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DECEMBER 2016

Toshiba shares slump: What's going wrong? (29 Dec 2016)
Zero hours contract staff earn £1000 a year less than other staff doing the same job (29 Dec 2016)
Fat cats: Nearly 1,000 City staff at four big US banks given €1m in pay deals in 2015 (29 Dec 2016)
RBS investors call for governance changes to improve transparency (29 Dec 2016)
RBS: Small shareholders demand a say in bank bosses' pay (29 Dec 2016)
Bribery and Corruption: General Cable Corporation agreed to pay more than $75 million to resolve parallel SEC and U.S. Department of Justice investigations related to its violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) (29 Dec 2016)
PCAOB staff offers guidance on audit firms' work in China (29 Dec 2016)
Pension expert call for scrutiny over Sports Direct sale of Dunlop (29 Dec 2016)
Hanwha Group's 3 Subsidiaries Committing Accounting Fraud Hit with 3.3 Billion Won Fine
(29 Dec 2016)
Lawyers and accountants are prime targets for cyber attacks (29 Dec 2016)
Link between high executive pay and performance 'negligible', study finds (28 Dec 2016)
Philip Green demands Dominic Chappell pays into BHS pension deal (28 Dec 2016)
Deloitte Anjin under criminal charge in relation to Daewoo accounting fraud (28 Dec 2016)
Halliburton Reaches $100 Million Deal in Securities Case (28 Dec 2016)
Banking standards: treacherous political waters lie ahead (28 Dec 2016)
SEC Probes Banks' Sale of Soured Mozambique Bonds (28 Dec 2016)
Transfer Pricing: Luxembourg Tightens Tax Rules Amid EU Pressure (28 Dec 2016)
Taking on income inequality with a CEO pay tax (28 Dec 2016)
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Arrest of Macau Resident and Unsealing of Charges Against Three Individuals for Insider Trading Based On Information Hacked from Prominent U.S. Law Firms (28 Dec 2016)
Why We Should Fear University, Inc. (28 Dec 2016)
Dozens of UK banks and financial firms 'looking at moving to Ireland' (27 Dec 2016)
Luxembourg to sharpen tax rules for intra-group financing (27 Dec 2016)
Law Firms' Accounts Pose Money-Laundering Risk (27 Dec 2016)
Toshiba flags 'billions of dollars' loss on US nuclear acquisition (27 Dec 2016)
Philip Green blames 'harassment' for £571million BHS pensions delay (27 Dec 2016)
Life Insurers Say Forthcoming Accounting Changes Demanding (27 Dec 2016)
Disclosing Engagement Partner Improves Audit Quality (23 Dec 2016)
Australia: Deloitte discriminated against employee suffering tuberculosis, tribunal finds
(23 Dec 2016)
BHS pension scandal probe has sparked bumper payday for lawyers and accountants
(23 Dec 2016)
Kenya Court stops KPMG tender for voters audit, to hear Cord suit (23 Dec 2016)
US justice department accuses Barclays over mortgage mis-selling (23 Dec 2016)
Deutsche Bank agrees $7.2bn penalty with US regulators (23 Dec 2016)
Credit Suisse Settles US Mortgage-Backed Securities Probe for $5.3 Billion (23 Dec 2016)
New accounting standards change the rules of IT leasing (23 Dec 2016)
Teva to pay US government $519 million over foreign bribery charges (23 Dec 2016)
Odebrecht and Braskem Plead Guilty and Agree to Pay at Least $3.5 Billion in Global Penalties to Resolve Largest Foreign Bribery Case in History (23 Dec 2016)
Six (more) threats to auditor independence (23 Dec 2016)
Caveat: Deloitte testimony on corruption spurs Ganley (23 Dec 2016)
Google Lowered 2015 Taxes by $3.6 Billion Using 'Dutch Sandwich'
(22 Dec 2016)
The Pinstripe Mafia: How Deloitte squeezes millions out of Government: City's most rapacious accountancy firm is banned from Westminster for toxic Brexit memo (22 Dec 2016)
Lack of independence threatens future of FRC (22 Dec 2016)
ESMA proposes new digital format for issuers’ financial reporting (22 Dec 2016)
State aid: EU Commission welcomes Court judgment in Spanish Goodwill cases (22 Dec 2016)
FRC holds firm on 'true and fair' dividends reporting (22 Dec 2016)
The Capture of Government Regulators by the Big 4 Accounting Firms: Some Evidence (22 Dec 2016)
FRC letter to PIRC Managing Director, Alan MacDougall (22 Dec 2016)
ECJ rules against Aer Lingus and Ryanair in €16m travel tax case (22 Dec 2016)
Atlas Choice car hire customers could be hundreds out of pocket (22 Dec 2016)
Trump May Have a $300 Million Conflict of Interest With Deutsche Bank (22 Dec 2016)
World's oldest bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena on brink of £16bn Italian state bailout (22 Dec 2016)
Former Official at New York State Pension Fund, Two Brokers Charged in Bribery Scheme (22 Dec 2016)
Sir Philip Green could face £1bn BHS fine under MPs' plan (21 Dec 2016)
Pensions Regulator needs stronger powers, MPs say (21 Dec 2016)
UK House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee Report: Defined benefit pension schemes (21 Dec 2016)
RBS, Barclays and other banks fined in Swiss franc Libor case (21 Dec 2016)
Swiss watchdog fines banks almost $100 million over rate cartels (21 Dec 2016)
Deloitte apologises for Brexit memo in effort to make peace with No 10 (21 Dec 2016)
Brexit memo leak firm Deloitte withdraws from Government contracts worth millions after Theresa May row (21 Dec 2016)
EFRAG calls for more guidance on asymmetry in Conceptual Framework (21 Dec 2016)
Auditor Liability: The Case against PwC (21 Dec 2016)
Sadiq Khan appoints PwC partner (21 Dec 2016)
Rita Ora caught up in £2.3m alleged investment fraud by accountant who 'lived like Saudi prince' (21 Dec 2016)
Accountant steals £315000 from employer for designer goods (21 Dec 2016)
Former LME accountant pleads guilty to credit card fraud (21 Dec 2016)
A tax partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers who lives in Chappaqua has been arrested by state officials (21 Dec 2016)
Singapore convicts banker in 1MDB case (21 Dec 2016)
New Slater & Gordon investigation unsurprising given long history of accounting problems
(21 Dec 2016)
VW agrees further $1bn settlement deal over emissions scandal (21 Dec 2016)
Volkswagen to Recall 83,000 3.0 Liter Diesel Vehicles and Fund Mitigation Projects to Settle Allegations of Cheating Emissions Tests on Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche Vehicles (21 Dec 2016)
SEC Charges Morgan Stanley With Customer Protection Rule Violations (21 Dec 2016)
Morgan Stanley to pay $7.5 million over customer protection violations (21 Dec 2016)
SandRidge Energy Inc Settles Charges in Whistleblower Retaliation Case (21 Dec 2016)
NeuStar Inc Violated Rule Aimed at Protecting Potential Whistleblowers (21 Dec 2016)
Ownership Avoidance, the Great Escape in the Tax Justice Network December 2016 Podcast (20 Dec 2016)
FRC is "unsupportable" in current guise, says PIRC (20 Dec 2016)
Accountants and spies: The secret history of Deloitte's espionage practice (20 Dec 2016)
Unclear Intangibles Concepts Hinder Rulemaking (20 Dec 2016)
The Pinstripe Mafia is part of the state: Almost everyone on Sadiq Khan's Brexit Expert Advisory Panel has corporate interests
(20 Dec 2016)
Declan Ganley's Rivada seeks Deloitte testimony in Mexican contract row
(20 Dec 2016)
Ireland may not get Apple's €13bn back taxes in full, EU says (20 Dec 2016)
Ireland reveals hand in Apple tax row (20 Dec 2016)
Brussels discloses full decision on Apple's tax schemes (20 Dec 2016)
Legal sector 'at risk' without Brexit guarantees (20 Dec 2016)
BREXIT: The flight of capital has begun (19 Dec 2016)
Tim Bush Evidence to the BEIS Committee: FRC is not adhering to the law (19 Dec 2016)
Why Ireland doesn't want Apple to pay back £11bn in taxes (19 Dec 2016)
Airbnb UK tax history questioned as income passes through Ireland (19 Dec 2016)
Banks may groan – but Andrew Tyrie is right to launch a new inquiry (19 Dec 2016)
Abu Dhabi becomes a top BP shareholder (19 Dec 2016)
Deutsche Bank to Pay $37 Million to End 'Dark Pool' Investigations (19 Dec 2016)
Fat cats: Retail boss behind Austin Reed and Jane Norman lands £31m payout
(19 Dec 2016)
ADS Securities UK sees Ernst & Young resign as auditor (19 Dec 2016)
Global regulators pile pressure on banks over accounting rule (16 Dec 2016)
SEC asks Wells Fargo to explain loan accounting practices (16 Dec 2016)
Wells Fargo is conducting itself like Enron did (16 Dec 2016)
Foreign banks in Britain pay fraction of tax rate
(16 Dec 2016)
Shell finance boss tipped to take over the top job cashed in stock worth £1m days before he suddenly quit (16 Dec 2016)
KPMG publishes data on social mobility (16 Dec 2016)
The future of automation and accounting (16 Dec 2016)
Pharmaceutical company Actavis UK accused of overcharging NHS (16 Dec 2016)
Grant Thornton profitability hit by investment in IT
(16 Dec 2016)
Accountancy giant KPMG eyes Brexit boost as UK revenues hit £2.1bn (16 Dec 2016)
Bribery and Corruption: Forest Laboratories and Forest Pharmaceuticals to Pay $38 million to Resolve Kickback Allegations Under the False Claims Act (16 Dec 2016)
Why is the ACCA employing someone as Head of Audit and Assurance who has just been fined for professional misconduct by the ICAEW? (15 Dec 2016)
Ex-Tesco Director Grace Said to Avoid Charge in Accounting Probe (15 Dec 2016)
KPMG polls social class of its accountants (15 Dec 2016)
A quarter of staff at Bristol accountancy giant KPMG went to private school (15 Dec 2016)
PCAOB censures Deloitte's Netherlands firm (15 Dec 2016)
Big Four auditors face crackdown on global operations (15 Dec 2016)
US banks must pay up to $2 billion more per year to shield taxpayers (15 Dec 2016)
Big Banks $70 Billion Short in US Fed Push to Prevent Bailouts (15 Dec 2016)
U.S. Treasury joins push for auditors to check cybersecurity (15 Dec 2016)
FinCEN Penalizes Bronx Credit Union for Failures to Manage High-Risk International Financial Activity (15 Dec 2016)
Deloitte's Netherlands Affiliate Fined Over Independence Rules (14 Dec 2016)
Ex-RSM Tenon CEO fined; ex-FD and PwC face complaints over its accounting (14 Dec 2016)
PwC and ex RSM Tenon chief rapped over Group audit (14 Dec 2016)
Formal Complaint and admission of Misconduct relating to ICAEW members and a member firm in connection with RSM Tenon Group Plc (14 Dec 2016)
The trouble with using bond yields to calculate pension fund liabilities (14 Dec 2016)
Trader Nidera Said to Find $150 Million Financial Hole in Brazil (14 Dec 2016)
Nidera reports accounting issue in Brazil balance sheet (14 Dec 2016)
Wells Fargo's 'Living Will' Plan Is Rejected Again by Regulators (14 Dec 2016)
Zara posts promising profits amid tax avoidance accusations (14 Dec 2016)
KPMG Global Revenues Rise to $25.4 Billion (14 Dec 2016)
US Big Four Accounting Firms Show Fewer Problem Audits (13 Dec 2016)
Country-by-Country reporting: How Restricted Access Exacerbates Global Inequalities in Taxing Rights (13 Dec 2016)
FCA fines on City fall to lowest level since financial crisis (13 Dec 2016)
SEC Files Charges in $26 Million Stock Manipulation Scheme (13 Dec 2016)
Dozens rally in support of Luxleaks whistleblowers as they appeal conviction
(13 Dec 2016)
KPMG to investigate Agent Provocateur (13 Dec 2016)
Harlequin wins $15m case against Wilkins Kennedy (13 Dec 2016)
Standards Undergo PCAOB Cost-Benefit Analysis (13 Dec 2016)
Dash for Cash: Deloitte ramps up crisis management skillset with Regester Larkin acquisition (13 Dec 2016)
As New Accounting Rules Loom, Time To Tell Investors More (13 Dec 2016)
Flaw in PricewaterhouseCoopers software can allow hackers to manipulate accounting result
(12 Dec 2016)
Big Four auditors can no longer hide behind their local models (12 Dec 2016)
Conflict of Interests: Wilkins Kennedy ordered to pay Harlequin $15m in damages (12 Dec 2016)
Former AIG Chief Greenberg, NY AG to Begin Mediation to Settle Civil-Fraud Lawsuit
(12 Dec 2016)
Transfer Pricing and tax avoidance (12 Dec 2016)
Deloitte Brazil admits false auditing and obstructing investigations (12 Dec 2016)
HMRC investigating 43 football players over tax arrangements (12 Dec 2016)
HMRC: Taxman accused of 'going after minnows while big fish swim away' (12 Dec 2016)
Corporate social responsibility, tax avoidance, and counting spoons (12 Dec 2016)
A new age of accounting in the clouds (12 Dec 2016)
World’s worst 15 tax havens includes the Cayman Islands, Jersey and the British Virgin Islands, which, like Bermuda, are under the sovereignty of the UK (12 Dec 2016)
TAX BATTLES: The dangerous global race to the bottom on corporate tax (12 Dec 2016)
McDonalds has jumped into the tax wars – and the UK is a willing accomplice (9 Dec 2016)
Management teaching promotes inequality (9 Dec 2016)
MPs demand 'realistic compensation' after Connaught fund collapse
(9 Dec 2016)
Rolls-Royce hires PwC for £5.9m audit (9 Dec 2016)
Legal & General accuses bank regulator of increased intervention (9 Dec 2016)
Legal and General lines up KPMG as external auditor (9 Dec 2016)
EU strengthens shareholder control of executive pay (9 Dec 2016)
Even Rio Tinto's chairman doesn't understand executive pay (9 Dec 2016)
Millions of over-55s could run out of money because of George Osborne's pension reforms (9 Dec 2016)
FRC asks for additional corporate governance powers (9 Dec 2016)
SEC Awards Nearly $1 Million to Whistleblower (9 Dec 2016)
Heard the latest Christmas story? It's about how UK banks pay all their taxes (8 Dec 2016)
Sports Direct chairman lambasts critics as profits fall (8 Dec 2016)
Findings of the Financial Reporting Review Panel in respect of the accounts of Sports Direct International plc for the year ended 26 April 2015 (8 Dec 2016)
US bank quit Sports Direct role over share deal concerns, court filing claims
(8 Dec 2016)
America's audit watchdog uncovers serious misconduct at Deloitte Brazil (8 Dec 2018)
Bank Audits - What Lord Myners told KPMG - see pages 19-20 (8 Dec 2016)
McDonald's moves international base to UK after run-in with EU tax regulators (8 Dec 2016)
Tory MP faces vote of no confidence over £13.5m loan to football team (8 Dec 2016)
No big makeover of pensions rules, says global accounting body (8 Dec 2016)
SEC and Non-GAAP Accounting: What's Next? (8 Dec 2016)
SEC's next target in crackdown on made-up numbers could be Brookdale, Bristow (8 Dec 2016)
Zara Under Fire as Greens Warn EU Tax Dodging Still in Vogue (8 Dec 2016)
Zara owner saved almost €600m in tax in locations including Ireland (8 Dec 2016)
Super-rich paying less income tax despite HMRC 'crackdown' (7 Dec 2016)
Secret tax deals in Luxembourg in dramatic rise
(7 Dec 2016)
Survival of the Richest: Europe’s role in supporting an unjust global tax system 2016 (7 Dec 2016)
Will Brexit, Trump affect global accounting standards? (7 Dec 2016)
No U.S. Action Soon on Global Accounting Rules: SEC Staff (7 Dec 2016)
FASB considers slowdown in standard setting (7 Dec 2016)
PwC Launches Cross-Border Law Practice in Singapore (7 Dec 2016)
EU Commission fines Crédit Agricole, HSBC and JPMorgan Chase € 485 million for euro interest rate derivatives cartel (7 Dec 2016)
EU fines top banks £410m for rate rigging, including HSBC and JP Morgan (7 Dec 2016)
PCAOB Announces $8 Million Settlement with Deloitte Brazil (6 Dec 2016)
Deloitte's Brazil Affiliate Fined $8 Million for False Audit Reports, Cover-Up (6 Dec 2016)
PCAOB Announces $750,000 Settlement with Deloitte Mexico (6 Dec 2016)
SEC Chief Accountant: U.S. Won't Switch to IFRS in the “Foreseeable Future"
(6 Dec 2016)
Banks' post-crisis consultancy spending soars to $200bn (6 Dec 2016)
Andrew Tyrie questions RBS over compensation for small businesses
(6 Dec 2016)
OECD releases further BEPS guidance on Country-by-Country reporting and country-specific information on implementation (6 Dec 2016)
OECD Guidance on the Implementation of Country-by-Country Reporting: BEPS Action 13 (6 Dec 2016)
OECD: Country-Specific Information on Country-by-Country Reporting Implementation (6 Dec 2016)
Executive Pay: Portland to vote on taxing companies if CEO earns 100 times more than staff
(6 Dec 2016)
Revolving Doors: CIIA appoints ex-FRC chief Paul Boyle as president (6 Dec 2016)
Revolving Doors: FRC appoints former ICAEW president to its board (6 Dec 2016)
Ex-Goldman Banker Leissner Faces Singapore Ban After 1MDB Probe (5 Dec 2016)
Royal Bank of Scotland reaches £800m settlement deal with three shareholder groups (5 Dec 2016)
RBS settles three claims over 2008 fund raising (5 Dec 2016)
Row over fees breaks out between fund responsible for saving BHS pensioners and one of store's administrators (5 Dec 2016)
BHS pensions lifeboat fights ballooning bill from administrators Duff & Phelps (5 Dec 2016)
Shell Companies: Weak UK regulation lets opaque companies persist (5 Dec 2016)
U.S. failing to curb money laundering by shell companies: task force report (5 Dec 2016)
Anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing measures: United States (5 Dec 2016)
Nine steps for managing an accountancy disciplinary investigation (5 Dec 2016)
SEC Awards $3.5 Million To Whistleblower (5 Dec 2016)
UK Government's corporate reforms will do nothing to check fat cats or stop abuse (2 Dec 2016)
House of Lords seek FRC clarification on true and fair (2 Dec 2016)
Read the House of Lords the Economic Affairs Committee letter to FRC seeking clarification of true and fair (2 Dec 2016)
BHS placed into liquidation after pressure from biggest creditor (2 Dec 2016)
Landlords flock to limited companies and hike rents to beat government crackdown on buy-to-let tax breaks (2 Dec 2016)
EU adopts IFRS 9 Financial Instruments for 2018 rollout (2 Dec 2016)
IFRS Foundation Reduces Size of IASB (2 Dec 2016)
US Audit Fees Rise Again (2 Dec 2016)
End the Corporate Shell Games (2 Dec 2016)
Revolving Doors: Former CFO joins IASB board (2 Dec 2016)
PIMCO Settles Charges of Misleading Investors About ETF Performance (2 Dec 2016)
Pimco to pay $20 million over misleading investors about ETF performance (2 Dec 2016)
75% of accounting graduates fear jobs will be taken by robots (2 Dec 2016)
Beware of the Newspeak of Contemporary Regulation (1 Dec 2016)
Go-Ahead Group to change accounting for rail pensions (1 Dec 2016)
FedEx takes a second look at accounting after SEC letter ( Dec 2016)
RBS fails Bank of England stress test (1 Dec 2016)
Coutts managed tax haven firms for controversial clients (1 Dec 2016)
Panama Papers: Europol links 3500 names to suspected criminals (1 Dec 2016)
HMRC 'haven't played with a straight bat' in KPMG case, claims counsel (1 Dec 2016)
Revolving Doors: FRC Board Appointment - Paul Druckman, former President and Office Holder at theInstitute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales. (1 Dec 2016)
Secret owners of 'zero-tax offshore companies' who file no accounts (1 Dec 2016)
The Globalization of Accounting and Auditing Standards (1 Dec 2016)
SEC Discloses Correspondence Over Valeant's Accounting Practices (1 Dec 2016)
Executive Pay: Since 2013, 917 of the FTSE 350’s annual remuneration reports have been approved and only four rejected (1 Dec 2016)
Theresa May's corporate governance changes are small beer (1 Dec 2016)
Revolving Doors: Former CFO joins IASB board (1 Dec 2016)
PCAOB Chair Goes on the Defensive (1 Dec 2016)
KRG signs oil and gas audit agreement with Ernst & Young (1 Dec 2016)

NOVEMBER 2016

Tesco: Serious Fraud Office will not charge former boss Philip Clarke over £326m accounting scandal (29 Nov 2016)
The iffy audit firm (Grant Thornton) linking Sir Shifty to Sports Direct boss Mike Ashley (29 Nov 2016)
SEC Criticizes Tesla Over 'Tailored' Accounting (29 Nov 2016)
UK House of Commons Briefing Paper: Shining a light on beneficial ownership: what's happening in the UK and elsewhere? (29 Nov 2016)
Former KPMG partners seek judicial review of steps taken to search homes and business premises (29 Nov 2016)
KPMG: High Court hears HMRC accused of 'improper motives' (29 Nov 2016)
UK Corporate governance reform: green paper (29 Nov 2016)
Executive pay: Companies told to justify rates (29 Nov 2016)
Theresa may warned against 'heavy-handed' approach to corporate governance (29 Nov 2016)
Theresa May's so-called corporate crackdown doesn't go far enough (29 Nov 2016)
May waters down plans for binding votes on executive pay (29 Nov 2016)
Companies face watered-down boardroom crackdown (29 May 2016)
UK Government targets private firms with corporate code (29 Nov 2016)
FASB Offers Insight on 3 Lease Accounting Trends (29 Nov 2016)
HMRC targets £3.8bn underpaid tax through transfer pricing (29 Nov 2016)
Tax avoidance clampdown reinforces IFA 'enablers' tag (29 Nov 2016)
Accountant admits stealing $3 million from grain shipper (29 Nov 2016)
Activist Investor Accuses Euro Disney of Magic in Accounting (28 Nov 2016)
UK accounting watchdog FRC launches probe into Sports Direct audit (28 Nov 2016)
FRC Investigations into the preparation, approval and audit of the financial statements of Sports Direct International plc (28 Nov 2016)
FRC launches investigation into Grant Thornton over Sports Direct (28 Nov 2016)
Solicitors' and accountants' offices raided in organised crime probe (28 Nov 2016)
Builders make billions as housing crisis escalates (28 Nov 2016)
Accounting meets religion in challenge for Islamic banks (28 Nov 2016)
Tesco's Clarke to face no charges from SFO in accounting scandal (28 Nov 2016)
Tesco Bank hack: Investigators launch probe into possibility of bank ignoring early warning (28 Nov 2016)
Boeing tax break ruled unlawful by WTO (28 Nov 2016)
Formula 1 may face EU probe over tax deal with HM Revenue & Customs (28 Nov 2016)
UK investors to pay more tax on money in offshore funds (28 Nov 2016)
Executive pay: Companies could be forced to reveal pay gap (28 Nov 2016)
Baroness Ros Altmann: I still expect Sir Philip Green to sort BHS pension deficit (28 Nov 2016)
ADS Securities UK sees Ernst & Young resign as auditor (28 Nov 2016)
Incorporated companies in the UK: July to September 2016 (28 Nov 2016)
Dilemmas in Globalization: Exploring Global Trends and Progressive Solutions (28 Nov 2016)
Future trends in accounting (28 Nov 2016)
Shell Companies: Consett 'became porn and dating payment hub' (25 Nov 2016)
Unilever's shares fall after being fined €590m in Brazilian tax lawsuit (25 Nov 2016)
How Formula One drove its tax bill down to just £5.2m on £372m of profits (25 Nov 2016)
Wells Fargo asks US court to dismiss account scandal lawsuit (25 Nov 2016)
Ex-CEO takes AirAsia India, Deloitte to court (25 Nov 2016)
Bosses pay: Business tells May to water down reform plans in new report (25 Nov 2016)
Purposeful Company - Interim Executive Remuneration Report (25 Nov 2016)
MPs expected to back regulations on privately-owned City businesses (25 Nov 2016)
Tycoons face May pay and governance overhaul (25 Nov 2016)
EY Switzerland becomes first advisory firm to accept Bitcoin (25 Nov 2016)
SFO expands Rolls-Royce inquiry over Iraq bribery allegations (25 Nov 2016)
ANZ, Macquarie Say Employees Tried to Rig Ringgit Benchmark Rate in Singapore (25 Nov 2016)
Review: Accounting isn't dead, just depreciating (25 Nov 2016)
British taxpayers face 27 billion pound loss from bank bailout (24 Nov 2016)
Bank executives should be fired for regulatory breaches, says report (24 Nov 2016)
Ferrero Rocher makers have paid no UK tax since 2008 (24 Nov 2016)
Autumn Statement shows cost of casual work 'gig economy' (24 Nov 2016)
Flat rate VAT changes for small businesses explained (24 Nov 2016)
EY lands Shroders audit as asset manager ends 57-year PwC tenure (24 Nov 2016)
Wages will be 'dreadful' for more than a decade, warns respected think tank (24 Nov 2016)
Warning that high earners' UK pension tax relief could be scrapped next year - In 2014 to 2015, this cost was around £48 billion with around two-thirds of the tax relief going to higher and additional rate taxpayers (24 Nov 2016)
Tories offer nothing new on economy despite Brexit challenges (23 Nov 2016)
T-Mobile's accounting (audited by PricewaterhouseCooper) slammed by investor group in letter to SEC (23 Nov 2016)
'Door is open' for Sir Philip Green to save the BHS pension scheme, watchdog says (23 Nov 2016)
BHS pension: Frank Field asks if Philip Green's assets can be seized (23 Nov 2016)
Sir Philip Green's £100m superyacht could be seized to fill BHS pension black hole (23 Nov 2016)
BHS unsecured creditors could receive 2p in the pound (23 Nov 2016)
Deloitte vice chairman meets Korean prosecutors on Anjin's accounting fraud of DSME (23 Nov 2016)
Former employee at Deloitte Anjin indicted over false reports for Daewoo Shipbuilding (23 Nov 2016)
Insolvency: More than 250 jobs lost and hundreds more at risk as Manchester equipment hire firm Hewden collapses into administration (23 Nov 2016)
Class-Action Lawsuit Adds to ExxonMobil's Climate Change Woes (23 Nov 2016)
EU Proposes Latest Pieces of Bank Rule Puzzle (23 Nov 2016)
Big banks' relationship with Dodd-Frank: it's complicated (23 Nov 2016)
Deloitte pro-rel report has 'serious credibility questions', says MLS Deputy Commissioner (23 Nov 2016)
Autumn Statement: New penalty for tax avoidance enablers (23 Nov 2016)
Europe and the US are totally split on how to deal with big banks (22 Nov 2016)
New EU Rules Would Force Big Foreign Banks to Hold More Capital in the Bloc (22 Nov 2016)
Radical reform of tax system is needed, says Sage boss (22 Nov 2016)
IFRS 9 set to raise compiance costs for financial institutions (22 Nov 2016)
7 Highest Paying Countries for Accountants (22 Nov 2016)
End London's role as a clearing-house for dirty money (22 Nov 2016)
Saudi Arabia said to investigate $4bn of money laundering cases (22 Nov 2016)
UK House of Commons Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee Oral evidence for Inquiry into Corporate Governance (22 Nov 2016)
UK House of Commons Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee Inquiry into Corporate Governance: Written evidence from PIRC Limited (22 Nov 2016)
UK House of Commons Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee Inquiry into Corporate Governance: Written evidence from the TUC (22 Nov 2016)
UK House of Commons Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee Inquiry into Corporate Governance: Written evidence from Professor Lorraine Talbot (22 Nov 2016)
Theresa May backtracks on workers on boards pledge (21 Nov 2016)
BHS' bosses cash comes under pressure from pensions lifeboat (21 Nov 2016)
BHS: Crisis for Chappell in US where another company on brink of going bust (21 Nov 2016)
BHS's bosses may face legal action to claw back funds (21 Nov 2016)
House Builders Profits' explode 5x in 6 years (21 Nov 2016)
Trump settles Trump University lawsuits for $25m (21 Nov 2016)
PwC replaces Deloitte as Charles Taylor auditor (21 Nov 2016)
UK House of Lords Staement: Equitable Life Payment Scheme: progress report (21 Nov 2016)
Celebrities including Sir Alex Ferguson and Sven-Goran Eriksson face huge tax bills (21 Nov 2016)
Citi and JP Morgan top regulators' list of systemically important banks, as HSBC and Barclays move to lower tier (21 Nov 2016)
Rip-off: Barrister tried to charge company £77000 to recover £2000 debt (21 Nov 2016)
Legal claim brought against Shell for alleged environmental damage in Nigeria could open floodgates (21 Nov 2016)
European Union: Country-by-Country Reporting Data—Accounting or Tax Information? (18 Nov 2016)
Bank sector regulation should not be rolled back - Draghi (18 Nov 2016)
Did anyone learn anything from the Equitable Life? (18 Nov 2016)
Facebook sets $6 billion share buyback; accounting chief to leave (18 Nov 2016)
Facebook Announces First Stock Buyback For Up to $6 Billion (18 Nov 2016)
FASB Proposes Changes in Accounting for Stock Compensation (18 Nov 2016)
Examining the Dodd-Frank Act and the Future of Financial Regulation (18 Nov 2016)
Insolvency: FRP Advisory takes on administration of 3 Holiday Inn hotels (18 Nov 2016)
Brexit: Deloitte says it will move work out of UK if Theresa May restricts immigration (17 Nov 2016)
Citi May Have to Write Off Up to $12 Billion of Tax Credits Under Trump Plan (17 Nov 2016)
RBS may be fined more than $12bn to settle US mis-selling scandal (17 Nov 2016)
RBS bosses ignored toxic debt warnings to save their bonuses: Damning court claim by investors who lost £4bn (17 Nov 2016)
RBS rejected Goldman, Deloitte warning over 2008 cash call, lawsuit alleges (17 Nov 2016)
Unregulated web cash transfer systems 'using Edinburgh shell companies as fronts' (17 Nov 2016)
JP Morgan pays $264m to settle China 'bribery' probe (17 Nov 2016)
Bribery and Corruption: JPMorgan’s Investment Bank in Hong Kong Agrees to Pay $72 Million Penalty for Corrupt Hiring Scheme in China (17 Nov 2016)
Bribery and Corruption: JPMorgan Chase Paying $264 Million to Settle FCPA Charges (17 Nov 2016)
Deloitte scoops BP and Centrica audits (17 Nov 2016)
Rio Tinto sacks senior executives over $10.5m payments linked to Guinea mine (17 Nov 2016)
Labour and unions demand action on temp agencies' tax avoidance (16 Nov 2016)
Proposed Swiss bribery law preserves tax break for illegal profits (16 Nov 2016)
Rolls-Royce faces uncertainty over new profit reporting standards (16 Nov 2016)
New Accounting Standard Will Hurt Rolls-Royce Results, CFO Says (16 Nov 2016)
Deloitte and Nabarro to investigate Redcentric accounting mis-statement (16 Nov 2016)
Insolvency: Gable challenges PwC in Liechtenstein court (16 Nov 2016)
JPMorgan, HSBC Said to Face EU Antitrust Fines Over Euribor (16 Nov 2016)
MP calls for co-op accounting red tape removal (16 Nov 2016)
A post-Trump SEC could shake up current policy (16 Nov 2016)
Criticizes GE's 'Non-GAAP' Metrics but Hasn't Taken Further Action (16 Nov 2016)
Risky Business: SEC Focuses on Internal Controls (16 Nov 2016)
Austerity has failed – the Autumn Statement should (but won't) reflect that (15 Nov 2016)
Downing Street attacks Deloitte after 'no Brexit plan' government memo leaked (15 Nov 2016)
Deloitte Reports CFOs are Concerned About Trade Barriers (15 Nov 2016)
Rolls-Royce profit was £700m less than stated (15 Nov 2016)
MEPs want a register with beneficial company owners to combat money laundering (15 Nov 2016)
FRC places fund managers in tiers for Stewardship Code (15 Nov 2016)
SEC Issues $20 Million Whistleblower Award (15 Nov 2016)
BP picks Deloitte for one of Britain's most valuable audits (15 Nov 2016)
American Apparel founder eyes European factory as company files for bankruptcy in US (15 Nov 2016)
Nigeria corruption cash 'took 10 days to count' (15 Nov 2016)
Ex-BHS owner Dominic Chappell arrested during HMRC tax probe (14 Nov 2016)
BHS: Dominic Chappell allegedly arrested over £500000 unpaid tax (14 Nov 2016)
Former BHS boss Dominic Chappell arrested following chain's dramatic collapse (14 Nov 2016)
Former Autonomy CFO Charged with Wire Fraud (14 Nov 2016)
Autonomy's former finance chief charged with fraud over Hewlett-Packard deal (14 Nov 2016)
Ex-Autonomy director accused by US prosecutors of elaborate financial fraud (14 Nov 2016)
Rolls-Royce profits to be hit by accounting rule (14 Nov 2016)
Lloyds under attack on claims it 'benefited' through offshore fund (14 Nov 2016)
Three bank employees arrested in UK insider trading investigation (14 Nov 2016)
After Toshiba scandal, Japan to float new code for auditors by year-end (14 Nov 2016)
FCA: financial firms cannot rely on regulation to stop crime (14 Nov 2016)
Tesco cyber-raid raises serious questions over UK banks' security (14 Nov 2016)
Brazil court rules Vale, BHP, Samarco to deposit $354 million after dam burst (14 Nov 2016)
A Would-Be Uber Rival's $250 Million Taxi Ride to Nowhere (14 Nov 2016)
Toyota agrees to $3.4bn rust dispute settlement in US (14 Nov 2016)
Pensions Regulator seeks 'multiples of £1m' from Chappell over BHS (11 Nov 2016)
EU banks not ready for tough new rule on loan provisions: watchdog (11 Nov 2016)
Change At SEC Could Usher In New Top Audit Watchdog (11 Nov 2016)
EU Commission gathers views on future rules to deter promoters of aggressive tax planning schemes (11 Nov 2016)
Open public consultation - Disincentives for advisors and intermediaries for potentially aggressive tax planning schemes (11 Nov 2016)
Weatherford Chief Executive Duroc-Danner Steps Down (11 Nov 2016)
Insolvency: Begbies Traynor puts new buyer on menu for failed restaurant chain Town and Country Inns (11 Nov 2016)
Insolvent Abuse: Further instalment of Keith Elliott's quest for justice against PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) (10 Nov 2016)
Bye-bye Dodd-Frank? What Donald Trump's win means for the banking red tape (10 Nov 2016)
EU Banks Face 18% Provision Spike Under New Accounting Rules (10 Nov 2016)
10 years after the events Deloitte LLP and John Clennett fined for Misconduct in relation to Aero Inventory Plc (10 Nov 2016)
Deloitte fined a record £4m by accountancy watchdog over audit of Aero Inventory (10 Nov 2016)
Trump's victory could mean rollback of Wall Street reforms (10 Nov 2016)
National Grid profit down 64% on accounting charge (10 Nov 2016)
Hampton-Alexander Review FTSE Women Leaders: Improving gender balance in FTSE Leadership (10 Nov 2016)
FRS 102: acquisition accounting obligations (10 Nov 2016)
Futures Trader Pleads Guilty to Illegally Manipulating the Futures Market in Connection With 2010 “Flash Crash” (10 Nov 2016)
Movie Producer Charged With Defrauding Hedge Fund Investors (10 Nov 2016)
Amazon, McDonald's targets of European tax probe (10 Nov 2016)
Europe's Taxman Could Have Amazon in Its Crosshairs (10 Nov 2016)
IASB to revamp format of financial statements (10 Nov 2016)
Tesco Bank says attack cost it £2.5m and hit 9000 people (9 Nov 2016)
Insolvency: American Apparel's UK business goes into administration - KPMG appointed administrators (9 Nov 2016)
MPs demand Sports Direct 'bugging' explanation (9 Nov 2016)
Fraud and Corruption in Accounting Put Under the Microscope (9 Nov 2016)
Rio Tinto suspends senior exec over Guinea mine bribery claims (9 Nov 2016)
Ernst & Young accused of helping Uchumi cook books (9 Nov 2016)
How Apple and Google Would Win Big From a Trump Cash Tax Break (9 Nov 2016)
Accounting rule change may lead Time Warner to bring billions more to AT&T deal (8 Nov 2016)
Tesco Bank blames 'systematic sophisticated attack' for account losses (8 Nov 2016)
Tesco Bank attack: 'Unprecendent and serious' hack investigated (8 Nov 2016)
RBS sets aside £400m for Global Restructuring Group payouts (8 Nov 2016)
RBS will admit that the bank 'destroyed' small firms which will get payouts (8 Nov 2016)
RBS to set up compensation fund for small businesses (8 Nov 2016)
Statement on the Financial Conduct Authority’s review of Royal Bank of Scotland’s treatment of customers referred to its Global Restructuring Group (8 Nov 2016)
SEC: Companies Should Disclose the Effects of New Accounting Standards (8 Nov 2016)
Sports Direct 'bugged' our visit to Shirebrook warehouse, say MPs (8 Nov 2016)
German chemicals firm BASF avoided nearly €1bn in tax, says report (8 Nov 2016)
FRC publishes consultation on procedures for de-registration of third country auditors (8 Nov 2016)
Equal pay is still far-off for Britain, where the gender gap narrows at a glacial pace (7 Nov 2016)
Philip Green 'bombarded minister with texts' in the weeks before BHS collapsed (7 Nov 2016)
Sir Philip Green locked in battle with BHS administrator over fate of £35m charge (7 Nov 2016)
Redcentric plc reports misstated accounting balances, sacks CFO (7 Nov 2016)
Redcentric slumps 66% after IT group discovers accounting irregularities (7 Nov 2016)
Internal Auditors Strain under Unethical Pressures (7 Nov 2016)
Volkswagen inquiry widens to include former finance chief (7 Nov 2016)
FRC publishes consultation on procedures for de-registration of third country auditors (7 Nov 2016)
Tesco Bank: 20000 customers lose money (7 Nov 2016)
Tesco Bank fraud: key questions answered (7 Nov 2016)
The legacy of leaving old industrial Britain to rot is becoming clear (7 Nov 2016)
Premier Oil's $2.6bn debt deal dogged by delays (7 Nov 2016)
Dentsu offices raided amid overwork investigation (7 Nov 2016)
HSBC profit falls 86% on Brazil disposal (7 Nov 2016)
BHS pension deal 'could be struck by Christmas' (4 Nov 2016)
Former BHS workers may wait 'years' for pension scheme bailout (4 Nov 2016)
BoE says it may tighten bank capital rules after Brexit relief (4 Nov 2016)
FTSE 350 fail to disclosure extent of pension liabilities under IAS 19 (4 Nov 2016)
Anglo Irish: Seán FitzPatrick goes on trial for 'misleading' auditors over loans (4 Nov 2016)
Google pays €47m in tax in Ireland on €22bn sales revenue (4 Nov 2016)
FASB Simplifies Tax Accounting for Asset Transfers (4 Nov 2016)
DFS FINES AGRICULTURAL BANK OF CHINA $215 MILLION FOR VIOLATING ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING LAWS AND MASKING POTENTIALLY SUSPICIOUS FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS (4 Nov 2016)
Chesapeake says SEC seeking info on accounting behind asset purchases (4 Nov 2016)
Tech deals with accountancy and healthcare firms drive McLaren back into profit (4 Nov 2016)
Starbucks reports record annual profit (4 Nov 2016)
IRS Faces Obstacles Auditing Transfer Pricing (4 Nov 2016)
The tax implications of the Uber ruling (4 Nov 2016)
The whistleblower who exposed Bernie Madoff thinks the insurance industry is riddled with fraud (3 Nov 2016)
Philip Green's plan for BHS pension falls short by £100m (3 Nov 2016)
BHS 'sorted' according to Sir Philip (3 Nov 2016)
Pensions Regulator begins legal proceedings against Sir Philip Green (3 Nov 2016)
French prosecutor says HSBC should stand trial in tax fraud case (3 Nov 2016)
These are the giant US companies that paid the least in taxes last year (3 Nov 2016)
SEC Begins Proceedings Against PricewaterhouseCoopers audit partner (3 Nov 2016)
There Should be No Special Deal for Tax-Evading Cameco (3 Nov 2016)
French tax body to decide on Socgen Kerviel affair 'within days' (3 Nov 2016)
Pensions regulator pursues Sir Philip Green (2 Nov 2016)
The highest paid jobs of 2016 have been revealed (3 Nov 2016)
Trump, companies accused of mistreating women in at least 20 lawsuits (3 Nov 2016)
Dominic Chappell 'bled BHS dry', says rival Paul Sutton (2 Nov 2016)
Deloitte Anjin executive arrested over DSME accounting fraud (2 Nov 2016)
Paper Tigers: Seven bodies meet Treasury challenge on tax avoidance (2 Nov 2016)
US Angered as Freddie Mac Auditor PwC Settles Investor Suit (2 Nov 2016)
FTSE 100 audit market 'slowing' despite 10% growth (2 Nov 2016)
German Banks Concerned Over Capital Requirement Changes Proposed By Basel IV Regulations (2 Nov 2016)
Deutsche Bank set to be among hardest hit by new capital rules (2 Nov 2016)
Insolvency: Failure for 70% of administration cases (2 Nov 2016)
Insolvency: Business Rescue in the UK: Administration Outcomes - 2011-2016 (2 Nov 2016)
IFIAR celebrates 10 years of cooperation in international audit regulation (2 Nov 2016)
'High-up' Alibaba staffer helping SEC probe into tech giant (2 Nov 2016)
Boardrooms 'need more ethnic diversity' (2 Nov 2016)
Companies should focus more on issues important to shareholders and wider stakeholders, says FRC in response to BEIS Inquiry (2 Nov 2016)
Don't let new lease accounting standards 'fall off the radar' (2 Nov 2016)
Insolvency: Powa play failed to get past Deloitte (2 Nov 2016)
Britain is on the road to being a corporate tax haven (1 Nov 2016)
Accounting: Just ignore the FRC (1 Nov 2016)
Wells Fargo: Where Was the Auditor (KPMG)? (1 Nov 2016)
PricewaterhouseCooper Audit Partner Charged in Failed Audits of Venture Capital Fund Burrill Life Sciences Capital Fund III (1 Nov 2016)
PwC Auditor Faces SEC Claims Over $18M Biotech Fraud (1 Nov 2016)
Country by Country Reporting: An overview and comparison of initiatives (1 Nov 2016)
Premier Motor Auctions V PWC AND Lloyds [2016] EWHC 2610 (Ch) (1 Nov 2016)
Firm (PKF O’Connor Davies) and Partner Charged With Issuing Fraudulent Audit Reports (1 Nov 2016)
DOJ Probes Valeant for Accounting Fraud (1 Nov 2016)
Would the UK be exporting tax avoidance: Brexit minister Davies meets Big Four and ICAEW (1 Nov 2016)
Pension scheme deficit shrinks sharply in October (1 Nov 2016)
Valeant (audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers) Ex-CEO, Ex-CFO Are a Focus of U.S. Criminal Probe (1 Nov 2016)
Internal auditors say they are being pressured to suppress or change audit findings (1 Nov 2016)
Bank boards and professional misconduct: New metrics needed (1 Nov 2016)
Insolvency: KPMG administrators appointed as aircraft engine specialist Total Engine Support Ltd nosedives (1 Nov 2016)
Is it right to ask auditors to 'police' the charity sector? (1 Nov 2016)

