The ICAEW's annual report revealed a staggering number this week. No, not the £8m deficit - but the rising cost of professional regulation. Read More...
View articleVantis, the revamped accountancy consolidator, has confirmed 1 May as its launch date on the Alternative Investment Market. Read More...
View articlePricewaterhouseCoopers today ruled out an immediate rise in audit fees, but the firm confirmed it is considering different pricing levels for clients ...
View articleThe US Financial Accounting Standards Board has appointed Robert Herz as its new chairman with effect from July 2002. Read More...
View articleThe Audit Commission is set to lose out in the radical shake-up of the National Health Service announced in last week's Budget. Read More...
View articleInvestigations into possible professional misconduct by accountants in the Irish Republic, which has already lasted five years, has been hit by a new ...
View articleA paper released by the financial services arm of the European Commission says supervision of the EU audit profession 'must be enhanced' in the wake o...
View articleThe Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund, has won Charities Annual Report and Accounts Award in the 'over £2m' category. Read More...
View articleThe ICAEW today announced it has hired a new finance director. Robin Fieth's first task will be to wrestle with the institute's deficit, put at £2m la...
View articleCahal Dowds, the new (and youngest-ever) president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland says the institute must play a 'meaningful ro...
View articleLatest figures from across the pond show rapidly disintegrating firm Andersen has lost 10% of its audit clients since being charged with obstruction o...
View articleRemember those adverts a few years ago at the time of the Price Waterhouse/Coopers & Lybrand merger? While all the firms about them were empire-buildi...
View articleEight years ago one of our senior partners was engaged in a debate on auditor liability and became frustrated at the lack of acceptance of the serious...
View articlePricewaterhouseCoopers has picked up the audit contract for Stagecoach as it exits the ranks of Andersen's dwindling client list. Read More...
View articleThe Accounting Standards Board's revised Operating & Financial Review (OFR) guidance will be a 'halfway house' on the road to fuller financial dis...
View articlePortcullis House, the luxury office block for MPs, cost £41m more than estimated, according to the National Audit Office. Read More...
View articleSeveral of Andersen's FTSE-100 audit clients could be set to leave the splintering firm following its decision to merge with Deloitte & Touche in ...
View articleA report by NHS expert Derek Wanless calls for a new layer of auditing to be implemented to accompany the massive increase in NHS spending set for the...
View articleGordon Brown announced today he will ensure the extra money spent on the NHS will come under the eye of an independent auditor. Read More...
View articleComptroller and auditor general Sir John Bourn has qualified his report on the resource accounts of the Northern Ireland Office for the second year ru...
View articleA number of Andersen's FTSE-100 audit clients are considering their options after the splintering firm's decision to merge with Deloitte & Touche ...
View articleEurope's biggest cable company United Pan-Europe Communications, whose shares are listed on the New York and London Stock Exchange, has said it may no...
View articleOne of the PricewaterhouseCoopers' administrators working on the collapse of Enron has defected to rival firm Deloitte & Touche. Read More...
View articleThe Accountancy Foundation has today announced it will chair a conference for leading accountants and regulators to assess the impact of the Enron cri...
View articleThe ICAEW may face defeat in its impending vote on a subscription rise as disillusioned members voice concerns over the institute's future direction. ...
View articleOn the frontline: Charles Allen, Granada's accountant chief, is under siege over handling of ITV Digital crisis. Read More...
View articleACCA this week renewed its search for a chief executive following the collapse last year of efforts to appoint a new man to the post. Read More...
View article