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• Proposed Accounting standard on corporate responsibility and Tax Avoidance: Comments welcome (14 Jan 2003)
• Auditing Practices Board is useless: Not surprising it is over-populated with accountancy firm and corporate interests

• Meet the UK’s inept Accounting, Auditing and Governance Regulator: In Bed with Corporate Interests 
• The Documents that Barclays Does not want you to Read
• IASB Told to Improve Governance (9 Feb 2010)
• Japan seeks bigger say on global accounting rules (9 Feb 2010)
• EU sees room to improve IASB governance (9 Feb 2010)
  
• Agility still negotiating with US on fraud charges (9 Feb 2010)
  
• TechTarget Finishes Accounting Probe, CFO Resigns (9 Feb 2010)
• Half of accountants want a new job (9 Feb 2010)
  
• The Great American Financial Sandwich: AIG, PwC, and Goldman Sachs (8 Feb 2010)
  
• True losses from HBOS Reading fraud = £925m  (8 Feb 2010)
• AIG = Arrogance Ignorance & Greed  (8 Feb 2010)
• Bradford & Bingley accounting in the cloud (8 Feb 2010)
  
• BAE admits accounts records breach(8 Feb 2010)
• UK firms 'cut dividends by £10bn' (8 Feb 2010)
• Satyam auditor bailed  (8 Feb 2010)
• FSA walks away from Grant Thornton (8 Feb 2010)
• SAP chief executive Leo Apotheker resigns(8 Feb 2010)
  
• FSA switches auditors (7 Feb 2010)
• Financial disclosure and the Board: A case for non-independent directors (7 Feb 2010)
• EMI boss, Elio Leoni-Sceti, bids for survival (7 Feb 2010)
• US imposes ethics watchdog on BAE (7 Feb 2010)
• MPs' expenses: Ministers claimed thousands for PR and accountants (7 Feb 2010)
• Defending Koss And Their Auditors: Just Loopy Distorted Feedback (7 Feb 2010)
• New rules may outlaw hospitality as bribery (7 Feb 2010)
• Six-year BAE investigation ends with minor accountancy charges (6 Feb 2010)
  
• Former Delphi Chief Was 'Reckless,' Judge Says (6 Feb 2010)
• KPMG issues going concern warning for EMI (6 Feb 2010)
  
• BAE deal with Tanzania: Military air traffic control – for country with no airforce (6 Feb 2010)
• BAE admits guilt over corrupt arms deals (6 Feb 2010)
• Anger Over Plea Bargain Deal With BAE (6 Feb 2010)
• EMI runs up loss of £1.8bn (5 Feb 2010)
• Doubt cast on survival of EMI (5 Feb 2010)
• More Fees for Big Sharks: Insolvency figures hit record high (5 Feb 2010)
• Ethical fashion retailer Adili suspends shares  (5 Feb 2010)
• Now we will start proceedings against Satyam auditor: ICAI (5 Feb 2010)
• Arthur Andersen partner delays HIH lawsuit (5 Feb 2010)
• FASB set to collide with supervisors over fair value (5 Feb 2010)
• BAE agrees to pay £30m to UK, $400m to US after corruption investigation (5 Feb 2010)
  
• BAE to pay £30m accounting fine in SFO deal (5 Feb 2010)
  
• BAE pays fines of £285m over arms deal corruption claims (5 Feb 2010)
• BAE criminal fines 'a serious embarrassment' (5 Feb 2010)
• Serious Fraud Office and the US Department of Justice have both announced settlements with BAE Systems plc (5 Feb 2010)
• Bank of America charged with fraud over Merrill purchase (5 Feb 2010)
• Bank of America accused of 'enormous fraud' (5 Feb 2010)
  
• CFOs Head to IASB (5 Feb 2010)
  
• Madoff Relatives Agree to Asset Freeze (5 Feb 2010)
  
• U.K. Firm Balli Aviation Ltd Pleads Guilty to Illegally Exporting Boeing 747 Aircraft to Iran (5 Feb 2010)
• Three criminal charges for MPs expenses claims: finally, some real world justice? (5 Feb 2010)
• Ex-KPMG trainee admits £25000 expenses fraud(5 Feb 2010)
  
• India Supreme Court grants bail to Price Waterhouse auditor in Satyam case  (4 Feb 2010)
  
• Finance director 'defrauded London Philharmonic Orchestra of £2.3m' (4 Feb 2010)
  
• Global accounting rules may face big delays  (4 Feb 2010)
• The Spirit of Accounting: Deja vu all over again(4 Feb 2010)
• Vodafone attacks 'costly and burdensome' code change (4 Feb 2010)
  
• UK Auditors may escape rules shakeup of non-audit work (4 Feb 2010)
• Only one Big Four firm produces UK annual report (4 Feb 2010)
  
• International Rectifier Says No SEC Charges Coming (4 Feb 2010)
  
