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DECEMBER 2020
Facebook to close Irish holding companies at centre of tax dispute
(27 Dec 2020)
FCA spends 8,700 man hours chasing Goldman Sachs International 1MBD fine
(27 Dec 2020)
50-year study of tax cuts on wealthy shows they always fail to "trickle down"
(27 Dec 2020)
TRADE AND COOPERATION AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE EUROPEAN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMUNITY, OF THE ONE PART, AND THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND, OF THE OTHER PART
(26 Dec 2020)
AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND CONCERNING SECURITY PROCEDURES FOR EXCHANGING AND PROTECTING CLASSIFIED INFORMATION
(26 Dec 2020)
AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND AND THE EUROPEAN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMUNITY FOR COOPERATION ON THE SAFE AND PEACEFUL USES OF NUCLEAR ENERGY
(26 Dec 2020)
UK/EU Trade Agreement - Declarations
(26 Dec 2020)
UK-EU TRADE AND COOPERATION AGREEMENT Summ
ary (24 Dec 2020)
EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement: protecting European interests, ensuring fair competition, and continued cooperation in areas of mutual interes
t (24 Dec 2020)
DRAFT WORKING TEXT FOR A COMPREHENSIVE FREE TRADE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE EUROPEAN UNION
(24 Dec 2020)
Boohoo selling clothes made by Pakistani workers 'who earned 29p an hour'
(22 Dec 2020)
How Do Auditors Respond To Whistleblowing Allegations Towards Their Clients?
(21 Dec 2020)
Fifty Years of Tax Cuts for Rich Did not Trickle Down, Study Says
(18 Dec 2020)
The Economic Consequences of Major Tax Cuts for the Rich
(18 Dec 2020)
The Measure of Financial Regulators Independence
(18 Dec 2020)
FRC Report - Technological Resources: Using Technology To Enhance Audit Quality
(17 Dec 2020)
50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down
(17 Dec 2021)
Crony Capitalism- Waste, Negligence and Cronyism: Inside Britain's Pandemic Spending
(17 Dec 2020)
Report of the Independent Investigation into the Financial Conduct Authority's Regulation of London Capital & Finance plc by The Rt. Hon. Dame Elizabeth Gloster DBE
(17 Dec 2020)
INDEPENDENT REVIEW INTO THE FSA AND FCA'S HANDLING OF THE CONNAUGHT INCOME FUND SERIES 1 AND CONNECTED COMPANIES REPORT OF THE INDEPENDENT REVIEWER
(17 Dec 2020)
FCA responds to independent reviews into its regulation of London Capital & Finance and Connaught
(17 Dec 2020)
Report of the Independent Investigation into the Financial Conduct Authority's Regulation of London Capital & Finance plc "The FCA Response"
(17 Dec 2020)
Report of the Independent Review into the FSA and FCA's handling of the Connaught Income Fund Series 1 and connected companies - The FCA response
(17 Dec 2020)
Boohoo boss promises 'to make everything better'
(17 Dec 2020)
WPP hit by accounting fiasco: Red faces at the advertising giant as it gets its numbers wrong... by £300m
(16 Dec 2020)
Luckin Coffee (audited by Ernst & Young) Agrees to Pay $180 Million Penalty to Settle Accounting Fraud Charges
(16 Dec 2020)
Accountancy firm Mazars repays £1.1m furlough cash following BDO U-turn
(15 Dec 2020)
Accounting giant BDO makes U-turn on furlough payback
(14 Dec 2020)
SEC Awards More Than $300,000 to Whistleblower with Audit Responsibilities
(14 Dec 2020)
BDO in driving seat as Lookers auditor
(12 Dec 2020)
BDO holds on to furlough money despite partner pay-out
(11 Dec 2020)
SEC Charges Sequential Brands Group Inc. with Deceiving Investors by Failing to Timely Impair Goodwill
(11 Dec 2020)
FRC: Developments in Audit 2020
(9 Dec 2020)
General Electric Agrees to Pay $200 Million Penalty for Disclosure Violations
(9 Dec 2020)
FRC highlights importance of a challenge culture in audit firms
(8 Dec 2020)
FRC: Challenge of Management
(8 Dec 2020)
Why the best critical audit matter disclosures use entity-specific info
(8 Dec 2020)
Ernst & Young Probed by German Prosecutors Over Wirecard
(4 Dec 2020)
Tesco hands back £585million in tax relief
(2 Dec 2020)
Italian mafia probe shows banks exposure to massive alleged laundering scheme
(2 Dec 2020)
Green family to pay £50m into Arcadia pension scheme within 10 days
(2 Dec 2020)
How private equity fat-cats who rub shoulders with A-list celebrities and royalty triggered Debenhams' downfall by selling its stores and leasing them back before taking £1.2BILLION in dividends (2 Dec 2020)
Auditing fraud risk during a pandemic
(2 Dec 2020)
More PwC Tax Propoganda: Stability in uncertain times The Total Tax Contribution (TTC) of the 100 Group for 2019/20
(2 Dec 2020)
Use of marketed tax avoidance schemes in the UK
(1 Dec 2020)
HMRC acts on tax avoidance advertising
(1 Dec 2020)
Watchdog suspects EY knew it issued factually inaccurate" Wirecard audit
(1 Dec 2020)
Kerala bars PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) from tech projects for 2 years
(1 Dec 2020)
Kerala Govt. bans engaging PwC for two years
(1 Dec 2020)
Australia:
Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services - Regulation of Auditing in Australia: Interim Report
(1 Dec 2020)
November 2020
German watchdog reports EY to prosecutors over Wirecard audit
(27 Nov 2020)
Sunak's spending review is austerity-light
(26 Nov 2020)
German watchdog reports EY to prosecutors over Wirecard audit
(26 Nov 2020)
Car dealer Lookers finally reveals £46m loss in 2019
(26 Nov 2020)
Boohoo appoints former judge Sir Brian Leveson to probe company's ethics
(26 Nov 2020)
What Is the Minimum Capital Adequacy Ratio Under Basel III?
(24 Nov 2020)
Banks: Tier 1 Capital vs. Tier 2 Capital: What's the Difference?
(24 Nov 2020)
History of the Basel Committee
(24 Nov 2020)
FRC: Audit firms enhance going concern assessments
(24 Nov 2020)
UK accounting and audit framework from 1 January 2021
(23 Nov 2020)
Banks Have Started Recording Goodwill Impairments, Is More to Come?
(23 Nov 2020)
Fully loaded Common Equity Tier 1 ratio (CET1) of the largest banks in the United Kingdom (UK) as of the 4th quarter 2019
(23 Nov 2020)
Banking sector regulatory capital: 2020 Q2
(23 Nov 2020)
Audit firm Grant Thornton slapped with lawsuit over its role in failure of Patisserie Valerie
(21 Nov 2020)
KPMG faces tribunal for misleading pension regulators in deal involving Silentnight and HIG
(20 Nov 2020)
KPMG helped buyout fund dump £100m Silentnight pensions liabilities
(20 Nov 2020)
$427bn a year lost to tax abuse by firms and rich individuals
(20 Nov 2020)
$427bn lost to tax havens every year: landmark study reveals countries losses and worst offenders
(20 Nov 2020)
Cleaning up the audit sector: why the government should consider banning Ernst & Young from public contracts
(18 Nov 2020)
SEC Pursues Plan Requiring Chinese Firms to Use Auditors Overseen by U.S.
