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• Proposed Accounting standard on corporate responsibility and Tax Avoidance: Comments welcome (14 Jan 2003)

• Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) Scandal: UK Government Forced to Publish the Sandstorm Report 
• The Pin-stripe Mafia: How Accountancy Firms Destroy Societies  (Free download)
• Book - Fighting Corporate Abuse: Beyond Predatory Capitalism
• A Policy Paper prepared for the UK Labour Party - A Better Future for Corporate Governance: Democratising Corporations for Their Long-Term Success 
  
• A Policy paper prepared for the UK Labour Party - Controlling Executive Remuneration: Securing Fairer Distribution of Income
• A Policy Paper prepared for the UK Labour Party - Reforming the Auditing Industry
• A Policy Paper prepared for the UK Labour Party - Regulatory Architecture To Enhance Democracy And Business Accountability
• PwC pays out £132m to British American Tobacco over flawed audit (13 Oct 2024)
  
• Big Four audit firms conclude transition period of operational separation (10 Oct 2024)
  
• Lack of City of London oversight hurting efforts to halt dirty money, FCA warns (24 Sep 2024)
  
• OPBAS finds improvements needed amongst anti-money laundering supervisors (24 Sep 2024)
• Anti-Money Laundering Supervision by the Legal and Accountancy Professional Body Supervisors: Progress and themes from our 2023/2024 supervisory work (24 Sep 2024)
  
• Why Private Equity Is Rushing To Buy Up Accounting Firms (23 Sep 2024)
• China gives PwC record £47m fine and six-month ban over Evergrande (13 Sep 2024)
• BDO sinks to bottom of US audit quality league table (12 Sep 2024)
  
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• Accountancy firms fight back against audit reforms (28 Aug 2024)
• Two former BHS directors ordered to pay £110m to creditors (20 Aug 2024)
• BHS High Court Case: (1) ANTHONY JOHN WRIGHT v DOMINIC CHAPPELL and Others (20 Aug 2024)
  
• PwC loses major client Bank of China amid regulatory probe (20 Aug 2024)
  
• PwC fined £15 million for failing to alert the FCA to suspected fraudulent activity at London Capital & Finance plc (16 Aug 2024)
• FCA has censured the auditor Macintyre Hudson LLP (MHA) for failing to prepare client assets reports to the required standard (15 Aug 2024)
  
• Beware private equity buying into auditors, watchdog warns (4 Aug 2024)
  
• US accounting firms push global expansion (2 Aug 2024)
  
• FRC publishes annual Tier 1 audit firm inspection results (30 Jul 2024)
• FRC Annual Review of Audit Quality (30 Jul 2024)
• Deutsche Bank flouted international accounting rules, says watchdog (25 Jul 2024)
• FRC Sanctions against MacIntyre Hudson LLP, Deborah Weston and Geeta Morgan (9 Jul 2024)
• THE EXECUTIVE COUNSEL OF THE FINANCIAL REPORTING COUNCIL -and- (1) MacIntyre Hudson LLP (9 Jul 2024)
• Tycoon fails to claim tax loss inflated by £1.3m (Grant Thornton scheme) (8 Jul 2024) 
• Upper Tribunal Judgement  declares Grant Thornton tax avoidance scheme to be unlawful- TIMOTHY WATTS v HMRC (8 Jul 2024)
• Why Don’t We Ask Companies And Auditors To Disclose Their Materiality Standards? (1 Jul 2024)
  
• Auditors failed to raise alarm before 75% of UK corporate collapses (20 May 2024)
  
• Reward for failure: The paradox of audit partners record payouts amidst poor audit quality (19 May 2024)
  
• FRC Sanctions against Crowe U.K. LLP (14 May 2024)
  
• Sanctions against three audit firms (PwC, EY, OCC) over the audits of London Capital & Finance plc (7 May 2024)
• How Britain's big water firms are drowning in sea of debt (7 May 2024)
• Why don't auditors find fraud? (6 May 2024)
• Water companies pay £2.5bn in dividends in two years as debt climbs by £8.2bn  (1 May 2024)
• PwC to reverse controversial US tax split (19 Apr 2024)
  
• Deloitte - Horizon Desk Top Review of Assurance Sources and  Key Control Features (Post Office Scandal) report prepared on  29 May 2014 (18 Apr 2024)
  
• German watchdog finds EY’s Wirecard audits grossly negligent (17 Apr 2024)
• PCAOB Imposes Record $25 Million Fine on KPMG Netherlands and Bars a Firm Leader After Exam Cheating, Misinforming Investigators (10 Apr 2024)
• Sanctions against Grant Thornton UK LLP (8 Apr 2024)
  