OCTOBER 2016

The Pinstripe Mafia: Ernst & Young (EY) Created Facebook's Tax Plan. And Lo, It Was Good, Declared EY (31 Oct 2016)
European Banks Stuck With $1.3 Trillion of Bad Loans (31 Oct 2016)
Tesco faces £100m claim from investors over accounting scandal (31 Oct 2016)
UBS Faces Hong Kong Regulatory Action Over Share Sales (31 Oct 2016)
Turmoil Deepens at India's Tata Group as Top Executives Exit (31 Oct 2016)
More Self-serving Twaddle: FRC thematic review welcomes improved transparency of tax reporting and encourages greater clarity around the reporting of tax uncertainties (31 Oct 20156)
The Netherlands comes out in support of public country-by-country reporting (31 Oct 2016)
A bribe payer admits his crime: the first human source comes forward in Unaoil scandal (31 Oct 2016)
Bribery and Corruption: Rolls-Royce middlemen may have used bribes to land major contracts (31 Oct 2016)
Why the Rolls-Royce investigation is so important to the SFO (31 Oct 2016)
FASB Simplifies Tax Accounting for Asset Transfers (31 Oct 2016)
Corporate Crime: New principles will help governments and law enforcement tackle corporate abuse (31 Oct 2016)
HSBC in talks with Bank of England to free up £5bn in China (31 Oct 2016)
£6.9m tax fraud puts accountant, payroll head and director in jail (31 Oct 2016)
Sports Direct and shareholders tussle over independent reviewer (31 Oct 2016)
Number of UK insolvencies jumps by a fifth in England and Wales (31 Oct 2016)
A bribe payer admits his crime: the first human source comes forward in Unaoil scandal (31 Oct 2016)
RBS reports £469m loss for the third quarter (28 Oct 2016)
Private investors vow to take RBS to court over £1.25bn claim (28 Oct 2016)
Warren, senators press auditor KPMG to explain how it missed Wells Fargo's illegal activity (28 Oct 2016)
Warren Targets KPMG Over Wells Phony Accounts (28 Oct 2016)
Warren grills auditor over role in Wells Fargo's fake account scam (28 Oct 2016)
FRC: Former CEO of Co-operative Bank plc admits Misconduct in settlement agreement (28 Oct 2016)
Exxon, Auditor (PwC )Must Comply With New York Climate Fraud Subpoena, Court Says (28 Oct 2016)
60% of accounting firms have no women in senior roles (28 Oct 2016)
Bill for PPI mis-selling scandal tops £40bn (28 Oct 2016)
Qualcomm Creating Subsidiary to Avoid NXP Tax Hit (28 Oct 2016)
Irish-based Apple executive spared Italy jail sentence (28 Oct 2016)
Italy judge agrees tax probe settlement with head of Apple's Irish unit (28 Oct 2016)
Revolving Doors: EY appoints Martin to global independent non-executive board (28 Oct 2016)
Answers to the first Big 4 quiz, and your next starter for ten (27 Oct 2016)
US prosecutors investigate Brixmor accounting issues (27 Oct 2016)
Tatas staring at $18 billion in writedowns because of legacy hotspots: Cyrus Mistry (27 Oct 2016)
New York court orders Exxon, PwC to comply with NY AG subpoena (27 Oct 2016)
US Angered as Freddie Mac Auditor (PricewaterhouseCoopers) Settles Investor Suit (27 Oct 2016)
BT takes £145m hit due to accounting 'errors' at Italian division (27 Oct 2016)
Apple Profits Benefit From 2015 Accounting Change (27 Oct 2016)
Bribery and Corruption: Embraer Paying $205 Million to Settle FCPA Charges (27 Oct 2016)
IBM board approves additional $3 billion stock buyback (27 Oct 2016)
Barclays sets aside another £600m for PPI claims (27 Oct 2016)
Barclays, UBS settle with bondholders over Libor manipulation (27 Oct 2016)
Time for U.K. to Get Tough on Offshore Transparency? (27 Oct 2016)
Court rejects former PwC employee's claim (27 Oct 2016)
Turf Wars: Should the Accounting Profession Be Renamed? (27 Oct 2016)
BT sales soar on EE takeover but pension gulf widens by £3.3bn in just three months (27 Oct 2016)
US judge approves $14.7 billion deal in VW diesel scandal (26 Oct 2016)
Lloyds sets aside extra £1bn for PPI mis-selling (26 Oct 2016)
Vodafone fined £4.6m by Ofcom for breaking customer rules (26 Oct 2016)
Insolvency: KPMG administrators to buckling steel company (26 Oct 2016)
Revocation of recognition of the Association of Authorised Public Accountants (AAPA) as a supervisory body (26 Oct 2016)
Gender pay gap could take 170 years to close, says World Economic Forum (26 Oct 2016)
Watford face fine and points deduction over forged HSBC bank letter (26 Oct 2016)
CCCTB:Commission proposes major corporate tax reform for the EU (26 Oct 2016)
The Big Number (26 Oct 2016)
BHS administrators track millions taken out of retailer by Dominic Chappell (25 Oct 2016)
BHS administrators 'file to wind up Retail Acquisitions' (25 Oct 2016)
KPMG Accused of Attempting to Censor Freedom of the Press in Romania, claims România Liberă (25 Oct 2016)
UK Government paid Big Four more than half a billion pounds (25 Oct 2016)
Kent accountant jailed for part in £6.9m payroll fraud (25 Oct 2016)
Deloitte tech acquisition spree continues with Plenary Networks (25 Oct 2016)
Bribery and Corruption: Embraer Agrees to Pay More than $107 Million to Resolve Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Charges (25 Oct 2016)
Bribery and Corruption: Embraer Paying $205 Million to Settle FCPA Charges (25 Oct 2016)
UK falls out of top 10 countries with the best pensions for the first time (25 Oct 2016)
SEC Charges Board Member With Insider Trading During and After Board Meeting (25 Oct 2016)
PPI and Brexit to loom large when high street banks report results (24 Oct 2016)
Rolls-Royce bucks pension trend with surplus and better benefits (24 Oct 2016)
Premier Motor Auctions: Lloyds, PwC Lose Bid To Secure Costs In £54M Firm Theft Suit (24 Oct 2016)
Premier Motorauctions Ltd & Anor v Pricewaterhousecoopers LLP & Anor [2016] EWHC 2610 (Ch) (24 October 2016)
BHS: MPs need to ask themselves where the buck stops when it comes to pension deficits (24 Oct 2016)
Big Four rival? No, we're old friends, insists ex-Deloitte boss (24 Oct 2016)
Gravy Train: Ministers spend £600m on big four accountancy firms (24 Oct 2016)
RBS paid consortium including Church of England at least £180m for flotation (24 Oct 2016)
Eight landmarks in the history of accountancy (24 Oct 2016)
30 years after big bang, will Brexit cost City of London its status? (24 Oct 2016)
Top international bankers based in London have rebuffed the argument that the UK can thrive as a low-regulation offshore haven for finance (24 Oct 2016)
The City of London was never the same after the "Big Bang" (24 Oct 2016)
SEC Unveils Executive Pay Ratio Guidelines (24 Oct 2016)
UK House of Commons Debate on BHS (21 Oct 2016)
BHS: Kicking Philip Green is absurd. Here's who MPs should be castigating (21 Oct 2016)
BHS: Philip Green deserved his humiliation, but our business culture is still rotten (21 Oct 2016)
Company (FMC Technologies) and Former Executives Paying Penalties for Accounting Violations (21 Oct 2016)
FMC Technologies to pay $2.5 million for accounting violations: SEC (21 Oct 2016)
Online gambling firms face investigation for cheating customers (21 Oct 2016)
Whitehall must strengthen oversight of arm's-length bodies, says PAC (21 Oct 2016)
Regulation - UK House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts Report: Departments’ oversight of arm’s-length bodies (21 Oct 2016)
FRC suggests improvements to cash flow statements (21 Oct 2016)
FRC Consultation into improvements to cash flow statement launched (21 Oct 2016)
Sorry BHP, but a closed door hardly shouts 'transparency' (21 Oct 2016)
BHP Billiton employees face criminal charges on Brazil dam disaster (21 Oct 2016)
Brexit may lead to divergence between EU and UK accounting frameworks (21 Oct 2016)
Financial Reporting Council (FRC) : REVIEW OF CORPORATE REPORTING 2015/2016 (21 Oct 2016)
FRC wants better balance and tax transparency in reporting (21 Oct 2016)
Accountant lands jail sentence over beauty parlour brothel 'extras' (21 Oct 2016)
Country-by-country reporting is about much more than tax (20 Oct 2016)
Tesco executives to face trial in 2017 after £326 million accounting scandal (20 Oct 2016)
Philip Green broke promises on BHS sale, store's buyer claims (20 Oct 2016)
Philip Green unlikely to be compelled over BHS pension deficit, says expert (20 Oct 2016)
Sir Shifty 'still hasn't submitted a plan to rescue BHS pensions' (20 Oct 2016)
The Death of British Business (20 Oct 2016)
Six years aftter the announcement FRC holds a hearing: PwC LLP and Stephen Harrison, a member firm and member of the ICAEW (20 Oct 2016)
Trainee accountant unfairly dismissed by accountancy giant PWC after failing exam sees compensation quadrupled (20 Oct 2016)
ALL ABOARD : Making worker representation on company boards a reality (20 Oct 2016)
Lloyd to replace Mackintosh as IASB vice-chair (20 Oct 2016)
Ernst & Young to Pay $11.8 Million for Audit Failures at Weatherford International (19 Oct 2016)
Ernst & Young to Pay $11.8 Million to Settle SEC Claims (19 Oct 2016)
Barratt executive arrested after internal misconduct inquiry (19 Oct 2016)
Tyrie urges FCA to publish its report into RBS (19 Oct 2016)
RBS top brass face court as tycoon brings Libor action (19 Oct 2016)
MP hits back after Sir Philip Green calls BHS collapse report 'bizarre' (19 Oct 2016)
Sir Philip Green 'sad and sorry for BHS hardship' (19 Oct 2016)
Sir Philip Green slams MPs for 'bizarre' report into BHS ahead of vote on his knighthood (19 Oct 2016)
Harry Shearer sues Vivendi over Spinal Tap profits (19 Oct 2016)
Bernard Matthews takeover by 'Chicken King' raises monopoly fears (19 Oct 2016)
SEC Charges Energy Services Company and Executives With Accounting Fraud (17 Oct 2016)
Police Scotland launches secret probe into RBS asset stripping scandal (17 Oct 2016)
Could 'Project Dash for Cash' see RBS face investigation under the UK Fraud Act? (17 Oct 2016)
RBS blamed for farm eviction (17 Oct 2016)
UK to write down value of RBS stake for second time in 6 months (17 Oct 2016)
Barclays U.K. Executives Said to Face Libor Interviews With SFO (17 Oct 2016)
Saudi regulator limits valuation changes in accounting shift (17 Oct 2016)
UK no longer one of top 5 countries to invest in after Brexit (17 Oct 2016)
Child porn charges dropped against ex-Ernst & Young manager (17 Oct 2016)
ICAEW joins small business taskforce ahead of EU exit (17 Oct 2016)
Former BHS owner Dominic Chappell set to refile Swiss Rock accounts, this time with £650000 loan (16 Oct 2016)
Fund manager Hermes calls on FTSE 350 firms to cap CEO pay (16 Oct 2016)
RBS 'Dash for Cash' scandal: 500 firms suing bank turn anger on regulator (16 Oct 2016)
Navigating uncertainty: The future of accountancy (16 Oct 2016)
UK FRC flags Brexit, dividends as year-end accounting issues (16 Oct 2016)
Fat cats: BP's Bob Dudley to take home £2m more thanks to falling pound (16 Oct 2016)
Raids on KPMG partners' homes carried out to coincide with tax evasion crackdown announcement, court told (15 Oct 2016)
Sir Philip Green could be stripped of knighthood next week after BHS scandal (15 Oct 2016)
Why are we letting private equity firms bargain with workers' retirement dreams? (15 Oct 2016)
Pension Protection Fund calls for BHS liquidation to start within the month (15 Oct 2016)
IFRS9: The Goal Posts Are Moving: Financial Reporting Readies for Change (15 Oct 2016)
US firms seek loan exceptions to bypass auditors and avoid default (15 Oct 2016)
Cloud Computing Disrupts Software Accounting Rules (15 Oct 2016)
The Smaller GSE Accounting Lawsuit Alleging Fraud Was Settled (Pwc and Deloitte metioned) (15 Oct 2016)
RBS in push for secrecy over £4 billion battle with investors (15 Oct 2016)
Hundreds of properties could be seized in UK corruption crackdown (15 Oct 2016)
The Pinstripe Mafia Squeals: 'Draconian' curbs on aiding tax avoidance anger accountants (15 Oct 2016)
Companies face criminal charges over employees' tax evasion (15 Oct 2016)
Foreign investors sue Toshiba over accounting scandal (13 Oct 2016)
Porn star tells court how she performed a ‘girl on girl’ show for ‘Danny Devito lookalike’ HBOS banker who was allegedly ripping off the company in a £245m fraud (13 Oct 2016)
Insolvency: Oil company boss blames PwC and RBS bank restructuring division for collapse (13 Oct 2016)
Deloitte Anjin under prosecution probe for aiding DSME accounting fraud (13 Oct 2016)
Insolvency: Meet The People Who Say Their Firms Were Destroyed By RBS (13 Oct 2016)
Given Confidential Information About RBS Investigation Ahead Of Share Firesale (13 Oct 2016)
Big Firm PR Spin: 'Draconian' curbs on aiding tax avoidance anger accountants (13 Oct 2016)
This is the biggest single scandal since the 2008 crisis. RBS executives will have to be called back to the committee to account for themselves and heads will have to roll (13 Oct 2016)
Sir Philip Green faces a fresh grilling when MPs debate BHS' collapse next Thursday (13 Oct 2016)
Netflix paid less than £400000 in UK corporation tax last year (13 Oct 2016)
Pensions minister says UK needs simple saving strategy (13 Oct 2016)
IASB struggles to find middle ground on prudence, neutrality (13 Oct 2016)
Donald Trump's Scottish golf courses lose £9.5m (13 Oct 2016)
Vlogger Zoella boosts sales at WH Smith as it launches £50m share buyback (13 Oct 2016)
Inequality, business and human rights: the new frontier? (13 Oct 2016)
Wells Fargo chief John Stumpf retires in wake of fake account scandal (13 Oct 2016)
Eduardo Saverin Faces Lawsuit Over Jumio Bankruptcy (13 Oct 2016)
Tracker scandal offers KPMG and Deloitte rich work (12 Oct 2016)
Banks deflect attempts to bring sunlight to bond dealing (12 Oct 2016)
Why RBS may be facing its most damaging scandal yet (12 Oct 2016)
MP calls for fraud squad probe into RBS Dash for Cash scandal (12 Oct 2016)
RBS's worst-case legal bill could hit $27 billion (12 Oct 2016)
Banks deflect attempts to bring sunlight to bond dealing (12 Oct 2016)
Pre-pack insolvency: Hundreds of jobs go as Boparan swallows Ed's Easy Diner (12 Oct 2016)
FCA imposes penalties on Sonali Bank (UK) Limited and its former money laundering reporting officer for serious anti-money laundering systems failings (12 Oct 2016)
FCA fines Sonali Bank UK £3.25m over anti-money laundering failure (12 Oct 2016)
Monarch airline agrees £165m investment from Greybull (12 Oct 2016)
FRC issues tips for preparers of annual reports at listed companies (12 Oct 2016)
Deutsche Bank got special treatment in the latest Europe-wide stress tests (12 Oct 2016)
US SEC Announces Enforcement Results for FY 2016 - 868 enforcement actions exposing financial reporting-related misconduct by companies and their executives and misconduct by registrants and gatekeepers (12 Oct 2016)
State Aid: low awareness and significant non-compliance in Member States, say EU Auditors (12 Oct 2016)
European Court of Auditors Report: More efforts needed to raise awareness of and enforce compliance with State aid rules in cohesion policy (12 Oct 2016)
Speech by Sir Win Bischoff, FRC Chairman: Financial Services BREXIT summit (12 Oct 2016)
Tax Reliefs: Lights, Camera, but No Action? Tax and Economic Development Lessons From State Motion Picture Incentive Programs (12 Oct 2016)
Now it's Bernard Matthews' turn to leave pensioners out of pocket (11 Oct 2016)
Pensions regulator wants more powers to protect workers (11 Oct 2016)
Give regulator veto over takeovers that strain pensions, says IoD chair (11 Oct 2016)
Arcadia paid £2m to favoured BHS staff (11 Oct 2016)
Uber pays £400k in UK tax despite raking in more than £23m from British customers (11 Oct 2016)
Basel gives banks breathing space over new accounting rules (11 Oct 2016)
FRC resumes Deloitte Aero Inventory disciplinary hearing (11 Oct 2016)
ICAEW chief tells May to stop attacking accountants (11 Oct 2016)
Deloitte Anjin under prosecution probe for aiding DSME accounting fraud (11 Oct 2016)
Unbelievable: The FRC issues advice to preparers of listed companies (11 Oct 2016)
Iceland to sentence ninth banker found guilty of market manipulation (11 Oct 2016)
Ni Remorse for Dodgy Practices But ICAEW chief tells May to stop attacking accountants (11 Oct 2016)
Bribery and Corruption: Singapore orders bank closure and fines over 1MDB links (11 Oct 2016)
From Corporate Pay to Private Prisons—Lessons From the Nobelists (11 Oct 2016)
ACCA launches qualification innovations (11 Oct 2016)
Bernard Matthews administration arrangement: Committee receives Prem Sikka briefing (10 Oct 2016)
Read Professor Prem Sikka's briefing on the Bernard Matthews pre-pack arrangement (10 Oct 2016)
Insolvency: RBS squeezed struggling businesses to boost profits, leak reveals (10 Oct 2016)
The Dash For Cash: Leaked Files Reveal RBS Systematically Crushed British Businesses For Profit (10 Oct 2016)
eBay pays £1.1m UK tax on revenues it told US investors were £1.1bn (10 Oct 2016)
Panama: The Hidden Trillions (10 Oct 2016)
The scandal of Scottish PFI projects moved to tax havens (10 Oct 2016)
Vulture lawyers' fees drain NHS of £418m in one year, enough to hire 19,000 nurses (10 Oct 2016)
Facebook paid £4.1m in UK tax last year (10 Oct 2016)
Facebook pays just £4million in tax while lavishing staff with £165MILLION (10 Oct 2016)
Facebook gets £11m tax credit, after vowing to pay more to taxman (10 Oct 2016)
Government U-turns on plan to force firms to list foreign employees after just a week (10 Oct 2016)
Welcome to a world without work (10 Oct 2016)
Risky banks face higher capital needs from latest Basel reforms (10 Oct 2016)
A reply to Sir Win Bischoff on whether country-by-country reporting is within the scope of the Annual Report (7 Oct 2016)
Earnings Management Just as Bad under IFRS as U.S. GAAP (7 Oct 2016)
IFRS 9 – What we think we know (7 Oct 2016)
Big Data, AI And The Uncertain Future For Accountants (7 Oct 2016)
Bernard Matthews sale leaves debts of £23m owed to 900 suppliers (7 Oct 2016)
Bernard Matthews creditors told '£23m debts' will not be paid (7 Oct 2016)
Deal for turkey giant Bernard Matthews leaves East Anglian firms out of pocket (7 Oct 2016)
AIG Ex-Chief Maintains He Knew of Nothing Improper in 'Sham' Deal (7 Oct 2016)
Sports Direct issues profit warning after losing £15m in sterling slump (7 Oct 2016)
Philip Hammond ditches retail sale of taxpayer's Lloyds Bank stake as £3.6bn share sell-off resumes (7 Oct 2016)
Germany to require firms to publish data on gender pay parity (7 Oct 2016)
FRC Notice: Deloitte LLP, a member firm of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and John Clennett, a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. (7 Oct 2016)
HMRC investigates BBC presenters over tax avoidance allegations (7 Oct 2016)
Ex-AIG Chief Greenberg Says He Was Just Too Busy for Fraud (6 Oct 2016)
Corporate Crime: New principles will help governments and law enforcement tackle corporate abuse (6 Oct 2016)
Corporate Governance: Firms must wake up to their responsibilities (6 Oct 2016)
Credit Suisse Paying $90 Million Penalty for Misrepresenting Performance Metric (6 Oct 2016)
Businesses react to Conservative plans for listing foreign workers (6 Oct 2016)
Deutsche Bank's Biggest Risk? $46 Trillion in Derivatives Exposure (5 Oct 2016)
Deutsche Bank's Appetite for Risk Throws Off Its Balance (5 Oct 2016)
Bernard Matthews' takeover: suppliers' uncertainty (5 Oct 2016)
Theresa May: We're coming after tax advisers (5 Oct 2016)
Donald Trump's former accountant says billionaire 'wasn't brilliant' with taxes (5 Oct 2016)
IASB struggles to find middle ground on prudence, neutrality (5 Oct 2016)
ABB says to keep Power Grids division, announces share buyback (5 Oct 2016)
Deloitte to merge 9 of its European member firms (5 Oct 2016)
Ernst & Young SEC Case Raises Questions Over Auditor Impartiality (5 Oct 2016)
Boardroom bosses advised to meet workers to justify pay practices (5 Oct 2016)
Tax loopholes allow Apple, Nike, and others to avoid US taxes that could pay for Obamacare six times over (5 Oct 2016)
Losing City jobs 'will have a big impact' on UK's tax take (5 Oct 2016)
IFRSs: it’s still hard to tell whether international standards are doing much good (5 Oct 2016)
Tesco sales overshadowed by £5.9bn pension hole (5 Oct 2016)
Speech by Sir Win Bischoff, FRC Chairman: Chairmen's Forum Dinner on Culture and Values (5 Oct 2016)
FRC: Aligning the interests of business and society (5 Oct 2016)
Boeing's Unique Accounting Method Helps Improve Profit Picture (4 Oct 2016)
Document row delays HMRC probe challenge by former KPMG partners (4 Oct 2016)
Warrants to search homes of four ex-KPMG partners 'unlawfully obtained' (4 Oct 2016)
Stamp collector Stanley Gibbons reports a £29m loss from accounts errors (4 Oct 2016)
Stamp collecting firm Stanley Gibbons posts £29m pre-tax loss (4 Oct 2016)
What went wrong with Stanley Gibbons? (4 Oct 2016)
Tory Home Secretary Amber Rudd involved in string of firms that went bust and owed millions (4 Oct 2016)
Och's Role in Africa Probe Poses Ethics Questions to Investors (4 Oct 2016)
PricewaterhouseCoopers Posts 1.5% Rise in Global Revenue (4 Oct 2016)
Bernard Matthews: Letter from the UK House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee to Pension Protection Fund (4 Oct 2016)
Deloitte overtakes PwC as world's biggest accountant (4 Oct 2016)
Donald Trump's Accountant Likely Violated Confidentiality Rules (4 Oct 2016)
Offshore Shell Games 2016: The Use of Offshore Tax Havens by Fortune 500 Companies (4 Oct 2016)
Are US Companies Avoiding Over $700 Billion in Taxes on Overseas Profits? (4 Oct 2016)
RBS to pay $120 million to resolve Connecticut mortgage bond probe (4 Oct 2016)
Declawed: Executive pay clawbacks are gratifying, but not particularly effective (4 Oct 2016)
Unions call for speed in workers on company boards (4 Oct 2016)
Dear Barack Obama, thank you for not being an evil robot accountant (4 Oct 2016)
SFO alerted as BHS owner Dominic Chappell 'chose NOT to pay tax' (3 Oct 2016)
Tesco faces UK legal action over accounting scandal (3 Oct 2016)
Tesco faces £150m claim from shareholders to recoup losses (3 Oct 2016)
Twitter's UK arm books £1.24m tax bill, accounts show (3 Oct 2016)
'Corruption of a single senior manager left HBOS exposed to a potential loss of £375million' court hears (3 Oct 2016)
HBOS losses in alleged corruption scheme reached £266m (3 Oct 2016)
Porn magazines part of HBOS loan 'scam' (3 Oct 2016)
PwC Legal to integrate into PwC UK (3 Oct 2016)
PwC's legal arm integrates into wider accountancy firm to form multi-disciplinary practice (3 Oct 2016)
World Bank highlights PPP problems (3 Oct 2016)
Wells Fargo problems far from over as investigations and lawsuits expand (3 Oct 2016)
Greene King tax case: loan relationships and accounting issues (3 Oct 2016)
Accounting and Tax Fidex Ltd v HMRC [2016] EWCA Civ 385 - Loan relationships debits can be attributed entirely to an unallowable purpose even if the loan was entered into for some commercial purposes (3 Oct 2016)
BDO partners with Microsoft (3 Oct 2016)