(18 Nov 2020)
Billionaire Chris Rokos Sues Two Firms (Deloitte and a US law firm) for $72 Million Over Tax Advice
(17 Nov 2020)
Shell gets UK tax refund, but pays over $1billion in nearby Norway
(17 Nov 2020)
Shell country-by- country reporting: 2018 tax data
(17 Nov 2020)
FRC: Developments in Audit 2020
(16 Nov 2020)
German auditors fight tighter regulation after Wirecard scanda
l (15 Nov 2020)
SEC Charges Former Wells Fargo (audited by KPMG) Executives for Misleading Investors About Key Performance Metric
(13 Nov 2020)
Wells Fargo former boss charged with misleading investors
(13 Nov 2020)
FCA to censure Carillion for 'recklessly misleading' investors
(13 Nov 2020)
Deloitte's COVID bonanza: this is how much the British public have paid so far
(12 Nov 2020)
FRC: Covid-19 strengthens need for audit improvemen
t
(12 Nov 2020)
Reforms: Auditors brace for imminent proposals
(12 Nov 2020)
FRC: Time to raise the bar on climate change reporting
(10 Nov 2020)
FRC Sanctions against Deloitte and a partner
(6 Nov 2020)
THE EXECUTIVE COUNSEL TO THE FINANCIAL REPORTING COUNCIL -and- (1) DELOITTE LLP
(6 Nov 2020)
EY facing $4bn lawsuit over NMC Health audit work
(6 Nov 2020)
BHS buyer Dominic Chappell given six years for tax evasion
(5 Nov 2020)
Dominic Chappell (ex BHS) - Southwark Crown Court Sentencing Remarks of Mr Justice Bryan
(5 Nov 2020)
Germany's regulators were deficient in Wirecard scandal, says Esma
(4 Nov 2020)
£45m deal for NHS masks collapses amid fraud claims
(3 Nov 2020)
Pitiful regualtion of money laundering by UK professional bodies
(2 Nov 2020)
UK government refuses to publish an unredacted version of the report by Lord Justice Bingham Inquiry into the Supervision of The Bank of Credit and Commerce International, published on 22 October 1992
(2 Nov 2020)
Most public sector audits by Grant Thornton fall below standard
(31 Oct 2020)
No Carillion director has been disqualified
(30 Oct 2020)
To ask Her Majesty's Government which accountancy firms who currently hold contracts awarded by Government departments have been (1) formally criticised, or (2) fined, by any accounting regulatory body.
(29 Oct 2020)
Duration of Insolvencies in the UK
(27 Oct 2020)
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is (1) the number, and (2) the value, of COVID-19-related contracts awarded to (a) KPMG, (b) PricewaterhouseCoopers, (c) Deloitte, (d) Ernst & Young, (e) G4S, and (f) Serco
. (27 Oct 2020)
Further to the judgment in Travel Document Service & Anor v Revenue & Customs (Corporation tax, tax avoidance scheme) UKUT 45 (TCC) by the Upper Tribunal (Tax and Chancery Chamber) on 7 February 2017, whether they have (1) investigated, (2) fined, or (3) prosecuted, Deloitte for any role it had in unlawful tax avoidance schemes
(27 Oct 2020)
BHS collapse: 'I was in charge of millions, then I had nothing'
(26 Oct 2020)
Use of AI to cut accounts scandals
(22 Oct 2020)
How Wirecard misled investors over KPMG's special audit
(22 Oct 2020)
Goldman Sachs Charged in Foreign Bribery Case and Agrees to Pay Over $2.9 Billion
(22 Oct 2020)
Pre-packs reform plan is flawed
(21 Oct 2020)
Audit reforms put on hold as failures pile up: Big Four beancounters in the firing line after series of botched reports
(20 Oct 2020)
Auditors can cut free but Boohoo needs a credible successor to PwC
(20 Oct 2020)
FRC Consultation on revised auditing standard for the auditor's responsibilities relating to fraud
(20 Oct 2020)
Big Four's audit income jumps as firms raise prices
(19 Oct 2020)
KPMG was engaged as auditor to group used in suspicious Wirecard deals
(19 Oct 2020)
Interview with Mazars UK head of audit
(19 Oct 2020)
Four out of five top auditors snub Boohoo after fast fashion scandal
(19 Oct 2020)
KPMG delays results in face of a significant uncertainty
(16 Oct 2020)
PwC stepping down as auditor of Boohoo amid governance concerns
(16 Oct 2020)
FRC: Big Four's fees for non-audit work for audited entities continue to decline
(16 Oct 2020)
FRC Report: Key Facts and Trends in the Accountancy Profession
(16 Oct 2020)
String of Firms That Imploded Have Something in Common: Ernst & Young Audited Them
(16 Oct 2020)
Consultants' fees 'up to £6,250 a day' for work on Covid test system
(15 Oct 2020)
Keith Skeoch appointed Interim FRC Chair
(15 Oct 2020)
BDO breaks Big Four's audit stranglehold
(14 Oct 2020)
FRC Tips to help companies make Section 172 statements more usefu
l (14 Oct 2020)
KPMG was auditor to Wirecard's mystery Mauritian counterparty
(13 Oct 2020)
Leicester textile firms 'involved in money laundering'
(13 Oct 2020)
KPMG bank auditor avoids US prison for 'regulatory corruption'
(11 Oct 2020)
SEC Comment Letters Reveal Lease Accounting Challenges
(10 Oct 2020)
Can private equity's numbers be trusted?
(10 Oct 2020)
Pre-pack sales in administration report
(9 Oct 2020)
Tailored Review Government Internal Audit Agency (GIAA)
(9 Oct 2020)
Insolvent Abuse: Mind boggling Woodford wind-up fees show system needs overhauling
(9 Oct 2020)
BDO may have to bail out sister firm in Spain after 126.8m penalty
(8 Oct 2020)
More than 1,000 consultants from Deloitte on Test and Trace programme
(8 Oct 2020)
Grant Thornton to settle with AssetCo for £28m
(8 Oct 2020)
FRC publishes future of corporate reporting discussion paper
(8 Oct 2020)
Pre-pack sales to face mandatory independent scrutiny
(8 Oct 2020)
GE (audited by KPMG) receives notice from U.S. regulator of possible civil action
(6 Oct 2020)
Conflict of interest rules cause headaches for Big Four auditors
(4 Oct 2020)
EY faces mounting backlash after Wirecard whistleblower revelation
(1 Oct 2020)
Deloitte selling contact tracing services to local UK health officials
(1 Oct 2020)
EY employee warned of Wirecard fraud four years before German firm's collapse
(1 Oct 2020)
September 2020
Airbnb pays £1.8m extra UK tax after investigation
(30 Sep 2020)
M&C Saatchi shares to be suspended after account deadline missed
(30 Sep 2020)
SEC Charges Manitex International and Three Former Senior Executives With Accounting Fraud
(29 Sep 2020)
ICAEW Inspectors find a quarter of audits are substandard
(29 Sep 2020)
ICAEW Audit Monitoring Report 2020
(29 Sep 2020)
Whistleblower warned EY of Wirecard fraud four years before collapse
(29 Sep 2020)
Accounting standards are always an earner for Big 4
(29 Sep 2002)
Burger King serves up restaurant closures in pre-pack deal
(29 Sep 2020)
India: Auditors seek fine-tuning audit report guidelines
(25 Sep 2020)
Assetco: The negligent privatisation audit that has cost Grant Thornton over £20m in damages
(22 Sep 2020)
German Regulator Looks to Open Probe Into Grenke's Accounting (audited by KPMG)
(21 Sep 2002)
Muffin Break's 60 UK stores bake up recovery after pre-pack administration
(21 Sep 2020)
UK watchdog FRC finds apparent breaches by KPMG's Carillion audit
(21 Sep 2020)
KPMG: How a Big Four auditing firm went rogue in its greed for profit (18 Sep 2020)
UK government official was set to join KPMG while in talks to lead project that paid firm £1.5m
(18 Sep 2020)
Reforms to Companies House to clamp down on fraud and give businesses greater confidence in transactions
(18 Sep 2020)
CEO says Grenke is no Wirecard as it orders special KPMG audit
(18 Sep 2020)
Deloitte partners face £19m insolvency lawsuit
(16 Sep 2020)
Deloitte fined record £15m for failings in Autonomy audits
(16 Sep2020)
Insolvency: Travelex creditors take £368m hit after pre-pack administration
(16 Sep 2020)
Caffe Nero hires KPMG 'to review options' including rent cuts and store closures
(15 Sep 2020
KPMG abandons pension cuts after employees threaten legal action
(15 Sep 2020)
Revolving Doors: Chair of UK Accounting Standards Endorsement Board appointed - former PwC partner
(14 Sep 2020)
Carillion scandal as Scots staff lose pension cash while bosses of bust firm cash in
(12 Sep 2020)
Deloitte first to confirm audit split
(10 Sep 2010)
What HMRC's preferential creditor status means for lenders
(10 Sep 2020)
EY posts record revenues despite audit scrutiny
(10 Sep 2020)
Independent review into the oversight of local audit and the transparency of local authority financial reporting
(9 Sep 2020)
Independent review by Sir Tony Redmond into the effectiveness of external audit and transparency of financial reporting in local authorities
(9 Sep 2020)
Regulators investigate elite London law firm Mishcon de Reya
(9 Sep 2020)
Regulators investigate elite London law firm Mishcon de Reya
(9 Sep 2020)
Auditors must stop pretending its not their job to catch fraud
(8 Sep 2020)
When Are Audit Firms Sued For Financial Reporting Failures?