• UK accounting watchdog urged to raise threshold for enforcement action (5 Jan 2024)
  
• Carillion director disqualification proceedings dropped but where next for NEDs? (15 Nov 2023)
• UK plans to scale back corporate governance reforms after business backlash (15 Nov 2023)
• Deloitte Pays CPA Ontario $1.59M in Fines and Costs for Admitted Breaches of the CPA Ontario Code of Professional Conduct (1 Nov 2023)
  
• Ecclestone lawyer claimed £40m payments were gifts (31 Oct 2023)
• Filing shake-up for small companies to go ahead (30 Oct 2023)
  
• How hollowed-out firms manufacture their distributable profits (17 Oct 2023)
• UK government shelves stricter company disclosure rules (17 Oct 2023)
• The strange death of corporate Britain (17 Oct 2023)
• Burdensome legislation withdrawn in latest move to cut red tape for businesses  - The Government has withdrawn draft regulations after consultation with companies raised concerns about imposing additional reporting requirements (16 Oct 2023)
  
• Carillion: Record fine for KPMG over 'exceptional' failure (12 Oct 2023)
• FRC Sanctions against KPMG LLP, KPMG Audit plc and two former partners (12 Oct 2023)
• FRC, KPMG and Carillion - SUMMARY OF FINDINGS IN DECISION 1 (12 Oct 2023)
• FRC, KPMG and Carillion - SUMMARY OF FINDINGS IN DECISION 2 (12 Oct 2023)
• £280m for consultants on the HS2 gravy train  - PwC, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG (29 Sep 2023)
  
• Labour vows to push through UK audit and corporate governance reforms (25 Sep 2023)
• After Wilko, its time to shine a light on insolvency (4 Sept 2023)
• Auditor EY under fire over its green light for Wilko (3 Sep 2023)
• Wilko paid out £77m to owners before collapse (12 Aug 2023)
• Wilko shareholders were handed more than £10million before collapse risking 12,000 jobs (12 Aug 2023)
• Audit firms fight to block expansion of fraud detection role (5 Aug 2023)
  
• PCAOB Report: Audits With Deficiencies Rose for Second Year In a Row to 40% in 2022 (25 Jul 2023)
• US regulator reports rising number of flawed audits (25 Jul 2023)
  
• Britain proposes tougher rules on company payouts after Carillion collapse (20 Jul 2023)
• Only 1 in 3,000 chance of going to prison for fraud (4 Jul 2023)
• PwC Australia sells division for 50p after tax leak scandal (26 Jun 2023)
  
• PwC Australia chief resigns over tax law leaks (8 May 2023)
  
• We should take Sunak's plan to tackle fraud with a barrel of salt (7 May 2023)
• Three failed US banks had one thing in common: KPMG (5 May 2023)
• The Systemic Risk of Big Accounting - Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) (21 Mar 2023)
  
• Why Was KPMG Still Auditing Silicon Valley Bank? (20 Mar 2023)
  
• China suspends Deloitte Beijing office over Huarong audit deficiencies  (18 Mar 2023)
  
• Former Goldman Sachs Investment Banker Sentenced in $2.7B Bribery and Money Laundering Scheme (9 Mar 2023)
• Ex-Goldman banker given 10 years in prison for role in 1MDB fraud scandal (9 Mar 2023)
  
• Former Wall Street Precious Metal Traders Sentenced for Wire Fraud -  traders employed at Deutsche Bank,  Bank of America iand Morgan Stanley (9 Mar 2023)
• To split or not to split: EY confronts the question  (6 Mar 2023)
• Improvements required in 11% of audits of big companies last year, Ireland regulator finds (6 Mar 2023)
• UK audit regulator risks cementing the Big Four oligopoly (6 Mar 2023)
  
• U.S. Accounting Rulemakers Studying How Investors Use Artificial Intelligence to Consume Financial Data (3 Mar 2023)
• How auditing giant KPMG became a global sustainability leader while serving companies accused of forest destruction (1 Mar 2023)
• FRC publishes IFRS 9 Banking Audit Methodology Thematic (24 Feb 2023)
  
• KPMG settles £1.3bn lawsuit from Carillion creditors over alleged negligence (17 Feb 2023)
• PwC probed over its auditing of collapsed property group Intu (16 Feb 2023)
• Investigation regarding the audit of Intu Properties plc by PwC LLP (16 Feb 2023)
  
• Big Four: EY, Deloitte, KPMG, and PwC step on law firms toes increasing legal revenue to £1.25bn (15 Feb 2023)
• Crisis deepens at MJ Hudson as auditor EY resigns (12 Feb 2023)
  
