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Audit Reform Special

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Video: EU audit reform, just the start?

Audit expert Charles Bowman tells Rose Orlik that EU audit reform proposals are the beginning of the debat on the purpose of audit

12 Dec 2011

Compeition Commission

Audit market 'barriers' worry Competition Commission

Competition Commission flags up high barriers to entry as one issue among many affecting the audit market

08 Dec 2011

Andy Halford is group CFO at Vodafone and chairman of the Hundred Group

FTSE 100 FDs reiterate audit reform concern

FTSE 100 FDs remain concerned about Brussels' audit reform proposals, new survey shows

08 Dec 2011

Auditors barred for life over Satyam scandal

Indian accounting institute bans two auditors from practising, due to their roles in the Satyam scandal

08 Dec 2011

Olympus auditors trashed by investigators

Olympus auditors KPMG and Ernst & Young found wanting by independent investigators

06 Dec 2011

Will EU exorcise Enron's ghost?

Seperating internal and external audit remains a key issue ten years on from Enron's collpase, claims IIA chief Dr Ian Peters

02 Dec 2011

Softer audit reforms provoke hard response

Weaker EC audit reforms published today have moved stakeholders to impassioned response

30 Nov 2011

Weaker audit reform proposals unveiled

Brussels' audit reform proposals are weaker than earlier plans, abandoning joint audit and softening non-audit service provision rules

30 Nov 2011

PwC defends 'honest mistake' in JP Morgan audit disciplinary

PwC argued it made an honest mistake in its JP Morgan audit, but the AADB says the repeated failure was systemic

29 Nov 2011

Barnier's schoolboy error

Barnier in his school days

28 Nov 2011

Mid-tier chiefs urge EU to hold nerve on audit reform

Mid-tier firms call on Michel Barnier to stick with radical proposals to open up the audit market

28 Nov 2011

What's the hold up, Barnier?

Barnier's audit reform publication has been delayed, but is it down to eurozone crisis or stakeholder resistance?

24 Nov 2011

Audit competition inquiry accelerates

The Big Four and Grant Thornton have submitted strong initial statements to the Competition Commission's audit inquiry

23 Nov 2011

EU audit reform delayed at least one week

Audit reform proposals from Brussels have been pushed back one week and maybe more

22 Nov 2011

Barnier's audit reforms 'delayed one week'

Audit reform proposals from European Commission to be unveiled a week later than planned due to busy agenda in Brussels

18 Nov 2011

Barnier's audit reforms 'might be delayed'

Barnier's audit reform proposals might be published later than the expected date of 23 November

18 Nov 2011

US regulators play hardball, China plays hard to get

China has backtracked on moves towards joint audit oversight and the US looks increasingly belligerent

17 Nov 2011

November is the cruelest month (for audit)

PwC racks up four embarrassing audit exposures with E&Y and KPMG hot on their heels

11 Nov 2011

Audio: Audit reform at home and abroad

Rose Orlik speaks to BDO's senior audit partner James Roberts about the latest developments in audit and reporting

11 Nov 2011

Video: Audit reform at home and abroad

Rose Orlik speaks to BDO's senior audit partner James Roberts about the latest developments in audit and reporting

11 Nov 2011

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Profession reaches end of its tether with PAC

After the Public Accounts Committee's latest hearing - in which it heavily criticised Google's tax affairs - many advisers have had enough

#AAYP 2013: Talent is ageless, but youth unemployment is a problem

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To quota or not to quota: that is the problem

Women on board quotas may have a bad rep, but it’s the only way to address inherent bias argues Fiona Hotston Moore

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Feature: Inside the Chartered Accountants' Benevolent Association

After seeing a 70% rise in demand, Calum Fuller visited the Chartered Accountants Benevolent Association to learn more about its efforts to provide support

Success of FRS 102 needs to be replicated on going concern

The consultation process for FRS 102 was arguably the most wide-ranging the FRC has ever conducted. It should apply the same rigour to going concern

Colin: Colin was here

Colin loves to be the centre of attention, as the Sky News Twitter account can testify

Taking Stock: Life in the slow lane

It was less Wacky Races and more Sunday driving as a team from Reeves helped raise £15,000 for charity as part of a race to Monaco

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