(8 Sep 2020)
G4S executives charged with multiple counts of fraud
(8 Sep 2020)
We are in the golden age of fraud
(8 Sep 2020)
Thirteen sued for £178m over alleged fraud at London Capital & Finance (audited by EY, PwC and Oliver Clive & Co)
(4 Sep 2020)
Wirecard and me: Dan McCrum on exposing a criminal enterprise
(3 Sep 2020)
Grant Thornton loses appeal over £22.6m damages
(1 Sep 2020)
Private equity fees have become a rentier's bonanza
(1 Sep 2020)
Watchstone Group plc
Claim against PricewaterhouseCoopers
LLP (31 Aug 2020)
Blow for Grant Thornton as court rejects £22m appeal
(28 Aug 2020)
UK Court of Appeal reduces damages awarded against Grant Thornton for failure to report fraud - Assetco Plc v Grant Thornton UK LLP [2020] EWCA Civ 1151
(28 August 2020)
Annual Review of Insolvency Practitioner Regulation 2019
(26 Aug 2020)
Audit firm Ernst & Young (EY) Incompetent, Negligent or Criminal?
(26 Aug 2020)
SEC Charges Super Micro and Former CFO in Connection with Widespread Accounting Violations
(25 Aug 2020)
Mini-bond collapse administration fees, charged by Smith & Williamson, face questions
(24 Aug 2020)
High Court judge paves way for administrators to sue four directors connected to London Capital & Finance savings scandal
(24 Aug 2020)
Creditors of collapsed minibond firm LCF rebel over administrator's fees
(24 Aug 2020)
FRC: Recent Enforcement sanctions imposed against Audit firms and Audit partners
(24 Aug 2020)
FTSE 100 audit fees hit £911m
(24 Aug 2020)
Former bosses of Finablr and NMC Health (audited by Ernst & Young) face fraud accusations
(23 Aug 2020)
Deloitte gets another huge COVID contract plan to test millions each day
(21 Aug 2020)
PwC accused of not telling regulator about secret meeting with bankers
(21 Aug 2020)
UK Government spends £56m on consultants to help with coronavirus - contracts for Deloitte, PwC, Boston Consulting Group and McKinsey
(20 Aug 2020)
Lookers (audited by Deloitte) warns of first-half loss and expands accounting probe
(20 Aug 2020)
KPMG to make £16m from Intu administration
(20 Aug 2020)
EU Final Report: Study on directors duties and sustainable corporate governance
(18 Aug 2020)
Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020: A review
(18 Aug 2002)
FCA Statement on accounting for lease modifications (amendment to IFRS 16)
(18 Aug 2020)
The only V-shaped recovery after coronavirus will be in the stock markets
(18 Aug 2020)
Key Implications of the UK's Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act
(18 Aug 2020)
UK looks to extend bailout loans to private equity-owned groups
(17 Aug 2020)
SEC Charges Hertz Former CEO With Aiding and Abetting Company Financial Reporting and Disclosure Violations (audited by PwC)
(13 Aug 2020)
Deloot how Deloitte gets away with it
(12 Aug 2020)
FCA letter remindig auditors of their going concern obligations
(10 Aug 2020)
ACCA withdraws from legal services regulation
(10 Aug 2020)
Money laundering case involving lawyers, accountants: Group Seven Ltd & Anor v Notable Services LLP & Anor (Rev 2) [2019] EWCA Civ 614
(10 Aug 2020)
Capture of the State: KPMG and ICAEW advising UK govt on company law, accounting & inso
lvency (6 Aug 2020)
Capture of the State: PwC advising UK governement on non-financial reporting
(3 Aug 2020)
BAME 2020: one in 250 partners is black at top eight accountancy firms
(3 Aug 2020)
The Pensions Regulator: Bernard Matthews - Regulatory intervention report
(31 Jul 2020)
KPMG serves up pre-pack to French dining chain
(28 Jul 2020)
Government must accelerate long-awaited audit reforms
(23 Jul 2020)
HMRC Report: Measuring tax gaps 2020 edition
(22 Jul 2020)
Wirecard trail leads to chain of fake merchants and porn sites - and British shell companies
(21 Jul 2020)
EY told Wirecard that KPMG audit 'risked misinterpretation'
(20 Jul 2020)
Grant Thornton faces legal action over Patisserie Valerie audit
(20 Jul 2020)
Ineffective tax avoidance: targeting the enablers
(20 Jul 2020)
FRC REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2020
(20 Jul 2020)
Trail of missing Wirecard executive leads to Belarus
(18 Jul 2020)
Third of UK audits fail accounting watchdog quality tests
(14 Jul 2020)
ERNST & YOUNG (EY) UK AUDIT QUALITY INSPECTION JULY 2020
(14 Jul 2020)
PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS (PwC) UK AUDIT QUALITY INSPECTION JULY 2020
(14 Jul 2020)
GRANT THORNTON UK LLP AUDIT QUALITY INSPECTION JULY 2020
(14 Jul 2020)
KPMG UK AUDIT QUALITY INSPECTION JULY 2020
(14 Jul 2020)
DELOITTE UK AUDIT QUALITY INSPECTION JULY 2020
(14 Jul 2020)
BDO audit split likely to see other accounting firms following suit (14 Jul 2020)
Man arrested in Solihull over suspected £500k furlough fraud
(10 Jul 2020)
FRC announces sanctions against Grant Thornton UK LLP
(8 Jul 2020)
FRC sanctions against Grant Thornton, Kevin Engel and Natasha Toy
(8 Jul 2020)
FRC Disciplinary Report: Grant Thonrton and Conviviality Retail plc
(8 Jul 2020)
Pre
-
pack
administration deal secured for Bensons for Beds
(8 Jul 2020)
Inspection reports expose audit firms to
litigation
(7 Jul 2020)
EY Germany will survive, but legal troubles loom
(7 Jul 2020)
FRC principles for operational separation of audit practices
(6 Jul 2020)
FRC Audit Reform - Objectives, outcomes and regulation
(6 Jul 2020)
UK's big accountancy firms told to split off audit arms by 2024
(6 Jul 2020)
'Utterly inadequate': Experts slam watchdog's Big Four audit split
(6 Jul 2020)
KPMG
audit shines light on Wirecard losses
(6 Jul 2020)
Audit
Q&A: You cannot serve two masters
(3 Jul 2020)
Audit
Standards On Hot Seat In Wake Of Wirecard Scandal
(3 Jul 2020)
After Wirecard: is it time to
audit
the auditors?
(3 Jul 2020)
'We know that change is coming for
auditors
and have to embrace it
(3 Jul 2020)
Auditors
have a duty to be alert to fraud
(2 Jul 2020)
From Enron to Wirecard: Big 4 Accounting Firms Still Face Systemic Problems
(2 Jul 2020)
Only 4% of fraud is caught by outside
auditors
(2 Jul 2020)
Head of audit review, Donald Brydon, calls for urgent reform after Wirecard scandal
(2 Jul 2020)
What If BlackRock Appointed The
Auditor
?
