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December 2018

Hertz Global to pay $16 million fine to settle accounting case (31 Dec 2018)
Changes Coming to US Audit Firm Inspections (31 Dec 2018)
Two reviews have not solved Britain's audit problem (31 Dec 2018)
KPMG confirms appointment of administrators to HMV (31 Dec 2018)
Britain's worst tax Scrooges revealed: Almost 1 in 5 of biggest firms (including BP, Royal Mail and British Gas owner Centrica) paid NOTHING last year - and some even got a handout from the taxman (24 Dec 2018)
PwC sued £14m for 'negligent' Providence audits (21 Dec 2018)
SEC Charges Audit Firm and Suspends Accountants for Deficient Audits (21 Dec 2018)
Vodafone to ditch accountant PwC over protracted Phones4U legal dispute (21 Dec 2018)
KPMG to fine staff £100 for late time sheets (20 Dec 2018)
Accounting fraud hit Patisserie to replace auditor Grant Thornton with RSM (20 Dec 2018)
A robust blueprint to reform the auditors (20 Dec 2018)
UK student loans accounting the worst kind of trick (20 Dec 2018)
Patisserie Valerie turns to RSM after books cooked (20 Dec 2018)
This government's review of the auditing industry dodges major reforms (18 Dec 2018)
Kingman Report: Independent Review of the Financial Reporting Council (18 Dec 2018)
Kingman Letter: Who appoints company auditors, and how their fees are set (18 Dec 2018)
Competition and Markets Authority Report: Statutory audit services market study (18 Dec 2018)
Appendix C to audit market study update paper: the expectations gap - the purpose and scope of audit (18 Dec 2018)
Statutory audit services market study Disclosures of interest (18 Dec 2018)
Brydon Review: Government takes next step in improving standards of UK audit market with new independent review into audit standard (18 Dec 2018)
Does CMA crackdown on big four accountants miss the point? (18 Dec 2018)
Big four accounting groups escape breakup threat from CMA (18 Dec 2018)
Not Quite a Breakup: Big Four Auditors Avoid 'Drastic' Steps (18 Dec 2018)
It may sound boring but auditing matters and partially reforming big accountancy firms does not go nearly far enough (18 Dec 2018)
The Kingman review, digested: Five key points from today's report (18 Dec 2018)
UBS (audited by Ernst & Young) to Pay $15 Million Total Fine for Significant Deficiencies in Anti-Money Laundering Programs (18 Dec 2018)
Kentucky Supreme Court says accounting giant Grant Thornton must pay $100 million (18 Dec 2018)
Big Four alumni: Who are working at the audit regulator (17 Dec 2018)
League tables of the Financial Reporting Council and Big Four alumni (17 Dec 2018)
KPMG could lose General Electric contract (17 Dec 2018)
When WILL the inept Big Four audit firms shape up? (17 Dec 2018)
Accountancy practices 'not prepared' for cyber risks new research (17 Dec 2018)
REVEALED: How to avoid more audit disasters like Carillion (14 Dec 2018)
Labour floats break-up of big four accounting firms (14 Dec 2018)
Labour Party-backed report calls for break-up of Big Four audit firms (14 Dec 2018)
CMA to recommend Big Four audit market cap (14 Dec 2018)
Auditors resolve to avoid hearing on Carillion anniversary (14 Dec 2018)
BHS ex owner Dominic Chappell failed to give pension information (14 Dec 2018)
Unpicking the City of London's new finance sector propaganda (13 Dec 2018)
Big four auditors face market share cap after CMA probe (13 Dec 2018)
Interserve: The warning signs were ignored (13 Dec 2018)
Suppliers uneasy about Interserve payments as outsourcer's shares recover (13 Dec 2018
REVEALED: How to avoid more audit disasters like Carillion (14 Dec 2018)
Interserve in crunch talks with the pensions regulator over its £48 million deficit (13 Dec 2018)
Interserve goes to intensive care (13 Dec 2018)
Big Four accounting firms reveal sexual harassment data (13 Dec 2018)
Big Four Accounting Firms' Revenue Rises 10.4%, Strongest Growth in Years (13 Dec 2018)
The Earnings Recovery Remains An Accounting Mirage (12 Dec 2018)
TPR prosecutes accountant for pensions fraud (12 Dec 2018)
FRC: Pressure grows on audit watchdog inquiry to make documents public (12 Dec 2018)
FRC: How not to win friends and influence people (12 Dec 2018)
FRC issues revised auditing standard and consults on guidance for quality bank audits (12 Dec 2018)
FRC: Financial Reporting Council accused of 'falling short' on managing money (12 Dec 2018)
Laying the foundations for the firm of the future (12 Dec 2018)
Auditors are locked in a game of musical chairs (12 Dec 2018)
IASs may alleviate severity of next financial crisis (12 Dec 2018)
KPMG and PwC admit firing partners for inappropriate behaviour (11 Dec 2018)
Revealed: 37 partners at Big Four accounting firms leave over sex and bullying claims (11 Dec 2018)
When Interserve Shareholders Have to Pay for Past Mistakes (11 Dec 2018)
Big Four auditors reveal number of partners fired over misbehaviour (11 Dec 2018)
KPMG SA appeals for business forgiveness (11 Dec 2018)
UK Government cracks down on limited partnerships to fight UK money laundering (11 Dec 2018)
Reeves won't fix profession where it ain't broke (11 Dec 2018)
And BDO makes five? Don't count on it, says firm's global chief (11 Dec 2018)
Why Interserve's banks do not think it is 'Carillion Mark Two' (11 Dec 2018)
Carpetright losses widen as sales fall (11 Dec 2018)
Big Law Strikes Back: Firms' Consulting, Crisis PR Test Big Four (11 Dec 2018)
Deloitte has fired 20 UK partners for inappropriate behaviour (10 Dec 2018)
Deloitte fires 20 partners for inappropriate behaviour (10 Dec 2018)
Big Four alumni on FTSE boards hardly changed from 2017 (10 Dec 2018)
Africa's Biggest Fund Manager to Be Probed on Steinhoff (10 Dec 2018)
Deloitte accuses Irba's investigator of bias in African Bank probe (10 Dec 2018)
Wates Principles to improve corporate governance standards among private companies (10 Dec 2018)
FRC unveils new proposals to avoid repeat of Carillion fiasco (10 Dec 2018)
FRC consults on client assets standard (10 Dec 2018)
Profits and revenues down at Grant Thornton (19 Dec 2018)
Study suggests credit ratings encourage companies to manipulate accounting (7 Dec 2018)
Auditors must improve their work on thefront of company reports (7 Dec 2018)
Two Tesco directors cleared of fraud as judge labels case 'weak' (6 Dec 2018)
Steinhoff falls as PwC probe delayed a year after crisis began (6 Dec 2018)
KPMG cannot fail to profit from lack of competition (6 Dec 2018)
Auditors need to improve "front end" work (6 Dec 2018)
KPMG partners receive bumper payouts despite Carillion fallout (5 Dec 2018)
Is There Really Such A Thing As An Independent Audit? (5 Dec 2018)
FRC investigates PwC over ENRC audit (5 Dec 2018)
KPMG to give R47m in Gupta fees to civil society (5 Dec 2018)
Mike Lynch case highlights UK accounting shortcomings (5 Dec 2018)
Patisserie Valerie hires finance chief to help steady the ship (5 Dec 2018)
Charity accounts getting too long and hard to understand, warn auditors (5 Dec 2018)
Executive Pay: FTSE companies named and shamed by investors (5 Dec 2018)
Six ways to sort out sky-rocketing executive pay (3 Dec 2018)
GE, Tesla and Snap Are Under Accounting Investigation (3 Dec 2018)
Ex-Autonomy boss Mike Lynch charged with fraud in the US (3 Dec 2018)
Deloitte's David Sproul: surviving the Enron fallout (3 Dec 2018)
KPMG South Africa aims for recovery in new CEO appointment (3 Dec 2018)
Judge Rules For KPMG in Wide Sex Discrimination Suit (3 Dec 2018)
Former Ernst & Young Analyst Disillusioned by the Blockchain (3 Dec 2018)
Accounting Matters: The audit F-word (3 Dec 2018)
EY global chairman to retire after 6-year run (3 Dec 2018)
Insolvency: PwC calls in help for Phones 4u administration (3 Dec 2018)
8 things to know about lease accounting implementation (3 Dec 2018)

November 2018

EY's audit of Noble Group under scrutiny (30 Nov 2018)
Emoov considers pre-pack administration (30 Nov 2018)
EY ordered to provide documents in Noble Group investigation (28 Nov 2018)
Clive Beagles v HMRC - another KPMG Tax Avoidance scheme (27 Nov 2018)
Tax Tribunal judgment in Clive Beagles v HMRC - another KPMG tax avoidance scheme (27 Nov 2018)
Big UK audit firms facing 15 probes (26 Nov 2018)
BDO merger with Moore Stephens to challenge big auditors (26 Nov 2018)
Pre-pack insolvencies used to avoid liabilities, says independent panel (26 Nov 2018)
Post-crisis audit reforms were largely misdirected (26 Nov 2018)
Disney, Huawei and EY among worst offenders in disclosing lobbying (26 Nov 2018)
KPMG tax avoidance scheme dents the public purse because HMRC was too slow to deal with it (26 Nov 2018)
Big Four investigate their own clients on behalf of software giants (26 Nov 2018)
Bet365 pay bonanza: Why executive pay is not a 'private' matter (25 Nov 2018)
BDO set to become UK's fifth-largest accountancy firm (25 Nov 2018)
Moore Stephens and BDO merger could pile pressure on big four (25 Nov 2018)
Companies abusing insolvency pre-packs, independent panel says (25 Nov 2018)
Danske and the incentive problem with money laundering (25 Nov 2018)
UK Shell Companies Dragged Into Danske Laundering Limelight (25 Nov 2018)
FRC: Formal Complaint delivered against KPMG and David Costley-Wood, relating to Silentnight (22 Nov 2018)
KPMG to face tribunal over Silentnight (22 Nov 2018)
British regulators mull the future of audit (22 Nov 2018)
Outgoing Grant Thornton boss defends firm's audit quality amid probe (22 Nov 2018)
Insolvency: Johnston's pension dump highlights pre-pack perils (22 Nov 2019)
Auditor Rotation: Lloyds' pick of new auditor after 153 years is no choice at all (22 Nov 2018)
Fat cats: FTSE companies warned to follow pay guidelines or face investor revolts (22 Nov 2018)
IASB vice-chair flags insurance asset concerns (22 Nov 2018)
Governance standards must improve to avoid accounting scandals (22 Nov 2018)
Patisserie Valerie auditor Grant Thornton faces probe over alleged fraud (21 Nov 2018)
FRC Investigations in connection with the financial statements of Patisserie Holdings Plc (21 Nov 2018)
Singapore will do well to keep close eye on UK audit industry shakeup (21 Nov 2018)
Berkeley Group bosses were accused of engaging in years of bribery (21 November 2018)
In Britain's boardrooms, Brexit is already here. And the warning is stark (21 Nov 2018)
How technology is changing the face of accounting (21 Nov 2018)
New IASB/FASB lease accounting standards: what happens after the dust settles (20 Nov 2018)
Institutes say increased FRC sanctions bad for audit competition (20 Nov 2018)
Johnston Press sale under scrutiny as pensions put at risk (20 Nov 2018)
Big Four Accounting Firms Oppose UK Audit Reform Suggestions (20 Nov 2018)
FRC to Review of 2016 Audit Standards (20 Nov 2018)
BHP Billiton agrees A$500m Australian transfer pricing settlement (20 Nov 2018)
Interview: Donald Trump? That's not me at all, says KPMG boss Bill Michael (20 Nov 2018)
Nissan paid 'huge sums' for chairman Carlos Ghosn's houses in Rio, Paris, Amsterdam and Beirut (20 Nov 2018)
The corporate scandals that rocked Japan (20 Nov 2018)
FRC announces 2019/20 audit thematic reviews, priority sectors and audit areas of focus (19 Nov 2018)
Questions over pre-pack rescue of Johnston Press (19 Nov 2018)
Big Four have their say in CMA audit review (16 Nov 2018)
PwC offers muted support for audit market caps and increased oversight (16 Nov 2018)
Patisserie Valerie boss Peter May resigns after accounting scandal (16 Nov 2018)
Pentagon spends $500 million to fix problems found in audit (16 Nov 2018)
Insolvency Service to meet Frank Field over refusal to reopen BHS investigation (15 Nov 2018)
Patisserie Valerie boss quits and turnaround specialist steps in (15 Nov 2018)
CAPITAL MARKET AUTHORITY OF OMAN SUSPENDS KPMG FROM AUDITING REGULATED ENTITIES (15 Nov 2018)
KPMG suspended in Oman (15 nOV 2018)
Big Four have their say in CMA audit review (15 Nov 2018)
Asset managers back Big Four audit firms (15 Nov 2018)
PwC offers muted support for audit market caps and increased oversight (15 Nov 2018)
Accountancy organisations diverge in CMA submissions (15 nOV 2018)
Greedy KPMG and friends eat into the legal profession (15 Nov 2018)
Big Four circle the legal profession (15 Nov 2018)
Interserve says finances on track amid speculation of 'another Carillion'
(14 Nov 2018)
Samsung (audited by KPMG) Arm Faces Criminal Probe After Breaking Accounting Rules
(14 Nov 2018)
Global accounting body IASB proposes one-year delay to insurance rule (14 Nov 2018)
Joint chairs frustrated by lack of action over BHS (14 Nov 2018)
UK Regulator launches short consultation on its Accounting Direction (14 Nov 2018)
Beleaguered watchdog boss may be forced out within weeks (14 Nov 2018)
Indian government gives Big Four green light (14 Nov 2018)
Carillion's true cost only just starting to emerge (14 Nov 2018)
The Big Four Accounting And Auditing Firms Are Becoming Challengers In Digital Transformation Services
(14 Nov 2018)
How the Big Four accountancy firms have become guardians of greed (13 Nov 2018)
FRC refuses to investigate pre-2014 audit failures at BHS (13 Nov 2018)
Kingman Review to consider issues raised by the FRCinvestigation of PwC 2014 audit of Taveta and BHS, especially FRC refusal to investigate earlier audit failures (13 Nov 2018)
Insolvency: Brides frantic as Berketex Bride wedding dress shop goes into administration
(13 Nov 2018)
What is the future of audit? (13 Nov 2018)
Samsung BioLogics shares plunge over accounting concerns (12 Nov 2018)
MPs to probe audit market over fears accounts resemble 'works of fiction' (12 Nov 2018)
MPs launch inquiry into future of 'broken' audit sector (12 Nov 2018)
BEIS committee launches inquiry into audit market (12 Nov 2018)
Interserve shares dip to lowest in 30 years amid finance concerns (12 Nov 2018)
Deloitte calls for audit market cap and ban on selling extra services to FTSE350 (12 Nov 2019)
Ex-Stobart boss denies improperly taking £5m in expenses (12 Nov 2018)
How to Tie Executive Compensation to Sustainability (12 Nov 2018)
South African central bank fines HSBC for lax money laundering controls (12 Nov 2018)
KPMG to drop non-audit services for its FTSE 350 clients (9 Nov 2018)
Breaking up the Big Four is not the answer to audit problems (9 Nov 2018)
Accounting scandals prompt KPMG ban on non-audit work (9 Nov 2018)
Why the Big Four give audits a bad name (9 Nov 2018)
Ban auditors from immediately selling new services to outgoing clients (7 Nov 2018)
Alleged Fraud Surprises Activist Investors in Shipping Fuel Company (7 Nov 2018)
Fat cats: Persimmon boss to leave after 'distraction' over pay (7 Nov 2018)
Keydata boss cries foul as court upholds £76m fine (7 Nov 2018)
UK Government amends accounting rules in Companies Act for post-Brexit (7 Nov 2018)
Smaller companies' reporting leaves much to be desired (7 Nov 2018)
Ex-Tesco directors on trial over fraud and false accounting (6 Nov 2018)
Banham poultry firm had £40m debts before pre pack sale (6 Nov 2018)
IAASB risks losing global status over ISA 315 (6 Nov 2018)
FDs should be personally responsible for accounting errors, says Big Four boss (5 Nov 2018)
FRC wants more scope after HBoS investigation (5 Nov 2018)
Mazars says joint audits and market caps are solution to audit sector woes (5 Nov 2018)
Head of 'useless' Financial Reporting Council heads for exit (5 Nov 2018)
Stephen Haddrill to leave FRC next year (2 Nov 2018)
FRC: UK accounting watchdog chief to stand down
(2 Nov 2018)
More audit competition: who loses out? (2 Nov 2018)
Patisserie Valerie: 'We had no choice' (2 Nov 2018)
Big Four audit share should be capped at 60% argues ICAEW (2 Nov 2018)
Tax Reliefs: HMRC clueless about cost of half of tax breaks (2 Nov 2018)
HMRC faces 'daunting workload' as Brexit approaches, MPs say (2 Nov 2018)
Finance chiefs warn against capping big four's audit share (2 Nov 2018)
Patisserie Valerie showdown: Six burning questions for management (1 Nov 2018)
Furious investors to demand answers over Patisserie Valerie crisis
(1 Nov 2018)
Patisserie Valerie shareholder says bosses 'putting gun to our heads' (1 Nov 2018)
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board announced that it barred, fined, and censured three Deloitte Mexico partners for deficient work in auditing the Mexican subsidiary of a U.S. public company (1 Nov 2018)
FRC and Big Four: End Big Four dominance using French-style joint audits, watchdog told (1 Nov 2018)
Don't force Big Four's hand, watchdog told (1 Nov 2018)
FTSE 100 audit market nears £900m in annual fee income (1 Nov 2018)
Judge rebukes Grant Thornton as it loses 'vexatious' lawsuit (1 Nov 2018)
US watchdog bans Deloitte Mexico partners (1 Nov 2018)
Investors against breaking up Big Four
(1 Nov 2018)
UK Money-laundering crackdown on public schools and law firms (1 Nov 2018)
1MDB: Ex-Goldman bankers and Jho Low face US charges (1 Nov 2018)
Auditors probe potential $200m fraud at Aegean Marine (1 Nov 2018)
Auditors see challenges in new leasing standard (1 Nov 2018)

October 2018

The Tories' new budget is Labour's manifesto with a neoliberal veneer (31 Oct 2018)
UK accounting body, investors back Big Four market shake-up (31 Oct 2018)
IA warns Big Four auditors 'too big to fail' (31 Oct 2018)
Audit dead in a decade? (31 Oct 2018)
Third KPMG US partner pleads guilty to fraud (31 Oct 2018)
Sports Direct acquires Evans Cycles in pre-pack deal (31 Oct 2018)
Crawshaw chain of butchers is put into administration (31 Oct 2018)
Budget 2018: PPF and schemes to fall in insolvency priority ladder (31 Oct 2018)
Former KPMG Partner Pleads Guilty in Scheme to Obtain Secret US Regulatory Information
(30 Oct 2018)
HMRC to be preferred creditor in insolvencies ( 30 Oct 2018)
GE hit with new investigations from SEC and Justice Department (30 Oct 2018)
South Africa's Nedbank becomes latest firm to drop KPMG (30 Oct 2018)
KPMG says audits for scandal-hit Malaysian 1MDB fund not 'true and fair (30 Oct 2018)
FRC to consider future of corporate reporting (30 Oct 2018)
PwC teams up with Moody's Analytics for IFRS 17 services (30 Oct 2018)
China's finance ministry calls out Xiaomi over accounting errors (30 Oct 2018)
HMRC to be made preferred creditor in tax avoidance crackdown (29 Oct 2018)
EY admits need for better audit standards as UK revenue rises
(29 Oct 2018)
FRC and Big Four: EY chair calls for more powers for audit watchdog (29 Oct 2018)
BDO increases lead as top AIM auditor (29 Oct 2018)
Baumann backs out of IAASB role (29 Oct 2018)
New BT chief Philip Jansen linked to illegal tax avoidance scheme (29 Oct 2018)
New rules force retailers to rethink lease accounting (29 Oct 2018)
Budget 2018: British lives could be easily improved, just don't expect the Tories to do it
(26 Oct 2018)
Bank of England tells banks to build Brexit cash cushions by March (26 Oct 2018)
FASB adds new interest rate for hedge accounting (26 Oct 2018)
Exxon sued in US for allegedly lowballing Alberta oilsands' carbon costs (26 Oct 2018)
Patisserie Valerie's finance director resigns amid fraud allegations (26 Oct 2018)
Scisys replaces KPMG with EY (26 Oct 2018)
Auditors waved through by shareholders despite year of failures in sector
(25 Oct 2018)
FRC and BEIS to set up IFRS endorsement board (25 Oct 2018)
Insolvency: Grant Thornton takes on Gourmet Burger Kitchen CVA (25 Oct 2018)
New York Sues Exxon, Alleging Deception on Climate Costs
(25 Oct 2018)
Campaigner defeated in HBOS audit transparency legal battle with FRC (25 Oct 2018)
Patisserie tax review as winding-up case is dismissed (25 Oct 2018)
Debenhams boss calls for end to 'preferential' tax regime for online retailers (25 Oct 2018)

