Price Waterhouse’s annual global income smashed through the $5bn (#3.2bn) mark in the year to June, continuing a trend of double-digit growth. T...
View articleTighter controls have been introduced at the Diocese of London after a church accountant stole #240,000 to fund his lavish lifestyle. Unqualified Dean...
View articleKPMG claimed this week to have overwhelming backing from the UK’s top companies for its decision to disclose plc-style financial information aft...
View articleBeleaguered DIY retailer Wickes was still wrestling with the exact wording of its circular to shareholders this week. Negotiations were still taking p...
View articleAn Aberdeen chartered accountant has been fined and barred from the Scots ICA for seven years following a tribunal ruling. Colin Cameron, a former sen...
View articleHereward Philips of North London has made three internal appointments. Nick Antoniou (above, centre) has been made a partner. He is a leading member o...
View articleThe certifieds’ association ACCA is set to fire the first salvos in a new battle with the English ICA over the registration of insolvency practi...
View articleEuropean companies believe that cross-border acquisitions are riskier than domestic ones, but most have low expectations of the value of due diligence...
View articleCorporate governance performance standards in local government must be improved, claims the Institute of Internal Auditors. The IIA’s response t...
View articleIf the accountancy profession’s proposed Review Board is to succeed in its aim of ensuring the public interest always prevails, it must possess ...
View articleExternal reporting procedures are a ‘necessary evil’ and have no direct influence on management decisions, a CIMA survey claims. Mancheste...
View articleA DTI report points the way for the creation of a standard format forsmall company accounts. Jane Crumpton-Taylor explains. Read More...
View articleAn independent survey says finance professionals are not exploitingPC networking potential. Guy Clapperton reports Read More...
View articleThe Swinson-Gemmell working party’s masterplan for a review board to oversee individual institutes’ regulation and discipline was official...
View articleNational Health Service managers could be misusing public funds to subsidise private wards, a research study has claimed. The report found that the NH...
View articleCustoms' poor handling of the three-year rule has been further exposedby PW's Richard Watson. Jon Bunn reports. Read More...
View articleCorporate restructurings have massively increased the incidence of fraud, according to a leading investigator. Metropolitan Police detective chief ins...
View articleAlan Naylor continues his weekly career advice aimed at ambitiousaccountants. Read More...
View articleThe Big Six were dragged into the sleaze row surrounding Conservative MP Neil Hamilton and political lobbyist Ian Greer this week. Greer’s firm ...
View articlePan-European demand for factoring services is rocketing, helped by a boom in the former eastern European states. A new report by Factors Chain Interna...
View articleWhen it comes to firms making a splash in the corporate finance pond,even the Big Six find themselves considered minnows. The launch of AIMlast year, ...
View articleTroubled investment bank Deutsche Morgan Grenfell has denied reports it is set to sue KPMG over its role as auditor of the three scandal-hit European ...
View articleThe Government has caved in to demands for simpler procedures to ease negotiations which are holding up projects funded through the Private Finance In...
View articleThe English ICA (right) is suing former chartered accountant David Campbell Mitchell for the u87,000 costs of disciplinary hearings against him. Mitch...
View articleDavid Leighton contrasts complete proportionate liability with amodified form favoured by the Association of British Insurers Read More...
View articleKPMG International chairman Jon Madonna has handed over the reins as chairman and chief executive of the firm’s US practice, KPMG Peat Marwick, ...
View articleFacia’s auditors Deloitte & Touche warned the company that the manner in which it had obtained finance ‘may have resulted in the comm...
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