(2 Jul 2020)
Lookers shares suspended as results delayed by
accounting probe
(1 Jul 2020)
Auditors
and the collapse of Kingston Cotton Mills
(1 Jul 2020)
Auditors
keep falling into the same trap
(30 Jun 2020)
Lookers
(was audited by Delitte)fraud probe reveals £19m hole in accounts
(29 Jun 2020)
Germany agrees to terminate contract with
accounting
watchdog
(29 Jun 2002)
Germany to overhaul
accounting
regulation after
Wirecard scandal
(29 Jun 2020)
Wirecard puts spotlight on auditor EY
(29 Jun 2020)
Pension Policy Institute Report: Tax relief on Defined Contribution pension contributions
(29 Jun 2020)
Pensions tax relief 'inflames gender and generational inequality'
(29 Jun 2020)
Germany to shake up
accounting
industry following Wirecard collapse
(28 Jun 2020)
FCA publicly censures Redcentric PLC for market abuse (PwC involved)
(26 Jun 2020)
Wirecard collapses amid
accounting
scandal
(26 Jun 2020)
Disciplinary hearing against
Deloitte
for Autonomy audit to resume
(26 Jun 2020)
German payments firm
Wirecard
files for insolvency
(27 Jun 2020)
FRC launches investigations into three audit firms over the audits of London Capital & Finance plc
(24 Jun 2020)
Deloitte
handles £56m Go Outdoors pre-pack administration
(24 Jun 2020)
Accounting watchdog investigates
London Capital
& Finance auditor
(24 Jun 2020)
JD Sports buys back Go Outdoors in £56.5m
pre
-
pack
deal
(24 Jun 2020)
HSBC
faces £1.3bn action over film scheme Eclipse
(22 Jun 2020)
Wirecard fights for survival as it admits scale of
fraud
(22 Jun 2020)
Carlo Ancelotti
:
Everton manager accused of tax fraud
(22 Jun 2020)
GE names Deloitte as new auditor, replacing
KPMG
(22 Jun 2020)
GE to change auditor to Deloitte from
KPMG
, starting 2021
(22 Jun 2020)
Checks, Spreadsheets Expose Firms To Growing
Fraud
Risk
(22 Jun 2020)
KPMG
to review TfL's finances after £1.6bn government bailout
(18 Jun 2020)
Just 11 of Big Four
accounting firms
' 3000 partners are black
(18 Jun 2020)
EY reports£1.9bn 'missing' at Germany's Wirecard
(18 Jun 2020)
Complaint from UK Lawyers for Israel against PwC
(16 Jun 2020)
UK House of Lords Debate: Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill
(16 Jun 2020)
UK High Court judgement on pre-action disclosure - Carillion Plc (in liquidation) v KPMG LLP and KPMG Audit Plc [2020] EWHC 1416
(Comm) (16 Jun 2020)
FRC Sanctions against KPMG - in relation to the statutory audits of the financial statements of Foresight 4 VCT plc
(12 Jun 2020)
IN THE MATTER OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNSEL OF THE FINANCIAL REPORTING COUNCIL -and- (1) KPMG AUDIT PLC (2) KPMG LLP - Audit of Foresight 4 VCT plc
(12 Jun 2020)
Police investigate collapsed bond firm MJS, launched with LibDem peer's backing
(11 Jun 2020)
Accounting
firm numbers decline as bookkeepers boom
(11 Jun 2020)
BDO becomes second-largest auditor of listed UK companies
(10 Jun 2020)
BDO climbs to the top of UK audit market
(10 Jun 2020)
Accountancy
sector shows shift away from small
firms
(10 Jun 2020)
Nearly 400,000 British companies evade anti-money laundering checks
(9 Jun 2020)
UK House of Lords Debate on Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill
(9 Jun 2020)
BT auditor highlights new
accounting
weaknesses
(9 Jun 2020)
FRC: Watchdog closes five-year probe into
Tesco's
£250m accounting investigation
(9 Jun 2020)
Intu places
KPMG
on standby as administration threatens
(9 Jun 2020)
Boomerang lands
BDO
with court claim
(9 Jun 2020)
Steinhoff Pays for
PwC
to Help South African Police Graft Probe
(9 Jun 2020)
Private Equity and Pre-pack administration: Everest double glazing rescue deal saves 1000 UK jobs
(9 Jun 2020)
Typical shareholding period for companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange is less than 20 seconds
(8 Jun 2020)
Ernst & Young sued over Wirecard as
accounting
woes add up
(8 Jun 2020)
PwC
Accused of Taking Credit for South Africa Utility's Work
(8 Jun 2020)
Lookers auditor (Deloitte) resigns as car dealership delays results again
(8 Jun 2020)
Deloitte drops Lookers audit
(8 Jun 2020)
BDO
Closer to Topping UK Audit Market as Big Four Lose Clients
(8 Jun 2020)
EY fights fires on three
audit
cases that threaten its global reputation
(7 Jun 2020)
Car dealer Lookers to ditch
auditor
as fraud probe nears end
(7 Jun 2020)
Samsung heir appears in court, awaits decision in
accounting fraud case
(7 Jun 2020)
Accountant
Grant Thornton
lined up to score FAI audit job
(6 Jun 2020)
Judge Slams
Ernst & Young
for Court Comments on Ex-Partner
(5 Jun 2020)
Termite Capitalism: how
private equity
is undermining the economy
(4 Jun 2020)
Carillion
Loses Bid to Get KPMG Documents Ahead of UK lawsuit
(3 Jun 2020)
EY
to oversee insolvency of Specialist Leisure Group
(3 Jun 2020)
KPMG Resigns as Ted Baker Auditor After Accounting Errors
(2 Jun 2020)
EY
quits audit role at ventilator maker paid £79m by government
(2 Jun 2020)
BDO
takes over from KPMG at Ted Baker after £25 million errors
(2 Jun 2020)
Big Four
accounting firms
feel the pinch
(31 May 2020)
Denmark Drops EY Probe Tied to Danske Money Laundering Probe
(29 May 2020)
UK alters insolvency law landscape
(29 May 2020)
A UK Case (relating to Ernst & Young) Shows How International Accounting Firms Enable Financial Misconduct
(28 May 2020)
ICAEW INSOLVENCY MONITORING REPORT 2020
(28 May 2020)
Boohoo, audited by PwC,
forced to defend itself from activist shareholder
(27 May 2020)
Shadow Fall leaves
Boohoo
investors with reasons to be tearful
(27 May 2020)
Wirecard
audit
procedures yet to be completed
(27 May 2020)
Opinion: Could wealth hidden in
tax havens
help us repay the
(27 May 2020)
FRC launches investigations into KPMG and PwC over the audits of Eddie Stobart Logistics plc
(26 May 2020)
Britain's
accounting
watchdog investigates Eddie Stobart audits
(26 May 2020)
KPMG, PwC's Eddie Stobart
audits
under FRC investigation
(26 May 2020)
Pandemic,
Accounting
Change Trigger Bad Debt Boosts at Telecoms
(26 May 2020)
Prosecutors Summon Samsung Heir Over Merger,
Accounting
Probes
(26 May 2020)
China warns
audit
plans will drive companies from US listing
(25 May 2020)
Pre Pack Pool says it faces collapse
(25 May 2020)
FRC
chair leaves after eight months
(21 May 2020)
Matalan founder suing PwC for 'ineffective
tax
avoidance advice'
(20 May 2020)
Tax
break for home office equipment
(20 May 2020)
Chair of UK accounting watchdog FRC leaves in setback to audit reform
(20 May 2020)
SEC Charges Three Former KPMG Audit Partners for Exam Sharing Misconduct
(19 May 2020)
Former
KPMG
auditors agree to suspensions over test cheating
(19 May 2020)
PwC fails to dismiss £25m negligence claim over Guernsey "ponzi scheme" - sued by Deloitte
(19 May 2020)
Private Equity and Pre-pack Administration: Cath Kidston creditors owed £90m
(19 May 2020)
EY overhauls UK leadership and splits
audit
governance
(18 May 2020)
EY creates dedicated head of UK audit to focus on standards
(18 May 2020)
ICAI issues norms for
auditors
to assess going concern
(18 May 2020)
FRC
strengthens corporate governance and stewardship team
(18 May 2020)
Firms given £1bn of UK state contracts without tender in Covid-19 crisis - Ernst & Young, PwC and Deloitte get government contracts
(15 May 2020)
KPMG's Carillion
negligence lawsuit reveals 'rotten system'
(15 May 2020)
Trump says Chinese companies could be forced to follow US accounting standards
(14 May 2020)
Accounting
scandal brews at Luckin Coffee
(13 May 2020)
KPMG
is target of £250m legal fight over
Carillion
collapse
(13 May 2020)
SEC alleges
accounting
fraud at Florida direct lender TCA
(12 May 2020)
KPMG
appointed as administrator to Dawsons Music
(12 May 2020)
KPMG
faces £250m negligence lawsuit over
Carillion
(12 May 2020)
The consequences of LP defaults due to capital calls
(12 May 2020)
Flybe Limited (in Administration) Administrators statement of proposals
(11 May 2020)
Thereis some very interesting stuff in the Flybe administrators report
(11 May 2020)
Flybe Administrators Value Airline At £139 Million
(11 May 2020)
Sean Brodie of
PwC
quits FAI audit role over 'lack of progress'
(9 May 2020)
KPMG
called in by troubled instruments firm Dawsons
(8 May 2020)
Covid-19:
ACCA
offers remote exam-taking
(7 May 2020)
Federal regulator sues auditor
Ernst & Young
for negligence over First NBC collapse.