SEPTEMBER 2016

BHS: SWISS ROCK LIMITED, DOMINIC CHAPPELL AND ASSOCIATES (30 Sep 2016)
Indonesia Raids Google Office After Warning on Tax Audit Refusal (30 Sep 2016)
Shameful behaviour of the giant outsourcing companies (30 Sep 2016)
Banks, investors demand answers on IFRS 9 (30 Sep 2016)
Bribery and Corruption: Och-Ziff Capital Management Admits to Role in Africa Bribery Conspiracies and Agrees to Pay $213 Million Criminal Fine (30 Sep 2016)
Deutsche Bank: What's the risk? (30 Sep 2016)
Deutsche Bank suffers €37bn credibility gap (30 Sep 2016)
Deutsche Bank stability concerns grow as clients pull their assets (30 Sep 2016)
GlaxoSmithKline to Pay $20 Million to Settle SEC Bribery Probe (30 Sep 2016)
Bribery and Corruption: GlaxoSmithKline Pays $20 Million Penalty to Settle FCPA Violations (30 Sep 2016)
SEC ACCOUNTING AND AUDITING ENFORCEMENT Release No. 3810 / September 30, 2016: In the Matter of GlaxoSmithKline plc (30 Sep 2016)
Hot Mess: How Goldman Sachs Lost $1.2 Billion of Libya’s Money (30 Sep 2016)
Capital mobility: The good, the bad and the ugly (30 Sep 2016)
Bribery and Corruption: Och-Ziff Capital Management Group has agreed to pay nearly $200 million to the SEC to settle civil charges of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (30 Sep 2016)
What happened to any accounting provisions- Hinkley Point C developers face £7.2bn cleanup bill at end of nuclear plant's life (30 Sep 2016)
Third of audit professionals fear impact of Brexit (30 Sep 2016)
Chesapeake Energy Gets Subpoena Seeking Accounting Information (30 Sep 2016)
Former Senior Director of Regulatory Affairs for Puma Biotechnology Charged With Insider Trading Ahead of Company’s Announcements About Breast Cancer Drug (30 Sep 2016)
Whistleblowers: Game Technology to pay a half-million dollar penalty for firing an employee because he reported to senior management and the SEC that the company's financial statements might be distorted (29 Sep 2016)
Serious Fraud Office steps up BHS investigation (29 Sep 2016)
Capita's shares slump 30% on profit warning (29 Sep 2016)
Is Deutsche Bank the next Lehman Brothers? The denials certainly don't help suggest it's not (29 Sep 2016)
Apple and Deloitte Form 'Enterprise Next' Service Geared to Businesses (29 Sep 2016)
RBS legal bill for investor battle soars past £100 million (29 Sep 2016)
How secret company ownership is a risk to businesses and investors (29 Sep 2016)
Wells Fargo CEO's $41 million ranks only third among executive-pay clawbacks, forfeitures (29 Sep 2016)
Escort's diary recalls encounter with HBOS exec: 'Chinese meal. Then drinks at flat and quick shag. Easy £1500 (29 Sep 2016)
Corporate Executives Are Making Way More Money Than Anybody Reports (29 Sep 2016)
How Stock Options Work (29 Sep 2016)
Executive Overcompensation and share options: executive compensation is drastically under-reported (29 Sep 2016)
What can you do with an accounting degree? (29 Sep 2016)
Battling Apple and the Giants (29 Sep 2016)
RBS pays £846m fine to US regulator for role in 2008 banking crisis (28 Sep 2016)
Wells Fargo chief forfeits $41m amid corruption probe (28 Sep 2016)
Deutsche Bank earns €1bn boost by selling off Abbey Life (28 Sep 2016)
Japanese auditors struggle to restore confidence (28 Sep 2016)
FRC refreshes Cadbury’s governance legacy with a conference on corporate culture but what the City needs is to tackle its memory problem (28 Sep 2016)
Malaysia seeks to strengthen accountancy profession (28 Sep 2016)
FRC consults on approach to updating FRS 102 for changes in IFRS (28 Sep 2016)
Standard Chartered tells authorities about corruption allegations at Indonesian firm (28 Sep 2016)
Japan to tighten taxation rules on overseas dummy companies (28 Sep 2016)
The 5 Models of Family Business Ownership (28 Sep 2016)
Robert Jenkins' partial list of bank misdeeds (28 Sep 2016)
Call for better safeguards for pensions in corporate takeovers (28 Sep 2016)
Pension savers 'on cusp of mis-buying crisis' (28 Sep 2016)
Pension savers being hit by £2bn of unnecessary fees (28 Sep 2016)
South Korea Legislative body recommends reinforcement in prohibiting corporate internal trading (28 Sep 2016)
Brussels Won't Block Accounting Rule on Loans, Instruments (27 Sep 2016)
Weatherford International (audited by KPMG) to pay $140 mln for accounting fraud (27 Sep 2016)
Oil Services Company Weatherford International Paying $140 Million Penalty for Accounting Fraud (27 Sep 2016)
Ex-KPMG partner in HMRC probe Eamonn Donaghy launches consultancy firm (27 Sep 2016)
MEP calls for IASB pay cuts (27 Sep 2016)
Merrill Lynch Charged With Trading Controls Failures That Led to Mini-Flash Crashes (27 Sep 2016)
HBOS banker 'who took bribes in exchange for loans bought Cartier watch and luxury cruise (27 Sep 2016)
Former HBOS banker received string of bribes, court hears (27 Sep 2016)
Top HBOS banker 'pumped high class escorts' in £245m scam' (27 Sep 2016)
Panama Papers: European parliament opens inquiry (27 Sep 2016)
In Norway, can browse everyone’s tax returns, but there’s a good reason you might not want to (27 Sep 2016)
U.S. Senate's top tax lawmaker targets corporate offshore profits (27 Sep 2016)
Trump directed $2.3 million owed to him to his tax-exempt foundation instead (27 Sep 2016)
Donald Trump bragged at the debate about not paying taxes and taking advantage of bankruptcy laws (27 Sep 2016)
Why Wells Fargo's Executives Will Keep Their Bonuses, Even After Fake Accounts Scandal (27 Sep 2016)
Congress pretends to shame corrupt CEOs – but does nothing to stop their crimes (27 Sep 2016)
Share Sleuth: how to make sense of accounting headaches (27 Sep 2016)
Santander's US unit admits to accounting errors (26 Sep 2016)
SEC proceedings against accountants double in US (26 Sep 2016)
The SEC Enforcement Division’s Focus on Auditors and Auditing: The number of accountant proceedings under Rule 102(e) has also been increasing, from 37 respondents in fiscal year 2013 to 76 respondents in fiscal year 2015 (26 Sep 2016)
Our economy is failing on productivity because the Tories are failing to deliver the investment it needs (26 Sep 2016)
Some services can't be measured by accounting firms. Prison education is one of them (26 Sep 2016)
PwC "to launch legal action" against mobile phone giants over administration of Phones 4U (26 Sep 2016)
Half of accountants plan to leave profession over automation fears (26 Sep 2016)
Ex-hedge fund and trader interview on major problems in the FX market (26 Sep 2016)
John McDonnell pledges no more Mike Ashleys, no more Philip Greens (26 Sep 2016)
HMRC secures tenth win against NT Advisors – protecting more than £900 million (26 Sep 2016)
Read judgment in Chappell v HM Revenue and Customs [2016] EWCA Civ 809 (04 August 2016) (26 Sep 2016)
A hard Brexit would lead to a hard biz-exit with devastating consequences (26 Sep 2016)
How shareholders of PFI firm are making millions from cash-strapped Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (26 Sep 2016)
BHS fraudster in £4m Ponzi probe (26 Sep 2016)
FTSE 350 annual reports show minor improvements (26 Sep 2016)
Bernard Madoff’s ‘Ponzi Scheme’: Fraudulent behaviour and the Role of Auditors by Mohammad I. Azim and Saiful Azam
An Empirical Analysis Of Fair Value Option (SFAS 159) In U.S. Oil And Gas Industry by Sara Aliabadi and Alireza Dorestani
CSR Disclosures of the Banking Sector in Saudi Arabia by Rawan Alsahlawi
Company directors’ beliefs about illegal insider trading rules in an emerging economy by Thomas Ahrens and Rihab Khalifa
Does IFRS Detract From Social Disclosure In Corporate Annual Reports And Account? Evidence From Nigeria by Arthur J. Avwokeni
Sports Direct: Ashley steps in as chief executive resigns (23 Sep 2016)
Here's Why the Accounting Profession Is Broken (23 Sep 2016)
Finance job vacancies in England 'fall after Brexit vote' (23 Sep 2016)
US Legislators introduce bill to shed more light on US multinationals (23 Sep 2016)
How Companies Like Apple Dodge Taxes and Their Own Investors (23 Sep 2016)
FRC lobe-in with coprorate interests - No reflections on failures: Speech by Sir Win Bischoff, Chairman, FRC, at the FRC Conference 2016 (23 Sep 2016)
Blank Check Company Manufacturer Charged With Fraud (23 Sep 2016)
The End of Transfer Pricing (23 Sep 2016)
Bernard Matthews: Letter from Pension Protection Fund to the Uk House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee (23 Sep 2016)
US Second Circuit Affirms Paul Daugerdas' (former Arthur Andersen Tax Attorney) Conviction And Sentence For Tax Shelter Fraud: Avoidance scheme involved BDO, Deutsche Bank (23 Sep 2016)
HSBC walks US regulatory tightrope over $10 billion of 'trapped' capital (23 Sep 2016)
Fat cats - Executive Compensation: What Worked? (23 Sep 2016)
Corporate Welfare: Tax incentives handed to filmmakers offer minimal return in terms of job or wage growth yet some states opt to outbid each other for films (23 Sep 2016)
Fitch reveals the $2trillion black hole in China's economy that heralds a lost decade (23 Sep 2016)
Co-op Group says it 'planned' for a 50% profits drop (23 Sep 2016)
SEC Charges Hedge Fund Manager Leon Cooperman With Insider Trading (23 Sep 2016)
Ex-Hanjin Shipping chairwoman investigated over insider trading (23 Sep 2016)
Deloitte appoints executive remuneration partner (23 Sep 2016)
Tesco bosses accused of £326m accounting scandal deny charges on first day in court (23 Sep 2016)
Transfer Pricing: Why Australia's landmark tax ruling against Chevron is a first battle in a global war on profit shifting (23 Sep 2016)
Deconstructing the Chevron Transfer Pricing Case (23 Sep 2016)
Tesco executives plead not guilty to £326m fraud charges (22 Sep 2016)
New Rolls-Royce CFO Faces Tricky Accounting (22 Sep 2016)
We have a Mitie problem: Outsourcing group issues profit warning as Brexit vote takes its toll, and shares drop 25% (22 Sep 2016)
Target to buy back $5 billion shares (22 Sep 2016)
KPMG outsources to India in legal market incursion (22 Sep 2016)
Bahamas Leaks' puts spotlight on UBS and Credit Suisse (22 Sep 2016)
Ky. Court Clips Grant Thornton Penalty In Tax Shelter Case (22 Sep 2016)
Israel arrests four diamond dealers in HSBC Swiss tax evasion case (22 Sep 2016)
'Wells Fargo isn't the only one': Other bank workers describe intense sales tactics (22 Sep 2016)
Wells Fargo's toxic culture reveals big banks' eight deadly sins (22 Sep 2016)
Wells Fargo Scandal Highlights 3 Common Threads About Big Bank Scandals (22 Sep 2016)
Insolvency: Administrators from KPMG appointed to City Motor Holdings (22 Sep 2016)
Exxon Mobil investigated over oil assets (21 Sep 2016)
Microsoft launches $40bn share buyback (21 Sep 2016)
Stock-buyback appetite falls after period of gorging (21 Sep 2016)
Bernard Matthews: Letter from the UK House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee to Pension Protection Fund (21 Sep 2016)
Former EU Official Among Politicians Named in New Leak of Offshore Files from The Bahamas
Leaks reveal Amber Rudd's involvement in Bahamas offshore firms (21 Sep 2016)
Bahamas files leaks expose politicians' offshore links (21 Sep 2016)
Turkey giant Bernard Matthews to be rescued by the 'Chicken King', safeguarding 2000 jobs (21 Sep 2016)
European commission plans to overhaul how companies report profits (21Sep 2016)
HP Billiton faces Australian tax bill of more than $1 billion (21 Sep 2016)
Ernst & Young, Former Partners Charged With Violating Auditor Independence Rules: Ernst & Young to pay $9.3 million to settle charges (20 Sep 2016)
Love, Friendship and Public Accounting Don't Mix (20 Sep 2016)
Ernst & Young fined $9.3m for auditors' improper relationships with clients (20 Sep 2016)
Dominic Chappell owes £500000 in tax from BHS ownership profits (20 Sep 2016)
SEC Investigating Exxon on Valuing of Assets, Accounting Practices (20 Sep 2016)
Elizabeth Warren to Wells Fargo CEO: resign, give back earnings, submit to inquiry (20 Sep 2016)
India Inc gets ready for mandatory audit rotation; fight between Big Four firms (20 Sep 2016)
Big 4 do 26% of India Inc audits (20 Sep 2016)
Tony Blair announces he is closing down his business empire (20 Sep 2016)
Beneficial ownership avoidance (20 Sep 2016)
Sports Direct bows to pressure and agrees to independent review (20 Sep 2016)
Exxon probe faces uphill climb amid ambiguous accounting rules (19 Sep 2016)
Wells Fargo customers file suit against bank for fraudulent accounts (19 Sep 2016)
Accounting firms face expensive lawsuits (19 Sep 2016)
Google may face over $400 million Indonesia tax bill for 2015 - government official (19 Sep 2016)
McDonald's could face EU order to pay almost $500m in back taxes (19 Sep 2016)
Apple tax ruling must be overturned, says US business group (19 Sep 2016)
Who audits the auditors? (19 Sep 2016)
John Lewis warns of steady reduction in staff as profits tumble (19 Sep 2016)
FIFA says appoints PwC as new auditors (19 Sep 2016)
US asks Deutsche Bank for $14bn to settle mortgage investigation (16 Sep 2016)
Exxon's Accounting Practices *audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers) Are Investigated (16 Sep 2016)
Executive pay to be investigated by MPs (16 Sep 2016)
The Business, Innovation, and Skills (BIS) Committee has launched an inquiry on corporate governance, focussing on executive pay, directors duties, and the composition of boardrooms, including worker representation and gender balance in executive positions (16 Sep 2016)
AIG trial witness testifies he flagged fraud to ex-CEO (16 Sep 2016)
Apple pays $118m tax penalty for underreporting income in Japan (16 Sep 2016)
Apple tax row raises $2.1 trillion question for forex traders (16 Sep 2016)
Promoting Continuous Improvement in Audit: FRC issues thematic review on root cause analysis of audit inspection findings (16 Sep 2016)
Banking Group Finds Fed Stress Tests Likely Illegal (16 Sep 2016)
Wells Fargo Drops Product Sales Goals for Retail Bankers (16 Sep 2016)
HMRC warning on entrepreneurs' relief tax avoidance scheme (16 Sep 2016)
HMRC Guidance - Capital Gains Tax: Entrepreneurs’ Relief tax avoidance scheme (16 Sep 2016)
Automated trading could work against investors: SEC chief (15 Sep 2015)
FCA not fit for purpose as Pure Gym float favours institutional investors (15 Sep 2016)
Warren: Next US Administration Should Investigate—and Possibly Jail—Wall Street Bankers (15 Sep 2016)
SEC Chair White Concedes Reining in Flash Boys Is Difficult (15 Sep 2016)
Obama administration targets corporate offshore tax avoidance (15 Sep 2016)
PwC acquires data technology firm Selera Labs (15 Sep 2016)
Indonesia to look into Ford's sales after report on tax avoidance (15 Sep 2016)
Police raid Bernie Ecclestone's son-in-law's Mayfair office in fraud probe (14 Sep 2016)
IASB issues amendments to insurance contracts standard (14 Sep 2016)
Ikea on EU Radar as Vestager Looks Beyond Apple's Tax Billions (14 Sep 2016)
Tax dodger BHP's secret tax haven, sham directors — courtesy of shadowy Citco! (14 Sep 2016)
Google Tax: ATO warns Big Four accountants (14 Sep 2016)
The trial of former AIG head Hank Greenberg has begun (14 Sep 2016)
Former Barclays executive fights FCA over critical report (14 Sep 2016)
How Apple Inc. Could Spend Its Cash Hoard (14 Sep 2016)
“Stock Trading Whiz Kid” to Pay $1.5 Million to Settle Stock Newsletter Fraud Charges (14 Sep 2016)
They are part of the state: PwC joins GCHQ to fight cyber attacks (14 Sep 2016)
Hedge Fund Under Investigation For Hundreds Of Millions In Bribes (14 Sep 2016)
US seeks scalps in Och-Ziff bribery investigation (14 Sep 2016)
Push for EU mandatory disclosure of tax avoidance schemes (13 Sep 2016)
Insolvency Service quizzed Chappell consultants over £1 BHS purchase (13 Sep 016)
Study: big corporations dominate list of world's top economic entities (13 Sep 2016)
10 biggest corporations make more money than most countries in the world combined (13 Sep 2016)
More than €50bn in non-performing loans on Irish banks' books (13 Sep 2016)
Compulsory rotation, likely direct entry of foreign MNCs spell bad times for Indian auditors (13 Sep 2016)
Greenberg's 'Day of Reckoning' Over AIG Fraud Claims Arrives (13 Sep 2016)
Primark owner's pension scheme is £200m in the red (13 Sep 2016)
BOK Financial, Senior Executive Charged With Turning Blind Eye to Investment Scheme (13 Sep 2016)
EU states seek share of Apple's €13bn tax bill (123Sep 2016)
Former Tesco directors charged with fraud over accounting scandal (12 Sep 2016)
What happened to KYC: 5300 Wells Fargo employees fired over 2 million phony accounts (12 Sep 2016)
Wells Fargo settlement over phony accounts raises questions about oversight (12 Sep 2016)
Fat cats: The UK’s highest paid CEO earns the average annual salary in under 45 minutes, TUC analysis finds (12 Sep 2016)
Fat cats: Martin Sorrell's pay is 2500 times the average annual salary of a UK worker, TUC says (12 Sep 2016)
May urged to put workers on company boards over 'stratospheric' directors' pay (12 Sep 2016)
EU's Apple Tax Case Prompted by Senate Tip Off, Vestager Says (12 Sep 2016)
Tesco waits to see what SFO has in store (12 Sep 2016)
Management could be prosecuted for failure to prevent fraud by staff (12 Sep 2016)
FASB proposes targeted changes to hedge accounting rules (12 Sep 2016)
Hermes may face HMRC investigation into allegations of low pay (12 Sep 2016)
Noisy lobbyists are shouting that the pension sky is falling (12 Sep 2016)
Sir Philip Green 'working every day' from his superyacht to save BHS pensions (12 Sep 2016)
Fraud conviction and 2 year prison sentence for former insolvency practitioner (12 Sep 2016)
Critical Theory: Seventy years ago the thinkers and writers of the Frankfurt School warned of capitalism’s drift towards a cultural apocalypse (12 Sep 2016)
Law Enforcement 'Not Winning' War on White-Collar Crime (12 Sep 2016)
Sports Direct boss Mike Ashley says if he keeps failing he will go (9 Sep 2016)
Retail tycoon Green says still working on BHS pension fix (9 Sep 2016)
Former Tesco directors charged with fraud by Serious Fraud Office (9 Sep 2016)
SFO charges former Tesco UK chief and two others with fraud (9 Sep 2016)
Three charged over Tesco accounts fraud (9 Sep 2016)
SFO Charges in Tesco investigation (9 Sep 2016)

Investors sue Ingenious Media for £100m losses (9 Sep 2016)
Labour unveils major HMRC restructure plan (9 Sep 2016)
Former REIT executive charged with accounting fraud for using non-GAAP metric (9 Sep 2016)
HMRC revamp deflects Labour reform plan (9 Sep 2016)
HMRC to undergo major reorganisation (9 Sep 2016)
HMRC is in thrall to big business. It can no longer do its job (8 Sep 2016)
HMRC captured by corporate interests and crippled by public accountability deficit: Labour’s independent review calls for reform (8 Sep 2016)
Big companies should be forced to publish their tax returns, says labour (8 Sep 2016)
Opposition calls for UK to publish companies' tax returns (8 Sep 2016)
It's past midnight for the US share buyback bonanza (9 Sep 2016)
Labour plans radical overhaul of HMRC (8 Sep 2016)
Labour Party proposes its own HMRC reforms (8 Sep 2016)
Report - Reforming HMRC: Making it Fit for the Twenty-First Century (8 Sep 2016)
Why did Deloitte sign off accounts of bank that funded terrorists? (8 Sep 2016)
Tesco Charging Decisions by U.K. Prosecutor Said to Be Imminent (8 Sep 2016)
Investors call for company owner transparency (8 Sep 2016)
Ex-insolvency practitioner jailed for fraud (8 Sep 2016)
Auditors aren’t so bad: Box ticked (8 Sep 2016)
Wells Fargo will pay $190 million to settle customer fraud case (8 Sep 2016)
'Big Four' Accounting Firm Deloitte is Now Running a Bitcoin ATM (8 Sep 2016)
American Realty Capital Properties Executives Charged With Inflating Performance of Real Estate Investment Trust (8 Sep 2016)
The corporate world really does not get country-by-country reporting (7 Sep 2016)
Nine years after the events FRC registers Formal complaints against KPMG LLP and members relating to Equity Red Star and Equity Syndicate Management Limited (7 Sep 2016)
FRC launches complaint against KPMG over audit of Lloyd's syndicate Equity Red Star (7 Sep 2016)
Sports Direct hears shareholder anger at annual meeting (7 Sep 2016)
Sports Direct investors vote against under-fire chairman after series of scandals (7 Sep 2016)
Sports Direct ditches zero-hours jobs and ups worker representation (7 Sep 2016)
Sports Direct under fire for leaving 4000 workers on 'zero hours' contracts (7 Sep 2016)
Tchenguiz brothers' legal bill hits £5.1m in court battle against Grant Thornton (7 Sep 2016)
Corporate governance: Tesco ranked lowest of FTSE 100 firms (7 Sep 2016)
U.S. Considers HSBC Charge That Could Upend 2012 Settlement (7 Sep 2016)
Investor revolts over executive pay 'double since shareholder spring' (7 Sep 2016)
Auditors must face their failures and set up controls that work (7 Sep 2016)
Deloitte announces record global revenue of $36.8bn - How much due to tax avoidance? (7 Sep 2016)
Philip Green's yacht is christened the 'BHS Destroyer' in Monaco (7 Sep 2016)
SEC Charges CEO and Paid Promoter With Fraudulently Promoting Stock of Las Vegas Health Products Company (7 Sep 2016)
Country-by-Country Reporting: Ministers back tax disclosure plan amid pressure from MPs (6 Sep 2016)
Multinationals to publicly declare country-by-country profits and tax (6 Sep 2016)
BHS: HMRC begins legal battle with Dominic Chappell over tax (6 Sep 2016)
Sports Direct offers some staff guaranteed hours (6 Sep 2016)
Women ask for pay increases as often as men but receive them less, study says (6 Sep 2016)
Companies of strangers: the new register of “who really owns and controls all British companies” – a main plank of the government’s promise to tackle corruption – is already being circumvented (6 Sep 2016)
Nicolas Sarkozy should face trial over alleged illegal funding – prosecutors (6 Sep 2016)
The EU Case Against Apple's Irish Tax Deal (6 Sep 2016)
Apple: The heart of the case is Ireland gave hidden subsidies in return for jobs (6 Sep 2016)
UK's top accounting firms smash through £12bn fee income barrier (6 Sep 2016)
Icebreaker 2 tax avoidance appeal thrown out by Upper Tribunal (6 Sep 2016)
Read Upper Tribunal Judgment in Acornwood LLP v R & C Commrs [2016] BTC 517 (6 Sep 2016)
Public country-by-country reporting: the next attempt to get it is happening this week (5 Sep 2016)
When it comes to competition there are lessons to be learned from Brussels for UK's own docile regulators (5 Sep 2016)
Executives obscure accounting mistakes when they hold more stock, study finds (5 Sep 2016)
Labour expected to set out plans urging greater scrutiny of HMRC (5 Sep 2016)
Pinstripe Mafia: Public sector consulting hits £1.1bn as accounting firms benefit (5 Sep 2016)
'Cure' for UK pension funds deficits inflicts more pain (5 Sep 2016)
City critics hit out at plans to rein in fat cat bonuses by making annual pay votes binding (5 Sep 2016)
EpiPen Maker Mylan Tied Executive Pay to Aggressive Profit Targets (5 Sep 2016)
How Wall Street's CEO bonus loophole cost the US government $1bn (5 Sep 2016)
Theresa May signals new crackdown on fat-cat pay and corporate tax (5 Sep 2015)
Standard Chartered faces extension of U.S. money-laundering vigilance (5 Sep 2016)
Financial success has very little to do with IQ (5 Sep 2016)
Revealed: millions in public cash paid to private train companies (5 Sep 2016)
Why Tesla's Cash Crunch May Be Worse Than You Think (5 Sep 2016)
Prem Sikka wants pension schemes protection from bosses in the wake of the BHS saga (2 Sep 2016)
Southern rail owners report £99m profits (2 Sep 2016)
Investors urge FTSE 350 companies to disregard accounting regulator (2 Sep 2016)
Regulators 'misstating' Whitehall's legal position, pension chiefs say (2 Sep 2016)
SEC Whistleblower Program Surpasses $100 Million in Awards (2 Sep 2016)
FRC hands PwC £3m reprimand for Cattles audit ( 2 Sep 2016)
MPs back plan to force global firms to publicly disclose income and tax (2 Sep 2016)
Apple tax: Irish cabinet to appeal against EU ruling (2 Sep 2016)
Apple tax: EU commissioner defends €13bn ruling (2 Sep 2016)
Insolvency: Hanjin Shipping bankruptcy causes turmoil in global sea freight (2 Sep 2016)
Disregard the FRC. The government did not back the financial regulator” says LAPFF to Chairs of FTSE 350 companies (1 Sep 2016)
LAPFF steps up row with FRC over true and fair (1 Sep 2016)
PricewaterhouseCoopers fined more than £3m for failing to spot black hole at risky lender (1 Sep 2016)
Monsanto whistleblower targets Deloitte (1 Sep 2016)
Too easy for auditors to cock a deaf 'un (1 Sep 2016)
FRC drops investigation of ex-Tesco FD over accounting irregularities (1 Sep 2016)
US Audit Flaws Up for Deloitte, Down for PwC (1 Sep 2016)
How Shareholder Committees can control executive pay and restore responsible company ownership (1 Sep 2016)
Crackdown on 'Rocketing' Executive Pay Urged by U.K. Tory (1 Sep 2016)
Pension deficits up £100bn in month since rate cut (1 Sep 2016)
Don't overreact to vast pension scheme deficits: We need a new normal for how they're measured (1 Sep 2016)
AstraZeneca Agrees to Pay $5.5 Million to Settle Alleged Bribery Probe (1 Sep 2016)