Big Four scramble to plan for audit ringfencing rules (24 Oct 2018)
Goldman Sachs and Cargill fined €89m in UK tax avoidance case - Ernst & Young designed the scheme
(24 Oct 2018)
FRC warns companies over basic errors (24 Oct 2018)
Patisserie Valerie: court dismisses winding-up case over £1m tax bill (24 Oct 2018)
Women Earn $17 Billion Less Than Men in Accounting (24 Oct 2018)
Insolvency: Gourmet Burger Kitchen to close one in five UK outlets (24 Oct 2018)
UK's SFO says ex-Afren executives convicted of fraud and money laundeirng
(24 Oct 2018)
Opinionated auditors are the last thing we need (24 Oct 2018)
New York Sues Exxon Over Climate-Change Disclosures (24 Oct 2018)
Turf Wars: The Big Four Are At The Door (24 Oct 2018)
Shadow chancellor raises the heat on accountants (23 Oct 2018)
Pressure on Patisserie for independent inquiry into £40m hole in accounts (23 Oct 2018)
Patisserie Valerie share options so good they sold them twice? (23 Oct 2018)
Lessons from the Pret and Patisserie Valerie scandals (23 Oct 2018)
Audit Quality Forum to review 'expectation gap' in audit (23 Oct 2018)
Capital One Bank fined $100 million for anti-money laundering failures
(23 Oct 2018)
Money Laundering: OCC Assesses $100 Million Civil Money Penalty Against Capital One (23 Oct 2018)
Money Laundering: Danish minister demands answers on Danske Bank disclosures (23 Oct 2018)
India: Government plans to tighten rules for auditors (23 Oct 2018)
Facebook and Google are run by today's robber barons. Break them up (23 Oct 2018)
Ryanair's investors expect more than belligerence from O'Leary (23 Oct 2018)
A budget to end austerity? Only if Hammond makes the rich pay (23 Oct 2018)
Why it's getting harder to trust the auditors (23 Oct 2018)
Auditing: Time for an Adjustment? (23 Oct 2018)
Explained: Here are the five (yes, five) reviews the audit sector is currently facing (22 Oct 2018)
Santander UK chairman Baroness Vadera eyed to lead audit review (22 Oct 2018)
Big four and FRC: Scope and quality of audits needs reform, say City chiefs (22 Oct 2018)
Audit’s perfect storm: How bean counters found themselves at the centre of a public uproar (22 Oct 2018)
HMRC probes 198 footballers in tax avoidance crackdown (22 Oct 2018)c
PCAOB reveals new approach to audit inspections (22 Oct 2018)
Revolving Doors: RSM appoints former PwC audit quality leader (22 Oct 2018)
Northern Rock: US firm 'misled' UK government on mortgages (22 Oct 2018)
Insolvency and corporate governance (22 Oct 2018)
US Department of Justice Press Release: Former PCAOB Inspections Leader And KPMG Executive Director Pleads Guilty To Scheme To Steal Confidential PCAOB Information In Order To Fraudulently Improve KPMG PCAOB Inspection Results (18 Oct 2018)
Patisserie Valerie and Grant Thornton face heat from MPs (18 Oct 2018)
Information watchdog will investigate outgoing Grant Thornton CEO's leaked performance review
(18 Oct 2018)
Time for the Big Four to buck up or break up (18 Oct 2018)
Top PwC lawyer says under-fire audit watchdog needs to be 'brought up to date'
(18 Oct 2018)
Santander Joins List of Banks in German Tax-Dodge Crackdown (18 Oct 2018)
Four Seasons adviser quits amid corporate governance row (18 Oct 2018)
'It's important to focus on people first and then technology' (18 Oct 2018)
Former KPMG executive director pleads guilty to audit fraud scheme (17 Oct 2018)
Auditor KPMG faces £7m fine for 'wholesale failure' (17 Oct 2018)
Record fine (for KPMG) over "more serious than Quindell" audit botch looms (17 Oct 2018)
PCAOB Fines Deloitte Canada $350,000 for Failing to Maintain Independence Over Three Consecutive Audits (17 Oct 2018)
No-deal Brexit could cause havoc for accountants (17 Oct 2018)
Grant Thornton's chief executive is leaving before her time (17 Oct 2018)
New laundering warnings on Scottish shell firms (17 Oct 2018)
How VBS (audite dby KPMG) was looted: The full report (17 Oct 2018)
SEC suspends three ex-BDO accountants (17 Oct 2018)
Are pre-packs a necessary evil for retail survival? (17 Oct 2018)
How to restore faith in financial reporting (17 Oct 2018)
KPMG UK promotes 39 partners (17 Oct 2018)
If austerity is really over, the Chancellor must present a plan to invest in the economy (16 Oct 2018)
Grant Thornton boss's downfall shows the accounting profession needs root-and-branch change (16 Oct 2018)
Tesco's former chairman describes discovery of accounting issue (16 Oct 2018)
Accounting firm Grant Thornton's UK chief to step down (16 Oct 2018)
Too smooth: the red flag at Patisserie Valerie which was missed (16 Oct 2018)
Over a third of internal auditors say their firm has done no Brexit preparation
(16 Oct 2018)
Paddy Power Betfair to pay penalty package for social responsibility and money laundering failures on its gambling exchange (16 Oct 2018)
Paddy Power Betfair fined after stolen cash is gambled through its website (16 Oct 2018)
There shouldn't be any accounting 'rules' at all (16 Oct 2018)
Why Culture Risk Requires Action By CEOs And Boards (16 Oct 2018)
Time for an audit of the cosy life of accountancy's big four (15 Oct 2018)
Patisserie Valerie discovers 'secret' overdrafts (15 Oct 2018)
Patisserie Valerie boss describes £20m accounting black hole as a nightmare (15 Oct 2018)
Patisserie could sue auditor Grant Thornton over £40m hole (15 Oct 2018)
Patisserie Valerie will be no cakewalk for investigators (15 Oct 2018)
Patisserie Valerie boss quits Restaurant Group board (15 Oct 2018)
FRC: Audit quality declines in 2018 - KPMG named (15 Oct 2018)
Financial Reporting Council publishes Annual Report 2017/18 (15 Oct 2018)
Universal Wealth Management: More than 100 possible frauds (15 Oct 2018)
KPMG South Africa embroiled in VBS corruption scandal (15 Oct 2018)
Auditors are not trained to appraise going concerns (15 Oct 2018)
Robert Tchenguiz abandons multimillion-pound Grant Thornton lawsuit (15 Oct 2018)
Sacha Romanovitch to stand down as Grant Thornton chief executive (15 Oct 2018)
BlackRock believes FRC must improve as a supervisory agency (15 Oct 2018)
The UK isn't winning the war against dirty money because government refuses to do anything about it (12 Oct 2018)
Patisserie Valerie chairman pumps in £20m to stave off collapse (12 Oct 2018)
Patisserie Valerie says finance chief arrested (12 Oct 2018)
SEC Suspends Former BDO Accountants for Improperly “Predating” Audit Work Papers (12 Oct 2018)
Investors hit by Patisserie Valerie accounting scandal (12 Oct 2018)
Questions for Grant Thornton over Patisserie's bill of health (12 Oct 2018)
FRC set to take on Patisserie case (12 Oct 2018)
This is why Silicon Valley giants are paying such low taxes in the UK (12 Oct 2018)
Pre-pack administration: Karen Millen to buy parts of retailer Coast out of administration (12 Oct 2018)
Insolvency: Supercuts owner Regis asks landlords to waive rent (12 Oct 2018)
Changes to accounting and audit rules in the event of no-deal Brexit (12 Oct 2018)
Insolvency: Supercuts owner Regis asks landlords to waive rent (12 Oct 2018)
Patisserie Valerie teetering on the brink of collapse (11 Oct 2018)
Patisserie Valerie to close down without 'immediate injection of capital (11 Oct 2018)
Patisserie Valerie faces winding-up order from HMRC (11 Oct 2018)
Patisserie Valerie faces £20m accounting hole' and winding up order (11 Oct 2018)
Patisserie Valerie investigates potential accounting fraud (11 Oct 2018)
'Shocked' Tesco CEO Had to Re-Read Report on Misstated Profits (11 Oct 2018)
KPMG under fresh attack in South Africa over 'great bank heist' (11 Oct 2018)
"Complicit" KPMG SA slammed in VBS report (11 Oct 2018)
South African Probe Finds $130 Million Looted From Failed Bank (audite dby KPMG) (11 Oct 2018)
Insolvency: Coast fashion retailer collapses putting 300 jobs at risk (11 Oct 2017)
Insolvency: Former Bell Pottinger partners angered by BDO cost of wind down (11 Oct 2018)
Lawsuit Against Caterpillar For Inadequate Tax Disclosure Dismissed (11 Oct 2018)
Cadbury owner Mondelez paid no corporation tax in the UK last year (11 Oct 2018)
Ed Sheeran paid more in tax last year than both Starbucks and Amazon (11 Oct 2018)
London remains a safe haven for the world's dirty cash (11 Oct 2018)
Patisserie Valerie (audited by Grant Thornton) warns of £20m potential fraud (10 Oct 2018)
Patisserie Valerie shares suspended over accounting black hole (10 Oct 2018)
Robert Tchenguiz accuses Grant Thornton of conspiracy over fraud probe
(10 Oct 2018)
Sports Direct v the FRC: what it means - issues about legal privilege (10 Oct 2018)
Airbnb facing enquiry from HMRC over UK activity (10 Oct 2018)
The ATO is reportedly coming after the big four accountancy firms for tax schemes
(10 Oct 2018)
CMA launches immediate review of audit sector (9 Oct 2018)
Competition and Market Authority:Operation of the audit market: letter to the Rt Hon Greg Clark (9 Oct 2018)
Competition and Market Authority: Statutory audit market - Invitation to comment (9 Oct 2018)
'Big Four' audit firms face competition probe (9 Oct 2018)
Sir Paul Tucker backs calls for break up of Big Four (9 Oct 2018)
FRC: BlackRock offers support to UK accounting watchdog (9 Oct 2018)
Australia: Deloitte, EY, KPMG, PwC deny promoting tax avoidance schemes (9 Oct 2018)
Another Useless Gimmick: UK Government launches first public sector counter fraud profession (9 Oct 2018)
Audit regulator eyes Mourinho-like changes to line-up (9 Oct 2018)
A decade on from the financial crisis, why is sorry still the hardest word? (9 Oct 2018)
The perks of the pre-pack insolvency model (9 Oct 2018)
PwC under spotlight over audit of litigation funder (9 Oct 2018)
Ex-Tesco directors on trial over fraud and false accounting (9 Oct 2018)
Big Four: Consulting ban could cost audit firms £1bn (9 Oct 2018)
IFRS 9 versus IAS 39: Opportunities in changes to hedge accounting (9 Oct 2018)
BDO partners paid more than KPMG rivals (9 Oct 2018)
PwC faces Guernsey probe over audit of failed claims funder (8 Oct 2018)
PwC probed over failed funder of court claims (8 Oct 2018)
FRC Report - DEVELOPMENTS IN AUDIT 2018 (8 Oct 2018)
High-profile failures have eroded trust in audit sector, says watchdog FRC
(8 Oct 2018)
FRC: Accounting watchdog could ban auditors from consultancy work (8 Oct 2018)
FRC to consider ban on consultancy work for audit clients (8 Oct 2018)
FRC sets out new strategic focus to ensure audit serves the public interest (8 October 2018)
Ernst & Young tax avoidance scheme for an audit client defeated - involving Jersey and help from Deloitte and ICAEW experts - GDF Suez Teesside Led v Revenue And Customs [2018] EWCA Civ 2075 (8 October 2018)
Tesco chief calls for 'Amazon tax' on goods sold online (8 Oct 2018)
Revealed: how McDonald's and Airbnb slash UK tax bills (8 Oct 2018)
UK tax bill jumps as profits rise (8 Oct 2018)
Denmark Starts Formal Investigation Into Danske Bank's Auditors - (Between 2010 and 2014, it switched between Grant Thornton, PwC, KPMG, Deloitte and EY) (5 Oct 2018)
Danske Bank memo shows how Russians moved money (5 Oct 2018)
BLSA reinstates KPMG SA to full membership (5 Oct 2018)
Do not blame accounting rules for the financial crisis (5 Oct 2018)
PwC forges maritime supply chain link with Pole Star (5 Oct 2018)
Insolvency: KPMG rejects offers for its restructuring business (4 Oct 2018)
KPMG discusses insolvency split-off (4 Oct 2018)
PwC leads the pack as big four strengthens presence in legal market (4 Oct 2018)
FTSE 100 bosses close ranks with scandal-tainted Big Four auditors (4 Oct 2018)
Danske Bank faces US investigation into money laundering (4 Oct 2018)
How Corporate Governance Is Evolving at America's Top Companies (4 Oct 2018)
Insolvency: Unilad viral publisher goes into administration (4 Oct 2018)
PwC opposes carve-up of auditors, but is the idea such a turkey? (3 Oct 2018)
Audit separation not the solution, says PwC chairman (3 Oct 2018)
UK finance chiefs raise concerns over audit shake-up proposals (3 Oct 2018)
Auditing the Auditor (3 Oct 2018)
DB pension deficits fell in September (3 Oct 2018)
Cook the books: third of accountants know of senior staff filing misleading accounts (3 Oct 2018)
IL&FS crisis: How did the auditors, rating agencies remain silent spectators even as the ship was sinking
(3 Oct 2018)
KPMG South Africa Seeks CEO From Outside Firm to Rebuild Trust (3 Oct 2018)
Expect More Sleaze and secrecy: Jersey introduces US-style limited liability companies (3 Oct 2018)
Limited Liability Companies (Jersey) Law 201 (3 Oct 2018)
CORPORATE INCOME TAX REPORTING BY IRISH ISSUERS (3 Oct 2018)
PwC says more tech is solution for higher audit standards (2 Oct 2018)
PwC global chair says firm 'cannot rest on laurels' as global revenues pass $40bn
(2 Oct 2018)
Big Four Auditors Face Probes After High-Profile Business Collapses (2 Oct 2018)
Too few audit firms have truly global capabilities (2 Oct 2018)
Big Four: UK Business secretary calls for audit competition review (2 Oct 2018)
New rules for companies risk making standards meaningless (2 Oct 2018)
Lawyers cross-examine Big Four for climate reporting of audit clients (2 Oct 2018)
Royal Mail shares plunge after profit warning (2 Oct 2018)
55% of FTSE100 currently fail to publicly mention tax evasion (2 Oct 2018)
PwC chairman rejects calls to break up Big Four (2 Oct 2018)
How the S.E.C. Is Trying to Push Traditional Corporate Governance Upon Tesla
(2 Oct 2018)
Want More Responsible Companies? Change the Rules. (2 Oct 2018)
Master trusts must register with The Pensions Regulator (2 Oct 2018)
The US must hold firm on bank capital rules (2 Oct 2018)
Pressure mounts on the CMA to break up accountancy's Big Four (1 Oct 2018)
Audit sector faces inquiry as minister points to deficiencies (1 Oct 2018)
Big Four: reforming the audit profession (1 Oct 2018)
Re-trial of former Tesco executives accused of fraud to begin this week (1 Oct 2018)
Carillion collapse drives construction businesses to the wall - 2,764 construction companies entered insolvency in 2017/18 (1 Oct 2018)
Lords press Chancellor to commit to Big Four competition review (1 ct 2018)
Insolvencies in UK building firms rise 20% after Carillion collapse (1 Oct 2018)
The profession's biggest challenges (1 Oct 2018)
Elon Musk Versus The SEC: When A Tweet Costs $40 Million (1 Oct 2018)
Elon Musk reaches deal over tweets about taking Tesla private (1 Oct 2018)
Pension Accounting: Drawing a line in the sand (1 Oct 2018)
Petrobras hit with $853m corruption fine (1 Oct 2018)

September 2018

Elon Musk Charged with Securities Fraud for Misleading Tweets (28 Sep 2018)
Money Laundering and Companies House: Time to clean up the London laundromat (28 Sep 2018)
FRC publishes a list of companies whose Report and Accounts have been reviewed (28 Sep 2018)
The big flaw: how to solve the auditing crisis at the Big Four (28 Sep 2018)
UK to press for shake-up of Big Four auditors (28 Oct 2018)
SEC Charges Walgreens and Two Former Executives With Misleading Investors About (Boots) Forecasted Earnings Goal (28 Sep 2018)
Revolving Doors: Ernst and Young hires former US Army vice chief Dan Allyn (28 Sep 2018)
KPMG said to lose more S. African staff from Gupta fallout (27 Sep 2018)
Danske Auditors (Deloitte) in Crosshairs for Missing Dirty Money Clues (27 Sep 2018)
KPMG: the Big Four darling of Defence (27 Sep 2018)
Break up the Big Four: The radical proposal going mainstream (27 Sep 2018)
The Age of Fraud: the Link Between Capitalism and Profiteering by Deception (27 Sep 2018)
Accounting Software and Its Effect on the Demand for Accountants in Small Business (27 Sep 2018)
Shareholders win right to sue Steinhoff in Netherlands over accounting (26 Sep 2018)
US watchdog finds fault with more Big Four audits (26 Sep 2018)
Ex-CFO of Bankrate Imprisoned for Securities and Accounting Fraud (26 Sep 2018)
Why Labour's plan for workers on company boards could revolutionise our economy
(24 Sep 2018)
Symantec ends accounting probe without major revision to results (24 Sep 2018)
Bank bosses still have plenty of accounting wriggle room (24 Sep 2018)
Suicide of NHS chief in fraud scandal (24 Sep 2018)
'The Big Four' Review: Titans of the Books (24 Sep 2018)
Deutsche Bank warned over money-laundering as auditor (KPMG) appointed (24 Sep 2018)
Another Former Partner at Ernst & Young Claims 'Egregious' Sexual Harassment, Retaliation
(24 Sep 2018)
PwC ups the ante in legal services with new Fragomen US alliance (24 Sep 2018)
Grant Thornton chief executive faces partner dissent (24 Sep 2018)
PCAOB Enters into Cooperative Agreement with Austrian Audit Regulator (24 Sep 2018)
American watchdog slams BDO US's audit quality (24 Sep 2018)
Women lead just 11% of major US audits (24 Sep 2018)
If Jeff Bezos is serious about social responsibility, he'll make Amazon cough up
(21 Sep 2018)
"Big four" accounting firms could be broken up by Labour party (21 Sep 2018)
Labour threatens break-up of Big Four "cartel" (21 Sep 2018)
Labour considers breaking up Big Four accounting firms (21 Sep 2018)
BEIS committee discusses audit reform with challenger firms (21 Sep 2018)
Ex-BHS boss Dominic Chappell loses pensions conviction appeal (21 Sep 2018)
New accounting standards make banking safer (21 Sep 2018)
Barrett Business Services settles accounting fraud charges (21 Sep 2018)
Business Services Company and Former CFO Charged With Accounting Fraud (21 Sep 2018)
Corporate Governance: ICAEW says Wates principles don't meet government aims (21 Sep 2018)
Poor internal auditing, a threat to sustainability (21 Sep 2018)
Danske Bank scandal: National Crime Agency launches probe into mystery UK entity linked to bank
(21 Sep 2018)
Danske Bank money laundering 'is biggest scandal in Europe' (21 Sep 2018)
HMRC: Current list of deliberate tax defaulters (21 Sep 2018)
Ryanair chair survives shareholder revolt but investors want change (21 Sep 2018)
FRC: KPMG admit Misconduct in connection with client asset reports for BNY Mellon entities (19 Sep 2018)
Hearing regarding KPMG and members (19 Sep 2018
KPMG admits compliance 'misconduct' on £1tn in BNY funds (19 Sep 2018)

KPMG 'responsible tax' event boycotted amid criticism (19 Sep 2018)
Deloitte reveals global revenue up 11.3% (19 Sep 2018)
Prince Charles wants accountants to save the world (19 Sep 2018)
SeaWorld and ex-boss to pay $5m to settle fraud claim (19 Sep 2018)
SeaWorld and Former CEO to Pay More Than $5 Million to Settle Fraud Charges (19 Sep 2018)
Ryanair investors 'may lose voting rights' (19 Sep 2018)
Does 'pre-pack' administration deal protect House of Fraser's staff? (19 Sep 2018)
EasyJet among four companies referred to FRC (19 Sep 2018)
Deloitte calls on all partnerships to share total earnings gaps (19 Sep 2018)
Royal Mail chair resigns after shareholder pay revolt (19 Sep 2018)
PwC partners awarded bumper payouts despite fines (19 Sep 2018)
Three hidden real estate lease accounting challenges (19 Sep 2018)
The insatiable big four: can Ireland keep on top of the accountancy giants (17 Sep 2018)
Audit giants need a league table, says PwC executive (17 Sep 2018)
Senior UK politicians hold 'unprecedented' meeting with audit firms (17 Sep 2018)
Women Rarely Run the Biggest Audits at the Big Four Accounting Firms (17 Sep 2018)
AI's Impact On Accounting And Finance (17 Sep 2018)
EasyJet among firms reported to audit watchdog as Big Four dragged into climate change row
(17 Sep 2018)
PWC chairman says break up of Big Four 'will not improve audits' (17 Sep 2018)
Accountancy can be made to work for investors (17 Sep 2018)
Ten Years After the Crash, Tax Competition Threatens the Global Economy and Democracy (17 Sep 2018)
Mervyn King Still Doesn't Think British Banks Are Safe Enough (17 Sep 2018)
UK frustrated by Cayman Islands silence on money laundering (17 Sep 2018)
Yes, the Tax Cuts Have Cost the US Treasury Money (17 Sep 2018)
Danske Bank in money laundering probe; Citi, Deutsche Bank involved
(17 Sep 2018)
US Probes Danske Bank Over Russian Money Laundering Allegations (17 Sep 2018)
EY hits back at calls to break up Big Four accounting firms (13 Sep 2018)
EY: Big Four Breakup Unpractical as Quality Audit Requires Multiple Expertise (13 Sep 2018)
Sports Direct Must Hand Over Documents to FRC, Judge Says (13 Sep 2018)
FRC investigating Grant Thornton's Sports Direct audits (13 Sep 2018)
The Financial Reporting Council v Sports Direct International plc (13 Sep 2018)
Court tells Sports Direct to hand over papers in audit inquiry (13 Sep 2018)
Big four firms snub Sports Direct's hunt for new auditor (13 Sep 2018)
Time's up for the Big Four (13 Sep 2018)
FRC to publish hospitality register (13 Sep 2018)
Grant Thornton's auditor selection plan may yet make the grade (13 Sep 2018)
Grant Thornton calls for independent public body to appoint auditors (13 Sep 2018)
UK targeting lawyers, accountants in illicit funds crackdown (13 Sep 2018)
Deloitte sued over failed caravan park group (13 Sep 2018)
The Impact of Disruptive Technologies on Accounting and Auditing (13 Sep 2018)
VW investors seek $11 billion damages over dieselgate scandal (10 Sep 2018)
Labour union UNITE calls for criminal investigation into Carillion collapse (10 Sep 2018)
Auditor responsible for SMSF's losses, NSW Court of Appeal finds (10 Sep 2018)
FRC Report on Carillion set for January (10 Sep 2018)
Regulation forces up FTSE 100 audit fees (10 Sep 2018)
Debenhams brings in top company doctors from KPMG to weigh CVA as fears for its future worsen
(10 Sep 2018)
Mandatory audit firm rotation fails to deliver lower costs (10 Sep 2018)
10 years since the crash: Where did banking go wrong, and how do we fix it?
(10 Sep 2018)
To turn the IPPR proposals into reality we need a long-term political strategy
(7 Sep 2018)
Tesla Erupts in Chaos After Senior Execs Leave, Musk Tokes Up (7 Sep 2018)
Accounting profession needs to step up to the plate, says FCA chair (7 Sep 2018)
Ten years after Lehman: how accountants can make finance safer - A speech by Charles Randell, Chair, Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Payment Systems Regulator (7 Sep 2018)
KPMG owed £277k for House of Fraser CVA (7 Sep 2018)
Profits v planet: can big business and the environment get along? (7 Sep 2018)
UK Government plans overhaul of dividend framework (7 Sep 2018)
INSOLVENCY AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE - UK Government response (7 Sep 2018)
KPMG withdraw embarrassing PR statement backing Mike Ashley (7 Sep 2018)
Air Partner bolsters board in wake of accounting troubles (7 Sep 2018)
Too Many Accountants in U.K.? Labour Audit Reviewer Says Yes (6 Sep 2018)
Is 'accounting think' ruining the boardroom - and the economy? (6 Sep 2018)
FRC and Big Four: UK markets watchdog warns accountants over asset valuations (6 Sep 2018)
Big Four and FRC: FCA chair puts accountants on notice over financial firms' audits (6 Sep 2018)
Judge halts claim against former African Bank directors and Deloitte (6 Sep 2018)
Putting workers on the board is a bitter but necessary pill (6 Sep 3018)
What We Do and Don't Know About Worker Representation on Boards (6 Sep 2018)
Ireland considers changes to transfer pricing regime, move to territorial system, tax roadmap says
(6 Sep 2018)
Steinhoff Ex-CEO Says He Didn't Know of Financial Irregularities
(5 Sep 2018)
Steinhoff's former CEO Jooste faces parliament over accounting scandal
(5 Sep 2018)
Fined by FRC: Grant Thornton next in the firing line (5 Sep 2018)
SEC Charges Telecommunications Expense Management Company Tangoe Inc With Accounting Fraud (5 Sep 2018)
ICAEW urges realism in the audit market reform debate (5 Sep 2018)
Bribery and Corruption: Sanofi Charged With FCPA Violations (5 Sep 2018
Dropping our mid-sized auditor makes no sense (5 Sep 2018)
Accountants want right to raise red flag over clients (4 Sep 2018)
Big Four; Auditor Rotation: PwC loses lead over FTSE 100 audit rivals (4 Sep 2018)
Jose Mourinho 'gets suspended jail sentence' for tax fraud (4 Sep 2018)
Danish bank scandal grows to 'gigantic' proportions (4 Sep 2018)
Over half of accountants pressured to act unethically (4 Sep 2018)
EY defends handling of House of Fraser administration (4 Sep 2018)
Australia: Labor asks ACCC to investigate big four accounting firms (3 Sep 2018)
A shake-up of Big Four audit's oligopoly is long overdue (3 Sep 2018)
Big Four reforms 'fail to boost competition' (3 Sep 2018)
Enron fraud architect Jeff Skilling released from prison (3 Sep 2018)
Spotlight is on auditors, but plenty of others have an equal responsibility (3 Sep 2018)
Deloitte launches global ad campaign with WPP agencies (3 Sep 2018)
Make auditors pay for any pension underfunding (3 Sep 2018)
Private equity demystified: An explanatory guide (3 Sep 2018)