• America's $4 Billion Accounting Scandal Puts More Scrutiny on PwC Auditing Record (7 Feb 2023)
• Adani Group's UK units dropped Deloitte as auditor for smaller firm (6 Feb 2023)
• EY under fire over its two roles at battery start-up Britishvolt (4 Feb 2023)
• Adani had a handful of auditors as young as 23 years old signing off on companies worth $100 billion, Hindenburg says (3 Feb 2023)
  
• Former PwC partner denies disclosing Quindell struggles over 'quiet coffee' meeting (1 Feb 2023)
• UK PLUNGES TO LOWEST-EVER POSITION IN CORRUPTION PERCEPTIONS INDEX (31 Jan 2023)
• Nadhim Zahawi: Letter from Sir Laurie Magnus to the Prime Minister, 29 January 2023 (29 Jan 2023)
• PwC accused of leak during Quindell deal talks  (28 Jan 2023)
  
• How can auditors define material fraud? (27 Jan 2023)
• Former PwC partner banned for 2 years in Australia for leaking information (26 Jan 2023)
  
• Jim Chalmers furious after former PwC tax adviser found to have shared confidential government briefings with staff (25 Jan 2023)
  
• IFRS 17 Results Not Fully Comparable Yet (23 Jan 2023)
• Auditing best practices: What academic fraud research reveals (20 Jan 2023)
• 1.1bn in PwC fees, 3.1m hours, 14 years: the UK cost of winding up Lehman Brothers (28 Dec 2022)
• PCAOB Sanctions Six Firms for Failing to Make Required Disclosures - Grant Thornton, KPMG Samjong, BDO RCS Auditores Independentes, MaloneBailey, Grant Thornton Auditores Independentes, KCCW Accountancy Corp (23 Dec 2022)
  
• SIG PLC Audit: Sanctions against Deloitte LLP and Simon Manning (22 Dec 2022)
• FRC updates stakeholders on review to identify and prevent exam cheating (21 Dec 2022)
• Accountancy watchdog sounds alarm after uncovering widespread evidence of cheating in exams (21 Dec 2022)
• Binance auditor Mazars withdraws from working with crypto company (17 Dec 2022)
  
• EU adopts global minimum 15% tax on big business (16 Dec 2022)
• Tax dodging and non-compliance during pandemic cost UK £9bn (16 Dec 2022)
• Rangers liquidators (BDO) agree £56 million settlement in tax case (9 Dec 2022)
• Rangers liquidators finally settle tax case as eye-watering EBT figure shows club could never have been saved (8 Dec 2022)
• Imposing $7.7 Million in Fines, PCAOB Sanctions Three Firms and Four Individuals From KPMG Global Network (6 Dec 2022)
  
• Mandatory registration of Public Interest Entity audit firms comes into force (5 Dec 2022)
  
• UK government under fire over inexplicable  Bulb decision (21 Nov 2022)
• A wealth tax by another name? Inheritance tax and CGT raid on the middle class to rake in £130bn in the coming years (20 Nov 2022)
• UK government upholds £20 billion commitment to research and development (19 Nov 2022)
  
• How will Jeremy Hunt budget affect me? (18 Nov 2022)
• KPMG blocked from Abu Dhabi audits as it elects new regional boss (18 Nov 2022)
• Office for Budget Responsibility Economic and fiscal outlook November 2022 (18 Nov 2022)
  
• Overview of the November 2022 Economic and fiscal outlook (18 Nov 2022)
• HM Treasury Analysis - AUTUMN STATEMENT 2022 (18 Nov 2022)
• HM Treasury - Impact on households: distributional analysis to accompany Autumn Statement 2022 (18 Nov 2022)
• The Autumn Statement 2022 speech (17 Nov 2022)
• KPMG adds £5m payout to £3m fine over conduct of Quindell audit (16 Nov 2022)
• KPMG reaches £5mn settlement over Watchstone audit negligence claim (15 Nov 2022)
  
• FRC fines hit record highs as watchdog sends clear message to audit sector (14 Nov 2022)
• I was the chairman of Greggs. The wealthy should be paying more tax (14 Nov 2022)
• BT enduring pension problem (11 Nov 2022)
• BDO auditor fired for altering files earmarked for inspection (28 Oct 2022)
  
• Pensions pandemonium shows damage done by dodgy information (24 Oct 2022)
  
• Insolvencies rise as companies worry about energy bills (7 Oct 2022)
• Pension: Liability Driven Investment Explained (6 Oct 2022)
  
• Mini-Budget: Reforms, roll-outs and freezes in the tax and benefit system (6 Oct 2022)
• UK Government introduces second Economic Crime Bill into Parliament (5 Oct 2022)
• Pensions: A brief history of LDI (4 Oct 2022)
• The Financial Theory of Defined Benefi Pension Schemes (4 Oct 2022)
  
