Representatives of the Big Five accountancy firms have met with the Securities and Exchange Commission on an 'informal basis' in a bid to thrash out n...
View articleResearch into the independent professional review, a light-touch form of assurance, has revealed significant cost savings for companies with a turnove...
View articleAccountancy bodies today gave a mixed reaction to the results of research into the benefits of the independent professional review. Read More...
View articleKeith Proudfoot has become the ICAEW’s first Northern regional manager. Proudfoot, 48, heads the institute’s new regional business centre ...
View articleThe final report on the new structure of the International Auditing Practices Board has been submitted for approval. Read More...
View articleThe government could raise the audit threshold for small companies to the European maximum of £4.8m as early as Monday, Accountancy Age has learned. R...
View articleWe learn this week the new accountancy watchdog, the Foundation, will be fully operational by January. Wasn't that January 2001 you might ask? Or, as ...
View articleAndersen this week revealed the Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating the finances of its audit client Enron over accounting mistakes ma...
View articleAs ever I read ‘Taking Stock’ with interest, more so when I saw mention of my own institute (ICAEW Out of Touch, page 36, 25 October). At ...
View articleThe ICAEW has broken with tradition by allowing a publicly-listed company to employ practising auditors. In a move that could spark fresh audit indepe...
View articleComplex accounting rules and growing demands by regulators are piling on the pressure and widening the expectation gap, complained auditors this week....
View articleAccountancy Age editor Damian Wild (left) has been shortlisted in the prestigious British Society of Magazine Editors Annual Awards. This is the secon...
View articleI am not surprised many finance directors consider they don’t get value from their fees (Institutes fail to satisfy, page 3, 18 October). For mo...
View articleWhitehall accountancy supremo Sir Andrew Likierman has promised that the switch to resource accounting will see the time taken to produce government f...
View articleLong-awaited test results for the independent professional review, the so-called lightweight audit, will be published on Monday further fuelling debat...
View articleBig Five firm PricewaterhouseCoopers has been asked to resign its position as the auditor for Accenture, after failing to offload its consultancy arm....
View articleAndersen is understood to have approved the off-balance sheet arrangements for its audit client Enron as the company moved to overhaul its accounts. R...
View articleAccounting procedures within the European Commission are to be speeded up and made tougher, with ministers and MEPs being asked to approve a new packa...
View articleBank's audit fees rise by nearly £5m to top league table as mergers help push up average audit fee for FTSE-100 company by 17%. Read More...
View articleGovernment departments looking at new PFI deals should learn from the Treasury's building refurbishment project, the National Audit Office said today....
View articleThe Accounting Standards Board has invited its members to air their views on the International Accounting Standards Board's preface to International F...
View articleThe role of the ICAEW police liaison panels is set to be reviewed following a critical report from the chairman of the London panel, the institute's c...
View articleA row has erupted in the House of Commons over the 'jobs-for-the-boys' style appointment of a non-accountant as Britain's next nominee to the European...
View articleUK and US accountancy experts will gather today at the third global accounting standards debate in London to examine the latest international developm...
View articleAndersen has been recruited to carry out a solvency audit into Lloyd's of London, in a bid to discover if the insurer is capable of paying the estimat...
View articleOnly months after the first major UK consolidator was born, 'the Tenon model' is already a common phrase. Read More...
View articleThe ICAEW has broken with tradition by allowing a publicly- listed company to employ practising auditors. Read More...
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