICATION OF INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING STANDARDS (19 Jun 2015)
Key report shows EU companies, investors support IFRS (19 Jun 2015)
Should companies eliminate audits? (19 Jun 2015)
Key Facts and Trends in the UK Accountancy Profession (19 Jun 2015)
EU agrees rules to curb bank trading risks (19 Jun 2015)
EU Finance Minister Agree to 'Too-Big-to-Fail' Draft Banking Law (19 Jun 2015)
Irish and Nigerian Accounting Organizations Sign Deal (19 Jun 2015)
Big Four still unstoppable in the audit game (19 Jun 2015)
Accountant sued $1 million lawsuit filed against Edelbrock (19 Jun 2015)
AirAsia shares fall on questions about accounting and cash flow (18 Jun 2015)
Wipro settles with SEC on accounting issue (18 Jun 2015)
KPMG, EY terminated from auditing 1MDB, auditors tell PAC (18 Jun 2015)
Fat cats: British Airways chief's sky-high pay hits turbulence as it's revealed Willie Walsh gets paid 147 times the average employee (18 Jun 2015)
Uber drivers are employees not contractors, California rules (18 Jun 2015)
IASB revisits goodwill accounting (18 Jun 2015)
US SEC charges 36 firms over fraudulent municipal bond offerings (18 Jun 2015)
Fifa corruption: Swiss banks 'reported account suspicions' (17 Jun 2015)
Noble Group CEO Disputes Allegations About Company's Accounting Practices (17 Jun 2015)
Brussels to announce measures against corporations' 'sweetheart' tax deals (17 Jun 2015)
Wal-Mart Has $76 Billion in Overseas Tax Havens, Report Says (17 Jun 2015)
Senior EY insolvency partner severely reprimanded over ethics breach - fat lot of good that will do (17 Jun 2015)
CCCTB: EU Resurrects Bid to Agree Common Rules for Corporate Taxation (17 Jun 2015)
ACCA approaches 180000 membership (17 Jun 2015)
EU Commission welcomes agreement on improving transparency of certain financial transactions in the shadow banking sector (17 Jun 2015)
Accountancy firms excluding working class applicants, watchdog finds (16 Jun 2015)
A qualitative evaluation of non-educational barriers to the elite professions (16 Jun 2015)
IoD index to put spotlight on worst corporate governance (16 Jun 2015)
Top bosses: Corporate governance needs to go beyond box-ticking (16 Jun 2015)
Swiss Trader to Pay $2.8 Million to Settle Insider Trading Charges (16 Jun 2015)
No bailout damages for ex-AIG boss, court rules (16 Jun 2015)
Auditor Independence: Auditors called to account for cosy tenures (16 Jun 2015)
Former Chief Executive Officer of Oil Services Company Pleads Guilty to Foreign Bribery Charge (16 Jun 2015)
Investment Advisory Firm’s Former President Charged With Stealing Client Funds (16 Jun 2015)
Interserve reduces waste in 'sustainability annual report' (16 Jun 2015)
Why Accounting Firms Leave A Lot Of Money On The Table (16 Jun 2015)
The politics of country-by-country reporting (15 Jun 2015)
SEC seeks views on 'shocking' auditor relationships (15 Jun 2015)
SEC plans to force companies to disclose auditor tenure (15 Jun 2015)
Deloitte has been the Procter & Gamble auditor since 1890 (15 Jun 2015)
Noble Group Doubles Buyback in Battle Against Accounting Critics (15 Jun 2015)
Toshiba accounting scandal snowballs to 24 cases, ¥54.8 billion (15 Jun 2015)
Tesco 'needs more than £5bn to rebuild balance sheet' (15 Jun 2015)
TTIP and a travesty of transparency (15 Jun 2015)
Free markets aren't the success we're led to think (15 Jun 2015)
Elite firms 'exclude bright working class' (15 Jun 2015)
The fundamental accounting error in Osborne’s budget plans (12 Jun 2015)
FedEx to Book $2.2 Billion Pension Accounting Charge (12 Jun 2015)
Toshiba internal investigation finds more accounting problems (12 Jun 2015)
Academics attack George Osborne budget surplus proposal (12 Jun 2015)
Osborne plan has no basis in economics (12 Jun 2015)
107 groups urge World Bank to end corporate anonymity in public procurement (12 Jun 2015)
FRC: Recent Developments in Company Law, The Listing Rules and Auditing Standards that affect United Kingdom Auditor’s Reports (Revised) (12 Jun 2015)
Instead of laying off thousands of staff, HSBC should focus on becoming a model bank (11 Jun 2015)
Network Rail profits halve as accounting changes bite (11 Jun 2012)
Ex-Controller Testifies He Altered Dewey Accounting Records (11 Jun 2015)
Deloitte insists audit on 1MDB legit, (11 Jun 2015)
World Bank wants to stop anonymous firms winning contracts (11 Jun 2015)
SEC Chief Accountant: Too Soon to Bury IFRS (11Jun 2015)
EU tax probes on Apple, Amazon, Starbucks at advanced stage: European Commission (11 Jun 2015)
American Express pays no tax on multibillion-dollar Australian operation for seven years (11 Jun 2015)
German Prosecutors Say Nine Suspects Targeted in Deutsche Bank Raids (11 Jun 2015)
ACCA's first female president dies aged 83 (11 Jun 2015)
Osborne swallows loss of £7bn in RBS sell-off (11 Jun 2015)
Royal Mail: anger as government pockets £750 million from share sale – but taxpayers are excluded (11 Jun 2015)
Accountants Baker Tilly to change branding to RSM (11 Jun 2015)
KPMG's Swiss firm audits criticised (10 Jun 2015)
KPMG Pendragon VAT scheme ruled abusive in Supreme Court (11 Jun 2015)
An Abusive KPMG Tax Avoidance Scheme Defeated: Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs v Pendragon plc and others; [2015] UKSC 37, On appeal from: [2013] EWCA Civ 868] (11 Jun 2015)
G7 to Clamp Down on Tax Avoidance Via Transfer Pricing (10 Jun 2015)
How Banks Are Using Accounting Shifts to Prepare for an Interest Rate Rise (10 Jun 2015)
HP to pay $100m to settle Autonomy dispute (10 Jun 2015)
Fat cats: More than 20% of WPP investors refuse to back Sir Martin Sorrell's £43m pay (10 Jun 2015)
Torex fraudster to face FRC (10 Jun 2015)
Mark Woodbridge, a former member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) (10 Jun 2015)
Staffing issues surge to forefront of accounting firm concerns (10 Jun 2015)
The obscure legal system that lets corporations sue countries (10 Jun 2015)
Swiss authorities seize Fifa material as 2026 bidding process suspended (10 Jun 2015)
Do corporate mega mergers inhibit social responsibility? (10 Jun 2015)
Common Valuation Issues with Illiquid Securities (10 Jun 2015)
Profits at Lixil Dented by China Accounting Scandal (9 Jun 2015)
British investor LGIM says quarterly reporting not necessary (9 Jun 2015)
Will Public Disclosure of Country-by-Country Reporting Become Mandatory (9 Jun 2015)
KPMG retains audit crown in latest Adviser Rankings (9 Jun 2015)
Banks urged to set aside more capital (9 Jun 2015)
Basel watchdog proposes bank capital rule to cover interest rate risks (9 Jun 2015)
Big companies not trusted on tax (9 Jun 2015)
FRC files complaint against former iSoft execs (9 Jun 2015)
SEC charges former BankRI official with insider trading (9 Jun 2015)
Banks' post-crisis legal costs hit $300bn (9 Jun 2015)
US Federal Judge Rules SEC In-House Judge's Appointment 'Likely Unconstitutional' (9 Jun 2015)
OECD fails to deliver country-by-country reporting as required by the G8 (8 Jun 2015)
OECD country-by-country reporting: Strangled at birth (8 Jun 2015)
OECD releases Implementation Package for BEPS country-by-country reporting (8 Jun 2015)
OECD BEPS Action 13: Country-by-Country Reporting Implementation Package (8 Jun 2015)
Tax reporting is improving slowly but is that despite the role of accountants? (8 Jun 2015)
FIFA's books were signed off for 16 years... now the heat is on the auditors (8 Jun 2015)
Corruption in FIFA? Its Auditors Saw None (8 Jun 2015)
Nearly a decade after the events: FRC files complaint against former iSoft execs (8 Jun 2015)
HSBC money-laundering procedures 'have flaws too bad to be revealed' (8 Jun 2015)
EFRAG requests comments on its draft endorsement advice on IFRS 9 Financial Instruments (8 Jun 2015)
An 'Ethics Gap' Between Financial Services And Its Customers (8 Jun 2015)
Rise in FTSE 100 companies disclosing UK tax information (8 Jun 2018)
Tesco Ireland in €8.5m lawsuit over potato deal (8 Jun 2015)
Will Public Disclosure of Country-by-Country Reporting Data Become Mandatory? (8 Jun 2015)
Italian accountant named as Vatican's first auditor general (8 Jun 2015)
Deutsche Bank bosses resign following Libor manipulation scandal (8 Jun 2015)
FIFA's finances in the spotlight (5 Jun 2015)
SEC Charges CSC and Former Executives With Accounting Fraud: Company to Pay $190 Million Penalty (5 Jun 2015)
Computer Sciences to pay $190 mln to settle accounting fraud case (5 Jun 205)
Accountant took nearly £40000 from Corwen company (5 Jun 2015)
EU probe into Apple's Ireland tax affairs nears end (5 Jun 2015)
Lloyds hit by record £117m fine over PPI handling (5 Jun 2015)
Australia CPA to enter financial advice sector (5 Jun 2015)
So who checked internal controls: Data breaches at banks and financial firms more than double in two years (5 Jun 2015)
Bribery scandal follows FIFA to Canada (5 Jun 2015)
These Are the 5 Facts That Explain the FIFA Scandal (5 Jun 2015)
Fifa crisis: South Africa to probe bribe claims (5 Jun 2015)
FIFA auditor KPMG totally missed the soccer scandal (4 Jun 2015)
HSBC to pay £28m after money laundering investigation (4 Jun 2015)
Did KPMG Auditors Drop the Ball on FIFA? (4 Jun 2015)
Formal Complaint against Timothy Whiston and John Whelan of isoft (4 Jun 2015)
FRC brings complaint against ICAEW members over isoft (4 Jun 2015)
Bannatyne Group finance director charged with fraud (4 Jun 2015)
FCA defends secondments with 'Big Four' accountants (4 Jun 2015)
G4S meeting descends into chaos, with nine activists bundled out (4 Jun 2015)
Fat cats: Half of poor performing bosses still get a bonus (4 Jun 2015)
'Selfish' Caffé Nero roasted for tax avoidance, after reporting £20 mn profit (4 Jun 2015)
Caffe Nero makes £1.2bn in sales but hasn't paid corporation tax since 2007 (4 Jun 2015)
Lloyds to be hit with £100m fine from FCA for mishandling PPI complaints (4 Jun 2015)
JP Morgan Wins Legal Battle in WaMu Case (4 Jun 2015)
Fifa fiasco is yet another own goal for KPMG (3 Jun 2015)
US Regulator Finds Deficiencies in 11 Audits Done by Deloitte & Touche (3 Jun 2015)
Are retailers losing faith in PwC? (3 Jun 2015)
John Lewis ditches PwC as auditor in favour of KPMG (3 Jun 2015)
PCAOB May Revise Standards Surrounding Auditors' Use of Specialists (3 Jun 2015)
High Court victory for Baker Tilly over UAE dispute (3 Jun 2015)
Revolving Doors: FCA defends secondments with 'Big Four' accountants (3 Jun 2015)
FRC criticises PwC over missing UK audit disclosure (2 Jun 2015)
EY pulled up over audit of revenue (2 Jun 2015)
Watchdog tells KPMG to revise materiality guidance (2 Jun 2015)
FRC concerned over BDO's audit scepticism levels (2 Jun 2015)
Tech Firms Fret Over Looming Revenue Accounting Changes (2 Jun 2015)
Greg Dyke questions KPMG's FIFA audit (2 Jun 2015)
Former American Apparel boss receives restraining order (2 Jun 2015)
Companies with narcissists for CEOs tend to use shadier accounting practices (2 Jun 2015)
Belgium targets £390m in unpaid tax as HSBC considers job cuts (2 Jun 2015)
Findings of the FRC in respect of the accounts of fastjet Plc for the year ended 31 December 2013 (2 Jun 2015)
FRC probe forces Fastjet restatement (2 Jun 2015)
CSC Dealt Huge Break By SEC In Accounting Fraud Case: Report (2 Jun 2015)
Why the UK has the least resilient financial system in the G7 (2 Jun 2015)
Revolving Doors: FRC appoints new members to Committees and Audit and Assurance Council (2 Jun 2015)
Wellcome Trust spent £600k on auditing fees last year (2 Jun 2015)
Mexico Regulator Said Probing OHL Unit Accounting Since 2014 (2 Jun 2015)
Time to put a rocket up the auditors — and their watchdog (1 Jun 2015)
Time to shine a light on FIFA auditor KPMG (1 Jun 2015)
Deloitte UK considers merging with Benelux partner firms (1 Jun 2015)
UK audits show widespread flaws, says watchdog (1 Jun 2015)
A third of UK audits found wanting (1 Jun 2015)
Improvements required in Big Four audit (1 Jun 2015)
One in six of the world’s largest companies are either based in a tax haven or have a majority-owned subsidiary in a haven (1 Jun 2015)
UK Law firms lose out to accountants on FCA investigation work (1 Jun 2015)
Big Four player poses new threat to UK law firms (1 Jun 2015)
US Prosecutor Alleges Dewey & LeBoeuf Cooked the Books for Years (1 Jun 2015)
Toshiba says accounting probe to take until mid-July (1 Jun 2015)
Backlash against JPMorgan boss Jamie Dimon after he branded investors as 'lazy' (1 Jun 2015)
Why would anyone want to buy shares in the Royal Bank of Scotland? (1 Jun 2015)
PCAOB seeks feedback on auditors' use of specialists (1 Jun 2015)

MAY 2015

Rich man, poor man: the two-nation policies of the Conservative government (29 May 2015)
Accountancy watchdog to focus on suppliers after Tesco profits scandal (29 May 2015)
Tesco scandal puts spotlight on annual company audit checks (29 May 2015)
Madoff Accountant Gets Light Sentence (29 May 2015)
BBC uncovers 'aggressive' tax avoidance scheme at Anderson Group (29 May 2015)
IASB restores concept of prudence to financial reporting (29 May 2015)
