Semiconductor company ARM, is reviewing the possibility of booking the cost of its share options to its accounts, potentially knocking as much as a th...
View articleAs global corporations struggle to restore investor trust in their operations, CIMA chief executive Charles Tilly says ensuring transparency should be...
View articleIT group Diagonal has dismissed calls to change its auditors after analysts voiced concerns of a possible conflict of interest. Read More...
View articleIn a climate of mounting litigation against firms and individuals, continued misconceptions about insurance cover are leaving auditors open to neglige...
View articleAttempts by the US to force foreign accounting firms to hand over audit working papers to a new super regulatory would be 'unenforceable', according t...
View articleDawson Holdings plc, the news distribution and marketing services group, has announced that, in future, company auditors will be appointed independent...
View articleThe embattled chairman of the SEC chief Harvey Pitt, is set to address the ICAEW this autumn to examine the challenges global companies face in a sing...
View articleCompulsory joint audits by rival firms have been considered by the government's review of audit as a way of avoiding an audit monopoly following the d...
View articleThis man could become the biggest hate figure for the large global accountancy firms since Arthur Levitt threatened to force them to split off their c...
View articleWhile all eyes were on Wall Street as President George W Bush launched his anti-fraud crusade, the canny observers were watching developments in Washi...
View articleRightly or wrongly, the ICAEW has traditionally been seen as the gold standard of accountancy training. Its members usually account for the more senio...
View articleThe government has been told its efforts to shore up the integrity of auditing, following publication this week of the Company Law Review White Paper,...
View articleThe global standard setter yesterday agreed to account for share options as an expense, despite growing pressure for it to back down, from European, U...
View articleThe government has announced it will keep the audit threshold at £1m and has shelved plans to replace the audit for smaller companies with a lighter-t...
View articleChancellor Gordon Brown is expanding audit and inspection across government in a determined bid to ensure the cash he is pouring into public services ...
View articleThe government's review of audit and accounting post Enron and WorldCom has come under pressure from both Tories and Labour over concerns about audito...
View articleUK mid-tier firms have expressed support for compulsory rotation of auditors as a means of improving the battered reputation of the profession. Read M...
View articlePaul Volcker, trustee chairman of the global standard-setting board, is seeking three new trustees to join his board as the International Accounting S...
View articleExclusive research reveals the two traditional accountancy institutes in the UK are lagging behind their newer rivals in significant areas. Read More...
View articleThe National Audit Office could become the 'auditor of last resort' under a proposal put forward by a leading Liberal Democrat peer. Read More...
View articleThe wind of change is about to blow through the world of corporate governance and the accountancy profession will not be able to escape the draught. R...
View articleThe US could be on a collision course with the rest of the world's auditors if controversial proposals for a powerful new watchdog are accepted. Read ...
View articleIs the government doing enough to restore faith in accountancy? Yes, says Melanie Johnson. Austin Mitchell, however, says Labour is buddying up to the...
View articleTraditionally, budding accountants in the UK have looked to the ICAEW or perhaps, if you were Scottish, to the UK's other long-established accountancy...
View articleThe cost of AIDS should be accounted for on corporate balance sheets, the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants has demanded. Read More...
View articleWriting in Accountancy Age.com, former KPMG International chairman Lord Sharman floats a revolutionary idea: should the National Audit Office become a...
View articleMarks & Spencer has today (Wednesday) given its unequivocal backing to auditor PricewaterhouseCoopers as the retailer sought to reassure sharehold...
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