With speculation mounting that Andersen is set to announce the separation of its audit arm as early as this week, its Big Five rivals have moved to di...
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View articleAccountancy consolidator Numerica today announced its first acquisition since floating on the AIM last October, after snapping up Leicester-based acco...
View articleThe UK's accountancy watchdog has laid complaints against two partners and one former partner of a firm in Northern Cyprus for their role in the colla...
View articleRailtrack Group has threatened court action to force the government to disclose all key documents related to subsidiary Railtrack plc being placed in ...
View articleDisgraced firm Andersen has been hit with another blow after rival Big Five firms and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants objected ...
View articleA battle is looming in the House of Lords over the government's refusal to allow accountants and other finance industry professionals a defence of neg...
View articleA former finance director and BDO Stoy Hayward partner is suing his former employer Old English Inns for wrongful dismissal, claiming 'stigma damages'...
View articleAndersen has suffered a devastating blow in the US with the news it has been axed by longstanding client Merck. Read More...
View articleWe don't often write leaders about Taking Stock items but President Bush's joke linking Iraqi weapons inspectors and Andersen is remarkable. Read More...
View articleAs a second Big Five firm announced that it would no longer be providing internal audit outsourcing for external audit clients, other firms this week ...
View articlePricewaterhouseCoopers has taken the unusual step of placing full-page advertisements in the Russian media, to defend its reputation as an auditor, as...
View articleBelow is the full page advertisement taken out by PricewaterhouseCoopers in the Russian media. Read More...
View articleLand Rover is understood to have instigated an unofficial ban on using KPMG's services following the dispute over supply of chassis to the car manufac...
View articleDeloitte & Touche is reviewing its status with a view to becoming a limited liability partnership just weeks after rival PricewaterhouseCoopers sa...
View articleConsultants from Ernst & Young came under fire yesterday when they were unable to say whether the part-privatisation of the Tube would be value for mo...
View articleEmbattled Big Five firm Andersen, today refused to rule out spinning off its audit arm into an independent company. Read More...
View articleAn attempt to develop a global accountancy qualification has been given a fresh start as seven of Europe's accountancy institutes join forces. Read Mo...
View article'Transparency and openness are fundamental elements of good business practice', says Nick Land, UK senior partner at Ernst & Young. Read More...
View articleWhen does transparency overstep the mark? Nick Land believes in firms publishing their accounts. Michelle Perry, however says partnerships have a righ...
View articleThis week saw the European Court of Justice make its contribution to the debate surrounding multi-disciplinary practices. Words like stable, door, hor...
View articleAt last some good news - an emphatic 69% of finance directors, according to this week's Big Question, would encourage their children to pursue account...
View articleErnst & Young has moved to underpin the public perception of its integrity by ruling out doing external audit work for publicly listed clients rec...
View articleThe Ministry of Agriculture has been told by the National Audti Office it could unearth farming fruad earlier if its checks were more 'rigorous'. Read...
View articleMid-tier firm Grant Thornton has won the audit contract for luxury department story Harrods after PricewaterhouseCoopers stepped down. Read More...
View articleAndersen has today issued a statement following the revelation the firm's US arm had a $260m damages settlement offer rejected by Enron shareholders. ...
View articleAmid the increasing nervousness of US markets, Andersen's efforts to rebuild its reputation are being undermined by continuous revelations of associat...
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