• Billionaire Whistle Blower Loses $730 Million Offshore Alleging Fraud (4 Feb 2010)
• EMI needs £100m to meet covenants (4 Feb 2010)
  
• UK Share Ownership Survey 2008 (4 Feb 2010)
• ICAI bars 2 CAs linked to Price Waterhouse arm  (3 Feb 2010)
• PwC reels under Satyam crisis, faces mass exit (3 Feb 2010)
  
• Taxman urges delay of UK GAAP replacement (3 Feb 2010)
• KPMG shares in Cable & Wireless's £22m adviser bonanza (3 Feb 2010)
• Multimillion-pound payments at Credit Suisse will escape bonus tax(3 Feb 2010)
• SFO drops inquiry into Bernie Madoff's UK arm and focuses on feeder funds(2 Feb 2010)
• Bernard Madoff prosecutions dropped by SFO (2 Feb 2010)
• Vantis counts cost of Stanford fraud affair (2 Feb 2010)
• Accountant jailed for £16m VAT scam (2 Feb 2010)
  
• They like poodles: Hundred Group opposes non-audit restrictions (2 Feb 2010)
• Fraud Case Casts Doubt over Sarbox Exemption (2 Feb 2010)
  
• Only One (Half) Bite Out of Apple in Options Backdating Appeal (2 Feb 2010)
• Federal fraud inquiry involving Colonial Bank ongoing (2 Feb 2010)
• Pensions shortfall puts Reader's Digest in UK at risk (2 Feb 2010)
• Allen Stanford liquidators' 'cash fear' (2 Feb 2010)
  
• Next steps for country-by-country reporting (1 Feb 2010)
• Country-by-country reporting edges closer to reality (1 Feb 2010)
  
• Sarbanes-Oxley Insights: An Interview With Bob Hirth of Protiviti (1 Feb 2010)
• They like their profits: Irish accountants resist non-audit restrictions (1 Feb 2010)
• KPMG has £600m consultancy target as accountants rebuild advisory roles (1 Feb 2010)
  
• Stanford causes Vantis going concern threat (1 Feb 2010)
• Turner hits at standard setters' 'good crisis' (1 Feb 2010)
• The Destruction of Accumulated Surpluses (1 Feb 2010)
• Audit Commission spends £56000 on political advice (1 Feb 2010)
• Rentokil defends right to make non-audit decisions (1 Feb 2010)
• Buggins Turn: No competition for ICAEW vice presidency (1 Feb 2010)
  

• Insolvency firms may face curbs (31 Jan 2010)
  
• iSoft four in court on conspiracy charge (31 Jan 2010)
• Former iSoft executives appear in court (31 Jan 2010)
  
• London risks becoming 'brothel' for bankruptcy tourists (31 Jan 2010)
• Patience, it takes years to right investor wrongs (31 Jan 2010)
• Corporate sustainability reporting: Tackling credibility and conflicts of interest (31 Jan 2010)
• Vintage wine dealer Cockburns calls time on history (31 Jan 2010)
• IFRS faces critical year (29 Jan 2010)
  
• OECD brings country-by-country tax reporting a step closer (29 Jan 2010)
  
• Auditing Sector finds itself back in the spotlight (29 Jan 2010)
• Former RBS chief Robertson denies Enron fraud (29 Jan 2010)
• SEC Reaches Agreement In Principle With Stockman, 7 Others (29 Jan 2010)
  
• Keydata income cash is being processed (29 Jan 2010)
• EU moves to ease small business accounting burden (29 Jan 2010)
  
• Convergence won't take place "at all costs": Tweedie  (29 Jan 2010)
  
• Accounting: UK GAAP replacement needs time (29 Jan 2010)
• Three arrested in FSA insider investigation (29 Jan 2010)
• Stephen Timms on country-by-country reporting (28 Jan 2010)
• Business builds the ring fences around country-by-country reporting (28 Jan 2010)
  
• Demystifying Accounting Dirty Tricks (28 Jan 2010)
• Serious Fraud Office charges two former Torex Retail bosses over collapse (28 Jan 2010)
  
• Taxman wins the right to raid offshore havens (28 Jan 2010)
• IAS 37 rule on legal costs set to cause confusion (28 Jan 2010)
• Calls to reform bank accounting standards (28 Jan 2010)
• PwC employee in £167,000 expenses scam (28 Jan 2010)
• Taxman wins the right to raid offshore havens (28 Jan 2010)
  
• SMEs are turning away from accountants: FPB (28 Jan 2010)
  
• Grant Thornton International revenues drop 9% (28 Jan 2010)
  
• Wells Fargo Execs Hit With Lawsuit (28 Jan 2010)
• Country-by-country reporting – the plimsoll line of accounting (27 Jan 2010)
• Taxing banks : country-by-country reporting has a great deal to offer (27 Jan 2010)
• Ernst & Young Hong Kong Settles Second Audit Negligence Claim (27 Jan 2010)
  
