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View articleUS investment bank Merrill Lynch, which employs Deloitte & Touche as auditor for its worldwide operations, is investigating accounting irregulari...
View articleKPMG, the liquidators of the Wallace Smith Trust which crashed with debts of #100m in 1992 following a massive fraud by founder Wallace Duncan Smith, ...
View articleProfessor Bob Parker, of Essex University, has won the ACCA/British Accounting Association Distinguished Academic of the Year award. Professor Parker,...
View articleDirectors of an insurance company accused of taking part in a u3.5bn fraud have refused to answer questions about their relationship with insolvency e...
View articleManagement accountants institute CIMA has overhauled its qualification system to ease the burden on students and employers. CIMA said it will end rest...
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View articleThe International Accounting Standards Committee has finally published its ‘make or break’ proposals on accounting for derivatives and fin...
View articleClaims that institutional investors are failing in their duty as active shareholders were rejected last week by Hermes Investment Management, the u32b...
View articleThe National Lottery regulator has been criticised because audit and verification procedures governing operator Camelot and the transfer of cash to th...
View articleTaxation software specialists FDS Taxpoint has been bought from IBM for u3.75m in a management buy-out. Ray Sieber, Taxpoint’s manager for 12 ye...
View articleThe Liverpool office of Pannell Kerr Forster has appointed Matt Dunham (right) as corporate services senior manager. Dunham, a licensed insolvency pra...
View articleThe profession’s six leading institutes were this week urged to offer more protection to members who blow the whistle on employers. The call com...
View articleThe National Savings Agency was today condemned by MPs for failing to apply basic accounting controls. The Commons Public Accounts Committee criticise...
View articleArthur Andersen and Ernst & Young are reorganising their IT consultancies to support large-scale IT projects within global organisations. Last wee...
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