AUGUST 2016

US Regulators Find Deficiencies in 13 Deloitte Audits, 12 by PWC (31 Aug 2016)
How Prada's New-Look Accounting Flatters Figures (31 Aug 2016)
Nine years on: Disciplinary case relating to PwC’s audits of Cattles plc and Welcome Financial Services Limited (31 Aug 2016)
FRC Settlement Agreement: PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) and Mr Simon Bradburn (31 Aug 2016)
FRC Particulars of Fact and Acts of Misconduct: PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) and Mr Simon Bradburn (31 Aug 2016)
PwC fined £2.3m for failing to spot the dire state of Cattles' loan books (31 Aug 2016)
Closure of investigation into the conduct of Mr Laurie McIlwee (31 Aug 2016)
FRC announces the closure of its investigation into Mr Laurie McIlwee, former Chief Financial Officer of Tesco PLC (31 Aug 2016)
Europe's 'unfair' Apple tax ruling sparks US anger (31 Aug 2016)
Apple tax: UK says it welcomes any company after tech-giant hit with £11bn Irish tax bill (31 Aug 2016)
What Apple's tax bill tells us about capitalism (31 Aug 2016)
The Apple tax ruling – what this means for Ireland, tax and multinationals (31 Aug 2016)
Tech giants know where the power lies. It's not with us (31 Aug 2016)
After Apple, the other tax deals in the European commission's sights (31 Aug 2016)
Silicon Valley outraged by Apple tax bill: 'Europe is changing rules retroactively' (31 Aug 2016)
Why Ireland Doesn't Want Apple's $14.5 Billion in Back Taxes (31 Aug 2016)
Irish cabinet to consider appealing Apple tax ruling (31 Aug 2016)
PCAOB, German regulator to cooperate in oversight of audit firms (31 Aug 2016)
Tax wars are looming and the US has fired a shot across the EU's bows (30 Aug 2016)
Firms Say Goodbye to Prettied-Up Financial Reports (30 Aug 2016)
ASIC emails reveal Slater & Gordon accounting concerns (30 Aug 2016)
Slater & Gordon posts $1 billion loss on goodwill writedowns (30 Aug 2016)
Deloitte payouts to partners rise as revenues hit record £3.1bn (30 Aug 2016)
Deloitte urges UK not to restrict skilled migrants after Brexit (30 Aug 2016)
State aid: Ireland gave illegal tax benefits to Apple worth up to €13 billion (30 Aug 2016)
Apple told to pay £11bn after European Union tax investigation (30 Aug 2016)
Brussels clawback: the Apple tax dispute explained (30 Aug 2016)
Toshiba faces ¥12bn legal claim over accounting scandal (20 Aug 2016)
Pricing Grids: Fair Value Accounting (30 Aug 2016)
Let banks off the naughty step to fight for London post-Brexit says CBI boss Carolyn Fairbairn (30 Aug 2016)
Will new lease accounting lead to less leasing? (30 Aug 2016)
The EU could hit Apple with a $19 billion tax bill next week (29 Aug 2016)
Frank Field accuses Sir Philip Green of asset stripping BHS (29 Aug 2016)
Dominic Chappell to wind up company involved in BHS acquisition (29 Aug 2016)
BHS pensions package takes shape (29 Aug 2016)
Green Wants Deal On BHS Pension (29 Aug 2016)
As BHS stores close pensions watchdog could force Green's wife to plug black hole (29 Aug 2016)
Brexit 'will put 75% of UK workers at risk of pension shortfall' (29 Aug 2016)
In $5.5B Trial Against PwC, Ex-Taylor Bean General Counsel Defends Sales Agreements, Details Financial Devastation (26 Aug 2016)
PwC settles landmark suit over culpability in bank collapse (26 Aug 2016)
PwC reaches mid-trial deal in lawsuit by Taylor Bean trustee (26 Aug 2016)
Toshiba: Japan trunk bank sues it for $120 million over accounting scandal (26 Aug 2016)
Big Banks' Blockchain: Boondoggle? (26 Aug 2016)
Neuromama: The SEC has questions about a company with no revenue, $1000 in the bank, and a $35 billion market cap (26 Aug 2016)
A $35 Billion Stock, an SEC Halt and Suspicions of Manipulation (26 Aug 2016)
Councils prepare to resist complaints their LOBO loans are 'irrational (26 Aug 2016)
BHS vanishes from British high streets this weekend as it shuts last 22 stores (26 Aug 2016)
Sir Philip Green's luxury holiday is a brutal contrast compared to the the reality of his BHS casualties (26 Aug 2016)
Confronting tax fraud, Denmark will hire tax inspectors instead of firing them (26 Aug 2016)
'Rich Dad' author Robert Kiyosaki: If you're investing for the long term, 'you're crazy' (26 Aug 2016)
Barclays & Bank of Scotland could face legal action over SA mortgages (26 Aug 2016)
Special Report: Radical Changes Coming to Credit Loss Accounting (25 Aug 2016)
Sports Direct Slammed as Investors Snap Over Board Governance (25 Aug 2016)
PwC Offers Quick Take on Lease Accounting Standard (25 Aug 2016)
Agencies in tax haven business make £25 million annually (25 Aug 2016)
North Sea Oil Tax Avoidance Schemes Exposed (25 Aug 2016)
Deloitte is being sued after failing to flag up more than $200 million of money laundering (24 Aug 2016)
Lebanese Canadian Bank shareholders sue Deloitte over negligence (24 Aug 2016)
U.S. appeals court strikes down Ernst & Young class action waiver (23 Aug 2016)
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS DECISION: STEPHEN MORRIS; KELLY MCDANIEL v ERNST & YOUNG (24 Aug 2016)
Big problems for big audit (24 Aug 2016)
Accountancy's Big Four need more competition (24 Aug 2016)
The beach-house lawyer calling big auditors to account (24 Aug 2016)
PFI: Private Addiewell prison set to cost taxpayers nearly £1BILLION (24 Aug 2016)
Former chief executive of Comverse Technology Inc. will return to the U.S. and plead guilty to backdating stock options (24 Aug 2016)
Clinton and surrogates criticize share buybacks (24 Aug 2016)
U.S. Treasury Steps Up Pressure on EU Over Apple Tax Dispute (24 Aug 2016)
HMRC secured 13 offshore specific prosecutions since 2009 (24 Aug 2016)
HMRC: Tough new sanctions for offshore tax evaders (24 Aug 2016)
Government may offer foreign auditors direct access in India (24 Aug 2016)
Sports Direct investors attack deal with Mike Ashley's brother (23 Aug 2016)
May faces struggle to keep executive pay in check (23 Aug 2016)
Insolvent Abuse: Keith Elliott and his quest for justice against liquidaton of Premier Motor Auctions by Pricewaterhousecoopers (PwC) (23 Aug 2016)
MP leads call to end Scottish Limited Partnerships (23 Aug 2016)
Scottish school PPP schemes owned by offshore investment funds (23 Aug 2016)
Apollo Charged With Disclosure and Supervisory Failures (23 Aug 2016)
Apollo private equity advisers to pay $52.7 mln to settle SEC case (23 Aug 2016)
Gig economy challenges gender targets at accounting firms (23 Aug 2016)
SEC Settles Allegations Against Former Fannie Mae CEO for $100000 (23 Aug 2016)
Bill Gates's Net Worth Hits Record High of $90 Billion (23 Aug 2016)
W10 – The 10 wealthiest countries in the world (23 Aug 2016)
Shareholders battered by UK dividend crisis as profits squeezed and interest rates at rock bottom (23 Aug 2016)
Corporate Directors Identify Four Key Reasons for Stock Buyback Programs (23 Aug 2016)
Big Four Accounting Firms: A clubby oligopoly that is overdue for reform (22 Aug 2016)
If capping executive pay isn't the solution, rethinking capitalism is (22 Aug 2016)
PFI schools built in Scotland 'owned by offshore firms' (22 Aug 2016)
Dominic Chappell used £1.5m BHS loan to pay off family mortgage (22 Aug 2016)
BHS buyer used £1.5m loan from the firm to save his home from being repossessed (22 Aug 2016)
US Army Manipulated Its Accounting Entries by Trillions of Dollars (22 Aug 2016)
US Army made trillions in improper accounting adjustments: audit (22 Aug 2016)
Is the new accounting standard on leases set to change (22 Aug 2016)
The troubling evolution of corporate greenwashing (22 Aug 2016)
Nigel Farage's top aide George Cottrell pleads not guilty to 21 counts of fraud, money laundering and extortion (22 Aug 2016)
HMRC: More than 50pc of challenges against the taxman succeed (22 Aug 2016)
Tax dodging will carry on despite Theresa May's 100 per cent fine (19 Aug 2016)
Countries committed to sharing beneficial ownership information - USA is missing (19 Aug 2016)
Deutsche Bank whistleblower rejects award because SEC 'went easy' on execs (19 Aug 2016)
MP criticises Sir Philip Green after billionaire clashes with TV reporter (19 Aug 2016)
JPMorgan, Citigroup Among Banks Sued in Aussie Rate-Fix Case (19 Aug 2016)
'Smoking gun' leads US hedge funds to sue Australian banks (19 Aug 2016)
City of London 'pushing for Swiss-plus Brexit deal' with EU (19 Aug 2016)
Sports Direct shareholders should vote against board, leading advisers say (19 Aug 2016)
The Pinstripe Mafia: Advisers question scope of new tax avoidance clampdown (19 Aug 2016)
KPMG and Open University launch new apprenticeship service (19 Aug 2016)
Andrew Harding named as CIMA chief executive (19 Aug 2016)
Sage employee arrested in fraud probe (18 Aug 2016)
The Mystery of Hain Celestial's Accounting (18 Aug 2016)
Graduate bows out of accountancy firm PwC with email complaining the work was boring (18 Aug 2016)
New GSE Accounting Fraud Lawsuit Legal Filing Great For Shareholders (18 Aug 2016)
Sports Direct vows to review board of directors (18 Aug 2016)
Sports Direct faces external review as reports into 'appalling' work conditions continue to reverberate (18 Aug 2016)
T. Rowe Price, Valeant's Longest Supporter, Alleges Company Committed Fraud (18 Aug 2016)
Co-op Bank loses another £177m and warns Brexit could halt its turnaround (18 Aug 2016)
MP criticises Sir Philip Green after BHS billionaire clashes with TV reporter (18 Aug 2016)
World's biggest wealth fund writes down UK property by 5% (18 Aug 2016)
Firms giving advice on aggressive tax avoidance could face large fines (17 Aug 2016)
Government to target accountants and advisers who help clients avoid paying tax in latest crackdown (17 Aug 2016)
Proposal to fine tax avoidance enablers lacks teeth, campaigners (17 Aug 2016)
HMRC Consultation document - Strengthening Tax Avoidance Sanctions and Deterrents: A discussion document (17 Aug 2016)
Tax avoidance: Accountants face tougher penalties (17 Aug 2016)
FTSE 100 firms' pension deficit soars, says LCP (17 Aug 2016)
Top UK firms paid five times more in dividends than into pensions (17 Aug 2016)
Accounting for Pensions 2016 (17 Aug 2016)
PwC faces 3 major trials that threaten its business (17 Aug 2016)
Lawsuit accuses auditors Deloitte & Touche, lawyers of aiding Aequitas fraud (17 Aug 2016)
Canada: KPMG allegedly involved in offshore tax "sham" (17 Aug 2016)
Auditors Under Increased Scrutiny (17 Aug 2016)
'Public or state, the point is the same': why schools should teach business (17 Aug 2016)
Companies House plan will hide ministers' links to firms (17 Aug 2016)
Hedge Fund Manager Charged in Scheme Involving Terminally Ill (17 Aug 2016)
Insolvency: FRP Advisory set to be appointed BHS liquidators - ousting Duff and Phelps (17 Aug 2016)
Former Goldman Sachs Trader Settles Fraud Charges (17 Aug 2016)
Company Punished for Severance Agreements That Removed Financial Incentives for Whistleblowing (17 Aug 2016)
Should auditors be reviewed by peers or should the state do it? (17 Aug 2016)
Who audits the Big Four auditors? (15 Aug 2016)
And Then There Were 3? Three Trials Over Financial Firm Audits Loom for Big Four Firm PwC (15 Aug 2016)
George Pell silences PwC, EY, KPMG & Deloitte (15 Aug 2016)
PwC sued for record $5.5bn for negligence in mortgage fraud case (15 Aug 2016)
PwC is being sued for $5.5 billion over the 6th largest banking collapse in US history (15 Aug 2016)
Big banks unprepared for accounting shake-up (15 Aug 2016)
Apple has a funny way of naming its holding companies (15 Aug 2016)
Some shell companies sidestep new UK transparency rules (15 Aug 2016)
Dublin unit of US hedge fund with $8bn assets pays $125 tax (15 Aug 2016)
Can Connolly and Cogital take on the Big Four, and how? (15 Aug 2016)
Commission closes Christian charities after eight-year investigation (15 Aug 2016)
Charity regulator defends role after scandals (15 Aug 2016)
How to make the Queen and our dukes pay their way: tax their land (15 Aug 2016)
Count Down: The Past, Present and Uncertain Future of the Big Four Accounting Firms" (15 Aug 2016)
Who owns Britain? How the rich kept hold of land (15 Aug 2016)
Ex Deloitte chief Connolly to head up CogitalGroup accounting firm (13 Aug 2016)
Former Deloitte global chairman creates new accountancy firm (13 Aug 2016)
Why Connolly's new venture is unlikely to chase Big Four; or follow failed consolidator model (13 Aug 2016)
Liability of parent companies and the actions of their subsidiaries (13 Aug 2016)
Pensions watchdog: Another BHS-style disaster could happen (13 Aug 2016)
Britain's pension system and lessons from BHS (13 Aug 2016)
When is a subsidiary not a separate legal entity? (13 Aug 2016)
When is a Parent Company Liable for the Acts of a Subsidiary? (13 Aug 2016)
SEC bars 2 KPMG auditors over bank loan loss reserves (13 Aug 2016)
A Simple Test to Dispel the Illusion Behind Stock Buybacks (13 Aug 2016)
Brazil's Estácio to probe accounting flaw after surprise loss (13 Aug 2016)
ABA Warns PCAOB on Changing Auditor's Report (13 Aug 2016)
Former Lincoln accountant jailed for dodging income tax (13 Aug 2016)
Plymouth accountant faces jail for £250000 tax swindle (13 Aug 2016)
Law firm investigating VW emissions scandal hired to examine BHS (12 Aug 2016)
BHS scandal has long way to run despite shutters coming down (12 Aug 2016)
Pensons regulator wants veto on mergers and takeovers after BHS (12 Aug 2016)
Pensions watchdog: Another BHS-style disaster could happen (12 Aug 2016)
PwC Fights $5.6 Billion Fraud Trial Over Taylor Bean's Collapse (12 Aug 2016)
HMRC consults on lease accounting tax changes (12 Aug 2016)
Lease accounting changes 'trouble' fleets, research shows (12 Aug 2016)
Banks scramble to get rid of €100bn in junk loans (12 Aug 2016)
ComScore shuffles leadership as accounting investigation continues (12 Aug 2016)
'Big Four' Accounting Firms Meet to Consider Blockchain Consortium (12 Aug 2016)
UK Firms named and shamed over failure to pay minimum wage (12 Aug 2016)
Largest ever list of UK National Minimum Wage offenders published (12 Aug 2016)
Displays, Equity/Liabilities Probably Next Accounting Issues (12 Aug 2016)
Revolving Doors: Ex-KPMG senior partner joins Urban&Civic as audit chair (12 Aug 2016)
Big cuts in store for Royal Mail and Post Office workers' pensions (12 Aug 2016)
Rail worker left stunned by £14000000000000 tax letter (12 Aug 2016)
Over Dissent, SEC Stiffens Penalty on KPMG Accountants (10 Aug 2016)
2 KPMG auditors given stiffer penalties for TierOne work (10 Aug 2016)
Former Deloitte chief and private equity house plot challenger to big four accountancy firms (10 Aug 2016)
Analysts Seek Clarity on Alibaba's Accounting Practices (10 Aug 2016)
Brexit: Economists put cost of UK losing European Union single market membership at £75bn (10 Aug 2016)
World’s Largest Banks Endorse Ending Anonymous Shell Companies (10 Aug 2016)
Vulnerable UK banks still paying billions in dividends to shareholders (10 Aug 2016)
UK Government outlines FRC status as competent authority for audit regulation (10 Aug 2016)
BEIS confirms FRC status as audit competent authority post-ARD (10 Aug 2016)
Former CEO of Canadian Hazardous Waste Treatment Company Sentenced to Serve 63 Months in Prison for Role in Kickback and Fraud Schemes Against the United States (10 Aug 2016)
People don't have money to spend – and the government won't act (8 Aug 2016)
BHS's pension deficit has just got bigger. How will Sir Philip Green sort it? (8 Aug 2016)
Philip Green meets the fraud squad over the BHS collapse (8 Aug 2016)
Sir Philip Green told to 'do the right thing' and plug BHS pension deficit (8 Aug 2016)
PwC must face MF Global lawsuit over accounting advice (8 Aug 2016)
Miami lawsuit over Colonial Bank audits seeks $5B from PricewaterhouseCoopers (8 Aug 2016)
Fat cats: UK's top bosses received 10% pay rise in 2015 as average salary hit £5.5m (8 Aug 2016)
Worst banks in EU stress tests have paid €20bn in dividends since 2011 (8 Aug 2016)
Serious Fraud Office opens Airbus corruption investigation (8 Aug 2016)
MPs widen pensions inquiry to include defined benefits (8 Aug 2016)
Audit Reform: The Re-tender Roundabout (8 Aug 2016)
UK Pensions Regulator's powers to be scrutinised by MPs (8 Aug 2016)
HMRC outlines basic tax standard for accountants (8 Aug 2016)
HMRC: the standard for agents (8 Aug 2016)
Sir Philip Green's BHS sale probe gets closer as Labour MP talks to Serious Fraud Office (6 Aug 2016)
PwC must face $1 billion MF Global malpractice lawsuit: US judge (6 Aug 2016)
Trial Starting in Auditor Case Seeking $5.5 Billion from PwC (6 Aug 2016)
Corporate tax avoidance: New EU BEPS rules adopted (6 Aug 2016)
HMRC claims victory in £820m Ingenious Media tax avoidance case (6 Aug 2016)
Read the Court judgment in Ingenious Games LLP & Ors v Revenue and Customs (INCOME TAX/CORPORATION TAX :Losses) [2016] UKFTT 521 (TC) (02 August 2016) (6 Aug 2016)
SEC Charges Cardiologist With Insider Trading on Confidential Drug Trial Developments (6 Aug 2016)
What is bank capital and why does it matter? (6 Aug 2016)
UK's four biggest banks £155bn short of safety (6 Apr 2016)
Why bank capital matters for monetary policy (6 Aug 2016)
RBS investors facing a decade without a dividend: Taxpayer-owned bank makes ANOTHER £2bn loss (6 Aug 2016)
FINRA Fines Barclays Capital Inc. $1.3 Million for Extensive OATS Reporting Violations and Related Supervisory Failures (6 Aug 2016)
CFTC Orders Barclays Capital, Inc. to Pay $800,000 for Supervision Failures, (6 Aug 2016)
Corbynomics offers hope of a New Deal for low-paid workers (4 Aug 2016)
Finally, trade misinvoicing gets political (4 Aug 2016)
UK Government undermining efforts to put an end to tax avoidance from behind the scenes, warn MPs (4 Aug 2016)
Byron burgers accused of reducing taxable profits using tax haven loans (4 Aug 2016)
UK Government undermining efforts to put an end to tax avoidance from behind the scenes, warn MPs (4 Aug 2016)
APPG Report - A more responsible global taxsystem or a ‘sticking plaster’? An examination of the OECD’s Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) process and recommendations (4 Aug 2016)
US Federal Reserve Board orders Goldman Sachs Group to pay $36.3 million civil money penalty and announces it is instituting enforcement proceedings against former Goldman Sachs managing director (4 Aug 2016)
New regulatory breach revealed as HSBC profits slide 29% (4 Aug 2016)
Why People Should Pay More Attention To Accounting (4 Aug 2016)
HSBC's tale of woe is gripping for all the wrong reasons (4 Aug 2016)
Standard Chartered Surges as Impairment Drop Shows Progress (4 Aug 2016)
Lawyers, accountants balk at tax disclosure rules (4 Aug 2016)
Ernst & Young may face disciplinary hearing over Anglo Irish Bank (3 Aug 2016)
Accountancy body to determine 'next steps' for EY following conclusion of Anglo case (3 Aug 2016)
HSBC Climbs Most Since April on $2.5 Billion Stock Buyback Plan (3 Aug 2016)
Investors now penalize companies addicted to share buybacks (3 Aug 2016)
UK Update on country-by-country regulations (3 Aug 2016)
Crackdown urged on pension scheme 'tricks' (3 Aug 2016)
MILKING AND DUMPING: The Devices Businesses use to Exploit Surpluses and Shed Deficits in Their Pension Schemes (3 Aug 2016)
Tighter pensions rules urged to avoid BHS-style failures (3 Aug 2016)
Bankers and PR firms to pocket millions from ARM tech deal (3 Aug 2016)
AIG to buy back $3bn in shares as pressure mounts for break-up (3 Aug 2016)
Why don't women stop playing this rigged capitalist game? (3 Aug 2016)
Margot James gets accountancy brief at BEIS (3 Aug 2016)
Companies House registrar under pressure to wipe information from database (2 Aug 2016)
Theresa May must protect company records to crackdown on bad behaviour (2 Aug 2016)
Sir Philip Green should pay BHS pensioners, says Lady Barbara Judge (2 Aug 2016)
MPs probing BHS collapse reveal the details of any paid work done for Tina Green (2 Aug 2016)
BHS pensions probe deepens as Goldman Sachs is told to reveal any payments it received from Lady Shifty (2 Aug 2016)
Country-by-country reporting to net partnerships (2 Aug 2016)
Jail for ex-FD of Anglo Irish bank over €7.2bn 'sham' transactions (2 Aug 2016)
Och-Ziff Doubles Reserve to $414 Million to Settle Probe (2 Aug 2016)
Middle-class professionals turning to fraud (2 Aug 2016)
IASB pressed to fix 'wishy-washy' accounting rules (2 Aug 2016)
Number of people in the UK going insolvent soars by more than a fifth compared with a year ago (2 Aug 2016)
The Financial Reporting Council has failed and needs to be replaced (1 Aug 2016)
CVN To Webcast $5B Accounting Negligence Trial Over PwC’s Audits Of Failed Bank (1 Aug 2016)
Crisis-Era Lawsuits Winding Down? Not for PricewaterhouseCoopers (1 Jul 2016)
Anglo Irish Ernst & Young 'should have known' about massive scam (1 Aug 2016)
Anglo Irish verdict: It 'beggared belief' accountants signed off (1 Aug 2016)
Auditors EY cited client confidentiality (1 Aug 2016)
HMRC defeats £30m EY tax avoidance scheme (1 Aug 2016)
Frank Field: Teach morality in schools in wake of BHS scandal (1 Aug 2016)
Corporate governance review urged after BHS (1 Aug 2016)
Russia conducts investigation in Moscow office of PricewaterhouseCoopers (1 Aug 2016)
Banks still at risk of huge frauds, warns rogue UBS trader Kweku Adoboli (1 Aug 2016)
Stress tests do little to restore faith in European banks (1 Aug 2016)
Study says banks in EU stress tests could require €900bn (1 Aug 2016)
Australia's Fairfax Media flags $760 mn in writedowns (1 Aug 2016)
KPMG changes graduate interviews to suit millennials (1 Aug 2016)
Eight years after they helped wreck the economy, Ireland sends 3 bankers to prison (1 Aug 2016)
Under-fire NHS trust paid millions to companies owned by chief executive's former colleagues (1 Aug 2016)
NHS trust paid millions in taxpayers' money to companies linked to chief exec Katrina Percy (1 Aug 2016)

JULY 2016

Taxman calls time on Ernst & Young tax avoidance scheme (29 Jul 2016)
Another Ernst & Young Avoidance Scheme Defeated: Greene King Plc & Anor v Revenue And Customs [2016] EWCA Civ 782 (27 July 2016) (29 Jul 2016)
Derivatives: How Deutsche Bank's £35trillion of trades puts Europe in peril (29 Jul 2016)
Anglo Irish Bank: Former executives jailed over fraud (29 Jul 2016)
EU to replace audit oversight body with CEAOB (29 Jul 2016)
1MDB: The inside story of the world's biggest financial scandal (29 Jul 2016)
FRC revises audit firm governance code (29 Jul 2016)
Facebook Tax Bill Over Ireland Move Could Cost $5 Billion (29 Jul 2016)
RBS and Barclays struggle in EU-wide banking stress test (29 Jul 2016)
Most banks weather the latest stress tests but Monte dei Paschi wiped out while RBS and AIB hit hard (29 Jul 2016)
Australian tax accountant wins tropical island resort (29 Jul 2016)
Grant Thornton's role in the BHS debacle should not be overlooked (28 Jul 2016)
BHS: Frank Field calls on SFO to launch formal inquiry into demise (28 Jul 2016)
Countrywide warns on results as Brexit hits property market (28 Jul 2016)
Sports Direct shares spike on buyback plans (28 Jul 2016)
FRC criticised over 'inexplicable' decision on HBOS audit investigation (28 Jul 2016)
IASB to consider accounting changes for hybrid pension plans (28 Jul 2016)
Sports Direct shares spike on buyback plans (28 Jul 2016)
If Apple paid taxes on offshore assets, it'd cover most of the U.S. education budget (28 Jul 2016)
Fortune 500 Companies with the Most Cash in Offshore Tax Havens (28 Jul 2016)
1MDB loses Deloitte and warns on financial statements (28 Jul 2016)
BEE partners' huge lawsuit against Abil directors and Deloitte (27 Jul 2016)
Why are student numbers among the professional accountancy institutes declining? (27 Jul 2016)
How the great and the good's Lord 'Tony' became Green's patsy: QC was reluctant to act when BHS was sold for £1 to a thrice-bankrupt (27 Jul 2016)
The big BHS questions: What now for the pension funds of the loyal workforce? (27 Jul 2016)
Deloitte Resigns as 1MDB Auditor (27 Jul 2016)
More Bullshit from FRC: Audit Firm Governance Code - Revised 2016 (27 Jul 2016)
FRC made 'serious mistake' by failing to investigate HBOS audit sooner (27 Jul 2016)
Ex-CEO of Daewoo Shipbuilding indicted over accounting fraud (27 Jul 2016)
Revolving Doors - Former Wal-Mart CFO Holley to join Deloitte as adviser (27 Jul 2016)
State Street Bank to Pay $382 Million to Settle Allegations of Fraudulent Foreign Currency Exchange Practices (27 Jul 2016)
Namibia: Ernst & Young face charges (27 Jul 2016)
BHS scandal: Six urgent reforms to save BHS clones in the making (26 Jul 2016)
Bankers, lawyers and accountants should study the report of the collapse of BHS (26 Jul 2016)
The Conduct of the Likes of Sir Philip Green Is an Affront to Every Hardworking Business Owner in This Country (26 Jul 2016)
Regulator must chase Philip Green for BHS pension cash (26 Jul 2016)
What next for Sir Philip Green and BHS? (26 Jul 2016)
'Bullshit from 10 years ago': How the BHS pension fund collapsed while Sir Philip Green made £307 million (26 Jul 2016)
BHS: the key unresolved issues (26 Jul 2016)
European banks prepare for possible shockwaves from stress test results (26 Jul 2016)
FRC slammed over HBoS audit (26 Jul 2016)
FRC criticised over 'inexplicable' decision on HBOS audit investigation (26 Jul 2016)
HBOS: City regulation 'outdated and unfair' say MPs (26 Jul 2016)
MPs call for Financial Conduct Authority to lose enforcement powers (26 Jul 2016)
FCA branded 'inadequate' as MPs call for new bank watchdog (26 Jul 2016)
UK House of Commons Treasury Committee Report: Review of the reports into the failure of HBOS (26 Jul 2016)
Executive pay: City report stops short of backing binding shareholder votes (26 Jul 2016)
Executive Remuneration Working Group Final Report (26 Jul 2016)
Sir Philip Green's reputation ripped apart in damning report on BHS demise (25 Jul 2016)
Sir Philip Green responsible for 'systematic plunder' of BHS, say MPs in scathing report (25 Jul 2016)
Grant Thornton “content to take generous fees” despite BHS concerns, find committees (25 Jul 2016)
Report on BHS collapse slates advisers' 'group think' (25 Jul 2016)
Sir Philip Green left BHS on 'life support', MPs find (25 Jul 2016)
MPs call for Sir Philip Green to be stripped of knighthood over BHS scandal (25 Jul 2016)
Goldman blamed for role in doomed deal leading to BHS failure (25 Jul 2016)
Anthony Grabiner QC 'deplorable and complacent' when he oversaw BHS sale (25 Jul 2016)
Sir Philip Green has 'moral duty' to fill BHS £571m pensions blackhole (25 Jul 2016)
House of Commons Work and Pensions and Business, Innovation and Skills Committees Report: 1st Report - BHS (25 Jul 2016)
US SEC: Accountant Suspended for Failing to Spot Fraud in Company Audit (25 Jul 2015)
US Liberal Group Wants SEC to Boost Disclosure Rules on Tax Avoidance (25 Jul 2016)
Best-Paid CEOs Run Some of Worst-Performing Companies (25 Jul 2016)
Insolvency: Lloyds and PwC set to defend negligence claim (25 Jul 2016)
Lloyds and PwC set to defend Premier Motor Auctions negligence claim (27 Jul 2016)
Outcome of disciplinary case against Stephen Hill and David Wells in connection with Connaught plc. (25 Jul 2016)
FRC ban for former Connaught FD over £4m loan accounting failure (25 Jul 2016)
Private equity firm HgCapital swoops on accountancy firm Blick Rothenberg (25 Jul 2016)
How blockchain will impact accountants and auditors (25 Jul 2016)
Anglo verdict: Three former bankers to be sentenced (25 Jul 2016)
Deliveroo has built a clause into courier contracts to 'scare' them off employment tribunals (26 Jul 2016)
Turf Wars: ICAEW applies to regulate further reserved legal services (25 Jul 2016)
AICPA Proposes Going Concern Evaluation Standard (25 Jul 2016)
Boeing Plans Big Accounting Charge (22 Jul 2016)
Brexit adds £100m to potential cost of BHS pensions bailout (22 Jul 2016)
Brexit raises questions about future of the FRC's regulatory framework (22 Jul 2016)
Dash for Cash: Deloitte Consulting buys asset management consultancy Casey Quirk (22 Jul 2016)
Sports Direct staff 'not treated as humans', says MPs' report (22 Jul 2016)
Mike Ashley running Sports Direct like 'Victorian workhouse' (22 Jul 2016)
The 7 most shocking testimonies from workers at Sports Direct (22 Jul 2016)
UK House of Commons Business, Innovation and Skills Committee Report: Employment practices at Sports Direct (22 Jul 2016)
New government fees will undermine insolvency regime, R3 warns (22 Jul 2016)
Wal-Mart beats shareholder appeal in Mexico bribery lawsuit (22 May 2016)
Judge shrinks Madoff trustee's $905M suit versus firm (22 Jul 2016)
Gilead: The Drug Costs $95K. Its Maker 'Dodged' $10B in Taxes (21 Jul 2016)
One of Facebook's biggest accomplishments: Paying far lower taxes (21 Jul 2016)
Brexit could sink the EU's corporate accountability drive (21 Jul 2016)
Revolving Doors: Ex-Northern Ireland civil service chief joining KPMG board (21 Jul 2016)
Corbyn wants small firms to report their gender pay gap too (21 Jul 2016)
Hedge fund Visium loses auditor KPMG, 17 portfolio managers (21 Jul 2016)
Financial Reporting Council publishes Annual Report for 2015/16 (21 Jul 2016)
SoftBank Shareholders Aren't Thrilled About Its $32 Billion Purchase of ARM (21 Jul 2016)
Post-Brexit sterling slump costs Easyjet £40m, says boss (21 Jul 2016)
United States Seeks to Recover More Than $1 Billion Obtained from Corruption Involving Malaysian Sovereign Wealth Fund (21 Jul 2016)
Reforming company pension law (20 Jul 2016)
KPMG Blamed for Botched Airport Sale (20 Jul 2016)
FBI arrests senior HSBC banker accused of rigging multibillion-dollar deal (20 Jul 2016)
Global Head of HSBC’s Foreign Exchange Cash-Trading Desks Arrested for Orchestrating Multimillion-Dollar Front Running Scheme (20 Jul 2016)
European Banks May Need $517 Billion of Loss-Absorbing Funds (20 Jul 2016)
Wesleyan changes auditors to EY after 28 years with PwC (20 Jul 2016)
Excessive executive pay has hurt public trust in business, says FRC report (20 Jul 2016)
Risk Accounting and Economic Profit (20 Jul 2016)
Insolvency: Low Cost holidaymakers likely to get just £7.78 refund (20 Jul 2016)
Ericsson defends practices as report questions revenue accounting (19 Jul 2016)
Whisky giant Whyte and Mackay slammed for paying just £172k tax despite profits of over £24m (19 Jul 2016)
How does Sir Philip Green's luxury break compare to lives of BHS workers who have lost their jobs (19 Jul 2016)
Inflicting Loss on Investors through Cooked Books (19 Jul 2016)
Hopes for BHS rescue fade as administrators prepare to shut 20 stores (19 Jul 2016)
World's 20 biggest banks rack up £252bn 'conduct costs' in five years (19 Jul 2016)
Martin Sorrell slams auditors' conflicts (19 Jul 2016)
Price Fixing: Commission fines truck producers (MAN, Volvo/Renault, Daimler, Iveco, and DAF) € 2.93 billion for participating in a cartel (19 Jul 2016)
Fiat Chrysler Sales Figures Are Target of US Investigation (19 Jul 2016)
FRC State of the Nation report reveals extent of ongoing investigations (19 Jul 2016)
FRC Report: Developments in Audit 2015/16 - Overview (19 Jul 2016)
FRC Report: Developments in Audit 2015/16 - Full report (19 Jul 2016)
Stanley Gibbons loses top bosses as business considers ditching offshore status (19 Jul 2016)
Market report: Auditors stamp on Stanley Gibbons (19 Jul 2016)
Trade Misinvoicing in Primary Commodities in Developing Countries: The cases of Chile, Co te d’Ivoire, Nigeria, South Africa and Zambia (19 Jul 2016)
FRC raises concerns about FTSE 350 audit market concentration (19 Jul 2016)
ARM Holdings to be sold to Japan's SoftBank for £24bn (19 Jul 2016)
Should brands use a 'Big Four' firm to audit their agency? (19 Jul 2016)
Scotland's biggest airports are owned in tax havens (19 Jul 2016)
Insolvency: Lowcostholidays goes into administration with warning to travellers (19 Jul 2016)
Licensed Larceny: Infrastructure, Financial Extraction and the global South (19 Jul 2016)
Accountant's errors left taxi driver bankrupt, court hears (19 Jul 2016)
KPMG partner accused of insider trading in the US (19 Jul 2016)
Spreadsheet fashions accounting error at M&S (19 Jul 2016)
BP says total Gulf spill bill $61.6bn (19 Jul 2016)
Frank Field writes to BHS to insist Philip Green 'acknowledges responsibilities' (14 Jul 2016)
BHS former shareholder refuses to reveal profit from stake sale (14 Jul 2016)
Revolving Doors: Ex-European Commission head Barroso under fire over Goldman Sachs job (14 Jul 2016)
CFOs May Get More Accounting Guidance From IASB (14 Jul 2016)
Financial Companies Calling External Audit Act into Question (14 Jul 2016)
Brexit could cost accountancy firms £6.4bn in lost fees (14 Jul 2016)
Theresa May's husband a senior executive at a $1.4tn investment fund that profits from tax avoiding companies (14 Jul 2016)
Economists oppose George Osborne's corporation tax cuts crusade (14 Jul 2016)
Workers on boards only small step in UK governance (14 Jul 2016)
Investors alert to surge in chief executive pay (14 Jul 2016)
U.S. Treasury Chief Lew Set for Apple Tax Showdown With EU (14 Jul 2016)
EU Probe Into Apple's Tax Dealings in Ireland Reach a Decision Soon (14 Jul 2016)
Huge Wall Street tax avoidance scheme has deprived Denmark of millions - and it has been going on for years (14 Jul 2016)
Insider calls Big Four accounting firms 'masterminds of tax avoidance' (12 Jul 2016)
Why your pension problem will soon be accounting history (and why that's good) (12 Jul 2016)
FSB's accounting adviser moves to IFRS Foundation (12 Jul 2016)
HSBC escaped US money-laundering charges after UK intervention (12 Jul 2016)
EU banks 'need £128bn bailout' Chief economist of Deutsche Bank warns (12 Jul 2016)
Over 70 banks and City firms to link bonuses to senior jobs for women (12 Jul 2016)
The UK Financial Reporting Council can’t investigate BHS Audits (8 Jul 2016)
US tax agency probes Facebook over Ireland asset transfer (8 Jul 2016)
SEC accuses KPMG partner in Atlanta, two others of insider trading (8 Jul 2016)
IRS investigating Facebook's Ireland asset transfer (8 Jul 2016)
Three ex-Toshiba heads likely to escape charges over accounting fraud (8 Jul 2016)
Retail Acquisitions planned to write off debt to BHS in proposed rescue deal (8 Jul 2016) (8 Jul 2016)
Big Four, big winners of Cameron's Brexit gamble (8 Jul 2016)
CIPFA and EY announce joint local government accounting service (8 Jul 2016)
Citizenship for Sale (8 Jul 2016)
A Passport of Convenience (8 Jul 2016)
The impact of Brexit on EU audit reform (8 Jul 2016)
Proctor & Gamble Is Under Investigation in Italian Tax Probe (8 Jul 2016)
L&G adds to pain for UK property fund investors (8 Jul 2016)
M&S first quarter scuppered by accounting blunder (8 Jul 2016)
IASB will not set standards for not-for-profits (8 Jul 2016)
BHS collapse inquiry 'should look into auditing' by PwC (7 Jul 2016)
Iraq Inquiry Shows Oil Was a Consideration for U.K. Before War (7 Jul 2016)
Chilcot report: UK oil groups feared losing out on deals (7 Jul 2016)
UK companies in line for help on pension deficits (7 Jul 2016)
EU exit vote plays havoc with pension liabilities (7 Jul 2016)
FTSE350 Pension deficit soars to record £119bn after Brexit (7 Jul 2016)
Libor rigging trial: Former Barclays bankers jailed (7 Jul 2016)
'Panic' Brexit Withdrawals Freeze $23 Billion Property Funds (7 Jul 2016)
Numbers of women in UK boardrooms still low (7 Jul 2016)
BHS: Parliamentary Committee express dissatisfaction with the scope of FRC inquiry into PwC audits (6 Jul 2016)
BHS: FRC reponds to Parliamentay Committees about the scope of its investigation of PwC audits (6 Jul 2016)
BHS: Parliementary Committee questions to ICAEW about auditor's going concern responsibilities (6 Jul 2016)
BHS: ICAEW repornse to Parliementary Committee about auditor's going concern responsibilities (6 Jul 2016)
MPs want the investigation into PwC's audit of BHS to be extended (6 Jul 2016)
US ASB proposes to supersede going concern auditing standard (6 Jul 2016)
KPMG has appointed senior partner Karen Briggs to be the firm's "head of Brexit" (6 Jul 2016)
M&G and Aviva suspend property funds following Brexit vote (6 Jul 2016)
Three UK property funds halt trade in first sign of post-Brexit seize-up (6 Jul 2016)
SFO seeks retrial of two former Barclays Libor traders (6 Jul 2016)
Revolving Doors: Former PwC boss Ian Powell appointed Capita chairman (7 Jul 2016)
Deutsche Bank: World's most dangerous bank? (6 Jul 2016)
BHS: Tina Green denies family firms are based offshore for tax reasons (6 Jul 2016)
Brexit demands a new economic vision, not Osborne’s corporate tax cuts (5 Jul 2016)
Lunatics are running the asylum: Civil service turns to Big Four for help over Brexit trade negotiations (5 Jul 2016)
Christina Green, BHS and control of offshore companies (5 Jul 2016)
BHS: Tina Green denies family firms are based offshore for tax reasons (5 Jul 2016)
Lady Green made £28m on BHS financing last year (5 Jul 2016)
Standard Life suspends trading in UK property fund (5 Jul 2016)
The Big Four firms are now more technology than accounting (5 Jul 2016)
Regulation - National Audit Office press release: Departments’ oversight of arm’s length bodies: a comparative study (5 Jul 2016)
Regulation - National Audit Office Report: Departments’ oversight of arm’s length bodies: a comparative study focusing on Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, Ministry of Justice, Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Department for Culture, Media & Sport and Cabinet Office (5 Jul 2016)
UBS says ordered to provide Swiss tax agency with French tax information (5 Jul 2016)
Dominic Chappell: My BHS money was 'drip in the ocean' (5 Jul 2016)
Corrupt Barclays bankers who made millions in Libor fix face jail after being found guilty (5 Jul 2016)
Libor-rigging trial: jury finds no defence in 'just doing my job' (5 Jul 2016)
S.Korean Daewoo Shipbuilding rocked by accounting fraud, restructuring (5 Jul 2016)
Consumers warned on high debt levels as bank regulations eased (5 Jul 2016)
PwC Produces YouTube Video Series on FASB Lease Accounting Standard (5 Jul 2016)
Deloitte to amend N$65m ODC claim defence (5 Jul 2016)
LA City Attorney Details Sordid Allegations Against PricewaterhouseCoopers (4 Jul 2016)
Three PricewaterhouseCoopers managers and the contractor used the stolen funds to pay for two “lavish” Las Vegas bachelor parties (4 Jul 2016)
Film tax fraud accountants jailed for 36 years (4 Jul 2016)
Most Bizarre: Kingfisher Airlines' Accounting Books Have Gone Missing (4 Jul 2016)
One in 20 UK audit firms quit as market evolves (5 Jul 2016)
ICAEW Discussion Paper: Incentives and institutions in accounting: thinking beyond standards (4 Jul 2016)
BHS website and overseas stores sold to Qatari firm owned by singer Janet Jackson's husband (4 Jul 2016)
Blow for BHP Billiton as Brazilian court suspends Samarco settlement (4 Jul 2016)
Ryanair Eyes Bigger Share Buyback After Brexit Vote (4 Jul 2016)
Ryanair spent €150m buying its own shares after Brexit slump (4 Jul 2016)
WPP's GroupM claims in a lawsuit that auditing company FirmDecisions is 'misusing' confidential information (4 Jul 2016)
Pensions Accounting: Appeal of a lesser evil (4 Jul 2016)
American Express Adds $3.3 Billion to Stock Buyback Plan After Stress Test (4 Jul 2016)
Accounting standards to impact on leases (4 Jul 2016)
The cheats who are poisoning Britain (1 Jul 2016)
ComScore Needs More Time to Review Data Collected in Audit (1 Jul 2016)
Big Four domination of UK audit market increases (1 Jul 2016)
SEC Allows Big Banks to Fudge the Numbers, Underreport Tax Haven Subsidiaries (1 Jul 2016)
Britain for sale? Perspectives on the costs and benefits of foreign ownership (1 Jul 2016)
US banks to dish out $96bn after stress tests (1 Jul 2016)
Insolvency Service unveils new fee structure (2 Jul 2016)

