The OECD-aligned Financial Action Task Force says countries throughout the world are united in ensuring terrorists do not gain access to the internati...
View articleThe global financial system, and in particular its American players, coped well with the attack on the World Trade Centre on 11 September, but some co...
View articleAs the revelations surrounding Enron continue to rock the accountancy world, the Accountancy Age/ADVFN index edged down this week with the majority of...
View articleFew companies survive for long without a head of finance but that's exactly what Bookham Technologies has managed to do in spite of the meltdown in it...
View articlePricewaterhouseCoopers, administrators to Enron Europe, today announced the sale of Enron Metals to San Diego-based Sempra Energy for an undisclosed s...
View articleFormer Tory cabinet minister Lord MacGregor has joined Liberal Democrat shadow chancellor Matthew Taylor in calling for a full investigation into the ...
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 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 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 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 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 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...
View articleBig five firms Andersen and KPMG failed to spot a NOK 230m (£18m) error in the accounts of struggling engineering company Kvaerner, which they both au...
View articleAnglo-Norwegian engineering group Kvaerner has announced it is writing off 230m Norwegian Kroner (£18m) after discovering an error in its accounts. Re...
View articleThe close relationship between Wickes and its auditor fell under the spotlight yesterday after it was revealed that one of the five former executives ...
View articleGiant global conglomerate Tyco International has announced plans to divide up its empire into four separate companies, in the wake of Enron's use of a...
View articleThe US economy, still reeling from the collapse of energy giant Enron, has been dealt another heavy blow after its second biggest discount retailer Km...
View articleA package of radical reforms designed to modernise the Lloyd's of London insurance market, will include its current three-year accounting system being...
View articlePublic finances have been pushed into the red by the biggest amount in almost six years due to increased public spending and lower returns from tax. R...
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