(7 May 2020)
Audit
firms failing on quality monitoring
(7 May 2020)
Deloitte
in talks to slash pension contributions
(5 May 2020)
Ocado investor Royal London to oppose
executive pay
report
(5 May 2020)
Ocado faces shareholder revolt over £88m bonus payout
(5 May 2020)
Apple Sells $8.5 Billion in Bonds to Fuel
Share Buybacks
(5 May 2020)
PwC
cancels summer internship
(5 May 2020)
Apple Shores Up $8.5 Billion in Debt For Dividend Payout
(5 May 2020)
Buffett says
stock buybacks
aren't 'immoral,' but some are 'stupid'
(5 May 2020)
Accountant BDO looks at virus testing staff every 2 weeks
(5 May 2020)
Deloitte
scraps summer internship scheme
(4 May 2020)
Banks baffle investors as art meets science in
accounting
rule
(4 May 2020)
Bank
of England says
banks
can exclude 'Bounce Back'
loans
from leverge rules
(4 May 2020)
How to manage an
insolvency
process
(4 May 2020)
How the paper trail went cold in
KPMG's
special audit of Wirecard
(4 May 2020)
UK watchdog investigates EY audit of NMC Health
(4 May 2020)
Carriageworks goes into voluntary
administration
(4 May 2020)
FTSE 350 pensions return to deficit
(4 May 2020)
Poundstretcher store closures likely as
KPMG
is drafted in
(4 May 2020)
IAASB publishes guidance on going concern
auditor considerations
(30 Apr 2020)
Wirecard says KPMG could not obtain all data for audit
(29 Apr 2020)
Wirecard: what
KPMG's
report found
(29 Apr 2020)
Baymarkets and
PwC
form post-trade alliance
(29 Apr 2020)
Avoiding insolvency in midst of crisis
(28 Apr 2020)
Coronavirus response: Banking Package to facilitate bank lending- Supporting households and businesses in the EU
(28 Apr 2020)
Small businesses boosted by bounce back loans - New 100% UK government backed loan scheme for small business
(28 Apr 2020)
KPMG
unable to verify Wirecard's third-party profits
(28 Apr 2020)
BoE warns bank loan reserves risk choking business funding
(27 Apr 2020)
Bank accounting an early casualty of Covid-19
(27 Apr 2020)
The
accounting
profession and the coronavirus: The crisis in numbers
(27 Apr 2020)
Judge in whistle-blowing case lambasts audit giant EY
(27 Apr 2020)
Luckin offices raided by Chinese regulators as scandal widens
(27 Apr 2020)
Coronavirus threatens mid-tier auditors' bid to break Big Four domination
(27 Apr 2020)
France is barring firms registered in offshore tax havens from its government coronavirus bailout
(23 Apr 2020)
Optimizing remote internal quality audits
(23 Apr 2020)
Blackmore Bond topples into administration owing
£
45m
(23 Apr 2020)
The Tories must not reward tax-dodgers with 'no strings attached bailouts'
(22 Apr 2020)
The death of traditional
accounting
(22 Apr 2020)
Troubled oil trader Hin Leong poised to hand control to PwC
(22 Apr 2020)
China called out in US audit warning over emerging market investing
(22 Apr 2020)
KPMG
chair sends first email to staff after Covid-19 diagnosis
(22 Apr 2020)
Covid-19: what you need to know about
auditing
in a pandemic
(22 Apr 2020)
Grant Thornton
slashes pay and hours of 300 UK staff
(21 Apr 2020)
FASB's relief proposal includes lease
accounting
delay
(21 Apr 2020)
IL&FS case: Bombay HC dismisses MCA plea to ban
Deloitte
and KPMG for five years
(21 Apr 2020)
PwC
wins appeal for£30m security in Quinn Insurance court case
(21 Apr 2020)
KPMG
UK chairman warns of coronavirus 'economic disaster'
(21 Apr 2020)
RSM elects new chief executive as
Grant Thornton
cuts wages
(21 Apr 2020)
US arms of the
Big Four
seek private debt as corona pushes
(20 Apr 2020)
Grant Thornton cuts staff pay to weather expected fall in profits
(20 Apr 2020)
Pay and hours cut at Grant Thornton
(20 Apr 2020)
Third
PwC
administrator appointed to Laura Ashley
(20 Apr 2020)
Coronavirus: Ministers call in
PwC
for Loganair funding talks
(20 Apr 2020)
The state pension is in the firing line
(17 Apr 2020)
EY Must Pay $10.8 Million to Auditor Who Blew Whistle on wrongdoing at Dubai gold refiner
(17 Apr 2020)
EY
ordered to pay whistleblower $11m in Dubai gold audit case
(17 Apr 2020)
UK High Court Judgement - MR AMJAD RIHAN Claimant - and - (1) ERNST & YOUNG GLOBAL LIMITED (2) ERNST & YOUNG EUROPE LLP (3) ERNST & YOUNG (EMEIA) SERVICES LIMITED (4) EYGS LLP
(17 Apr 2020)
BDO
furloughs 700 and cuts partner pay by 25%
(17 Apr 2020)
The economic crisis will expose a decade worth of swindling and aggressive accounting
(17 Apr 2020)
Banking experts call for credit loss
accounting
rule to be axed or altered
(17 Apr 2020)
Luckin Coffee's
Accounting
Scandal Thwarts Backer's $2.5 Billion Fund
(17 Apr 2020)
UK
accounting
industry faces worst crisis in decade
(16 Apr 2020)
BDO
furloughs 700 employees, firms cut pay
(16 Apr 2020)
Deloitte
freezes salaries, defers partner payouts
(16 Apr 2020)
What New Technologies are Used in
Accounting
and Finance?
(15 Apr 2020)
EY
UK to cut partner profit 20 per cent in coronavirus response
(15 Apr 2020)
Deloitte involved - Oxford Instruments UK 2013 Ltd v Revenue & Customs (CORPORATION TAX - loan relationship rules) [2019] UKFTT 254 (TC) (13 April 2019)
(13 Apr 2019)
Laura Ashley hires third administrator as coronavirus
(12 Apr 2020)
How the Tories
' coronavirus relief package is ripe for abuse
(10 Apr 2020)
Virus Forces UK to Pause Plans to Split
Big Four Accountants
(9 Apr 2020)
UK
accounting
watchdog postpones break-up of
Big Four
(9 Apr 2020)
Tesco
defends £635m dividend payout after coronavirus tax break
(8 Apr 2020)
Two
accounting
scandals in China in one week burn investors
(8 Apr 2020)
Even In This Bizarro World, KPMG UK Still Gets Fined For Bad Auditing
(8 Apr 2020)
Just 2,000 UK firms given coronavirus business loans
(8 Apr 2020)
Reports suggest Big Four
,
BDO and Grant Thornton discuss
furlough staff
(8 Apr 2020)
Grant Thornton partner earnings hit £513k as
audit
profits collapse
(7 Apr 2020)
Accountancy firms
weigh up reputational risk of furloughing staff
(7 Apr 2020)
PwC
UK freezes pay as partners told they will shoulder the crisis
(7 Apr 2020)
Remote
auditing
comes to forefront during pandemic
(7 Apr 2020)
We must not return to the folly of right-wing economics
(6 Apr 2020)
RSM shareholders stage coup over accounts blunder
(6 Apr 2020)
Banks May Not Need Loan-
Accounting
Help
(6 Apr 2020)
Appeals court rules for PwC in dispute over arbitration
(6 Apr 2020)
Debenhams
to appoint administrators for second time in a year
(6 Apr 2020)
PwC
UK delays promotions, pay rises and bonuses
(6 Apr 2020)
EY scores worst in
big four audit
by watchdog IAASA
(4 Apr 2020)
Ernst & Young Says It First Found
Accounting
Issues at Luckin
(3 Apr 2020)
Going concern tips for
auditors
during the pandemic
(3 Apr 2020)
What does it mean to declare
insolvency
?