JUNE 2016

Former PwC employees found guilty in 'Luxleaks' tax scandal (30 Jun 2016)
UK House of Commons rejects call for a public country-by-country reporting (30 Jun 2016)
Deutsche Bank and Santander fail US stress test (30 Jun 2016)
SEC Announces Historic Transparency Rule for U.S. Oil, Gas and Mining Companies Doing Deals With Foreign Governments (30 Jun 2016)
SEC Adopts Rules for Resource Extraction Issuers Under Dodd-Frank Act (30 Jun 2016)
Madoff trustee begins new payout, total nears $9.5 billion (30 Jun 2016)
Volkswagen to Spend Up to $14.7 Billion to Settle Allegations of Cheating Emissions Tests and Deceiving Customers on 2.0 Liter Diesel Vehicles (30 Jun 2016)
Fed Stress Tests Clear 31 of 33 Big US Banks to Boost Returns to Investors (30 Jun 2016)
Starbucks' European unit pays $15m UK tax (30 Jun 2016)
Oil industry could fall $2 trillion short of cash (30 Jun 2016)
Funds have a duty to police firms they back (30 Jun 2016)
Insolvency: Convenience store chain My Local names KPMG as administrator (30 Jun 2016)
Accounting Choices Blur Profit Picture (29 Jun 2016)
Carpetright shares tumble on Brexit uncertainty (29 Jun 2016)
Rio Tinto cuts exposure to tax havens (29 Jun 2016)
Rio Tinto has revealed just how many tax havens it's using (29 Jun 2016)
Rio Tinto reduces exposure to 'tax havens' (29 Jun 2016)
'Home' to 66% of top 500 firms, US domestic tax haven Delaware (29 Jun 2016)
Honey, I Shrunk Accounting – The End of Accounting (29 Jun 2016)
FRC issues Key Facts and Trends report on UK accountancy profession (29 Jun 2016)
FRC: Audit Enforcement Procedure (29 Jun 2016)
Feedback Statement: The Financial Reporting Council’s Audit Enforcement Procedure (29 Jun 2016)
KPMG will soon be using artificial intelligence for audits in Australia (29 Jun 2016)
BHS buyer Dominic Chappell was 'down on his uppers' (29 Jun 2016)
Sir Shifty Philip Green 'must pay £400m' into BHS pension blackhole, says City grandee (29 Jun 2016)
I never thought Chappell would run BHS, says man who facilitated his bid (29 Jun 2016)
Arcadia to get £35m refund from BHS (29 Jun 2016)
Disclosure rules fail to curb executive pay (29 Jun 2016)
Form Over Substance? An Investigation of Recent Remuneration Disclosure Changes in the UK (29 Jun 2016)
FRC Investigation announced in respect of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP’s audit of BHS Limited (27 Jun 2016)
Regulator to investigate PwC over audit of BHS (27 Jun 2016)
FRC commences an investigation of KPMG Audit Plc’s audit of HBOS plc for the year ended 31 December 2007 - ignores to the periods leading to the crisis (27 Jun 2016)
KPMG faces full probe into HBOS audit – eight years after the bank crashed (27 Jun 2016)
Accounting watchdog announces investigation into KPMG over HBOS (27 Jun 2016)
Volkswagen to settle emissions cheating scandal for more than $10.2bn (27 Jun 2016)
Prosecutors to call in former CEO of Daewoo Shipbuilding over alleged accounting fraud (27 Jun 2016)
Apple's UK corporation tax bill totalled £12.9m in 2015 (27 Jun 2016)
BHS owed me £850000 when it collapsed, says former shareholder (27 Jun 2016)
Brexit tax hit spurs multinationals to look at moving HQ (27 Jun 2016)
McDonald's Australia almost quadruples profit and halves tax bill (27 Jun 2016)
Japan Government Pension Fund Sues Toshiba Over Accounting Scandal (25 Jun 2016)
Accounting Groups Find IFRS Gets Lost in Translation (25 Jun 2016)
Why was Dominic Chappell so relaxed about the hole in BHS's pension fund? (25 Jun 2016)
BHS owner Dominic Chappell tried to expense family holiday to the Bahamas, claims chief executive (25 Jun 2016)
Brexit: Five questions accountants should be asking (25 Jun 2016)
Is the SEC Creeping Between Law Firms, Auditors and Public Companies? (25 Jun 2016)
World's first global carbon accounting method launched for logistics supply chain (25 Jun 2016)
Deloitte Acquires Casey Quirk (25 Jun 2016)
FASB Proposes Changes in Consolidation Guidance (25 Jun 2016)
CIMA elect former PwC partner Miskin as president (25 Jun 2016)
Deloitte propels into SME market with £2.5m accounting services investment (25 Jun 2016)
European Parliament censures IFRS accounting rules (23 Jun 2016)
IFRS Foundation Plans to Cut Size of International Board (23 Jun 2016)
HBOS report delayed again as audit watchdog fumbles probe (23 Jun 2016)
BHS inquiry spreads to Lady Green's "complex web" (23 Jun 2016)
Those who claim country-by-country reporting doesn’t provide useful information are not telling the truth (23 Jun 2016)
The End of Accounting (23 Jun 2016)
Fat cats: TalkTalk paid its CEO an extra £1.8m in 2015 (23 Jun 2016)
FASB Credit Loss Standard Will Prompt Changes at More than Banks (23 Jun 2016)
China Bond Regulator Punishes Accounting Firm Amid Probe (23 Jun 2016)
SEC Gives Mutual Funds a Break Over Ties With Auditors (23 Jun 2016)
FRC Public Audit Forum designated SORP-making body (23 Jun 2016)
Companies Slow to Comply with New Lease Accounting Standard (23 Jun 2016)
6 Key Takeaways from IOSCO Audit Committee Survey (23 Jun 2016)
Deloitte banned from audit work for two years by Saudi Arabia's market regulator (21 Jun 2016)
Saudi Stocks Regulator Penalizes Deloitte Unit After Tainted IPO (21 Jun 2016)
Sir Philip Green takes delivery of £46m private jet, says media report (21 Jun 2016)
BHS pension trustees were concerned at sale to Dominic Chappell (21 Jun 2016)
The Bottom Line: Quarterly capitalism (21 Jun 2016)
A Valeant Effort: How Allergan Used Acquisition Accounting To Inflate Sales Growth, Boost NOLs, And Reinvent The The Operating Profitability Of Actavis Generics (21 Jun 2016)
Audit competition drives change, not necessarily quality (21 Jun 2016)
Microsoft avoids paying £100m a year in UK corporation tax (21 Jun 2016)
Software Executive and Three Friends Charged With Insider Trading (21 Jun 2016)
Network Rail hires PwC for depots sale (21 Jun 2016)
BHS pension fund trustees raised alarm over Sir Philip Green's sale to bankrupt (21 Jun 2016)
FRC publishes details of new audit enforcement procedure (21 Jun 2016)
Lycamobile's offices raided by French police over money laundering and tax fraud (21 Jun 2016)
Change in accounting for loan losses a 'punch in the gut,' banker says (21 Jun 2016)
New Accounting Rule to Accelerate US Loan-Loss Recognition (19 Jun 2016)
Loss accounting rules should not hurt small banks: US regulators (19 Jun 2016)
PwC Independence Questioned in Dispute With Regulators (19 Jun 2016)
Philip Green sold BHS due to pension rescue scheme, evidence shows (19 Jun 2016)
HSBC to pay $1.575 billion, ending Household International class action (19 Jun 2016)
HSBC to pay $35 million to resolve yen Libor litigation in US (19 Jun 2016)
Revealed: Cobham accounting scandal was caused by 'culture of fear' (19 Jun 2016)
Latest audit shake-up to trigger £10bn competition for contracts (19 Jun 2016)
Super Friday: the dawning of a new era for auditors (19 Jun 2016)
Statement from Stephen Haddrill, Chief Executive of the Financial Reporting Council, regarding the implementation of the EU Audit Regulation and Directive (19 Jun 2016)
No place for accountants to hide (17 Jun 2016)
New EU rules to promote high-quality audits take effect (19 Jun 2016)
Reform of the EU Statutory Audit Market - Frequently Asked Questions (19 Jun 2016)
Tower international board authorizes $100 mln share buyback (19 Jun 2016)
Ashtead launches £200m share buyback as profits jump 24pc (19 Jun 2016)
Tax avoidance tactics laid bare: PwC tells multinationals 'read the play' (17 Jun 2016)
Dentons, KPMG Linked to Offshore Tax Scheme Up North (17 Jun 2016)
Barclays says £721m lawsuit by financier is misconceived (17 Jun 2016)
BHS : Work and Pensions Committee & Business, Innovation and Skills Committee Oral evidence form Sir Philip Green (17 Jun 2016)
BHS: Green says Grant Thornton and Olswang need to take some responsibility for BHS collapse (17 Jun 2016)
Where's this conversation taking us?': Sir Philip Green and the BHS pensions crisis (17 Jun 2016)
Sir Philip Green's account of the BHS pension crisis is not credible. MPs are rightly making an example of him (17 Jun 2016)
The appalling Philip Green is just part of the system. That's the real scandal (17 Jun 2016)
FASB Rule to Require Banks to Record Projected Loan Losses Up Front (17 Jun 2016)
Philip Green sold BHS due to pension rescue scheme, evidence shows (17 Jun 2016)
FASB: Financial Instruments—Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments (17 Jun 2016)
FTSE 100 companies with pension deficits paid out £48 billion in dividends (17 Jun 2016)
No wonder our pensions are in crisis: FTSE 100 giants with vast pension black holes hand billions to shareholders (17 Jun 2016)
How Will Country-by-Country Reporting Assist in Transfer Pricing Risk Assessment? (17 Jun 2016)
Call for country-by-country reporting to be made public (17 Jun 2016)
Wal-Mart is cutting hundreds of accounting, invoicing jobs (17 Jun 2016)
Revolving Doors: FRC appoints John Hitchins (former PwC ;partner) as Deputy Chair of the FRRP (17 Jun 2016)
KPMG, FIFA Ties Highlight Hazards for Auditors (17 Jun 2016)
Vatican pens new contract with global auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (17 Jun 2016)
Goldman Sachs: paying hotel fees is part of corporate life, court told (17 Jun 2016)
These are the texts a Goldman Sachs banker allegedly sent to a prostitute he was trying to get for a client (17 Jun 2016)
Women account for 17 per cent of corporate frauds (17 Jun 2016)
BHS and the silence of the auditors (16 Jun 2016)
BHS was a cash-generating machine for Philip Green and his family (16 Jun 2016)
Struggling BHS workers claimed £376m in tax credits as Sir Philip Green's family wallowed in opulence (16 Jun 2016)
Sir Philip Green: 10 things we learned at the BHS Commons inquiry (16 Jun 2016)
BHS: Sir Philip Green vows to resolve pensions 'mess' (16 Jun 2016)
BHS pensioners? Bung 'em one of your yachts, Big Phil! (16 Jun 2016)
With respect, Sir Philip, your blame game on BHS doesn't wash (16 Jun 2016)
BHS scandal: Lady Tina Green to be called to give evidence after Sir Philip promises to 'sort' pensions (16 Jun 2016)
Why the Creative Accounting in the Microsoft-LinkedIn Deal Is So Disturbing (16 Jun 2016)
Watchdog finds 1.5 tln in accounting fraud in Daewoo Shipbuilding (16 Jun 2016)
S Korea finds $1.3bn accounting hole at Daewoo Shipbuilding (16 Jun 2016)
Top 10 Audit Firms Now Audit 61% of SEC Registrants (16 Jun 2016)
Former Torex CEO sues KPMG and RBS (16 Jun 2016)
Torex's former boss launches £128m legal case against RBS and KPMG (16 Jun 2016)
Fifa 'welcomes decision' by KPMG to resign as governing body's auditor (16 Jun 2016)
Court chides KPMG, CRA for delay in Isle of Man tax dodge case (16 Jun 2016)
Oracle faces shareholder lawsuit over accounting methods (16 Jun 2016)
SEC returns to its roots with accounting fraud crackdown (16 Jun 2016)
Fortune 500 Corporations Used Stock Option Loophole to Avoid $64.6 Billion in Taxes Over the Past Five Years (16 Jun 2016)
Mid-sized accountancy firms competing with Big Four in non-audit areas (16 Jun 2016)
Investigation into the preparation, approval and audit of the financial statements of companies within the Serco group audited by Deloitte (16 Jun 2016)
Lease accounting implementation a challenge for preparers (7 Jun 2016)
Less than 10% of Companies Ready for New Lease Accounting Standards (7 Jun 2016)
Fresh shame for accountancy giant KPMG as it is accused of conflict of interest over Ted Baker (7 Jun 2016)
KPMG promoted hiding money from wealthy clients' ex-spouses in offshore 'sham' (7 Jun 2016)
That didn't take long: Shareholders sue Oracle in 'fake cloud sales' row (7 Jun 2016)
BHS - FRC issues corporate governance code but say it can't investigate failures and ommissions (7 Jun 2016)
The lawsuit about Oracle's cloud business highlights a big question facing the industry (7 Jun 2016)
T-Mobile's plan to give away free stock could create a tax headache for millions of first-time investors (7 Jun 2016)
Are intangibles worsening the productivity gap between leading firms and laggards? (7 Jun 2016)
Big business needs to improve reporting on tax, warns ICAS (7 Jun 2016)
Sensitive accountants "more likely to commit fraud" (7 Jun 2016)
FTSE 250: Auditors Survey 2016 (7 Jun 2016)
Former BHS owner Arcadia Group agreed to protect business (6 Jun 2016)
The 10 questions Dominic Chappell must answer over the BHS collapse (6 Jun 2016)
Whatever others did wrong, the blame for BHS is mostly Green's (6 Jun 2016)
KPMG faces new probe over Ted Baker consulting (6 Jun 2016)
Isle of Man tax dodge could violate Income Tax Act, KPMG insiders cautioned (6 Jun 2016)
Farcical FRC is Unfit to be a Regulator: Investigation announced into the conduct of KPMG Audit Plc (6 Jun 2016)
Who regulates the regulators? (6 Jun 2016)
Google: new concerns raised about political influence by senior 'revolving door' jobs (6 Jun 2016)
Google and European governments have visited each other EIGHTY times in past decade (6 Jun 2016)
Share buybacks: What we learn about inequality from Carl Icahn’s $2 billion Apple “no brainer” (6 Jun 2016)
We Stopped Pfizer's Tax Dodge, Now Let's End the Buybacks (6 Jun 2016)
Fat cats: UK pension fund forum asks members to oppose WPP pay report (6 Jun 2016)
RBS sued for £145m over its alleged role in huge carbon trading VAT fraud (6 Jun 2016)
Former AIG chief Greenberg must face New York fraud trial (6 Jun 2016)
Lotte $4.9 Billion IPO Faces Fresh Setback on Bribery Probe (6 Jun 2016)
BHS demise shows the failure of predatory capitalism (3 Jun 2016)
New evidence raises more questions about BHS sale (3 Jun 2016)
BHS: collapse 'fuels public distrust of business' (3 Jun 2016)
BHS collapse: IoD chief accuses Sir Philip Green of 'lamentable behaviour' (3 Jun 2016)
Green Performed U-Turn Over Sale of BHS, Goldman Banker Says (3 Jun 2016)
ICAS and CIPFA join forces on professional qualification (3 Jun 2016)
How to prepare for new accounting rules on revenue (3 Jun 2016)
Spanish police ask Santander for documents in HSBC tax probe (3 Jun 2016)
Spanish court investigates 40 cases in HSBC tax probe (3 Jun 2016)
Police search Santander's Madrid HQ in money-laundering inquiry (3 Jun 2016)
BP pays $175m to settle claims it hid size of Gulf of Mexico spill (3 Jun 2016)
AusGroup calls in KPMG after breaching debt covenant (3 Jun 2016)
Discrimination suit against Ernst & Young dismissed (3 Jun 2016)
PwC ditches its outdated dress code for men and women (3 Jun 2016)
IASB rejects demand for greater role of 'prudence' in IFRS framework (2 Jun 2016)
Independence of compliance reviews is questioned in drug firm settlements (2 Jun 2016)
WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell faces shareholder backlash over 'excessive' and 'unacceptable' £70m pay deal (2 Jun 2016)
BHS to be wound down as rescue attempt fails (2 Jun 2016)
Seven numbers explaining the demise of BHS (2 Jun 2016)
The troubled world of BHS (2 Jun 2016)
BHS to close with loss of 11000 jobs and 164 shops after rescue bids fail to find a buyer (2 Jun 2016)
City ally of Philip Green advised fraudster who tried to buy BHS (2 Jun 2016)
Key advisers on the £1 sale of BHS are being asked to reveal their fees (2 Jun 2016)
Europe has unified accounting standards, but do firms comply? (2 Jun 2016)
Failure of IFRS Accounting: Play it again, Sam (2 Jun 2016)
How the Chief Executives' Pay Figures Were Calculated (2 Jun 2016)
FRS 103 Solvency II may have a direct impact on financial reporting (2 Jun 2016)
New entrant Allinial aims to disrupt Australia accountancy status quo (2 Jun 2016)
An ex-Oracle worker says she was fired for complaining about improper cloud business accounting practices (2 Jun 2016)
Oracle hit with whistleblower lawsuit over cloud accounting (2 Jun 2016)
Introduction of secondary adjustments into the UK’s domestic transfer pricing legislation (2 Jun 2016)
Deloitte Consulting LLP Agrees to Pay $11 Million for Alleged False Claims Related to General Services Administration Contract (1 Jun 2016)
Deloitte agrees to pay $11 million for alleged false claims: US Justice Dept. (1 Jun 2016)
US State and Local Pensions Couldn't Survive Under Tougher International Accounting Standards (1rev Jun 2016)
UK Government deliberates secondary adjustment to transfer pricing rules (1 Jun 2016)
BHS ex-owner blames Philip Green for retail firm's collapse (1 Jun 2016)
Dell $25bn buyout was underpriced, judge rules (1 Jun 2016)
France seeks €356m in unpaid tax from Booking.com (1 Jun 2016)
IFRS Foundation and IOSCO to work more closely (1 Jun 2016)
Former Anglo Irish Bank executives found guilty of conspiracy to defraud (1 Jun 2016)
Corporate reporting too short-term focused (1 Jun 2016)
France and Italy move to counter EU push for tougher bank rules (1 Jun 2016)
Former Barclays director charged in US with leaking insider tips to Long Island plumber (1 Jun 2016)
MEPs want less complexity and more scrutiny of IFRS (1 Jun 2016)
Accountancy bonus pot increases to £2.4bn for 2015/16 (1 Jun 2016)
IOSCO Surveys Audit Committee Oversight of Auditors (1 Jun 2016)

MAY 2016

Written evidence from Professor Prem Sikka (PPF0009) The accounts of BHS and Related Companies (31 May 2016)
The BHS scandal shows that we need workers on boards (31 May 2016)
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn welcomes profit-sharing and employee-ownership (31 May 2016)
BHS: MPs set to question tycoons and advisers who backed takeover (31 May 2016)
BHS exploited loophole to cut its pensions levy (31 May 2016)
Volkswagen's Emissions Cheating Hits Profit at Biggest Brand (31 May 2016)
Austin Reed collapse to cost 1000 jobs (31 May 2016)
Moore Stephens Wins Key Ruling on Audit Opinions (31 May 2016)
Deloitte promotes record number of women to partner (31 May 2016)
CEO pay higher where more women are on company board (31 May 2016)
EU audit reform part 5: increased powers for audit committees (31 May 2016)
Corporate Accounting System Has Been Captured by Special Interests (31 May 2016)
Property investors profited from backing BHS buyer Dominic Chappell (30 May 2016)
Corporate reporting too focused on the short term (30 May 2016)
French finance minister rules out Google tax deal, more firms could be targeted (30 May 2016)
Roberto Saviano: London is heart of global financial corruption (30 May 2016)
UK is the most corrupt country in the world, says mafia expert Roberto Saviano (30 May 2016)
Prosecutors: 1MDB Money Laundering Probe Largest Ever in Singapore (30 May 2016)
Accounting firms in hot seat over ethics, incompetence (30 May 2016)
No One Is Auditing Alibaba's Auditors (27 May 2016)
Bank of England accused of fluffing 'big call' on financial regulation (27 May 2016)
Bank of England Sets New Buffer Requirement for U.K. Lenders (27 May 2016)
Bank of England rejects claim it has watered down ringfencing plans (27 May 2016)
BoE sets out capital rules for ringfenced banks (27 May 2016)
Devastating report reveals a bribery and fraud crimewave sweeping Britain that is costing City £127bn a year (27 May 2016)
Uncle Sam Has Only Won 5 Cases Against Bankers at Big Wall Street Firms in the Last 7 Years (27 May 2016)
Wall Street Crime: 7 Years, 156 Cases and Few Convictions (27 May 2016)
Vampire Kangaroo bank Macquarie to offload Thames Water: Stake in utility loaded with debt could hit £1.5bn (27 May 2016)
Barred accountant Alan Hynes pursued for €8m debt (27 May 2016)
KPMG dodge questions about the sale and leaseback of properties from BHS to Carmen Properties Ltd, a company registered in Jersey (26 May 2016)
BHS had a management charge—£252 million over five years; about 7% of turnover every year (26 May 2016)
Country-by-country reporting to apply from this year (26 May 2016)

US SEC probes Alibaba accounting methods, shares dive (26 May 2016)
A brief history of Chinese accounting shenanigans in America (26 May 2016)
KPMG responds to Dutch MP on accusations illegal online gambling (26 May 2016)
CBL & Associates Falls After Report of FBI, SEC Fraud Probes (26 May 2016)
Governments for Sale: Westminster politicians hold directorships in firms with annual revenues of £220 billion and only 40% of them are declared (28 May 2016)
Deutsche Bank Post-Crisis Mortgage Positions Probed by SEC (26 May 2016)
EU finance ministers fail to agree deal to tackle company tax avoidance (26 May 2016)
Citigroup to pay $425m in latest action against global banks (26 May 2016)
New Lease Standard to Bring Pain to Many Companies (26 May 2016)
Revolving Doors: Chris Monteiro departs MasterCard for KPMG (26 May 2016)
Consultation: A REVIEW OF THE CORPORATE INSOLVENCY FRAMEWORK (26 May 2016)
MPs right to get ratty about Lord Grabiner over BHS (25 May 2016)
BHS pension chairman paid £250000 despite troubles (25 May 2016)
Philip Green 'refused to put more than £10m a year' in BHS pensions scheme (25 May 2016)
Dominic Chappell who bought BHS from Sir Philip Green for £1 took a 'punt' (25 May 2016)
Questions raised over impartiality of Shell's auditor Ernst & Young (EY) as it emerges they also worked for takeover rival BG Group (25 May 2016)
The SEC is looking at Valeant's 'potentially misleading' accounting practices (25 May 2016)
Handicapping Insider Trading Case Against a Gambler (25 May 2016)
Legal & General understates chief executive's pay in annual report (25 May 2016)
PwC questioned over BHS 'going concern' audit (24 May 2016)
PwC grilled by MPs over BHS 'going concern' audit (24 May 2016)
SEC Asked Valeant to Change How It Reported Deal Costs, Tax (24 May 2016)
Google Paris headquarters raided as part of tax payment probe (24 May 2016)
Does Google Really Think It Doesnt Have to Pay Taxes in Europe? (24 May 2016)
KPMG raised concerns over BHS sale to Retail Acquisitions (24 May 2016)
Shell faces rising investor discontent over executive pay (24 May 2016)
CFTC Closes US Banks' Loophole on Swaps (24 May 2016)
LAPFF welcomes EC concession on bank accounting concerns (23 May 2016)
Firm by firm: The FRC's audit quality inspections (23 May 2016)
KPMG executives may be summoned to Ottawa in offshore probe (23 May 2016)
Canada Revenue agency routinely failed to meet Access to Information deadlines on KPMG (23 May 2016)
Four out of five BHS advisers did not raise concerns about sale (23 May 2016)
Goldman Sachs told Arcadia about BHS buyer's bankruptcies (23 May 2016)
BHS collapse: Sir Philip Green was warned about buyer, MPs hear (23 May 2016)
BHS: I fear this could be one of the greatest scandals of recent times (23 May 2016)
Sir Philip Green knew BHS could go bust when he sold it for £1 to a twice-bankrupt former racing driver, MPs to be told (23 May 2016)
IFRS Foundation reports £1m drop in income after 'challenging' year (23 May 2015)
ACCA-qualified accountant jailed for failure to declare £430k income (23 May 2016)
German investor group calls for independent probe of VW scandal (23 May 2016)
Axa stubs out €1.7bn tobacco industry investment (23 May 2016)
US corporate giants hoarding more than a trillion dollars (23 May 2016)
Fat cats: Deutsche Bank's $11 Million Men (23 May 2016)
Charities that don't follow auditors' recommendations could be reported to regulators (20 May 2016)
FRC audit inspection reports flag revenue recognition as problematic (20 May 2016)
Big Four audit needs improvement (20 May 2016)
Deloitte told to challenge management and improve pension scheme audits (20 May 2016)
EY must tighten up audit of revenue recognition and partner independence (20 May 2016)
KPMG audit quality lags behind rivals (20 May 2016)
Masters winner Phil Mickelson forfeits $1m over insider trading scheme (20 May 2016)
Cash-Stuffed Balance Sheets No Match for U.S. Company Debt (20 May 2016)
US companies' cash pile hits $1.7tn (20 May 2016)
Fat cats: Deutsche Bank shareholders vote against pay plan for bosses (20 May 2016)
High pay for bosses hurting economy says senior UK central banker (20 May 2016)
Accountant 'murdered by his wife and kept hidden for 18 years' was 'mummified' after being killed with stone frog (20 May 2016)
Chartered accountant from Goodmayes jailed for four years (20 May 2016)
SEC Tightens Crackdown on 'Adjusted' Accounting Measures (19 May 2016)
Five banks sued in US for rigging $9 trillion agency bond market (19 May 2016)
PwC Is in the Midst of a Independence Quagmire (19 May 2016)
FCA Probes Mr Kipling Owner Share Trades (19 May 2016)
Audit quality review reports published by FRC (19 May 2016)
Big Four audit needs improvement (19 May 2016)
KPMG falls behind rivals on audit quality (19 May 2016)
Audit Quality Inspection Report 2015/16: PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (19 May 2016)
Audit Quality Inspection Report May 2016: BDO LLP (19 May 2016)
Audit Quality Inspection Report May 2016: Deloitte LLP (19 May 2016)
Audit Quality Inspection Report May 2016: Ernst & Young LLP (19 May 2016)
Audit Quality Inspection Report May 2016: Grant Thornton UK LLP (19 May 2016)
Audit Quality Inspection Report May 2016: KPMG LLP and KPMG Audit Plc (19 May 2016)
Why Businesses Should Maximize Value Over Profit (19 May 2016)
So how did auditors evaluate internal controls: FINRA Fines Raymond James $17 Million for Systemic Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Failures (19 May 2016)
Standard Chartered Said to Tell U.S. of Alleged MAXpower Bribery (19 May 2016)
Tax rule change triggers surge in liquidations (19 May 2016)
Britain's SFO widens Rolls-Royce probe to Nigeria (19 May 2016)
Accounting rules that put capital protection in peril (18 May 2016)
International Financial Reporting Standards: European Parliament calls for more democracy, financial market stability and common interest orientation (18 May 2016)
Lease Accounting Standard Will Require Client Training (18 May 2016)
KPMG tax evasion probe 'was publicity stunt' (18 May 2016)
KPMG faces complaints over Isle of Man tax scheme (18 May 2016)
'Internships' at PwC advertised by Top Education Institute for thousands of dollars (18 May 2016)
FASB Proposes Simplified Goodwill Impairment Test (18 May 2016)
FASB: Intangibles—Goodwill and Other (Topic 350): Simplifying the Accounting for Goodwill Impairment (18 May 2016)
U.K. Parliament Panel to Question Philip Green on BHS June 15 (18 May 2016)
Leadership, Strategic Skills Leave Accounting in the Dust (18 May 2016)
Accounting Firms Hire Lots of Women, Few of Them Become Partners (18 May 2016)
Fat cats: America's top CEOs pocket 340 times more than average workers (18 May 2016)
Turf Wars: Society hits out at accountants' legal services plan (18 May 2016)
Diageo Says Don Julio Accounting Error Will Hit Latin America Sales (17 May 2016)
PwC, Deloitte and Grant Thornton have all been summoned to give evidence in an inquiry into the sale and acquisition .of BHS inquiry (17 May 2016)
MPs expected to question auditors PwC over BHS collapse (17 May 2016)
France may make shareholder votes on executive pay binding - Hollande (17 May 2016)
US bankers could lose bonuses in clawback plan (17 May 2016)
Fat cats: Oracle's Safra Catz becomes top-paid female executive with $US57 million (17 May 2016)
US Agencies Invite Comment on Proposed Rule to Prohibit Incentive-Based Pay that Encourages Inappropriate Risk-Taking in Financial Institutions (17 May 2016)
Invesco says accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers may have breached independence requirement (16 May 2016)
Women tweet flat-shoe photos in support of PwC receptionist (16 May 2016)
KPMG Gender Discrimination Lawsuit Expands (16 May 2016)
KPMG Has Complaints Filed Against It Over Offshore Accounts For Canadians (16 May 2016)
Five more women added in gender discrimination lawsuit against KPMG US (16 May 2016)
How £1 deal led to £8MILLION fees bonanza for City advisers behind takeover (16 May 2016)
Panama Papers leak reveals the dark side of the accounting profession (16 May 2016)
Domenico Scala: Fifa's independent audit committee president resigns (16 May 2016)
Camilla repeatedly sued by disgruntled accountant (16 May 2016)
Only one in eight stock market flotations over past two years offered to the public, Hargreaves Lansdown research shows (16 May 2016)
VW to be sued by $850bn Norway oil fund over emissions scandal (16 May 2016)
Top City advisers to be grilled by MPs in wake of BHS collapse (16 May 2016)
Importance of Accounting Principles (16 May 2016)
Tyrie demands FCA clarity on whistle-blower protections (16 May 2016)
How serious is David Cameron about tackling corruption? (13 May 2016)
Read May/June edition of Chartist (13 May 2016)
Accountancy giants accused over their working conditions (13 May 2016)
Sir Philip Green's company 'to receive £35m from BHS' as pensions fiasco rumbles on (13 May 2016)
Tesco boss Dave Lewis paid £4.6m (13 May 2016)
KPMG raises concerns over Lycamobile audit (13 May 2016)
Here's Why Alibaba's Accounting Is As Alarming As Enron's (13 May 2016)
FRC: No level playing field for disciplining directors in audit cases (13 May 2016)
Restaurant Group shareholders fail to back boardroom pay deals (13 May 2016)
US SEC Charges Shell Factory Operators With Fraud (13 May 2016)
CIPFA launches anti-bribery qualification (13 May 2016)
Country-by-country reporting to affect only 10% of multinationals (13 May 2016)
The Rise and Fall ofthe Ultra Vires Rule in Corporate Law (13 May 2016)
Iron keys, Swiss cheese and spreadsheets: untangling the biggest insider dealing case in Britain (13 May 2016)
Lycamobile's opaque tax affairs confounding its own auditors (12 May 2016)
Ex-Deutsche Bank boss and an accountant given four-and-a-half years for insider trading (12 May 2016)
New FASB Revenue Guidance Addresses Sales Tax, VAT Issue (12 May 2016)
Alliance Trust bonus payment errors missed by Deloitte auditors (12 May 2016)
Nearly 400 LSE-listed companies based in tax havens linked to UK (12 May 2016)
Read the letter from Arcadia Group regarding the BHS evidence session (12 May 2016)
RBS bosses including Fred Goodwin avoid charges over rights issue in 2008 (12 May 2016)
Accountancy standards need a closer look (12 May 2016)
'Misleading' numbers used to boost management pay - what about the role of GAAP (12 May 2016)
The professional bodies say they deplore criminal corruption – but turn a blind eye to the real abuse their members facilitate (11 May 2016)
BHS: Accountants 'advised firms on how to reduce pensions levy' (11 May 2016)
Temp worker 'sent home from PwC office for refusing to wear high heels' (11 May 2016)
Ernst & Young Scheme: The house always wins! Casino giants see tax savings result from new system of roulette wheels (11 May 2016)
Fat cats: Top 25 hedge fund managers earned $13bn in 2015 – more than some nations (11 May 2016)
Why Investors Shouldn't Bother with Hedge Funds Anymore (11 May 2016)
Wall Street Cops to Hedge Funds: Treat Investors Better (11 May 2016)
KPMG Testifies at Finance Committee: Will MPs Get Answers Canadians Need to Know? (11 May 2016)
KPMG pressed for details on Isle of Man tax scheme (11 May 2016)
Mapping the Panama Papers middlemen (11 May 2016)
BP hired firm linked to bribery scandal, Panama Papers reveal (11 May 2016)
BHS collapse: owner sold main distribution centre to pay off loan (11 May 2016)
Turf Wars: FRC response to ICAEW consultation on proposed reserved legal services application (10 May 2016)
CIPFA chosen to boost Zimbabwe's public sector accounting capacity (11 May 2016)
Sam Wyly Committed Tax Fraud With Offshore Trusts, US Judge Says (11 May 2016)
We're losing $240bn a year to tax avoidance. Who really ends up paying? (11 May 2016)
Another pointless speech: Speech by Sir Win Bischoff, Chairman, FRC, City Week 2016 (11 May 2016)
Pressure mounts on IFRS foundation, international standards (10 May 2016)
Canadian Parliament Reviews KPMG Role in Isle of Man Accounts (10 May 2016)
PriceWaterhouseCoopers to incur '€30m' legal bill defending claim after auditing Quinn Insurance (10 May 2016)
BHS's pension fund hole reported FOUR YEARS before collapse (10 May 2016)
BHS Pension Liability Estimated At £275m (10 May 2016)
FRC responds to Richard Fuller MP on the sale of BHS to Retail Acquisitions (10 May 2016)
Financial expert operating in Scotland revealed to be bust accountant (10 May 2016)
Mitsubishi Motors Pain Spreads With $3 Billion Exposure Risk (10 May 2016)
Valeant's Accounting Practices Raise Uncertainty (10 May 2016)
A design flaw in Obama's new Panama Papers rule could help shell companies dodge cops and taxes (10 May 2016)
Former Deutsche Bank boss guilty of insider dealing (10 May 2016)
Panama Papers database dump reveals 200000 secret offshore account details (10 May 2016)
Auditing: Pitch battle (10 May 2016)
Revolving Doors: FRC appoints Mike Suffield as Director of Audit Quality (10 May 2016)
Auditing the Auditors: US Rethinks Approach (9 May 2016)
MPs bring in new advisers as BHS collapse enquiry begins (9 May 2016)
The real cost of big tech's accounting games (9 May 2016)
Offshore finance: more than $12tn siphoned out of emerging countries (9 May 2016)
Over £100m: BHS cash burnt in just 13 months by former owner Dominic Chappell - and board blocked him from writing cheques (9 May 2016)
BHS £300m pension deficit will be absorbed by Pension Protection Fund (9 May 2016)
Revolving Doors: KPMG hires Lloyds Bank's treasury director (9 May 2016)
Tax havens have no economic justification, say top economists (9 May 2016)
New global rules on firms' tax disclosure urged by economists (9 May 2016)
Follow living wage with a curb on pay at the very top (9 May 2016)
City leaders urge radical reforms of 'unfair' executive pay (9 May 2016)
Chris Hohn's TCI Fund Management Attacks 'Corporate Excess' at Volkswagen (9 May 2016)
How stock options lead CEOs to put their own interests first (9 May 2016)
US tightens checks on anonymous companies following Panama Papers release (6 May 2016)
US issues rule requiring banks to identify shell company owners (6 May 2016)
BHS owner forced out of previous venture in row over missing money (6 May 2016)
Boss in charge of BHS 'took £315000 out of his previous company to spend on himself' (6 May 2016)
Toshiba appoints new boss after accounting scandal (6 May 2016)
Implementing sustainable corporate governance and company law in Europe (6 May 2016)
Our friends in the City: Why banking’s return to business as usual threatens our economy (6 May 2016)
Och-Ziff says bribery probe settlement may cost more than $200 mln (6 May 2016)
News Corp reports $149m quarterly loss (6 May 2016)
Canada: Accounting giant KPMG defends Isle of Man tax practices before House committee (6 May 2016)
Canada: CRA executives decline to answer KPMG questions before finance MPs (6 May 2016)
SEC and Law Enforcement Partners Crack Stock Promotion and Kickback Schemes (6 May 2016)
PwC closes down 7 offices in Germany, leaves staff grumbling (6 May 2016)
Fat cats: Three more companies face shareholder wrath over executive pay (6 May 2016)
Reckitt Benckiser Shareholders Protest CEO's Pay Package (6 May 2016)
Specialists recruited to help quiz Sir Philip Green on BHS (5 May 2016)
Accounting: Lease liabilities are real liabilities (5 May 2016)
Companies put $221 billion into low-tax jurisdictions in 2015: UN (5 May 2016)
White-collar crime by banks in Australia is rife and going unchecked (5 May 2016)
The New York Times uses the same accounting techniques the paper critiques (5 May 2016)
Revolving Doors: Former Clydesdale Bank CEO Thorburn takes EY NED post (5 May 2016)
BHS pensions debacle (5 May 2016)
NHS encouraged into 'creative accountancy' to hide looming debts (4 May 2016)
HSBC profit falls amid volatile markets (4 May 2016)
Javid orders probe into BHS collapse (4 May 2016)
U.K. Insolvency Service to Investigate Management of BHS (4 May 2016)
Insolvency Service identifies ICAEW weaknesses in relation to the authorisation of insolvency practitioners and bonding arrangements (4 May 2016)
Warren Buffett issues a fresh warning about derivatives 'timebomb' (4 May 2016)
Chancellor says banks' payments to regulators are tax deductible (4 May 2016)
5 things to consider under the new lease accounting standards (4 May 2016)
Revolving Doors: Ministers and civil servants are 'walking into jobs in same sector' (4 May 2016)
UK EITI REPORT FOR 2014: UNITED KINGDOM EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES TRANSPARENCY INITIATIVE (UK EITI) (4 May 2016)
EY audit conflicts weigh on Royal Dutch Shell-BG Group deal (4 May 2016)
Commerzbank helped foreign investors evade taxes (4 May 2016)
Commerzbank 'dividend stripping' deals revealed (4 May 2016)
India: Audit rotation to make big networks like EY, Deloitte, PwC and KPMG lose their biggest clients (4 May 2016)
UN urges countries to stem tide of firms profit-shifting to tax havens (4 May 2016)
CNA profit hit by accounting charge (4 May 2016)
Anglo CEO David Drumm inquired about 'bloating' its balance sheet in 2008 (4 May 2016)
Air New Zealand changes accounting for Virgin Australia stake up for sale (4 May 2016)
Siemens settles Israel bribery case for €38m (4 May 2016)
Silicon Valley Executive Settles Insider Trading Charges (4 May 2016)
BHS was 'crashed into a cliff' says senior Labour MP (3 May 2016)
Tycoon Richard Caring received £93m in BHS dividends from Sir Philip Green (3 May 2016)
Business Secretary fast tracks investigation (by Insolvency Service) into BHS administration (3 May 2016)
Reckitt Benckiser executive slapped during apology for disinfectant which killed dozens in South Korea (3 May 2016)
Fat cats: Nurofen-owner Reckitt Benckiser faces investors backlash at £23m pay packet for its boss (3 May 2016)
Oil and gas sector under threat from international tax evasion (3 May 2016)
New Zealand: How the foreign trusts operated in the shade away from Inland Revenue's gaze (3 May 2016)
Employees and the taxpayer become collateral damage in the demise of BHS (2 May 2016)
How BHS boss Dominic Chappell paid his playboy pal £6m of store's cash (2 May 2016)
BHS TRIPLED the money its companies owed each other (2 May 2016)
Five issues at the heart of the BHS story (2 May 2016)
Lawsuit accuses PwC of discriminating against older job applicants (2 May 2016)
Hermes criticises Schroders' corporate governance breach (2 May 2016)
Facebook's stock plan is bad corporate governance. Do you care? (2 May 2016)
Buffett Says Derivatives 'Time Bomb' May Elude Auditors' Reviews (2 May 2016)
Valeant May Be Tip of Accounting Iceberg (2 May 2016)
Building society bosses give themselves a pay rise while savers suffer (2 May 2016)
University of Glasgow economics lecturer move sparks row (2 May 2016)
Origin LNG consortium used 'transfer pricing' to cut taxes (2 May 2016)
Buffett Says Hedge Funds Get 'Unbelievable' Fees for Bad Results (2 May 2016)
Daimler Hires Deloitte for Internal Emissions Probe (2 May 2016)
FASB Finalizes and Defers Credit Loss Standard (2 May 2016)
We built maze of companies to route bribes to India, middleman Hashke says on Agusta tape (2 May 2016)
Revolving Doors: Former Toronto deputy police chief Peter Sloly takes job at Deloitte (2 May 2016)