Bank middle management is regulatory 'blind spot', says watchdog (29 May 2015)
Lehman Brothers' former CEO blames bad regulations for bank's collapse (29 May 2015)
Barclays and HSBC 'handled suspected cash' in FIFA corruption scandal (29 May 2015)
Tesco investors hire top QC for court battle (28 May 2015)
Grant Thornton manager jailed for stealing charity cash (28 May 2015)
Ex-Madoff auditor sentenced to home confinement (28 May 2015)
IASB reintroduces concept of prudence (28 May 2015)
IASB Proposes Enhancements to Conceptual Framework (28 May 2015)
IASB calls for feedback on proposed enhancements to the conceptual underpinning of financial reporting (28 May 2015)
Revised Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting: Exposure Draft (28 May 2015)
Implementing laws essential for curbing accounting fraud (28 May 2015)
Lehman Brothers' former CEO blames bad regulations for bank's collapse (28 May 2015)
Nike becomes suspected player in alleged $150 million FIFA bribery scandal (28 May 2015)
Dash for Consultancy: KPMG expands legal horizon (28 May 2015)
Law Firm's Demise Blamed on Accounting Gimmicks (28 May 2015)
Queen's speech 2015: the experts respond (27 May 2015)
SEC Charges Deutsche Bank (audited by KPMG) With Misstating Financial Reports During Financial Crisis (27 May 2015)
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION ORDER: In the Matter of DEUTSCHE BANK AG (27 May 2015)
Deutsche Bank penalised over mis-stated accounts (27 May 2015)
Deutsche Bank Agrees to Pay $55 Million to SEC (27 May 2015)
Nine FIFA Officials and Five Corporate Executives Indicted for Racketeering Conspiracy and Corruption (27 May 2015)
Fifa officials pocketed $150m from 'World Cup of fraud' – US prosecutors (27 May 2015)
Bulgari brothers to face trial on tax evasion charges (27 May 2015)
Keydata founder hits back after £75m fine over 'death bonds' (27 May 2015)
Shareholder Group Says Ernst & Young Knew About Wal-Mart Mexico Bribery Allegations (26 May 2015)
What happened to 'True and Fair' Reporting: Amazon's sales reporting change could raise tax bill (26 May 2015)
Helping Audit Committees Oversee Their Auditors (26 May 2015)
FRC Closure of investigation into the conduct of members and member firms (BDO) in connection with Healthcare Locums plc (26 May 2015)
FRC scraps probe into BDO's role as Healthcare Locums auditor (26 May 2015)
PAC to haul up Deloitte next after key 1MDB duo delay appearance (26 May 2015)
Deloitte's now a laughing stock: HOW LONG MORE WILL THEY SHIELD NAJIB'S 1MDB? (26 May 2015)
FCA seeks £80m 'death bond' fines (26 May 2015)
Former Keydata CEO faces record £75m fine (26 May 2015)
FCA fines set to dip below record despite Libor and forex penalties (26 May 2015)
Amazon starts paying corporation tax for UK sales in Britain, not Luxembourg (25 May 2015)
PricewaterhouseCoopers Ducks MF Global Suit (25 May 2015)
Shell handpicked auditor to sign off on government's Arctic drilling renewal (25 May 2015)
Swisher fires accounting firm BDO USA (25 May 2015)
Why putting bank bosses behind bars is still nigh on impossible (25 May 2015)
Thomas Cook executive set to receive £11million bonus (25 May 2015)
Barclays paid star trader £170m in five years following financial crisis (25 May 2015)
Back to basics reform needed if 'Wall Street ethics' is not to be an oxymoron (25 May 2015)
Unitary Taxation: Tax Base and the Role of Accounting (22 May 2015)
The ultimate owners of companies will have to be listed in central registers in EU countries, open both to the authorities and to people (22 May 2015)
Toshiba to expand accounting probe to TV, other businesses-media (22 May 2015)
Plus500 Says Accounts Were Halted After FCA-Ordered Review (22 May 2015)
Deutsche Bank responds to shareholder criticism (22 May 2015)
Dash for consultancy: KPMG Capital introduces three new strategic investments in data and analytics (22 May 2015)
JP Morgan investors told they can't sue bank over $6bn London Whale loss (22 May 2015)
Tesco boss paid £4.1m in first six months admin 10k job losses (22 May 2015)
Company suspends shares trading after former CEO refuses to leave head office (22 May 2015)
A senseless tax subsidy: Most Western economies sweeten the cost of borrowing. That is a bad idea. (22 May 2015)
If the law favours Big Tobacco over taxpayers, then the law is a disgrace (22 May 2015)
Report says accounting rules now drive policy in higher education (21 May 2015)
EU parliament cracks down on shell firms (21 May 2015)
Quarter of FTSE 100 bosses are qualified accountants (21 May 2015)
FRC seeks strengthening on review of Audit Firm Governance (21 May 2015)
FRC issues review of audit governance code (21 May 2015)
Fees Rise as Internal Controls Draw Auditor Focus (21 May 2015)
IASB calls for one year deferment on IFRS 15 Revenue from Contracts with Customers (21 May 2015)
Scandals and regulation lead to an auditing merry-go-round (20 May 2015)
High Court rejects Baker Tilly's claims over errors with FRC (20 May 2015)
Banking inquiry: PwC stands over past audits of Irish banks (20 May 2015)
Rules for bank auditors during crisis since 'found wanting' - Banking Inquiry (20 May 2015)
FCA fines Barclays £284,432,000 for forex failings (20 May 2015)
Barclays handed biggest bank fine in UK history over 'brazen' currency rigging (20 May 2015)
Banks hit by record $5.7bn fine for rigging forex markets (20 May 2015)
Banks fined £3.7bn for rigging foreign exchange markets (20 May 2015)
Citicorp, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Barclays PLC, The Royal Bank of Scotland plc and UBS AG – have agreed pay criminal fines totaling more than $2.5 billion; US Federal Reserve fines $1.6bn, Barclays $1.3bn (20 May 2015)
UBS AG, has agreed to plead guilty to manipulating the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) and other benchmark interest rates and pay a $203 million criminal penalty, after breaching its December 2012 non-prosecution agreement (20 May 2015)
McDonald's avoided A$500M tax over five years, 'Golden Dodges' report finds (20 May 2015)
How McDonald's dodged half a billion dollars in Australian tax (20 May 2015)
Revolving Doors: Former Essex County council CEO joins KPMG (19 May 2015)
Tax fraud: Argentine Committee meets with HSBC auditors (19 May 2015)
Charities filed no accounts because they 'lost the password' and 'lacked understanding of accounting systems' (19 May 2015)
Bill Gates just launched a devastating attack on the right-wing idea that corporation taxes kill innovation (19 May 2015)
Regions Financial Agrees to Settle Shareholder Lawsuit (19 May 2015)
Next faces £22m bill after court finds retailer diverted cash to avoid tax (19 May 2015)
Read Judgement (note the PwC link) in NEXT BRAND LIMITED - and – THE COMMISSIONERS FOR HER MAJESTY’S REVENUE AND CUSTOMS (19 May 2015)
Shareholders' Votes Have Done Little to Curb Lavish Executive Pay (19 May 2015)
Thomas Cook: From a tragedy to a corporate disaster (19 May 2015)
Accountants poised to hike fees as economy strengthens (19 May 2015)
Auditor Rotation: EY wins Royal Dutch Shell audit (19 May 2015)
Four US cancer charities charged with misusing donations in excess of $187m (19 May 2015)
Hundreds fall for builder's £40m 'Ponzi' investment as UK property investment group faces charges by US authorities (18 May 2015)
Concerns grow over IFRS 9 impact (18 May 2015)
IFRS 9 could hike banks' loan loss provisioning by 50% (18 May 2015)
JCB hit by by £11m one-off cost (18 May 2015)
FRC publishes feedback statement on the Regulation of Auditors of Local Bodies (18 May 2015)
Fake Avon filing puts spotlight on SEC (18 May 2015)
Dash for Consultancy: KPMG puts some fizz into its customer management offering (18 May 2015)
Thatcher's dream for UK investors has become a nightmare (18 May 2015)
Thorntons' boss quits after supermarket sales fall (18 May 2015)
Is The Only Purpose Of A Corporation To Maximize Profit? (18 May 2015)
Hertz Finds More Accounting Errors (15 May 2015)
SEC Announces Fraud Charges Against ITT Educational Services (15 May 2015)
Toshiba sets up new panel to expand accounting probe (15 May 2015)
Perella Weinberg banker accused of insider trading with father (15 May 2015)
World NewsHealthcare banker charged with insider trading (15 May 2015)
Private healthcare companies accused of using tax relief to undercut the NHS (15 May 2015)
Duke Energy Subsidiaries Plead Guilty and Sentenced to Pay $102 Million for Clean Water Act Crimes (15 May 2015)
5 Big Banks Expected to Plead Guilty to Felony Charges, but Punishments May Be Tempered (15 May 2015)
Toshiba to Restate Profits Because of Accounting Irregularities (14 May 2015)
Toshiba eyes three-year profit markdown in accounts probe; impact seen limited, shares up (14 May 2015)
AICPA proposes plan to improve audit performance (14 May 2015)
FRC publishes exposure draft to provide assurance on Client Assets (14 Mar 2015)
Fat cats: Lloyds shareholders approve chief's £11.5m pay packet (14 May 2015)
FTSE 250 auditors survey 2015: audit fee income hits £170m (14 May 2015)
Executive pay needs fixing: Shareholder interests clash over compensation programs (14 May 2015)
Shareholders lead new French revolution (14 May 2015)
Accountant Grant Thornton hits back over damages claim with libel suit against Vincent Tchenguiz (13 May 2015)
The Top Five Accounting Mistakes Analysts Make (13 May 2015)
Close Auditor Ties May Cloud Independence (13 May 2015)
KPMG audit 'failed to address' patient data problems, claims former nurse (13 May 2015)
Federation of European Accountants - Oppsoing Change on Taxation and Regulation of the Tax Avoidance Industry (13 May 2015)
Internal auditors should be regulated: KPMG (13 May 2015)
Ex-Alstom Ethics Official Is Charged in U.K. Corruption Probe (13 May 2015)
Revolving Doors: Treasury reveals level of Big Four secondments (13 May 2015)
Fat cats: Long-term incentive plans for bosses 'damage firms' (13 May 2015)
ICAEW MP numbers swell as other institutes no-show (13 May 2015)
Gateley hopes to become Britain's first listed law firm with £140m sale (13 May 2015)
Glencore reveals it's being audited by ATO over taxes (13 May 2015)
US Groups Worried about Future of Private Company Council (13 May 2015)
TTIP: The secret corporate takeover of trade agreements (13 May 2015)
What is TTIP and why does Cameron want to sign the biggest trade agreement in history? (13 May 2015)
TTIP: Obama's plans for trade deals with Asia and Europe in tatters after Senate vote (13 May 2015)
Citigroup may plead guilty to currency rigging as banks brace for mega fines (12 May 2015)
Barclays braced for £2bn fine for rigging foreign currency rates, with Royal Bank of Scotland also set for hefty penalty (12 May 2015)
Revolving Doors and Threats to Independence: Outside Auditors Get Asked In (12 May 2015)
The Big Number: SEC gets 400 auditor indepndence queries a year(12 May 2015)

Court finds Nomura and RBS misled investors (12 May 2015)
Shareholder Rights Directive: REPORT on the proposal for a directive of the European Parlaiment: Although they do not own corporations, which are separate legal entities beyond their full control, shareholders play a relevant role in the governance of those corporations (12 May 2015)
BDO is auditor of choice for AIM market (12 May 2015)
Bank of America: A Lesson in Poor Corporate Governance (12 May 2015)
Satyam's Ramalinga Raju, 9 others get bail, sentences suspended by court (12 May 2015)
PCAOB Broadens Outreach to Audit Committees (12 May 2015)
The power of insider: The big auditors and tax business (11 May 2015)
Tesco axes PwC as auditor after accounting scandal (11 May 2015)
PwC's 32 year Tesco audit reign ends as Deloitte appointed (11 May 2015)
Tesco names Deloitte as new auditor after accounting scandal (11 May 2015)
Toshiba Set to Drop by Limit on Extended Accounting Probe (11 May 2015)
Aberdeen to contest cosy auditing relationships (11 May 2015)
IFG looks to ditch PwC as audit rules set to trigger big changes (11 May 2015)
ACCA to leave Lincoln's Inn Fields for The Adelphi (11 May 2015)
Jury Rules for Deloitte Over Insurance-Company Failures (11 May 2015)
Deloitte cleared in $850 million state lawsuit (11 May 2015)
Tax Wars: ICAEW increases representation in Commons (11 May 2015)
Arrest the pay decline – fair shares would be a boost for UK (8 May 2015)
Toshiba Withdraws Forecast as It Reviews Irregularities in Its Accounts (8 May 2015)
Toshiba Pulls Forecast, Cancels Dividend on Accounting Probe (8 May 2015)
Vadian Bank to pay $4.2 mln in deal with US over tax offenses (8 May 2015)
EU lawmakers back rewards for long-term shareholders (8 May 2015)
Florida Jury Deliberates Deloitte Auditing Case (8 May 2015)
SEC Chief Accountant Backs Away from IFRS Proposal (8 May 2015)
NO IFRS Covergence: There is virtually no support to have the SEC mandate IFRS for all registrants, says SEC Chief Accountant (8 May 2015)
EFRAG gets political as Wolf Klinz named president (8 May 2015)
SEC's Chief Accountant Signals End to Convergence Efforts (8 May 2015)
