Insurance industry watchdog The Association of British Insurers, has told the government it believes regulators should crack down on the common practi...
View articleAccounting 'weaknesses' have been found in the financial controlsapplied to Britain's 007s and spooks - but they won't give details. Read More...
View articleBeleaguered Andersen has confirmed it is in talks to merge its operations outside the USA with KPMG. Read More...
View articlePaul Volcker, trustees chairman at the International Accounting Standards Committee, has said he would continue to push for reforms irrespective of An...
View articleThe London office of Andersen moved to the centre of the Enron debacle when it was last night named in a US Justice Department indictment accusing the...
View articleKPMG has retained its grip on the royal purse strings with the announcement that Alan Reid, the firm's chief operating officer, will become the Queen'...
View articleResponses to our manifesto published in January continue to pour in. This week we publish those from front-bench members of the two main opposition pa...
View articleEU whistleblower given eight weeks' grace to compile report on concerns over mismanagement. Read More...
View articleThe European Parliament has finally given its full backing to proposals to adopt international accounting standards in the European Union. Read More...
View articleLord Sharman says he is pleased the government has agreed with most of his recommendations for the National Audit Office, although he expressed disapp...
View articleDeloitte & Touche has backed down in its dispute over a diluted earnings per share calculation for its client XKO and has decided to stop recommending...
View articleA political spat has broken out between the European Commission and the European Parliament over Brussels' proposals to impose International Accountin...
View articleIt is an unhappy coincidence - unhappy for the government that is - that it was Patricia Hewitt, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, who announ...
View articleAn incomplete list of financial backers of the International Accounting Standards Committee has been posted on its website ahead of the standard sette...
View articleStockport Metropolitan Borough Council's information and communication technology services have been given a roasting by the Audit Commission's best v...
View articleAuditors may be banned from becoming directors of former client companies under tough new regulatory proposals being studied in Whitehall following th...
View articleUnderfire Andersen has been dealt another severe audit defection blow after the third largest airline in the US, Delta, dumped the firm after more tha...
View articleFRS 17 will force many companies to reconsider the way they provide employee pensions. Peter Thompson warns it could harm pension schemes, but Crispin...
View articleEvery now and then events throw life's good guys into the eye of a storm and so it is with FRS 17 and Allan Cook. Read More...
View articleFEE, the organisation for the European accountancy profession, has appointed a deputy president in response to its growing workload in the wake of Enr...
View articleThe International Accounting Standards Board will not publish a full list of the corporate donors that provided $6m (£4.2m) to the organisation last y...
View articlePaul Volcker, chairman of the trustees of the International Accounting Standards Committee, said yesterday that auditors should be paid more if compan...
View articleIn common with many accounting standards, FRS17 requires the stable door to be locked after the horse has bolted. However in this instance it is proba...
View articleIn many years of lecturing on and writing about accounting standards I have never seen a standard face so much criticism outside of the professional p...
View articleCIPFA is taking its first tentative steps overseas in a deal that could see the institute offering its qualification to other countries. Read More...
View articleThe institute has named Peter Owen as its new secretary general following the sudden resignation of John Collier this morning. Read More...
View articleJohn Collier has today resigned his post as secretary general of the ICAEW. Read More...
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