• Red tape cut for thousands of growing businesses  (2 Oct 2022)
• Minister says Rees-Mogg wants to ditch all business regulations for SMEs (2 Oct 2022)
  
• Serco injected £60m to prop up pension fund after market meltdown (30 Sep 2022)
• The Financial Services and Markets Bill second reading (29 Sep 2022)
  
• UK pension funds sell assets and tap employers in rush for cash (29 Sep 2022)
  
• New crackdown on fraud and money laundering to protect UK economy (22 Sep 2022)
• Donald Trump sued for 'years of bank, tax and insurance fraud' (21 Sep 2022)
• Accounting giant EY rakes in record global sales of £40bn as it prepares for major overhaul (21 Sep 2022)
• Link faces additional £50m fine from FCA over Woodford probe (13 Sep 2022)
• Sanjeev Guptaauditor quit over lack of information (20 Sep 2022)
• Trump Former Accounting Firm Mazars Begins Turning Over Documents to Congress (17 Sep 2022)
  
• Ernst & Young splits into separate audit and advisory businesses (8 Sep 2022)
• KPMG sued for $830mn over appalling Chinese audit (7 Sep 2022)
  
• Widespread distrust among tax officials of Big Four, says OECD survey (6 Sep 2022)
• FRC replacement body to be based in Birmingham (5 Sep 2022)
  
• Ernst & Young Leaders Expected to Approve Plan to Split Accounting Company (5 Sep 2022)
  
• Germany’s new accounting regulator decries auditors who are ‘too close’ to clients (24 Aug 2022)
  
• Companies are paying inflation busting dividends at cost to the rest of the economy, including their employees (20 Aug 2022)
• Assessing the impact of shareholder primacy and value extraction: Performance and financial resilience in the FTSE350 (20 Aug 2022)
• UKEB PAG Advisory Group Appointments (19 Aug 2022)
• Revolution Beauty to suspend stock trading on accounting concerns (19 Aug 2022)
• PwC raises UK partners pay to more than £1m for first time (18 Aug 2022)
  
• Promotion doesn't add up to gender equity at leading accounting firms (17 Aug 2022)
• PCAOB Sanctions KPMG Korea for Violating Quality Control Standards and Sanctions Two Former KPMG Korea Auditors for Noncooperation (16 Aug 2022)
  
• SEC Charges Eagle Bancorp and Former CEO with Failing to Disclose Related Party Loans (16 Aug 2022)
  
• Hong Kong accounting watchdog launches second probe into Evergrande and PwC (15 Aug 2022)
• PwC says graduates no longer need at least 2:1 degree to work at firm (15 Aug 2022)
  
• BT Audit: FRC Sanctions against PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and audit partner (8 Aug 2022)
• FRC and BT Audits: IN THE MATTER OF: The Executive Counsel to the Financial Reporting Council and (1) PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (2) Richard Hughes (8 Aug 2022)
• SEC Charges Surgical Implant Manufacturer Surgalign and Former Senior Executives with Accounting and Disclosure Fraud (3 Aug 2022)
  
• Boss of UK accounting watchdog says EY split would bring benefits (2 Aug 2022)
• What does the future of accounting look like? (1 Aug 2022)
• FCA publishes Decision Notices for Carillion plc (in liquidation) and three of its former executive directors (28 Jul 2022)
• Sanctions against KPMG and others in connection with Regenersis & Carillion audits (25 Jul 2022)
• UK restaurant insolvencies jump by more than 60% in year (25 Jul 2022)
• Frederick Barclay transferred fortune to avoid paying tax, ex-wife tells court (25 Jul 2022)
  
• MPs to investigate benefits and drawbacks of tax reliefs in new inquiry (22 Jul 2022)
• FRC Sanctions against Grant Thornton UK LLP and Philip Westerman for Sport Direct Audits (18 Jul 2022)
• Grant Thornton settles £200m lawsuit with Patisserie Valerie’s administrators (18 Jul 2022)
• PwC set for record revenues as it rejects audit and consulting split (18 Jul 2022)
  
• HMRC to publish estimates of UK offshore tax evasion (17 Jul 2022)
• No one should get £42,370 a year tax-free (16 Jul 2022)
• UK Accounting firms ordered to explain (by FRC) how they stop staff cheating in exams (15 Jul 2022)
  
