Auditors have sensationally confessed that their impartiality can be compromised by the 'desire' to win more lucrative non-audit business from their c...
View articleFor the first time this week Accountancy Age publishes evidence that even senior partners in some of the country's largest firms believe the objectivi...
View articleWith the number of accounting and corporate scandals breaking these day, there are plenty of dirty auditors and corrupt business executives looking to...
View articleLong-standing chairman of the UK's Auditing Practices Board, Ian Plaistowe, has today announced his plans to step down on 31 December 2002. Read More...
View articleThe week began on Monday with a new poll of UK chief executives which found that almost a third do not want to join the new single currency, now, or a...
View articleThe European Court of Auditors has attempted to undermine the mismanagement and fraud allegations brought against the European Commission, and in part...
View articleFrench catering giant Sodexho Alliance has slammed its auditor over serious accounting errors found at its UK subsidiary. Read More...
View articleRemember back in July when Department of Trade & Industry civil servants were forced into a last-minute rewrite of their Enron verdict after MPs o...
View articleThe already beleaguered aviation industry is facing a fresh blow from moves by the global body charged with setting accounting rules to crack down on ...
View articleThe Derek Higgs' inquiry into the role and effectiveness of non-executive directors has ended. Now the work of sifting through the myriad responses mu...
View articleA recent independent survey showed that in the US, PricewaterhouseCoopers is now seen as the most attractive employer of all for graduates. Read More...
View articleAccountants from all over the world will converge in Hong Kong for the 16th World Congress of Accountants from 18 to 21 November this year. The focus ...
View articleThe government's review of the profession won't be complete until next year. So, asks Philip Smith, what do we do in the meantime? Read More...
View articlePost-Enron, the corporate world is looking for new ways to assure investors the information that they receive is clear and concise. In this extract fr...
View articleCompulsory rotation of audit firms is unlikely to strengthen auditor independence, according to research to be published later this year. Read More...
View articleCharity finance directors are hoping to work together with the Charity Commission to develop guidelines on the impact of the much-debated pensions sta...
View articleMany charities are in danger of not submitting their financial reports to the Charity Commission on time, thereby risking a formal inquiry by the watc...
View articleThe week began with news on Monday of interim results from publicly quoted accountancy company Tenon that it was on target to meet its predicted £100m...
View articleWhile the arguments over the success or failure of the Johannesburg earth summit rattle on, the backroom boys in government are stepping up the pressu...
View articleCorporate boardrooms are hardly littered with representatives of the fairer sex these days - a recent survey showed just eight FTSE-100 executives are...
View articleAuditing standards setter, the Auditing Practices Board, has published a briefing paper aimed at informing non-executive directors of new auditing sta...
View articleThe United Nations, along with ACCA, has launched a stinging attack on the international accounting standard-setter for failing to come to terms with ...
View articleDeloitte & Touche has been called in to investigate a massive hole in the accounts at HP Bulmer, the cider producer. Read More...
View articleNeil Kinnock, vice-president of the European Commission, has angrily denied accusations that Spanish accountant Marta Andreason was disciplined for cr...
View articleWhile the US has already passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act reforming audit into law, the Department of Trade & Industry's review of UK accounting prac...
View articlePost Enron, it's time for a new corporate reporting model that accounts for more than the short-term earnings cycle, writes David Phillips. Read More...
View articleSummer's over and most accountants will be hoping it marks a turning point in their fortunes. Blamed for almost every corporate problem going - some j...
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