Elan, until this month Ireland's most valuable company, is facing an investigation by the US Securities & Exchange Commission, over its accounting pra...
View articleThe government's proposed new pension credit will increase spending by around 1.2% of GDP by 2050 and add a further layer of complexity to existing le...
View articleTraders will find ways around any company controls if they want to, says David Sherwin, partner in Ernst & Young's forensic services arm, who led the ...
View articleOne month on and the single currency seems to be settling in nicely. In Italy the euro has been met with particular enthusiasm, but then they've seen ...
View articleEnron, could it happen here? That was, essentially, the question posed by Financial Services Authority chairman Sir Howard Davies at the World Economi...
View articleGlobal Crossing, the bankrupt telcom, is now also under a Federal Bureau of Investigation inquiry into its accounting procedures, in addition to a cur...
View articleThe government has been urged to consider changing the law to end the conflict of interest that arises when accountants, who report to a bank on the f...
View articleDuring a day of drama in Congress yesterday, whistleblowers suggested former CEO, Jeff Skilling knew of Enron's troubles. His four ex-colleagues plead...
View articleAccountancy-related stocks have taken another turn for the worse as a depressed market rocked by the Enron scandal ignores positive news. Read More...
View articleThe finance director of leading international hotel group Millennium & Copthorne has walked after only five months in the job. Read More...
View articleIt is 2003 and Enron is launching a recruitment drive to attract the brightest young graduates - or anyone it can coax into employment in the wake of ...
View articleAfter a year of ups and downs, the world's third biggest defence contractor BAE Systems is pulling through with encouragement from The City. Read More...
View articleSomeone will pay for the Enron scandal, that much is certain. At the moment, many fingers are pointing at Andersen. But is it fair to blame the beleag...
View articleDespite the government's decision to go ahead with the part privatisation of the London Underground, fresh doubt has been thrown on to the benefits fo...
View articleKPMG has been appointed administrative receiver for Aberdeen-based company Richards, which collapsed following fierce international competition. Read ...
View articleIn the long run auditors and accountants, let alone management consultants, have more to fear from Enron than politicians; more regulation is on the c...
View articleUK finance directors are increasingly advising their companies to issue shares as a way of raising capital because debt-rating agencies are using toug...
View articleAs Congressional hearings into the Enron collapse continued in Washington yesterday, elsewhere an Andersen audit client Qwest Communications spokehigh...
View articleLord Wakeham, the former Energy secretary and chartered accountant, is set to admit that he voiced concerns over Enron's accounting policies, accordin...
View articleFourth-quarter insolvency figures are distorted because of the collapse of Federal Mogul and reflect the effects of 11 September on the UK, according ...
View articleSmith & Williamson partners Ian Allan and Mike Stevenson have sold 3D imaging software developer TCT International to 3Q Technologies as a going conce...
View articleA leading investment fund manager has called for greater disclosure of the links between company directors and auditors in the wake of the Enron disas...
View articleAllied Irish Bank has called in the FBI after it was hit by a multi-million dollar fraud in one of its US subsidiaries. Read More...
View articleGordon Brown has ordered an urgent review of the UK accounting profession amid fears that an Enron-style disaster could hit the UK. Read More...
View articleDespite economic prospects looking less than rosy, corporate finance experts at mid-tier firm Grant Thornton said the market for mergers and acquisiti...
View articleCorporate governance shortcomings could leave companies vulnerable to a takeover bid, according to research from KPMG. Read More...
View articleKenneth Lay, former chief executive of collapsed energy giant Enron, has disappeared just as US officials were about to serve a writ forcing him to su...
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