• FRC Sanctions against UHY Hacker Young LLP and Martin Jones in relation to Laura Ashley Holdings plc (13 Jul 2022)
• FRC and Laura Ashely audits : IN THE MATTER OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNSEL OF THE FINANCIAL REPORTING COUNCIL -and- (1) UHY HACKER YOUNG LLP (2) MARTIN JONES (13 Jul 2022)
• Over 300 footballers including Premier League stars 'probed' for tax avoidance (12 Jul 2022)
• Private equity may be heading for a fall (7 Jul 2022)
• The Defense of Nature: Resisting the Financializaton of the Earth (6 Jul 2022)
• Ever more people are paying higher rate tax (£20bn extra tax)  – good news for the Treasury, bad news for everyone else (3 Jul 2022)
• Ever more people are paying higher rate tax (£20bn extra tax)  – good news for the Treasury, bad news for everyone else (3 Jul 2022)
  
• Polluting water firms splash £9m on bosses: Top brass rake in a fortune despite public's anger over raw sewage in Britain's rivers  (2 Jul 2022)
• Outsourcing health-care services to the private sector and treatable mortality rates in England, 2013–20: an observational study of NHS privatisation (1 Jul 2022)

• Toys R Us bankruptcy lawsuit could shake private equity (30 Jun 2022)
• Insolvency: Deloitte has earned €347,000 for work on Stobart Air liquidation (30 Jun 2022)
• EY to brief UK partners on plans for $80bn global break-up (30 Jun 2022)
• House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee Report: The cost of complacency: illicit finance and the war in Ukraine (30 Jun 2022)
• Anglian Water pays £92mn dividend to owners as customer bills rise (29 Jun 2022)
  
• Interest rate hikes could trigger chain of bankruptcies in shadow banks (private equity and hedge funds) (29 Jun 2022)
• Ernst & Young to Pay $100 Million Penalty for Employees Cheating on CPA Ethics Exams and Misleading Investigation (29 Jun 2022)
• Lessons learned after a multibillion-dollar fraud (28 Jun 2022)
• Ernst & Young to Pay $100 Million Penalty for Employees Cheating on CPA Ethics Exams and Misleading Investigation (28 Jun 2022)
• Ernst & Young pays $100m to settle US charges of cheating on ethics exams (28 Jun 2022)
• Reflections on the continuing absence of audit reforms (27 Jun 2022)
• Thousands of PwC staff to get 9% pay rise to offset cost of living (26 Jun 2022)
• Corporate governance and audit reform – watered down or pragmatic? (25 Jun 2022)
• UK auditors told to be more sceptical when assessing company accounts (25 Jun 2022)
• KPMG chief takes swipe at rival EY’s $80bn break-up plan (24 Jun 2022)
• PwC UK partners to toast six-figure windfall from $2.2bn mobility sale (18 Jun 2022)
  
• Sanctions against PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and audit partner (in relation to PwC audit of Kier) (7 Jun 2022)
• Kier Group Audit: IN THE MATTER OF: THE EXECUTIVE COUNSEL TO THE FINANCIAL REPORTING COUNCIL - and - (1) PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS LLP (2) JONATHAN HOOK (7 Jun 2022)
• Sanctions against PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and audit partner (in relation to PwC audit of Galliford Try) (7 Jun 2022)
  
• PwC told client it could cut Australian tax by $70m, court documents in privilege fight show (5 Jun 2022)
• FRC given full oversight of auditors (1 Jun 2022)
• Restoring trust in audit and corporate governance Government response to the consultation on strengthening the UK’s audit, corporate reporting and corporate governance systems (1 Jun 2022)
  
• KPMG UK comments on BEIS audit reform report (1 Jun 2022)
  

• UK Government Press Release: Audit regime overhaul to help restore trust in big business (31 May 2022)
  
• Diluted audit reforms will not prevent a new Carillion (31 May 2022)
• Company directors' defend tax avoidance by saying they relied upon and followed their accountant's advice - see judgment in  Hunt v Balfour-Lunn & Others [2022] EWCH 984 (Ch) (31 May 2022)
• UK Government response to local audit framework: technical consultation (31 May 2022)
• EY Consulting Split Aims to Free Firm from Ethics Crackdown (31 May 2022)
• High Value Fraud Ignored as Government Chases Welfare Cheats (31 May 2022)
• Amazon's Tribulations And The Future Of Tax Transparency (31 May 2022)
• Sharp teeth pulled from corporate audit reform (30 May 2022)
  
• Ministers further dilute audit reform plans after private sector backlash (29 May 2022)
• KPMG to scale back audit clients as tenders come up for review (29 May 2022)
• KPMG to cut back audit clients in bid to boost standards (29 May 2022)
  
• EY plans to spin off audit business in shake-up for industry (27 May 2022)
• KPMG plans 3,500 UK hires as Big Four accountancy firms grow their tech focus (27 May 2022)
• Hong Kong Ends Mutual Accounting Recognition Accord With US (26 May 2022)
• Large sums 'written off' at Harlequin, says former accountant (26 May 2022)
  