What's wrong with finance (8 May 2015)
US Companies May Gain Ability to Reconcile to IFRS Accounting (8 May 2015)
HP fraud case: is accounting at the heart HP's attempts to blame UK software company Autonomy? (7 May 2015)
Hewlett-Packard unveils details of $5bn Autonomy fraud case (7 May 2015)
Wells Fargo Increases Estimated Potential Loss to Litigation in Excess of Legal Reserves (7 May 2015)
SEC Charges Four Former Officers of Delaware Bank Holding Company With Disclosure Fraud (7 May 2015)
BDO bosses the AIM audit market but Grant Thornton leads on tech (7 May 2015)
Former Owner of Empire Towers Pleads Guilty for Fraudulent $7 Million Bond Scheme and Filing False Tax Return (7 May 2015)
Peter Erskine quits as Ladbrokes chairman a month after chief leaves (7 May 2015)
Grant Thornton assistant manager pleads guilty to embezzling £726,000 of charity cash (6 May 2015)
Sainsbury's makes £72m full-year loss on property writedowns (6 May 2015)
Federal Reserve's Janet Yellen in share price warning (6 May 2015)
Tesco's boardroom clearout continues (6 May 2015)
ISS Challenges Some Mondelez Directors Over Past Accounting Errors (6 May 2015)
To Serve Investors, Accounting Must Evolve (6 May 2015)
HSBC profits rise but chief executive Stuart Gulliver admits Swiss tax scandal has rocked morale (6 May 2015)
JPMorgan gets SEC subpoenas over mutual fund sales (6 May 2015)
JPMorgan probed over role in French tax evasion case (6 May 2015)
No major party has anything to offer Britain's poorest this election (5 May 2015)
Are the Big 4 accounting firms or technology giants? (5 May 2015)
Accountancy growing five times faster than law profession (5 May 2015)
SEC Backlog Delays Whistleblower Awards (5 May 2015)
Rise of the FTSE 100 fat cats: How the top 100 bosses have pocketed almost £500m between them (5 May 2015)
Insolvency: RBS 'stripped assets' of struggling firms (5 May 2015)
US Supreme Court hands win to Barclays over $4 billion in Lehman assets (5 May 2015)
Who Cares That IPOs Lack Accounting Standards? Nobody, Really (4 May 2015)
Bubbly? Shares Surge For Companies With Weak Accounting Systems (4 May 2015)
The $350 Apple Watch reportedly costs only $84 to manufacture (4 May 2015)
HSBC whistleblower warns that he has more information and could act again (4 May 2015)
PwC ends A-level criteria for graduate jobs (4 May 2015)
Shrinking audit and KPMG SME offering means practice revolution (4 May 2015)
Insolvency: Contracts void in carcraft collapse (4 May 2015)
Global Audit Regulators Agree on Information Exchange (1 May 2015)
10 Items Distorting The Balance Sheets Of Prominent Companies (1 May 2015)
Shrinking audit and KPMG SME offering means practice revolution (1 May 2015)
HSBC files: UK tax officials under fire for allowing payment amnesty (1 May 2015)
Avaaz letter to HMRC - seeking judicial review of inertia over HSBC ( 1 May 2015)
Insolvency: Carcraft collapses leaving hundreds without jobs and customers out of pocket (1 May 2015)
An Audit of Audit Fees (1 Mar 2015)
SEC Lacks Accounting Controls It Seeks in Others, GAO Says (1 May 2015)

APRIL 2015

RBS warns of tough times ahead after setting aside £856m for charges (30 Apr 2015)
Fat cats: WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell paid £43m, making him Britain's best-paid CEO (30 Apr 2015)
Banks and pension funds continue to bankroll deforestation (30 Apr 2015)
Women surpass men in ICAEW exams for first time (30 Apr 2015)
Price of a scandal: Brazil's oil giant Petrobras in £11bn write-down (30 Apr 2015)
Apple warned it could face £1.5bn bill if found guilty of tax avoidance (30 Apr 2015)
Tax Dodgers Inc. – The roll of dishonour: the top dodgers whose unpaid tax exposes government hypocrisy (29 Apr 2015)
Saipem to fight investor lawsuit claiming it overstated profits (29 Apr 2015)
IASB votes to propose delaying effective date of revenue standard (29 Apr 2015)
SEC Proposes Rules to Require Companies to Disclose the Relationship Between Executive Pay and a Company’s Financial Performance (29 Apr 2015)
SEC Proposes Rules on Executive Pay and Performance (29 Apr 2015)
US Rule Makers Propose Year Delay on Revenue Recognition Overhaul (29 Apr 2015)
Barclays sets aside £800m for more foreign exchange penalties (29 Apr 2015)
SEC Charges Santa Barbara-Based Hedge Fund Firm, Executives, and Auditor for Improper Expense Allocations (29 Apr 2015)
Fighting Corporate Abuse: Where there’s a will: how to clear up the bankers’ mess (28 Apr 2015)
Mishcon to bring judicial review against KPMG over interest rate mis-selling compensation (28 Apr 2015)
Court grants judicial review over redress scheme payouts (28 Apr 2015)
Transfer pricing: what developing countries are doing, China edition (28 Apr 2015)
Apple to return more cash to investors as profits soar (28 Apr 2015)
FASB Proposes Accounting Standards Changes for Employee Benefit Plans and Electricity Contracts (28 Apr 2015)
Britain's biggest banks face further £19bn of fines and charges to pay for financial scandals (28 Apr 2015)
Sacked Morrisons boss receives £1.1m on top of £2.1m pay (28 Apr 2015)
Centrica suffers protest vote over pay deal for new boss Iain Conn (28 Apr 2015)
BP sees profit fall sharply to $2.1bn (28 Apr 2015)
BP shareholders need protecting from David Cameron (28 Apr 2015)
We will probe alleged missing $20b oil money, says Buhari (28 Apr 2015)
Nigeria: 'Missing' $20billion Oil Money: Our audit report not reliable — PricewaterhouseCoopers (28 Apr 2015)
The Tory mirage of share-owning democracy (27 Apr 2015)
EU to scrutinise global accounting rules more closely (27 Apr 2015)
UK raises the small company audit threshold (27 Apr 2015)
PCAOB Preparing New Rule for Audits of Accounting Estimates (27 Apr 2015)
Average tax rate paid by FTSE 100 resumes downward slide (27 Apr 2015)
South Africa: The portfolio committee on trade and industry has heard calls for the criminalisation of transfer pricing (27 Apr 2015)
Deutsche Bank profit hit by legal costs (27 Apr 2015)
Inogen settles accounting probe, profit soft (27 Apr 2015)
Shareholder spring: where are we now? (27 Apr 2015)
SEC Announces Million-Dollar Whistleblower Award to Compliance Officer (27 Apr 2015)
US banks face 'golden parachutes' challenge (27 Apr 2015)
Inogen settles accounting probe, profit soft (27 Apr 2015)
Oil price drop triggers wave of profit warnings (27 Apr 2015)
Directors cannot blame corporate wrongdoing on their company, Supreme Court rules (24 Apr 2015)
Insolvent company can sue fraudulent directors (24 Apr 2015)
Supreme Court seeks review of 'illegality defence' (24 Apr 2015)
More Conflict of Interests: EY, Microsoft Team Up to Offer Innovative Services (24 Apr 2015)
Remember the Luxembourg Leaks: PwC awarded top marks on corporate responsibility (24 Apr 2015)
Petrobras scandal adds to $16.8b losses: how gang allegedly used Spanx and cling film to smuggle millions (24 Apr 2015)
William Hill takes £16m hit from taxes (24 Apr 2015)
Who audits the auditors' auditor? (24 Apr 2015)
Nasdaq sets aside $31m to compensate investors in botched $16bn Facebook IPO (24 Apr 2015)
Church accountant who stole from Dudley Christian centre to pay back £30000 (24 Apr 2015)
Retailers face multibillion-dollar hit from proposed lease accounting changes (23 Apr 2015)
Noble Accounting Spat Puts Spotlight on Trading Houses (23 Apr 2015)
Merrill Lynch International (MLI) has been fined £13,285,900 by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for incorrectly reporting 35,034,810 transactions and failing to report another 121,387 transactions (23 Apr 2015)
Deutsche Bank hit with largest Libor fine in history (23 Apr 2015)
French Journalist Perrin Charged Over PwC LuxLeaks Role (23 Apr 2015)
FASB Proposes Major Changes in Nonprofit Accounting (23 Apr 2015)
In Curbing Transfer Pricing, China Moves Beyond OECD Guidelines (23 Apr 2015)
Accounting guru asks auditors to have courage to expose fraud (23 Apr 2015)
Petrobras counts cost of corruption scandal as 2014 losses exceed $7bn (23 Apr 2015)
Brazil's Petrobras takes $17bn hit (23 Apr 2015)
Arris Agrees to Buy Pace for $2.1 Billion in Inversion Deal (23 Apr 2015)
Privatisation Of Lloyds Bank Is Plain and Simple Voter Bribery (22 Apr 2015)
If you’re asking me to trust you KPMG show that you’re worth it (22 Apr 2015)
Unitary Taxation: Tax Base and the Role of Accounting by Prem Sikka and Richard Murphy (22 Apr 2015)
Tesco posts record £6.4bn annual loss (22 Apr 2015)
Tesco staff facing pension threat (22 Apr 2015)
'Accountant of Auschwitz': I am morally complicit in the murder of Jews (22 Apr 2015)
American Apparel Accused in Suit of Firing CEO to Sell Chain (22 Apr 2015)
Rip-off: City watchdog closes 'scam' property fund that promised 51pc return (22 Apr 2015)
Ernst and Young hires 150 lawyers for new vertical e-Discovery (22 Apr 2015)
Deutsche Bank expects €1.5bn litigation costs (22 Apr 2015)
Wonga weighs up a name change as it slumps into the red (22 Apr 2015)
Tate & Lyle slides as analyst turns negative (22 Apr 2015)
Number of Accounting Fraud Cases Continues to Rise (21 Apr 2015)
KPMG Taps Veteran as First Female CEO (21 Apr 2015)
Big Four aiming for the small market? (21 Apr 2015)
CompaniesEU audit reform prompts Mazars-Roever merger (21 Apr 2015)
FRC consults on limited amendments to FRS 102 (21 Apr 2015)
IFRS Foundation calls for delay to revenue recognition (21 Apr 2015)
Insolvency: Phones 4U collapse: guess who profited - hedge funds or taxpayers (21 Apr 2015)
'Accountant of Auschwitz': I am morally complicit in the murder of Jews (21 Apr 2015)
PwC to Pay $65 Million to Settle Lawsuit Over MF Global (20 Apr 2015)
PwC to pay $65 million to resolve lawsuit over MF Global (20 Apr 2015)
HSBC to face investors' anger over scandals and bumper executive payouts (20 Apr 2015)
Holding Governments to Ransom: HSBC Chairman Signals Bank May Move Headquarters From London (20 Apr 2015)
Britain's bank tax jump threatens to push HSBC, StanChart to new home (20 Apr 2015)
Nordstrom Sued for Family Flights as Investor Seeks Accounting (20 Apr 2015)
Answers Needed for Flaws in M&A Accounting Standard (20 Apr 2015)
Wonga dives into red after scandals and crackdown (20 Apr 2015)
Ex-Freddie Mac Leaders Reach Deal With SEC (20 Apr 2015)
EY Sees Barriers to Use of Big Data for Audits (20 Apr 2015)
Chung-Ang University foundation probed for accounting fraud (20 Apr 2015)
Labour pledge to tackle tax avoidance is vital, but it will need to get tough with the industry (17 Apr 2015)
Shareholders overwhelmingly back embattled Noble Group's accounts (17 Apr 2015)
Noble Group Shareholders Challenge Management on Accounting (17 Apr 2015)
Big US investors push SEC for oil industry to detail risks of climate change (17 Apr 2015)
'Lowballing' a continuing threat to audit firms, claim analysts (17 Apr 2015)
Easier to go after the smaller firms: Leeds United: Auditor probe over United accounts (17 Apr 2015)
Leeds deny conflict of interest in auditing of accounts (17 Apr 2015)
SEC Charges New York-Based Financial Advisor With Stealing $20 Million From Customers (17 Apr 2015)
Former JPMorgan Chase Broker Charged in $20 Million Fraud (17 Apr 2015)
Pricewaterhousecoopers Disappointed Over Satyam Case Verdict (17 Apr 2015)
Alstom Faces More Criminal Charges in U.K. SFO Bribery Probe (17 Apr 2015)
Alstom to face further SFO criminal charges (17 Apr 2015)
SEC Charges 10 Individuals in Scheme to Sell Stock in Blank Check Companies Secretly Bound for Reverse Mergers (17 Apr 2015)
A.G. Schneiderman Announces Settlement With Ernst & Young Over Auditor’s Involvement In Alleged Fraud At Lehman Brothers: Auditors Will Be Held Accountable For Failures To Honestly And Fairly Audit Public Companies (16 Apr 2015)
Insolvency Sharks: KPMG has charged $6 million in administrator fees to Alpari UK insolvency, expects total take of $7-8 million (16 Apr 2015)
BNP PARIBAS BANK SENTENCED TO FORFEITURE OF NEARLY $8.9 BILLION IN PENALTIES FOLLOWING GUILTY PLEA TO CRIMINAL CHARGES (16 Apr 2015)
An Auditor Independence State of Mind (16 Apr 2015)
At least 21 financial advisers in Switzerland charged with aiding American tax dodgers are at large (16 Apr 2015)
Creative accounting in listed companies (16 Apr 2015)
IASB and its Imperialist Project of World Domination - One Size Fits All (16 Apr 2015)
Law firms follow auditors down risky rollup trail (16 Apr 2015)
Twenty-eight English clubs are now owned overseas, increasing the risk of tax avoidance (15 Apr 2015)
Ernst & Young settles with NY for $10 million over Lehman auditing (15 Apr 2015)
Ernst & Young Reaches Settlement With NY Attorney General (15 Apr 2015)
How anonymously owned companies are used to rip off government budgets (15 Apr 2015)
Next UK government will be 'brutal' on tax avoidance, whichever party wins (15 Apr 2015)
What auditors ought to let US investors know (15 Apr 2015)
Auditing the auditors (15 Apr 2015)
New EFRAG chief signals more political approach to standard setting (15 Apr 2015)
CIPFA and ICAS to offer joint audit qualification (15 Apr 2015)