APRIL 2016

Surely not the usless FRC: UK corporate governance watchdog should investigate BHS sale, MP says (29 Apr 2016)
BHS: Over the years, Sir Philip has taken a cool £807 million out of Bhs in dividends, management fees and rents (29 Apr 2016)
How Barclays turned a $10 billion profit into a tax loss (29 Apr 2016)
RBS reveals £1bn loss and Swiss inquiry into Coutts subsidiary (29 Apr 2016)
Fat cats who got £6million from the £1 BHS sell-off, including Grant Thornton (29 Apr 2016)
Five issues at the heart of the BHS story (29 Apr 2016)
Apple billionaire investor Carl Icahn dumps every one of his shares in the company (29 Apr 2016)
FRC announces 14% levy rise in annual budget (29 Apr 2016)
Report on payments to governments guidance published (29 Apr 2016)
Shareholder Rights Directive - may the IVth be with you (29 Apr 2016)
Tax avoidance is denying the world's forgotten children a future (29 Apr 2016)
Swiss Regulator Probes Coutts in International Investigation (29 Apr 2016)
Vatican auditors close 5,000 'suspect' bank accounts after investigation finds secret slush funds used for possible insider trading and tax evasion (29 Apr 2016)
Royal Bank of Scotland sucked into 1MDB probe (29 Apr 2016)
BHS, Boots … our misbehaving corporations need their wings clipped (27 Apr 2016)
Cobham fires top bosses for accounting irregularities after scandal (27 Apr 2016)
Questions for PWC on the BHS Limited accounts (27 Apr 2016)
BHS Hit By VAT Demand Days Before Collapse (27 Apr 2016)
UK Regulator widens inquiry into UK firms' links with Panama Papers tax havens (27 Apr 2016)
Tax crackdown comes with risk that shell firms will fall through the cracks (27 Apr 2016)
What the UK Companies Act 2006 says about the keeping of a register of shareholders (27 Apr 2016)
BHS: Where has all the money gone? (27 Apr 2016)
BHS owner Dominic Chappell moved £1.5m out of troubled retailer (27 Apr 2016)
Taxpayers will cover redundancy pay of 11000 BHS staff (27 Apr 2016)
Nearly 1000 BHS suppliers face being left unpaid by total of £52m (27 Apr 2016)
Toothless Revised FRC UK Corporate Governance Code, Guidance on Audit Committees, and Auditing and Ethical Standards (27 Apr 2016)
End in sight for banks £100bn bad behaviour charges (27 Apr 2016)
The Great Ponzi Scheme of the Global Economy (27 Apr 2016)
Cabela's, CFO, Settle SEC Accounting Charges (27 Apr 2016)
Women occupy less than a quarter of UK board positions (27 Apr 2016)
U.K. Labour Party Says Workers Should Help Set Top Executive Pay (27 Apr 2016)
About One-Third of Citigroup Shareholders Rebuke Bank on Pay (27 Apr 2016)
How corporate governance moved to the forefront of management (27 Apr 2016)
BHS is a victim of shareholder greed (26 Apr 2016)
Philip Green: Blair gave him a knighthood, Cameron gave him a job (26 Apr 2016)
BHS paid more than £25m to owner in 13 months before administration (26 Apr 2016)
How Philip Green's family made millions as value of BHS plummeted (26 Apr 2016)
1200 creditors - the hidden victims of BHS' £1.3bn collapse (26 Apr 2016)
BHS collapse: what happens to the retailer's pension fund? (26 Apr 2016)
BHS boss Philip Green built his empire on cost-cutting and ruthless deals (26 Apr 2016)
Shares in BHS parent company Arcadia Group were held by Jersey based Taveta Investments (No. 2) Limited (26 Apr 2016)
LuxLeaks whistle-blower Antoine Deltour deserves protection (26 Apr 2016)
Fantasy accounting: how the biggest companies in America turn real losses into paper profits (26 Apr 2016)
Struggling RBS facing £1bn claim it destroyed small firms and stripped their assets (26 Apr 2016)
Upmarket tailor Austin Reed goes into administration (26 Apr 2016)
Care home insolvencies up 18% in a year (26 Apr 2016)
Low oil price pushes BP to $485m loss (26 Apr 2016)
Firm in KPMG tax-evasion probe linked to convicted bank fraudster (25 Apr 2016)
Caterpillar pulled off a nifty trick to add 20% to its already sad earnings (25 Apr 2016)
Co-op set to ring changes with auditing switch from KPMG to EY (25 Apr 2016)
PCAOB Warns Auditors Against Document Tampering (25 Apr 2016)
ICAEW names Vernon Soare as its new chief operating officer (25 Apr 2016)
BHS collapse raises more questions than it gives answers - but its fate has been set for some time (25 Apr 2016)
BHS collapses into administration as rescue deal fails (25 Apr 2016)
Royal Bank of Scotland losses expected to reach £957m (25 Apr 2016)
Accountant jailed for £1.8m fraud against two Reading companies (25 Apr 2016)
Revealed: the tax haven firms cashing in on Scotland's PFI scandal (25 Apr 2016)
EU to draw up tax haven blacklist (25 Apr 2016)
Former PwC employees face trial over role in LuxLeaks scandal (25 Apr 2016)
Called crooks by their own shareholders: A new humiliation for bosses at HSBC (25 Apr 2016)
HMRC wins new tax avoidance scheme battle - Jersey and Cayman based companies involved (25 Apr 2016)
HMRC wins battle with £18m offshore tax avoidance scheme (25 Apr 2016)
Read Court Judgement in CLAVIS LIBERTY 1 LP v HMRC (25 Apr 2016)
HMRC wins millions from bank avoidance case- a Swiww Re inspired scheme (25 Apr 2016)
Read Court Judgement in Fidex Limited v HMRC (25 Apr 2016)
Anti-tax evasion measures approved by EU finance ministers (25 Apr 2016)
EU Finance Ministers Urge Caution on Planned Tax Rules for Multinationals (25 Apr 2016)
New tax rules for large European funds (25 Apr 2016)
$10 router blamed in Bangladesh bank hack (25 Apr 2016)
Apple should pay more tax, says co-founder Wozniak (22 Apr 2016)
Ex-partners at Belfast KPMG office challenge tax probe (22 Apr 2016)
Germany's Stroeer Sinks as Carson Block Questions Accounting (22 Apr 2016)
Not Good Enough: UK Statement on the initiative for exchange of beneficial ownership information (22 Apr 2016)
Microsoft earnings decline, but blame accounting (22 Apr 2016)
Ex-Logitech CFO Accused of Accounting Fraud (22 Apr 2016)
Former Sprint executives sue US for allegedly hiding Ernst & Young (EY) probe (22 April 2016)
Ernst & Young link: Ex-Sprint Heads Blame IRS for Tax Shelter Woes 13 Years Ago (22 Apr 2016)
CompaniesVW almost triples provisions, books first annual loss since '93 (22 Apr 2016)
VW more than doubles emissions costs to €16.2bn (22 Apr 2016)
First We Bailed Out Coutts, Then They Helped People Dodge Tax (22 Apr 2016)
Dear George Osborne, it's time to tackle tax dodging (22 Apr 2016)
Money Laundering Reaches $113B In Germany As Organized Crime Flourishes (22 Apr 2016)
Insolvency: US solar company SunEdison files for bankruptcy (22 Apr 2016)
US Accounting Class-Action Lawsuits Jumped in 2015 (22 Apr 2016)
1MDB investigation: Singapore charges former banker with money laundering (22 Apr 2016)
Insolvency: One of nation's richest men is bankrupt with debts at £2m‏ (22 Apr 2016)
Have universities gone offshore with finance theory and teaching? (21 Apr 2016)
Vatican’s suspension of major PwC audit exposes internal rift (21 Apr 2016)
Mitsubishi office raided in Japan as shares slide towards record low on fuel economy test scandal (21 Apr 2016)
Nato spending target 'met by MoD accounting changes' (21 Apr 2016)
Boardoom pay system is not fit for purpose, says top investor group (21 Apr 2016)
Anglo American braces for investor revolt over executive pay (21 Apr 2016)
McDonald's France faces €300m tax bill over Luxembourg link (21 Apr 2016)
One in four executives believes 'corruption and bribery is rife in UK' (21 Apr 2016)
Guidance needed on accounting standard FRS 101 (21 Apr 2016)
PCAOB Previews Audit Firm Inspection Results (21 Apr 2016)
G4S 'ran up parking fines in bid to avoid £580000 in tax' (21 Apr 2016)
Panama Papers: US opens criminal investigation (21 Apr 2016)
They are well connected: Duke of York officially opens new KPMG office (21 Apr 2016)
Former Owner and President of the Chestnut Group Pleads Guilty to Bribing Official at European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (21 Apr 2016)
Smoke and Mirrors: Government deliberately sidesteps effective avoidance strategies (19 Apr 2016)
SEC Announces Financial Fraud Cases (19 Apr 2016)
US SEC sues two ex-Logitech executives for inflating results (19 Apr 2016)
Logitech to pay $7.5 million accounting penalty (19 Apr 2016)
Deloitte trims real estate arm to avoid conflicts of interest (19 Apr 2016)
Deloitte set to face FRC disciplinary over Aero Inventory audit (19 Apr 2016)
Morgan Stanley profits more than halve (19 Apr 2016)
EU mulls crackdown on banks offshore tax advisers after Panama Papers (19 Apr 2016)
Offshore in central London: the curious case of 29 Harley Street (19 Apr 2016)
Corporate Close-Up: Panama Papers Point to Nevada and Wyoming as Tax Havens (19 Apr 2016)
Panama Papers give governments a chance to boost tax transparency (19 Apr 2016)
How the world's wealthy hide millions offshore — from their spouses (19 Apr 2016)
INM chiefs linked to Panama Papers firm (19 Apr 2016)
Tax-dodging companies could be hit with limitless fines (19 Apr 2016)
Behind Valeant's Lender Deal, Another Dose of Accounting Tactics (18 Apr 2016)
Impact of Lease Accounting Standard Unclear (18 Apr 2016)
Shareholder Unease Grows Over Executive Pay Following BP Vote (18 Apr 2016)
Same old, tired and failed practices: FRC Guidance on the going concern basis of accounting and reporting on solvency and liquidity risks (18 Apr 2016)
FRC hearing: Deloitte LLP, a member firm of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and John Clennett, a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (18 Feb 2016)
Film investment tax dispute hits profits for Trespass firm (18 Apr 2016)
HSBC set to face US probe over Panama link and could lose American banking licence (18 Apr 2016)
Fat cats: HSBC faces shareholder backlash over boss's £7.3m pay – and there's fury at other firms too (18 Apr 2016)
HSBC set to face US probe over Panama link and could lose American banking licence (18 Apr 2016)
Fines of £53bn on banks in 16 years (and regulator has still failed) (18 Apr 2016)
Accountant sues swingers' festival after he is refused entry... for not having references (18 Apr 2016)
SunEdison audit panel identifies cash accounting issues (15 Apr 2016)
60% of BP shareholders vote against Bob Dudley's £14million (15 Apr 2016)
BP shareholders revolt against CEO's £14m pay package (15 Apr 2016)
Manchester Building Society's future in doubt after it reports loss (15 Apr 2016)
US audit watchdog tightens lead auditor rules (15 Apr 2016)
HMRC investigates just 35 wealthy tax evaders per year, report reveals (15 Apr 2016)
UK House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts Report: Tackling tax fraud (15 Apr 2016)
KPMG explains how BEPS is transforming international business (15 Apr 2016)
Colm Barrington's Fly Leasing aircraft firm is target of US lawsuit (15 Apr 2016)
HSBC risks losing US banking licence as pressure mounts over Panama Papers probe (15 Apr 2016)
Boeing's $32 Billion Accounting Question (14 Apr 2016)
Labour 'would ban accountancy firms that use tax havens from delivering aid projects' (14 Apr 2016)
Investment banks mislead clients and suppress competition, says watchdog (14 Apr 2016)
PricewaterhouseCoopers pays €37m to save Spanish employees from jail (14 Apr 2016)
Bad for business? Ten notorious corporate scandals (14 Apr 2016)
Demystifying Dealer Bank Derivatives: Better Accounting (14 Apr 2016)
It's not just Scotland's schools. The whole PFI racket is crumbling (14 Apr 2016)
ACCA opposes country-by-country reporting - Well what did your expect? (14 Apr 2016)
Preparing for the FASB's New Lease Accounting Standard (14 Apr 2016)
PCAOB Proposes to Strengthen Requirements for Auditor Supervision of Other Auditors (14 Apr 2016)
Peabody Energy Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection (14 Apr 2016)
PwC Picks Timothy Ryan as U.S. Chairman (14 Apr 2016)
Mossack Fonseca's Panama offices raided as tax investigators meet in Paris (14 Apr 2016)
Panama Papers: global tax officials to launch unprecedented inquiry (14 Apr 2016)
Those tax 'loopholes' were created for a reason (14 Apr 2016)
1 in 5 big US companies pay no federal income tax (14 Apr 2016)
Accountancy firm bought in pre-pack deal (14 Apr 2016)
Before and After the Panama Papers: David Cameron of Britain on Tax Avoidance (14 Apr 2016)
Fight over film tax avoidance scheme reaches UK Supreme Court (14 Apr 2016)
'Aggressive' tax avoidance scheme based on Disney film rights to appeal to supreme court (14 Apr 2016)
Robertson: Whitehall has 10 times more staff chasing poorest who defraud benefits than super-rich who evade taxes (14 Apr 2016)
Benefit fraud or tax evasion: row over the Tories' targets (14 Apr 2016)
Banks Face Massive New Headache on $147bn Oil Loans (13 Apr 2016)
Labour “cleared out” PwC, says shadow chancellor John McDonnell (13 Apr 2016)
Canada: Senior federal tax enforcer joined KPMG as its offshore 'sham' was under CRA probe (13 Apr 2016)
KPMG introduced speech by CRA chief as firm faced offshore tax probe (13 Apr 2016)
Creative Accounting Could Shave As Much As $1 Billion Off Goldman's $5 Billion Settlement for Creative Accounting (13 Apr 2016)
Arrium administrator Grant Thornton to be replaced (13 Apr 2016)
Fat cats: UK Executive pay up almost 6% according to thinktank analysis (13 Apr 2016)
Italy's New Bank Rescue Fund Meets With Investor Skepticism (13 Apr 2016)
Deloitte steps down as auditors to Ulster Bank (13 Apr 2016)
European Commission proposes public tax transparency rules for multinationals - it is not full public countrty by country report (13 Apr 2016)
European Commission - Fact Sheet : Introducing public country-by-country reporting for multinational enterprises (13 Apr 2016)
The EU is not demanding country-by-country reporting today – so don’t believe it when it says it is (13 Apr 2016)
Christian Aid slams EU country-by-country reporting proposals (13 Apr 2016)
EU plan to stop corporate tax dodging is 'close to pointless', major charities warn (13 Apr 2016)
EU commission wants tax haven blacklist (13 Apr 2016)
Taxing Tax Havens What to do After the Panama Papers (13 Apr 2016)
What is being done to tackle tax-dodging? (13 Apr 2016)
Panama Papers: How Jersey-based oil firm avoided taxes Africa (13 Apr 2016)
Counting The Cost – Panama Papers: Inside The Shadowy World of Tax Havens (13 Apr 2016)
Panama Papers: Leaked emails expose Heritage plot to dodge Uganda tax (13 Apri 2016)
How widespread corruption is hurting Kenya (13 Apr 2016)
Goldman Sachs Agrees to Pay More than $5 Billion in Connection with Its Sale of Residential Mortgage Backed Securities (12 Apr 2016)
Target finds $21m in irregularities (12 Apr 2016)
Wesfarmers admits accounting errors at Target subsidiary (12 Apr 2016)
Top ten UK accountancy firm distances itself from Blairmore Holdings connection (12 Apr 2016)
Revolving Doors: Major accounting firms routinely recruited federal justice and CRA tax enforcement officials (12 Apr 2016)
Insolvency: The Pre Pack Pool: problem-prone, time-consuming, costly and pointless (12 Apr 2016)
Former Fifa vice-president Alfredo Hawit admits to corruption (12 Apr 2016)
Oil companies spent £81m 'obstructing' climate laws, NGO says (12 Apr 2016)
Edward Troup: from tax haven adviser to leading HMRC's Panama inquiry (12 Apr 2016)
Panama Papers: Corporations Shifted A Half-Trillion Dollars To Offshore Tax Havens In 2012 (12 Apr 2016)
Epoch-changing attitudes to wealth and tax are engulfing Cameron (12 Apr 2016)
Germany's Schaeuble Calls for Global Unity for Fight Tax Evasion (12 Apr 2016)
EU to make big firms come clean on tax (12 Apr 2016)
Here's another tax dodge for US billionaires (12 Apr 2016)
Libor trial: ex-Barclays worker just did what his boss told him, court hears (11 Apr 2016)
Thames Water for sale: Australian investor Macquarie to sell stake (11 Apr 2016)
Collapsed celebrity tax firm Rebus sees cases against financial advisers sold on for £60 each (11 Apr 2016)
Cameron releases tax returns information amid row (11 Apr 2016)
David Cameron's tax bill dodge over mother's £200k gift adds more pressure on PM (11 Apr 2016)
Panama Papers: UK PM sets up anti-tax dodging task force (11 Apr 2016)
Cameron in line to avoid inheritance tax of £80k (11 Apr 2016)
Tories say one thing and do another on tax avoidance (11 Apr 2016)
A report on the culture of British retail banking (11 Apr 2016)
Misconduct 'has cost UK's banks £53bn over 15 years' (11 Apr 2016)
Panama Papers - Officials Raid Mossack Fonseca's San Salvador Offices (11 Apr 2016)
Panama Papers scandal: Mossack Fonseca says it is still waiting for a call from the taxman (11 Apr 2016)
How Panama became a tax haven to the world (11 Apr 2016)
Former health secretary Dorrell accused over publishing company pre-pack insolvency (11 Apr 2016)
How a US president and JP Morgan made Panama: and turned it into a tax haven (11 Apr 2016)
Germany suggests plan to combat tax havens (11 Apr 2016)
Germany: Sanctions if tax havens don't cooperate (11 Apr 2016)
Germany's Schaeuble says offshore companies must be transparent (11 Apr 2016)
Embattled KPMG executive caught up in sex scandal (9 Apr 2016)
KPMG should be charged with facilitating tax evasion: watchdog (9 Apr 2016)
Target managing director resigns after investigation into accounting practices (9 Apr 2016)
1MDB scandal: Malaysian state fund sacked Ernst & Young and KPMG when auditors asked for documents (9 Apr 2016)
Deloitte not liable for ChinaCast fraud - 2nd Circuit (9 Apr 2016)
PwC Cites 3rd Increase In Fed Securities Class Actions (9 Apr 2016)
Fifth of UK corporates 'woefully unprepared' for audit rotation reforms (9 Apr 2016)
Vince Cable: Cameron 'got cold feet' on tax avoidance crackdown (9 Apr 2016)
MPs demand statement from David Cameron about his tax affairs (9 Apr 2016)
David Cameron: I could have handled tax row better (9 Apr 2016)
David Cameron offshore fund: PM accused of 'eroding trust' as pressure grows for tax return publication (9 Apr 2016)
David Cameron offshore fund: PM still stalling on tax returns four years after he was 'relaxed and happy' about ... (9 Apr 2016)
How global tax evasion keeps poor countries poor (9 Apr 2016)
EU tax move to make Google, Amazon disclose more (9 apr 2016)
200 people in the US exposed for using tax havens in Panama Papers leak (9 Apr 2016)
Kenya's Chase Bank placed under receivership by CBK (8 Apr 2016)
PCAOB Mulls New Requirements for Auditor's Use of Other Auditors (8 Apr 2016)
ICAS and FRC reveal specific skills future auditors need in new reports (8 Apr 2016)
Global regulators take softer line on bank capital (8 Apr 2016)
Former Barclays trader alleges bosses knew of Libor fix (8 Apr 2016)
David Cameron admits he profited from father's Panama offshore trust fund (8 Apr 2016)
'Frankly and morally wrong': David Cameron's past attacks on tax evasion (8 Apr 2016)
David Cameron has disastrously mishandled the crisis over his tax affairs (8 Apr 2016)
David Cameron's EU intervention on trusts set up tax loophole (8 Apr 2016)
Former HSBC boss tried to avoid tax on £8m Kensington house (8 Apr 2016)
Now HSBC executives facing calls to resign: Pressure growns over Panama Papers (8 Apr 2016)
HSBC, Coutts & Rothschild: British banks help the 1% evade (8 Apr 2016)
Mossack Fonseca's role in fight over painting stolen by Nazis (8 Apr 2016)
Sanders Says US Helped Panama as a Tax Haven But Skips Over Tax Pact (8 Apr 2016)
Commission urges EU deal on list of tax havens in next six months (8 Apr 2016)
France Wants Details From Its Banks on Tax Havens (8 Apr 2016)
Legal reform is sole weapon in war against tax avoidance (8 Apr 2016)
Why tax avoidance is a lousy business strategy (8 Apr 2016)
The real Panama Papers scandal is the legalization of tax avoidance for the rich and powerful (8 Apr 2016)
U.S. vows to crack down on shell companies as tax dodges (8 Apr 2016)
Panama Papers: A History of Tax Evasion from Ancient Rome to the French Revolution to 19th-Century New Jersey (8 Apr 2016)
Indonesia to Pursue US Tech Firms on Taxes, Minister Says (8 Apr 2016)
US double standard on tax evasion draws scrutiny, criticism (8 Apr 2016)
The question behind the Panama leak: Why aren't international rules stopping offshore tax evasion? (8 Apr 2016)
Firm owned by Zuma friends seeks new auditor after KPMG South Africa walks away (7 Apr 2016)
US Plans to Require Banks to Identify Owners of Shell Companies (7 Apr 2016)
After Aequitas collapse, class action lawsuit targets Deloitte, Tonkon Torp, others; Could grow to $300M (7 Apr 2016)
Why Accountants Fail to Engage Business Owners (7 Apr 2016)
Why Tesla's Lease Accounting Is Less Devious Than You Think (7 Apr 2016)
Intersections Inc to dismiss Deloitte as co's accounting firm (7 Apr 2016)
Audit Firms Following PCAOB Communication Standard (7 Apr 2016)
Cameron stepped in to shield offshore trusts from EU tax crackdown in 2013 (7 Apr 2016)
How fury over tax havens moved from the margins to the mainstream (7 Apr 2016)
Why Aren't More Americans In The Panama Papers? Secrecy, Tax Laws In Nevada, Other States Provide Havens (7 Apr 2016)
Unlike the secrets exposed by the Panama Papers, big US tax dodging is done in full public view (7 Apr 2016)
Pfizer formally abandons $160bn Allergan deal after US tax inversion clampdown (7 Apr 2016)
Pfizer shows that its Allergan merger was chiefly a tax dodge (7 Apr 2016)
Tax rules that killed Allergan-Pfizer deal may be hard to challenge (7 Apr 2016)
US Plans to Require Banks to Identify Owners of Shell Companies (7 Apr 2016)
Hats off to the brave Panama whistleblower (7 Apr 2016)
Panama Papers: HMRC 'starved' by austerity could not pursue tax evaders even if it wanted to (7 Apr 2016)
The Panama Papers' Sprawling Web of Corruption (7 Apr 2016)
Panama Papers: Why is money-laundering so easy in Panama? (7 Apr 2016)
Roll call of top Tory tycoons exposed in #PanamaLeaks (7 Apr 2016)
Mossack Fonseca & Ashcroft (7 Apr 2016)
In foreign bribery cases, leniency offered to companies that turn over employees (7 Apr 2016)
US Justice Dept launches corporate foreign bribery disclosure program (7 Apr 2016)
Obama: 'tax avoidance is a big global problem' (7 Apr 2016)
German tax officials eyed Mossack Fonseca before Panama Papers leak (7 Apr 2016)
Hats off to the brave Panama whistleblower (7 Apr 2016)
Panama Papers stolen by hackers, says Mossack Fonseca (7 Apr 2016)
'Panama Papers' Puts Spotlight on Boom in Offshore Services (7 Apr 2016)
Dave the Brave squirms over offshore tax havens … at PwC of all places (6 Apr 2016)
Valeant Finishes Accounting and Philidor Review With No More Problems (6 Apr 2016)
Turf Wars: Push on to allow non-CPAs to take top accounting jobs (6 Apr 2016)
HSBC and Credit Suisse Deny Tax Cheating Allegations Prompted by 'Panama Papers' (6 Apr 2016)
Panama Papers: How does off-shore tax avoidance work? (6 Apr 2016)
Panama Has Company as Bank-Secrecy Holdout, as U.S. Offers Haven (6 Apr 2016)
Britain's Empire of Tax Evasion (6 Apr 2016)
British Virgin Islands growing rich as a global tax haven (6 Apr 2016)
Panama is only one head of the tax haven Hydra (6 Apr 2016)
Why the offshore tax haven crisis won't get fixed, despite Panama Papers (6 Apr 2016)
Germany plans new tax law on back of 'Panama Leaks' revelations (6 Apr 2016)
'Profound concerns' over HMRC's data handling: Advisers react to Panama leak (6 Apr 2016)
Panama Papers probes opened, China limits access to news on leaks (6 Apr 2016)
US Treasury announces more guidance on offshore tax deals (6 Apr 2016)
Pfizer vs. Obama: The Treasury Tries To Stop Pharma's Tax Dodge (6 Apr 2016)
Holding ministers to account on tax: recent parliamentary questions on the issue (5 Apr 2016)
Why are the Big 4 accountants all in Panama and the BVI? (5 Apr 2016)
Tax Haven Networks and the Role of big four Accountancy Firms (5 Apr 2016)
Plush Offices: ACCA confirms Glasgow office move (5 Apr 2016)
Moore's Law Meets GAAP Accounting at Intel (5 Apr 2016)
How Mossack Fonseca in Panama relies on a global network to support its clients (5 Apr 2016)
Europe's Regulators Probe Banks as Shell Company Scandal Spreads (5 Apr 2016)
PwC buys media auditing firm Rickards (5 Apr 2016)
US Treasury Unveils New Steps to Limit Tax Inversions (5 Apr 2016)
Setting up your own tax haven shell company takes 10 minutes (5 Apr 2016)
Secret offshore accounts help owners evade taxes (5 Apr 2016)
Nordea bank investigated over tax haven scandal (5 Apr 2016)
Panama papers: Mossack Fonseca 'helped firms subject to sanctions' (5 Apr 2016)e (5 Apr 2016)
Panama Papers expose Government hypocrisy on UK tax havens, say campaigner
David Cameron's father 'ran offshore fund that paid zero UK tax for 30 years' (5 Apr 2016)
Panama Papers: British tax havens Jersey and Guernsey in spotlight over Mossack Fonseca leak (5 Apr 2016)