• FASB to Tackle Rule-Making on Accounting for Environmental Credits (25 May 2022)
  
• Accountancy firms ask for exemptions from ban on providing services to Russia (24 May 2022)
  
• FRC Sanctions against KPMG and Anthony Sykes - Rolls Royce (24 May 2022)
• Rolls Royce Scandal: IN THE MATTER OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNSEL OF THE FINANCIAL REPORTING COUNCIL -and- (1) KPMG AUDIT PLC (2) ANTHONY JAMES SYKES (24 May 2022)
  
• KPMG hit by latest in string of fines over Rolls-Royce bribery scandal (22 May 2022)
• KPMG forces staff to take unconscious bias training (21 May 2022)
• SEC Probe Looms Over Auditorsf astest-Growing Businesses (20 May 2022)
  
• U-turn on audit reform is bad for British capitalism (20 May 2022)
  
• KPMG warns British corporate giants of big hike in audit fees (19 May 2022)
• Carillion: Junior KPMG audito “should not lose his home for misleading regulator, says tribunal (18 May 2022)
• How chaotic accounting engulfed Sir Martin Sorrell GS4 Capital empire (15 May 2022)
  
• MPs attack ministers‚“nonsensical refusal to make firms reveal race pay gap (13 May 2022)
• Less work for EY auditors? What about more accountability (12 May 2022)
  
• Money Laundering: Can the new Economic Crime Bill really tackle the UK dirty money problem? (11 May 2022)
• KPMG to be fined £14m for forging documents over Carillion audit (12 May 2022)
  
• BEIS in the 2022 Queen's Speech (11 May 2021)
• Tesco exec fired over accounting crisis takes role with 'chicken king (11 May 2022)
• THE QUEEN'S SPEECH 2022  (10 May 2022)
• Audit sector reform 'low on agenda for Boris': Experts slam government's reform plans as a 'missed opportunity' (10 May 2022)
• US and Chinese accounting regulators discuss potential audit deal (8 May 2022)
  
• Investigation regarding four audits by King & King (4 May 2022)
• FRC launches inquiries into audits of four Liberty Steel companies (4 May 2022)
• Auditors for Newcastle travel agents Dawson and Sanderson resign over accounts row (4 May 2022)
  
• FCA: Failed funeral plans provider Safe Hands coughs up just £4m of £64m needed to pay back customers (3 May 2022)
• BP profits double to $6.2bn, fuelling calls for energy windfall tax (3 May 2022)
• Gender and Ethniciity Pay Gap: Being open about pay would make it harder to hire minorities? That sounds like corporate BS to me (3 May 2022)
• McColl’s shares to be suspended as auditors cannot sign off accounts (3 May 2022)
  
• Brexit: More Irish than UK passports issued in Northern Ireland for first time (2 May 2022)
• Head of UK audit regulator FRC in frame to chair HS2 (1 May 2022)
  
• Less work for EY auditors? What about more accountability (1 May 2022)
• Former Sports Direct auditors Grant Thornton braced for £2m fine over Ashley disclosures (30 Apr 2022)
• Investigators from Grant Thornton looking into Liverpool Council at request of auditors to be confirmed (29 Apr 2022)
• Transfer Pricing and Diverted Profits Tax statistics, 2020 to 2021 (28 Apr 2022)
• China securities watchdog expects audit deal soon with U.S. regulators (22 Apr 2022)
  
• FRC Sanctions against Deloitte LLP and John Charlton (21 Apr 2022)
• IN THE MATTER OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNSEL TO THE FINANCIAL REPORTING COUNCIL -and- (1) DELOITTE LLP (2) JOHN CHARLTON (21 Apr 2022)
• Deloitte cashes in on government contracts as KPMG stands aside (19 Apr 2022)
  
• FIFTH of UK bankers earning more than £125,000 a year benefited from non-domiciled tax status (18 Apr 2022)
• Lloyds may strip ex-boss of £1m bonus over HBOS: Bank chiefs mulling huge clawback from Horta-Osorio as rising cost of compensation ups pressure (17 Apr 2022)
• FRC announces plan to register auditors of public interest entities (14 Apr 2022)
• FRC: UK regulator to reclaim powers to strike off accounting firms (13 Apr 2022)
  