August 2018

Former Enron CEO released from prison to halfway house (31 Aug 2018)
KPMG is caught up in scandals but its woes are not existential (31 Aug 2018)
Auditors' opinions must be seen to be unbiased (31 Aug 2018)
Manchester Building Society suffers after £2m auditor payout to Grant Thornton
(31 Aug 2018)
Wonga administrators Grant Thornton plan 'an orderly wind down' of payday lender (31 Aug 2018)
Recruiters urged to monitor ethnicity and disability pay gap now (31 Aug 2018)
India: Audit firms will soon be told to disclose deals with global partners
(31 Aug 2018)
McErlain's Bakery supplier furious as 'pre-pack' buyout wipes debts (31 Aug 2018)
PRE-PACK POOL ANNUAL REVIEW 2017 (31 Aug 2018)
UK House of Common Research Paper Number 5035: Pre Pack Administrations (31 Aug 2018)
Company purchasers ignore voluntary 'safety net' for pre-pack administrations (31 Aug 2018)
Why did Mike Ashley wait for House of Fraser to go bust before he bought it? The secrets behind pre-pack administration deals (31 Aug 2018)
He helped save the UK from ruin, now FCA chief asks...I don't say this out of bloodlust, but NO ONE has been properly punished. Why? (31 Aug 2018)
Administrators Staement for House of Fraser - James Beattie Limited (in Administration) (31 Aug 2018)
Audit fines show self-interest is bigger than a Big Four problem (30 Aug 2018)
Rivals unite to plan end of Big Four dominance (30 Aug 2018)
Deloitte poised to replace PwC as Lloyds' auditor amid Big Four conflict (30 Aug 2018)
PwC tells new staff they can choose what hours to work (30 Aug 2018)
Transamerica Entities to Pay $97 Million to Investors Relating to Errors in Quantitative Investment Models (30 Aug 2018)
SEC Charges NFL Player and Former Goldman Sachs Investment Banker With Insider Trading (30 Aug 2018)
Insolvency overhaul to tackle 'phoenixing' (30 Aug 2018)
Franchise Quality Score: A Metric for Intangibles (30 Aug 2018)
Wonga collapses into administration (30 Aug 2018)
The Local Authority Pension Fund Forum (LAPFF) said the FRC was beyond reform and riddled with conflicting objectives (29 Aug 2018)
LAPFF Response to the Kingman Review of the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) (29 Aug 2018)
FRC Sanctions against Grant Thornton audits of Nichols Plc and the University of Salford (29 Aug 2018)
Grant Thornton in record fine as auditing scandal spreads (29 Aug 2018)
Grant Thornton Nichols Plc and University of Salford audits - Particulars of Fact and Acts of Misconduct (29 Aug 2018)
Grant Thornton Nichols Plc and University of Salford audits- Settlement Agreement (29 Aug 2018)
Grant Thornton Nichols Plc and University of Salford - Annex A to C key provisions of standards (29 Aug 2018)
UK to consider proposals to curb Big Four auditors - industry official (29 Aug 2018)
Abraaj investors criticise PwC and Deloitte (29 Aug 2018)
EY taps psychologists to improve audit quality (29 Aug 2018)
EY fined over audit of collapsed Hong Kong business (29 Aug 2018)
Big Four agree to audit cap ahead of CMA meeting (29 Aug 2018)
FRC: A return to prudence: how to restore faith in accounting (29 Aug 2018)
Big Four: A dangerous dance: when auditors are too close to the client (29 Aug 2018)
Big Four: £584m bonanza for auditors who failed to save Carillion (29 Aug 2018)
Global accounting body IASB to consider revamping 'goodwill' rule (29 Aug 2018)
Ex-Steinhoff CFO says did nothing wrong in accounting scandal (29 Aug 2018)
US regulator finds audit deficiencies at 91 percent of the firms engaged in broker-dealers audits (29 Aug 2018)
Inside insolvency: Why it is time to investigate the undertaker's of the corporate world (26 Aug 2018)
Company collapses lead to UK insolvency law clampdown (26 Aug 2018)
Insolvency: New UK crackdown on reckless directors (26 Aug 2018)
Accountants now facing parliamentary inquiry: Bean counters to be grilled on botched audits
(26 Aug 2018)
Big Four conflicts leave Lloyds banking on Deloitte as next auditor (26 Aug 2018)
Carillion was 'akin to a Ponzi scheme', says top auditor (26 Aug 2018)
£71 billion...the cost of our banks’ misconduct: Our investigation reveals the fines, fees and compensation since 2008 crisis (26 Aug 2018)
Big Four Auditors propose temporary client cap for Big Four (26 Aug 2018)
Big Four agree audit cap in bid to avoid crackdown by regulator (26 Aug 2018)
Big Four: The music's over for accounting giants (26 Aug 2018)
UK auditors, watchdog to discuss curbs on Big Four market share (26 Aug 2018)
BHS collapse: ex-owner was victim of political pressure, court hears (26 Aug 2018)
An astonishing 43.15% of Scottish Limited Partnerships are controlled by an individual with a correspondence address or citizenship in a former Soviet country (26 Aug 2018)
UK auditors, watchdog to discuss curbs on Big Four market share (25 Aug 2018)
FRC: Loyalty before duty (26 Aug 2018)
Big Four agree audit cap in bid to avoid crackdown by regulator (25 Aug 2018)
We can restore the status of auditing by nationalising it (25 Aug 2018)
Malaysian Institute of Accountants probing KPMG and Deloitte's handling of 1MDB books
(25 Aug 2018)
EY fined for auditing failures in Hong Kong 20 years ago
(25 Aug 2018)
Auditors propose temporary client cap for Big Four (25 Aug 2018)
Interview: Ian D. Gow and Stuart Kells, Authors of 'The Big Four' (25 Aug 2018)
US Enforcement actions against accountants declined last year (25 Aug 2018)
FASB change helps banks adjust to credit loss standard (25 Aug 2018)
Deloitte Australia bends retirement age rules for partners (25 Aug 2018)
KPMG saves SW fashion retailer via 'pre pack' sale (25 Aug 2018)
KPMG is on the accountancy naughty step again over Ted Baker audit (21 Aug 2018)
FRC Sanctions against KPMG and Senior Statutory Auditor in relation to the audits of Ted Baker Plc (21 Aug 2018)
KPMG fined £3m over misconduct in Ted Baker audits (21 Aug 2018)
UK Government pays Deloitte £2.6m for post-Brexit training
(21 Aug 2018)
Big Four mull spinning off audit arms (21 Aug 2018)
Company purchasers ignore voluntary 'safety net' for pre-pack (21 Aug 2018)
Infamy, infamy, the FRC has it in for me. But so it should (21 Aug 2018)
FRC done nothing to improve audit market competition says BDO (21 Aug 2018)
UK accountancy watchdog FRC 'too close' to Big Four, say critics (21 Aug 2018)
Are Facebook, Coke Next for Transfer Pricing Tax? (21 Aug 2018)
Why didn't UK regulators spot the rot at the heart of British banks?
(18 Aug 2018)
PwC partners charging £1156 per hour for work on Carillion liquidation (18 Aug 2018)
Crunch time for the big four bean counters (18 Aug 2018)
PwC partners earn £1156 per hour in Carillion liquidation (18 Aug 2018)
Work and Pension Committee Chair comments on FRC's BHS audit report (18 Aug 2018)
FRC, PwC and BHS: Letter from Frank Field to Taveta (18 Aug 2018)
MPs challenge ex-BHS owner over going concern issues (18 Aug 2018)
Book Review: 'The Big Four' by Stuart Kells and Ian D. Gow (18 Aug 2018)
Tax Abuse and Insolvency: A Discussion Document (18 Aug 2018)
Why The Big Four Accounting Firms Pose a Threat To Big Law (18 Aug 2018)
Letter from David Chapman, Official Receiver, The Insolvency Service re PwC's role as Carillion Special Managers, 29 March 2018 (18 Aug 2018)
Letter from Chris Cummings, Chief Executive, The Investment Association re Public Register of shareholders rebellion, 8 March 2018 (18 Aug 2018)
Letter from Mick Cash, General Secretary, RMT re liabilities arising from outsourcing and insolvency, 7 March 2018 (18 Aug 2018)
Letter from Ian Linnell, President, Fitch Ratings re Carillion, 20 March 2018 (18 Aug 2018)
Letter from Marina Albo, Managing Director, Corporate Finance, MoodyInvestors service, re Carillion, 21 March 2018 (18 Aug 2018)
Letter from T D G Dewar, Partner, Ernst and Young to Carillion re Pension Trustee covenant assessment dated 14 March 2013 (18 Aug 2018)
Letter from Nicholas Shott, Vice Chairman, Lazard & Co Limited on Carillion inquiry, 20 February 2018 (18 Aug 2018)
PwC failed to flag BHS risks ahead of retailer's collapse: FRC (17 Aug 2018)
FRC: Watchdog savages PwC for its auditing of collapsed BHS (17 Aug 2018)
FRC Settlement documents in relation to the 2014 audits of BHS and the Taveta Group (17 Aug 2018)
FRC Report: BHS - Particulars of Facts and Acts of Misconduct (17 Aug 2018)
FRC, BHS and PwC: High Court applies high threshold test to injunctions against public bodies (17 Aug 2018)
PwC got off too lightly after shambles of BHS audit (17 Aug 2018)
Pre-pack Administration: House of Fraser creditors owed £484m (17 Aug 2018)
House of Fraser pre-pack: still a viable option (!7 Aug 2018)
New accounting rule aims to solve problem highlighted by GE's multi-billion-dollar insurance loss
(17 Aug 2018)
The disturbing parallels between modern accounting and the business of slavery (17 Aug 2018)
Corporate Governance: Elizabeth Warren unveils bold new plan to reshape American capitalism (17 Aug 2018)
Exxon must face class-action suit over climate-change accounting (17 Aug 2018)
Even six big auditors were not sufficient (17 Aug 2018)
Why auditors are under scrutiny from regulators and investors, globally (17 Aug 2018)
Big Four accountancy firms are 'run like sweet shops for their partners' (14 Aug 2018)
Ex-KPMG Auditor Guilty of Insider Trading on Swiss Takeover (14 Aug 2018)
FRC criticises PwCs audit work at BHS (14 Aug 2018)
Exxon Mobil, The SEC, And 'Climate Accounting' (14 Aug 2018)
Even six big auditors were not sufficient (14 Aug 2018)
Watchdog FRC savages BHS auditor PwC (4 Aug 2018)
Questions from MPs as spending at FCA & City regulators balloons (14 Aug 2018)
ASIC should name firms that do poor quality audits (14 Aug 2018)
FASB proposes lessor accounting amendments (14 Aug 2018)
House of Fraser Pre-pack turned into 'phenomenal stitch-up' (11 Aug 2018)
FIFA quietly drops 'corruption' as code of ethics offence (14 Aug 2018)
Former directors face questioning over Carillion's collapse (8 Aug 2018)
FRC: No accounting for mild sanctions (8 Aug 2018)
If we are to avoid more Carillion-style failures, the auditing watchdog needs new powers to do its job properly (8 Aug 2018)
Scope and culture of FRC questioned by stakeholders (8 Aug 2018)
MPs pressure FRC to publish BHS report (8 Aug 2018)
FRC data on Big Four audits may highlight need for industry overhaul (8 Aug 2018)
Big four Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC should return to auditing roots (8 Aug 2018)
AAT said that a numbers of its recent and most high profile investigations, including HBOS and BHS, showed that the FRC is not effective (8 Aug 2018)
Corruption Watch report shows disturbing amount of bribery and embezzlement (8 Aug 2018)
PwC promotes seven new government and healthcare partners (8 Aug 2018)
FRC: Accounting watchdog should spin off corporate governance arm post- Carillion, IoD says
(7 Aug 2018)
Bosses want the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) to focus on company audits
(7 Aug 2018)
Ex-KPMG auditor faces six charges over Gupta wedding scandal (7 Aug 2018)
HSBC to pay $765m over toxic bond sales in run-up to financial crisis (7 Aug 2018)
FRC: Accounting watchdog asked why it has not published BHS report (7 Aug 2018)
Insolvency Service ramping up Carillion investigation (7 Aug 2018)
FRC: Fire engine firm AssetCo's money men banned over accounting scandal (7 Aug 2018)
FRC: Three former members of AssetCo management excluded from the accountancy profession (7 Aug 2018)
The rise of the bean counters (7 Aug 2018)
Denmark announces probe against Danske Bank over money laundering
(7 Aug 2018)
Former Member of Barbados Parliament and Minister of Industry Charged with Laundering Bribes from Barbadian Insurance Company (7 Aug 2018)
Revealed: the professions that pay the most income tax (7 Aug 2018)
FRC hands out record exclusion for misconduct (7 Aug 2018)
Manafort accountant recalls backdated documents (7 Aug 2018)
Accountant in the dock over false pension information (7 Aug 2018)
Big Four giant EY buys NewLaw firm Riverview and pledges to 'disrupt' legal market
(7 Aug 2018)
The Big Four and the revolving door (6 Aug 2018)
South Africa: Is the local auditing watchdog effective? (6 Aug 2018)
PwC Australia decline to give evidence in Rio Tinto case (6 Aug 2018)
Amazon's worth $890BN so why can't it afford morals?
(6 Aug 2018)
Big Four 'let profits affect audit views' (6 Aug 2018)
Big Four scandals highlight a lack of social utility (6 Aug 2018)
Exxon Mobil accounting probe by SEC ends with no action (6 Aug 2018)
Accounting rivals look forward to a more level playing field (6 Aug 2018)
Bank lobbyists seek to neutralise accounting shake-up (6 Aug 2018)
Law Firms Uneasy as the Big Four Make Their Big Push in Asia (6 Aug 2018)
Too many bean-counters: How an 'accounting curse' is hurting the UK economy (3 Aug 2018)
KPMG loses 20 audit clients in South Africa since 2017 (3 Aug 2018)
New report highlights scale of KPMG's losses in South Africa (3 Aug 2018)
RBS to pay first dividend in 10 years (3 Aug 2018)
Countrywide shares plunge 60% after emergency cash call (3 Aug 2018)
Grant Thornton takes over PwC Dutch Caribbean firm (3 Aug 2018)
UK audit industry under fire (2 Aug 2018)
Bad audits and beleaguered auditors are symptoms of a cancer in the body corporate. Flawed accounting standards may be part of the disease (2 Aug 2018)
Reform accounting rules to restore trust in audit (2 Aug 2018)
Smaller firms should publish gender pay gap, say MPs (2 Aug 2018)
Rolls-Royce profits hit by engine faults (2 Aug 2018)
Mishcon de Reya complains about UK anti-tax evasion measures (2 Aug 2018)
IFRS 16: how to ensure your house is in order ahead of January 2019 deadline (2 Aug 2018)
EY set to administer potential House of Fraser collapse (2 Aug 2018)
Former Tesco finance director will not face fraud trial with others (1 Aug 2018)
Blow for House of Fraser as Chinese firm drops plan to invest (1 Aug 2018)
The big flaw: auditing in crisis (1 Aug 2018)
FTSE 100 pension schemes post accounting surplus for first time in nearly a decade
(1 Aug 2018)
PwC boosts legal revenues to as accountancy giant continues push into law
(1 Aug 2018)
Deloitte latest Big Four player to offer legal services (1 Aug 2018)
Big Four firm networks continue to dominate the global accounting market as combined revenues hit $200.12bn (1 Aug 2018)
BDO pulls further ahead of the AIM Advisor Rankings (1 Aug 2018)

July 2018

Auditors are the only ones who do not trust company audits (31 Jul 2018)
UK firm PwC criticised over bid for major Saudi Arabia contract (31 Jul 2018)
Accountants spell out complaints on regulator (31 Jul 2018)
Misinformation And "Maxwellisation": Taveta Investments Limited v. The Financial Reporting Council (31 Jul 2018)
Mergers may hold the answer to challenging the Big Four auditors (31 Jul 2018)
City watchdog has no power to take action against RBS over disgraced small business restructuring unit
(30 Jul 2018)
A 'shorter, sharper corporate code', but will it work? (31 Jul 2018)
KPMG's new risk officer needs some summer reading (31 Jul 2018)
HMRC: Loan scheme tax loophole that replaced income with loans closed (31 Jul 2018)
Global Witness Report - The Companies We Keep (31 Jul 2018)
GROUNDBREAKING ANALYSIS OF THE OWNERS OF UK COMPANIES UNCOVERS SERIOUS MONEY LAUNDERING RISKS (31 Jul 2018)
Wylfa nuclear advisers Arup and PWC in conflict of interest row (30 Jul 2018)
New evidence could see BHS directors investigated (30 Jul 2018)
Grant Thornton cleared in Globo implosion probe (30 Jul 2018)
FRC Closure of investigation into Grant Thornton's UK audits of Globo Plc (30 Jul 2018)
Samuel Smith brewery fined for failing to hand over pension details (30 Jul 2018)
Profession commits to audit quality in the US (30 Jul 2018)
Steinhoff's ex-Europe CFO quits as accounts probe deepens (27 Jul 2018)
PricewaterhouseCoopers Avoids Age Bias Class Action, for Now (27 Jul 2018)
Deloitte to Join Big 4 Legal Race in Singapore With Foreign Law Firm (27 Jul 2018)
Papa John's founder sues pizza chain (27 Jul 2018)
Shell launches $25 billion buyback plan, second-quarter profits miss (27 Jul 2018)
FRC highlights good practice and scope for improvements in audits of pension obligations (26 Jul 2018)
UK accounting watchdog flags serious problems with pensions reporting (26 Jul 2018)
KPMG South Africa loses clients over audit scandal
(25 Jul 2018)
Voices From artificial intelligence to accounting intelligence (25 Jul 2018)
Total fee income for Big Four up 6% (25 Jul 2018)
Global Witness: Scots 'tax haven' firms still mired in secrecy (25 Jul 2018)
Number of accountants hits record 530,000 (25 Jul 2018)
Reports of money laundering, cybercrime and dubious investment schemes all on the rise, says the SRA
(25 Jul 2018)
ICAEW takes voluntary approach to firms publishing probate prices (25 Jul 2018)
The missing profits of nations (24 Jul 2018)
Researchers urge IASB to launch hybrid pension accounting project (24 Jul 2018)
FRC: Accountants increasing in numbers and more focus is given to diversity and inclusion in the profession (24 Jul 2018)
FRC: Key Facts and Trends in the Accountancy Profession (24 Jul 2018)
Auditor KPMG aims to avoid future scandals (24 Jul 2018)
KPMG's chief risk officer must become an expectation manager (24 Jul 2018)
Big Four firm EY appoints 71 new equity partners (24 Jul 2018)
Insolvency: Deloitte to manage Gaucho administration with hundreds of jobs at stake (24 Jul 2018)
Tips for understanding critical audit matters (24 Jul 2018)
Carillion-auditor KPMG appoints first chief risk officer
(23 Jul 2018)
KPMG appoints risk management chief after accounting scandals (23 Jul 2018)
PwC appoints financial services risk and regulation practice leader (23 Jul 2018)
Big four auditors hold talks on shift 'from four to more' (23 Jul 2018)
Auditing The Auditors - Recent audit failures are bringing new scrutiny to the dominance and business practices of the Big Four accounting firms (23 Jul 2018)
Make auditing a public service? (23 Jul 2018)
OECD discussion draft on transfer pricing for financial transactions avoids key issues (23 Jul 2018)
Concerns raised about 'too big to fail' KPMG (20 Jul 2018)
Bank of England probed risks to KPMG's viability after string of scandals (19 Jul 2018)
Bank of England 'probed' strength of KPMG's business (20 Jul 2018)
Professional Competition in Global Tax Reform: Transparency in Global Wealth Chains (20 Jul 2018)
The Missing Profits of Nations (20 Jul 2018)
KPMG survives shareholder revolt at Premier Foods (19 Jul 2018)
UK gov't to force large companies to report CO2 emissions from
April 2019 (19 Jul 2018)
Fat cats: Royal Mail hit by shareholder revolt over bosses' pay - 70% say NO (19 Jul 2018)
FASB issues 16 minor amendments to lease accounting standard (19 Jul 2018)
Sean Connery paid accountant in Bond suits (19 Jul 2018)
Poachers and Gamekeepers, Revolvilg Doors: Dodwell, former head of tax at Deloitte, named as member of the GAAR advisory panel (19 Jul 2018)
Insolvency: Poundworld to disappear from the High Street (19 Jul 2018)
Insolvency: More than 500 Gaucho workers lose jobs as restaurant group folds (19 Jul 2018)
Why the new Code governing corporations isn't worth the paper it's written on (18 Jul 2018)
Insurers to spend millions more than expected to meet accounting standards
(18 Jul 2018)
Insolvency: Barclays and KPMG plotted to let a stone firm go bust, it says (18 Jul 2018)
Carillion's collapse marks the start of a surge in accounting fraud
(18 Jul 2018)
Letter from PwC to Frank Field and Rachel Reeves on Carillion, 19 June 2018 (18 Jul 2018)
Letter from The Hospital Company to the Chairs on Carillion, 21 February 2018 (18 Jul 2018)
Toshiba may face renewed shareholder accounting claims (18 Jul 2018)
What Mining Can Learn from Oil: A Study of Special Transfer Pricing Practices in the Oil Sector, and their Potential Application to Hard Rock Minerals (18 Jul 2018)
Insolvency: Gaucho restaurant chain collapses (18 Jul 2018)
Investors should intervene to stop high executive pay (18 Jul 2018)
Executive pay ratio reporting: Six issues for employers to consider now (18 Jul 2018)
PWC was protected against conflict of interest in Carillion liquidation, MPs told
(18 Jul 2018)
Fraud trial of two Italian ex-banking chiefs begins (18 Jul 2018)
Grant Thornton to merge with BDO in South Africa (18 Jul 2018)
FRC: Watchdogs must be on their mettle to see the next crisis (17 Jul 2018)
FRC fines increase almost a quarter this year (17 Jul 2018)
Do the FRC's new corporate governance rules go far enough? (17 Jul 2018)
Corporate Governance: Rocketing pay and scandals persist despite regulators' best intentions (17 Jul 2018)
Harlequin Property asks ICAEW to investigate Wilkins Kennedy (17 Jul 2018)
PwC replaces Deloitte as Linklaters auditor after Arsenal lawsuit (17 Jul 2018)
Progress on gender diversity stalls at UK's biggest companies (17 Jul 2018)
FTSE 350 senior level gender diversity flatlining (17 Jul 2018)
Women Count 2018 Report (17 Jul 2018)
Ernst & Young (EY) promotes 747 new partners (17 Jul 2018)
Is PRA reintroducing Big Four only clauses? MPs ask (16 Jul 2018)
MPs flag concerns over 'Big Four only' bank audit rules (16 Jul 2018)
Carillion next steps: Committees write to PRA querying Goldman Sacks/Grant Thornton (16 Jul 2018)
Grant Thornton and Goldman Sachs: Letter from the Chairs to Prudential Regulation Authority (16 Jul 2018)
PRA worried by concentration of auditors for banks (16 Jul 2018)
FRC issues the revised UK Corporate Governance Code (16 Jul 2018)
FRc Guidance on Board Effectiveness (16 Jul 2018)
How KPMG and McKinsey tanked their reputations in a year (16 Jul 2018)
Employees at Deloitte are calling for the firm to end its consulting for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (16 Jul 2018)
Can we afford the City of London? (16 Jul 2018)
Charity watchdog probes pro-Brexit anti-NHS think tank - the Institute of Economic Affairs (16 Jul 2018)
India's capital market regulator proposes tighter rules for auditors (16 Jul 2018)
Auditing Reform in India - Consultation Paper on proposed SEBI (Fiduciaries in the Securities Market) (Amendment) Regulations (16 Jul 2018)
Do auditors no longer put principle before profit? (16 Jul 2018)
Are all audit certificates therefore valueless? (13 Jul 2018)
PRA worried by concentration of auditors for banks (13 Jul 2018)
Why audit fees must rise (13 Jul 2018)
Biggest UK auditors hold secret talks to avert watchdog probe (13 Jul 2018)
South Korea regulator says Samsung BioLogics violated accounting rules (13 Jul 2018)
The Turnbull report and HBOS frauds - the Business Secretary is asked: "whether he has invited any regulatory body to bring charges against the parties named in that report". He passes the buck to the FCA (13 Jul 2018)
Government refuses to create an Ombudsman for insolvency disputes (13 Jul 2018)
Is the FRC a Public or a Private Body- The Minister says our regulatory bodies are subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 with the exception of the Financial Reporting Council which is subject to the Act for some but not all of its functions (13 Jul 2018)
The Secretary of State has delegated responsibility for overseeing the work of recognised supervisory bodies (RSBs) to the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) (13 Jul 2018)
Documents held at Companies house are Illegible (13 Jul 2018)
KPMG sells loan portfolio advisory business (13 Jul 2018)
At 27 June 2018, 3,263 UK companies report that they have between 500 and 1,000 employees; and 3,573 UK companies report that they have more than 1,000 employees (13 Jul 2018)
Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy lists the regulatory bodies sponsored by his Department (13 Jul 2018)
Auditing: The governemnt has no plans to reduce the number of recognised supervisory bodies (13 Jul 2018)
The government says there are currently five Recognised Professional Bodies regulating insolvency (13 Jul 2018)
Insolvency: The Insolvency Service, an executive agency of the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, regulates the Recognised Professional Bodies (13 Jul 2018))

The Tories let Brexit divide and polarise our society. Now they must face the consequences
(12 Jul 2018)
How the 'big four' accounting firms could threaten the global economy (12 Jul 2018)
House of Commons Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and Work and Pensions Committees - Carillion: Responses from Interested Parties to the Tenth
Report of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee and Twelfth Report of the Work and Pensions Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Breaking up is hard to do, say auditors (12 Jul 2018)
FRC sets out bucket list of powers (12 Jul 2018)
Prudential Regulation Authority concerned by Big Four dominance (12 Jul 2018)
Bank of England broadens bank stress tests to include extra buffers (12 Jul 2018)
Deloitte warns breaking up Big Four auditors would hurt City's reputation (12 Jul 2018)
FRC: Watchdog demands more power over auditors (12 Jul 2018)
KPMG chairman defends audit of Carillion (12 Jul 2018)
ICAEW blames others for audit failures: Company managers must face equal scrutiny (12 Jul 2018)
Changes needed so FRC can act faster, says Haddrill (12 Jul 2018)
Blow to KPMG as Old Mutual appoints second auditor (12 Jul 2018)
Reining in the 'Big Four' accountancy giants (11 Jul 2018)
PwC steps back from Wasps role over 'falsified' information (11 Jul 2018)
PRA boss 'worried' over Big Four audit quality (11 Jul 2018)
US regulator to examine auditors' 'going concern' reporting (11 Jul 2018)
Revolving Doors: Sainsbury Taps Deloitte Veteran as Chairman Before Asda Deal (11 Jul 2018)
Accounting, de-risking moves bolster Swiss pension plan funding (11 Jul 2018)
How the Big Four are embedded in EU policy-making on tax avoidance (10 Jul 2018)
Accounting for influence: how the Big Four are embedded in EU policy-making on tax avoidance (10 Jul 2018)
Big Four paid millions to advise Brussels on tax policy (10 Jul 2018)
Bank queries appointment of Grant Thornton as Goldman auditor (10 Jul 2018)
Reversing Financialisation: Shareholder Value and the Legal Reform of Corporate Governance (10 Jul 2018)
One disaster can shrink Big Four accountants to three (10 Jul 2018)
Revolving Doors: Big Four invited to attend Trump dinner (10 Jul 2018)
UK fight against money laundering is fragmented and overwhelmed, MPs told
(10 Jul 2018)
BHS: Surrounding himself with 'yes' men was Philip Green's undoing (10 Jul 2018)
ICAEW wants more debate on auditor scepticism (10 Jul 2018)
Shareholder protests against auditors on rise as KPMG is singled out (9 Jul 2018)
Premier Foods CEO could be forced out by shareholder revolt (9 Jul 2018)
FRC: the watchdog that barked too late (9 Jul 2018)
Carillion collapse exposed government outsourcing flaws report (9 Jul 2018)
House of Commons Report - After Carillion: Public Sector Outsourcing and Contracting (9 Jul 2018
CMA challenges big audit firms to address competitiveness
(9 Jul 2018)
Fury over £6m payday for building society fat cats as branches close and jobs are axed (9 Jul 2018)
Big Four are told to loosen grip on audits (9 Jul 2018)
PwC steps back from Wasps role over 'falsified' information (9 Jul 2018)
After decades of following a failed economic model, we need to reshape the state
(6 Jul 2018)
Former KPMG SA partner faces six charges in Gupta case (6 Jul 2018)
Should CEOs Have Term Limits Like Deloitte's Cathy Engelbert?
(6 Jul 2018)
Frank Field pressures FRC to publish BHS audit findings (6 Jul 2018)
Almost 240 companies 'named and shamed' by government for failing to pay minimum wage
(6 Jul 2018)
Danske Bank's Money Laundering Tops $8 Billion, Browder Says (6 Jul 2018)
It's wrong to expect auditors to be prophets (6 Jul 2018)
SEC Charges KBR for Inflating Key Performance Metric and Accounting Controls Deficiencies (6 Jul 2018)
Will the Big 4 Accountants survive their own Corporate Governance crisis? (5 Jul 2018)
BHS: Going concern regular issue in audit failures, says Field (5 Jul 2018)
KPMG was a key witness as investment firm Abraaj unraveled (5 Jul 2018)
Former BDO director jailed for defrauding pensioners (5 Jul 2018)
Poundworld founder's rescue bid rejected by administrators (5 Jul 2018)
Companies House has no information about how many non-UK resident directors of UK registered companies have criminal convictions. (5 Jul 2018)
Companies House has no information about how many UK resident directors of UK registered companies have criminal convictions (5 Jul 2018)
Companies House: Having a criminal conviction does not preclude a person from being a director (5 Jul 2018)
UK Supreme Court's judgment in Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs v Pendragon plc and others [2015] UKSC 37 said that the KPMG tax avoidance scheme was an "abuse of law". This has not been followed by any investigation, prosecution or fine (5 Jul 2018)
Vanguard settles for $90m in lawsuit with scandal-ridden Reit (5 Jul 2018)
A 'Fight Club' remake, starring only accountants (5 Jul 2018)
Noel Edmonds claims HBOS scandal will 'cost over £1bn' (5 Jul 2018)
Chancellor refuses to say when (a) he and (b) officials in his Department were made aware of the draft Turnbull Report on alleged frauds at HBOS (5 Jul 2018)

Italian Professors Confirm False Accounting and Double Nature of Bank 'Money' (5 Jul 2018)
Shaming of KPMG: Big Four accountant faces SEVENTH probe (4 Jul 2018)
Parliamentary Committee questions to FRC on its BHS audit report (4 Jul 2018)
BHS: Letter from the Chair to the Financial Reporting Council (4 Jul 2018)
MPs pressure FRC over BHS findings (4 Jul 2018)
BHS audits and FRC - Read the Hight Court jugdment - Taveta Investments Limited -v- The Financial Reporting Council & Others [2018] EWHC 1662 (4 Jul 2018)
Accounting body IASB delays work on DB pension surplus refund rules (4 Jul 2018)
THE REGULATORY COMPASS: TOWARDS A PURPOSE-DRIVEN APPROACH TO FINANCIAL REGULATION (4 Jul 2018)
Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee- Sourcing public services: lessons learned from the collapse of Carillion inquiry - Evidence submitted by Professor Adam Leaver (4 Jul 2018)
US Oil Executive Pay Increasingly Tied To Investor Returns (4 Jul 2018)
Arcadia owner will not launch legal action on BHS report publication (4 Jul 2018)
Big four firms: Hold to Account - auditors are flawed (4 Jul 2018)
SIG appoints EY as external auditor (4 Jul 2018)
They are fighting to save their skins: UK Group to Explore Broader, More Accessible Audit Role (4 Jul 2018)
Serious Fraud Office ends Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) Libor probes because of "insufficient evidence"
(4 Jul 2018)
Alleged Danish Bank Fraud Total More than Doubles to $8.3 Billion (4 Jul 2018)
FRC Investigation into KPMG audit the financial statements of Conviviality plc (3 Jul 2018)
KPMG faces hard questions as watchdogs announce probe into Conviviality audit
(3 Jul 2018)
Corporate buybacks are the only thing keeping the stock market afloat
(3 Jul 2018)
How licensed public accountants have betrayed the nations (3 Jul 2018)
It's open season on auditors as others dodge the bullet (3 Jul 2018)
Money laundering: Prem Sikka evidence to the the House of Commons Treasury Committee for its inquiry into economic crime (3 Jul 2018)
EY wins SIG contract amid weak competition (3 Jul 2018)
EY set to take over as auditor for SIG (3 Jul 2018)
Corporate share buybacks are the only thing keeping the stock market afloat
(3 Jul 2018)
Auditing watchdogs should remind the Big Four of their public duty (3 Jul 2018)
Steinhoff takes $12 billion writedown after accounting scandal (2 Jul 2018)
PwC ordered to pay $625m over Colonial Bank collapse (2 Jul 2018)
US Federal judge awards FDIC $625 million from PwC, in largest ever auditor liability award
(2 Jul 2018)
Big Four accounting firms scrutinised by competition watchdog (2 Jul 2018)
Big Four risk losing public trust, says KPMG (2 Jul 2018)
Green considers suing FRC over the publication of BHS' audit report
(2 Jul 2018)
FRC: Audit watchdog faces questions about its own behaviour (2 Jul 2018)
Insolvency: Poundworld founder rips into Deloitte for ignoring rescue bid (2 Jul 2018)
Melanie McLaren leaves embattled Financial Reporting Council (FRC) (2 Jul 2018)
Top director Melanie Hind quits UK audit regulator FRC (2 Jul 2018)
Ex-Bankrate CFO Pleads Guilty to $25M Fraud (2 Jul 2018)
Future of Deloitte US CEO in doubt (2 Jul 2018)
PwC announces promotion of 54 equity partners (2 Jul 2018)
Australian accounting standards in biggest shake-up since 2005 (2 Jul 2018)
KPMG rejects claim it watered down client report (2 Jul 2018)