HMRC promises 'swift' action against tax avoiders named in Panama Papers (5 Apr 2016)
Tax havens don't need to be reformed. They should be outlawed (5 Apr 2016)

Panama Papers: Britain 'at the heart of super-rich tax-avoidance network' (5 Apr 2016
Northern Rock tax dodge claims: National Audit Office examining (4 Apr 2016)
Google profits from tax avoidance, pays CEO $209m in 2015 (4 Apr 2016)
Professions who are most likely to be in a car crash revealed (4 Apr 2016)
Offshore links of more than 140 politicians and officials exposed (4 Apr 2016)
Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca leak reveals elite's tax havens (4 Apr 2016)
UK companies “woefully unprepared” for audit rotation (4 Apr 2016)
The Panama Papers: how the world's rich and famous hide their money offshore (4 Apr 2016)
'Panama Papers' leak of 11m documents reveals how the super rich hide their money (4 Apr 2016)
Massive leak of Panama law firm's reports reveals politicians and celebrities using offshore tax haven (4 Apr 2016)
Panama Papers Q&A: How assets are hidden and taxes dodged (4 Apr 2016)
Cameron plans offshore summit as tax secrets are leaked (4 Apr 2016)
David Cameron's dad and top Tories named in leaked 'Panama Papers' about global tax haven firm (4 Apr 2016)
Tax haven scandal: UK MPs 'holding offshore assets' (4 Apr 2016)
'Panama Papers' link football's wealthy to tax avoidance network (4 Apr 2016)
Vladimir Putin, his close friends, and the $2bn in offshore tax havens (4 Apr 2016)
How Mossack Fonseca worked with Australian clients linked to tax investigations (4 Apr 2016)
HBOS and KPMG: The Financial Reporting Council’s evasiveness tells us it’s unfit for purpose (1 Apr 2016)
Co-operative Bank's annual losses more than double (1 Apr 2016)
Shell faces corruption probe over $1bn oil deal in Nigeria (1 Apr 2016)
HSBC comes up short in money laundering vigilance, US says - so how did auditors test its internal controls to give the bank a clean bill of health (1 Apr 2016)
FASB Updates Stock-Award Accounting Rules (1 Apr 2016)
FASB ISSUES NEW GUIDANCE ON EMPLOYEE SHARE-BASED PAYMENT ACCOUNTING (1 Apr 2016)
L-3 fails to dismiss shareholder lawsuit over accounting (1 Apr 2016)
World's top banks in US government cross-hairs over dealings with 1MDB (1 Apr 2016)

MARCH 2016

HBOS audit report due in weeks - and KPMG could be slammed in findings (30 Mar 2016)
FRC to publish HBOS findings in the Spring (23 Mar 2016)
HBOS and KPMG: Rt Hon Andrew Tyrie MP to Stephen Haddrill 03 Feb 2016 (30 Mar 2016)
HBOS and KPMG: Stephen Haddrill to Rt Hon Andrew Tyrie MP 10 Feb 2016 (30 Mar 2016)
HBOS and KPMG: Rt Hon Andrew Tyrie MP to Stephen Haddrill 29 March 2016 (30 Mar 2016)
FRC's audit enforcement rules set for changes in line with EU audit reforms (30 Mar 2016)
Taxing business (30 Mar 2016)
Report alleged international oil industry corruption worth billions involves companies paying massive bribes to secure contracts (30 Mar 2016)
U.S. Oil Industry Giant Paid Millions To A Company At The Center Of Huge Corruption Scandal (30 Mar 2016)
“World's biggest bribe scandal”: Report on oil corruption exposes how corporations help destabilize Middle East (30 Mar 2016)
Nearly three out of four active fund managers in UK underperform (30 Mar 2016)
Building New Empires: Accountancy body ACCA take 55750 sq. ft Glasgow office (30 Mar 2016)
FASB Updates Stock-Award Accounting Rules (30 Mar 2016)
Tesla's Accounting About To Evolve Again (30 Mar 2016)
Dash for Cash: KPMG invests in cognitive computing capability (30 Mar 2016)
Negative gearing simply a form of 'tax avoidance' (30 Mar 2016) (30 Mar 2016)
SEC: Biotech Company AVEO Pharmaceuticals Misled Investors About New Drug's Status With FDA (30 Mar 2016 )
Big Four Auditors: Leaping Forward into Consultancy (29 Mar 2016)
Valeant's Accounting Error a Warning Sign of Bigger Problems (29 Mar 2016)
Keep Banks' Capital Requirements High to Protect Against Financial Crisis (29 Mar 2016)
Boardroom pay under spotlight as City AGM season begins (29 Mar 2016)
'Billionaire' tradesman may have used fake banking app to dupe lawyer (29 Mar 2016)
Schroders dumps PwC as its auditor after 57 years (29 Mar 2016)
OHL Mexico Fined Over Accounting Practices (29 Mar 2016)
Valeant boss ordered to testify on drug pricing (29 Mar 2016)
IAASB Finalizes Changes for Engagements to Report on Summary Financial Statements (29 Mar 2016)
NetEnt Wins Swedish Transfer Pricing Dispute (29 Mar 2016)
Valeant: Blame Our Accounting, Please! (28 Mar 2016)
What the Valeant saga tells us about the modern hedge fund (28 Mar 2016)
US companies warn tax avoidance crackdown will hit earnings (28 Mar 2016)
Facebook, Google, Apple, Yahoo May See Profits Shrink From Closed Tax Loopholes (28 Mar 2016)
Capital gains tax cut gives £3000 to rich 0.3%, says Labour (28 Mar 2016)
‘Ten years’ to see fruits of mandatory rotation – Non-Big Four auditors (28 Mar 2016)
The House of Sleaze: “There’s nothing they can’t do for a fee and nothing they won’t do,” says a former UK senior partner at one of the Big Four (28 Mar 2016)
From 2011 to 2013 the Big Four firms acquired 66 consulting entities (28 Mar 2016)
Charity removed and reported to police over fraud claims (28 Mar 2016)
Exxon Mobil must allow climate change vote: SEC (28 Mar 2016)
Netherlands authority fines Big Four accounting firms (25 Mar 2016)
US Accountants Make Recommendations On CbC Reporting (25 Mar 2016)
SEC Forces Exxon to Bring Climate-Friendly Accounting to Shareholder Vote (25 Mar 2016)
In Yahoo, Another Example of the Share Buyback Mirage (25 Mar 2016)
Financial Times Slams Share Buybacks (25 Mar 2016)
Share Buybacks Turn Toxic (25 Mar 2016)
EU Commission falls short on corporate tax avoidance (25 Mar 2016)
Dutch regulator fines 'big 4' accounting firms (24 Mar 2016)
Share buybacks need good reasons, says Pirc (24 Mar 2016)
Credit Suisse says Italian criminal probe into money laundering allegations (24 Mar 2016)
Credit Suisse, the Jailed Banker and an Oligarch's Millions (24 Mar 2016)
IASB faces battle to reconcile divergent views on 'prudent' accounting (24 Mar 2016)
What Has Gone Wrong With Banking Accounting? (24 Mar 2016)
Could Valeant's auditor resign? Chances are slim but not none (24 Mar 2016)
UK Businesses face £1000 annual charge per non-EU skilled worker (24 Mar 2016)
Novartis settles civil charges alleging bribery in China: SEC (24 Mar 2016)
BHS creditors vote to support rent cut plan (24 Mar 2016)
Malaysia's central bank to act against 1MDB over $1.8b foreign funds (24 Mar 2016)
Call for investigation of the Lender Option, Borrower option (LOBO) loans (23 Mar 2016)
UK local authorities could have been ripped off by controversial 'lobo' loans, MPs say (23 Mar 2016)
Sports Direct 'clarifies' earnings forecast after Ashley comments (23 Mar 2016)
William Hill issues profit warning after Cheltenham and online losses (23 Mar 2016)
Italian police open money laundering investigation of broker linked to HSBC (23 Mar 2016)
KPMG accelerates transfer of UK IT jobs to India (23 Mar 2016)
PwC accused of conflict of interest (23 Mar 2016)
PricewaterhouseCoopers accused of conflict of interest in development role (23 Mar 2016)
Deloitte's deal with Conduit Law continues its march into legal services (23 Mar 2016)
KPMG update on Alpari UK bankruptcy: Client funds shortfall expected between $20-22 million (23 Mar 2016)
19 reasons why accounting is essential to business survival (23 Mar 2016)
UK blue-chip firms told to stop reporting every quarter (22 Mar 2016)
Big firms face a shareholder spring revolt to hold bosses accountable for excessive pay and poor results (22 Mar 2016)
What is a LOBO loan? (22 Mar 2016)
Sports Direct shares tumble as Mike Ashley reveals profit slump (22 Mar 2016)
Move to cut red tape will mean fewer firms face the audit test (22 Mar 2016)
The inexorable approach of public country-by-country reporting (22 Mar 2016)
banks' profits hit by soaring litigation (22 Mar 2016)
Duncan Bannatyne's former accountant jailed for stealing is ordered to pay back money (22 Mar 2016)
Mallya default singes top auditing companies (22 Mar 2016)
Big Four accounting firms delve into artificial intelligence (22 Mar 2016)
Boss axed at controversy-hit Valeant Pharmaceuticals (21 Mar 2016)
Valeant Could Have Trouble Getting Clean Opinion From Auditor (21 Mar 2016)
BHS 'confident' it has backing of landlords ahead of key vote (21 Mar 2016)
SFO in court defeat over boiler room scam money laundering (21 Mar 2016)
FASB Standard Simplifies Equity Method Accounting (21 Mar 2016)
FASB Amends Revenue Recognition Standard (21 Mar 2016)
Dash for Cash: Deloitte LLP acquires Conduit and other legal moves and grooves for March 21 (21 Mar 2016)
George Osborne cut NHS repairs fund by £1.1bn, claims Labour (21 Mar 2016)
Norway takes pathway to ethical investment with human rights policy (21 Mar 2016)
Budget 2016 demonstrates once again that austerity doesn’t add up (18 Mar 2016)
Toshiba confirms SEC investigation as accounting woes spread to US (18 Mar 2016)
Terry Smith sues Barclays for £220000 over money transfer (18 Mar 2016)
Accountancy body and Big Four launch tax apprenticeship programme (18 Mar 2016)
FASB simplifies transition to equity method of accounting (18 Mar 2016)
Top multinationals pay almost no tax in New Zealand (18 Mar 2016)
London Fields brewery owner charged with £1m fraud (18 Mar 2016)
Insight - How UK company formation agents fuel fraud (18 Mar 2016)
Caroline Flint MP calls for country-by-country report (17 Mar 2016)
Toshiba Shares Plunge as U.S. Unit Faces Accounting Probe (17 Mar 2016)
Investors' new worry: Questionable accounting (17 Mar 2016)
AIG Affiliates Charged With Mutual Fund Shares Conflicts (17 Mar 2016)
SEC fines AIG advisors $9.5 million (17 Mar 2016)
Care company MiHomecare could face legal action over wages (17 Mar 2016)
Embraer Consultant Says CEO, Other Top Managers Knew of Bribery (17 Mar 2016)
Dash for Cash: KPMG adds Fabian Watts to Real Estate Advisory practice (17 Mar 2016)
Revolving Doors: Lazard Adds KPMG's Burlison for Restructuring in Commodity Slump (17 Mar 2016)
SunEdison identifies 'weaknesses' in accounting (16 Mar 2016)
SunEdison Delays Earnings Citing Weak Accounting Controls (16 Mar 2016)
Fifa pursuing 'tens of millions' from those named in US investigation (16 mar 2016)
Nigeria's NNPC 'failed to pay' $16bn in oil revenues (16 Mar 2016)
Norske Skog Seeks New Auditor After Disagreement Over Valuations (16 Mar 2016)
How Audit Committees Can Mitigate Third-Party Risk (16 Mar 2016)
UK government gives new tax-perk to Non-doms - see page 99 (16 Mar 2016)
Budget 2016: Gov't targets £12bn from tax avoidance clampdown (16 Mar 2016)
The problem with promises to crack down on tax-dodging banks (16 Mar 2016)
Osborne must do more to crack down on tax havens – for poor nations' sake (16 Mar 2016)
Osborne's mighty gamble on corporate tax base (16 Mar 2016)
Budget 2016: George Osborne promises tax avoidance crackdown on offshore property developers (16 Mar 2016)
KPMG: are they really masters of the universe? (15 Mar 2016)
Toshiba finds more accounting errors, promises improvement (15 Mar 2016)
SFO ends foreign exchange fraud inquiry with no charges brought (15 Mar 2016)
Apple, McDonald's, Google and IKEA to face EU lawmakers over tax deals (15 Mar 2016)
ICAEW and PwC launch IPSAS programme (15 Mar 2016)
Accountants fear financial advice requests (15 Mar 2016)
Big companies face £200bn property-lease time bomb as new standards start to bite (14 Mar 2016)
Offshore maritime sector must be alert to new lease accounting rules (14 Mar 2016)
HSBC loses latest bid to redact money-laundering report (14 Mar 2016)
ESB to replace KPMG as its auditor; ends 90-year relationship (14 Mar 2016)
Philip Green could face £280m demand over BHS pensions deficit (14 Mar 2016)
Landlords cast doubt on BHS's future (14 Mar 2016)
UK accountants overwhelmed by pension advice boom (14 Mar 2016)
Ex-Anglo Irish CEO charged with fraud and forgery on return home (14 Mar 2016)
Fujifilm to drop auditing firm (Ernst & Young ShinNihon) involved in Toshiba scandal (14 Mar 2016)
Accounting firm Ernst & Young enters business law market (14 Mar 2016)
SunEdison's CFO Departs Amid Accounting Review And Broken Deal To Focus On Yieldcos (14 Mar 2016)
SEC Clears Accounting Watchdog's (PCAOB) Budget but Flags Spending (14 Mar 2016)
The crisis behind the headlines of corporate scandals (11 Mar 2016)
Spelling mistake prevented hackers taking $1bn in bank heist (11 Mar 2016)
Professor to Wall Street: You're Doing Swaps Accounting Wrong (11 Mar 2016)
Accounting scandal was a 'catalytic change' for decaying Tesco brand (11 Mar 2016)
SEC Charges Aequitas Management Group and Executives With Defrauding Investors (11 Mar 2016)
SEC Charges Magnum Hunter Resources Corporation and Executives for Faulty Evaluations of Internal Controls (11 Mar 2016)
Share Buybacks Driven By Executive Compensation? (11 Mar 2016)
Here's how share buybacks can come back to bite shareholders (11 Mar 2016)
Share buy-backs programmes have not had desired effect on UK stocks so far this year (11 Mar 2016)
FRC issues amendments to fair value disclosures in FRS 102 (11 Mar 2016)
Executive Pay, Share Buybacks, and Managerial Short Termism (11 Mar 2016)
Out of Touch and Living in La La Land: Speech by Sir Win Bischoff , Chairman, FRC, at Financial Times Banking Standards Conference, Time for change… spotlight on behaviour, competence and culture (10 Mar 2016)
Valeant uses rare accounting maneuver for acquisitions that cushions income (10 Mar 2016)
Should investors be worried that EDF's finance director has resigned? (10 Mar 2016)
Valeant Adds Board Members, Settles With Specialty Pharmacy (10 Mar 2016)
Deutsche Bank and UBS lose bonus tax case (9 Mar 2016)
Deutsche Bank and UBS lose $200 million UK bonus tax case (9 Mar 2016)
Another Deloitte Schemes Bites the Dust - Read UK Supreme Court Judgement in UBS AG (Respondent) v Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (Appellant) (9 Mar 2016)
UK accounting watchdog tells companies to detail Brexit costs (9 Mar 2016)
BHS pensioners face cuts to payouts as struggling chain goes into insolvency (9 Mar 2016)
US SEC charges Uni-Pixel with civil accounting fraud -complaint (9 Mar 2016)
SEC: Tech Company Misled Investors About Key Product (9 Mar 2016)
Credit Suisse probed in Italy in tax evasion case (9 Mar 2016)
PwC launches online market place to tap into 'gig economy' (9 Mar 2016)
Two Cayman Island Financial Institutions Plead Guilty in Manhattan Federal Court to Conspiring to Hide More Than $130 Million in Cayman Bank Accounts (9 Mar 2016)
A Little Enron Accounting Puts Water District in Hot Water (9 Mar 2016)
California Water District to Pay Penalty for Misleading Investors (9 Mar 2016)
Taxing corporations: the Politics and Ideology of the Arm’s Length Principle (8 Mar 2016)
EU Commission welcomes agreement reached by Member States for the automatic exchange of information on country-by-country reports (CbCR) of multinational companies, subject to UK scrutiny (8 Mar 2016)
KPMG really do have to learn how to account for tax (8 Mar 2016)
KPMG and country-by-country reporting: a work in progress (8 Mar 2016)
Canada Revenue offered amnesty to wealthy KPMG clients in offshore tax 'sham' (8 Mar 2016)
More than a third of proceeds from £8.4m BHS loan went to four directors (8 Mar 2016)
Pace of audit improvement too slow, IFIAR tells top six networks (8 Mar 2016)
International Forum of Independent Audit Regulators Report on 2015 Survey of Inspection Findings March 3, 2016 (8 Mar 2016)
ComScore plunges after accounting review announced (8 Mar 2016)
comScore Plunges on Accounting Woes (8 Mar 2016)
BDO allowed to appeal Rangers tax case to Supreme Court (8 Mar 2016)
UK accounting watchdog tells companies to detail Brexit costs (8 Mar 2016)
Lease-Accounting Changes Disruptive, but Manageable (8 Mar 2016)
SEC Charges Rhode Island Agency and Wells Fargo With Fraud in 38 Studios Bond Offering (8 Mar 2016)
Dash for Cash: IBM Watson enters 'Big Four' accounting firm KPMG duel for A.I. dominance (8 Mar 2016)
Facebook looks set to pay more UK tax but it might not be as much as you think (7 Mar 2016)
The UK’s country-by-country reporting regulations look set to let most foreign companies off the hook (7 Mar 2016)
The hiring of KPMG to market Network Rail substations to global investors marks start of privatisation (7 Mar 2016)
Caffè Nero paid no corporation tax in the last financial year despite profit of £23.6m (7 Mar 2016)
Stagecoach loses court case over £11m tax avoidance scheme (7 Mar 2016)
Another KPMG Tax Avoidance Scheme Thrown out by the UK Courts: (1) STAGECOACH GROUP PLC & (2) STAGECOACH HOLDINGS LIMITED v THE COMMISSIONERS FOR HER MAJESTY’S Respondents REVENUE & CUSTOMS (7 Mar 2016)
HMRC wins Stagecoach sideways loss case over £11m tax (7 Mar 2016)
EDF finance chief quits over Hinkley Point nuclear plant (7 Mar 2016)
PricewaterhouseCoopers Names Robert E. Moritz Global Chairman (7 Mar 2016)
Fat cats: BP chief receives 20% pay hike despite record loss and 7000 axed jobs (7 Mar 2016)
BHS owners took £8.4m loan from chain as staff face job cuts (7 Mar 2016)
How expected credit loss standards will challenge auditors (7 Mar 2016)
Revolving Doors: FRC appoints Tracy Vegro as Executive Director of Strategy & Resources (7 Mar 2016)
Fat cats: Pay for UK bosses is 'absurdly high', top headhunters admit (7 Mar 2016)
The unsexy future of blockchain is accounting (7 Mar 2016)
Banks' Hands Tied as Basel Tightens Rules on Operational Risk (7 Mar 2016)
Regulators propose stricter banking rules to cover cyber, fraud risks (7 Mar 2016)
Analysis: Differentiated Shareholder Voting Rights in Europe (7 Mar 2016)
Facebook, in Accounting Change, Could Pay Millions More in British Taxes (4 Mar 2016)
Facebook to pay millions of pounds more in UK tax (4 Mar 2016)
Facebook gets more from HMRC for adverts than it pays in tax (4 Mar 2016)
MPs say Facebook may have broken tax rules (4 Mar 2016)
Brazilian police arrest Facebook's Latin America vice-president (4 Mar 2016)
Accounting Firm BDO Accused Of Malpractice In Ch. 7 Cases (4 Mar 2016)
Top Bankers Are on the Hook as U.K. Conduct Rules Get Personal (4 Mar 2016)
Women in accountancy earn £17000 less than men (4 Mar 2016)
Turf Wars: Accountants and reserved legal activities – a taxing problem (4 Mar 2016)
Marvell Clears Itself of Fraud, Finds Revenue Timing Issue (4 Mar 2016)
Changing how economics is taught (4 Mar 2016)
Impact of Florange Act (France) , which gives double voting rights to shareholders who hold shares for two years or longer (4 Mar 2016)
The Florange Act: French companies caught in the fight against double voting rights attached to loyalty shares (4 Mar 2016)
Who owns a company? - speech by Andrew Haldane (4 Mar 2016)
Barclays Probes Alleged Money Laundering at South Africa Arm (3 Mar 2016)
Why Public Country-by-Country Reporting for Large Multinationals is a Must (3 Mar 2016)
Big Four accountancy firms muscle into consultancy (3 Mar 2016)
Big Four triumph as consulting outstrips economy (3 Mar 2016)
Big Four consulting revenues rocket (3 Mar 2016)
Jeremy Corbyn slams Gordon Brown over NHS funding (3 Mar 2016)
Profits Before People: The Privatising Industry in Europe (3 Mar 2016)
Islamic State 'earning millions by playing the stock market' (3 Mar 2016)
US SEC to pay high-frequency trading critic whistleblower award (3 Mar 2016)
Winnetka whistleblower awarded $750000 by SEC (3 Mar 2016)
Whistleblower wins $51 million in kickback and bribery case (3 Mar 2016)
Jeremy Corbyn claims City firms treat ordinary workers like 'cash cows' (3 Mar 2016)
Ocwen Financial Discloses New SEC Investigation Weeks After Settling Accounting Charge (3 Mar 2016)
Slap in the face for FRC as EU clarifies true and fair view (2 Mar 2016)
Dash for Cash: Deloitte Digital Buys Creative Agency Heat (2 Mar 2016)
How a San Francisco ad agency will help Deloitte's federal consulting business (2 Mar 2016)
Slater & Gordon auditors EY and Pitcher Partners off the hook (2 Mar 2016)
Fuzzy-Math Accounting Chided by Buffett Gets Fresh SEC Scrutiny (2 Mar 2016)
HSBC's Catalog Of Lawsuits (2 Mar 2016)
Tax Treatment Can Be Tricky With Options and ETFs (2 Mar 2016)
Sports Direct chairman defies calls to quit ( 2 Mar 2016)
Timeline: FRC preliminary inquiries of KPMG’s audit of HBOS (1 Mar 2016)
Valeant under investigation by US regulators (1 Mar 2016)
FASB Issues Lease Rules; Will Have Big Balance Sheet Impacts (1 Mar 2016)
Moore Stephens Northern Ireland fined over Presbyterian Mutual Society audit (1 Mar 2016)
Marvell says audit committee finds no accounting fraud (1 Mar 2016)
Barclays Falls Under SEC Spotlight for Asian Hiring (1 Mar 2016)
Barclays must face electricity price-fixing lawsuit in US (1 Mar 2016)
HMRC: 'Persuasive promoters' lure taxpayers into avoidance schemes (1 Mar 2016)
HMRC Report: Understanding individuals’ decisions to enter and exit marketed tax avoidance schemes (1 Mar 2016)
Insolvency: Plastic bag maker goes bust 'due to 5p charge' (1 Mar 2016)

