PricewaterhouseCoopers has picked up the audit contract for Stagecoach as it exits the ranks of Andersen's dwindling client list. Read More...
View articleThe Accounting Standards Board's revised Operating & Financial Review (OFR) guidance will be a 'halfway house' on the road to fuller financial dis...
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View articleSeveral of Andersen's FTSE-100 audit clients could be set to leave the splintering firm following its decision to merge with Deloitte & Touche in ...
View articleA report by NHS expert Derek Wanless calls for a new layer of auditing to be implemented to accompany the massive increase in NHS spending set for the...
View articleGordon Brown announced today he will ensure the extra money spent on the NHS will come under the eye of an independent auditor. Read More...
View articleComptroller and auditor general Sir John Bourn has qualified his report on the resource accounts of the Northern Ireland Office for the second year ru...
View articleA number of Andersen's FTSE-100 audit clients are considering their options after the splintering firm's decision to merge with Deloitte & Touche ...
View articleEurope's biggest cable company United Pan-Europe Communications, whose shares are listed on the New York and London Stock Exchange, has said it may no...
View articleOne of the PricewaterhouseCoopers' administrators working on the collapse of Enron has defected to rival firm Deloitte & Touche. Read More...
View articleThe Accountancy Foundation has today announced it will chair a conference for leading accountants and regulators to assess the impact of the Enron cri...
View articleThe ICAEW may face defeat in its impending vote on a subscription rise as disillusioned members voice concerns over the institute's future direction. ...
View articleOn the frontline: Charles Allen, Granada's accountant chief, is under siege over handling of ITV Digital crisis. Read More...
View articleACCA this week renewed its search for a chief executive following the collapse last year of efforts to appoint a new man to the post. Read More...
View articleAn intense education programme is to be launched to train first-time users of international accounting standards ahead of the 2005 switch over for Eur...
View articleHave we Nolan'd ourselves out of securing the best people for top jobs in the public sector? Read More...
View articleAs if the profession's reputation wasn't suffering enough, it seems most accountants would give up their careers given half a chance. Read More...
View articleSir David Tweedie's quest at the International Accounting Standards Board to make companies book the cost of granting executive share options has rece...
View articleA new global committee is due to be set up with the aim of restoring credibility in financial reporting as the fallout from Enron continues. Read More...
View articleGovernment ministers have gone back to the drawing board in an attempt to find a new chairman for the Audit Commission after their first attempt becam...
View articleIn the wake of Enron, Roger Davis argues the case for establishing transparent principles over rules as the world standard but Duncan Hughes fears tha...
View articleA new global committee is due to be set up with the aim of restoring credibility in financial reporting as the fallout from Enron continues. Read More...
View articleConflict over the appointment of a new chairman for the Audit Commission has intensified at Whitehall. Read More...
View articleThe charging of Andersen by a US federal grand jury with obstruction of justice will create further deep anxiety at the Department of Trade and Indust...
View articleDeloitte Touche Tohmatsu has failed to get a negligence claim struck out after the High Court yesterday upheld the claim against the former auditor to...
View articleThe ICAEW is seeking evidence' from the US Department of Justice relating to the role played by Andersen's London office in the shredding of Enron doc...
View articleWith several large accountancy firms having expressed an interest in picking up all or parts of the embattled Big Five firm Andersen, competition issu...
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