HSBC seeks new non-executive directors in wake of tax evasion scandal (15 Apr 2015)
Insolvency: Unsecured Phones 4U creditors to get just 0.4pc back says PwC (15 Apr 2015)
Insolvency: Phones 4U bosses lent £460000 before collapse (15 Apr 2015)
FCA fines The Bank of New York Mellon London branch and The Bank of New York Mellon International Limited £126 million for failure to comply with the Custody Rules (15 Apr 2015)
Deloitte appeal over MG Rover collapse sees £14m fine cut to £3m (14 Apr 2015)
Deloitte's record fine over MG Rover slashed to £3m (14 Apr 2015)
Euro Unions Slam Big Four Accountancy Firms for Dodging Trillions in Tax - called for the split-up of the Big Four accountancy firms, PWC, Ernst & Young, Deloitte and KPMG (14 Apr 2015)
Ex-Molex Accountant Barred by SEC Over Unauthorized Trading (14 Apr 2015)
Women ACAs paid £37000 less than male peers (14 Apr 2015)
KPMG to Buy Health-Care Consultant Beacon Partners (14 Apr 2015)
Accountancy Roles No Longer the Preserve of Accountants (14 Apr 2015)
How Accounting Firms Waste Time And Money On Thought Leadership (14 Apr 2015)
Big Four accountants forced to defend legality of tax advice in Australia (13 Apr 2015)
Co-op Group members revolt over boardroom elections (13 Apr 2015)
Europe Slow to Adopt New Accounting Standard Despite Greek Crisis (13 Apr 2015)
Small Talk: Labour's plan to cancel the cut in corporation tax has the virtue of fairness (13 Apr 2015)
Starcom travails highlight accounting problems for small-caps (13 Apr 2015)
Labour pledges huge fines on tax avoiders to raise £7.5bn a year (13 Apr 2015)
MG Rover Group, Deloitte & Touche and Mr Maghsoud Einollahi – Report of Appeal Tribunal on Sanction (13 Apr 2015)
Deloitte sees record FRC fine of £14m over MG Rover role slashed to £3m (13 Apr 2015)
Who wins from inheritance tax giveaway? (13 Apr 2015)
Scrapping non-dom tax status would hit bank chiefs (13 Apr 2015)
Labour's plan to axe 'non-dom' tax status will hit Bank of England governor Mark Carney (13 Apr 2015)
Corporate tax cuts help big business and small firms pay the price (10 Apr 2015)
ATO has 'comfortable' relationship with big accountancy firms, Senate hears (10 Apr 2015)
No evidence that tax disclosure laws increase kidnapping, inquiry told (10 Apr 2015)
Australia: Big Four firms consistently 'unaware' before tax inquiry (10 Apr 2015)
Australia: Accounting giants PwC and Deloitte defend tax advice (10 Apr 2015)
Noble Group Faces Fresh Attack From Muddy Waters (10 Apr 2015)
France widens HSBC Swiss bank inquiry to global holding company (10 Apr 2015)
HSBC under French criminal investigation over Swiss tax evasion (10 Apr 2015)
FASB Finalizing Credit Impairment Guidance (10 Apr 2015)
PCAOB Preparing New Rule for Audits of Accounting Estimates (10 Apr 2015)
Competitors say Satyam verdict will haunt PriceWaterhouseCoopers (10 Apr 2015)
India's biggest accounting fraud (10 Apr 2015)
Satyam Computer scam: How India's biggest accounting fraud unfolded (10 Apr 2015)
Bulgaria charges KPMG auditors over Corpbank activities (9 Apr 2015)
Asking a global accounting firm for advice on tax reform is like putting Dracula in charge of a blood bank (9 Apr 2015)
India Satyam Computers: B Ramalinga Raju guilty of fraud (9 Apr 2015)
Satyam verdict may have wider implications (9 Apr 2015)
HSBC faces French criminal tax probe (9 Apr 2015)
Revised US Auditing Standard Puts Onus on Auditor to Read Annual Reports (9 Apr 2015)
Insolvency: MG Rover administrator 'seeks £56m in overpaid VAT' (9 Apr 2015)
Google, Apple and Microsoft defend tax set-up that shifts revenue offshore (9 Apr 2015)
The Pinstripe Mafia defends tax avoidance: Google, Apple, Microsoft tax structures legal, says KPMG (9 Apr 2015)
The Ostrich Position: Tax avoidance is moral question for clients, not advisor - says the ICAEW (9 Apr 2015)
Starbucks 'used UK firm' to cut European tax bill (8 Apr 2015)
European regulators roast Starbucks (8 Apr 2015)
Balfour Beatty receives clean bill of health as audit tender lined up (8 Apr 2015)
Sign the Petition: An end to front companies in order to secure a fairer Europe (7 Apr 2015)
SUPPORT MANIFESTO FOR A CITIZENS' PARLIAMENT (7 Apr 2015)
TelexFree lawsuit names Bank of America, PricewaterhouseCoopers (7 Apr 2015)
Rip-off: Insolvency Accountants paid up to £600 an hour to recover assets (7 Apr 2015)
Huge Profit Stokes Concerns Over Starbucks's Tax Practices in Europe (7 Apr 2015)
Toshiba Drops Most Since 2012 After Accounting Probe (7 Apr 2015)
Intel changes its accounting practices, will no longer report mobile group losses (7 Apr 2015)
PKF Pacific Hawaii managing partner Patrick Oki accused of stealing $500K (7 Apr 2015)
Insolvency: PwC winds up last remnants of Enron's European operations (7 Apr 2015)
US Corporations cannot muzzle whistleblowers with secrecy agreements any longer (7 Apr 2015)

PCAOB Sanctions 5 Auditors for Violations (7 Apr 2015)
Killer Deloitte manager gives up, faces 10-year jail (7 Apr 2015)
Trial begins in Florida state's $850-million suit vs. Deloitte (6 Apr 2015)
Accounting-related US Securities Class Actions Climb 47% (6 Apr 2015)
Kellogg's pays next to no tax in Britain (6 Apr 2015)
Insolvency: EE hit with £336m bill from Phones 4U collapse (6 Apr 2015)
Australia: More profit-shifting to Singapore (6 Apr 2015)
Kellogg's says tax clampdown will harm profits (6 Apr 2015)
Insolvency: Lawyers of former staff of City Link take compensation case to employment tribunal (6 Apr 2015)
EY UK managing partner signs 'anti-business' Labour letter (6 Apr 2015)
FASB Plans Further Accounting Simplification Projects (3 Apr 2015)
Schemes concerned pension accounting SORP will drive costs 25% (3 Apr 2015)
US board may delay sweeping accounting rule change for revenue (3 Apr 2015)
One good thing from the lingering HP-Autonomy mess, better governance (3 Apr 2015)
FASB Defers Revenue Recognition Standard for 1 Year (3 Apr 2015)
HP in talks with Deloitte over Autonomy auditing claims (2 Apr 2015)
Hewlett-Packard in talks to reach legal settlement over alleged fraud (2 Apr 2015)
How PricewaterhouseCoopers Got Implicated In Petrobras SA (ADR) (PBR) Corruption Scandal (2 Apr 2015)
HSBC must do more to clean up operations, says report (2 Apr 2015)
Quindell admits it misled investors over profitability of business it is selling in £637m deal (2 Apr 2015)
SEC Fires Warning Shot About Confidentiality Agreements (2 Apr 2015)
Audit Commission successor up and running (2 Apr 2015)
SEC: Polycom ex-CEO hid perks from investors (2 Apr 2015)
World Bank funding 'shrouded in darkness and riddled with abuse' (2 Apr 2015)
Oxfam Report - The Suffering of Others: The human cost of the International Finance Corporation’s lending through financial intermediaries (2 Apr 2015)
Class-Action Lawsuits Follow SEC Interest in Accounting Issues (1 Apr 2015)
Accounting Class-Action Filings Jumped 47% Last Year (1 Apr 2015)
McDonald's under EU scrutiny for tax rulings in Luxembourg (1 Apr 2015)
How to Mitigate Impact of New Lease Accounting Rules (1 Apr 2015)
Hewlett-Packard's legal battle with Autonomy heads to UK courts (1 Apr 2015)
HP sues Autonomy founder Mike Lynch for $5.1bn over fraud claims (1 Apr 2015)
Revolding Doors: Lord McFall joins ICAS Council (1 Apr 2015)
Accountants and Professional services (1 Apr 2015)
Ex-Carlisle businessman fleeced by his 'trusted accountant', court told (1 Apr 2015)
SEC: Companies Cannot Stifle Whistleblowers in Confidentiality Agreements (1 Apr 2015)
SEC Charges KBR With Violating Whistleblower Protection Rule (1 Apr 2015)
SEC Commissioner Rejects IFRS (1 Apr 2015)
Revolving Doors: Lord McFall joins ICAS Council (1 Apr 2015)
Swiss Asset Manager Pleads Guilty in Federal Court to Conspiring with U.S. Taxpayers to Evade Federal Income Taxes and File False Tax Returns (1 Apr 2015)
Wal-Mart Ratchets Up Pressure on Suppliers to Cut Prices (1 Apr 2015)
Quindell to change accounting policies (1 Apr 2015)
Turf Wars and Social Closure: ICAEW CEO Izza challenges government on tax regulation (1 Apr 2015)

MARCH 2015

Corporate Welfare is Fuelling Austerity (31 Mar 2015)
US not liable for alleged SEC negligence in Stanford fraud: court (31 Mar 2015)
Gazprom picks Russian auditor over PwC (31 Mar 2015)
FCA gives in to MP pressure to publish internal audits (31 Mar 2015)
FCA bows to MPs pressure over audit reports (31 Mar 2015)
Auditor Liability: 'Bannerman clause' upheld in Grant Thornton Barclays case (31 Mar 2015)
How can we curb 'fat cat' bosses' pay? (31 Mar 2015)
Kenneth Carver, a retired accountant, fined £35,212 for insider dealing (31 Mar 2015)
Online gambling company's director arrested in £21m fraud investigation (31 Mar 2015)
Anyone seen pink elephants: More tax avoidance disclosures to be made to institutes - HMRC (31 Mar 2015)
Serious Fraud Office (SFO) fined £180000 for BAE data breach (31 Mar 2015)
The Ostrich Position: Leave audit regulatory model alone, says ICAEW (31 Mar 2015)
HSBC's attempts to clean up US business practices are falling short, report says (31 Mar 2015)
More tax avoidance disclosures to be made to institutes - HMRC (31 Mar 2015)
MEPs and EC at loggerheads over IFRS review (31 Mar 2015)
Scandal-hit Quindell sells legal arm to Slater & Gordon for £637m (31 Mar 2015)
MPs' report on City Link collapse unjust, says Better Capital (31 Mar 2015)
Travis Perkins ends Deloitte audit reign with KPMG appointment (31 Mar 2015)
Ernst & Young may be forced to close its Turkey branch (30 Mar 2015)
ICAEW: No disciplinaries yet against tax avoidance advisers (30 Mar 2015)
Co-op Bank could pay boss £5m package as losses halve (30 Mar 2015)
SEC Commissioner Rejects IFRS (30 Mar 2015)
Sports Direct board failing to curb Ashley's power, says IoD (30 Mar 2015)
FRC Report: Transparency Reporting by Auditors of Public Interest Entities - Review of Mandatory Reports (30 Mar 2015)
PCAOB considering a more logical organization of its standards (30 Mar 2015)
Sir Philip Green's family firm received £70m from sales to new BHS owners (30 Mar 2015)
An accountants guide to the law on whistleblowing (30 Mar 2015)
Cash incentives for whistleblowers make sense (30 Mar 2015)
UK Information commissioner investigates alleged sales of pension pot data (30 Mar 2015)
SEC Charges Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc With Faulty Underwriting of Public Offering by China-Based Company (30 Mar 2015)
Here's why ordinary people aren't feeling the economic recovery: A sustainable economy can’t be built on a shrinking share of GDP for ordinary people, but political parties are not offering any alternatives (27 Mar 2015)
Slow death of equity markets is bad news (27 Mar 2015)
"I am not convinced of a need to abandon U.S. GAAP in favor of IFRS", says SEC Commissioner Kara M. Stein (27 Mar 2015)
Bank Asya shareholders lodge complaint against Ernst & Young Turkey (27 Mar 2015)
Hand over the emails sent by disgraced banker Fred Goodwin during financial crisis, judge tells RBS (27 Mar 2015)
Sports Direct take legal action against shareholder who asked to see share register (27 Mar 2015)
Rangers fan in legal battle with Sports Direct over shareholder campaign to review club retail agreements (27 Mar 2015)
Co-op Bank halves its annual losses (27 Mar 2015)
HMRC is 'too cosy with those that help companies avoid tax', say MPs (26 Mar 2015)
Public Accounts Committee: We are concerned that HMRC’s relationship with large accountancy firms is too cosy (26 Mar 2015)
Prosecute financial advisers who assist in tax avoidance, say MPs (26 Mar 2015)
Anger as 'last bank in town' deal is ditched (26 Mar 2015)
PCAOB on Verge of Reorganizing Audit Standards (26 Mar 2015)
HMRC accused of 'failing to check tax reliefs' by MPs (26 Mar 2015)
The practice of creating artificial structures and transactions to exploit international tax boundaries and so avoid tax in the UK is widespread (28 Mar 2015)
Public Accounts Committee: We are concerned that HMRC’s relationship with large accountancy firms is too cosy (26 Mar 2015)
House of CommonsCommittee of Public Accounts Report: The effective management of tax reliefs (26 Mar 2015)
House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts Report: Improving tax collection (26 Mar 2015)
UK MPs call for radical reduction in use of UK tax relief (26 Mar 2015)
Chelsea FC partner is named over Heron Tower fraud raid (26 Mar 2015)
Interview: FRC chairman Sir Win Bischoff (26 Mar 2015)
Settlement Agreement between the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control and PayPal, Inc.; OFAC has also Released Additional Enforcement Information (26 Mar 2015)
FRC confirms 2015/2016 levy hike in response to new audit responsibilities (26 Mar 2015)
PayPal pays £5.2m over allegations it allowed a black market for weapons of mass destruction going to Iran, Libya and North Korea (26 Mar 2015)
Schlumberger Oilfield Holdings Ltd. Agrees to Plead Guilty and Pay Over $232.7 Million for Violating US Sanctions by Facilitating Trade with Iran and Sudan (26 Mar 2015)
Balfour Beatty reports £59m loss (25 Mar 2015)
What degree should you study to become a billionaire? Not accountancy (25 Mar 2015)