June 2018

To help small businesses we must curb the banks' greedy appetites (29 Jun 2018)
Sir Philip Green's firm fails in attempt to block FRC's BHS audit report
(29 Jun 2018)
FRC publishes a list of companies whose Report and Accounts have been reviewed (29 Jun 2018)
FRC- Company Names Published in June 2018 (28 Jun 2018)
FRC Investigation into Deloitte and the financial statements of SIG plc (29 Jun 2018)
UK's accounts watchdog opens probe into Deloitte's audit of SIG's financial statements (29 Jun 2018)
Carillion under investigation for insider trading (29 Jun 2018)
KPMG France falls foul of US audit watchdog (29 Jun 2018)
Bankrate ex-CFO pleads guilty in US to accounting fraud scheme (29 Jun 2018)
Deloitte Insolvency expert faces Comet conduct inquiry (29 Jun 2018)
How to get away with financial fraud - Some of the world 's biggest scandals have gone unspotted for years. The nature of fraud is that it works outside our field of vision (29 Jun 2018)
Inside the Steinhoff saga, one of the biggest cases of corporate fraud in South African history (29 Jun 2018)
PwC resigns as auditor for Wasps after recent accounts revealed 'falsified' information and "uncertainty
(29 Jun 2018)
Deloitte Leadership Battle Leaves CEO's Future in Question ( (29 Jun 2018)
Deloitte's US leadership thrown into doubt (29 Jun 2018)
Accounting fraud and accounting standards (27 Jun 2018)
Aflac Deceived Shareholders with Cookie Jar Accounting" (27 Jun 2018)
Brexit: bank contracts worth trillions at risk, says finance watchdog (27 Jun 2018)
FTSE 350 firms falling short of female board member targets (27 Jun 2018)
Treasury Committee presses for maximum transparency over "shocking" HBOS Reading crime (27 Jun 2018)
Banking scandals like the £245m HBOS fraud in Reading are damaging the UK's social fabric
(27 Jun 2018)
Make reportable events an issue for auditors (27 Jun 2018)
KPMG terminated as 1MDB auditors during March 2013 financial audit (26 Jun 2018)
KPMG Malaysia says 1MDB audits from 2010 to 2012 were unreliabl
(26 Jun 2018)
Clarks boss resigns following investigation (26 Jun 2018)
25 Years Ago I Coined the Phrase Triple Bottom Line. Here's Why It's Time to Recall It (26 Jun 2018)
Former VBS audit partners to sue KPMG SA (26 Jun 2018)
SEC Commissioner Calls for Review as Buybacks Surge to $4.7 Billion a Day (26 Jun 2018)
Auditors and accountants behaving badly (26 Jun 2018)
FRC's new Sanctions Guidance - the changes considered (26 Jun 2018)
Countrywide seeks fresh funding as property sales slide (26 Jun 2018)
What Is Equity in Finance, Accounting and Real Estate? (26 Jun 2018)
Damaged Goods book review: A page-turning insight into Sir Philip Green and the BHS scandal (25 Jun 2018)
How shamed Philip Green went from lowly salesman to greedy BHS tycoon
(25 Jun 2018)
MP threatens to publish full BHS report (25 Jun 2018)
PwC partner backdated his BHS audit, says chairman (25 Jun 2018)
Countrywide shares fall 20% on profit warning (25 Jun 2018)
What the BHS case means for the Big Four (25 Jun 2018)
Big Four: Will increasing competition actually help audit? (25 Jun 2018)
MPs call for another investigation into KPMG over HBOS (25 Jun 2018)
Letter from the Carillion Inquiry Chair to The Pensions Regulator (25 Jun 2018)
Carillion: Correspondence from The Pensions Regulator dated 11 June 2018 (25 Jun 2018)
IFRS 15: BT expects adverse impact from adoption of new accounting standards (25 Jun 2018)
A plea for accountants to become boring again (25 Jun 2018)
UK Treasury pressed on HBOS fraud 'cover-up' report (25 Jun 2018)
One in four firms hurt by insolvencies in wake of Carillion collapse and retail woe
(25 Jun 2018)
Deloitte granted licence to provide legal services (25 Jun 2018)
Toshiba escapes penalty after US accounting probe (25 Jun 2018)
Australia: Big four accountancy firms must be included in Royal Commission
(25 Jun 2018)
Aryzta criticised by accounting watchdog over borrowing agreement 'breach' disclosures (25 Jun 2018)
Boss of Premier Foods faces calls to quit from its biggest investor
(25 Jun 2018)
Many companies have assets that may not be recorded under current accounting rules (25 Jun 2018)
Auditors need a stronger incentive to stand up to clients (25 Jun 2018)
No one wants to chair 'toxic' Project Flora audit review (25 Jun 2018)
Ernst & Young is Blue Sky's auditor and landlord (25 Jun 2018)
The UK's financial regulators are presiding over widespread corporate failure (22 Jun 2018)
A people-centred approach to bank branch closure is needed
(22 Jun 2018)
Parliamentary group calls for probe of Lloyds, KPMG over HBOS fraud (22 Jun 2018)
MPs press for a probe into KPMG over HBOS Reading (22 Jun 2018)
HBOS Frauds: Draft Project Lord Turnbull Report published by All Party Parliamentary Group on Fair Banking (22 Jun 2018)
Sir Philip Green launches legal bid to gag BHS-related report (22 Jun 2018)
BHS auditor Steve Denison 'did two hours work on file' (22 Jun 2018)
FRC questions RPC's reporting compliance (22 Jun 2018)
Deloitte gets its legal licence (22 Jun 2018)
The following UK bodies have regulatory responsibility for companies, company law, corporate governance, accounting standards, audit and auditors (22 Jun 2018)
The UK non-statutory bodies, including the Takeover Panel and Financial Reporting Council, have been given statutory powers under the Companies Act 2006 and other financial services legislation; and which bodies perform comparable functions voluntarily (22 Jun 2018)
UK government and the FRC will review management of the FRC given the FRC confirmed public body status (22 Jun 2018)
Ex-Anglo Irish Bank (audited by Ernst & Young) chief David Drumm sentenced to six years in jail (21 Jun 2018)
The auditor (KPMG) of Citi, Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank was tipped off before regulatory inspection - KPMG employees would receive bonuses if their engagements received no comments from inspectors (21 Jun 2018)
Big bank auditor KPMG was tipped off before US regulatory inspections (21 Jun 2018)
The senior auditor from PwC signed off BHS's accounts days before its sale by Sir Philip Green backdated his audit opinion and spent just two hours working on the file (21 Jun 2018)
Internal PwC memo on BHS audit says that audit partner "failed to carry out these responsibilities appropriately, delegating too much work to a junior team member and only recording two hours of work during the completion stage" (21 Jun 2018)
HBOS: Government urged to force action & end “the great insolvency scam (21 Jun 2018)
FCA and HBOS Fraud: ANDREW BAILEY RESPONSE TO SME ALLIANCE LETTER 7/5/18 (21 Jun 2018)
Parliamentary Questions to PWC and banned partner Steve Denison over discredited BHS audit (21 Jun 2018)
BHS Letter from Frank Field to PricewaterhouseCoopers (21 Jun 2018)
BHS Letter from Frank Field to Steve Denison (21 Jun 2018)
Former co-chair of BHS inquiry questions PwC over its auditing (21 Jun 2018)
MP demands answers from PwC over BHS audit (21 Jun 2018)
KPMG won BBVA audit with stolen data about rival's inspections (21 Jun 2018)
No More Auditors, Please (21 Jun 2018)
FRC Sanctions against former Finance Director of RSM Tenon (21 Jun 2018)
FRC excludes former RSM Tenon finance director (21 Mar 2018)
BDO: Rangers oldco liquidation leaves creditors with £1.4m after 'disgraceful' £20m cost (21 Jun 2018)
Big Four accountancy firms dubbed a 'cancer' after KPMG lashing
(20 Jun 2018)
BHS: Frank Field questions Green's legal action against FRC (20 Jun 2018)
BT prepares for rebellion over KPMG audit switch (20 Jun 2018)
Explosive report published into Lloyds's handling of HBos fraud case
(20 Jun 2018)
Lloyds under pressure as HBOS fraud report made public (20 Jun 2018)
Intangible concerns: Goodwill and the risk of pro-cyclicality in corporate America (20 Jun 2018)
AQI 2018: Moore Stephens says first review 'somewhat disappointing (20 Jun 2018)
Pressures build after KPMG steers off course (20 Jun 2018)
The accounting regulator has questions for RPC (20 Jun 2018)
FRC fines - more of an issue for audit firms than the threat of civil litigation (20 Jun 2018)
Pensions Regulator admits faults over Carillion crisis (20 Jun 2018)
McDonald's representatives to appear before special EU tax committee (20 Jun 2018)
KPMG's audit work unacceptable, says watchdog (19 Jun 2018)
KPMG singled out in critical report on audit industry (19 Jun 2019)
FRC: Big Four Audit Quality Review results decline (19 Jun 2018)
Maybe the Big Four Auditing Firms Do Need to Be Broken Up (19 Jun 2018)
Big Four accountants counting on capped market share to avoid break-up
(19 Jun 2018)
AQI 2018: KPMG under increased scrutiny over 'unacceptable' decline in audit quality (19 Jun 2018)
AQI 2018: decline in audit quality at Big Four firms (19 Jun 2018)
AQI 2018: PwC fails to adequately challenge management (19 Jun 2018)
AQI 2018: Deloitte pulled up on its assessment of componenent auditorss' work (10 Jun 2018)
AQI 2018: Ernst & Youn (EY) bank audits under fire as AQI score falls (19 Jun 2018)
AQI 2018: Grant Thornton told to work on auditor independence issues (19 Jun 2018)
Russian Hackers Specifically Targeting US Accounting Firms (19 Jun 2018)
We need to talk about breaking the dominance of the big accounting firms (19 Jun 2018)
Young auditors left with ethical questions after KPMG debacle (19 Jun 2018)
How to start audit of Big Four... break them up (18 Jun 2018)
RSA accounting probe nearing completion (18 Jun 2018)
Carillion's troubles were shrouded in a fog of goodwill (18 Jun 2018)
Philip Green to battle FRC over BHS probe (18 Jun 2018)
Watchdog (FRC) pressured over Sir Philip Green influence on BHS report (18 Jun 2018)
Big Four under scrutiny for being too cosy with audit clients in regions (18 Jun 2018)
Unconventional accounting at Gupta-owned VR Laser (18 Jun 2018)
Andersen strengthens foothold in UK (18 Jun 2018)
Fines from disciplinary hearings passed by FRC to RSBs from 2012 to 2016 (18 Jun 2018)
It is Arriving - Blockchain Accounting and Audit (18 Jun 2018)
Green sparks legal battle with FRC over BHS audit verdict
(15 Jun 2018)
Sir Philip Green challenges report into BHS audit (15 Jun 2018)
Dominic Chappell mulls legal action over PwC's discredited BHS audit (15 Jun 2018)
Former MEP says 'fatally flawed' FRC should be shut down (15 Jun 2018)
Chinese sportswear firms reject allegations of improper accounting (15 Jun 2018)
Next Bank of England chairman was backer of BHS (15 Jun 2018)
Corporate Governance: Six governance principles for large private companies (15 Jun 2018)
Wall Street Bankers Pile Leverage Onto Riskiest US Buyouts (15 Jun 2018)
MPs press FRC to reveal details of PwC BHS fine (14 Jun 2018)
The failure of accountancy's big four has one solution: nationalisation (14 Jun 2018)
FRC asked to widen probe into PwC's BHS audits (14 Jun 2018)
Financial Reporting Council's (FRC) silence on PWC fines over audit of BHS is condemned
(14 Jun 2018)
MPs threaten to publish internal Lloyds report into HBOS Reading fraud
(14 Jun 2018)
Addressing lack of accountability in SA's accounting, auditing profession (14 Jun 2018)
Another hammer falls on KPMG, McKinsey as Gauteng govt terminates contracts
(14 Jun 2018)
Cutting ties with Gupta-linked firms 'a victory against corruption' (14 Jun 2018)
The Big Four are failing their auditing responsibilities and need to be reformed (14 Jun 2018)
UK Supreme Court restores avoidance finding in Project Blue SDLT case (14 Jun 2018)
Industry supports new money laundering rules for Scottish LPs (14 Jun 2018)
Simply Be and High & Mighty owner to close all 20 UK stores
(14 Jun 2018)
MPs call for scrutiny of PwC auditing of Philip Green's retail empire (13 Jun 2018)
Chair of Work and Pensions Committee comments on unprecedented fine to PWC for its BHS pre-sale audit (13 Jun 2018)
Letter to the Financial Reporting Council about BHS audit and PwC (13 Jun 2018)
Dutch shareholders in Steinhoff sue accountants Deloitte (13 Jun 2018)
UK Prosecutions for white collar crime continue to fall (13 Jun 2018)
Government signals support for FRC and IFRS post-Brexit (13 Jun 2018)
Abolish 'alpha-male' culture to encourage progression of women in finance (13 Jun 2018)
FRC and Brexit: Framework for the UK-EU partnership Company law (accounting and audit) (13 Jun 2018)
Recent Key Cases on Accountants Liabilities (13 Jun 2018)
Audit Within the Corporate Governance Paradigm: a. Cornerstone Built on Shifting Sand (13 Jun 2018)
Tories' proposals are (unsurprisingly) toothless against fat-cattery (12 Jun 2018)
Senior PwC auditor of BHS accounts faces 15-year ban and hefty fine (12 Jun 2018)
PwC fined millions over BHS audit (12 Jun 2018)
FRC Sanctions against PwC and former audit partner in relation to BHS (12 Jun 2018)
Air Partner writes off £4m overstatement (12 Jun 2018)
Insolvency changes to avoid next BHS could 'force more liquidations' (12 Jun 2018)
Fall in fraud prosecutions linked to police and CPS cuts (12 Jun 2018)
Two ex-Penn West executives must face US SEC fraud charges (12 Jun 2018)
Monitoring Group says widespread support for audit standards reform (12 Jun 2018)
KPMG fined £3m for insufficient 'scepticism' over Quindell
(11 Jun 2018)
FRC Sanctions in relation to the audit of Quindell plc (audited by KPMG) (11 Jun 2018)
Corruption Gutted South Africa's Tax Agency. Now the Nation Is Paying the Price - KPMG and Auditing firms
(11 Jun 2018)
Can auditors save their integrity? (11 Jun 2018)
PwC faces £5m fine over handling of BHS audit (11 Jun 2018)
PwC braced for record fine over its role in auditing collapsed BHS (11 Jun 2018)
UK's biggest firms will have to justify pay gap between bosses and their workers (11 Jun 2018)
Campaign Against Money Launderers Leads to 20% Drop in UK Fines - Accountants Fined (11 Jun 2018)
Pensions: EU advisers approve controversial DB changes (11 Jun 2018)
Tax evasion deprives the EU of 20% of corporate taxes (11 Jun 2018)
U.S. Companies Shelter 40 Percent Of Foreign Profits, Study Finds (11 Jun 2018)
Poundworld falls into administration, putting 5000 jobs at risk (11 Jun 2018)
Deloitte appointed administrators of Poundworld (11 Jun 2018)
Corporations continue profit-shifting to tax havens even with lower tax rates
(11 Jun 2018)
FDI: multinational firms have invested $12 trillion globally in empty corporate shells (11 Jun 2018)
What changed? FRC brings action in Autonomy scandal (11 Jun 2018)
The RBS sell-off can't hide the Tories' failure to clean up its rotten culture (8 Jun 2018)
Auditor PwC gets £55m of savers' cash from bust firm
(8 Jun 2018)
Fat cats: Pay revolt at Ladbrokes owner GVC forces director to quit role (8 Jun 2018)
Revolving doors: Key Senate GOP tax staffer lands at PricewaterhouseCoopers (8 Jun 2018)
Poundworld prepares to appoint administrators in bid to avert collapse (8 Jun 2018)
A Mitie push to escape stench over Carillion collapse
(8 Jun 2018)
Insolvency firms - in the fee firing line again (8 Jun 2018)
Insolvency experts call for CVA reforms (8 Jun 2018)
Dash for Cash: Deloitte acquires international law offices (8 Jun 2018)
Fat cats: Businesses must rein in executive pay, parliament told (8 Jun 2018)
United States: Will The Call For Mandatory Audit Firm Rotation Be Renewed (8 Jun 2018)
Profession must act on lessons of Carillion, says Izza (8 Jun 2018)
Carillion hoodwinked the Government and many others with published accounts nd further questions on Big 4 conflicts of interest emerge (7 Jun 2018)
MPs ask PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) to explain its £50m cut for its work on Carillion - Letter from Frank Field and Rachel Reeves to PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP on Carillion, conflict of interest (7 Jun 2018)
Carillion Letter from Frank Field and Rachel Reeves to Official Receiver and Liquidator on PwC conflicts of interest (7 Jun 2018)
National Audit Office Full Report: Investigation into the government's handling of the collapse of Carillion (7 Jun 2018)
National Audit Office Report Summary - Investigation into the government's handling of the collapse of Carillion (7 Jun 2018)
Carillion's accountants and lawyers will get £70m to manage collapse
(7 Jun 2018)
Carillion collapse to cost taxpayers £148m (7 Jun 2018)
Carillion collapse puts Irish firm into liquidation (7 Jun 2018)
Revolving Doors: Former MP, Minister and Chair of House of Commons BEIS Committee Iain Wright to take on Institute of Chartered Accountants role (7 Jun 2018)
Review of accounting watchdog( FRC) to consider its closure (7 Jun 2018)
US Tax reform boosts consulting revenue for accounting firms (7 Jun 2018)
Deloitte appoints 54 new UK partners - the firm has 2300 European partner
(7 Jun 2018)
Independent review (Kingman Review) of the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) launches call for evidence (6 Jun 2018)
Pressure building on UK audit regulator's leadership as inquiry begins (5 Jun 2018)
The Triumph of the Accountants by Richard Brooks who guards the guards (5 Jun 2018)
Four people charged in Formula 1 film tax scam, including a former EY partner and former chairman of the South Wales branch of the Chartered Institute of Taxation (5 Jun 2018)
UK: Auditors Avoiding Liability Even Where There Is Negligence (5 Jun 2018)
All-male job shortlists banned by accountancy giant PwC (5 Jun 2018)
Audit market is the issue, not FRC, says ICSA (5 Jun 2018)
Book Review: The Politics of Financial Risk, Audit and Regulation: A Case Study of HBOS by Atul K. Shah (5 Jun 2018)
FRC, Ethics and corporate Governance: How nurturing a good conduct culture can actively reduce business risk (5 Jun 2018)
Bribery and Corruption: Legg Mason Inc. Agrees to Pay $64 Million in Criminal Penalties and Disgorgement to Resolve FCPA Charges Related to Bribery of Gaddafi-Era Libyan Officials (5 Jun 2018)
KPMG global to parachute in partners to South Africa salvage job (5 Jun 2018)
Big Four and Auditor rotation: Questioning audit competition in listed markets (5 Jun 2018)
KPMG to layoff 400 employees in South Africa after graft scandal (4 Jun 2018)
The Carillion collapse was a failure of governance at every level (4 Jun 2018)
Rachel Reeves: We cannot have 'business as usual' after Carillion (4 Jun 2018)
Should auditors be held liable if they miss fraud? (4 Jun 2018)
Lessons to learn from the collapse of Carillion go beyond financial accounting and into how small businesses can be nurtured (4 Jun 2018)
Lease accounting standard proves daunting for many (4 Jun 2018)
PwC global chairman says threat of Big Four break-up 'real' (4 Jun 2018)
Big Four maintains dominance of FTSE 100 and 250 audits (4 Jun 2018)
Greed remains at the heart of audit scandals (4 Jun 2018)
36 Former Military and Civilian National Security Leaders Urge Congress to End Anonymous Shell Companies (4 Jun 2018)
Accounting Matters: Cutting the clutter (4 Jun 2018)
New research reveals that multinational firms have invested $12 trillion globally in empty corporate shells, and citizens of some financially unstable and oil-producing countries hold a disproportionately large share of the $7 trillion personal wealth stashed in tax havens (4 Jun 2018)
All-male job shortlists banned by accountancy giant PwC (4 Jun 2018)
57% of governance professionals oppose increase in FRC powers (4 Jun 2018)
Want to end wealth inequality in Britain? Cap the bosses' bonuses
(1 Jun 2018)
Want to end wealth inequality in Britain? Cap the bosses' bonuses Youtube version (1 June 2018)
Air Partner (audited by Deloitte) shares suspended as accounting problems push back results again (1 Jun 2018)
ANZ, Deutsche Bank and Citigroup face 'criminal cartel' charges (1 Jun 2018)
'An enormous, long-standing Ponzi scheme': A court rules that a Saudi business empire was complicit in defrauding more than 100 banks (1 Jun 2018)
Competition: Aussie disruptor aims to undercut UK Big Four (1 Jun 2018)
Insolvency: Landlords slam 'unfair' pre-pack high street restructuring process (1 Jun 2018)
Australia 2018: fightback intensifies against Big Four invaders (1 Jun 2018)
Defined-benefit pension schemes are back in the black (1 Jun 2018)
SAICA and KPMG part ways (1 Jun 2018)
Finbond latest company to drop KPMG
(1 Jun 2018)
The Digital Transformation Of Accounting And Finance (1 Jun 2018)

