The implementation of a mandatory operating and financial review for large UK companies may benefit shareholders and stakeholders, but has done little...
View articleUnder-fire Dutch supermarket chain Ahold has revealed yet another large hole in its accounts, this time worth €73m (£50m) as the company looks to put ...
View articleThe long-running dispute over National Audit Office access to the BBC's accounts seems to be at end after a compromise deal was spelled out in the Hou...
View articleThe Conservative party has urged the government to do more to tackle corruption in Europe after the European Commission's chief internal auditor annou...
View articleEuropean banks and the international accounting regulator have set aside their major differences on financial reporting rules on derivatives. Read Mor...
View articleIraqi oil exports resumed on Sunday amid uncertainty about whether there was an independent auditor in place to ensure revenues are used to get the wa...
View articlePublic spending watchdog, the National Audit Office, will investigate the accounts of Network Rail, the railway infrastructure company that replaced R...
View articleSCO, the SME software provider, has warned that it may exercise its rights to audit IBM customers that use its unix operating system, as part of a $3b...
View articleThe release of the first full international financial reporting standard has been welcomed by accountants, but there are warnings that company account...
View articleA former audit partner at Deloitte & Touche will face complaints from the profession's disciplinary body in relation to him acquiring a luxury veh...
View articleThe spate of accounting scandals over the last 18 months has helped spark interest in one of the more interesting sides of the profession - forensic a...
View articleContemplating a move out of accounting and finance? Think again. Last year managers and directors in this sector saw the biggest pay rises across the ...
View articleACCA is on the brink of ending its two-year search for a chief executive officer, a move that would allow current CEO Anthea Rose to start her postpon...
View articleThe first full standard that companies listed in the EU will be required to adopt by 2005 has been published today by the International Accounting Sta...
View articleThe wider public may be sceptical, but as we reveal this week, even the accountancy business isn't united in the view that audit firms should be allow...
View articleThe accounts of Britain's spies are in serious danger of being qualified for the fourth consecutive year - according to a heavily censored report from...
View articlePeter Wyman, former president of the ICAEW, says the appointment of a new minister to oversee corporate governance regulation is unlikely to result in...
View articleThe EU fair value directive, which allows companies to account for their debt securities and equities at market rates, may be permitted in the UK. Rea...
View articleThe European Commission has come under renewed criticism over its accounting systems and treatment of assets in the annual report by the European Cour...
View articleRed-faced ACCA is to continue with its two-year search for a chief executive, after the ICAEW this week announced it had filled its top post in just f...
View articleThe argument for the BBC to be externally audited is convincing, says Edward Leigh. But when a decision is made, writes Damian Wild, careful negotiati...
View articleFuture technologies will help to greatly increase the effectiveness of the audit process, but they will never be able to replace auditors, Big Four fi...
View articleThe European Commission announced two significant policy initiatives affecting the accountancy profession at the end of May. The first concerns the co...
View articleFormer Andersen partner Murdoch McKillop could not have taken on the role of president at the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland at a much...
View articleA new guide on how audit committees should be dealing with the issue of corporate social responsibility has been published by the Institute of Interna...
View articleEuropean Union finance ministers have flatly warned the Bush administration that the extension of new US audit regulations to EU firms with US-listed ...
View articleThis year's CIPFA/PwC Public Reporting and Accountability Awards have honoured the Liverpool Housing Action Trust for its ability to communicate with ...
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