• Accounting watchdog investigates Deloitte over Go-Ahead audits (12 Apr 2022)
• The oligarch’s accountants: How PwC helped a Russian steel baron grow his offshore empire (11 Apr 2022)
• 1MDB scandal: Ex-Goldman Malaysia boss found guilty (9 Apr 2022)
• FRC to ARGA transition plan sparks industry frustration as audit reform delay persists (8 Apr 2022)
• Current list of named tax avoidance schemes, promoters, enablers and suppliers (7 Apr 2022)
• PCAOB Sanctions Former KPMG Vice Chair of Audit for Failure Reasonably to Supervise, Imposing Largest Individual Penalty Ever in a Settled Proceeding  (5 Apr 2022)
• Investors warn European companies over climate accounting (5 Apr 2022)
  
• Accountancy firm Grant Thornton will earn millions from Russian case (4 Apr 2022)
  
• America puts big auditors on the spot (16 Mar 2022)
• German law firm launches class action lawsuit against EY over Wirecard scandal (16 Mar 2022)
  
• China plans audit concession in face of US delisting threat (16 Mar 2022)
• Grant Thornton CEO favours banning all non-audit services for listed audit clients (11 Mar 2022)
  
• PwC and KPMG exit Russia and Belarus in wake of Ukraine invasion (10 Mar 2022)
• Raising standards in the tax advice market - HMRC’s review of powers to uphold its Standard for Agents (10 Mar 2022)
• KPMG fined £1.3 million for ‘serious’ breaches over Revolution Bars audit (8 Mar 2022)
• FRC Sanctions against KPMG LLP and Mr Michael Neil Frankish (8 Mar 2022)
• IN THE MATTER OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNSEL TO THE FINANCIAL REPORTING COUNCIL -and- (1) KPMG LLP (2) MICHAEL NEIL FRANKISH (8 Mar 2022)
  
• U.K. Financier’s Firm Aided by Covid Loans Is Ensnared in Probe  (3 Mar 2022)
• Auditors warn of ‘organisational culture crisis’ at UK companies (1 Mar 2022)
• PwC fined over exam cheating involving 1,100 of its auditors (28 Feb 2022)
• PwC fined £670,000 for allowing exam cheating scandal involving 1,200 employees (28 Feb 2022)
  
• Appeal court acquits former BT Italy exec on false accounting charge (25 Feb 2022)
  
• Dramatic increase to £80m in cost of Southeastern train accounting scandal (24 Feb 2022)
  
• Conway says Trump’s accounting firm ditching him is worse than getting impeached (16 Feb 2022)
  
• No 10 pressured me to drop anti-money laundering measures, says ex-minister (financial crime, the state)  (15 Feb 2022)
• Big Six energy firms banked more than £7bn profit in last five years (14 Feb 2022)
• Former Redcentric directors convicted for misleading investors (14 Feb 2022)
  
• Britain’s banks prepare to pay out bumper bonuses amid cost of living crisis (14 Feb 2022)
• House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts - HMRC Performance in 2020–21 (Covid, fraud, tax gap) (14 Feb 2022)
• Cross-Government Fraud Landscape Annual Report 2019 (13 Feb 2022)
• Cross-Government Fraud Landscape Bulletin 2019-20 (13 Feb 2022)
• National Audit Office - Fraud and Error, Good Practie Guidance (Covid frauds, government frauds) (13 Feb 2022)
• HMRC ignorance and inaction “rewarding the unscrupulous� and looks “soft on fraud� (11 Feb 2022)
• Covid: Fake PPE firms given £180,000 before fraud exposed (Companies House) (10 Feb 2022)
• Two fake PPE companies shut down: Companies fraudulently took £180,000 from Covid-19 financial assistance schemes (10 Feb 2022)
• Four Gupta steel firms face winding up orders, say reports (10 Feb 2022)
• UK accounting regulator to probe auditor of Sanjeev Gupta’s Liberty Commodities (10 Feb 2022)
• FRC Investigation regarding the audit of Liberty Commodities Limited by HW Fisher LLP (10 Feb 2022)
  
• Former KPMG auditors claim watchdog failed to give them a fair hearing over Carillion allegations (10 Feb 2022)
  
• Kwarteng shakes up Financial Reporting Council (FRC) board with quartet of new directors (8 Feb 2022)
• PwC probed over audits of UK construction contractors (7 Feb 2022)
• FRC Standards board ‘looks like a cabal’ (7 Feb 2022)
• Could this be Britain's WORST auditor? Nicola Quayle (KPMG Partner) has already been fined £150,000 – and is now under investigation for a third time (5 Feb 2022)
  
• Parcel group auditor Grant Thornton quits amid unease over inquiry (5 Feb 2022)
  
• KPMG being sued for £1.3bn over Carillion audit (3 Feb 2022)
• KPMG is facing a £1.3billion lawsuit over its audit of Carillion (3 Feb 2022)
• Government urged to increase Companies House charges by 700 per cent to crack down on fraud (2 Feb 2022)
• KPMG partners handed 20pc pay rise to almost £700,000 (1 Feb 2022)
• Mike Lynch nearly got away with it, says analyst who spotted Autonomy fraud (1 Feb 2022)