May 2018

A decade after the events, the FRC says it is going ahead with investigation of Deloitte's 2009-2011 audits of Autonomy (31 May 2018)
Accountancy watchdog brings action against Deloitte over multi-billion dollar Autonomy scandal
(31 May 2018)
Deloitte feels the heat from FRC over audit of Autonomy (31 May 2018)
Regulating the regulator: how the FRC should transform itself (31 May 2018)
Read the full report: Government risk assessments relating to Carillion (31 May 2018)
Carillion: Government risk assessments published (31 May 2018)
South Africa Exodus continues as Finbond dumps KPMG (31 May 2018)
Revealed: The worst explanations for not appointing women to FTSE company boards (31 May 2018)
Dash for Cash: KPMG and Google partner to help clients adopt new tech (31 May 2018)
Companies House Failures: Rogue pension and finance companies closed down after abusing millions of pounds (31 May 2018)
Facebook Facing Shareholder Scrutiny for Its Offshore Tax Avoidance (31 May 2018)
Amazon can't or won't collect sales tax in Australia (31 May 2018)
FRC receives no feedback on third country auditor's fees consultation (31 May 2018)
FirstGroup boss departs after £327m loss (31 May 2018)
Ban for £2m film tax fraudster who ran 'accounting merry-go-round' (30 May 2018)
Chartered accountant banned for film tax fraud - used carefully orchestrated, contrived and fictitious merry-go-round of money and false accounting (30 May 2018)
Revolving Doors: Financial Reporting Council (FRC) paid thousands of pounds in fees to Herbert Smith the law firm at which Richard Fleck, formerly a member of the FRC board, was partner and is currently a consultant (30 May 2018)
Financial Reporting Council (FRC) paid out thousands in fees to lawyers during 2010-2017. Main beneficiaries were Herbert Smith, DAC Beachcroft, Reed Smith, and Fieldfisher LLP which has been its preferred legal provider since 2006 (30 May 2018)
UK: Auditing The Auditors Potential Review By The CMA? (30 May 2018)
Rachel Reeves tells FDs to look beyond Big Four (30 May 2018)
South Africa: Delayed report on former KPMG employees to be released soon (30 May 2018)
$210M settlement eyed in Wilmington Trust shareholder suit - KPMG tp pay $10 million (30 May 2018)
Banks have to thread the needle of joint auditors and rotation (30 May 2018)
How mandatory audit rotation is impacting firms (30 May 2018)
Low interest rates pushing pension schemes to innovative accounting (30 May 2018)
Financial reporting relativism is running deeper and deeper (30 May 2018)
Financial reporting post-Carillion (30 May 2018)
Directors personally liable for VAT penalty (30 May 2018)
The audit mandatory rotation rule: the state of the art (30 May 2018)
KPMG abandons controversial lending of researchers to MPs (29 May 2018)
Pampered bosses of the Big Four auditors stand accused in new book
(29 May 2018)
Financial Reporting Council (FRC) 'inept and slow' in Autonomy inquiry (29 May 2018)
Autonomy former CFO seeks to overturn California fraud conviction (29 May 2018)
The financial scandal no one is talking about (29 May 2018)
Big Four, big changes and big question marks (29 May 2018)
Big Four domination: PwC still top of FTSE 100 and 250 audit markets (29 May 2018)
Who audits the 'Big Four' auditing firms? (29 May 2018)
Ghosts of past frauds haunt the Big Four auditors (29 May 2018)
The scale of the Carillion scandal can't be ignored (29 May 2018)
Death by discount rate: The fundamental flaws of the accounting approach to pension scheme valuation (29 May 2017)
IDC appoints new auditors after dumping KPMG (29 May 2018)
Deloitte partner Soe Win named as Myanmar's next finance minister (29 May 2018)
Companies in dark on new leasing accounting standard (29 May 2018)
Clifford Chance in spotlight over RBS GRG scandal (29 May 2018)
110,000 Graduate applications flood Deutsche and other banks (29 May 2018)
From Maplin to Carillion: To end bad management we need to protect unsecured creditors (25 May 2018)
Samsonite shares suspended over governance and accounting claims (25 May 2018)
Samsonite (audited by KPMG) Tumbles After Short Seller Questions Accounting (25 May 2018)
KPMG to review its audits of Dubai buyout firm Abraaj (25 May 2018)
MBA view: should the Big Four be broken up? (25 May 2018)
Lease accounting standards: are multinationals sitting on a 'leaseberg (25 May 2018)
OECD peer reviews on BEPS Action 13 Country-by-Country reporting (25 May 2018)
If You are So Successful, Why Are You Still Working 70 Hours a Week? (25 May 2018)
Late payment is worsening even as Carillion is laid bare (25 May 2018)
National Crime Agency: Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) Annual Report 2017 (25 May 2018)
Insolvency: Carillion victim Vaughan's supply chain loses £9 million (25 May 2018)
Auditor Rotation: The Big 4 audit firms have had it too easy (25 May 2018)
MANDATORY AUDIT FIRM ROTATION: AN INTERNATIONAL INVESTIGATION (25 May 2018)
What is an audit for? (24 May 2018)
Reforming the Big Four (24 May 2018)
PCAOB Censures and Fines Deloitte $500,000 for Material Accounting Errors It Missed in 3 Consecutive Audits of Jack Henry (24 May 2018)
Corporate governance and limited liability: Enough of Carillion culture. Make bosses pay for the carnage they cause (24 May 2018)
Audit Reports: Bannerman guidelines on third-party audit disclaimer revised (24 May 2018)
ICAEW Report: The audit report and auditors' duty of care to third parties (24 May 2018)
Tyrie urged to act fast at CMA over Big Four (24 May 2018)
Andrew Tyrie won't take Conservative whip in Lords (24 May 2018)
Breakup of auditors could boost their legal arms, say former Big Four lawyers (24 May 2018)
1000 Cuts to Dodd-Frank: Tracking Trump's Wave of Deregulation (24 May 2018)
Will the call for mandatory audit firm rotation be renewed? (24 May 2018)
Corporate Governance: The Public Cost of Private Corporations (24 May 2018)
Corporate Governance: Limited Liability and the Known Unknown (24 May 2018)
MPs shocked by FRC praise for Carillion disclosure (23 May 2018)
Cable pursues Government over Big Four audit domination (23 May 2018)
Carillion: A Big Four upheaval could endanger audit quality (23 May 2018)
Auditor Rotation: Big Four increase audit fees as tenure grows (23 May 2018)
Big Four in US use lucrative audit fee structure (23 May 2018)
Lengthy Tenures Boost Big 4 Profits, But What is Effect on Auditor Independence?
(23 May 2018)
Three giants later, last of 'Big Four' to crunch 1MDB accounts (23 May 2018)
Cable pursues Government over Big Four audit domination (23 May 2018)
Flybe asks Deloitte to step down as auditor as tender process takes off (23 May 2018)
PwC cuts administration costs for insolvent UK broker Beaufort (23 May 2018)
There’s only one untainted “Big Four” accounting firm left to audit Malaysia’s scandal-ridden wealth fund (23 May 2018)
Deloitte argues award to Booz Allen was 'unreasonable' (23 May 2018)
US to ease crisis-era Dodd-Frank banking rules (23 May 2018)
Here's What the New Dodd-Frank Law Will Change (23 May 2018)
Fat cats: Bovis Homes hit by shareholder revolt over pay of interim chief (23 May 2018)
Shareholder discontent grows over executive pay (23 May 2018)
Schroders CFO on the Big Four conundrum (23 May 2018)
Insolvency: KPMG files notice of Alpari (UK) moving from administration to dissolution (23 May 2018)
Labour promises crackdown on accounting firms to stop them acting like a 'cartel' after Carillion scandal (21 May 2018)
McDonnell: Regulators not fit for purpose (21 May 2018)
Labour targets 'Big Four' after Carillion collapse (21 May 2018)
Labour attacks audit firms for 'lining their pockets' and blames Carillion's demise on regulator failings (21 May 2018)
UK Labour Party Vows 'Crackdown' in Audits After Carillion (21 May 2018)
Carillion fiasco shows why auditors must be accountable to parliament (21 Mar 2018)
Ernst & Young: Carillion inquiry demands Grayling answers accountant 'conflicts of interests (21 May 2018)
Ernst & Young conflicting Roles on Carillion and HS2 - Chair's of Parliamentary Committees write to the Secretary of State for Transport (21 May 2018)
Carillion and Ernst & Young: Letter to the Secretary of State (21 May 2018)
Ernst & Young and Carillion: Secretary of State's correspondence with the Transport Committee (21 May 2018)
Carillion: The audit industry's existential question (21 May 2018)
The 'big four' auditors have life far too easy (21 May 2018)
Ernst & Young (EY) Canada falls foul of US watchdog (21 May 2018)
SEC Charges Three Former Healthcare Executives With Fraud (21 May 2018)
Russian activity in City of London faces further scrutiny by MPs (21 May 2018)
Ban freebies to improve auditor independence (21 May 2018)
MPs take aim at magic circle over Russia dealings and Carillion collapse (21 May 2018)
Shell faces shareholder challenge over climate change approach (21 May 2018)
Impact of Bribery Act to be considered in UK review (21 May 2018)
Auditor Rotation: Fixed-term auditors would avoid cosy relationships (21 May 2018)
Road-bump for government by consultants amid UK calls for Big Four bust-up (21 May 2018)
The Big Four: Break-Up or Audit Only? Can They Survive the UK Regulators? (21 May 2018)
SEC Charges Owner of Alternative Investment Firm in Belize Airport Financing Scam (21 May 2018)
After Carillion, breaking up the Big Four is not the answer
(21 May 2018)
Carillion: Learn to love your auditor, we keep capitalism healthy (21 May 2018)
Blame the Carillion board, not the Big Four (21 May 2018)
Lease Accounting Faces Analyst Ambivalence (21 May 2018)
Governance failures at heart of Carillion's demise (21 May 2018)
Kingsman: Expert advisory group appointed for the Financial Reporting Council review (18 May 2018)
Captured from the Start: Panel named to decide the fate of Britain's top accounting watchdog
(18 May 2018)
Carillion: Committees publish former Carillion Finance Director Richard Adam response to final report (18 May 2018)
Carillion disclosures used as 'good practice' 12 months before bankruptcy (18 May 2018)
Carillion paid Slaughter and May millions for crisis advice (18 May 2018)
Accounting anomaly buries HS2 contract labour costs in government transparency data (18 May 2018)
Apple pays Ireland first tranche of disputed taxes (18 May 2018)
Companies House: Failure to report on PSC register risks criminal prosecution (18 May 2018)
Global Ethics Board Consults on Professional Skepticism (18 May 2018)
IFAC Consultation Paper: Professional Skepticism Meeting Public Expectations (18 May 2018)
Failings in management and governance - Report of the independent review into the events leading to the Co-operative Bank's capital shortfall by Sir Christopher Kelly (18 May 2018)
Pensions regulator slammed as 'feeble' in Carillion report (18 May 2018)
Auditor Rotation: Auditors Shouldn't Have Long-Term Relationships (18 May 2018)
Corporate Tax Cuts Increase Income Inequality (18 May 2018)
Cyberlaundering: from ghost Uber rides to gibberish on Amazon (18 May 2018)
The estimated amount of money laundered globally in one year is 2 - 5% of global GDP, or $800 billion - $2 trillion in current US dollars (18 May 2018)
Around $200 billion is laundered online every year (18 May 2018)
Carillion shows how little changed since 2008. So why should pensioners pay?
(17 May 2018)
Carillion: 10 most shocking quotes from the report into its failure (17 May 2018)
KPMG chairman admits profession is "oligopoly" (17 May 2018)
Just Whom Does an Auditor Really Serve? (17 May 2018)
In the wake of the Carillion scandal, is it time to break up the Big Four accountancy firms? (17 May 2018)
Carillion's conflicted auditors require less conflicted numbers (17 May 2018)
What KPMG's crisis means for auditing in SA (17 May 2018)
Pope Calls Derivatives Market a 'Ticking Time Bomb' (17 May 2018)
Clip wings of FRC, demands accountants' body ICAEW (17 May 2018)
Work and Pensions and BEIS Committees publish report on Carillion (16 May 2018)
House of Commons Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and Work and Pensions Committees Report - Carillion (16 May 2018)
Carillion collapse: Who was behind the 'recklessness, hubris and greed' that led to the demise of the government contractor (16 May 2018)
Could the big four accountancy firms be broken up and what would happen if they were? (16 May 2018)
MPs slam Carillion's 'rotten' corporate culture and call for break up of the big four audit firms (16 May 2018)
Could the big four accountancy firms be broken up and what would happen if they were? (16 May 2018)
Update on FRC investigations in relation to Carillion (16 May 2018)
Carillion - Big four accountancy firms plan for forced break-up
(16 May 2018)
Carillion report 'watershed' for auditors (16 May 2018)
Carillion board strategy session November 2009 (16 May 2018)
Carillion board minutes 2 April 2015 (16 May 2018)
Carillion board minutes 3 March 2015 (16 May 2018)
KPMG chair calls Big Four an 'oligopoly' after Carillion collapse (16 May 2018)
Big Four face extinction if they fail to learn from Carillion
(16 May 2018)
Auditors 'in the dock' over Carillion as report calls for Big Four break-up (16 May 2018)
Carillion collapse: What price will 'big four' auditors pay? (16 May 2018)
Companies House: Thousands of companies avoid disclosing ultimate ownership (16 May 2018)
Carillion 'ripped off' small contractors with early payment scheme to 'hide true extent of massive debt', MPs claim (14 May 2018)
Carillion Used Suppliers to Borrow More, UK Lawmakers Say (14 May 2018)
Carillion used its suppliers to "prop up failing business model" (14 May 2018)
Carillion: Letter from Patricia Halliday, Chief Risk Officer, Santander, regarding Early Payment Facility programme, 5 February 2018 (14 May 2018)
Financial services' richest have gender pay gap of 91% (14 May 2018)
Symantec says investigating reporting of certain accounting measures (14 May 2018)
HBOS: The damning claims contained in the dossier the bank kept under wraps
(14 May 2018)
Auditors need to be called to account, but can we rely on the watchdog? (14 May 2018)
WPP chairman faces investor revolt over unpublished Martin Sorrell report (14 May 2018)
New leak criticises KPMG and FRC over HBOS
(11 May 2018)
SIG shareholders reject reappointment of Deloitte as auditor (11 May 2018)
SIG shareholders revolt against Deloitte reappointment (11 May 2018)
US watchdog bans former Deloitte Turkey chiefs (11 May 2018)
New leak criticises KPMG and FRC over HBOS (11 May 2018)
Steinhoff on Hunt for Executives Behind Accounting Scandal (11 May 2018)
Outsourcing company Interserve to be investigated by financial watchdog over its handling of insider information (11 May 2018)
Firm culture may conflict with the profession's long-term goals (11 May 2018)
Troubled Interserve faces investigation by Financial Conduct Authority (11 May 2018)
FCA and PRA fine Mr James Staley and announce special requirements regarding whistleblowing systems and controls at Barclays (11 May 2018)
Battered KPMG stays afloat (11 May 2018)
Beaufort Securities' clients in angry clashes with PwC (11 May 2018)
Auditing firms need an overhaul (11 May 2018)
Accountants 'must focus on audits' (11 May 2018)
Goodwill should be valued as an accounting artefact (11 May 2018)
Melrose shareholders advised to vote down executive pay, boot out the chairman and get rid of Deloitte (10 May 2018)
Former Senior Partners of Deloitte Turkey Sanctioned for Misconduct In Connection with a PCAOB Inspection and Investigation (10 May 2018)
RBS settles US Department of Justice investigation with $4.9bn fine (10 May 2018)
SIG shareholders reject reappointment of Deloitte as auditor (10 May 2018)
Audit quality benefits from short audit tenure (10 May 2018)
Study supports shorter auditor tenure (10 May 2018)
Mpre Hot Air: High quality audit enhanced by stronger culture (10 May 2018)
FRC calls for audit firms to act in the public interest (10 May 2018)
FRC Audit Culture Thematic Review: Firms activities to establish, promote and embed a culture that is committed to delivering consistently high quality audits (10 May 2018)
HMRC launched 250 investigations into transfer pricing by UK corporates in the last year (10 May 2018)
200,000 people receive back pay after National Minimum Wage crackdown (10 May 2018)
OECD consults on review of intra-group transfer pricing (10 May 2018)
Tax-haven transparency won't stop stop money laundering in Britain (8 May 2018)
Buffett Accounting 'Nightmare' Fuels First Loss in Nine Years (8 May 2018)
Tesla reveals an accounting change added $299 million to its auto-sales revenue in the first quarter
(8 May 2018)
Insolvency: Campaigners blast PwC's 'incredible' £100m Beaufort fee (8 May 2018)
South Africa's KPMG arm welcomes review and owns up to failings (8 May 2018)
KPMG acknowledges its failings damaged auditing profession (8 May 2018)
Appleby settles Paradise Papers litigation against Guardian and BBC (8 May 2018)
Manchester Building Society considers appealing Grant Thornton High Court ruling (8 May 2018)
Are we failing on the money laundering challenge? the number of professionals, including accountants and lawyers, fined for money laundering in 2016-17, fell 20 per cent to 935 - from a record high of 1,170 in 2015-16 (8 May 2018)
HMRC- Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing: Supervision Report 2015-17 (8 May 2018)
The real cost of 'optional' goodwill impairments (8 May 2018)
Pharmaceutical specialist loses job and home due to tax error (8 May 2018)
The UK government's 'tough' action on overseas tax dodging isn't all it seems
(4 May 2018)
Buffett's Berkshire Braces for 'Wild' Swings From New Accounting (4 May 2018)
Ernst & Young Settles With Partner Who Claimed She Was Groped (4 May 2018)
KPMG in battle to survive in SAfrica (4 May 2018)
Why auditing firms are in crisis (4 May 2018)
WeWorked to solve a rent-accounting puzzle (4 May 2018)
Hermes 'trained managers to mislead tax inspectors' (4 May 2018)
Just how many accountants does the UK need: Accounting in top 10 fastest-growing industries
(4 May 2018)
South Korean prosecutors probe Elliott Management over Samsung fight as the activist investor seeks compensation (4 May 2018)
Ex-BHS owner Dominic Chappell unable to afford lawyers in pension conviction appeal (4 May 2018)
The zeal for M&A reveals a dangerous short-termism (4 May 2018)
At $1 Trillion, Leveraged Loans Are Closing In on Junk Bonds (4 May 2018)
Jacques Vert owner Calvetron goes into administration (4 May 2018)
House of Fraser may have to pay millions into pension scheme (4 May 2018)
KPMG South Africa Woes Deepen as Barclays Africa Drops Auditor (3 May 2018)
PwC offside as Wasps auditor after £1.1m profit overstatement (3 May 2018)

Not Recognising Intangible Assets Is Creating Huge Amounts Of Goodwill (3 May 2018)
A third of Unilever Plc investors opposed executive pay policy (3 May 2018)
Insolvency: Maplin creditors stand to lose £217 million after collapse (3 May 2018)
German lender Warburg's profit drops on tax scandal provisions (3 May 2018)
Insolvency: Toys R Us creditors £1.1 billion out of pocket (3 May 2018)
Accounting concerns wipe $6 billion off Samsung BioLogics market value (2 May 2018)
Apple in $100bn share buyback as more money returned to US (2 May 2018)
Companies to return a record $1 trillion to investors this year in form of buybacks and dividends, estimates S&P (12 May 2018)
John Vickers warns of 'dangerously high' levels of bank leverage (2 May 2018)
British banking leverage remains 'dangerously high' (2 May 2018)
FRC mulls KPMG investigation over Conviviality auditing (2 May 2018)
Why the Sainsbury's/Asda merger should worry us all (1 May 2018)
BDO calls for greater restrictions on non-audit work (1 May 2018)
Autonomy (audited by Deloitte since 2003) ex-executive guilty of fraud (1 May 2018)
Former Autonomy Executive Sushovan Hussain Convicted of Accounting Fraud (1 May 2018)
Panasonic (audite dby KPMG) Charged With FCPA and Accounting Fraud Violations (1 May 2018)
China securities regulator imposes fines for false accounting, stock manipulation (1 May 2018)
Advisers face 100% tax penalty for helping avoidance
(1 May 2018)
HMRC Guidance: Tax avoidance: enablers - who is classed an enabler (1 May 2018)
Inventory Is Not A Tax Deduction, Using Inventory To Lower Taxes (1 May 2018)
Accounting firm launches recruitment, HR services (1 May 2018)

April 2018

Country by Country: warning OECD may sabotage EU transparency again (30 Apr 2018)
Interserve losses soar as new boss takes hard look at contracts (30 Apr 2018)
Controversial attorney and alleged spy Belinda Walter was a consultant for senior KPMG manager (30 Apr 2018)
Unilever fights to quell a rebellion: Boss faces humiliation over pay (30 Apr 2018)
Executive pay reform is harder to introduce than it should be (30 Apr 2018)
Carillion: Why We Need To Socialise Competition Law (30 Apr 2018)
A Decade of Banks Behaving Badly Is Being Laid Bare in Australia (30 Apr 2018)
Clearwater International and PwC advise on MBO of Pizza Hut UK (30 Apr 2018)
BDO remains top AIM auditor (30 apr 2018)
End financial secrecy in UK's overseas territories (30 Apr 2018)
Fat cats: Unilever fights to quell a rebellion: Boss faces humiliation over pay (30 Apr 2018)
Why we should bulldoze the business school (30 Apr 2018)
U.S. Justice Dept charges Panasonic unit with anti-bribery law violations (30 Apr 2018)
The Lycamobile fiasco shows that HMRC has become a state within a state (27 Apr 2018)
Air Partner appoints a new interim finance boss after accounting turbulence (27 Apr 2018)
Gender pay gap reporting failures to be investigated (27 Apr 2018)
UK Companies' Possible Tax Bill From EU Probe Passes $500 Million (27 Apr 2018)
Who creates a nation's economic value? (27 Apr 2018)
When Dividends are a Problem (27 Apr 2018)
Bribery conviction could indicate hard line on new tax evasion offence (27 Apr 2018)
General Electric shareholders vote to keep KPMG as auditor (26 Apr 2018)
PwC defends Beaufort Securities insolvency plan (26 Apr 2018)
Billionaire Christo Wiese Sues Steinhoff for $4.8 Billion (26 Apr 2018)
South Africa Auditor-General Says KPMG, Nkonki Had Time to Explain (26 Apr 2018)
Noble Group's dissident shareholder sues to block debt deal (26 Apr 2018)
Big Four "oligopoly" to be addressed, says Tyrie (26 Apr 2018)
Volkswagen profits dip 3.6% after adopting IFRS 9 (26 Apr 2018)
Tax Avoidance and the Irish Balance of Payments (26 Apr 2018)
Hammond snaps during grilling over Lycamobile scandal (26 Apr 2018)
UK House of Common Treasury Committee Letter to Jon Thompson, Chief Executive & Permanent Secretary HMRC, regarding Lycamobile, 23 April 2018 (26 Apr 2018)
BBC presenters receive hardship payments to pay large tax bill (26 Apr 2018)
Accounting (f)or Tax:The Global Battle for Corporate Transparency (25 Apr 2018)
FRC: City fund manager attacks 'amateur' accounting watchdog (25 Apr 2018)
KPMG, under fire in SA, now faces US shareholder protests (25 Apr 2018)
KPMG avoids shareholder revolt over Wells Fargo audit role (25 Apr 2018)
UK competition watchdog chair signals accountants probe (25 Apr 2018)
Angolan tycoon frozen funds highlight KPMG role in offshore secrecy (25 Apr 2018)
Companies House: The inexorable decline in the quality of UK accounting data (25 Apr 2018)
Altaba, Formerly Known as Yahoo!, Charged With Failing to Disclose Massive Cybersecurity Breach; Agrees To Pay $35 Million (25 Apr 2018)
Investors in Chicago Cut Steakhouse Are Suing Its Owner (25 Apr 2018)
EU moves to tackle letter box firms' tax avoidance, social dumping (25 Apr 2018)
Company Law: EU Commission proposes new rules to help companies move across borders and find online solutions (25 Apr 2018)
Corporate Governance: Frequently Asked Questions about New Company Law Rules - European Commission is proposing new company law rules to make it easier for companies to merge, divide or move within the Single Market (25 Apr 2018)
Ireland expects Apple EU tax appeal to be heard in autumn (25 Apr 2018)
Ireland signs landmark agreement to recover Apple taxes (25 Apr 2018)
KPMG faces shareholder protest over GE and Wells Fargo audits (24 Apr 2018)
The most memorable and expensive financial fraud cases of all time (24 Apr 2018)
Angry shareholders and protesters are ready to unload on Wells Fargo (24 Apr 2018)
Ernst & Young accused of firing manager who requested parental leave (24 Apr 2018)
Google profit jumps on ads, new accounting (24 Apr 2018)
PricewaterhouseCoopers will be managing Electrosteel Steels (24 Apr 2018)
Now hedge funds target asset stripper that bought GKN: Melrose is most shorted stock on the London Stock Exchange (24 Apr 2018)
Carillion collapse contributed to 21% drop in Santander UK profits (21 Apr 2018)
European Commission proposes whistleblower protection law (24 Apr 2018)
Whistleblower protection: EU Commission sets new, EU-wide rules (24 Apr 2018)
KPMG could face questions over its work for Conviviality (23 Apr 2018)
FRC considers investigating KPMG over Conviviality (23 Apr 2018)
KPMG may face quiz over Bargain Booze fall (23 Apr 2018)
Ernst & Young partner claims firm ignored sexual harassment complain (23 Apr 2018)
IFRS 9: ECB warns banks, auditors over use of new accounting rule-paper (23 Apr 2018)
Our regulators are in an unholy mess (23 Apr 2018)
City faces corruption crackdown as IMF investigates wealthy countries (23 Apr 2018)
Capita is left with a mountain to climb (23 Apr 2018)
'The largest foreign bribery case in history' (23 Apr 2018)
Average FTSE 100 CEO 'still British male in mid-50s' despite rise in international bosses (23 Apr 2018)
PwC had cleared Facebook's privacy practices in leak period (20 Apr 2018)
PwC Audit clears Facebook despite Cambridge Analytica leaks scandal (20 Apr 2019)
Steinhoff acting chairman: good progress made on the accounting irregularities (20 Apr 2018)
Poundland owner Steinhoff tells angry shareholders it is renegotiating debt (20 Apr 2018)
GE sets aside $1.5 billion for investigation settlement after talks with DOJ (20 Apr 2018)
Swiss accounting body warns on pension fund audit quality (20 Apr 2018)
Ernst & Young Accused of Failing to Act on Groping Complaint (20 Apr 2018)
Ultra Electronics shares fall as the SFO opens criminal investigation into "suspected corruption" (20 Apr 2018)
South Africa Calls mount to split auditing firm (20 Apr 2018)
Corporate governance: UK High Court judgment shines light on shadow directors (20 Apr 2018)
Corporate governance - Read the judgement in Instant Access Properties Ltd (in liquidation) vs Rosser & Ors, [2018] EWHC 756 (Ch) (20 Apr 2018)
The UK Refused To Raid A Company Suspected Of Money Laundering, Citing Its Tory Donations (19 Apr 2018)
Allegations that HMRC refused to raid company following political donations are of deep concern (19 Apr 2018)
HM Revenue & Customs admits blundering by mentioning Lycamobile donations to Tories and Prince Charles Trust as it rejected French request for help in money laundering probe (19 Apr 2018)
House of Fraser calls in KPMG to draw up turnaround plan (19 Apr 2018)
KPMG SA has public contracts terminated (19 Apr 2018)
Senior WPP boss says staff 'liberated' after Sorrell exit (19 Apr 2018)
Audit firms Deloitte and BDO SA slam plan to split advisory, audit units (19 Apr 2018)
New Deloitte Canada report stresses stakeholder role in financial reporting quality (19 Apr 2018)
BlackRock wades into corporate governance conundrum (19 Apr 2018)
KPMG's strategy to regain South Africa's trust failed before it even got started (18 Apr 2018)
Prima facie evidence for criminal prosecution against KPMG - EFF (18 Apr 2018)
Shareholder group files legal notice against Steinhoff banks (18 Apr 2018)
Companies foresee major impact from lease accounting standard (18 Apr 2018)
Companies House: The mystery of the fake Telegram (and of the 4 thousand children company shareholders) (18 Apr 2018)
US Federal grand jury indicts Shreveport financial planner, Houston pastor for defrauding investors out of more than $1 million (18 Apr 2018)
FRC: UK Government launches review of audit regulator (17 Apr 2018)
Terms of Reference - Independent Review of the Financial Reporting Council (2018) (17 Apr 2018)
FRC: L&G chief to lead probe of 'toothless' accountancy watchdog (17 Apr 2018)
Britain reviews powers of its accounting watchdog (17 Apr 2018)
Fantasy Carillion model exposes accounting flaws (17 Apr 2018)
South Africa cancels contracts with KPMG following spate of scandals (17 Apr 2018)
Auditor-General of South Africa terminates its auditing contracts with audit firms, KPMG and Nkonki Inc. (17 Apr 2018)
KPMG South Africa Fights for Survival (17 Apr 2018)
Revenue recognition changes see profits drop 17% at GE (17 Apr 2018)
Canada: What audit rule changes mean for investors (17 Apr 2018)
Ernst & Young teams with AIG on tax and tech (17 Apr 2018)
Companies House: Campaigner prosecuted over stunt to expose company records fraud (17 Apr 2018)
Insolvency: 15 major retailers in CVA or administration in 12 months (17 Apr 2018)
Insolvency: Betterware joins Kleeneze in administration (17 Apr 2018)
UK House of Lords Debate - Companies (Disclosure of Address) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (17 Apr 2018)
It's time for the 'big four' accountants to finally be held to account (16 Apr 2018)
Institutional Shareholder Services asks GE to dump auditor KPMG (16 Apr 2018)
KPMG South Africa reviewing work done by its partners (16 Apr 2018)
KPMG woes deepen after VBS bank scandal (16 Apr 2018)
Carillion: Shareholders are creaming off more cash from outsourced public services, says TUC (16 Apr 2018)
GE takes $4.2 billion charge, restates earnings (16 Apr 2018)
Ernst & Young: Cleaners storm London gallery in pay row with 'millionaire' firm behind new Picasso show (16 Apr 2018)
Bankruptcies Bring Risks of Leveraged Buyouts into Focus (16 Apr 2018)
HMRC probes 181 football stars over tax avoidance (16 Apr 2018)
Philip Green defends his record on BHS (16 Apr 2018)
Tears, tirades and tantrums: The explosive first interview with Sir Philip Green since the toxic collapse of BHS reveals the defiance of a wounded tycoon (but he won't talk about his daughter and the 'hot felon') (16 Apr 2018)
Sir Philip Green accuses Frank Field MP of holding up BHS pension dea (16 Apr 2018)
This story is absolutely insane. At first glance, you think "well done, Companies House, at last they're getting serious about the epidemic (16 Apr 2018)
Martin Sorrell steps down as head of WPP advertising agency (16 Apr 2018)
Sir Martin Sorrell was the FATTEST of all FAT CATS who will stay on the gravy train for years (16 Apr 2018)
Tesco halves pension deficit through accounting change (13 Apr 2018)
US Fed proposes capital rule change to soften impact of new accounting standards (13 Feb 2018)
High street coffee chains and how much tax they actually pay, ranked (13 Apr 2018)
PricewaterhouseCoopers was asked to stop its work as internal auditor at VBS Mutual Bank by the curator of the collapsing bank (13 Apr 2018)
PwC administrators complete Conviviality sale to save thousands of jobs (13 Apr 2018)
Lowest earners lose out on pensions tax relief, report finds (13 Apr 2018)
UK Solicitor convicted of $14m tax fraud in US (13 Apr 2018)
The Big Four accountancy firms have long pushed tax avoidance. It's time for regulation (12 Apr 2018)
UK accounting regulator rejected 90% of FOI requests (12 Apr 2018)
FRC DISCLOSURE LOG -FOI Requests (12 Apr 2018)
Air Partner appoints PwC to review its accounts (12 Apr 2018)
KPMG SA suspends partner over bank audit (12 Apr 2018)
HMRC Consultation - Tax abuse and insolvency: a discussion document (12 Apr 2018)
One-Person companies and IR 35: A contract purely designed to avoid tax (12 Apr 2018)
15 US companies avoided $25 billion in taxes last year, says tax watchdog group (12 Apr 2018)
PFI not to blame for Carillion collapse says S&P research (12 Apr 2018)
Carillion's Demise: What's At Stake? (12 Apr 2018)
Companies divided on quality of annual reports (12 Apr 2018)
Former Tory MP Andrew Tyrie to head competition watchdog (12 Apr 2018)
OECD releases 14 additional country profiles containing key aspects of transfer pricing legislation (12 Apr 2018)
Grant Thornton faces landmark legal challenge to "tax planning" scheme (11 Apr 2018)
Gender pay rows and auditing attacks: what to expect from a feisty shareholder season (11 Apr 2018)
Air Partner expects to pay final dividend despite accounting blunder (11 Apr 2018)
Big 6 auditors face tougher monitoring after scandals (11 Apr 2018)
FRC to enhance monitoring of audit firms (11 Apr 2018)
Auditors' top appointments to be vetted (11 Apr 2018)
FRC pledges results of inspections on largest auditors by June (11 Apr 2018)
KPMG defends its role as Pilatus Bank auditors in brief statement (11 Apr 2018)
Airbus reports 20% hike in EBIT using IFRS 15 Revenue Recognition (11 Apr 2018)
Ex-BHS owner Dominic Chappell to sue Sir Philip Green (11 Apr 2018)
Auditors need to bay like hounds at first whiff of trouble (11 Apr 2018)
Auditors should answer to stakeholder panels (11 Apr 2018)
Auditing the the big accountancy firms (11 Apr 2018)
US companies found ways to avoid taxes before tax cut bill (11 Apr 2018)
UK tax office targets offshore vehicles in crackdown on avoidance (11 Apr 2018)
Two FRC board members step down (11 Apr 2018)
Life sciences companies adjust to new accounting rules (11 Apr 2018)
UK set to strengthen corporate governance of insolvent companies (11 Apr 2018)
PwC faces largest ever auditor malpractice damages verdict (6 Apr 2018)
Auditor Rotation: Audit quality benefits from short audit tenure (6 Apr 2018)
Grant Thornton abandons the blue chip audit market (6 Apr 2018)
Poor choices, bad sums: Conviviality's recipe for disaster (6 Apr 2018)
Flood of gender pay data puts some firms on the defensive (6 Apr 2018)
HSBC leaks: Spain rejects Swiss request to remand Falciani (6 Apr 2018)
Should Auditors of Nonpublic Companies be allowed to provide Tax Services to their Audit Clients? Dave Thompson Jr. and Aisha G. Meeks
2017 Tax Reform in the United States â€“ A Quantitative Analysis of Corporate Rate Reduction, Sean Stein Smith, Richard Lahijani and Rossen Petkov
An Investigation of Nonprofit Executive Compensation Levels and their Relationship to Relevant Accounting Based Performance Metrics, Janet F Phillips