Top UK industrialist channelled millions through obscure company (25 Mar 2015)
BAT picks KMPG as auditor after PwC dispute (25 Mar 2015)
Code of Audit Practice for the audit of local public bodies published by NAO (25 Mar 2015)
AA raises £935m to slim down debt mountain (25 Mar 2015)
U.S. Banking Regulators Said to Double Leverage-Lending Reviews (25 Mar 2015)
Avoiding the Pitfalls in Creative Accounting (25 Mar 2015)
US worker share of GDP is 52.7% (24 Mar 2015)
Tesco faces further legal action from UK shareholders (24 Mar 2015)
Tesco faces £1.9 billion lawsuit over profits black hole (24 Mar 2015)
Tesco director who led boardroom overhaul quits supermarket (24 Mar 2015)
FRC audit quality inspection raps Mazars (24 Mar 2015)
Serious Fraud Office to look into expenses at struggling oil company Afren (24 Mar 2015)
Archant faces another HMRC investigation over its tax affairs (24 Mar 2015)
Chartered accountant had £500k of 'criminal cash' in his loft (24 Mar 20015)
Turf Wars: Big Four accountancy giants are biggest threat to law firms (24 Mar 2015)
Turf Wars - LAWYERS BEWARE: The accountants are coming after your business (24 Mar 2015)
How lucrative NHS deals go to firms that use tax havens (24 Mar 2015)
Unite investigates: Tax Avoiders buying up the NHS - And how TTIP could “lock in” tax avoidance (24 Mar 2015)
FRC: Formal complaint against Mr Mark Woodbridge, former Group Financial Accountant of Torex Retail plc (24 Mar 2015)
ICAEW is unfit to regulate accountancy firms involved in tax avoidance, says John McDonnell MP (23 Mar 2015)
Big accountancy firms, which are paid an enormous amount of money to provide audited accounts, never seem to notice what the individuals and companies that they are auditing are doing with their money to prevent themselves from paying tax, says David Heath MP (23 Mar 2015)
UK government rejects Public Accounts Committee's calls for a code of conduct for all tax advisers - see page 41 (23 Mar 2015)
KPMG cooked 1MDB's books, Sarawak Report says (23 Mar 2015)
1MDB fiasco grows global - was int'l auditor 'bribed' to 'cook the books'? (23 Mar 2015)
Ernst & Young (EY) settles lawsuit with Worldspreads administrators KPMG (23 Mar 2015)
FRC publishes Audit Quality Inspection Report on Mazars LLP: The firm needs ti improve quality of its audits (23 Mar 2015)
City Link collapse exposes insolvency flaws, say MPs (23 Mar 2015)
Insolvency: City Link administrators confirm suppliers will get almost nothing (23 Mar 2015)
Statoil's historic disclosures blow holes in Exxon and Shell's campaign for secrecy (23 Mar 2015)
Mysterious researcher questions Noble Group accounting practices (23 Mar 2015)
Noble Group Receives Another Chilly Critique From Iceberg (23 Mar 2015)
Asian giant Noble takes legal action over allegations (23 Mar 2015)
Revolving Doors; Former Centrica boss to chair HSBC remuneration committee (23 Mar 2015)
Video: The Pin-Stripe Mafia: How Accountancy Firms Destroy Societies (20 Mar 2015)
People’s Parliament to discuss How Corrupt is Britain? (20 Mar 2015)
I was wrong: the government has no intention of regulating the tax profession (20 Mar 2015)
UK Governemnt failure on policing the Pinstripe Mafia: No real action aganst the tax avoidance industry (20 Mar 2015)
Insolvency: UK House of Commons debate on how accountants looted Premier Motor Auctions (20 Mar 2015)
AIG investors to receive $970.5m over pre-crisis shares (20 Mar 2015)
AT&T loses $40m due to legal error in patent ruling (20 Mar 2015)
NHS deficit could hit £2.5bn this year, warns top health chief (20 Mar 2015)
SEC Whistleblower Retaliation Push Could Face Challenge (20 Mar 2015)
KPMG plans advisory spending spree (20 Mar 2015)
TSB agrees £1.7bn takeover by Spain's Sabadell (20 Mar 2015)
Tesco takes full ownership of 21 superstores in deal with British Land (20 Mar 2015)
HSBC announces board-level reshuffle (20 Mar 2015)
Turkish bank warns Ernst & Young over financial auditing (19 Mar 2015)
The Pinstripe Mafia will continue to run amok: Treasury says tax professionals will continue to self regulate (19 Mar 2015)
FRC issues new UK and Irish interim reporting requirements (19 Mar 2015)
FRS 104: Interim Financial Reporting (19 Mar 2015)
Former City trader jailed for insider dealing (19 Mar 2015)
Operation Tabernula: The story of the biggest insider trading investigation in UK history (19 Mar 2015)
IG Group customers rack up £18.4m of debts after Swiss franc turmoil (19 Mar 2015)
SEC Chief Sees Virtue in Activist Investors (19 Mar 2015)
Department for Business, Innovation & Skills issues 'Auditor regulation:supplementary information-the implications of the EU and wider reforms' (19 Mar 2015)
Let's not fool ourselves. We may not bribe, but corruption is rife in Britain (18 Mar 2015)
HSBC confirms PwC will take over as auditor from KPMG this month (18 Mar 2015)
Former HSBC boss tells City audience business leaders should be more ethical (18 Mar 2015)
Banks Say “Thanks for the Bailout,” Now We’ll Park our Profits in Overseas Tax Havens (18 Mar 2015)
Combatting corporate tax avoidance: Commission presents Tax Transparency (18 Mar 2015)
EU considers full public scrutiny of companies' tax arrangements (18 Mar 2015)
Need for more research on fair value (18 Mar 2015)
Summary: Ten Reasons to Defend the Corporation Tax (18 Mar 2015)
Full Report: Ten Reasons to Defend the Corporation Tax (18 Mar 2015)
New ruling highlights ongoing secrecy around Glencore tax case in Zambia (18 Mar 2015)
Australia Police Charge Former Commonwealth Bank Exec With Bribery (18 Mar 2015)
IASB Downplays Lease Accounting Rules Impact on Debt Covenants (17 Mar 2015)
IASB Prepares to Bring out Leasing Standard (17 Mar 2015)
IASB sets out practical effects of bringing leases onto the balance sheet (17 Mar 2015)
Leases: Practical implications of the new Leases Standard (17 Mar 2015)
Manchester mutual sues auditor Grant Thornton for £49m after hedge led to loss (17 Mar 2015)
Accounting irregularities are back to haunt us (17 Mar 2015)
Whitehall oblivious to effects of cuts, says National Audit Office head (17 Mar 2015)
Forensic accounting can track food fraud (17 Mar 2015)
UK bankers face 'reversed burden of proof' under new rules (17 Mar 2015)
Grant Thornton sued by Manchester Building Society (16 Mar 2015)
Manchester Building Society sues accountancy firm Grant Thornton for £49m (16 Mar 2015)
Deloitte sued for $384 million in lawyer class action in Canada (16 Mar 2015)
Ernst & Young Settles Lehman Suits With New Jersey, California Municipalities (16 Mar 2015)
PwC employee named in corporate espionage case (16 Mar 2015)
Deloitte talks settlement in Innoconcepts 2010 bankruptcy in Holland (16 Mar 2015)
Investors facing tax demands for their participation in disputed avoidance schemes should pursue claims against their advisers (16 Mar 2015)
MPs question FCA over insurance outsourcer Quindell's share dive (16 Mar 2015)
Former darling of Scottish Tories disqualified as company director for tax evasion (16 Mar 2015)
US seeking $1bn from RBS and Barclays (16 Mar 2015)
Audit Committees: Will Rona Fairhead hang up her £500k-a-year hat at HSBC? (16 Mar 2015)
Fat cats: Advertising boss Sir Martin Sorrell's pay hits record £36m high: Investor revolt is expected as head of WPP awarded staggering payout (16 Mar 2015)
Revolving Doors: Former House Ways and Means chair lands at PricewaterhouseCoopers (16 Mar 2015)
Property review fuels fears over the future of Bhs (16 Mar 2015)
Corporate Scandals Show that Predatory Capitalism is instituionalised (13 Mar 2015)
Video: How to Defeat Austerity (13 Mar 2015)
Untangling New Lease Accounting Rules (13 Mar 2015)
HSBC should face criminal trial says French prosecutor (13 Mar 2015)
It's not our fault! Can ignorance of fraud offer protection from liability? (13 Mar 2015)
IASB to consider further IAS 19 revisions to account for hybrid schemes (13 Mar 2015)
Serco suffers profits collapse but on 'path to recovery' says CEO (13 Mar 2015)
Morrisons' losses soar to £800m (12 Mar 2015)
BHS sold for £1 – Sir Philip Green announces sale of loss-making chain (12 Mar 2015)
"Hybrid" pensions may need new accounting rules-IASB (12 Mar 2015)
NYDFS ANNOUNCES COMMERZBANK TO PAY $1.45 BILLION, TERMINATE EMPLOYEES, INSTALL INDEPENDENT MONITOR FOR BANKING LAW VIOLATIONS (12 Mar 2015)
Why Did US Units of Deutsche Bank, Banco Santander Fail the Stress Test? (12 Mar 2015)
Four major US banks scrape through Federal Reserve stress tests (12 Mar 2015)
Forging cooperation between internal audit, external audit, audit committee (12 Mar 2015)
Whitbread ditches long-term auditor for Deloitte (12 Mar 2015)
What are the biggest French banks doing in tax havens? (12 Mar 2015)
Serco suffers profits collapse but on 'path to recovery' says CEO (12 Mar 2015)
HSBC's Flint in difficult position to deliver crucial accountability (12 Mar 2015)
Passports for cash: the countries selling citizenship to tax havens (12 Mar 2015)
Corporate Welfare: Accountants attack tax break 'snobbery' for orchestras (12 Mar 2015)
This election, remember that cracking down on tax avoidance could end austerity (11 Mar 2015)
FCA drops Connaught compensation talks; investigates Capita (11 Mar 2015)
G4S writes off £45m for asylum deal as it swings back into profit (11 Mar 2015)
European Parliament’s inquiry committee on #LuxLeaks is taking shape (11 Mar 2015)
E.On posts record loss on power plant costs (11 Mar 2015)
HSBC - where does responsibility lie? (10 Mar 2015)
HSBC chief admits his tax affairs 'further damaged bank's reputation' (10 Mar 2015)
Barclays 'misleading shareholders' says pension body (10 Mar 2015)
Audit Execs and Audit Committees Don't See Eye to Eye (10 Mar 2015)
GM soothes shareholder with $5bn share buy back (10 Mar 2015)
Justin King: Tesco's accounting and governance problems not sector-wide (10 Mar 2015)
Singing River lawsuit against KPMG should be tossed, accounting firm argues (10 Mar 2015)
Much-awaited verdict in Satyam fraud case on April 9 (10 Mar 2015)
Los Angeles sues PricewaterhouseCoopers over DWP billing problems (9 Mar 2015)
City Attorney Charges PricewaterhouseCoopers with Fraud (9 Mar 2015)
"BIG FOUR" THE SCANDAL OF THE SHADOW OF ACCOUNTING (9 Mar 2015)
Big four auditors extend reach into consultancy (9 Mar 2015)
Can a Stock-Trader-Turned-Convict Start a New Life? (9 Mar 2015)
Large firms will have to reveal gender pay gap (9 Mar 2015)
Jeremy Vine made daughter, 10, a company director to lower tax bill (9 Mar 2015)
KPMG acquires Indian arm of Spanish firm AF-Mercados (9 Mar 2015)
PwC retains FTSE 100 audit lead as KPMG climbs 250 rankings (9 Mar 2015)
FASB Proposes Accounting Standards Change for Nonprofits (6 Mar 2015)
Foreign Tax Surprises Like Disney's Have SEC Seeking Sunlight (6 Mar 2015)
FCA review finds fund groups failing on leverage disclosure (6 Mar 2015)
Fat cats: Royal Bank of Scotland top bankers received millions despite £3.5bn loss (6 Mar 2015)
The shadow of scandal falls over the Bank of England on Threadneedle Street (6 Mar 2015)
Australian senator seeks inquiry into BHP, Leighton bribery suspicions (6 Mar 2015)
HMRC fraudsters used names of dead children in VAT scam (6 Mar 2015)
Stress tests for banks are a predictable act of public theatre (6 Mar 2015)
SFO narrows focus of Bank of England money-market probe (6 Mar 2015)
Noble Group promises more transparency after attack on accounting (5 Mar 2015)
Noble vows greater transparency in defence of accounting methods (5 Mar 2015)
What increasing bank audit requirements could mean (5 Mar 2015)
Global Audit Regulators See High Level of Deficient Audits (5 Mar 2015)
Wealthy doctors paying for weddings and cruises using tax loophole (5 Mar 2015)
Controversial private equity tycoon Jon Moulton blames victims of City Link for collapse for not doing their homework (5 Mar 2015)
China investigating Trafigura fraud claims (5 Mar 2015)
England Ashes heroes among cricketers facing large bills for tax avoidance (5 Mar 2015)
UBS Whistle-Blower Says Bank Has ‘Global’ Issue With Tax Evaders (5 Mar 2015)
French court rules UBS bullied ex-employee (5 Mar 2015)
Estimated insolvency costs introduced by government (5 Mar 2015)
Time to Free Politics from the Clutches of the Elite (4 Mar 2015)
Former Morrisons tax boss jailed for a year over insider dealing (4 Mar 2015)
Why CFOs Need to Care About Accounting (4 Mar 2015)
Rosneft Posts Profit as Accounting Change Mutes Ruble Impact (4 Mar 2015)
Speakers slate 'ideological' austerity cuts (4 Mar 2015)
Regulators slam 'significant deficiencies' in public company audits (4 Mar 2015)
Barclays in Luxembourg: £593m profits, £4m tax, report reveals (4 Mar 2015)
Tax Dodge: Apple, Pfizer Among Top Companies That Added Nearly $90B To Their Offshore Cash Hoards Through Tax Inversion in 2014 (4 Mar 2015)
Corruption On Your Doorstep: How Corrupt Capital Is Used to Buy Property in the UK (4 Mar 2015)
HSBC bosses should take responsibility for Swiss scandal, regulator insists (4 Mar 2015)
Banks' PPI bill now totals £24.4bn (4 Mar 2015)