FEBRUARY 2016

Tax paid by FTSE 100 firms 'falls by nearly a quarter since 2010' (29 Feb 2016)
Tyrie wants auditors to look at Northern Rock mortgage sale (29 Feb 2016)
'New crisis without reform' warns ex-Bank of England boss (29 Feb 2016)
FRC Outcome of disciplinary case in connection with Presbyterian Mutual Society (29 Feb 2016)
FRC fines Moore Stephens NI firm and partner over Presbyterian Mutual Society (29 Feb 2016)
HMRC Policy paper: Country by country reporting - updated (29 Feb 2016)
Dow Will Pay $835 Million in Polyurethane Price Fixing Case (29 Feb 2016)
Santander Gets Capital Boost on Accounting Change at Brazil Unit (29 Feb 2016)
Chinese accounting is 'highly questionable': Strategist (29 Feb 2016)
Valeant CEO Returns From Leave, Company Withdraws Guidance (29 Feb 2016)
Ex-CIoT president convicted of child porn offences (29 Feb 2016)
Foxtons faces £2.2m legal case after charging £204 for light bulb change (29 Feb 2016)
Accounting Giant KPMG Axes Dozens Of Partners (26 Feb 2016)
Post-Enron Accounting Rule Requires Companies to Report Leases (26 Feb 2016)
Facebook’s workforce is overwhelmingly white and male. Of the company’s nearly 5,500 employees, only 81 are black (26 Feb 2016)
UBS investigated with tax fraud and money laundering in Belgium (26 Feb 2016)
Coutts hit with £75m tax evasion penalties (26 Feb 2016)
How Pfizer Could Get Away With Avoiding $35 Billion in Taxes (26 Feb 2016)
Pfizer Seen Avoiding $35 Billion in Tax Via Allergan Merger (26 Feb 2016)
Giving up its US citizenship could save Pfizer $35 billion in taxes (26 Feb 2016)
Accountant given maximum 15-year director ban (26 Feb 2016)
BlackLine secures ICAEW accreditation (26 Feb 2016)
Prosecutorial Bent Shows in SEC Accounting-Fraud Push (26 Feb 2016)
Corporate tax: the great incidence hoax (25 Feb 2016)
Stanley Gibbons auditors quit over high risks (25 Feb 2016)
MPs tell auditors that they must learn lessons from Kids Company (25 Feb 2016)
FASB ISSUES NEW GUIDANCE ON LEASE ACCOUNTING (25 Feb 2016)
New Rule to Shift Leases Onto Corporate Balance Sheets (25 Feb 2016)
The Washington insiders who work to get Chinese deals approved (25 Feb 2016)
For Internal Audit, it's Time to Get Uncomfortable (25 Feb 2016)
POST-IMPLEMENTATION REVIEW CONCLUDES FASB’S EARNINGS PER SHARE STANDARD ACHIEVES PURPOSE (24 Feb 2016)
Dick Smith collapse puts directors and auditor under the gun (25 Feb 2016)
US Regulators May Question Firms' Application of Revenue Recognition Rules (25 Feb 2016)
Transfer Pricing: Mispricing Argentine soybean exports (25 Feb 2016)
Fat cats: Lloyds hands chief executive £8.5m pay package (25 Feb 2016)
Lloyds profits fall on PPI claims (25 Feb 2016)
Court dismisses Barclays and KPMG swaps case (24 Feb 2016)
JP Morgan sets aside $500m for losses on energy loans (24 Feb 2016)
Noble accounting back under scrutiny (24 Feb 2016)
Noble Group accounting back under scrutiny (24 Feb 2016)
Thomas Cook hit by investor revolt over pay (24 Feb 2016)
CFOs Losing Confidence in Value of Reporting (24 Feb 2016)
Google tax deal: MPs criticise secretive settlement (24 Feb 2016)
HMRC did not fine Google over 'disproportionately small' £130million tax bill it paid 10 years late (24 Feb 2016)
Google tax deal 'seems small' say MPs (24 Feb 2016)
UK House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts Report: Corporate tax settlements (24 Feb 2016)
UK House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts Report: Oral evidence - Corporate tax settlements on Google Tax 11 Feb 2016 (24 Feb 2016)
Australia Big four accounting firms avoid scrutiny in multinational tax avoidance (24 Feb 2016)
European regulators to test banks' strength against financial shocks (24 Feb 2016)
EU banking watchdog launches stress test no bank can fail (24 Feb 2016)
Accountant appears in court accused of £100000 fraud at RAF Honington (24 Feb 2016)
Why an EU exit will harm SMEs and accountants (24 Feb 2016)
HSBC 'taking too long to tackle financial crime' (23 Feb 2016)
HSBC hit by US "princelings" probe and below-forecast profit (23 Feb 2016)
Valeant Says It Will Restate Earnings After Board Review (23 Feb 2016)
Fat cats: HSBC paid 453 staff at least €1m in 2015 (23 Feb 2016)
Gender pay gap reporting: the draft legislation examined (23 Feb 2016)
Stanley Gibbons auditors quit over high risks (23 Feb 2016)
Whitehall value for money incentives are weak, says NAO (23 Feb 2016)
Accountability to Parliament for UK taxpayers' money (23 Feb 2016)
Wealth management firm WH Ireland fined £1.2m by FCA (23 Feb 2016)
NHS paid lawyers (Pinsent Masons) £435,000 to get 'incorrect' advice over botched IT project (23 Feb 2016)
Rangers fraud case: Prosecutors drop charges against oldco administrators - but say new charges are being prepared (23 Feb 2016)
Corporate Governance In Australia: A Snapshot (23 Feb 2016)
KPMG partners arrested in tax probe 'retire from firm' (22 Feb 2016)
KPMG overhauls Belfast office amid tax probe (22 Feb 2016)
All's true and fair in accounting standards battle (22 Feb 2016)
Sweett Group to pay £2.25m over Middle East bribery (22 Feb 2016)
Google Lowered Taxes by $2.4 Billion Using European Subsidiaries (22 Feb 2016)
Barclays made £346m 'sham payments to investors to secure their support for future emergencies' (22 Feb 2016)
UK bank pay and bonuses in the spotlight as results season starts (22 Feb 2016)
Plumbing firm to the rich and famous avoided paying tax and used case of Stringfellow's lapdancer in its defence at employment tribunal (22 Feb 2016)
Tory donor's plumbing firm's National Insurance row over dodge on staff contributions (22 Feb 2016)
Why tackling corruption in corporate governance is not impossible (22 Feb 2016)
Biggest Banks' Commodity Revenue Slid to Lowest in Over a Decade (22 Feb 2016)
HSBC predicts bumpy road ahead on slowing China growth (22 Feb 2016)
Belfast KPMG partners quit months after arrests (19 Feb 2016)
Google accounts show 11 billion euros moved via low tax 'Dutch sandwich' in 2014 (19 Feb 2016)
New lease commitments could leave CFOs with that sinking feeling (19 Feb 2016)
Does Iceland have a better legal code to deal with dodgy banking? (19 Feb 2016)
Sepp blatter: i'm innocent and this issue is an accounting case (19 Feb 2016)
Corporate Welfare: Cut taxes and ease burden on oil producers to support industry in the North Sea, says Centrica after British Gas makes record profits (19 Feb 2016)
Almost half of auditor warnings about potential failure are on IPOs (19 Feb 2016)
Supreme court ruling puts accountants on the spot: spouses challenging whether their ex-partners were disguising their assets in settlements. If proven, accountants could be liable for assisting in the deceit (19 Feb 2016)
VimpelCom to Pay $795 Million in Global Settlement for FCPA Violations (19 Feb 2016)
VimpelCom Limited and Unitel LLC Enter into Global Foreign Bribery Resolution of More Than $795 Million; United States Seeks $850 Million Forfeiture in Corrupt Proceeds of Bribery Scheme (19 Feb 2016)
Insolvency: Powa Technologies, once a darling of the UK tech scene, collapses into administration (19 Feb 2016)
Insolvency: PwC leads Brantano administration sale (19 Feb 2016)
Light touch regulation back in full swing, austerity in store: UK shadow chancellor (18 Feb 2016)
SEC Charges Biopesticide Company Marrone Bio Innovations and Former Executive With Accounting Fraud (18 Feb 2016)
Revealed: how Project Goldcrest helped Amazon avoid huge sums in tax (18 Feb 2016)
IKEA - FLAT PACK TAX AVOIDANCE (18 Feb 2016)
FASB sets release date for lease standard for US GAAP (18 Feb 2016)
Corruption: Deutsche Bank Analyst Issued Stock Rating Inconsistent With Personal View (18 Feb 2016)
ICAEW issues 800th insolvency practitioner license (18 Feb 2016)
HMRC redundancies may spark strike action, PCS threatens (18 Feb 2016)
ICAEW revives campaign on legal professional privilege (18 Feb 2016)
Boeing Chief Defends Accounting (17 Feb 2016)
Penn West to pay out C$53 million in accounting scandal (17 Feb 2016)
Revolving Doors: Former KPMG chairman to head up ICC board (17 Feb 2016)
US Fed member says banks are still too big to fail (17 Feb 2016)
ICAEW issues 800th insolvency practitioner license (17 Feb 2016)
Fed's Kashkari Floats Breaking Up Big Banks to Avert Meltdown (17 Feb 2016)
Tech company PTC to pay $28 million to resolve US bribery probes (17 Feb 2016)
Despite a parliamentary hearing Google's tax deal remains opaque (16 Feb 2016)
Why on earth would HSBC leave a country that gives banks an easy ride? (16 Feb 2016)
Share Buybacks: Apple to sell up to $12bn in bonds (16 Feb 2016)
Investors should be angry at the cost of share buybacks (16 Feb 2016)
BIS consultation on the UK implementation of the EU Directive on disclosure of non-financial and diversity information (16 Feb 2016)
Think corporate tax avoidance is bad for Britain? With TTIP it could be about to get even worse (16 Feb 2016)
India sends renewed £1.4bn tax notice to Vodafone (16 Feb 2016)
Boeing uses an accounting method that others have left behind (15 Feb 2016)
Turf Wars: Accountants' body applies to regulate all reserved legal activities (15 Feb 2016)
Tax avoidance: How Ikea avoided paying one billion euros in taxes via Luxembourg (15 Feb 2016)
Ikea's taxes scrutinised after €1bn underpayment claim (15 Feb 2016)
Google's UK tax settlement resolved transfer pricing disputes, no diverted profits tax paid (15 Feb 2016)
DSG Retail Ltd & Ors v Revenue & Customs (Rev 3) [2009] UKFTT 31 (TC) (31 March 2009) - Is the UK's only transfer pricing dispute to reach a tax tribunal? (15 Feb 2016)
Local councils, public bodies and even some university student unions are to be banned by law from boycotting “unethical” companies (15 Feb 2016)
Blue chip firms ditch dividends in profits plunge as turbulent markets roll on (15 Feb 2016)
Vickers warns over weaker bank safety buffers (15 Feb 2016)
PwC to triple number of data scientists (15 Feb 2016)
Institutional investors turn to Dutch courts to recoup VW losses (15 Feb 2016)
Struggling Matalan wins reprieve on its debts (15 Feb 2016)
Accounting student 'paid 47 cents per hour at a 7-Eleven in Sydney' (15 Feb 2016)
Difference Between Cash Flow and Accounting Income (15 Feb 2016)
Fat cats: Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group and RBS to award staff nearly £5BN in bonuses (15 Feb 2016)
The Financial Reporting Council has failed and needs to be replaced (12 Feb 2016)
Boeing's long history of whistleblowers and accounting investigations (12 Feb 2016)
Carlyle Sued by Ex-Hedge Fund Employee in Vermillion Demise (12 Feb 2016)
Gender pay gap reporting for big firms to start in 2018 (12 Feb 2016)
CMA fines pharma companies £45 million (12 Feb 2016)
Morgan Stanley to pay $3.2bn over mortgage-backed securities (12 Feb 2016)
Turf Wars: Accountants' body ICAEW applies to regulate all reserved legal (12 Feb 2016)
Turf Wars: ICAEW consults on reserved legal services for tax practitioners (12 Feb 2016)
Rio Tinto, World's Second Biggest Mining Company, Warns Of Big Dividend Cut After Profit Fall (12 Feb 2016)
Uber to pay $28m to settle lawsuit over passenger safety measures (12 Feb 2016)
How Paying CEOs in Stock Options Leads to Unsafe Products (12 Feb 2016)
Throwing caution to the wind: CEO stock option pay may increase product safety problems (12 Feb 2016)
Swinging for the Fences: Executive Reactions to Quasi-Random Option Grants (12 Feb 2016)
PwC: using ‘competitiveness’ as crowbar to lobby for mining companies (11 Feb 2016)
Boeing to Face SEC Probe of Dreamliner and 747 Accounting (11 Feb 2016)
$8bn wiped off Boeing's value by 'accounting investigation' (11 Feb 2016)
Valeant (audited by PwC) uses rare accounting maneuver for acquisitions that cushions income (11 Feb 2016)
Executive pay is broken: How to reform the system to reward success and restore public trust (11 Feb 2016)
More clarity needed to calm public fears over executive pay (11 Feb 2016)
Morgan Stanley Agrees to Pay $2.6 Billion Penalty in Connection with Its Sale of Residential Mortgage Backed Securities (11 Feb 2016)
Google tax avoidance: European president tells MPs he doesn't know how much he's paid (11 Feb 2016)
Google defends UK tax arrangements (11 Feb 2016)
FRC to avoid further changes to codes and standards (11 Feb 2016)
FCA chair John Griffith-Jones set to rack up record expenses bill (11 Feb 2016)
Deloitte seeks tax sops for telcos for participating in Digitial India, cut in applicable MAT rates in Budget 2016 (11 Feb 2016)
Italy opens tax probe on Google managers - sources (11 Feb 2016)
KPMG: Professional Chameleons Or Independent Public Auditors And Regulators? (10 Feb 2016)
Deutsche Bank's CoCo Payments Hinge on Obscure Accounting Metric (10 Feb 2016)
Coco bonds: what are they and why have they hit bank shares? (10 Feb 2016)
Impression Management: New taskforce launched to combat fraud across UK (10 Feb 2016)
Revolving Doors: Big Four accounting firms among most frequent providers of hospitality to senior civil servants (10 Feb 2016)
PwC and Deloitte prominent among companies offering hospitality to central government (10 Feb 2016)
CompaniesPoland's retail tax may 'wipe out' Tesco's Polish earnings (10 Feb 2016)
Priest arrested over alleged €30m fraud (10 Feb 2016)
An SEC settlement with a twist: This time Monsanto's executives pony up too (10 Feb 2016)
At any given time HMRC has about two-thirds of the UK’s 800 largest businesses under investigation (10 Feb 2016)
MPs rebuke auditors over Kids Company payments (10 Feb 2016)
Murder victims' families sue HSBC over drug gang money laundering (10 Feb 2016)
Court upholds tax evasion convictions of Atkins diet doctor (10 Feb 2016)
KPMG's new auditors don't have accounting degrees (10 Feb 2016)
Brixmor's top executives exit after accounting review, shares plunge (9 Feb 2016)
Brixmor axes CEO and CFO over accounting allegations (9 Feb 2016)
Google boss becomes highest-paid in US (9 Feb 2016)
Monsanto Paying $80 Million Penalty for Accounting Violations (9 Feb 2016)
FRC highlights flaws in audit engagement review processes (9 Feb 2016)
FRC highlights role of Engagement Quality Control Reviewer in overall audit quality (9 Feb 2016)
Grant Thornton chief warns FTSE 100 audits are still not "attractive" for firms outside Big Four (9 Feb 2016)
Rules preventing tax-avoiding companies from securing NHS contracts have been scrapped (9 Feb 2016)
KPMG brought in as struggling BHS looks to cut costs (9 Feb 2016)
Country by Country Reporting: EU proposals will force multinationals to disclose tax arrangements (8 Feb 2016)
MP Andrew Tyrie is the one politician that won't let HBOS off the hook (8 Feb 2016)
US Justice Department Reaches $470 Million Joint State-Federal Settlement with HSBC to Address Mortgage Loan Origination, Servicing and Foreclosure Abuses (8 Feb 2016) (8 Feb 2016)
Osborne Urged to Ensure U.K. Bank Fines Aren't Tax Deductible (8 Feb 2016)
Impact of Globalization on Accounting Education (8 Feb 2016)
British American Tobacco faces call for bribery allegations inquiry (8 Feb 2016)
FRC comments on new IFRS requirement on debt disclosure (8 Feb 2016)
George Osborne wants to cut £34bn cost of pensions tax relief in Budget 2016 (8 Feb 2016)
Google Ireland staff paid much less than London colleagues (8 Feb 2016)
Internal Auditors Straying into Risky New Areas (8 Feb 2016)
Charities barred from using government grants to lobby ministers (8 Feb 2016)
50 Grant Thornton professionals move to rival BDO (8 Feb 2016)
Criminal Charges Filed Against Bank Julius Baer of Switzerland with Deferred Prosecution Agreement Requiring Payment of $547 Million, as Well as Guilty Pleas of Two Julius Baer Bankers (5 Feb 2016)
Julius Baer to Pay $547 Million for Helping U.S. Tax Cheats (5 Feb 2016)
Google tax deal under fire as it emerges figure included share options scheme (5 Feb 2016)
Tata Steel reports £68m quarterly loss in face of cheap Chinese imports (5 Feb 2016)
PwC replaces Deloitte as world's largest firm (5 Feb 2016)
Accountant jailed for tax fraud (5 Feb 2016)
Rip-off: Top City law firms accused of restricting access to justice by charging up to £1100 an hour (5 Feb 2016)
US watchdog finds CFTC violated accounting law (5 Feb 2016)
Revolving Doors: Baroness Sarah Hogg, former FRC Chair, is chair of the audit committee at the John Lewis Partnership and the lead independent director of HM Treasury (5 Feb 2016)
ArcelorMittal slumps to $8bn loss as Chinese supply throttles steel prices (5 Feb 2016)
Judge raps Sport Direct over 'ridiculous' Rangers action (5 Feb 2016)
Accountancy students push for online-only training (5 Feb 2016)
HSBC told to reveal dossier of secrets: US judge rules in favour of angry customer who demanded to see bank's money laundering report (5 Feb 2016)
'Shocking delay' into HBOS probe needs thorough response, MPs warn (4 Feb 2016)
FRC's Stephen Haddrill might regret facing off with the Novak Djokovic of oversight (4 Feb 2016)
Read Google UK Limited opaque 2015 financial statements - menaingless numbers for porifts and taxes (4 Feb 2016)
Senator presses U.S. derivatives regulator over accounting error (4 Feb 2016)
Secret Video Claims Planned Parenthood Used 'Accounting Gimmicks' to Hide Illegal Profits (4 Feb 2016)
Africa: Accounting Tricks With Coca-Cola (4 Feb 2016)
US Congress pokes fresh holes in accounting proposal to transform community bank accounting standards (4 Feb 2016)
Toshiba sees bigger loss as restructuring costs mount (4 Feb 2016)
Wells Fargo to pay $1.2bn over mortgage insurance scam (4 Feb 2016)
Deutsche Bank must face U.S. lawsuit over $3.1 billion mortgage loss (4 Feb 2016)
Ex-drug executive Shkreli has $40 million trading loss: US (4 Feb 2016)
Amazon boss takes top Whitehall mandarin role despite row about online giant's tax affairs (4 Feb 2016)
Han Young hit for audit violations (4 Feb 2016)
Korean Regulator to set up task force on accounting fraud (4 Feb 2016)
A solution to corporate tax dodging? (3 Feb 2016)
Treasury committee chairman steps up pressure over KPMG audit of HBOS (3 Feb 2016)
'Shocking delay' into HBOS probe needs thorough response, MPs warn (3 Feb 2016)
Small businessman confronts George Osborne face-to-face over Google tax deal (3 Feb 2016)
SEC Charges Lending Company and Brokerage Firm American Growth Funding II LLC With Fraud (3 Feb 2016)
Tesco must pay £1m costs for watchdog investigation (3 Feb 2016)
Revolving Doors: DWP post for Amazon boss is 'disgusting', says Margaret Hodge (3 Feb 2016)
UK House of Common Debate: Financial Conduct Authority in its current form is not fit for purpose (3 Feb 2016)
Q: What did universities learn from the financial crash? A: Nothing (2 Feb 2016)
$16bn-a-year in Google postbox: Inside giant's secret Bermuda haven (2 Feb 2016)
HSBC loses appeal in French tax fraud investigation (2 Feb 2016)
Google expected to reveal global revenues grew by 11% to $72bn (2 Feb 2016)
UK financial watchdog FCA criticised by lawmakers, but avoids 'no confidence' censure (2 Feb 2016)
MPs' report into Kids Company collapse blames trustees, regulators, government and auditors (2 Feb 2016)
Facebook sets aside $2bn to settle tax disputes worldwide but won't give the UK a penny (2 Feb 2016)
Report: Facebook paid just $6000 in UK taxes in 2014 (2 Feb 2016)
10 Companies Most Impacted by New Leases Standard (2 Feb 2016)
Dash for Cash: Deloitte launches regulatory support service for asset managers (2 Feb 2016)
Barclays, Credit Suisse Charged With Dark Pool Violations: Firms Collectively Paying More Than $150 Million to Settle Cases (2 Feb 2016)
FASB Proposes Changes for Statement of Cash Flows (2 Feb 2016)
Liar, Liar, KPMG Capital's Investment Into Norse Corp. On Fire (2 Feb 2016)
Almost one million investors lose £5.3bn in massive China Ponzi scam (2 Feb 2016)
Founder of Liberty Reserve Pleads Guilty to Laundering More Than $250 Million through His Digital Currency Business (2 Feb 2016)
David Walker: sack CEOs after six years (2 Feb 2016)
Bank of England to force bigger UK lenders to hold more capital as 'risk buffer' (1 Feb 2016)
Google row: Tax UK sales not profit, says Lord Lawson (1 Feb 2016)
Barclays and Credit Suisse in $155m 'dark pools' settlement with US regulators (1 Feb 2016)
Country-by-Country-Reporting - Google tax: Osborne pushes for multinational tax transparency (1 Feb 2016)
Zero tax bill for UK big six: AT LEAST six of Britain’s 10 biggest multinationals — including Shell, British American Tobacco (BAT), AstraZeneca, BP, SABMiller and Lloyds Banking Group — paid no UK corporation tax in 2014 despite combined global profits of more than £30bn (1 Feb 2016)
Six British multinationals 'did not pay any UK corporation tax in 2014' (1 Feb 2016)
Judge Lets Sun Shine on Secret HSBC Money Laundering Report (1 Feb 2016)
MPs to vote on future of FCA (1 Feb 2016)
India, US clear 100 transfer pricing cases (1 Feb 2016)
Liar, Liar, KPMG Capital's Investment Into Norse Corp. On Fire (1 Feb 2016)
India resolves over 100 transfer pricing disputes with US (1 Feb 2016)
Dash for Cash: PwC becomes first 'Big Four' accounting firm to publicly partner with blockchain startups (1 Feb 2016)
Swiss seek Malaysian help probing $4 billion financial scandal at 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) (audited by Deloitte) (1 Feb 2016)
The Companies Switzerland Says Are Linked to Malaysia's 1MDB Scandal (1 Feb 2016)
How Europe is fighting to change tech companies' 'wrecking ball' ethics (1 Feb 2016)
Google deal prompts call for corporate sales tax in UK (1 Feb 2016)
Lord Lawson: Google tax row shows that corporation tax has 'had its day' (1 Feb 2016)
Corporate Welfare: Slash taxes by half, say North Sea companies (1 Feb 2016)
Revolving Doors: Google spreads tentacles inside political class (1 Feb 2016)
It's time to replace the SFO with a new body (1 Feb 2016)
Jailed: Polish businessman who threatened accountant over VAT scheme (1 Feb 2016)

JANUARY 2016

Italian tax police believe Google evaded 227 million euros in taxes: sources (29 Jan 2016)
Google tax: the 6-year audit that ended in a political storm (29 Jan 2016)
A high-powered network: how Google became embedded in British politics (29 Jan 2016)
Country-by-Country Reporting: Juncker backs forcing multinational companies to publish their tax bills (29 Jan 2016)
US Hedge Fund Manager Agrees to Reimburse Investor Losses (29 Jan 2016)
2nd Circuit rejects fraud claims against Ernst & Young's China arm (29 Jan 2016)
Cayman court orders discharge of KPMG execs as China Fishery liquidators (29 Jan 2016)
Malaysia 1MDB scandal: Investigators say about $4bn may be missing from fund (29 Jan 2016)
Google still owes the UK nearly £700m in unpaid taxes (29 Jan 2016)
A reminder by the courts that 'there is no general fiduciary duty to minimize taxes' on company directors (29 Jan 2016)
FRC: Extended auditor reporting welcomed by investors (29 Jan 2016)
Dash for Cash: PwC partners with blockchain technology company (29 Jan 2015)
Revolving Doors: Former Scottish Secretary Michael Moore joins PwC in 'devolution advisor' role (29 Jan 2016)
Revolving Doors: PwC appoints Issy Corbett as healthcare M&A partner (29 Jan 2016)
Apple made enough to pay its £11.8m tax bill in just two hours (28 Jan 2016)
EU ready to scrutinise UK Google tax deal in avoidance crackdown (28 Jan 2016)
Google tax: European Commission to consider tax complaint (28 Jan 2016)
Google agrees to face grilling from MPs on 'sweetheart' tax deal (28 Jan 2016)
Regulators to investigate HBOS managers (28 Jan 2016)
US, EU Tax Conflict Looming Over Loopholes For Google, Starbucks, Apple (28 Jan 2016)
Trying to create a level playing field on tax is just wishful thinking (28 Jan 2016)
Turf Wars: Big Four accountancy giants are expanding their legal services (28 Jan 2016)
Barclays faces £1bn legal action (28 Jan 2016)
UK Government raises audit threshold to maximum (28 Jan 2016)
Accountancy among sectors with highest risk of automation (28 Jan 2016)
Ernst & Young: Accountancy giant advises Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon on tax affairs (27 Jan 2016)
Murdoch lambasts Downing Street over 'easy' Google tax deal (27 Jan 2016)
Apple reports a quarterly profit of $18.4 billion, the largest in history (27 Jan 2016)
Apple's clever accounting could conjure up a zero tax bill in 2016 (27 Jan 2016)
Bean counters who got dragged through the mud: KPMG checks the books of Britain's biggest firms (27 Jan 2016)
RBS takes £2.5bn hit to profits as chief executive announces bank 'clean-up' (27 Jan 2016)
Santander sets aside another £450m as PPI still haunts UK banks (27 Jan 2016)
US top court declines to review PricewaterhouseCoopers case (27 Jan 2016)
Facebook more than doubles fourth quarter profits (27 Jan 2016)
Irish banking inquiry: Directors and senior executives 'responsible for failure' during crisis (27 Jan 2016)
Tesco to be censured by supermarket watchdog over conduct with suppliers (27 Jan 2016)
Tesco could be fined £500m over accounting scandal, say analysts (27 Jan 2016)
Tesco shareholders could sue for 'millions lost' after it overstated profits (27 an 2016)
Accounting experts seek independent probe into KPMG's audit of HBOS (27 Jan 2016)
Tesco faces £100m damages claim over accounting black hole (27 Jan 2016)
Top Tories met Google chiefs 25 times in run-up to 'sweetheart' tax deal (27 Jan 2016)
Google not paying an 'awful lot of money' under tax deal, business minister admits (27 Jan 2016)
Google whistleblower Barney Jones slams firm's £130m tax bill (27 Jan 2016)
Google expected to reveal growth of offshore cash funds to $43bn (27 Jan 2016)
Toshiba picks PwC as auditor after accounting scandal (27 Jan 2016)
Why Google's tax deal is unacceptable (25 Jan 2016)
AT&T to Book $2.2 Billion Gain From Revised Pension Accounting (25 Jan 2016)
How Intellectuals Create a Public (25 Jan 2016)
Tesco planning £1.4bn debt repayment after sales turnaround (25 Jan 2016)
Profit warnings reach highest level since recession (25 Jan 2016)
'Cheap' Google deal sets bad precedent, says tax expert (25 Jan 2016)
Google £130m UK back-tax deal lambasted as 'derisory' by expert (25 Jan 2016)
PwC buys Edinburgh cyber-security firm Praxism (24 Jan 2016)
MPs attack deal to let Google to pay 'relatively trivial' £130m back taxes (25 Jan 2016)
Isle of Man resists offshore company ownership register (25 Jan 2016)
Yes, Google’s UK back-tax payment is derisory. Here are the numbers that show it (25 Jan 2016)
Some Questions about Google’s UK Tax Settlement of £130 million (22 Jan 2016)
Surely if the FRC had exercised the right amount of willpower it could have tackled KPMG and HBOS earlier (22 Jan 2016)
UK Audit watchdog has woken up over HBOS. But will it go back to bed? (22 Jan 2016)
HBOS auditor back in spotlight as watchdog does U-turn on inquiry (22 Jan 2016)
Almost half of auditor warnings about potential failure are on IPOs (22 Jan 2016)
Cayman Islands has more companies registered there than inhabitants (22 Jan 2016)
KPMG and PwC dominate listed audit market (22 Jan 2016)
Fat Cats: Despite scandals and fines JPMorgan CEO gets 35% pay raise to $27M amid cutbacks (22 Jan 2016)
Insolvency: Shoe retailer Brantano calls in administrators (PwC) (22 Jan 2016)
Court orders AHTC to appoint 'Big 4' accounting firm (22 Jan 2016)
FRC gets ready for another whitewash with a preliminary enquiry: KPMG Audit plc’s audit of HBOS plc (21 Jan 2016)
Accounting watchdog weighs up inquiry into KPMG's audit of HBOS (21 Jan 2016)
KPMG to face preliminary enquiries into HBOS audit (21 Jan 2016)
Accounting watchdog may launch inquiry into kpmg audits HBOS (21 Jan 2016)
Ocwen Paying Penalty for Misstated Financial Results (21 Jan 2016)
Ocwen to pay US SEC $2 million for misstating financial results (21 Jan 2016)
FRC comments on new international standard on lease accounting (21 Jan 2016)
Dash for Consultancy: PwC to buy Polish cloud company (21 Jan 2016)
IFRS 16 Leases: risk replaced by control model (21 Jan 2016)
Law grad vacancies down 16% since 2005 while accountancy places soar by 68% (21 Jan 2016)
How can we help the wealthy part with their wealth? . (20 Jan 2016)
How can we end the UK's fat cat culture? (20 Jan 2016)
Top KPMG partner charged with tax evasion offences (20 Jan 2016)
KPMG's head of investment advisory quits over tax charges (20 Jan 2016)
Legal settlements hit Goldman Sachs profits (20 Jan 2016)
Nestlé loses high court battle to trademark shape of KitKat (20 Jan 2016)
IASB tweaks income taxes standard (20 Jan 2016)
KPMG withdraws audit opinions on CFTC over accounting error (20 Jan 2016)
HMRC wins 'goodwill payments' tax battle against Smith & Williamson (20 Jan 2016)
Shell attacked for its part in 'extraordinary' £2.3bn Nigerian tax break (20 Jan 2016)
Unilever boss warns world's middle classes being squeezed and company is under pressure to compete (20 Jan 2016)
Former KPMG partner among 10 charged with UK tax cheating offences (19 Jan 2016)
Accounting Body To Decide On HBOS Inquiry (19 Jan 2016)
Next calls shareholder meeting (audited by Ernst & Young) over dividend glitch (19 Jan 2016)
Retailer Next says 'procedural oversight' led to law breach (19 Jan 2016)
UK Banking Standards Boards yet to outline any banking standards (19 Jan 2016)
Rome court acquits ex-Vatican accountant of corruption (19 Jan 2016)
Marketing and PR Tactics for Accounting Firms (19 Jan 2016)
Delay in Country-by-Country Reporting Rules Incites Backlash (19 Jan 2016)
Rome court acquits ex-Vatican accountant of corruption (19 Jan 2016)
Major ACCA online training package launched (19 Jan 2016)
'Big Four' audit firms never examined over illegal tax plans (18 Jan 2016)
Pattern of poor performance at some auditors (18 Jan 2016)
Deloitte chief's new year memo a clichéd disheartening classic (18 Jan 2016)
China's High Stock Valuations Worry Investors (18 Jan 2016)
Dash for Consultancy: Accountancy giant KPMG links up with online lending exchange (18 Jan 2016)
BDO to begin Rangers 'Big Tax Case' Supreme Court appeal (18 Jan 2016)
Sturgeon to legislate for closure of gender pay gap (18 Jan 2016)
Audit merry-go-round increases competition but limits choice (18 Jan 2016)
BT-EE Deal Clears Way For Creative Orange Accounting (18 Jan 2016)
Osiris: Aggressive Channel Stuffing, Accounting Irregularities (18 Jan 2016)
Merck Pays $830 M to Settle Class-Action Case Over Vioxx (18 Jan 2016)
New petition: public country by country reporting now (15 Jan 2016)
Hong Kong Firm Barred From Auditing U.S.-Traded Companies (15 Jan 2016)
IFRS 16 threat to equipment and auto leasing providers (16 Jan 2016)
Dash for cash: Accountancy giant KPMG links up with online lending exchange aimed at small firms (16 Jan 2016)
Ex-CFO, Others Charged in Superior Bank Fraud (15 Jan 2016)
BHP Billiton writes down $7.2bn of shale assets (15 Jan 2016)
Turf Wars: Are accountants disrupting the legal services market (15 Jan 2016)
Goldman Sachs in $5.1bn deal over bond mis-selling (15 Jan 2016)
Leasing: On balance, companies would rather not show debt (14 Jan 2016)
SEC Charges 11 Bank Officers and Directors With Fraud (14 Jan 2016)
HSBC fights to stop money-laundering report going public (14 Jan 2016)
Spike in UK companies suffering 'significant ' financial distress (14 Jan 2016)
HMRC Dame Lin Homer admits UK tax dodgers have avoided prosecution in exchanges with MPs (14 Jan 2016)
Turf Wars: Are accountants disrupting the legal services market? (14 Jan 2016)
SEC Charges Goldman Sachs With Improper Securities Lending Practices (14 Jan 2016)
£7.4m insider dealing ring used burner phones and code names, court hears (14 Jan 2016)
SEC Announces Fraud Charges Against Superior Bank Executives (14 Jan 2016)
Accountant Ruth Parks demoted then made redundant after maternity leave settles case for £50k (14 Jan 2016)
EC tax ruling: Belgian opportunity, big 4 accounting firms (KPMG, PwC, Deloitte, Ernst & Young) at risk? (13 Jan 2016)
Balance Sheets to Swell $2.8 Trillion as Leasing Rules Tighten (13 Jan 2016)
IASB shines light on leases by bringing them onto the balance sheet (13 Jan 2016)
IFRS 16 Leases: Summary (13 Jan 2016)
IFRS16 Leases : Effect Analysis (13 Jan 2016)
New lease accounting rule brings $3trn onto company balance sheets (13 Jan 2016)
Whitehall spending on consultants nearly doubles to £1.3billion in three years (13 Jan 2016)
Charity Commission opens inquiries into two charities suspected of fraudulent benefit claims (13 Jan 2016)
Tax adviser to the stars jailed for five years for tax evasion (12 Jan 2016)
Sweden to open fraud probe into Volkswagen emissions scandal (12 Jan 2016)
Heathrow is under fire for paying just £24 million in tax while paying its owners £2 billion (12 Jan 2016)
Heathrow UK corporation tax bill compared to dividends (12 Jan 2016)
Turf Wars: Limited licensing for accountants is 'dangerous': consultant (12 Jan 2016)
House of Commons Library Briefing: Pre-pack administrations and insolvency (12 Jan 2016)
Cheating accountant gets five years jail for tax fraud (12 Jan 2016)
Cadbury's loses £6m after changing Creme Egg recipe (12 Jan 2016)
Belgium's tax breaks for multinationals ruled illegal state aid (12 Jan 2016)
Canada Court upholds $118-million award against Livent auditor Deloitte (11 Jan 2016)
Ex-Performance Sports chairman sues accounting firm Grant Thornton in Canada (11 Jan 2016)
Bank Lenders Dodge Losses Suggesting Loopholes in New Regulation (11 Jan 2016)
Chipotle faces class action lawsuit from investors (11 Jan 2016)
Why Ford's Profits Will Exceed $10 Billion After Accounting Change (11 Jan 2016)
Playing games with the taxman (11 Jan 2016)
State aid: Commission concludes Belgian "Excess Profit" tax scheme illegal; around €700 million to be recovered from 35 multinational companies (11 Jan 2016)
Belgium ordered to reverse tax breaks (11 Jan 2016)
Belgium's $763 Million Tax Loophole Shut in EU Payback Order (11 Jan 2016)
Dash for consultancy: Deloitte and AT&T Form Alliance to Build Smart Cities (11 Jan 2016)
Chipotle faces uphill battle to win back reputation after E coli outbreak (11 Jan 2016)
Accountant jailed over £15000 charity con (11 Jan 2016)
PwC gears up to replace chairman (11 Jan 2016)
PwC in $55 million settlement with Madoff feeder fund investors (8 Jan 2016)
Court upholds ruling on Deloitte's negligence over Livent (8 Jan 2016)
Ford Boosts Profit Forecast on Change in Pension Accounting (8 Jan 2016)
Former Rangers adviser charged over film scheme tax fraud (8 Jan 2016)
Firms' audit quality monitoring systems flawed (8 Jan 2016)
Woolf: deficiencies in audit quality (8 Jan 2016)
Four former bankers plead not guilty to Anglo fraud charge (8 Jan 2016)
Insolvency: Hundreds of jobs at risk as fashion firm lines up administrators for subsidiary (8 Jan 2016)
BRIEF-Vedanta proposes to appoint Ernst & Young LLP as auditor (8 Jan 2016)
Company distributions: taking capital out of your business (8 Jan 2016)
Lies, damned lies, national statistics: Bean accounts for the counters (8 Jan 2016)
PwC gears up to replace chairman (8 Jan 2016)
EY extracts Vedanta Resource audit as Deloitte tenure ends (8 Jan 2016)
Banks cheer demise of US accounting 'abomination' ahead of results (7 Jan 2016)
Deloitte faces South African lawsuit (7 Jan 2016)
20 Years of Litigation Reform for Accounting Firms (7 Jan 2016)
Local college allowed to sue KPMG over student-loan hijinks (7 Jan 2016)
Local councils should vet suppliers for tax avoidance, charity says (7 Jan 2016)
J.P. Morgan Misled Customers on Broker Compensation - agreed to pay $4 million to settle charges (7 Jan 2016)
MPs to grill FCA bosses over dropped bank culture review (7 Jan 2016)
FCA rule changes remove need for firms/banks to report breaches (7 Jan 2016)
Accounting For Legitimacy (7 Jan 2016)
US DoJ investigates traders over debt-market rigging (7 Jan 2016)
Insolvency: Cash Genie goes into liquidation and urges customers to claim compensation (7 Jan 2016)
Lloyds under investigation by FCA over possible market rigging (7 Jan 2016)
FASB ISSUES NEW GUIDANCE ON THE RECOGNITION AND MEASUREMENT OF FINANCIAL INSTRUMENT (6 Jan 2016)
Banks Get Relief on Accounting Headache (6 Jan 2016)
FASB issues new financial instruments recognition and measurement standard (6 Jan 2015)
IFRS 16 leases standard will be a challenge (6 Jan 2016)
FRC: Firms must be more rigorous in audit quality control (6 Jan 2016)
Dick Smith collapse: How it happened (6 Jan 2016)
Britain's regulator secretly stopped looking into HSBC's tax scandal and this could be a terrible sign for things to come (6 Jan 2016)
Accountants voice concern over EU guidelines for bank auditors (6 Jan 2016)
UK implementing regulations and rules for reports on payments to governments (EU Accounting and Transparency Directives) (6 Jan 2016)
HBOS report to be hauled into Lloyds lawsuit (6 Jan 2016)
US files civil lawsuit against Volkswagen for violating clean air laws (5 Jan 2015)
HSBC escapes action by City regulator following Swiss tax scandal (5 Jan 2015)
HSBC share price: German tax probe launched into bank's Swiss unit (5 Jan 2016)
Rolls-Royce faces new questions in Brazil corruption investigation (5 Jan 2016)
Fat Cat Tuesday 2016: Top bosses will already have made more money by the first Tuesday of 2016 than the typical UK worker will earn all year (5 Jan 2016)
Deloitte 'in firing line' after Dick Smith failure (5 Jan 2016)
Tinie Tempah: why I wanted to be an accountant, not a rapper (5 Jan 2016)
More Fiction from FRC: Review of audit firms’ quality monitoring to boost confidence in audit (5 Jan 2016)
Auditor: Statements may not reflect true picture of Nakamichi's finances (5 Jan 2016)
Metrolink settles lawsuit with former chief auditor for small sum (5 Jan 2016)
When will banks learn that dodgy tax practices actually cost the dear (4 Jan 2016)
We need you, Andrew Tyrie. Without you, the bankers will get away with it (4 Jan 2016)
Why have ACCA fees gone up so much? | AccountingWEB (4 Jan 2016)
Making sure accountancy reforms add up (4 Jan 2016)
Credit Suisse and Citigroup are getting away with paying NO corporation tax in UK (4 Jan 2016)
Rip-off: Scandal-hit welfare-to-work agency A4E sees its profits quadruple (4 Jan 2016)
Lehman Sues Japanese Investment Bank Over Derivatives (4 Jan 2015)
Another Lehman collapse is the biggest threat we face (4 Jan 2016)
Libor fraudster Tom Hayes describes prison life in series of letters (4 Jan 2016)
Post-Grad Accounting Degrees on the Rise: The Big Number (4 Jan 2016)
US Gulf oil spill nearly ruined BP, says chief Bob Dudley (4 Jan 2016)
Michael G. Oxley, Co-Author of Anti-Fraud Legislation, Dies at 71 (4 Jan 2016)
SEC Examining Sharp Price Swings in Exchange-Traded Products, Stocks on Aug. 24 (4 Jan 2016)
Axing the fat cat bank probe is a slap in the face for UK taxpayers (2 Jan 2016)
George Osborne slammed for 'bowing to pressure' from the banks (2 Jan 2016)
Premier Motor Auctions Ltd, Re [2015] EWHC 3568 (Ch) (11 December 2015) (2 Jan 2016)
Corporate Social Responsibility: Social saints, fiscal fiends: Opinions vary on whether firms can be “socially responsible” while avoiding taxes (2 Jan 2016)
Hundreds of businesses want a judicial review into the FCA's decision to scrap its report into banking culture (2 Jan 2015)
Fighting Trade-Based Money Laundering (2 Jan 2016)
Swiss bank Lombard Odier to pay $100 million to resolve US tax probe (2 Jan 2016)
Fat cats: Almost 900 UK bankers paid €1m plus by US banks in 2014 (2 Jan 2016)