UK 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...
View articleMusic publishing giant EMI Group has today announced the appointment of new chief financial officers for the group and its subsidiary business, EMI Re...
View articleBT has today announced the appointment of Ian Livingston as group finance director from high street electronics giant Dixons. Read More...
View articleAiling telecoms firm Global Crossing, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last week, is facing a lawsuit that could derail its rescue. Re...
View articleThe government is set to launch an offensive on long working hours in the UK workplace. Read More...
View articleBarbados has reached agreement with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development as part of the body's drive to eleminate 'harmful' tax p...
View articleThe OECD-aligned Financial Action Task Force says countries throughout the world are united in ensuring terrorists do not gain access to the internati...
View articleThe global financial system, and in particular its American players, coped well with the attack on the World Trade Centre on 11 September, but some co...
View articleAfter a third-quarter lull, insolvency figures have risen nearly 3% in a year, Department of Trade and Industry figures have today revealed. Read More...
View articleReceivers at Begbies Traynor have made over 300 employees redundant at youth travel specialist Usit Campus, after the travel company went into adminis...
View articleGrant Thornton, administrator of Tiny Computers, has sold the collapsed computer chain to the Time Group in a bid to make it the UK's largest high str...
View articleAs the revelations surrounding Enron continue to rock the accountancy world, the Accountancy Age/ADVFN index edged down this week with the majority of...
View articleBeleaguered biotechnology company Bioglan Pharma is in the last stage of rescue talks with US research group Quintiles Transnational Corp. Read More...
View articleIf you'd have asked most pundits in the middle of September to predict likely casualties over the next three months they would probably have predicted...
View articleKPMG has topped the Zephus league of corporate finance advisers for 2001, raking up 144 deals with a total value of £6.4bn. Read More...
View articleDealmakers are optimistic the slowdown in corporate finance work has bottomed-out, but do not expect the number of deals to pick up until the second h...
View articleFew companies survive for long without a head of finance but that's exactly what Bookham Technologies has managed to do in spite of the meltdown in it...
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