(3 Apr 2020)
FRC Sanctions against KPMG and a partner
(2 Apr 2020)
FRC
fines KPMG £700000 for poor audit
(2 Apr 2020)
Carillion: Two years on
(30 Mar 2020)
Finablr auditor
Ernst & Young
steps down
(29 Mar 2020)
UK to change
insolvency
rules to protect businesses
(28 Mar 2020)
Rent-to-own firm
Brighthouse
calls administrators
(27 Mar 2020)
Three tenets of
accounting firm
sustainability
(27 Mar 2020)
Statement of Policy: Delaying annual company accounts during the coronavirus crisis
(26 Mar 2020)
Who the UK government's coronavirus economic measures leave behind
(25 Mar 2020)
Covid-19:
FRC
considers delay to audit quality inspections
(25 Mar 2020)
UK eyes
insolvency
law reforms
(25 Mar 2020)
FRC
launches consultation to adopt ISAE 3000
(25 Mar 2020)
FRC
publishes 2020/21 'strategy for reform'
(23 Mar 2020)
National Ausit Office Investigation into government's response to the collapse of Thomas Cook
(19 Mar 2020)
National Audit Office Report Summary : Investigation into government's response to the collapse of Thomas Cook
(19 Mar 2020)
banned from government
apprenticeships
after Ofsted report
(18 Mar 2020)
Ofsted brand 1000 civil service
apprenticeship
programme at KPMG as "inadequate" .
(18 Mar 2020)
Ofsted Report on Inspection of KPMG Limited Liability Partnership
(18 Mar 2020)
Forty years of neoliberalism have shaped our individualistic response to coronavirus
(17 Mar 2020)
New
accounting
rules pose threat to banks amid coronavirus epidemic
(17 Mar 2020)
NMC
finds 'suspected
fraudulent
behaviour'
(17 Mar 2020)
Travelex owner at risk as £81m of undisclosed cheques emerge
(17 Mar 2020)
Laura
Ashley to file for administration as coronavirus takes toll
(17 Mar 2020)
Proposed Settlement Of Age Discrimination Case Hardly For PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)
(17 Mar 2020)
FRC
flags £94m error in Galliford Try accounts
(16 Mar 2020)
NMC
tycoon Shetty stays silent over '
fraud
'
scandal
(15 Mar 2020)
Wirecard delays results as
KPMG
special audit extended
(13 Mar 2020)
GE Proposes Keeping
KPMG
as External Auditor
(12 Mar 2020)
Findings of the FRC in respect of the report and accounts of Galliford Try plc - audited by PwC
(12 Mar 2020)
Budget: It's good we're finally spending more but it's not enough
(12 Mar 2020)
NMC
Health finds evidence of suspected
fraud
in its finances
(12 Mar 2020)
Hidden $2.7 Billion Tips
NMC
Health Into All-Out
Scandal
(11 Mar 2002)
Flybe employees stand
to
lose so much more than their jobs
(10 Mar 2020)
NMC Health reveals it has almost $3bn debt unknown to board
(10 Mar 2020)
Lookers delays annual results due to
fraud
investigation
(10 Mar 2020)
Adviser to pay out after triggering 'unnecessary'
tax
charge
(10 Mar 2020)
The War of
Auditor
Independence
(10 Mar 2020)
Humphrey: Audit needs a dynamic repair
(10 Mar 2020)
PCAOB Has Added Burdens While Adding Little Value
(10 Mar 2020)
Budget 2020: The government must turn Britain's divided economy around
(6 Mar 2020)
FRC Watchdog expects Britain's
audit
shake-up to start this year
(6 Mar 2020)
The Myth of
Auditor
Independence
(6 Mar 2020)
How
accounting
firms grapple with client retention
(6 Mar 2020)
Auditing
scandals are on the rise: What needs to change?
(6 Mar 2020)
NCLAT rejects pleas of IL&FS
auditors
Deloitte and KPMG
(6 Mar 2020)
Flybe crashes into administration
(5 Mar 2020)
The Olds vs.
PwC
: $11.625 Million Settlement Reached In Age Discrimination Case
(5 Mar 2020)
Flybe
pensions at risk for 1350 workers and ex-staff
(5 Mar 2020)
Flybe
staff: 'We're not sure what we're going to do now'
(5 Mar 2020)
Flybe
: airline
collapses
two months after government announces rescue
(5 Mar 2020)
Flybe collapse
: Virgin Atlantic refused to put more cash into the beleaguered airline
(5 Mar 2020)
Flybe
owners left licking their wounds after airline's
collapse
(5 Mar 2020)
Coronavirus made
Flybe's
case for a bailout look even weaker
(5 Mar 2020)
FRC
outlines plans for radical Big Four separation
(3 Mar 2020)
US nets second guilty plea in
Panama Papers
case
(3 Mar 2020)
NMC Health asks for debt standstill amid
accounting
scandal
(3 Mar 2020)
Trainee numbers drop at Top 75
accountancy firms
(3 Mar 2020)
The new
FRC
Ethical Standard
(3 Mar 2020)
Big Four audit firms will be split up
(3 Mar 2020)
Sensible steps that will restore faith in
auditors
(3 Mar 2020)
KPMG
spins off pensions unit to avoid audit conflict risk
(3 Mar 2020)
PwC
appointed to probe Goldman Sachs reporting
(3 Mar 2020)
EU
court backs Google in Hungary
tax
challenge
(3 Mar 2020)
Hungary Flounders at
EU
Court in Google
Tax
Spat
(3 Mar 2020)
Amazon's fight against $277 million
EU tax
order kicks off
(3 Mar 2020)
Why we should resist the rush to a cashless society
(28 Feb 2020)
Watchdog opens NMC Health (audited by Ernst &Young) inquiry amid
accounting
scandal
(28 Feb 2020)
Eddie
Stobart
books £11m loss after
accounting
errors
(28 Feb 2020)
FRC: Regulator outlines plans to break up Big Four
accounting
firms
(28 Feb 2020)
Regulator tells big four auditors to accelerate break-up plan
(28 Feb 2020)
KPMG
partner at centre of bullying row leaves firm
(28 Feb 202
PwC
adds ex-SEC commissioner as outside director and forms assurance quality advisory committee
(28 Feb 2020)
UK Bank watchdog asks PwC to probe Goldman reporting
(26 Feb 2020)
Accountant
loses appeal over £1.2m goodwill claim
(26 Feb 2020)
Eddie
Stobart
(audited by KPMG and PwC) books £11m loss after
accounting
errors
(26 Feb 2020)
Closer look at
Mattel accounting
error
(26 Feb 2020)
SEC Investigating
Mattel's Accounting
(26 Feb 2020)
Mattel
(audited by PwC)
Reveals SEC Subpoena Over Whistleblower Investigation
(26 Feb 2020)
UK Government committed to setting up
ARGA
audit regulator
(25 Feb 2020)
Legal Professional Privilege cannot be defeated by the FRC interpretation of its disclosure regim
e (25 Feb 2020)
KPMG
investigates Carillion auditor over other outsourcer
(25 Feb 2020)
Accountants
urged to help firms worldwide combat climate crisis
(25 Feb 2020)
Revolving doors: KPMG
hires new head of dealmaking from Big Four rival
(25 Feb 2020)
Gina Miller demands review of Andrew Bailey as Bank of
England Governor
(25 Feb 2020)
Big Four Auditors block clients from reclaiming money from Swiss banks because they don't wan't to lose contracts
(20 Feb 2020)
FRC
to scrutinise climate change reporting
(20 Feb 2020)
Without an Independent Watchdog, Who Will Audit the
US Auditors
?
(20 Feb 2020)
Pressure on accountants intensifies as
money laundering
crackdown heats up
(20 Feb 2020
ATO and global
tax
fraud investigators target
offshore accountants and lawyers
(20 Feb 2020)
Watchdog groups are warning that up to 50
% of the
Nordic audits performed by big four accounting firms are totally flawed
(20 Feb 2020)
Warning over £1bn hit from
tax
raid on final salary pensions
(20 Feb 2020)
World Bank aid 'leakage' may flow to
tax havens
: study
(20 Feb 2020)
From mansions to pensions: how will the UK budget affect
taxes
?
