Fibre optics communications company Global Crossing has become the biggest victim of the telecoms crash, filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection y...
View articleFormer Tory cabinet minister Lord MacGregor has joined Liberal Democrat shadow chancellor Matthew Taylor in calling for a full investigation into the ...
View articleKmart, the bankrupt US discount retail giant, has appointed an independent investigative team including accountants from Deloitte & Touche LLP after r...
View articleBig Five firm PricewaterhouseCoopers says taxpayers should not be concerned by the late date for this year's Budget speech, but warns there will be 'i...
View articleEngineering trade union Amicus has defended Land Rover in its dispute with KPMG/UPF, saying the role of accountancy firms should be scrutinised more c...
View articleChancellor Gordon Brown will make his Budget speech to the House of Commons on Wednesday 17 April. Read More...
View articleMobile services provider iTouch has today announced its chief financial officer is leaving the company to become finance director at Granada. Read Mor...
View articleConsultancies have closed offices, laid off staff and put graduate recruitment on hold. But training is not something to cut back on if they are to wi...
View articleProfit warnings for UK listed companies climbed 117% on the year, with almost half of companies citing the impact of 11 September as a direct factor i...
View articleLand Rover has won an High Court injunction forcing KPMG, receivers for UPF-Thompson, the collapsed chassis supplier, to maintain delivery of parts. R...
View articleJust as accounting firms across the world thought it was safe to begin rebuilding their consultancy divisions, the US energy giant Enron crumbled amid...
View articleA former vice chairman of Enron, the collapsed US energy giant, has been found dead. Read More...
View articleLand Rover has returned to court in a bid to extend its injunction preventing UPF receivers KPMG from halting supplies of chassis for its Discovery ca...
View articleA continued slowdown in UK growth in 2002 could result in £3bhn hole in public finances, accountancy consolidator Tenon has warned. Read More...
View articleAccountancy-related stocks plunged this week prompted by negative company news and an increase in UK unemployment. Read More...
View articleThe Big Five firm was appointed administrator to seven legal entities and liquidators to five in November and now has to find buyers for thousands of ...
View articlePricewaterhouseCoopers has estimated that gross liabilities of the energy trading arm of Enron's London-based European operations will be in excess of...
View articleShould insolvency figures reflect the position of a single company or a group of companies? Fred Satow says a better system can be devised. Jeremy Wil...
View articleWe reveal this week that consultant Accenture is recruiting 500 new heads in 2002 as the Big Five - a club of which, as Andersen Consulting, it was co...
View articleIn the last week I have visited both the Netherlands and Spain.[QQ] I was able to take some cash out of an ATM in Tilburg, near Eindhoven and spend th...
View articleHolding 60% of the pharmaceutical market, drugs giant AstraZeneca is expecting to confirm its position as the European number one when it announces it...
View articleIn the last week I have visited both the Netherlands and Spain.[QQ] I was able to take some cash out of an ATM in Tilburg, near Eindhoven and spend th...
View articleInsolvency practitioners have bitterly complained they are not getting paid the rates they demand for their work for the Department of Trade and Indus...
View articleR3, the association of business recovery professionals, has attacked the misuse of power by big business against small suppliers and backed KPMG in it...
View articlePowerful financial watchdog the National Audit Office has warned postal competition could fail if current proposals go ahead. Read More...
View articleMarconi, the troubled technology group, has dismissed revelations made by its former financial director and deputy chief executive as only referring t...
View articleThe Enron shredding scandal re-emerged today after FBI agents stormed Enron's headquarters in an attempt to find out whether new allegations of docume...
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