British American Tobacco drops and sues PwC over pollution scandal (3 Mar 2015)
BAT to Replace PWC as Auditor Amid Proposed Clean-Up Litigation (3 Mar 2015)
International audit regulators express concern over continued significant deficiencies in audits of public companies (3 Mar 2015)
International Forum of Independent Audit Regulators Report on 2014 Survey of Inspection Findings March 3, 2015 (3 Mar 2015)
Morrisons ex-boss goes to jail for insider dealing (3 Mar 2015)
Falciani Says He Can Prove HSBC Management Knew of Tax Abuses (3 Mar 2015)
Genworth spots "material weakness" in controls over accounting (3 Mar 2015)
CompaniesGenworth hit by accounting "material weakness" (3 Mar 2015)
Barclays takes extra 750 million-pound FX provision (3 Mar 2015)
Misconduct of the past stalks Barclays (3 Mar 2015)
Tax accountants raked in fees for advice that left clients facing ruin (3 Mar 2015)
China state-owned firms' overseas assets are not audited: Xinhua (3 Mar 2015)
Insolvency: London's prestigious Grosvenor House hotel falls into administration (3 Mar 2015)
Pack power beats lone wolf lawyers, accountants and consultants (3 Mar 2015)
Holding pension funds to account (2 Mar 2015)
Bank of England takes tough new line with auditors (2 Mar 2015)
Walmart and eBay oppose shareholder resolutions to disclose gender pay gap (2 Mar 2015)
ARCP Restates Results After Accounting Issues (2 Mar 2015)
Warren Buffett admits 'thumb-sucking' over Tesco cost him $444m (2 Mar 2015)
Fund managers could be the new investment bankers, says IoD (2 Mar 2015)
It's time to investigate fund managers (2 Mar 2015)
Audit Reports: FRC finds good take-up of new auditor reporting requirements (2 Mar 2015)
Auditor Rotation: BAT to change auditors after 17 years with PWC (2 Mar 2015)
FRC appoints Mark Babington as Deputy Director of Audit Policy (2 Mar 2015)

FEBRUARY 2015

Engagement between external auditors and supervisors and commencing the PRA’s disciplinary powers over external auditors and actuaries (27 Feb 2015)
Prudential Regulatory Authority Consultation Paper CP8/15: Engagement between external auditors and supervisors and commencing the PRA’s disciplinary powers over external auditors and actuaries (27 Feb 2015)
Bank of England considers fines for accountancy firms (27 Feb 2015)
BoE turns up the heat on accountants for banks (27 Feb 2015)
US Regulators Zero in On Audits of Related Parties (27 Feb 2015)
Tesco board loses two female directors (27 Feb 2015)
Noble Shares Plunge After Loss as Accounting Is Criticized (27 Feb 2015)
FRC amends FRS 102 relating to pension obligations (27 Feb 2015)
FRS 102 pensions question answered (27 Feb 2015)
Morgan Stanley in $2.6 Billion Settlement Over Crisis in Mortgages (27 Feb 2015)
Ladbrokes to close 60 UK shops as profits fall (27 Feb 2015)
Accountancy: the new buzz (27 Feb 2015)
Staff paid to go home as outsourced HMRC IT system fails (27 Feb 2015)
MoJ backs down over scrapping insolvency litigation exemption (27 Feb 2015)
Mind the tax gap – avoidance is an election issue (26 Feb 2015)
Fat cats: RBS paid out £421m in bonuses in 2014 despite £3.5bn loss (26 Feb 2015)
RBS reports £3.5bn loss for 2014 (26 Feb 2015)
RBS staff under investigation from German authorities over Swiss tax evasion (26 Feb 2015)
IASB is still unable to respond to criticism (26 Feb 2015)
MEPs urge EC to investigate conflicts between IFRS and EU law (26 Feb 2015)
The SEC Caves on China (26 Feb 2015)
GlaxoSmithKline bribery scandal led to 13-fold increase in China whistleblower reports (26 Feb 2015)
Noble Posts $240 Million Loss as Its Accounting Comes Under Fire (26 Feb 2015)
Noble Says Ernst & Young to Sign Off on Accounts After Delays (26 Feb 2015)
Hong Kong watchdog wins landmark case against China Metal Recycling Fraud (26 Feb 2015)
A quarter of UK professionals are unhappy with their work-life balance (26 Feb 2015)
Indonesia to crack down on corporate tax avoidance via transfer pricing (26 Feb 2015)
Arms companies charged taxpayers for croquet and magicians (26 Feb 2015)
UK Government cracks down on 'unnacceptable' late-paying companies (26 Feb 2015)
Hertz Estimates Impact of Accounting Issues at $153 Million (25 Feb 2015)
Hertz to Double Cost Savings as Financial Review Continues (25 Feb 2015)
Goodyear to pay $16m for Kenya and Angola bribery (25 Feb 2015)
SEC Charges Goodyear With FCPA Violations: its subsidiaries paid bribes to land tire sales in Kenya and Angola (25 Feb 2015)
McDonald's Accused by Unions of Super-Sized Tax Avoidance in EU (25 Feb 2015)
SuperGroup left reeling as £500k-a-year finance chief steps down - after declaring bankruptcy (25 Feb 2015)
BBC 'sold Television Centre to group that was clearly a tax avoidance scheme' (25 Feb 2015)
Revolving Doors: Clydesdale Bank corporate finance specialist joins Deloitte (25 Feb 2015)
Commerzbank raided over possible tax evasion (25 Feb 2015)
Google investigated in Italy over tax issues: prosecutors (25 Feb 2015)
Capitanich points at tax havens' role in drug trafficking (25 Feb 2015)
US Probes Capital One for Possible Money Laundering (25 Feb 2015)
CLASS Papers - Election 2015: What’s at stake for the economy? (24 Feb 2015)
Government to raise audit threshold for charity accounts from £500,000 to £1 million (24 Feb 2015)
UK Finance watchdog dilutes plans to make bank boards criminally liable (24 Feb 2015)
Huge fines for banks, accountants and companies that help people evade tax will be announced in next month's Budget (24 Feb 2015)
Banks back in the crosshairs as disclosures fail to pass the bad smell test (24 Feb 2015)
RBS's Sir Howard appointment stirs revolving door concerns (24 Feb 2015)
The city that privatised itself to death: 'London is now a set of improbable sex toys poking gormlessly into the air' (24 Feb 2015)
How Dirty Money Gets Into Banks (24 Feb 2015)
Why the World Is So Bad at Tracking Dirty Money (24 Feb 2015)
Law firms should borrow from the auditors and diversify (24 Feb 2015)
Bordeaux Fine Wines Ltd director banned for 15 years (24 Feb 2015)
Corporate Welfare: USC collapse will cost taxpayer £700000 (24 Feb 2015)
Abusive Tax Avoidance and Institutional Corruption: The Responsibilities of Tax Professionals (24 Feb 2015)
Director Terry Hands: 'Too many accountants run theatres' (23 Feb 2015)
Fortnum and Mason's owners dividend tops £100m (23 Feb 2015)
DIRECTIVE 2014/95/EU OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL: amending Directive 2013/34/EU as regards disclosure of non-financial and diversity information by certain large undertakings and groups (23 Feb 2015)
Vincent Tchenguiz suffers setback in £2.2bn Greant Thornton legal action (23 Feb 2015)
Barclays fails in £45m Grant Thornton claim (23 Feb 2015)
Auditor Liability: Barclays loses High Court battle with Grant Thornton (23 Feb 2015)
Barclays' £45m Grant Thornton claim failure (23 Feb 2015)
Court judgement in Barclays Bank Plc v Grant Thornton UK LLp [2015] EWHC 320 (Comm) (18 February 2015) (23 Feb 2015)
UK finance bonuses to top £100bn since financial crisis (23 Feb 2015)
HSBC left itself open to criminal charges, says Lord Macdonald (23 Feb 2015)
China Has 8295 Accounting Firms But Only 6 Make Good Money (23 Feb 2015)
Schorsch Off the Hook for Accounting Lawsuit (23 Feb 2015)
SEC Charges VCAP Securities and CEO Brett Thomas Graham With Committing Fraud During CDO Liquidation Auctions (20 Feb 2015)
FRC to scrap FRSSE in 'revolutionary' change to UK accounting standards (20 Feb 2015)
Sir Howard Davies: 'We've let bankers duck and weave' (20 Feb 2015)
PwC Settling California Wage & Hour Lawsuit for $5 Million (20 Feb 2015)
S.Africa fines Deutsche Bank for lax anti-money laundering rules (20 Feb 2015)
Fat cats: Bankers bonuses set to be £5BILLION including £2.2bn for HSBC (20 Feb 2015)
Fat cats: Standard Life chief scoops £5.5m pay package (20 Feb 2015)
Private health firms pocket £18 million a day from the NHS budget (20 Feb 2015)
PWC, the accountancy giant that promoted tax avoidance, gave £386605 to Labour (19 Feb 2015)
HSBC made £2.3m from Sven and Fergie's tax scheme (19 Feb 2015)
HSBC advised on film schemes designed to avoid tax (19 Feb 2015)
Processes in Transfer Pricing – Pertinent Issues for African Countries (19 Feb 2015)
The importance of a 'disclaimer': High Court finds in favour of Grant Thornton in Barclays negligence dispute (19 Feb 2015)
FRC audit quality inspection critical of Grant Thornton (19 Feb 2015)
SEC challenged over use of in-house judges (19 Feb 2015)
FASB's draft accounting standard on stock-based compensation will have income tax impact (19 Feb 2015)
Global dividend income hits new record of $1.167 trillion (19 Feb 2015)
Walmart to raise wages for 500000 US workers (19 Feb 2015)
FCA launches investment and corporate banking inquiry (19 Feb 2015)
UK Tax cheats cost far more than benefits cheats – yet far fewer are prosecuted (18 Feb 2015)
UK Watchdog 'disappointed' with Grant Thornton audits (18 Feb 2015)
Grant Thornton gets "disappointing" audit report (18 Feb 2015)
Auditor Liability: Grant Thornton granted summary judgment on auditors’ negligence claim (18 Feb 2015)
Judgment in Barclays Bank Plc v Grant Thornton UK LLp [2015] EWHC 320 (Comm) (18 February 2015)
Naibu non-execs call in auditors as management goes AWOL (18 Feb 2015)
How collapsed City Link was held to ransom: IT suppliers and van drivers extracted cash (18 Feb 2015)
Disney Film Investors Lose U.K. Fight Over $973 Million in Taxes (18 Feb 2015)
Disney tax scheme: Alex Ferguson and Sven Goran Eriksson among celebs facing £635m bill (18 Feb 2015)
Court of Appeal Decision: ECLIPSE FILM PARTNERS NO 35 LLP v THE COMMISSIONERS FOR HER MAJESTY'S REVENUE AND CUSTOMS (18 Feb 2015)
European Commission lays the foundation for a fairer and more transparent approach to taxation in EU (18 Feb 2015)
Insolvency: City Link collapse leaves suppliers £39m out of pocket (18 Feb 2015)
Accountant mortgage scheme branded a 'failure' (17 Feb 2015)
Supplier Audits: Lessons From Apple (17 Feb 2015)
Auditors raise new 'going concern' questions over Rangers' engine room company (17 Feb 2015)
JPMorgan tops list of risky banks: government study (17 Feb 2015)
SEC Proposes Dodd-Frank Disclosure Rule Regarding Hedging Policies (17 Feb 2015)
Investor Paul Bloomfield let off not paying tax for 24 years (17 Feb 2015)
Revenue sees rise in requests from abroad to trace tax evaders (17 Feb 2015)
HSBC India at centre of fresh tax evasion claims (17 Feb 2015)
Ernst & Young woman to sue for 'faulty breast implants' (17 Feb 2015)
RBS Seen Facing Extra $15.4 Billion of Misconduct Charges (16 Feb 2015)
Commodity firm Noble rejects accounting allegations (16 Feb 2015)
HSBC has form: remember Mexico and laundered drug money (16 Feb 2015)
UK Private rail operators using public subsidies to fund pay-outs to shareholders, says TUC (16 Feb 2015)
London's tax-dodge tour: visit the companies who don't pay their dues (16 Feb 2015)
FCA joins HSBC tax-dodging inquiry (16 Feb 2015)
Tax havens for despots, criminals and the Fortune 500 (16 Feb 2015)
The £800m tycoon and his very tiny tax bill: He's Topshop boss Philip Green's best friend and built Britain's most expensive new home. So why did Richard Caring take out millions from HSBC's Swiss bank? (16 Feb 2015)
HSBC tax scandal: Fury at the great dodgers' getaway: Labour's tax loophole means just ONE man was charged - and he will be the last (16 Feb 2015)
Ex-HSBC chairman Lord Green steps down from The City UK (16 Feb 2015)
As HSBC shows, we've been timid and pathetic in dealing with tax dodgers (13 Feb 2015)
Insolvency: Deloitte makes more than £11m from HMV (13 Feb 2015)
HMRC failed to prosecute tycoon over tax evasion (13 Feb 2015)
HMRC failed to prosecute British property mogul who did not pay any tax for 20 years (13 Feb 2015)
HSBC tax leaks: Bank of England could investigate, says deputy Governor (13 Feb 2015)
HSBC whistleblower: There are 'more revelations' (13 Feb 2015)
British society favours the rich – the tax avoidance scandal makes this clear (13 Feb 2015)
HSBC leaks: Lord Fink admits he took 'vanilla' steps to reduce tax bill (13 Feb 2015)
HSBC whistleblower Herve Falciani on tax evasion data (13 Feb 2015)
HSBC files: Swiss bank hid money for suspected criminals (13 Feb 2015)
SEC Announces Half-Million Dollar Clawback from CFOs of Silicon Valley Company That Committed Accounting Fraud (12 Feb 2015)
US SEC claws back bonuses from ex-Saba Software executives (12 Feb 2015)
IASB considers pensions accounting overhaul (12 Feb 2015)
IASB Proposes Changes to Classification of Liabilities (12 Feb 2015)
EY launches assurance scholarship with three universities (12 Feb 2015)
Drug firm Shire enjoyed effective tax rate of less than 2% in 2014 (12 Feb 2015)
The HSBC tax scandal exposes a secretive industry serving a wealthy global elite (12 Feb 2015)
More tax pressure brews for Starbucks with EU reform push (12 Feb 2015)
Australian tax office has not prosecuted any HSBC Swiss account holders (12 Feb 2015)
Pensions accounting: do we really need more change? (11 Feb 2015)
