Speaking during a Mansion House speech Patricia Hewitt, secretary for the Department of Trade & Industry, said the Treasury, the Financial Service...
View articleThe Securities and Exchange Commission has this afternoon said it will convene two days of roundtable discussions to discuss proposals for reforming f...
View articleTeeside Development Corporation has left the taxpayer with a bill of £23m following its wind-up in 1998, the National Audit Office has revealed. Read ...
View articleTrade minister Patricia Hewitt is understood to have asked Sir Peter Davis, chief executive of J. Sainsbury to lead a government review into the role ...
View articleCommons watchdog, the Public Accounts Committee, has stepped up the pressure on the Treasury over its delay in implementing the recommendations of the...
View articleThe Government Accounting Office of the US Congress is suing vice president Dick Cheney for his refusal to release details of meetings held by the cou...
View articleThe government is to launch an investigation into weaknesses in the auditing of company accounts, following the collapse of energy giant Enron and all...
View articleOn Thursday last week, Sir David Tweedie, chairman of the International Accounting Standards Board, appeared before a US Senate committee taking evide...
View articleAuditors are warning against US and international moves to include a forensic phase in the audit process which could ultimately affect UK rules. Read ...
View articleAuditing is in the spotlight as never before thanks to Enron. Every corporate failure and accounting correction is leapt upon as an 'audit failure' an...
View articleCreditors of Enron in the US have refused a $260m offer from Andersen to settle claims for damages against the firm, according to reports in the US pr...
View articleFinance directors could stop offering company share options to avoid volatility on their balance sheets if the International Accounting Standards Boar...
View articlePressured by heightened concern over best practice in the profession, CIMA is scrambling to publicise and open up its disciplinary hearings one year a...
View articleThe potential damage to the reputation of the auditing profession in the wake of the Enron collapse means that the global financial community must con...
View articleThe National Audit Office has being given the go-ahead to audit the building of the controversial new Wembley Stadium. Read More...
View articleThe government has rejected a call for an inquiry into the implications for UK corporate accounting practice following the collapse of Enron on the gr...
View articleFinance directors should start focusing on accounting developments at a global level as the 2005 deadline for the switch over nears, warns mid-tier fi...
View articleUnder-fire Andersen has received a boost after the board of FTSE-100 client Cadbury Schweppes, 'unanimously' recommended the firm be retained as its a...
View articleGlobal standard setter, the International Accounting Standards Board, claims its decision not to release the names of its corporate backers is not an ...
View articleSir David Tweedie, chairman of the International Accounting Standards Board yesterday appeared to be using the Enron crisis to push the US to endorse ...
View articleThe chief of a leading investment consultancy has joined the growing chorus of industry leaders calling for compulsory auditor rotation. Read More...
View articleOur revelation today that the ICAEW’s council is set to recommend a hike in membership fees will surprise few members, least of all Howard Leigh...
View articleNational Audit Office role to be expanded to improve scrutiny of Whitehall finances. Read More...
View articleThe UK accounting profession yesterday urged the US Securities & Exchange Commission to resist demands for compulsory auditor rotation and restric...
View articleAt a Senate committee hearing today, Sir David Tweedie, chairman of the International Accounting Standards Board, called for the adoption of internati...
View articleThe UK accounting profession yesterday urged the US Securities & Exchange Commission to resist demands for compulsory auditor rotation and restric...
View articleUK and global standard-setters were this week facing the first open challenge to their authority with the launch of a standards' rating tool by Pricew...
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