• U.K. Tribunal Against KPMG Raises Questions Over Liability of Junior Auditors (30 Jan 2022)
  
• Hewlett-Packard wins civil fraud case against Mike Lynch over Autonomy sale (28 Jan 2022)
• HP wins multibillion-dollar fraud case over Autonomy sale (28 Jan 2022)
• Freelancers charged higher tax rates after taking Covid grants (26 Jan 2022)
  
• Pressure grows on UK to beef up measures to tackle economic crime (Companies House, “Adolf Tooth Fairy Hitler�) (25 Jan 2022)
• Incoming chair of UK accounting watchdog FRC commits to shake-up within months (25 Jan 2022)
  
• Car care giant Tetrosyl seeks at least £1m compensation over BDO audit delays (25 Jan 2022)
  
• Fraud is rampant � and no one in government is paying attention (25 Jan 2022)
• The Nazarbayev Billions: How Kazakhstan’s ‘Leader of the Nation’ Controls Vast Assets Through Charitable Foundations (24 Jan 2022)
• China-based auditors pose risks for US companies, study shows (21 Jan 2022)
• Revolving Doors: Former Tory MEP Fox lined up to join board of audit regulator FRC  (21 Jan 2022)
  
• FRC Sanctions against KPMG LLP and Nicola Quayle (Conviviality)  (18 Jan 2022)
• FRC Report on Conviviality Audt Failures:  IN THE MATTER OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNSEL TO THE FINANCIAL REPORTING COUNCIL -and- (1) KPMG LLP (2) NICOLA QUAYLE (19 Jan 2022)
• Luckin Coffee plans to relist in U.S. two years after accounting fraud (19 Jan 2022)
  
• Carillion tribunal: KPMG ex-partner denies forging documents (18 Jan 2022)
• KPMG auditor fined and banned for misleading watchdog inspectors (18 Jan 2022)
• Junior colleagues lied about Carillion audit, KPMG partner tells tribunal (18 Jan 2022)
  
• FRC Settlement with KPMG LLP and Stuart Smith (Carillion)  (17 Jan 2022)
• Shadow of Carillion collapse looms over KPMG (17 Jan 2022)
• FRC Investigation regarding the audits of Babcock International Group plc by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (17 Jan 2022)
• FRC Disciplinary Tribunal Hearing of the Formal Complaint against KPMG and others (14 Jan 2022)
• Carillion and FRC: In the matter of: The Executive Counsel to the Financial Reporting Council - and - (1) KPMG LLP (2) Peter Noel Meehan (3) Alastair Wright (4) Richard William Kitchen (5) Adam David Bennett (6) Pratik Paw (7) Stuart Peter James Smith (10 Jan 2022)
  
• Accounting Firm helps companies get rich with ‘questionable’ tax refunds, tactics that exhaust officials (10 Jan 2022)
• KPMG’s auditors created fake meeting minutes and spreadsheets to mislead Carillion probe, watchdog claims (10 Jan 2022)
  
• Carillion fell quickly, but the auditing profession is now dragging its feet (9 Jan 2022)
• Insolvency: Philip Green could gain £2.5m payout on former Topshop branch (9 Jan 2022)
  
• Two of Britain's biggest accountancy firms (KPMG and PwC) set to be hauled over coals over accusations of failures in their audit practices (9 Jan 2022)
• Now Asos is targeted as short sellers bet £1bn in wave of attacks on tech titans, including Ocado, Boohoo and AO World (8 Jan 2022)
  
• FRC Investigation regarding the audit of MRG Finance by MacIntyre Hudson (7 Jan 2022)
• Fines imposed on KPMG should be used to ease plight of 1,200 Silentnight pension scheme members, says MP (6 Jan 2022)
• Elizabeth Holmes and her Big 4 audit firm buddies at Theranos (6 Jan 2022)
  
• Former Deloitte restructuring chiefs swoop on KPMG offshore arm (5 Jan 2022)
• Insolvency: Disappointment as Silentnight members denied compensation (5 Jan 2022)
• FRCSanctions against Mazars (5 Jan 2022)
• One Lesson From the Theranos Scandal: We Need Age Diversity on Corporate Boards (4 Jan 2022)
• Elizabeth Holmes trial: jury finds Theranos founder guilty on four fraud counts (4 Jan 2022)
  
• Audit profession unattractive to new recruits, says PwC boss(1 Jan 2022)
  
• Despite scandals Deloitte and KPMG chairs honoured in New Year Honours list (1 Jan 2022)