In her final article for Accountancy Age, Lucy explores quality of audit in the past and now, and what the future of the profession looks like Read Mo...
View articleThe Financial Reporting Council has called PwC's audits of the collapsed BHS "inaccurate, and misleading" Read More...
View articleIn a damning email circulated to PwC partners, Kevin Ellis said Steve Denison spent only two hours on the audit and backdated his audit opinion Read M...
View articleThe record fine comes after a two-year investigation into BHS’s 2014 audits, which PwC had signed off on just days before its sale for £1 Read More...
View articleDespite concerns over the viability of BHS, advisers including Grant Thornton were paid in the millions of pounds for their roles, according to the Wo...
View articleMPs urg the FRC to widen scope of its investigation to cover previous years when PwC audited BHS financial statements and signed off the company accou...
View articleThe Financial Reporting Council has launched an investigation into the conduct of the Big Four firm in relation to its audit of BHS Read More...
View articleGreen appeared to shift the blame on advisers involved in the sale – Grant Thornton, Goldman Sachs and Olswang – for failing to raise concerns about D...
View articleRichard Crump explores PwC's boardroom shakeup, and he runs through the latest developments with beleaguered retailers BHS and Austin Reed. Read More...
View articleThe long-standing retail firm is to cease trading in the coming weeks after administrators failed to find a buyer Read More...
View articleThe select committee heard that GT had not met up with the BHS pension scheme advisers or trustees, but had done so with Deloitte, Arcadia’s pension a...
View articleClothing firm behind Pretty Polly tights blames BHS for its collapse Read More...
View articleGreg Tufnell, brother of former England cricketer and TV personality Phil, is reportedly leading the bid by Richess Group to secure control of retail...
View articleBHS auditor PwC questioned over why it described the embattled retailer as a 'going concern' days before it was sold for £1 Read More...
View articleKPMG raised concerns over Retail Acquisition's ability to continue to trade and fund both BHS Read More...
View articleDeloitte partner Tony Clare, KPMG’s David Clarke and Richard Cousins of PwC are all due to appear before MPs on Monday Read More...
View articleAdministrators set to reveal new owner for the retail chain, with three businessmen looking to take the reins of the distressed firm Read More...
View articlePwC and Deloitte set to appear befor BIS committee to answer quetions over BHS, The Sunday Times reports Read More...
View articleFRC looks into events at BHS following pressure from MPs to scrutinise directors and advisers involved in sale of department store prior to its collap...
View articleRichard Crump discusses the latest accountancy news, including BDO's new managing partner, the crisis at BHS and Accountex. Read More...
View articleThe fast-track move is a bold departure from the norm, as a probe would normally only begin several months after administrators had finished their own...
View articleMPs launch probe into the sale of BHS that will look at role of auditors and accountancy firms in sale process Read More...
View articleGreen sold BHS to Retail Acquisitions – led by a former bankrupt a - for £1, when it was saddled with debts over £1bn in debts and a £571m pension def...
View articleBHS owners suggests Phil Duffy, a managing director at Duff & Phelps, has been appointed as administrator Read More...
View articleThe lifeline now looks set to protect the majority of its 10,000 staff working across its 164-strong store portfolio Read More...
View articleCreditors are set to meet today to vote on backing the CVA or placing the 90-year-old company into receivership Read More...
View articleCreditors are set to vote on the company voluntary arrangement (CVA) on 23 March 2016 Read More...
View articleCVA proposes to divides BHS's 164 stores into three main categories, based on commercial viability and strategic importance of each site Read More...
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