A record $6 trillion was poured into the world's companies last year (11 Feb 2015)
HSBC: Time to take the kid gloves off in handling tax evaders and avoiders (11 Feb 2015)
UK may follow US lead if pursues HSBC over tax (11 Feb 2015)
HSBC files reveal how UK's non-dom tax concession is being exploited (11 Feb 2015)
HSBC tax leaks: Hundreds of customers with Jersey based HSBC accounts told to pay up to £20m by the UK tax man (11 Feb 2015)
MPs slam tax authorities for prosecuting ONE person on list of Swiss HSBC bank accounts (11 Feb 2015)
HMRC calls in police and SFO on HSBC leak data (11 Feb 2015)
HSBC Tax Scandal (10 Feb 2015)
Where were HSBC's auditors? (10 Feb 2015)
Global views on the HSBC tax scandal (10 Feb 2015)
HSBC files raise questions about oversight of senior bankers past and present (10 Feb 2015)
US Senate leader calls for US government's explanation in wake of HSBC leaks (10 Feb 2015)
HSBC 'tax dodge' revelations are just tip of iceberg, says leaker (10 Feb 2015)
HSBC files: HMRC had data on misconduct before bank boss made trade minister (10 Feb 2015)
Australian banks defend their corporate tax affairs after Swiss HSBC revelations (10 Feb 2015)
With penalties so weak, tax evasion is worth the risk (10 Feb 2015)
Tony Abbott's Liberal party benefits from big four accounting firm donations (10 Feb 2015)
UBS confirms fresh tax evasion probe in the US (10 Feb 2015)
The 10000 ft. view of lease accounting standards (10 Feb 2015)
A first among the big four consulting firms: Deloitte appoints a female CEO (10 Feb 2015)
Petrobras Said to Seek Two-Year PwC Renewal Amid Graft Probe (10 Feb 2015)
Mergers and Takeovers are Flattening Britain's tax base (10 Feb 2015)
Labour urged to end pwc unpaid help (9 Feb 2015)
PwC's friends keep it well-oiled with taxpayers' money (9 Feb 2015)
Fatcat finance gurus (PwC) accused of promoting tax avoidance are pocketing MILLIONS of pounds (9 Feb 2015)
SEC Imposes Sanctions Against China-Based Members of Big Four Accounting Networks (Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu , Ernst & Young Hua Ming LLP, KPMG Huazhen (Special General Partnership), and PricewaterhouseCoopers Zhong Tian CPAs Limited Company ) for Refusing to Produce Documents (9 Feb 2015)
SEC, Big Four Accounting Firms in China Settle Dispute (9 Feb 2015)
Affiliates in China of 'Big Four' Accounting Firms to Pay $2 Million in SEC Case (9 Feb 2015)
Undergraduates keen to do the right thing might find accountancy too taxing (9 Feb 2015)
HSBC bank 'helped clients dodge millions in tax' (9 Feb 2015)
HSBC files show how Swiss bank helped clients dodge taxes and hide millions (9 Feb 2015)
Catalogue of malpractice endorsed by bankers laid bare in HSBC files (9 Feb 2015)
HSBC files: why the public should know of Swiss bank's pattern of misconduct (9 Feb 2015)
HSBC files: how a 1934 Swiss law enshrined secrecy (9 Feb 2015)
HSBC list shows names from Bowie to drug lords banked on Swiss secrecy (9 Feb 2015)
Former ANZ chairman held HSBC Swiss bank account (9 Feb 2015)
Money Laundering: HSBC Indian list just doubled to 1195 names. Balance: Rs 25420 cr (9 Feb 2015)
Slicing up Apple's profits: despite record sales it's not all (6 Feb 2015)
PwC promoted tax avoidance 'on industrial scale', say MPs (6 Feb 2015)
PwC chief misled us over Luxembourg tax avoidance schemes, claim MPs (6 Feb 2015)
PricewaterhouseCoopers condemned for giving misleading evidence to Parliament and ‘promoting tax avoidance on an industrial scale’ (6 Feb 2015)
MPs demand state regulation of tax advice industry (6 Feb 2015)
Tax avoidance issue is too big for one nation to solve (6 Feb 2015)
The chart that lays bare Shire pharmaceuticals' complex tax arrangements (6 Feb 2015)
House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts Report: Tax avoidance: the role of large accountancy firms (follow–up) (6 Feb 2015)
Investors and Companies Should Talk Revenue Recognition: FASB Member (6 Feb 2015)
Shaftesbury to pay up to £40m to exit costly interest rate swaps (6 Feb 2015)
Tate & Lyle issues another profit warning (6 Dec 2015)
HMRC investigates £14bn of tax 'at risk' from avoidance schemes (6 Feb 2015)
The Impression Management Game: ICAEW to consult on public interest guidance (6 Feb 2015)
MG Rover workers still owed a payout years after this sorry saga (5 Feb 2015)
Trial date set for 'Auschwitz bookkeeper' Groening (5 Feb 2015)
UBS Said to Be Under New Tax-Evasion Probe in U.S. (5 Feb 2015)
Lloyds braced for insurance mis-selling bill rising to 12 billion pounds (5 Feb 2015)
ICAEW must 'act quickly' over public interest guidance failings (5 Feb 2015)
SEC Charges Broadwind Energy for Accounting and Disclosure Violations - impairment of intangible assets (5 Feb 2015)
SEC, Chinese Affiliates of Accounting Firms Near Settlement (5 Feb 2015)
The people connected to David Cameron who are linked to tax avoidance (5 Feb 2015)
SEC Charges Four, including an analyst at Barclays Capital, in California Insider Trading Ring (5 Feb 2015)
S&P to pay record $1.4 billion to settle lawsuit over subprime debt ratings (4 Feb 2015)
US Justice Department and State Partners Secure $1.375bn Settlement with S&P for Defrauding Investors in the Lead Up to the Financial Crisis (4 Feb 2015)
GlaxoSmithKline sees fourth-quarter sales fall (4 Feb 2015)
US audit watchdog to review standard-setting after criticism (4 Feb 2015)
SEC Presses Audit Regulator PCAOB on Priorities (4 Feb 2015)
Icap hit with €15m fine by EC over Libor-fixing scandal (4 Feb 2015)
Cable hints at mandatory EU quotas for female executives (4 Feb 2015)
Starbucks posts first ever pre-tax profit in the UK (4 Feb 2015)
Insolvency: City Link staff not told about administration to 'protect the business' (4 Feb 2015)
Outcome of disciplinary case against KPMG LLP, a Member Firm of the ICAEW and Mr James Marsh a partner of KPMG LLP, a Member of the ICAEW (3 Feb 2015)
Outcome of disciplinary case against KPMG Audit Plc, a Member Firm of the ICAEW and Mr Greg Watts a partner of KPMG LLP, the parent of KPMG Audit Plc, and a Member of the ICAEW (3 Feb 2015)
FRC Report on the disciplinary case against KPMG LLP, a Member Firm of the ICAEW and Mr James Marsh a partner of KPMG LLP, a Member of the ICAEW (3 Feb 2015)
FRC Report on disciplinary case against KPMG Audit Plc, a Member Firm of the ICAEW and Mr Greg Watts a partner of KPMG LLP, the parent of KPMG Audit Plc, and a Member of the ICAEW (3 Feb 2015)
KPMG and chief operating officer fined over ethical standards breach (3 Feb 2015)
UK watchdog hands KPMG fines totalling £390000 (3 Feb 2015)
KPMG fined over independence issues (3 Feb 2015)
KPMG fined over ethical breaches at Pendragon plc (3 Feb 2015)
Rosneft accounting move helps BP (3 Feb 2015)
Rosneft changes accounts policy to ease oil and rouble blows (3 Feb 2015)
BP Posts Quarterly Loss Amid Oil Price Rout (3 Feb 2015)
Audit Committees Feel Uncertainty (3 Feb 2015)
FASB Proposes Changes in Accounting for Income Taxes (3 Feb 2015)
'Accountant of Auschwitz' to go on trial over camp deaths (3 Feb 2015)
Tesco faces another blow as it is forced to pay former boss Phil Clarke £1.2m (3 Feb 2015)
Big Four accountants enjoy record fees despite new rules (2 Feb 2015)
Trouble Ahead with new role for PwC, KPMG and the Pinstripe Mafia: Australia Tax Office pushes for biggest corporations to audit themselves (2 Feb 2015)
End game looms for Deloitte's MG Rover £14m spat with the FRC (2 Feb 2015)
Apple to sell bonds worth $5bn (2 Feb 2015)
UK Government to act to stop big companies 'squeezing the life' out of small suppliers (2 Feb 2015)
Smythson, leather goods and luxury stationery company that employs Samantha Cameron, is based in a tax haven (2 Feb 2015)
Greece's Accounting Problem (2 Feb 2015)

JANUARY 2015

It’s officially confirmed that accountants really do not know what the public interest is (30 Jan 2015)
Morrisons boss counters criticism by blaming accountants (30 Jan 2015)
Morrisons chairman blames accountants for supermarket woes (30 Jan 2015)
Press release: Standard Chartered publicised tax avoidance strategy for use in some of the world’s poorest countries (30 Jan 2015)
Outcome of appeal by Deloitte & Touche and Mr Maghsoud Einollahi (30 Jan 2015)
FRC Report on appeal by Deloitte & Touche and Mr Maghsoud Einollahi (30 Jan 2015)
Deloitte rises from Phoenix case with partial victory (30 Jan 2015)
Deloitte successfully appeals MG Rover misconduct charges (30 Jan 2015)
Tribunal throws out eight Deloitte charges in MG Rover case (30 Jan 2015)
Deloitte overturns several findings in MG Rover appeal (30 Jan 2015)
Revolving Doors: For Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty lands part-time job at PricewaterhouseCoopers (30 Jan 2015)
Cable Proposes U.K. Supermarket Fines of Up to 1% of Sales (30 Jan 2015)
How Yahoo plans to save $16 billion in tax on Alibaba stock (30 Jan 2015)
Jaime Pressly sues former accountant for $900k (30 Jan 2015)
Forex fraudster Alex Hope gets 7-year jail sentence for scamming investors (30 Jan 2015)
The moral economy of the tax avoidance industry (29 Jan 2015)
FASB Nearing Decision on Delaying Revenue Rule (29 Jan 2015)
Fines for supermarkets who mistreat suppliers move a step closer (29 Jan 2015)
US SEC Charges Stock-Based Lender With Selling Billions of Penny Stock Shares as Unregistered Broker-Dealer (29 Jan 2015)
UK Alstom bribery investigation swings spotlight onto Hungary (29 Jan 2015)
Revolving Doors: Former UK health secretary Alan Milburn working fo Bridgepoint Capital, owners of one of the UK’s largest private companies delivering NHS healthcare, as well as working with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Lloyds Pharmacy and others (29 Jan 2015)
Yahoo's UK Auditors (PricwaterhouseCoopers) Have Resigned (29 Jan 2015)
Deloitte is biggest global firm (29 Jan 2015)
Dash for consultancy: KPMG Luxembourg signs deal for Lexis® InterAction® (29 Jan 2015)
EU fleshes out fourth anti-money laundering directive (29 Jan 2015)
Yahoo to spin off Alibaba stake into separate company (29 Jan 2015)
BNY Mellon may face bribery charges over sovereign wealth funds (29 Jan 2015)
Hanergy Falls in Hong Kong After Accounting Practices Report (28 Jan 2015)
Apple posts the biggest quarterly profit in history (28 Jan 2015)
Why is Apple sitting on $142bn? (28 Jan 2015)
Apple's record profit leaves tech giant wondering how to spend $178bn (28 Jan 2015)
Apple's $80.3 million Australian tax bill revealed on $6bn sales (28 Jan 2015)
Basel Committee overhauls banks' disclosure model (28 Jan 2015)
Facebook revenues pass $10bn for the first time (28 Jan 2015)
Commodities collapse could wipe out entire year's profits at Stqandard Chartered Bank (28 Jan 2015)
Bank lending to UK manufacturers slows amid concern for 2015 prospects (28 Jan 2015)
MG Rover Group, Deloitte & Touche, Mr Maghsoud Einollahi (27 Jan 2015)
Nifty Fifty's accountant pleads guilty to tax fraud scheme (27 Jan 2015)
Booz Allen nudges federal court to get moving on Deloitte lawsuit (27 Jan 2015)
UK tax system facing 'havoc' over complacent approach to IT systems (27 Jan 2015)
Political and economic insecurity set to dog audit committees (27 Jan 2015)
Time constraints worry audit committees (27 Jan 2015)
Diageo 'threatens backbone of economy' by squeezing suppliers (27 Jan 2015)
Small companies threshold set at £10.2m for new EU accounting rules (27 Jan 2015)
Peter Mandelson gets £400000 tax-free loan from company he owns (27 Jan 2015)
Luxembourg Charges Second Ex-PwC Employee Over Tax Leaks (26 Jan 2015)
PCAOB takes Deloitte and KPMG to task (26 Jan 2015)
Weavering hedge fund founder Magnus Peterson jailed for 13 years over fraud (26 Jan 2015)
How Yahoo Might Sell Billions in Alibaba Stock and Pay No Taxes (26 Jan 2015)
Starbucks' profits soar 82% in final three months of 2014 (26 Jan 2015)
BHS: Death knell tolls as Philip Green puts stores up for sale (26 Jan 2015)
Cadbury owner caught up in supplier row (26 Jan 2015)
Investors urge Standard Chartered to replace boss (26 Jan 2015)
Oil collapse could trigger billions in bank losses (26 Jan 2015)
Fake bank scams Chinese customers out of £20 million (26 Jan 2016)
Second suspect charged over Luxleaks tax probe (26 Jan 2015)
Davos delegates don't care about inequality or your debt (23 Jan 2015)
Barclays facing new dark pool fraud allegations (23 Jan 2015)
The Struggle to Simplify Accounting (23 Jan 2015)
Balfour Beatty: auditors uncover weak controls and escalating costs (23 Jan 2015)
Unilever boss willing to assist in watchdog's Tesco probe (23 Jan 2015)
Accountants' phone manner leaves callers cold (23 Jan 2015)
Balfour Beatty unveils further £70m profit shortfall following KPMG review (22 Jan 2015)
How Country By Country Reporting Could Have Made LuxLeaks Unnecessary (22 Jan 2015)
Are anonymous companies a ‘getaway vehicle for corruption’? (22 Jan 2015)
Insolvency: Alpari administrators KPMG say there are potential buyers (22 Jan 2015)
It's Time To Get Serious About Global Corruption (22 Jan 2015)