Capital Budgeting Techniques in Sri Lanka: A Survey, P. Pratheepkanth and P. Premkanth
PwC officially appointed as administrators at Conviviality (6 Apr 2018)
Poor choices, bad sums: Conviviality's recipe for disaster (6 Apr 2018)
Martin Sorrell's WPP role in doubt after misconduct claim (6 Apr 2018)
WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell is reportedly under investigation after allegations of misuse of assets and improper behavior (6 Apr 2018)
US SEC Obtains Emergency Freeze of $27 Million in Stock Sales of Purported Cryptocurrency Company Longfin (6 Apr 2018)
US SEC Charges Medical Device Company The Eye Machine and Founder Pocklington With Fraud (6 Apr 2018)
Institutional Shareholder Services asks GE to dump auditor KPMG (5 Apr 2018)
The hostile takeover of GKN shows that the Tories' industrial policy is in disarray (5 Apr 2018)
FRC: Kingman drafted in to lead review of embattled audit watchdog (5 Apr 2018)
FRC: Legal & General boss in line to spearhead audit watchdog probe (5 Apr 2018)
Grant Thornton abandons the blue chip audit market (5 Apr 2018)
How accountancy firms cook tax avoidance schemes - HMRC wins case over willing Goldfinger tax avoidance confidant (5 Apr 2018)
Read judgement in Emblin & Ors, R (On the Application Of) v Revenue And Customs [2018] EWHC 626 (Admin) (23 March 2018) (5 Apr 2018)
Accounting watchdog eyes 'front-to-back' audit of annual reports (4 Apr 2018)
FRC seeks to expand auditors' responsibilities (4 Apr 2018)
Linklaters and Deloitte pass blame over Arsenal sale (4 Apr 2018)
Pre pack administration: Magners cider owner, C&C Group, to buy Bargain Booze owner Conviviality (4 Apr 2018)
Carillion labelled "one of the most complex insolvencies ever" as jobs saved nears 10000 barrier (4 Apr 2018)
UNITED KINGDOM SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES AND TRANSFER PRICI NG (4 Apr 2018)
Air Partner dives after uncovering accounting errors (3 Apr 2018)
Advisory fees for bankers, lawyers, accountants and PR advisers continue to soar (3 Apr 2018)
CONSULTATION DOCUMENT FITNESS CHECK ON THE EU FRAMEWORK FOR PUBLIC REPORTING BY COMPANIES (3 Apr 2018)
The Rules Of The Game Are Set To Change For Tax Advisers (3 Apr 2018)
Auditing: Going, going, gone (2 Apr 2018)
This is how the Pinstripe Mafia enocurages the race to the bottom - Deloitte: Ireland should cut its 12.5% corporation tax or be left behind (2 Apr 2018)
Getting behind the stewardship bullshit on Carillion (2 Apr 2018)
FRC: Regulator in fight to halt release of KPMG files (2 Apr 2018)
FRC brings in lawyers as pressure to release documents on KPMG mounts (2 Apr 2018)
Ukraine's Privatbank files $3 billion lawsuit against PwC subsidiaries (2 Apr 2018)
PwC's Ukrainian arm promises to "vigorously defend" $3bn Privatbank legal claim (2 Apr 2018)
Fury at Carillion fees charged by PwC (2 Apr 2018)
Clarifying Auditors' Responsibility for Fraud (2 Apr 2018)
Company gender pay gap reporting is already helping, and will continue to help tackle inequalities (2 Apr 2018)

March 2018

Gender pay gap: multiple firms submit questionable data (30 Mar 2018)
Big Four accountants grapple with gender pay gaps (30 Mar 2018)
PwC unhappy with Sebi action, sees short-term impact (30 Mar 2018)
KPMG hit by Hong Kong High Court in $400 million China Medical fraud (30 Mar 2018)
Energy Storage Co. Fined $2.8M For Alleged Accounting Fraud (30 Mar 2018)
Premier Motor Auctions: Motor dealer drops allegations against Lloyds and PwC ahead of trial (30 Mar 2018)
Motor dealer drops allegations against Lloyds and PwC ahead of trial (30 Mar 2018)
Corporate governance for private companies may exclude executive pay (30 Mar 2018)
Asset managers back Corporate Governance Code reboot (30 Mar 2018)
Barclays Agrees to Pay $2 Billion in Civil Penalties to Resolve Claims for Fraud in the Sale of US Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities (29 Mar 2018)
Barclays to pay $2bn settlement over US fraud case dating back to financial crisis (29 Mar 2018)
FRC reply to LAPFF UK Corporate Governance consultation response (29 Mar 2018)
Grant Thornton takes a bow from FTSE 350 audit market (29 Mar 2018)
Audit rotation creates barrier for non-Big Four firms, says Grant Thornton chief (29 Mar 2018)
Trump attacks Amazon for paying 'little or no taxes' (29 Mar 2018)
MPs to probe Russian money laundering through UK property (29 March 2018)
UK House of Commons Treasury Committee: Economic crime inquiry launched (29 Mar 2018)
Exxon complicit in oil sector corruption in Liberia (29 Mar 2018)
Auditors PwC looking to complete Steinhoff probe by end-2018 (28 Mar 2018)
Why can PwC charge such superhuman fees? It's all in the power of bargaining (28 Mar 2018)
MPs urge HMRC chief to investigate shareholder dealings in GKN takeover (28 Mar 2018)
FASB's Changes to Hedge Accounting Standards Seen as Most Significant Since 1998 (28 Mar 2018)
Bank of England cautions over comeback of risky mortgages (28 Mar 2018)
City investment banks reveal gender pay gap data (28 Mar 2018)
Tax avoiders' accountants may have to give evidence to UK MPs (27 Mar 2018)
Philip Green escapes company director ban for BHS Â£1 deal (27 Mar 2018)
Ex-BHS owner Dominic Chappell banned from running companies for 15 years (27 Mar 2018)
FRC wants say in largest firms' senior hires (27 Mar 2018)
Akorn settles US SEC claims stemming from financial restatement (27 Mar 2018)
How to fix the Big Four auditors (27 Mar 2018)
Winners and Losers as Private Equity Firm Cerberusâ€™s Remington â€œRollupâ€� Collapses into Bankruptcy (27 Mar 2018)
PwC accused of cheating firm out of Â£75m (26 Mar 2018)
Carillion board's "greed on stilts" (26 Mar 2018)
Carillion agreed secret bonus account for Richard Howson (26 Mar 2018)
Collapsed outsourcer Carillion handed senior staff a pay rise as it headed for oblivion (26 Mar 2018)
Carillion Inquiry: 21 Mar 2018 - Work and Pensions - oral evidence from Rt Hon Greg Clark MP, Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, and Rt Hon Esther McVey MP, Secretary of State for Work and PensionsMarissa Thomas, Partner, Head of Deals, David Kelly, Partner and Special Manager, and Gavin Stoner, Partner, Restructuring and Pensions, PwC (26 Mar 2018)
Time to tame Big Four lions that rule the audit circus (26 Mar 2018)
Accountancy firms dominate UK consulting market (26 Mar 2018)
FRC three-year plan aims to shake up Big Four auditor dominance (26 Mar 2018)
FRC Strategy 2018/21 Budget and Levies 2018/19 (26 Mar 2018)
The Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors charged two partners at Deloitte & Touche with misconduct related to the financial statements they signed off on at African Bank Limited and its holding company, African Bank Investments Limited (26 Mar 2018)
Deloitte faces 10 charges for African Bank work (26 Mar 2018)
Court vacates SEC order suspending ex-Ernst & Young partner (26 Mar 2018)
Centrus Energy's Pension Accounting Distorts Reported Earnings (26 Mar 2018)
Companies could face court over failing to report gender pay gap (26 Mar 2018)
UK promises review of Financial Reporting Council (26 Mar 2018)
Fat cats: Persimmon writes to investors following executive pay row (26 Mar 2018)
Plans for register of overseas ownership of UK properties revised (26 Mar 2018)
Accountant Stephen Ashton jailed for Herts charity fraud (26 Mar 2018)
FRC: The accounting Sir Humphrey facing drop over Carillion fiasco (23 Mar 2018)
Prezzo restaurant chain to close 92 outlets (23 Mar 2018)
Italian restaurant chains Prezzo and Carluccio's are the latest to struggle in high street bloodbath (23 Mar 2018)
PREZZO LIMITED and each of its CVA CREDITORS (as defined herein) COMPANY VOLUNTARY ARRANGEMENT (see page 79) (23 Mar 2018)
Next admits toughest trading period 'for 25 years' (23 Mar 2018)
Deloitte designed avoidance scheme: Read the Court of Appeals judgement in Travel Document Service & Ladbroke Group International v Revenue & Customs (Rev 1) [2018] EWCA Civ 549 (20 March 2018) (23 Mar 2018)
Ladbrokes loses tax avoidance appeal against HMRC (23 Mar 2018)
Payment of Dividends: Guidance on realised and distributable profits under the Companies Act 2006 (23 Mar 2018)
'Toothless' accountancy watchdog FRC faces inquiry (22 Mar 2018)
FRC: Britain to review if accounting watchdog needs more teeth (22 Mar 2018)
Noble Group hit by lawsuit amid crucial debt restructuring (22 Mar 2018)
Mothercare set for cash crisis talks: Retailer appoints accountants KPMG in bid to stave off total collapse (22 Mar 2018)
Accounting for change: the drive to put a dollar figure on nature (22 Mar 2018)
SFO retrial of Tesco directors could relaunch in September (22 Mar 2018)
Tackling the issue of auditors' unlimited liability - a pack of lies, auditors don't have unlimited liability (22 Mar 2018)
Audit Market: ICAEW had approximately 50 firms registered for public interest entity (PIE) audits. By the December 2017 year-end, that number had fallen to 34 (22 Mar 2018)
China Default Risks Flare on Scrutiny of Company Accounting (22 Mar 2018)
Shell company frontmen could be jailed under UK property transparency plans (22 Mar 2018)
REGISTER OF BENEFICIAL OWNERS OF OVERSEAS COMPANIES AND OTHER LEGAL ENTITIES: The UK Government response to the call for evidence (22 Mar 2018)
Prince Charles 'Dodging Tax' To Pay His Staff, Author Says (22 Mar 2018)
Facebook, Google and Amazon could pay 'fair' tax under EU plans (22 Mar 2019)
UK should get behind EU's radical tax plan for tech firms (22 Mar 2018)
A sobering reminder of the potential pitfalls in doing a pre-pack administration (22 Mar 2018)
Carillion collapse: here's how much corporate undertakers could make from the liquidation (21 Mar 2018)
Ministers and PwC questioned on Carillion collapse (21 Mar 2018)
Greg Clark calls for an independent inquiry into the Financial Reporting Council (21 Mar 2018)
FRC: UK Accountancy watchdog's competence faces government probe
(21 Mar 2018)
PwC charges more than Â£20m for first eight weeks of Carillion collapse (21 Mar 2018)
PwC's Carillion role looks like 'massive conflict of interest', says MP (21 Mar 2018)
Carillion Inquiry: Letter from The Pensions Regulator to the Chair regarding DB pension schemes 23 February 2018 (21 Mar 2018)
Carillion Inquiry: Letter from The Pensions Regulator to the Chair regarding Carillion pension schemes 12 March 2018 (21 Mar 2018)
Carillion Inquiry: Letter from The Pensions Regulator to the Chair regarding DB pension schemes 16 March 2018 (21 Mar 2018)
Carillion: The Pensions Regulator letters (21 Mar 2018)
Carillion Inquiry: Letter from the Chair to The Pensions Regulator regarding Carillion scheme recovery plans, 26 February 2018 (21 Mar 2018)
Carillion Inquiry: Letter from the Chair to The Pensions Regulator regarding Defined benefit pension regulation, 5 March 2018 (21 Mar 2018)
UK House of Commons Debate: Corporate Governance and Insolvency (21 Mar 2018)
Should the Big Four accountancy firms be split up? (21 Mar 2018)
UK Consultation on insolvency and corporate governance (21 Mar 2018)
BEIS Consulation: Insolvency and Corporate Governance (21 Mar 2018)
Future corporate governance reforms to target irresponsible directors (21 Mar 2018)
Carpetright seeks to close stores in rescue plan (21 Mar 2018)
Questions and Answers on a Fair and Efficient Tax System in the EU for the Digital Single Market (21 Mar 2018)
Digital Taxation: Commission proposes new measures to ensure that all companies pay fair tax in the EU (21 Mar 2018)
Special report 09/2018: Public Private Partnerships in the EU: Widespread shortcomings and limited benefits (21 Mar 2018)
BHS and Carillion failures prompt government crackdown on "dodging debts" directors (20 Mar 2018)
Powers proposed to protect staff and suppliers of insolvent businesses (20 Mar 2018)
'Irresponsible' company bosses face government crackdown (20 Mar 2018)
Read Department of Work and Pensions Policy Paper: Protecting Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (20 Mar 2018)
PWC: Millennial employees forced big changes at the consulting and tax firm (20 Mar 2018)
Singapore fines Standard Chartered (audited by KPMG) entities 2.83 million pounds for money laundering breaches (20 Mar 2018)
KPMG appointed to handle Mothercare refinancing (20 Mar 2018)
FRC Board appointments (20 Mar 2018)
Former Carillion finance directors expected to face investigation (19 Mar 2018)
FRC Investigation into the preparation and approval of the financial statements of Carillion plc (19 Mar 2018)
Local Authority Pension Fund Forum calls for accountancy watchdog FRC to be scrapped (19 Mar 2018)
Regulator (FRC) under pressure as Big Four battle plans for reform (19 Mar 2018)
The Audit Market: If the Big Four Became the Big Three (19 Mar 2018)
Investors need to tighten the screws on auditors (19 Mar 2018)
The hunt for Toys R Us' missing millions: Investigators probe a loan moved to a tax haven just months before the store went bust (19 Mar 2018)
Scots firms 'being used to launder dirty money from Russia' (19 Mar 2018)
Carpetright and Mothercare shares plunge in retail bloodbath as fears for UK High Street escalate (19 Mar 2018)
How Russia's rich elite spend their billions in London (19 Mar 2018)
Accounting in the Public Interest (19 May 2018)
Investors in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies face hefty tax bills (19 Mar 2018)
Using Blockchain to Block Accounting Frauds (19 Mar 2018)
FRC: Regulator urges inquiry into breaking up big four accountancy firms (16 Mar 2018)
FRC wants inquiry into breaking-up Big Four (16 Mar 2018)
Probe urged into break-up of big four accountants (16 Mar 2018)
MHCLG to consult on statutory override of accounting rule (16 Mar 2018)
Why Middle-Aged Accountants Are Suing PwC Over Campus Recruiting (16 Mar 2018)
Deloitte and Linklaters play blame game over Arsenal sale lawsuit (16 Mar 2018)
Auditors raise concerns about 80 large charity accounts (16 Mar 2018)
House of Commons Librray Research Report: The Collapse of Carillion (16 Mar 2018)
The collapse of Carillion - Summary (16 Mar 2018)
UK's Biggest Banks Face Higher Capital Hurdles in Stress Test (16 Mar 2018)
Toys 'R' Us Case Is Test of Private Equity in Age of Amazon (16 Mar 2018)
Toys R Us might have survived if it did not have to deal with so much debt (16 Mar 2018)
Money Laundering: Estimating the Global Cost of Cyber Risk (16 Mar 2018)
The peculiarities of US financial system make it ideal for money laundering (16 Mar 2018)
Blackberry modified to 'help drug cartels' (16 Mar 2018)
House of Commons Briefing Paper - Regulation of Insolvency Practitioners (16 Mar 2018)
Insolvency practitioner regulation regulatory objectives and oversight powers - Legislative changes introduced on 1 October 2015 (16 Mar 2018)
PwC Insolvency Fees: Joint liquidators progress report from 30 October 2016 to 29 October 2017 COVTP (Realisations) Limited (in liquidation) (16 Mar 2018)
PwC: Lehman Brothers Limited In Administration Joint Administrators progress report for the period 15 September 2016 to 14 March 2017 (16 Mar 2018)
Pwc Liquidator Report - HCL Realisations 2013 Ltd (16 Mar 2018)
PwC Liquidator Report October 2017 - Goldtrail Travel Limited (16 Mar 2018)
PwC Liquidation Report - Rok Buildings Limited (16 Mar 2018)
Insolvency - Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) has 770 licensed insolvency practitioners (16 Mar 2018)
Insolvency - UK has 1,328 licensed insolvency practitioners (16 Mar 2018)
Number of UK insolvency practitioner authorisations at March 2017 is 1,303 (2016-2017) (16 Mar 2018)
As at 1 January 2017, the ACCA had 109 licensed practitioners of which 103 were taking insolvency appointments (16 Mar 2018)
Financial crisis rules (Dodd-Frank) for banks eased by US Senate (15 Mar 2018)
FRC changes levy factsheet (15 Mar 2018)
What the public should expect from auditors (15 Mar 2018)
Whether the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) will make a statement to its levy payers that the charges it has levied were not required to be paid (15 Mar 2018)
Bad blood: the rise and fall of Theranos (15 Mar 2018)
Mossack Fonseca law firm to shut down after Panama Papers tax scandal (15 Mar 2018)
There's no way to predict the next Carillion-style collapse, says infrastructure investor preparing to float new fund (15 Mar 2018)
Medicare and Medicaid RAC Audits: How Auditors Get It Wrong (15 Mar 2018)
Carex and Imperial Leather owner PZ Cussons blames UK consumer spending slowdown for profit warning (15 Mar 2018)
HSBC has 59 percent gender pay gap, biggest among British bank (15 Mar 2018)
HMRC ruling triggers tax bombshell for investors (15 Mar 2018)
Tax scheme investors 'face bankruptcy' (15 Mar 2018)
County Durham NHS accountant jailed for car fraud (15 Mar 2018)
UK public pensions call for accounting watchdog (FRC) to be disbanded (14 Mar 2018)
FRC is unfit to be a regualtor - say LAPFF (14 Mar 2018)
Foreign Affiliates of KPMG, Deloitte, BDO Charged in Improper Audits by US SEC (14 Mar 2018)
Accounting flaw 'concealed hole in Carillion's finances' (14 Mar 2018)
Execs with accounting skills more likely to cook the books (14 Mar 2018)
Conviviality Shares Suspended Following Financial Error (14 Mar 2018)
2017 annual report of Conviviality - audited by KPMG (14 Mar 2018)
EU Accountants and lawyers 'must report' aggressive tax avoidance schemes (14 Mar 2018)
EU Commission welcomes adoption of far-reaching new transparency rules for tax advisers in the EU (14 Mar 2018)
European Council - Corporate tax avoidance: EU Agreement reached on tax intermediaries (14 Mar 2018)
Greek Banks See $6.5 Billion Hit From New Accounting Rules (14 Mar 2018)
Companies that use conservative accounting principles less likely to face lawsuits, study finds (14 Mar 2018)
Conservative Reporting and Securities Class Action Lawsuits (14 Mar 2018)
Transfer Pricing: The government recognises that it is not likely to be possible to use the arm's length approach for measuring that share, or determining how that share then breaks down between specific user jurisdictions (14 Mar 2018)
PwC reveals highest gender pay gap of Big Four (14 Mar 2018)
ExxonMobil says it doesn't expect to pay any Australian corporate tax until 2021 (14 Mar 2018)
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes charged with $700m fraud (14 Mar 2018)
Deloitte administrators to failed remediation engineering firm (14 Mar 2018)
Accountants face EU clamp-down on aggressive tax planning (13 Mar 2018)
Carillion Inquiry: Letter from Carillion to Permanent Secretary for the Cabinet Office regarding Carillion, 13 January 2018 (13 Mar 2018)
Carillion: Summary of short term funding proposal, 13 January 2018 (13 Mar 2018)
Carillion Inquiry: Philip Green's "final request" letter (13 Mar 2018)
Saudis Said to Use Coercion and Abuse to Seize Billions - with help from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Clifford Chance (13 Mar 2018)
#MeToo: SRA puts foot down on non-disclosure agreements (13 Mar 2018)
Lease Accounting Standards Resources (13 Mar 2018)
What does the future hold for listed accountancy firms? (13 Mar 2018)
Accounting watchdogs find 'serious problems' at 40% of audits (12 Mar 2018)
Two-fifths of audits fail in standards inspection (12 Mar 2018)
Carillion 'shelled out' Â£6.4m to advisers day before it asked Government for Â£10m loan (12 Mar 2018)
A defective auditing market that makes 'lemons' of us all (12 Mar 2018)
MPs' fury at Â£10m 'ransom demand' to rescue Carillion as collapsed firm wanted total bailout of Â£160m (12 Mar 2018)
SME Abuse: Lloyds rescue unit was out to make profit (12 Mar 2018)
Pre Pack Administrations: Company directors abusing insolvency system to avoid paying creditors, research suggests (12 Mar 2018)
Lloyds Banking Group launches 1 billion pounds share buyback (12 Mar 2018)
SIG employees leaving business after accounting scandal (12 Mar 2018)
Staff leave SIG following probe into accounting irregularities (12 Mar 2018)
Despite repeated controversies, the Big Four accountants remain on top (12 Mar 2018)
Canada Supreme Court sets out liability for auditors (12 Mar 2016)
Ethnic minorities paid less at KPMG (12 Mar 2018)
Multinationals pay lower taxes than a decade ago (12 Mar 2018)
Another tax scam by acocuntancy firms foiled: HMRC slays tax-avoiding Cyclops (12 Mar 2018)
Read First-Tier Tribunal judgement: Cyclops Electronics Ltd & Anor v Revenue and Customs (INCOME TAX/CORPORATION TAX : Employment income) [2016] UKFTT 487 (TC) (12 July 2016) (12 Mar 2018)
Read Upper Tier Tribunal judgement: Cyclops Electronics Ltd and Graceland Fixing Ltd v Revenue and Customs (INCOME TAX, NATIONAL INSURANCE CONTRIBUTIONS) [2018] UKUT 7 (TCC) (17 January 2018) (12 Mar 2018)
AlixPartners to restructure Prezzo while Carluccio's hires KPMG (12 Mar 2018)
Auditors criticise Islamic Cultural Centre over cash donations (12 Mar 2018)
This decision will make a mockery of EU claims to be tackling tax havens (9 Mar 2018)
Global audit firm networks challenged to maintain quality (9 Mar 2018)
KPMG pays women 42% less than men, new figures reveal (9 Mar 2018)
Tesla's chief accounting officer leaves for 'personal reasons' (9 Mar 2018)
Kames bond managers scold water firms over tax (9 Mar 2018)
Ex-South African Tax Officials Face Charges Based on KPMG Probe (9 Mar 2018)
KPMG's Gupta Auditors Could Be Stripped Of Licences Soon (9 Mar 2018)
Fat cats: Disney shareholders reject CEO Iger's pay package (9 May 2018)
TPR met with Carillion pension trustees 45 times over eight years (9 Mar 2018)
Carillion Inquiry: 07 Mar 2018 - oral evidence from institutional investors and Ernst & Young (EY) (9 Mar 2018)
Defending the Indefensible: Cable's call to break up Big Four wrong approach, says Izza (9 Mar 2018)
CCCTB, Transfer Pricing: A simple solution to corporate tax avoidance (9 Mar 2018)
FTSE 350 / AIM 100 Auditors Survey (9 Mar 2018)
Lloyds TSB 'bent own auditor rules' (8 Mar 2018)
Worsening life expectancy drives Legal & General profit rise (8 Mar 2018)
Deloitte gender pay gap jumps to 43% as partners included (8 Jan 2018)
EBITDA: Does it still do the job? (8 Mar 2018)
Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill - Written evidence submitted by Professor Prem Sikka (8 Mar 2018)
IFIAR Annual Audit Inspection Findings Survey 2017 - Lots of poor audits identified (8 Mar 2018)
Deal signed between ICAS and US accounting bodies (8 Mar 2018)
Maplin axes head office jobs as fears grow over shop floor worker (8 Mar 2018)
Carillion contracts deal fails, putting 2500 jobs at risk (8 Mar 2018)
Co-op forced to apologise over treatment of suppliers (8 Mar 2018)
Anti-money laundering rules for accountants revised (8 Mar 2018)
ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING GUIDANCE FOR THE ACCOUNTANCY SECTOR (8 Mar 2018)
Carillion investors vent KPMG frustrations, saying accounts "were not a good guide (7 Mar 2018)
Carillion investors vent frustration over auditing (7 Mar 2018)
Carillion proves how broken our audit market has become (7 Mar 2018)
Carillion investors question role of auditors and non-execs (7 Mar 2018)
Carillion bosses prioritised pay over company affairs, MPs hear (7 Mar 2018)
KPMG Acts Globally But Keeps Scandals Local (7 Mar 2018)
Deloitte Pays UK Women 43% Less Than Men (7 Mar 2018)
RBS to pay New York $500m for deceptions ahead of 2008 crash (7 Mar 2018)
A.G. Schneiderman Announces $500 Million Settlement With Royal Bank Of Scotland Over Misconduct Leading Up To Financial Crisis (7 Mar 2018)
EY becomes first big UK accounting firm to publish partners' gender pay gap (7 Mar 2018)
PwC scrambles to return assets to Beaufort investors (7 Mar 2018)
Turf Wars: ICAEW takes lord chancellor to court -seeks to become a regulator and licensing authority for five of the legal services currently reserved for the legal profession (7 Mar 2018)
EY partner leaves following harassment investigation (6 Mar 2018)
FRC wrongly told companies to pay voluntary levy (6 Mar 2018)
Moorfields and PwC appointed administrators, as Toys R Us and Maplin collapse (6 Mar 2018)
Wiggins among alleged users of 'shocking' tax avoidance scheme (6 Mar 2018)
Transfer pricing definition updated to reflect OECD BEPS (6Mar 2018)
Ex Co-op Bank boss Paul Flowers banned after sex and drugs emails (6 Mar 2018)
KPMG Luxembourg becomes Approved Verifier of Climate Bonds Standard (6 Mar 2018)
US Congress moves to roll back bank rules (6 Mar 2018)
Audit vs. Fraud Examination (6 Mar 2018)
Bribery and Corruption: US investigation into BAE Saudi arms deal watered down, leaked memo suggests (6 Mar 2018)
Big Four count on change as trust in the auditing sector slumps (6 Mar 2018)
Revealed: Carillion lenders alerted to concerns months before collapse (5 Mar 2018)
Carillion 'aggressively managed' accounts, report says (5 Mar 2018)
Consultancy firms received millions in fees during the weeks leading to Carillion's collapse (5 Mar 2018)
Report into crisis-hit Carillion says bosses more interested in short-term profits than future of firm (5 Mar 2018)
Independent review of Carillion reveals 'gross failings of corporate governance and accounting' (5 Mar 2018)
The extracts from the Carillion Review (5 Mar 2018)
Letter from PWC to the Chairs regarding Carillion 23 February 2018 (5 Mar 2018)
Letter from FTI to the Chairs regarding Carillion 23 February 2018 (5 Mar 2018)
Letter from FSB to the Chairs regarding Carillion 27 February 2018 (5 Mar 2018)
Letter from Ernst & Young (EY) to the Chairs regarding Carillion 23 February 2018 (5 Mar 2018)
Carillion Inquiry 22 Feb 2018 - Work and Pensions - oral evidence from Michael Jones, Internal Audit Partner, Deloitte, Michelle Hinchliffe, Head of Audit, KPMG, Peter Meehan, Partner, Audit, KPMG (5 Mar 2018)
BBC blames accountants for IR35 advice (5 Mar 2018)
Paro receives $5m to fight Big 4 accounting giants (5 Mar 2018)
ACCA Accountant's challenge to auditing ban dismissed (5 Mar 2018)
Level of FRC audit regulatory costs causes concern (5 Mar 2018)
Capita lenders brace for fight over outsourcer's future (5 Mar 2018)
Big Four dominate FTSE 250 audit market in Q1 rankings (5 Mar 2018)
Carluccio's brings in KPMG amid casual dining crunch (5 Mar 2018)
Foreign banks drawn into heated US debate over Dodd-Frank reform (5 Mar 2018)
With banking reform bill, Main Street won't suffer for Wall Street's sins (5 Mar 2018)
Shadow banking grows to more than $45tn assets globally (5 Mar 2018)
Revealed: How a private equity takeover contributed to Maplin's demise (2 Mar 2018)
SFO seeks retrial of former Tesco bosses (2 Mar 2018)
Carillion board papers reveal 'pervasive institutional failings' (2 Mar 2018)
Carillion Board Minutes, 22 August 2017 (2 Mar 2018)
Extract from EY presentation to Carillion Board, 22 August 2017 (2 Mar 2018)
Carillion Board minutes, 5 July 2017 (2 Mar 2018)
UK law firms disciplined over money laundering (2 Mar 2018)
Is money laundering the favourite crime of America's elite? (2 Mar 2018)
Steer clear of private equity (2 Mar 2018)
Bitcoin faces regulatory crackdown, Bank of England warns (2 Mar 2018)
PwC appointed administrator to troubled UK stockbroker Beaufort Securities Ltd (2 Mar 2018)
Deloitte & Touche Agrees to Pay $149.5 Million to Settle Claims Arising From Its Audits of Failed Mortgage Lender Taylor, Bean & Whitake (1 Mar 2018)
Limited impact of mandatory rotation on audit quality (1 Mar 2018)
KPMG partner leaves firm over sexual harassment claim (1 Mar 2018)
Carpetright shares plunge on new profit warning (1 Mar 2018)
Bust firm leaves trail of debt but jobs saved in 'pre-pack' deal (1 Mar 2018)
James Dyson attacks private company disclosure rules - but wants subsidies (1 Mar 2018)
From Satyam to PNB: Surely, the role of auditors needs to be probed here too? (1 Mar 2018)
Majority ignore non-financial metrics in company reporting (1 Mar 2018)
Punjab National Bank auditor arrested in $2bn fraud investigation (1 Mar 2018)
What you need to know about gender pay gap reporting (1 Mar 2018)

