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View articleAS A JOURNALIST I must confess I don’t usually read the accounting books that drop onto my desk on a weekly basis but Michael Jones’ hefty...
View articleThe mi-tier firms have made their argument to the Lords - the audit market needs intervention to beat "institutional prejudice" Read More...
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View articleThe courts have ruled that accountants cannot have legal privilege like lawyers. The conclusion is ostensibly that the issue is a matter for law maker...
View articleThe row over child benefit rumbles on. And it’s beginning to look embarrassing for the Tory party, so much so that many observers are now compar...
View articleGrant Thornton has not held back. In response to a House of Lord inquiry it has let the regulator and Big Four have it with both barrels. When it come...
View articleTheirs is a tale of broken hearts, bruised egos and simmering tension. So much so in fact you would think their name was Miliband. Auditors and regula...
View articleAll credit to Ernst & Young partner Patricia Jackson today for taking the message to the Lib Dem and Labour conferences that banks should not be ...
View articleThe Financial Services Authority has given auditors another pasting. Back in July the regulator complained quite publicly that it was worried auditors...
View articleResearch from the ACCA and Deloitte out today suggests that CFOs are unhappy with narrative reporting wanting more discretion in what it means and les...
View articleIf there was an accountant who claim to be the most popular accountant in the City right now it is Douglas Flint, group FD at HSBC and possible conten...
View articleBusiness secretary Vince Cable appears to be doing everything in his power to alienate himself from everyone in well,.. business. Not the best positio...
View articleI was not overly impressed by news from the House of Lords that its economic committee would investigate the audit market and whether auditors did eno...
View articleSome of you will have noticed that the House of Lords has decided it should look at the audit market. they want to know if the Big Four dominance is d...
View articleThose of you with an eye for scandal will have noticed the way computer giant Dell settled accounting fraud charges with US regulator the SEC. In shor...
View articleThe efforts to win legal professional privilege for accountants at the Court of Appeal recently have been worth watching, not least because the protag...
View articleIt’s beginning to sound like the title of a particular poor horror movie -Time To Pay. In this case however, this could be one of those awful mo...
View articleToday Prudential is back in court trying to win legal professional privilege for accountants. The company is doing this at the Court of Appeal where i...
View articleLord Ashcroft we learn this morning has finally given up his non-dom status to keep his place in the House of Lords. After years of comment and obfusc...
View articleThere’s no easy way to put it. The discussion paper published this morning by the Financial Services Authority and Financial Reporting Council w...
View articleThe saga that has been the disciplinary procedure brought against Ernst & Young for its audit of collapsed insurance business Equitable has finall...
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