US buyout firm KKR plans £500m+ swoop on Trainline.com (22 Jan 2015)
SEC Gets Busy With Accounting Investigations (21 Jan 2015)
SEC Announces Charges Against Standard & Poor’s for Fraudulent Ratings Misconduct (21 Jan 2015)
Rip-off: Standard & Poor's fined and banned from rating certain securities for a year (21 Jan 2015)
Standard & Poor's suspended from rating some mortgage bonds after $77m settlement (21 Jan 2015)
Audit materiality – why it matters after Tesco debacle (21 Jan 2015)
The Business Case for Ending Anonymous Companies: a Collective Effort (21 Jan 2015)
Shadow banking now poses top risk to US stability, warns IMF (21 Jan 2015)
Transparency: Cracking the shells – New rules in the European Union take aim at corporate secrecy (21 Jan 2015)
Goldman Sachs 'duped Libya out of oil cash' (21 Jan 2015)
Autonomy HP sale investigation by Serious Fraud Office closes (20 Jan 2015)
Hedge fund manager found guilty of fraud (20 Jan 2015)
Weavering chief executive convicted six years after hedge fund collapse (20 Jan 2015)
FCA fines Reckitt Benckiser £539,800 for listing rule failures (20 Jan 2015)
Reckitt Benckiser fined for director dealing disclosure failure (20 Jan 2015)
David vs Goliath? Small practitioners pick apart KPMG's SME move (20 Jan 2015)
Former Tesco boss Sir Terry Leahy blames successor for firm's woes (20 Jan 2015)
Insolvency: Alpari administrators KPMG say there are potential buyers (20 Jan 2015)
Insolvency: Deloitte to oversee rescue deal at Austin Reed (20 Jan 2015)
The Libor Settlements (20 Jan 2015)
The dozy watchdogs who make vast profits but are immune from prosecution (19 Jan 2015)
SRHS sues its former accounting firm (KPMG) over 'botched' audits (19 Jan 2015)
SRHS files federal lawsuit against KPMG, audits 'riddled with flagrant accounting errors ‎ (19 Jan 2015)
Lawsuit: SRHS accounting firm's failures caused 'one of the largest reported adjustments in history' (19 Jan 2015)
AB InBev payment terms to small suppliers criticised (19 Jan 2015)
Food giant 2 Sisters contract proposals 'unreasonable' (19 Jan 2015)
Small firms 'plagued' by poor payment culture, with respected household names abuisng suppliers (19 Jan 2015)
Towergate insurance broker considers £1 takeover bid from bondholders (19 Jan 2015)
Towergate bondholders offer to buy the firm for £1 and write off £715m debt (19 Jan 2015)
Jim Sutcliffe leaves FRC following Quindell criticism (19 Jan 2015)
Quakers to pull funds from Australia's four major banks, citing ethical concerns (19 Jan 2015)
Sainsbury's to drop auditor PricewaterhouseCoopers for Ernst & Young (16 Jan 2015)
China to Strengthen Auditing amid Major Policy Implementation (16 Jan 2015)
Amazon: Luxembourg tax deal probably 'state aid' EC says (16 Jan 2015)
Luxembourg Backed 'Cosmetic' Amazon Tax Deal in 11 Days, EU Says (16 Jan 2015)
European Commission lays bare Amazon tax deal with Luxembourg (16 Jan 2015)
State aid SA.38944 (2014/C) – Luxembourg Alleged aid to Amazon by way of a tax ruling (16 Jan 2015)
Dash for consultancy: Deloitte and Mulesoft strengthen relationship (16 Jan 2015)
Company beneficial ownership register to open in April 2016 (16 Jan 2015)
UK: Implementation of Company filing requirements and corporate transparency measures and the register of people with significant control (“PSC register”) (16 Jan 2015)
FRC reports on better compliance with UK Corporate Governance Code and need for improved adherence to the UK Stewardship Code (16 Jan 2015)
Food supply companies at risk of collapse, says report (16 Jan 2015)
Poachers and Gamekeepers and Revolving Doors: FRC Board announcement (16 Jan 2015)
BP faces up to $13.7bn civil penalty for Gulf spill (16 Jan 2015)
SEC Moves Closer on Swap Rules (16 Jan 2015)
RBS admits mis-selling business loans (15 Jan 2015)
Hodge: More thorough accounting required for tax reliefs (15 Jan 2015)
Why don't corporate governance codes apply to Quindell's directors? (15 Jan 2015)
Investment firms face FRC crackdown over stewardship code (15 Jan 2015)
FRC urges deeper engagement with stewardship code (15 Jan 2015)
SEC Charges UBS Subsidiary With Disclosure Violations and Other Regulatory Failures in Operating Dark Pool (15 Jan 2015)
UBS to Pay $14 Million to Resolve Dark Pool Marketing Case (15 Jan 2015)
US regulators question whether Credit Suisse has rule-breaking culture (15 Jan 2015)
Caesars Entertainment's operating unit files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy (15 Jan 2015)
JPMorgan profits hit by legal costs (14 Jan 2015)
MEPs urge parliamentary inquiry into tax deals in wake of Luxleaks (14 Jan 2015)
Greens get cross-party support for LuxLeaks inquiry (14 Jan 2015)
Does Maximizing Shareholder Wealth Accomplish Anything Else? (14 Jan 2015)
Morrisons' Dalton Philips accused of 'butterfly thinking' (14 Jan 2015)
Tesco gets new junk status credit rating (14 Jan 2015)
Can a new form of accounting save animals from extinction? (13 Jan 2015)
Deloitte faces scrutiny over audit of collapsed aerospace group (13 Jan 2015)
Tesco's crash points to the failure of capital markets (13 Jan 2015)
HSBC braced for criticism over anti money-laundering (13 Jan 2015)
Fitch slams Bank of England for letting banks hide emergency support (13 Jan 2015)
RBS facing £6bn hit to profits from fines, claims JP Morgan (13 Jan 2015)
SEC Charges Direct Edge Exchanges With Failing to Properly Describe Order Types (13 Jan 2015)
KPMG accredits Bitcoin company (13 Jan 2015)
Revolving Doors: SEC chief accountant returns to EY (13 Jan 2015)
Strain of losses became 'too great' for City Link, says EY (13 Jan 2015)
Tesco suspends ninth executive as accounts fallout continues (12 Jan 2015)
Decision not to take away KPMG-Bulgaria license is strange (12 Jan 2015)
KPMG Bulgaria avoids licence loss, faces fine for CCB audits (12 Jan 2015)
LuxLeaks: PwC employee fired for leaking tax documents (12 Jan 2015)
Formal Complaint against Deloitte LLP, Mr John Clennett, and Mr Hugh Bevan relating to Aero Inventory plc (12 Jan 2015)
Former Sunwest CEO pleads guilty to mail fraud, money laundering (12 Jan 2015)
Fat cats: Goldman Sachs to reveal £8.3bn packages and say pay is down (12 Jan 2015)
Easing lease accounting (12 Jan 2015)
GlaxoSmithKline transfer pricing Canada case settled (12 Jan 2015)
Fat cats: Quindell grants £16m of options to new chairman and his deputy (12 Jan 2015)
Strain of losses became 'too great' for City Link, says EY (15 Jan 2015)
Accounting policies could factor in carbon costs (12 Jan 2015)
Shire to buy US pharmaceutical firm in £3.4bn deal (12 Jan 2015)
Forex fraudster Alex Hope found guilty of duping investors (12 Jan 2015)
Tax avoidance as “tax planning”: global accounting firms on the make (9 Jan 2015)
The tax avoidance industry: accountancy firms on the make (9 Jan 2015)
Bulgarian regulator to fine KPMG over Corpbank audit (9 Jan 2015)
The Financial Fragility of the Big Four Accounting Firms – Updating the “Tipping Point” (9 Jan 2015)
Tailored Accounting at IPOs Raises Flags (9 Jan 2015)
Santander bank asks shareholders for 7.5bn euros (9 Jan 2015)
U.S. ex rel. Rille v. Pricewaterhousecoopers LLP: Government Takes Unduly Harsh Position On Whistlblowers’ Right To Award In Pending En Banc Appeal (9 Jan 2015)
Judgement in Norman Rille, United States of America, ex rel.; Neal Roberts, United States of America, ex rel. v. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP; PWC Consulting LLC; International Business Machines, Inc.; IBM Global Services Company; Oracle Corporation; Boeing Company; Cisco Systems, Inc.; Exostar Corporation; Exostar LLC; Lockheed Martin Corporation (9 Jan 2015)
India Finance Ministry proposes new tax accounting standards for businesses (9 Jan 2015)
India FinMin notifies draft accounting standards to compute taxable income of businesses (9 Jan 2015)
Google vs KPMG: The Battle of Future Accountancy Services? (9 Jan 2015)
Derby accountant Stephen Douce jailed for tax fraud (9 Jan 2015)
Stanley Furniture drops on accounting error (9 Jan 2015)
Clarified Auditing Standards: Professional Judgment and More (9 Jan 2015)
Petrobras aims to take entire scandal-linked loss in 3rd qtr (9 Jan 2015)
One-in-ten KPMG US female staff join lawsuit against firm ( 8 Jan 2015)
Early UK implementation of the Transparency Directive’s requirements for reports on payments to governments, including feedback on CP14/17 and final rules (8 Jan 2015)
Accountancy Age Owner Strikes £110m Debt Deal (8 Jan 2015)
Revolving Doors: FRC appoints Geoffrey Green to chair Financial Reporting Review Panel (8 Jan 2015)
RBS trader arrested in forex rigging probe named in court records (8 Jan 2015)
Bulgarian regulator to fine KPMG over Corpbank audit (8 Jan 2015)
JPMorgan settles 'Bandits' Club' currency price rigging lawsuit in US (8 Jan 2015)
EU Parliament and Council agree on beneficial ownership registers (8 Jan 2015)
Cayman Finance welcomes rejection of central register for beneficial ownership of shell companies (8 Jan 2014)
EU Parliament and Council agree on beneficial ownership registers (8 Jan 2015)
Nearly 900 Female KPMG Employees Have Joined the Gender Discrimination Lawsuit (7 Jan 2015)
Turf Wars: Law firms venture into audit companies' turf (7 Jan 2015)
IASB, FASB Look Beyond Convergence (7 Jan 2015)
Top bosses have already made more money in 2015 than most UK workers will earn all year (7 Jan 2015)
Turf Wars: KPMG to take on Google and disrupt SME market (7 Jan 2015)
Shell announces £55m payout for Nigeria oil spills (7 Jan 2015)
News Release - Bank of England Court Minutes June 2007 – May 2009 (7 Jan 2015)
Bank of England Court Minutes 2007 (7 Jan 2015)
Bank of England Court Minutes 2008 – Book 1 (7 Jan 2015)
Bank of England Court Minutes 2008 – Book 2 (7 Jan 2015)
Bank of England Court Minutes 2009 (7 Jan 2015)
Bank of England Transactions Committee Minutes : Nov 2007 - Mar 2009 (7 Jan 2015)
Bank of England Minutes of the Court June 2007 – May 2009: background and context (7 Jan 2015)
Bank of England's disarray in the face of financial crisis revealed (7 Jan 2015)
Bank of England was unaware of impending financial crisis (7 Jan 2015)
Diary of a shambles: Bank of England's struggle with financial crisis (7 Jan 2015)
Revealed: Bank of England files finally shed light on financial crisis meetings (7 Jan 2015)
Deloitte appointed administrators at fashion chain Bank (7 Jan 2015)
City Link assets sold to rival DX (6 Jan 2015)
Insolvency: Bank fashion chain in administration (6 Jan 2015)
Bank Fashion administration: Private equity back on trial as retailer's collapse risks 1500 jobs (6 Jan 2015)
Bitcoin exchange Bitstamp targeted by hackers who stole £3.4m (6 Jan 2015)
Fair Value Accounting: The obscure rule change that could make student loans more expensive (6 Jan 2015)
6 key threats to auditor independence (6 Jan 2015)
Ann Summers reports loss for 2013/4 amid upgrade costs (6 Jan 2015)
Tesco could close pension scheme (6 Jan 2015)
Rentokil may receive millions from sale of City Link assets (5 Jan 2015)
Quindell could be broken up as it confirms plans to sell off some of its divisions (5 Jan 2015)
RBS faces £5bn fine over US dealings (5 Jan 2015)
Pollution as Theft: Accounting for Systemic Externalities (5 Jan 2015)
Matt Taibbi and "The $9 Billion Witness" Who Exposed How JPMorgan Chase Helped Wreck the Economy (5 Jan 2015)
Maltese Cross bust: MFSA says it rested on PWC's audits (5 Jan 2015)
Revolving Doors: Ex-Anglo Irish official Moran lands job with PwC in Luxembourg (5 Jan 2015)
HSBC, Hong Kong Under Scanner As US Steps Up Investigation Of American Tax Frauds (5 Jan 2015)
Former Afren executives agree to pay $20m after threat of legal action (5 Jan 2014)
Revolving Doors: BDO partner appointed to Board of Taxation (5 Jan 2015)
Lenders to respond to investment bank ring-fence plans (5 Jan 2015)
Insolvency: Following the collapse of a string of firms including City Link, Comet and Peacocks, we need to give ailing firms more breathing space (2 Jan 2015)
Fired Afren executives pay energy group $20m over unauthorised payments (2 Jan 2015)
City Link's army of self-employed workers count cost of business failure (2 Jan 2015)
Sony Pictures Knew of Gaps in Computer Network Before Hack Attack (2 Jan 2015)
RBS Shares Drop on US Fine Speculation (2 Jan 2015)
Goldman Sachs sparks outrage by paying staff highest UK bonuses (2 Jan 2015)
Accounting fraud is ripe for fresh scrutiny (1 Jan 2015)
CSC reaches $190 million settlement with SEC over accounting probe (1 Jan 2015)
A Job-Killing Corporate Accounting Change? (1 Jan 2015)
Insolvency: Reinforcing the principle of open justice—Re Premier Motor Auctions Leeds Ltd (1 Jan 2016)
Tesco head of remuneration committee to step down (1 Jan 2015)
Former Bumi owner wins legal battle to recoup £110m from ex-director (1 Jan 2015)
BP investigated forex traders amid 'cartel' fixing claims (1 Jan 2015)
Judge rejects fraud appeal by Le-Nature's ex-CEO (1 Jan 2015)
Why Human Capital Reporting Should Matter to CFOs (1 Jan 2015)
How Implementation of EU Extractive Accounting Standards Can Benefit Nigeria (1 Jan 2015)