February 2018

Carillion board minutes reveal last CFO blew whistle on accounting irregularities (28 Feb 2020)
Carillion: Incoming FD objected to company accounting practices and "the board's response was to reject an independent review and get KPMG, their pet rubber-stampers, to mark their own homework", say MPs (28 Feb 2018)
Former Carillion FD warned of "sloppy accounting" (28 Feb 2018)
Vince Cable calls for fresh investigation into Big Four (28 Feb 2018)
South African regulator refers ex-KPMG employee to disciplinary inquiry (28 Feb 2018)
EY investigates senior partner over sexual harassment allegations (28 Feb 2018)
Five reasons Toys R Us failed (28 Feb 2018)
Toys R Us UK goes into administration (28 Feb 2018)
Eversheds Sutherland takes PwC role on Maplin administration as Kirkland leads on Toys R Us wind-down (28 Feb 2018)
Maplin collapses as rescue talks fail (28 Feb 2018)
PwC appointed administrators to Maplin (28 Feb 2018)
A Maplin Tombstone (28 Feb 2018)
US SEC Obtains Bars and Suspensions Against Individuals and Accounting Firm in Shell Factory Scheme (28 Feb 2018)
India Cabinet likely to discuss tighter norms for auditors (28 Feb 2018)
Deloitte last of Big Four to sign women in finance charter (28 Feb 2018)
Auditor Rotation Rules Miss Their Mark (28 Feb 2018)
Why German corporate governance is so different (28 Feb 2018)
Whistleblower warned Carillion bosses about irregularities, MPs told (27 Feb 2018)
Carillion finance director blew the whistle on irregular accounting, board papers show (27 Feb 2018)
Carillion board minutes reveal last CFO blew whistle on accounting irregularities (27 Feb 2018)
Carillion Board minutes, 9 May 2017 (27 Feb 2018)
Carillion Board minutes, 15 May 2017 (27 Feb 2018)
Carillion Board minutes, 23 May 2017 (27 Feb 2018)
Carillion: Committees publish follow up inquiries to Emma Mercer (27 Feb 2018)
Barclays, Lloyds Bank and RBS reveal gender pay gap (27 Feb 2018)
Farm accounting: Everything you need to know (27 Feb 2018)
India Supreme Court puts the spotlight on audit firms (27 Feb 2018)
Big Four face tough time over Indian member firms (27 Feb 2018)
India Supreme Court Says Multi-National Accounting Firms Are Prima Facie Violating The Law; Directs Centre To Constitute Expert Committee [Read Judgment] (27 Feb 2018)
Philip Green asked HSBC to help find Arcadia buyer, leak claims (27 Feb 2018)
Money Laundering: Russian millions laundered via UK firms, leaked report says
(27 Feb 2018)
GE names accounting, turnaround experts to board (27 Feb 2018)
GE shares zigzag on confusion about impact of new accounting rules (27 Feb 2018)
U.S. Probes MiMedx's Federal Contracts, Accounting (27 Feb 2018)
An Open Letter To The MiMedx Auditors (27 Feb 2018)
Premier Motor Auctions and PwC : Motor dealer accuses Lloyds of pushing it out of business (26 Feb 2018)
Premier Motor Auctions and PwC - Bombshell memo 'shows Lloyds plan to exploit firms': How customers were allegedly plundered in an RBS-style plot to seize assets (26 Feb 2018)
Ex-Carillion CFO sold Â£800,000 in shares after retirement (26 Feb 2018)
Former Carillion Finance Director 'dumped last of shares at first possible moment' (26 Feb 2018)
Carillion: Letter-from-Richard-Adam-to-the-Chairs-regarding-Carilion-finances-20-February-2018 (26 Feb 2018)
Carillion: Letter-from-Zafar-Khan-to-the-Chairs-regarding-Carillion-finances-21-February-2018 (26 Feb 2018)
Accountants, if you don't want to head down the same rocky road as the bankers, get a grip (26 Feb 2018)
General Electric is restating 2 years of earnings (26 Feb 2019)
GE to restate earnings on accounting change (26 Feb 2018)
Carillion: Sir Vince Cable calls for investigation into auditors (26 Feb 2018)
Carillion: Someone is wrong on the internet, a KPMG excuse debunked (26 Feb 2018)
South African regulator probing Steinhoff auditors to continue investigation
(26 Feb 2018)
Australia Government spending 'stupendous sums' on Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC
(26 Feb 2018)
Auditors' Increased Responsibilities Under the PCAOB's New Audit Standards (26 Feb 2018)
KPMG Australia sells out of its superannuation administration business (26 Feb 2018)
Dumbarton's tax haven owners strike deal to bring club onshore (26 Feb 2018)
Carillion: PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES SHOW NO GOODWILL TOWARD KPMG (23 Feb 2018)
Carillion minutes from Pension Trustees meeting, 8 January 2014 (23 Feb 2018)
Ex-Carillion director viewed pension fund as 'waste of money' (23 Feb 2018)
Carillion hearing: Not a good day to remember, says Izza (23 Feb 2018)
William Hill pushed into loss by Australia writedown (23 Feb 2018)
Charity auditors fail to follow new rules (23 Feb 2018)
Auditors failing to alert regulator to 'red flags' at charities (23 Feb 2018)
Charity commission Report: Reporting of matters of material significance by auditors (23 Feb 2018)
Less than a quarter of auditors alert regulator to accounting concerns, review finds (23 Feb 2018)
Financing intangible capital (23 Feb 2018)
Pensions: Ex-BHS owner Dominic Chappell fined (23 Feb 2018)
Royal Bank of Scotland reveals 37% gender pay gap (23 Feb 2018)
Barclays reveals big gender pay gaps across UK banking group (23 Feb 2018)
Carillion: Whole system of corporate accountability 'built on sand' (22 Feb 2018)
MP to Carillion auditors: I wouldn't trust you to audit my fridge (22 Feb 2018)
Carillion collapse: 'I wouldn't trust you to audit the contents of my fridge', MP tells KPMG (22 Feb 2018)
Carillion's auditors say they wouldn't have done anything differently (22 Feb 2018)
Carillion: Cracks were showing earlier than director and auditor admit (22 Feb 2018)
Carillion: The Committee is publishing a response from The Hospital Company (22 Feb 2018)
MPs turn fire on KPMG and Deloitte partners over Carillion (22 Feb 2018)
MPs grill KPMG and Deloitte over Carillion (22 Feb 2018)
MPs attack pension regulator at Carillion inquiry (22 Feb 2018)
Carillion auditor KPMG says company bosses were wrong to pin blame for collapse on Qataris (22 Feb 2018)
Pensions regulator considers pursuing individuals over Carillion failure (22 Feb 2018)
Companies unprepared for lease accounting standard (22 Feb 2018)
Why should accountants take notice of GDPR? (22 Feb 2018)
Confusion over Basel bank capital requirements fails us all (22 Feb 2018)
Religare's new auditors pull up PWC over 'Unmodified Report' (22 Feb 2018)
Carillion was in trouble by mid-2016, says whistleblower (21 Feb 2018)
Public's bill for Carillion 'could be billions', (21 Feb 2018)
Auditors warn Northamptonshire CC budget could be 'illegal' (21 Feb 2018)
$92 million accounting error delivers blow to Edward-Elmhurst (21 Feb 2018)
OECD consults on common reporting standard loophole (21 Feb 2018)
UK minister rebuffs call to make tax havens reveal company owners (21 Feb 2018)
UK MPs approve new FCA chair despite tax avoidance admission (21 Feb 2018)
Deeper scandal at Carillion was Pension Regulator's inaction (21 Feb 2018
FCA launches call for input on the use of technology to achieve smarter regulatory reporting (21 Feb 2018)
Why companies, pension funds and taxpayer-funded public bodies are served notices by the Financial Reporting Council requesting payment for a charge described as a levy without any accompanying statement that the charge does not have the status of levy or tax, and is not actually required to be paid (21 Feb 2018))
Financial Reporting Council levy (21 Feb 2018)
Assessment of transfers of staff from the Financial Reporting Council to (1) the International Accounting Standards Board, (2) large accounting firms, and (3) other organisations, have complied with the restrictions on appointment of public officials into private sector roles (21 Feb 2018)
Whether the opening of an office in Brussels by the Financial Reporting Council for lobbying activity was authorised by the Cabinet Office (21 Feb 2018)
Financial Reporting Council's instructions to Counsel in relation to dealing with the opinions of Mr George Bompas QC of 2013 and 2015 (21 Feb 2018)
The re-appointment of Sir John Sunderland to the Board of the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) in 2007 (21 Feb 2018)
Transparency of the process of reappointing Sir John Sunderland to the Board of the Financial Reporting Council (21 Feb 2018)
Why the Memorandum of Understanding between the Financial Reporting Council and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills dated July 2010 describes the Financial Reporting Council as a private body (21 Feb 2018)
How long the Financial Reporting Council has been classified by the National Accounts Classification Committee as a central government public body (21 Feb 2018)
Financial Reporting Council as a public body (21 Feb 2018)
Who receives the proceeds of successful legal actions brought by the Financial Reporting Council against any of the Big Four accountancy firms (21 Feb 2018)
Whether the Financial Reporting Council has met all the obligations required of public bodies, in particular relating to (1) procurement, (2) recruitment, (3) remuneration, and (4) the Freedom of Information Act 2000, since its establishment (21 Feb 2018)
Whether Her Majesty's Government have given any guarantees to the Financial Reporting Council to cover legal costs for cases brought against accountancy firms (21 Feb 2018)
Classification of the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) as a public body (21 Feb 2018)
Dutch court rules Steinhoff must amend 2016 accounts (20 Feb 2018)
Corporate Governance: To stop more Carillions we must break this supine conspiracy (20 Feb 2018)
Carillion: Regulator was warned over pensions deficit (20 Feb 2018)
KPMG audit partner faces MPs grilling over Carillion (20 Feb 2018)
Research shows Big Four accountancy firms 'too cosy' with ex-audit CFOs (20 Feb 2018)
House of Commons Treasury Committee publishes RBS-GRG report (20 Feb 2018)
Read the Report: RBS Group's treatment of SME customers referred to the Global Restructuring Group (20 Feb 2018)
Sports Direct launches 100 million pound share buyback (20 Feb 2018)
HSBC Says Swiss Bank Tax Probe Could Cost More Than $1.5 Billion (20 Feb 2018)
HSBC takes $188m hit from Carillion and Steinhoff write-downs (20 Feb 2018)
HSBC takes $188m hit from Carillion and Steinhoff write-downs (20 Feb 2018)
Steinhoff Ex-Partner Wins Case Against Scandal-Hit Retailer (20 Feb 2018)
Small firms increasingly reluctant to borrow from big banks (20 Feb 2018)
Fat cats: HSBC boss scores bumper farewell pay package as bank profits rise (20 Feb 2018)
Carillion investors were 'fleeing for the hills' (19 Feb 2018)
Major shareholders views on Carillion collapse published (19 Feb 2018)
Carillion shareholders considered suing after profit warning (19 Feb 2018)
Major shareholder accuses Carillion's top brass of covering up its catastrophic financial problems (19 Feb 2018)
Carillion: Letter from Blackrock, Inc (19 Feb 2018)
Carillion: Letter from UBS Investment Bank and UBS Group AG (19 Feb 2018)
Carillion: Letetr from Kiltearn Partners LLP (19 Feb 2018)
Carillion shareholders considered suing after profit warning (19 Feb 2018)
Carillion must be a catalyst for change on the SME finance scene (19 Feb 2018)
Carillion: Letter from Brewin Dolphin Limited (19 Feb 2018)
Carillion: Letter from Letko, Brosseau & Associates Inc. (19 Feb 2018)
Carillion: Letter from Standard Life Investments (Holdings) Limited (19 Feb 2018)
Philip Green (ex BHS) considers selling Arcadia to Chinese textiles giant (19 Feb 2018)
Sir Philip Green (ex BHS) faces more pension questions from Frank Field (19 Feb 2018)
Grand Court rejects US lawsuit against BDO Cayman (19 Feb 2018)
Philip Green (ex BHS) considers selling Arcadia to Chinese textiles giant (19 Feb 2018
Jamie Oliver's Barbecoa Piccadilly has crashed into pre-pack administration (19 Feb 2018))
Sir Philip Green (ex BHS) faces more pension questions from Frank Field (19 Feb 2018)
Experts warn of P&L hit from DB pension accounting changes (19 Feb 2018)
Lynn Turner Wants to Break up the Big Four accounting firms (16 Feb 2018)
Steinhoff appoints ex-KPMG partner as restructuring chief (16 Feb 2018)
Big four auditor independence suffers from alumni effect (16 Feb 2018)
The Alumni Effect & Professional Skepticism: An Experimental Investigation (16 Feb 2018)
IFAC: Profession criticises new audit proposals - Proposals from the Joint Monitoring Group to remove international audit and ethical standard-setting from the purlieu of the auditing profession have met with both strong support and fierce resistance (16 Feb 2018)
Accountant jailed for money laundering after stealing cash from Bermudan government (16 Feb 2018)
HMRC wins tax case against former BBC presenter Christa Ackroyd (16 Feb 2018)
Shell Companies: Ukrainian mercenaries are using Scottish 'tax haven' firm as front (16 Feb 2018)
Lawyers, bankers asked by UK MPs to detail relationship with Carillion (16 Feb 2018)
Letter from the Chairs to Crown Commercial Service regarding Carillion, 14 February 2018 (16 Feb 2018)
Letter from the Chairs to Aberdeen Roads Limited regarding Carillion, 14 February 2018 (16 Feb 2018)
Letter from the Chairs to Lazard regarding Carillion, 13 February 2018 (16 Feb 2018)
Letter from the Chairs to McLeod Partnerhips Ltd regarding Carillion (16 Feb 2018)
Letter from the Chairs to Morgan Stanley regarding Carillion, 15 February 2018 (16 Feb 2018)
Letter from the Chairs to Slaughter and May regarding Carillion, 13 February 2018 (16 Feb 2018)
Letter from the Chairs to The Hospital Company regarding Carillion, 14 February 2018 (16 Feb 2018)
MPs demand minutes, presentations from Carillion bosses after contradictory statements (16 Feb 2018)
MPs demand more evidence from Carillion directors amid inquiry into collapse (16 Feb 2018)
Letter from the Chairs to Keith Cochrane regarding Carillion, February 2018 (16 Feb 2018)
Letter from the Chairs to Philip Green regarding Carillion, 13 February 2018 (16 Feb 2018)
Letter from the Chairs to Richard Adam regarding Carillion, February 2018 (16 Feb 2018)
Letter from the Chairs to Richard Howson regarding Carillion, February 2018 (16 Feb 2018)
Letter from the Chairs to Zafar Khan regarding Carillion, 14 February 2018 (16 Feb 2018)
Letter from the Chairs to Insolvency Service relating to Carillion, 14 February 2018 (16 Feb 2018)
Carillion: a month on, employees, partners and rivals feel the pain (15 Feb 2018)
Carillion's collapse exposes deep corporate governance failings (15 Feb 2018)
Carillion - oral evidence given by directors to parliamentary committees (15 Feb 2018)
Laura Ashley shares plunge 26% on profit warning (15 Feb 2018)
Uber lost $3.7 billion during its last three quarters (15 Feb 2018)
Mind the gap: what accountancy firms should be doing ahead of the new gender gap reporting rules (15 Feb 2018)
Corporate governance: Finally, proof that managing for the long term pays off (15 Feb 2018)
Corporate governance, McKinsey Report: Measuring the economic impact of short-termism (15 Feb 2018)
MPs pressure City firms over gender diversity (15 Feb 2018)
McKinsey Report: Where companies with a long-term view outperform their peers (15 Feb 2018)
Celgene announces additional $5 billion share buyback program (15 Feb 2018)
Lotte shares dive after chairman is jailed (15 Feb 2018)
A crisis is building around employee pensions and the government are ignoring it
(14 Feb 2018)
Government brings in Deloitte to monitor Interserve (14 Feb 2018)
Auditors defer more to former colleagues, study suggests (14 Feb 2018)
Big Four's extensive Carillion work sparks calls for action (14 Feb 2018)
Deloitte to face court over Hezbollah-linked bank audit (14 Feb 2018)
Negligence case against Deloitte and Touche allowed to proceed rules Dubai courts
(14 Feb 2018)
Ricoh accounting fraud: SEBI bans 7 from securities market (14 Feb 2018)
Pensions - Articles - Changes to IAS 19 accounting standard (14 Feb 2018)
How the PricewaterhouseCoopers Case Affects Litigation Funders in New Zealand (14 Feb 2018)
New Hedge-Fund Tax Dodge Triggers Wild Rush Back Into Delaware (14 Feb 2018)
Shell Companies: US IRS to Ban Hedge-Fund Tax Dodge on Carried Interest (14 Feb 2018)
CARILLION, ONLY THE LATEST IN A LONG SERIES OF AUDIT FAILURES (13 Feb 2018)
UK's big four accountancy firms accused of 'feasting' on Carillion (13 Feb 2018)
Letter from KPMG Chairman to the Chairs relating to Carillion, 2 February 2018 (13 Feb 2018)
Letter from PWC to the Chairs relating to Carillion, 2 February 2018 (13 Feb 2018)
Letter from Deloitte Chairman to the Chairs relating to Carillion, 2 February 2018 (13 Feb 2018)
Letter from Deloitte Chairman to the Chairs relating to Carillion, 5 February 2018 (13 Feb 2018)
Letter from Ernst & Young (EY) Chairman to the Chairs relating to Carillion, 2 February 2018 (13 Feb 2018)
Letter from Ernst & Young (EY) to the Chairs relating to Carillion, 25 January 2018 (13 Feb 2018)
Letter from the Insolvency Service to the Chairs relating to Carillion, 5 February 2018 (13 Feb 2018)
KPMG's share of UK public sector contracts drops sharply (13 Feb 2018)
Apple supplier IQE swaps auditor PwC for KPMG after hedge fund accuses it of manipulating accounts (13 Feb 2018)
IQE appoints new auditor to fight account manipulation allegations (13 Feb 2018)
Money Laundering: Accountancy bodies uncertain about AML watchdog fees (13 Feb 2018)
Sebi passes interim order in Ricoh India accounting fraud case (13 Feb 2018)
Links to alleged bribes in Peru put pressure on Scottish shell firms (13 Feb 2018)
Peru leader accused of taking bribes through company based at Scots law firm
(13 Feb 2018)
US tax reform and foreign captive insurance companies (13 Feb 2018)
Insolvency: Who gets paid first when a company goes into liquidation? (13 Feb 2018)
KPMG: The Indictments (12 Feb 2018)
New accounting standard IFRS9 will make loans, insurance expensive (12 Feb 2018)
Carillion: a catalogue of problems emerges as MPs ask what did directors know
(12 Feb 2018)
Wells Fargo auditors could soon deliver another blow to the bank
(12 Feb 2018)
'Totally immoral': Former GRG boss raked in thousands in consultancy fees since leaving taxpayer-backed RBS (12 Feb 2018)
Secret emails implicate senior managers at RBS's controversial Global Restructuring Group (12 Feb 2018)
Deloitte brought in to watch over Interserve for the government (12 Feb 2018)
Interserve in crucial funding talks with banks (12 Feb 2018)
Bill Michael: on KPMG and the profession - on carillion, poor audits and expectations gap. (12 Feb 2018)
Carillion collapse leaves auditors conflicted (9 Feb 2018)
Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and Work and Pensions Committees Oral evidence from Carillion directors Tuesday 6 February 2017 (9 Feb 2018)
Carillion took 126 days to pay its suppliers (9 Feb 2018)
Big Four alumni can bias auditors (9 Feb 2018)
FRC responds to Monitoring Group consultation on strengthening the governance and oversight of audit-related standard setting in the public interest (9 Feb 2018)
Share Buybacks Double Under Trump Tax Plan (9 Feb 2019)
Paradise Papers: EU parliament votes to launch tax inquiry (9 Feb 2018)
OECD updates guidance on country-by-country reporting (9 Feb 2018)
OECD Guidance on the Implementation of Country-by-Country Reporting - BEPS ACTION 13 (9 Feb 2018)
OECD BEPS Action 13 on Country-by-Country GUIDANCE ON THE APPROPRIATE USE OF INFORMATION (9 Feb 2018)
Danish megafund starts crusade on climate and tax evasion (9 Feb 2018)
UK Government steps up action on unpaid internships (9 Feb 2018)
Why employers should revisit their executive compensation strategies (9 Feb 2018)
Full report into RBS must be published next week say MPs (8 Feb 2018)
Carillion executives accused of giving misleading evidence to MPs (8 Feb 2018)
WHERE DID IT ALL GO WRONG? HOW THE COLLAPSE OF CARILLION UNFOLDED (8 Feb 2018)
David Lidington rejects call to break up Big Four after Carillion collapse
(8 Feb 2018)
Stronger case needed to break-up Big Four, says minister (8 Feb 2018)
Lib Dems leader seeks Big Four break-up in light of Carillion failure (8 Feb 2018)
Lawyers need to leave ego at the door of Big Four (8 Feb 2018)
Deloitte and EY acquire design agencies Brandfirst and Citizen (8 Feb 2018)
Discount rate cuts German corporate pension liabilities in 2017 (8 Feb 2018)
PwC to sell Carillion's rail division (8 Feb 2018)
How to Break up the Big Four Accounting Oligopoly (8 Feb 2018)
Big Four Accounting Oligopoly: EC looks to break the audit 'oligopoly' (8 Feb 2018)
Breaking the Big Four Oligopoly: EC takes on Big Four auditing firms (8 Feb 2018)
Big Four Accounting Oligopoly: The 48-year itch - Britain's auditing oligopoly (8 Feb 2018)
Big Four Accounting Oligopoly: Will they really try to break up auditing's big four?Count on it (8 Feb 2018)
Big Four Accounting Oligopoly: MEPs cave to lobbying and defend 'big four' audit oligopoly (8 Feb 2018)
FRC to closer scrutinise top six audit firms- It would say that wouldn't it to save its skin (7 Feb 2018)
Floundering Carillion Bosses Grilled by Business Committee â€“ But When Will We Change Corporate Law? (7 Feb 2018)
KPMG chief bans firm from 'Carillion profiteering' amid backlash (7 Feb 2018)
Commonwealth Bank profit falls amid money-laundering scandal (7 Feb 2018)
New evidence of mass abuse of UK shell firms by corrupt Ukrainians (7 Feb 2018)
Scots shell firms play key role in Latin America's bribery 'mega scandal (7 Feb 2018)
Positive vs normative accounting (7 Feb 2018)
How Governance, Culture, and Management Systems ratings can mitigate risk and create Total Stakeholder Value (7 Feb 2018)
Rabobank to enter plea in money-laundering investigation (7 Feb 2018)
UK Government Consultation Paper on Gig Economy: Millions to benefit from enhanced rights as government responds to Taylor review of modern working practices (7 Feb 2018)
Carillion's problem was aggressive accounting, says finance chief (6 Feb 2018)
MPs told Carillion's accounting policy 'aggressive' (6 Feb 2018)
Former Carillion directors took 'aggressive tone' in accounting, finance director says (6 Feb 2018)
Carillion ignored warnings about pensions, documents reveal (6 Feb 2018)
Pension concerns were 'ignored' by Carillion when raised in 2012 (6 Feb 2018)
Former Carillion directors branded 'delusional' at MPs' Q&A (6 Feb 2018)
Carillion: Politicians press accounting watchdog over 'going concern' rules
(6 Feb 2018)
Tesco accounting fraud trial collapses after defendant suffers heart attack
(6 Feb 2018)
PwC pays $50m to settle Petrobras class action (6 Feb 2018)
Amazon settles tax row with France, value undisclosed (6 Feb 2018)
$30 Billion Hit Looms for India Banks on New Accounting Rule (6 Feb 2018)
Case law: Court of Appeal clarifies when company can refuse access to its register of shareholders (6 Feb 2018)
Carillion could be the spur to radically reform company law. Here's what's at stake
(5 Feb 2018)
Accounting Investigation Adds to Challenges Facing GE (5 Feb 2018)
Letter from PWC to the Chair relating to Palmer and Harvey pension scheme, 18 January 2018 (5 Feb 2018)
Letter from the Chairs to Carillionâ€™s major shareholders 26 January 2018 (5 Feb 2018)
Vincent Tchenguiz loses control of Hilton hotels
(5 Feb 2018)
Steinhoff accounting scandal threatens to entangle former Asda boss Andy Bond
(5 Feb 2018)
Bernie Ecclestone 'questioned under caution by HMRC'
(5 Feb 2018)
Restructuring helps Liberty Media reduce tax bill for Formula One (5 Feb 2018)
Carillion: Everyone loves to hate the City and the financial sector but sometimes hedge funds really do save the day (5 Feb 2018)
Tax relief has become a gigantic welfare state for the well-off (5 Feb 2018)
Homebase owners may close up to 40 stores (5 Feb 2018)
SIG shares drop after discovery of 'intentional' accounting misstatements (2 Feb 2018)
SIG staff suspended after investigation reveals accounting irregularities (2 Feb 2018)
Shareholders bring lawsuit against Steinhoff and Deloitte (2 Feb 2018)
Steinhoff says it still doesn't know what led to accounting fraud scandal (2 Feb 2018)
Interserve: The next firm worrying investors (2 Feb 2018)
BT revenues fall after hit from business rates and pension charges (2 Feb 2018)
Why didn't anyone working with Carillion say it was going to fail? (2 Feb 2018)
Report into misconduct by RBS will be made public, says watchdog (2 Feb 2018)
KPMG calls on Orrick as FRC launches probe into Carillion audits (2 Feb 2018)
UK building distributor SIG says 2016 profit overstated, shares fall (1 Feb 2018)
FTSE 250 firm SIG to restate profits after suspending staff over accounting irregularities
(1 Feb 2018)
How a Bad Bet on Power Put a Spotlight on GE's Murky Accounting (1 Feb 2018)
Carillion's demise shines a light on an auditor expectation gulf (1 Feb 2018)
Revolving Doors: Two of the last three finance directors of Carillion came from KPMG. KPMG has conducted the audit for the last 19 years (1 Feb 2018)
Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee & Work and Pensions Committee Oral evidenceon Carillion, from the FRC (1 Feb 2018)
Why didn't anyone working with Carillion say it was going to fail? (1 Feb 2018)
Capita: the writing was on the wall, but some didn't see it (1 Feb 2018)
Capita shares collapse after warning on profits (1 Feb 2018)
Capita: What does the company actually do? And is it another Carillion in the making? (1 Feb 2018)
Capita Woes Raise Alarm Bells in Wake of Carillion Collapse (1 Feb 2018)
Crisis-hit Steinhoff reports former CEO to police (1 Feb 2018)
Steinhoff Refers Ex-CEO to Police on Suspicion of Corruption (1 Feb 2018)
KPMG chairman defends "proper" Carillion audit (1 Feb 2018)
The opening of an Amazon fulfillment center does not increase overall local employment (1 Feb 2018)
Amazon warehouses don't increase jobs (1 Feb 2018)

