Land Rover has won an High Court injunction forcing KPMG, receivers for UPF-Thompson, the collapsed chassis supplier, to maintain delivery of parts. R...
View articleJust as accounting firms across the world thought it was safe to begin rebuilding their consultancy divisions, the US energy giant Enron crumbled amid...
View articleA former vice chairman of Enron, the collapsed US energy giant, has been found dead. Read More...
View articleLand Rover has returned to court in a bid to extend its injunction preventing UPF receivers KPMG from halting supplies of chassis for its Discovery ca...
View articleA continued slowdown in UK growth in 2002 could result in £3bhn hole in public finances, accountancy consolidator Tenon has warned. Read More...
View articleAccountancy-related stocks plunged this week prompted by negative company news and an increase in UK unemployment. Read More...
View articleThe Big Five firm was appointed administrator to seven legal entities and liquidators to five in November and now has to find buyers for thousands of ...
View articlePricewaterhouseCoopers has estimated that gross liabilities of the energy trading arm of Enron's London-based European operations will be in excess of...
View articleShould insolvency figures reflect the position of a single company or a group of companies? Fred Satow says a better system can be devised. Jeremy Wil...
View articleWe reveal this week that consultant Accenture is recruiting 500 new heads in 2002 as the Big Five - a club of which, as Andersen Consulting, it was co...
View articleIn the last week I have visited both the Netherlands and Spain.[QQ] I was able to take some cash out of an ATM in Tilburg, near Eindhoven and spend th...
View articleHolding 60% of the pharmaceutical market, drugs giant AstraZeneca is expecting to confirm its position as the European number one when it announces it...
View articleIn the last week I have visited both the Netherlands and Spain.[QQ] I was able to take some cash out of an ATM in Tilburg, near Eindhoven and spend th...
View articleInsolvency practitioners have bitterly complained they are not getting paid the rates they demand for their work for the Department of Trade and Indus...
View articleR3, the association of business recovery professionals, has attacked the misuse of power by big business against small suppliers and backed KPMG in it...
View articlePowerful financial watchdog the National Audit Office has warned postal competition could fail if current proposals go ahead. Read More...
View articleMarconi, the troubled technology group, has dismissed revelations made by its former financial director and deputy chief executive as only referring t...
View articleThe Enron shredding scandal re-emerged today after FBI agents stormed Enron's headquarters in an attempt to find out whether new allegations of docume...
View articleBig five firms Andersen and KPMG failed to spot a NOK 230m (£18m) error in the accounts of struggling engineering company Kvaerner, which they both au...
View articleAnglo-Norwegian engineering group Kvaerner has announced it is writing off 230m Norwegian Kroner (£18m) after discovering an error in its accounts. Re...
View articleThe close relationship between Wickes and its auditor fell under the spotlight yesterday after it was revealed that one of the five former executives ...
View articleGiant global conglomerate Tyco International has announced plans to divide up its empire into four separate companies, in the wake of Enron's use of a...
View articleThe US economy, still reeling from the collapse of energy giant Enron, has been dealt another heavy blow after its second biggest discount retailer Km...
View articleA package of radical reforms designed to modernise the Lloyd's of London insurance market, will include its current three-year accounting system being...
View articlePublic finances have been pushed into the red by the biggest amount in almost six years due to increased public spending and lower returns from tax. R...
View articleMore than a third of FTSE-100 companies plan to offer shareholders a vote on directors' pay this year, according to new research. Read More...
View articleProblems ranging from funding the development of an innovative website to the storage and cataloguing 100,000 new books yearly are part of the fun for...
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