(20 Feb 2020)
Grand corruption and the authoritarian turn
(20 Feb 2020)
Grand corruption and government change: an analysis of partisan favoritism in public procurement in UK and Hungary
(20 Feb 2020)
FRC loses legal challenge over
Sports Direct
documents
(18 Feb 2020)
Sports Direct
and FRC set for Supreme Court clash over privileges
(20 Feb 2020)
Balance sheet liabilities jumped after lease
accounting
change
(18 Feb 2020)
FRC: Watchdog threatens
audit firms
with extra reforms
(18 Feb 2020)
Facebook faces
tax
court trial over Ireland
offshore
deal
(18 Feb 2020)
EXCLUSIVE Interview with Sir Jon Thompson, CEO, Financial Reporting Council
(18 Feb 2020)
Ted Baker drops four executives following
accounting
error
(18 Feb 2020)
Shake-up of SORP charity
accounting
committee finalised
(18 Feb 2020)
ESMA UPDATES ITS Q&As RELATING TO THE PROSPECTUS REGULATION
(18 Feb 2020)
Former UK Prime Minister Theresa May collects £96,000 for a speech from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)
(17 Feb 2020)
PCAOB: Weakening the oversight of US
auditing
is a very bad idea
(17 Feb 2020)
These Tory 'free port' plans are just another handout to corporations and tax dodgers
(14 Feb 2020)
Why the numbers don't add up for post-Libor hedge
accounting
(14 Feb 2020)
In fresh scandal for Toshiba, subsidiary found to have booked 43.5 billion in fictitious sales
(14 Feb 2020)
Interview with Sir Donald Brydon- it happen again - Part 2
(15 Feb 2020)
Accounting
firms are putting themselves and their clients at risk
(14 Feb 2020)
FRC
and BEIS publish joint statement on financial reporting during Brexit transition
(14 Feb 2020)
US may merge
PCAOB
audit regulator with SEC
(14 Feb 2020)
Global
tax
rewrite could boost governments' revenues by $100bn, OECD says
(14 Feb 2020)
OECD presents analysis showing significant impact of proposed international tax reforms
(14 Feb 2020)
The World Bank loses another chief economist - after higher officials block publication of internal research showing a correlation between foreign aid to developing economies (including WB aid) and jumps in their deposits in foreign financial havens
(14 Feb 2020)
Facebook boss 'happy to pay more
tax
in Europe'
(14 Feb 2020)
Extinction Rebellion to target Barclays,
PwC
and News Corp in new wave of protests
(12 Feb 2020)
IFAC highlights factors behind high-quality
audits
(12 Feb 2020)
Trump Administration Would Shift Audit Watchdog Role to SEC
(12 Feb 2020)
US poised
to
celebrate its first Panama Papers tax conviction
(12 Feb 2020)
IFRS
updates on Goodwill and Impairment project
(12 Feb 2020)
Hailey's Comet: how
Deloitte
helped funds win a distressed bet
(12 Feb 2020)
Nissan
seeks $90m damages from former boss Carlos Ghosn
(12 Feb 2020)
Private equity and Britain's
care home crisis
(12 Feb 2020)
Accounting
watchdog urged to investigate KPMG over £58m Ted Baker acocunting scandal
(10 Feb 2020)
Fat Cats: Outgoing
Deloitte
boss took home £3.3m last year
(10 Feb 2020)
OECD set to review
country-by-country
reporting rules
(10 Feb 2010)
KPMG
struggles to find tenant for Mayfair members' club
(10 Feb 2020)
Simon Dingemans the audit watchdog chair who wants to take on the audit industry with a big bang
(10 Feb 2020)
Audit Independence: companies were almost twice as likely to choose a Big Four firm if a top executive had previously worked for that firm
(7 Feb 2020)
Redbridge councillors 'alarmed' by £2 million
accounting
error
(7 Feb 2020)
Top 25
UK accounting
firms in 2010: where are they now?
(7 Feb 2020)
India Govt mulls banning non-audit services by statutory
auditors
, breaking oligopoly of big four firms
(7 Feb 2020)
Lawsuit: Mattel Shareholders Are Holding
PwC's
Feet to the Fire
(7 Feb 2020)
EY restructuring partners quit for independent rival
(7 Feb 2020)
Reuters,
KPMG
Team For Aussie Business Taxes
(7 Feb 2020)
Ernst & Young Won a Multimillion-Dollar Audit Spot. Investigators Want to Know Why
(6 Feb 2020)
Plans for
ARGA
audit regulator due by end March
(6 Feb 2010)
Auditor resignations up 21% in 2019, research reveals
(6 Feb 2020)
'Criminal'
auditors
in ASIC's sights
(6 Feb 2020)
Free
Arga
to focus on improving audit integrity
(6 Feb 2020)
Westpac, regulators to feel the heat at audit inquiry
(6 Feb 2020)
Despite electoral defeat, Labour's proposals on
corporate
governance should not be ignored
(6 Feb 2020)
The insolvency regulator is in bed with the industry
(5 Feb 2020)
Corporate scandals prompt shake-up at UK
accounting regulator
(5 Feb 2020)
FRC
plans for greater regulatory oversight
(5 Feb 2020)
FRC Draft Plan and Budget 2020/21
(5 Feb 2020)
EY
hit with fends treatment of whistleblower after he accused dubai client
(5 Feb 2020)
Autonomy
founder Mike Lynch submits himself for arrest
(5 Feb 2020)
MP says Netflix is taking Britain for a ride on
tax
: Call for digital tax
(5 Feb 2020)
Axminster
Carpets: Carpet maker seeks rescue deal
(5 Feb 2020)
How Coronavirus Could Disrupt the
Auditing
of Companies
(5 Feb 2020)
Fee income hits record
£
16.8bn at Top 75 accounting firms
(3 Feb 2020)
Audit
resignations jump as sector faces regulatory pressure
(3 Feb 2010)
Interview with Sir Donald Brydon "Last chance Saloon for Audit
(3 Feb 2020)
KPMG
chair Bill Michael: 'Companies should be allowed to fail'
(3 Feb 2020)
Convicted former
WorldCom
CEO Ebbers dead at 78
(3 Feb 2020)
Mini-Bonds: Doubts over the future of aristocrat's
£
94m Wellesley Finance
(3 Feb 2020)
Netflix accused of 'superhighway robbery' over
tax
bill
(3 Feb 2020)
Deloitte fined £1m over handling of Comet administration
(30 Jan 2020)
ICAEW comment on today's Comet consent order on Deloitte
(30 Jan 2020)
ICAEW Disciplinary Orders and Regulatory Decisions - Deloitte and Comet
(30 Jan 2020)
Deloitte
handed record insolvency fine over Comet failures
(30 Jan 2020)
GAM fined by Swiss exchange after
accounting
error
(30 Jan 2020)
Court ruling keeps directors on the hook after prepack
insolvency
(30 Jan 2020)
UK High Court confirms that directors continue to owe fiduciary duties post insolvency
(30 Jan 2020)
The
Guardian view on Labour's worker ownership plans: power to the people
(30 Jan 2020)
Taken for a ride: how
Norton Motorcycles
collapsed amid acrimony and scandal
(30 Jan 2020)
Norton Motorcycles
:
122 years of speed for famous brand
(30 Jan 2020)
Excessive dividends are strangling the UK economy
(29 Jan 2020)
Beales' auditor may face ICAEW probe
(29 Jan 2020)
Danske's EY
auditors
face disciplinary action for failures
(29 Jan 2020)
Why You Don't Need to Be an Accountant to Be a CFO
(29 Jan 2020)
Lease-
Accounting
Rules May Have Hurt Companies Valuation
(29 Jan 2020)
EY whistleblower takes stand in gold bullion
money
laundering case
(29 Jan 2020)
Sports Direct fights order to hand documents to
audit
watchdog
(29 Jan 2020)
Decision looms over Big Four consultancy and
audit
'conflict'
(29 Jan 2020)
'Medieval' Big Four accounting firms struggle to account for their Luanda Leaks Involvement
(29 Jan 2020)
Judging the consultants: how
accounting
firms
weigh individuals' worth
(29 Jan 2020)
FRC Consultation on revised auditing standard for identifying and assessing risks of material misstatement
(29 Jan 2020)
FCA has not brought a single prosecution under new anti moey laundeirng laws
(29 Jan 2020)
Beales
auditor faces scrutiny after collapse of department store
(28 Jan 2020)
Woodford
investors to get back as little as half their savings
(28 Jan 2020)
Woodford
investors to get as little as 50p in the pound back
(28 Jan 2020)
Auditors
Ernst & Young (EY) accused of pushing out whistleblower
(28 Jan 2020)
UK Fraud
victims 'failed' as criminals 'operate with impunity'
(27 Jan 2020)
BDO
Canada fined for lapses in Crystal Wealth audits
(27 Jan 2020)
BDO Canada pays $3.5M for failing to comply with auditing standards
(27 Jan 2020)
FRC: UK Audit
regulator proposes challenger
firms
get larger share of
(27 Jan 2020)
Audit
watchdog in secret talks to bolster 'challengers'
(27 Jan 2020)
Charity Commission and ACCA sign referral agreement
(27 Jan 2020)
Accountants need to embrace digital AML solutions
(27 Jan 2020)
Why didn't auditors spot Ted Baker's overstated inventory
?