January 2018

Calls for more scrutiny of top accounting firms after Carillion collapse (30 Jan 2018)
Carillion collapse sparks break up call for 'Big four' (30 Jan 2018)
FRC: MPs lash out at watchdog over Carillion probe (30 Jan 2018)
Time to end the auditing merry-go-round (30 Jan 2018)
Carillion pension scheme was 'ignored' (30 Jan 2018)
UK House of Commons Library Research Paper: The collapse of Carillion (30 Jan 2018)
KPMG investigation will make or break the FRC (30 Jan 2018)
US SEC halts AriseBank's initial coin offering, alleges fraud
(30 Jan 2018)
Many of Britain's biggest firms face shareholder revolts as executive pay dominates the agenda (30 Jan 2018)
Banks:L CFTC Orders HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. Pay $1.6 Million Penalty for Spoofing In the Precious Metals Futures Markets (30 Jan 2018)
Banks: CFTC Orders UBS to Pay $15 Million Penalty for Attempted Manipulation and Spoofing In the Precious Metals Futures Markets (30 Jan 2018)
Banks: CFTC Orders Deutsche Bank to Pay $30 Million Penalty for Manipulation, Attempted Manipulation, and Spoofing In the Precious Metals Futures Markets (30 Jan 2018)
The 'true and fair' questions that dog Carillion (29 Jan 2018)
FRC Investigation into the audit of the financial statements of Carillion plc (29 Jan 2018)
KPMG to be investigated over Carillion auditing (29 Jan 2018)
FRC: Accounting and reporting framework for the construction and business support services sectors (29 Jan 2018)
Carillion tried to 'wriggle out' of pension contributions (29 Jan 2018)
Palmer and Harvey under investigation for accounting irregularities (29 Jan 2018)
The case against share buybacks (29 Jan 2018)
Automatic fines for being late with your tax return are invalid (29 Jan 2018)
Fat cats: The government is looking into whether companies are using share buybacks to inflate bosses' pay
(29 Jan 2018)
Ministers to target share buybacks (29 Jan 2018)
FASB clarifies lease standard's application to land easements (26 Jan 2018)
I would make it a criminal offence for accountants to set up offshore tax havens (26 Jan 2018)
MPs want clarity on Big Four's work with Carillion (26 Jan 2018)
MPs pile pressure on big four audit firms over Carillion collapse (26 Jan 2018)
MPs want clarity on Big Four's work with Carillion (26 Jan 2018)
Carillion: Letter from the Chairs of Work and Pensions Committee Business and Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee to KPMG Chairman relating to Carillion services, 25 January 2018 (26 Jan 2018)
Carillion: Letter from the Chairs of Work and Pensions Committee Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee to Steve Varley, Chairman and UK&I Managing Partner, EY, 25 January 2018 (26 Jan 2018)
Carillion: Letter from the Cahirs of the Work and Pensions Committee Business and Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee to Nick Owen, Chairman, Deloitte UK & Switzerland, 25 January 2018 (26 Jan 2018)
Carillion: Letter from the Work and Pensions Committee Business and Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee to Kevin Ellis, Chairman and Senior Partner, PwC LLP, 25 January 2018 (26 Jan 2018)
Carillion greed hits other companies' pensions (26 Jan 2018)
Bosses and shareholders handed billions as pension deficits grow (26 Jan 2018)
Carillion collapse triggers defaults at projects with HICL (26 Jan 2018)
Battling for life, Noble Group hopeful of debt restructuring deal (25 Jan 2018)
Some Further Thoughts On General Electric And Financial Engineering (25 Jan 2018)
GE accounting probe deals blow to new chief Flannery (25 Jan 2018)
Google CEO: we're happy to pay more tax (25 Jan 2018)
MPs summon FRC over Carillion collapse (25 Jan 2018)
Paradise Papers: Davos panel calls for global corporate tax reform (25 Jan 2018)
KPMG confirms it will be investigated over the collapse of Carillion (24 Jan 2018)
KPMG indictment suggests many who weren't charged knew regulator data was stolen - This episode raises a serious question about the culture of the KPMG firm. Under the circumstances, how can the SEC expect investors to trust KPMG's audits? (24 Jan 2018)
Canada Supreme Court abandons investors in Livent decision (24 Jan 2018)
Carillion investors mull legal action (24 Jan 2018)
Publicis dismisses accounting misconduct claims (24 Jan 2018)
Obalon cancels offering after allegation on accounting practices (24 Jan 2018)
Did RBS abuse its turnaround process? We deserve to know (24 Jan 2018)
BUSINESS POPULATION ESTIMATES FOR THE UK AND REGIONS 2017 (24 Jan 2018)
Here's why the Carillion scandal will last for decades (23 Jan 2018)
Former US KPMG partners charged with fraud (23 Jan 2018)
FRC Sanctions in relation to the audit of Quindell Ltd (23 Jan 2018)
Whistleblower suing Ernst & Young over gold dealings with Dubai firm (23 Jan 2018)
Whistleblower claims accountants Ernst & Young turned a blind eye to Dubai firm he says painted 5 tons of gold to look like silver (23 Jan 2018)
Why Artificial Intelligence Is The Future Of Accounting: Report (23 Jan 2018)
UK launches new (another) anti-money laundering watchdog - The Office for Professional Body Anti-Money Laundering Supervision (OPBAS) is based within the FCA (23 Jan 2018)
The rise and fall of reputation of high-street food and drink - When tax impacts reputation (23 Jan 2018)
Pioneering Britain has a rethink on privatisation - leveraging and tax deductions on intragroup interest payments were central to it
(23 Jan 2018)
AIG to use old losses to avoid taxes on Validus profits (23 Jan 2018)
A Deloitte consultant wrote a cringeworthy pop song and sent it to his bosses (23 Jan 2018)
Six Accountants Charged with Using Leaked Confidential PCAOB Data in Quest to Improve Inspection Results for KPMG (22 Jan 2018)
Ex-Accounting Regulators Accused of Leaking Information to KPMG (22 Jan 2018)
US says audit watchdog staff helped KPMG pass audit inspections (22 Jan 2018)
SEC charges former KPMG and PCAOB officials with 'stealing' inspection exam (22 Jan 2018)
Carillion collapse shows need for company reform (22 Jan 2018)
Carillion fallout must trigger corporate governance changes (22 Jan 2018)
Corporate governance should not be a box-ticking exercise (22 Jan 2018)
UK Corporate Governance Reform: What's in the Pipeline? (22 Jan 2018)
Theresa May: I will fine greedy bosses who betray their workers (22 Jan 2018)
Boardroom excesses can no longer be tolerated. The economy has to work for all (22 Jan 2018)
Hong Kong Targets Tighter Scrutiny of Listed Firms' Auditors (19 Jan 2018)
Auditors in spotlight again after contractor's demise (19 Jan 2018)
HSBC Holdings Plc Agrees to Pay More Than $100 Million to Resolve Fraud Charges (19 Jan 2018)
Frank Fields calls for Carillion directors, trustees and auditors to face Liaison Committee questioning (19 Jan 2018)
US Audit Fees Continue Their Increase (19 Jan 2018)
We did the right thing with Steinhoff - Deloitte (19 Jan 2018)
Scale of Carillion insolvency masks fundamental problems (19 Jan 2018)
Accountancy body ACCA granted right to carry out probate work (19 Jan 2018)
Funeral price war prompts Dignity to issue profits warning (19 Jan 2018)
Swedish bank SEB shareholder equity cut by new accounting rules (19 Jan 2018)
Tax overhaul leads AmEx to first loss in 26 years, buyback suspension (19 Jan 2018)
Apprenticeship company told schools how to exploit tax loopholes (19 Jan 2018)
Ryanair: HMRC and employment tsar may question airline over pay
(19 Jan 2018)
Aflac Deceived Shareholders with 'Cookie Jar Accounting,' Lawsuit Says (19 Jan 2018)
Tax-avoidance schemes are being offered up to the wealthy like holiday packages
(19 Jan 2018)
Carillion was in dire financial trouble. Why did the government keep awarding it contracts?
(18 Jan 2018)
From PFI to privatisation, our national accounting rules encourage daft decisions. It's time to change them (18 Jan 2018)
Carillion audit chair under pressure to quit Victrex board (18 Jan 2018)
Carillion: Auditors (Deloitte, KPMG, PwC and EY ) in spotlight again after contractor's demise (18 Jan 2018)
FRC 'not clear enough' on voluntary levy (18 Jan 2018)
McKinsey, SAP & KPMG accused of criminal conduct by South African regulator
(18 Jan 2018)
Six red flags which tell you it's time to sell (18 Jan 2018)
How investors failed to spot Carillion's mounting problems (18 Jan 2018)
South Africa's Companies Regulator Charges KPMG, McKinsey, SAP (17 Jan 2018)
'Let Customers Hang Themselves': Secret RBS Memo Sent In The Wake Of The Financial Crash Made Public (18 Jan 2018)
Chemring: Serious Fraud Office opens bribery and corruption investigation into ammunition maker (18 Jan 2018)
Former Head of Barclays New York Foreign Exchange Operation Indicted for Orchestrating Multimillion-Dollar Front-Running Scheme (18 Jan 2018)
National Audit Office (NAO) Press release - PFI and PF2 (18 Jan 2018)
National Audit Office (NAO) Report - PFI and PF2 (18 Jan 2018)
McKinsey, SAP, KPMG Face Criminal Complaints From South African Regulator (17 Jan 2018)
Out of time: The fragile temporality of Carillion's accumulation model (17 Jan 2018)
Carillion collapse: Why we shouldn't blame it on the banks (17 Jan 2018)
Carillion bosses' bonuses and severance pay stopped (17 Jan 2018)
Bonuses for Carillion bosses are blocked (17 Jan 2018)
PwC's multiple roles with Carillion come under scrutiny (17 Jan 2018)
Carillion failure requires swift probe of accounting (17 Jan 2018)
Revocation of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy as a qualifying body (17 Jan 2018)
UK Business Secretary outlines fast track departmental action following Carillion liquidation (17 Jan 2018)
Carillion liquidation: UK Business Secretary letter to the Financial Reporting Council (17 Jan 2018)
Carillion liquidation: UK Business Secretary letter to the Insolvency Service (17 Jan 2018)
FRC: Sir Win Bischoff responds to a letter from Rt Hon Greg Clark MP regarding Carillion (17 Jan 2018)
Ministers seek fast-tracking of Carillion investigation (17 Jan 2018)
PCAOB takes Deloitte UK to task over audit quality (17 Jan 2018)
Jury's out on the SFO/ Tesco fraud trial (17 Jan 2018)
Gender pay gap 'widens as women get older' (17 Jan 2018)
Tip of the iceberg? PwC has a long history of controversies in India (17 Jan 2018)
Rio Tinto says SEC fraud case should be dismissed (17 Jan 2018)
Swiss secrecy could slip further under plan to scrap anonymous shares (17 Jan 2018)
Kahuna Business Group sues 3 former execs (17 Jan 2018)
To avoid more collapses like Carillion, put workers on company boards (16 Jan 2018)
Carillion auditors under fire (16 Jan 2018)
KPMG under the cosh yet again after it emerges it did an audit for Carillion (16 Jan 2018)
Collapsed Carillion's dividends totalled $1 billion (16 Jan 2018)
PwC's multiple roles with Carillion come under scrutiny (16 Jan 2018)
SEBI ban of PwC leads to a new struggle for audit and auditors (16 Jan 2018)
Auditing's expectation gap is worse than ever (16 Jan 2018)
FRC monitoring Carillion auditors and accountants (16 Jan 2018)
Accounting regulator mulls Carillion audit probe (15 Jan 2018)
It's time the Big Four paid for their blunders (15 Jan 2018)
Carillion collapse: Will bosses, auditors pay a meaningful price for what has happened?
(15 Jan 2018)
Carillion auditor KPMG faces scrutiny for approving books months before collapse (15 Jan 2018)
Carillion collapse raises job fears (15 Jan 2018)
Blame the deluded board members for Carillion's collapse (15 Jan 2018)
Carillion: Why did it collapse and what happens next? (15 Jan 2018)
Carillion Banks Lead Losers as $2.2 Billion Debts Crush Firm (15 Jan 2018)
The banks, as well as the Government, need to take responsibility for Carillion (15 Jan 2018)
Carillion's 'highly inappropriate' pay packets criticised (15 Jan 2018)
Why Carillion has gone into liquidation rather than administration (15 Jan 2018)
UK government questioned over Carillion contracts after profit warnings (15 Jan 2018)
Jeremy Corbyn attacks Conservatives' 'rip-off privatisation policies' after Carillion collapse (15 Jan 2018)
Carillion pension schemes transfer to industry lifeboat (15 Jan 2018)
Debate: statutory audit will be defunct by 2030 (15 Jan 2018)
Nick Parker wants accountants to make fighting financial crime more of a priority (15 Jan 2018)
Paradise Papers revealed 'commoditisation' of tax avoidance (15 Jan 2018)
Annual tax based on land value proposed by Scottish government (15 Jan 2018)
Gove warns UK water companies over use of offshore tax structures (15 Jan 2018)
Average HMRC tax probe takes almost three years (15 Jan 2018)
Carillion crisis: take contracts back under public control, government urged (12 Jan 2018)
Government to hold pensions talks with Carillion (12 Jan 2018)
Where did it go wrong for Carillion? (12 Jan 2018)
Ex-BHS boss guilty over failure to provide pension data (12 Jan 2018)
BHS ex-owner Dominic Chappell guilty of not disclosing information (12 Jan 2018)
Dominic Chappell slams BHS pensions case as a 'show trial' (12 Jan 2018)
PwC Fined $2M Over Indian Accounting Fraud (12 Jan 2018)
Marathon Oil Receives Adverse Ruling On Some Brae Area Decommissioning Costs (12 Jan 2018)
Marathon Oil set to launch tax appeal after taking Â£80m hit
(12 Jan 2018)
Another Ernst & Young scheme bites the dust “ Read court judgment in Marathon Oil UK LLC v Revenue and Customs (INCOME TAX/CORPORATION TAX : Capital allowances) [2017] UKFTT 822 (TC) (13 November 2017) (12 Jan 2018)
Tesco Jury Prepares for Verdict as Accounting Trial Nears End (12 Jan 2018)
What the accounting industry will look like in the next ten years (12 Jan 2018)
HMRC 'struggling to deal with fallout of Paradise Papers leak' (12 Jan 2018)
To transform our society we need to radically reform the language of business (11 Jan 2018)
Price Waterhouse gets 2-year ban in Satyam case: 10 major points from 108-page Sebi order (11 Jan 2018)
Tip of the iceberg? PwC has a long history of controversies in India (11 Jan 2018)
SEBI bans Price Waterhouse; here's the complete list of entities barred in Satyam Case for 2 years (11 Jan 2018)
Order in respect of M/s Price Waterhouse, Bangalore, M/s Price Waterhouse & Co., Bangalore, M/s Price Waterhouse & Co, Kolkata, M/s Lovelock and Lewes, Hyderabad, M/s Lovelock and Lewes, Mumbai, M/s Price Waterhouse, Kolkata, M/s Price Waterhouse, New Delhi, M/s Price Waterhouse & Co, Chennai, M/s Price Waterhouse & Co, New Delhi, M/s Dalal & Shah, Ahmedabad, M/s Dalal & Shah, Mumbai, S. Gopalakrishnan and Srinivas Talluri in the matter of Satyam Computer Services Limited (11 Jan 2018)
Luxleaks whistleblower Antoine Deltour has sentence quashed by Luxembourg court (11 Jan 2018)
BHS pensions trial hears claims that bin bags full of papers were shredded (10 Jan 2018)
Ex-BHS boss Dominic Chappell criticises 'hostile' regulator (10 Jan 2018)
FRC needs greater transparency and better focus on outcomes (10 Jan 2018)
Government admits plans in place for Carillion collapse (10 Jan 2018)
Carillion and why balance sheets matter (10 Jan 2018)
Deloitte becomes last of the Big Four to apply for ABS (10 Jan 2018)
Deloitte follows rivals into legal services market (10 Jan 2018)
Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies 'will come to a bad end', says Warren Buffett (10 Jan 2018)
Fat cats: Persimmon pay shambles shows need to ban long-term bonus plans (10 Jan 2018)
Insolvency: Byron may close some outlets as part of a restructuring (10 Jan 2018)
Pension scheme investors 'considering link' between corporate culture and executive pay
(9 Jan 2018)
Jury Deliberation In Tesco Accounting Fraud Case Delayed (9 Jan 2018)
Accountant and wife to stand trial for alleged roles in laundering $2.5m (9 Jan 2018)
Brexit: government urged to stop cost of VAT rule change hitting UK firms (9 Jan 2018)
Ex-BHS owner Dominic Chappell in court over alleged pension failures (9 Jan 2018)
SMEs paying higher rate of corporation tax than big businesses (9 Jan 2018)
Dash for Cash:EY snaps up DKM in first Irish acquisition (9 Jan 2018)
Real Estate Broker Pleads Guilty to Role in Foreign Bribery Scheme Involving $800 Million International Real Estate Deal (9 Jan 2018)
Former CFO of Arthrocare Corporation Sentenced to Prison for Role in $750 Million Securities Fraud Scheme (9 Jan 2018)
KPMG quits the Grenfell probe over audit clash
(8 Jan 2018)
KPMG to stand down from its role as project management advisor to the Grenfell Inquiry (8 Jan 2018)
Inquiries should engage brain before engaging advisers (8 Jan 2018)
UK companies will face huge new VAT burden after Brexit (8 Jan 2018)
Firms may face upfront VAT after Brexit (8 Jan 2018)
Carillion puts outsourcers' accounting practices into spotlight (8 Jan 2018)
Carrie Gracie says support for BBC pay protest shows hunger for change (8 Jan 2018)
Gender pay gap: More than 500 firms reveal their figures (8 Jan 2018)
ECB sells Steinhoff's bond after accounting scandal (8 Jan 2018)
Lives of luxury: More Steinhoff extravagances revealed as distressed retailer sells private jet (8 Jan 2018)
FASB proposes tweaks to leasing standard (8 Jan 2018)
Firms including easyJet and Virgin Money reveal huge gender pay gaps (8 Jan 2018)
German companies forced to reveal gender pay gap (8 Jan 2018)
KPMG launches digital degree apprenticeship (8 Jan 2018)
EY buys economic advisory firm DKM (8 Jan 2018)
PwC launches specialist UK drone unit with eye to the future (8 Jan 2018)
Steinhoff Units Seek 'Significant' Funding as CFO Steps Down (5 Jan 2018)
Accounting scandal deepens for Steinhoff (5 Jan 2018)
PwC's failure to spot Colonial fraud spells trouble for auditors (5 Jan 2018)
Ruling against PwC may portend greater auditor scrutiny (5 Jan 2018)
Intel facing class-action lawsuits over Meltdown and Spectre bugs (5 Jan 2018)
Fat cats: JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs come top of banker pay league in Britain (5 Jan 2017)
One in 10 UK businesses won't make gender pay report deadline (5 Jan 2018)
Once more, Iceland has shown it is the best place in the world to be female (5 Jan 2018)
Iceland makes companies prove they're not paying women less (5 Jan 2018)
FRC issues agenda for 2018/19 priorities meeting (5 Jan 2018)
Thousands could face surprise pensions tax bill (5 Jan 2018)
'Latte levy' of 25p urged by MPs in bid to cut cup waste (5 Jan 2018)
Morgan Stanley to Take $1.25 Billion Hit for U.S. Tax Revamp (5 Jan 2018)
Questions over KPMG role in Grenfell Tower probe (4 Jan 2018)
UK banks and companies tap debt at fastest rate in 8 years (4 Jan 2018)
'Fat Cat Thursday': top bosses earn workers' annual salary by lunchtime (4 Jan 2018)
Citron Slams Aurora Cannabis, Calls Out 'Enron-Type Accounting' (4 Jan 2018)
Just 19 FTSE 100 companies continue to provide final salary pensions (4 Jan 2018)
UK corporate pension funding deficit drops 7% in December (4 Jan 2018)
Skyrocketing executive pay packages are about to become more costly for corporate America
(4 Jan 2017)
Dash for Cash: KPMG US acquires Silicon Valley IAM business (4 Jan 2018)
Inequality in the UK will continue to soar in 2018: here are 10 steps to reverse it
(3 Jan 2018)
Poundland's owner secures loan to reduce dependence on struggling Steinhoff (3 Jan 2018)
Google's 'Dutch Sandwich' Shielded 16 Billion Euros From Tax (3 Jan 2018)
Federal judge finds PwC negligent in Taylor, Bean & Whitaker/Colonial Bank audits (3 Jan 2018)
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA NORTHERN DIVISION THE COLONIAL BANCGROUP INC., and KEVIN O' HALLARAN v PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS LLP and CROWE HORWATH LLP; FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION AS RECEIVER FOR COLONIAL BANK PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS LLP and CROWE HORWATH LLP (3 Jan 2018)
Judge Finds PwC Liable To FDIC -- Only The FDIC -- Over Colonial Fraud (3 Jan 2018)
Harveys and Bensons for Beds take out loan to replace Steinhoff investment (3 Jan 2018)
Tesco boss 'exposed fraud he is accused of' (3 Jan 2018)
PCAOB fines Grant Thornton $1.5m for quality control violations (3 Jan 2018)
Carillion probed by financial watchdog (3 Jan 2018)
Accounting: Ringing up the changes (3 Jan 2018)
The enemy within: insider fraud (3 Jan 2018)
PricewaterhouseCoopers was negligent in Alabama bank's failure, judge rules
(2 Jan 2018)
PwC 'fell short' on averting one of the biggest US bank collapses (2 Jan 2018)
Judge Says PricewaterhouseCoopers Was Negligent In Colonial Bank Failure
(2 Jan 2018)
Steinhoff says account doubts stretch back to at least 2015 (2 Jan 2017)
Steinhoff may need to restate 2015 results too (2 Jan 2018)
Exxon scraps ban on investor meetings with board (2 Jan 2018)
Frank Field calls on PWC for clawback of loan by failed wholesaler Palmer & Harvey (2 Jan 2018)
Move to ease EU banks' capital rules to boost green investment (2 Jan 2018)
Financial services among worst for UK gender pay gap (2 Jan 2018)
High street banks charge small firms 20% interest (1 Jan 2018)
Banks Emerge Winners From Final Post-Crisis Capital Rules (1 Jan 2018)
Most UK businesses fail to settle bills within 30 days (1 Jan 2018)
Fat Cats: Portland Adopts Surcharge on C.E.O. Pay in Move vs. Income Inequality (1 Jan 2018)
US Earnings Havoc Unleashed By Tax Act (1 Jan 2018)
Why Goldman Sachs gave early stock awards to 300 employees (1 Jan 2018)
Fat Cats: Portland Adopts Surcharge on C.E.O. Pay in Move vs. Income Inequality (1 Jan 2018)
The million dollar be-question: inheritances, gifts, and their implications for generational living standards (1 Jan 2018)