(24 Jan 2020)
Why
audit firm
leaders need to practice what they preach
(24 Jan 2020)
UK May Ban
Big Four
Auditors From Advising Their Clients
(24 Jan 2020)
Hawkin's Bazaar
collapses into administration
(24 Jan 2020)
UK's big private companies brace for
audit
scrutiny
(23 Jan 2020)
Isabel dos Santos
:
Africa's richest woman accused of fraud
(23 Jan 2020)
Italy's Richest Family Gets $714 Million From Nutella Maker
(23 Jan 2020)
OECD could persuade UK to drop digital
tax
(23 Jan 2020)
The British media are failing in their duty to hold big finance to account
(22 Jan 2020)
Ted Baker
balance sheet error worse than feared as woes deepen
(22 Jan 2020)
PwC
executive leaves firm after Dos Santos revelations
(22 Jan 2020)
Not as easy as 1,2,3: Seven
accounting
errors that rocked FTSE firms
(22 Jan 2020)
FRS 102: Intra-group investment property changes explained
(22 Jan 2020)
Heads could roll at PwC over Isabel dos Santos links
(21 Jan 2020)
'Unusual
accounting
' may have cost Derby County further £30 million
(21 Jan 2020)
US SEC Suspends Former KPMG Partner
(21 Jan 2020)
Deloitte pursues KPMG over
audit
of Goals Soccer Centres
(21 Jan 2021)
KPMG
administrators appointed to Beales
(21 Jan 2020)
Pre pack administration: 'My firm lost in the
House of Fraser
sale'
(21 Jan 2020)
France agrees to delay new
tax
on tech giants
(21 Jan 2020)
UK Government waters down loan charge rules
(21 Jan 2020)
Africa's richest woman 'ripped off Angola' - Most of the companies involved in the dodgy deals were overseen by accountants working for PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)
(20 Jan 2020)
KPMG
targeted over audit of Goals Soccer Centres
(20 Jan 2020)
FRC: Investors want more insight into relationship between board
(20 Jan 2020)
KPMG mulls
sale of more UK advisory units
(20 Jan 2020)
Kew Media auditor
Grant Thornton
LLP withdraws reports
(17 Jan 2020)
Wirecard shareholders seek own review into
accounting
scandal
(17 Jan 2020)
Flybe
confirms it will get a
UK tax
and duty holiday
(17 Jan 2020)
Hill International, Accounting Chief Accused of
Accounting Fraud
(17 Jan 2020)
Charity pair in doghouse over
accounting
failures
(17 Jan 2020)
The real role of the
auditor
(17 Jan 2020)
Tax
transparency essential to tackle $600bn
avoidance
bill
(17 Jan 2020)
IMF: shrink the financial sector to reduce inequality
(17 Jan 2020)
IMF Note: Finance and Inequality
(17 Jan 2020)
FRC
revises audit standards to meet latest ISA (UK) 540
(16 Jan 2020)
Don't let corporate governance turn into a box-ticking exercise
(16 Jan 2020)
Insurance giant AIG hires Mazars for UK
audit
(16 Jan 2020)
M&C Saatchi merges with sister agency Lida after
accounting
crisis
(16 Jan 2020)
FRC revises audit standards to meet latest ISA
(
UK
)
540
(16 Jan 2020)
More Cosmetic gestures: FRC Conforming Amendments to Standards Arising From ISA (UK) 540 (Revised)
(16 Jan 2020)
The Carillion collapse was followed by promises of reforms, but more avoidable scandals are inevitable
(15 Jan 2020)
How Accountants Took Washington Revolving Door to a Criminal Extreme
(15 Jan 2020)
Carillion
collapse: two years on, 'government has learned nothing
(15 Jan 2020)
Netflix
accused of funnelling UK profits through Netherlands
(15 Jan 2020)
Netflix
accused of funnelling £330million profits 'into
tax
havens'
(15 Jan 2020)
Singapore
Auditors
Wanted: Regulator Seeks Changes to Rules, wants listed companies to appoint locally registered auditors
(15 Jan 2020)
Brydon and the audit gap: Expectations, definitions and fraud
(15 Jan 2020)
BHS
: Dominic Chappell ordered to pay £9.5m into pension schemes
(14 Jan 2020)
KPMG
UK's most senior woman quits the firm after two decades
(13 Jan 2020)
Andrew Tyrie meets
Big Four
bosses as audit reform slows
(12 Jan 2020)
Bungling
auditor
RSM dashes chances of the big time
(11 Jan 2020)
Carillion audit probe unlikely before summer due to complexity
(10 Jan 2020)
Shareholders call on Barclays to end
fossil fuel
investment
(10 Jan 2010)
Pension Protection Fund rescues
Carillion
railway workers
(10 Jan 2020)
Pension Protection Fund (PPF) reaches 1000 scheme milestone
(10 Jan 2020)
A 'normal' audit then the old-timers moved in
(10 Jan 2020)
Independence trap: Helping clients with rev rec implementations
(9 Jan 2020)
New Internal Audit code aims to prevent Carillion-style crashes
(9 Jan 2020)
Time for the Big Four to rethink auditing's purpose
(9 Jan 2020)
Accountant
jailed over care home
fraud
(9 Jan 2020)
Introducing the new risk assessment ISA for 2022
audits
(9 Jan 2020)
FRC
publishes reports on UK corporate governance
(9 Jan 2020)
FRC: Improved governance and reporting required to promote sustainability and confidence in business
(9 Jan 2020)
FRC: ANNUAL REVIEW OF THE UK CORPORATE GOVERNANCE CODE
(9 Jan 2020)
Shake up accountancy by letting smaller players in
(9 Jan 2020)
Executive pay
is out of control.
(8 Jan 2020)
Vultures circle as
RSM
admits internal accounting blunder
(8 Jan 2020)
RSM axes top executives after accounting error
(8 Jan 2020)
Shadow banking
is growing, remains opaque and carries uncertain risks for the economy
(8 Jan 2020)
Woodford
bags £9m
dividend
in year before collapse
(8 Jan 2020)
Audit
quality: Why do FRC fines keep increasing?
(7 Jan 2020)
Sacked Deloitte partner ordered to pay £125,000
(7 Jan 2020)
VAT ruling on Times digital edition could save News UK millions
(7 Jan 2020)
Firms linked to
tax havens
profit from NHS recruitment crisis
(7 Jan 2020)
Revolving Doors: Former Downing Street Chief joins
PwC
as Strategic Advisor
(7 Jan 2020)
Six out of 10 FTSE 100 audit committees are chaired by former Big Four audit firm alumni
(6 Jan 2020)
Ex Big Four accounting firm staff chair majority of audit committees
(6 Jan 2020)
Bosses out after auditor
RSM
bungles own accounts
(6 Jan 2020)
Time for the Big Four to rethink
auditing's
purpose
(6 Jan 2020)
Bill Michael fights to restore
KPMG's
image and profits
(5 Jan 2020)
True and Fair, but for whom?
(3 Jan 2020)
KPMG, PwC, EY To Put $9B Toward AI, Data Tech
(3 Jan 2020)
SEC proposes updating auditor independence rules
(3 Jan 2020)
SEC Planning to Loosen
Auditor
Independence Rules
(3 Jan 2020)
US Regulators eye
accounting
, audit changes for 2020
(2 Jan 2020)
Big Four accounting firms Invest Billions in Tech, Reshaping Their Identities
(2 Jan 2020)
What is ARGA? Brydon makes recommendations for stronger audit regulation
(2 Jan 2020)
Aussie Auditors' Role In
Reverse Factoring
Disclosure Requirements Questioned
(2 Jan 2020)