• French president calls for global accounting standards (27 Jan 2010)
• Markets uncertain about Apple accounting standards change (27 Jan 2010)
• Banks urged to bolster balance sheets (27 Jan 2010)
• Manchester United opens window on murky world of leverage buy-outs (27 Jan 2010)
• Former Alta Gas boss ordered to pay £1m to fraud victims (27 Jan 2010)
  
• FSA 'needs powers to regulate public sector advice' (26 Jan 2010)
• A debt-equity conundrum for all dealmakers (26 Jan 2010)
• Wills & Co ceases trading amid FSA inquiry (26 Jan 2010)
• Commons approves City watchdog Bill (26 Jan 2010)
• Apple Earnings: The iPhone Accounting Issue (26 Jan 2010)
  
• Satyam case hearing put off to Feb 11 (26 Jan 2010)
  
• Financial Services Authority chairman Lord Adair Turner speaks about the future of bank accounting (25 Jan 2010)
• Accountants and regulators clash over banking standards (25 Jan 2010)
  
• SME standards set for adoption across the globe (25 Jan 2010)
• Why poor moral ethics prove costly (25 Jan 2010)
• Siemens To Sue Two Former Managers In Bribery Scandal (25 Jan 2010)
• BDO steps up investigation of E-Clear (25 Jan 2010)
• HBOS shores up Rocco Forte (25 Jan 2010)
• ASB issues Amendment to FRS 25 - Classification of Rights Issues (25 Jan 2010)
  
• Herbies benefits from Ernst & Young link with clutch of Nortel mandates (25 Jan 2010)
• Online insolvency register could save time and money (25 Jan 2010)
  
• Independent test of the new Legal Complaints Service  (23 Jan 2010)
  
• Angel Gurria: we want consultation on country-by-country reporting (23 Jan 2010)
• The IASB: the problem of one uniform model when it is the wrong one (23 Jan 2010)
• The IASB wall is coming down (23 Jan 2010)
• TWO ADDITIONAL FORMER ERNST & YOUNG PARTNERS SENTENCED IN MANHATTAN FEDERAL COURT (23 Jan 2010)
• Fourth Ex-Ernst & Young Executive Sentenced to Prison (23 Jan 2010)
  
• Ex-Ernst & Young Partners Get Jail Sentences (23 Jan 2010)
• PWC in Yellow Pages dual role (23 Jan 2010)
  
• Wells Fargo: Little Impact from New Rules (23 Jan 2010)
• Insolvency: Childrenswear chain Adams falls back into administration (23 Jan 2010)
  
• Deloitte acquires Drivers Jonas (23 Jan 2010)
  
• Deloitte expands into commercial property  (23 Jan 2010)
• FSA Head: Banks Need Revised Accounting Standards (23 Jan 2010)
  
• Third Ex-Ernst & Young Executive Sentenced to Prison (22 Jan 2010)
  
• Accounting plan could exacerbate cyclicality (22 Jan 2010)
• History may record the great accounting convention crisis (22 Jan 2010)
• SEC Sues Berkshire Hathaway's General Re Corp Over Accounting Fraud (22 Jan 2010)
  
• Other petroleum firms paying their excise tax, but not Shell, says BOC (22 Jan 2010)
• Deeply ingrained culture of dishonesty and cover-up at Royal Dutch Shell (22 Jan 2010)
• Barclays chairman Marcus Agius tells bankers not to complain (22 Jan 2010)
• Deloitte creates £110m real estate group (22 Jan 2010)
  
• Solicitor jailed for stealing £480000 from clients (22 Jan 2010)
• Financial services is UK's biggest loser to fraud (22 Jan 2010)
  
• How multinational, aided by Ernst & Young, tried to launder profits & cheat on taxes through offshore Bermuda shell (21 Jan 2010)
• Ex-Ernst & Young Executive Coplan Gets Three Years in prison for selling illegal tax shelters to wealthy clients that cost the U.S. government as much as $2 billion (21 Jan 2010)
• Ernst & Young partner gets prison over tax shelter scheme (21 Jan 2010)
• Banks are different: should accounting reflect that fact? (21 Jan 2010)
  
• FSA Head: Banks Need Revised Accounting Standards (21 Jan 2010)
• Lion taming, Lord Turner and the problem of 'fair value accounting' (21 Jan 2010)
  
• Fraud Office 'very interested' in E-Clear (21 Jan 2010)
• General Reinsurance Corporation Enters into Agreement Resolving Its Role in Fraudulent Reinsurance Transaction with AIG (21 Jan 2010)
• Adelphia's Rigases, directors settle investor suit (21 Jan 2010)
  
• Laid-off lawyers, cast-off consultants (21 Jan 2010)
  
• UK company law is terrorism's friend (20 Jan 2010)
• OPEN LETTER TO GORDON BROWN RE: HBOS/LLOYDS  (20 Jan 2010)
• On corporate responsibility, malaria, and tax  (20 Jan 2010)
• Manchester United debt hits £716m (20 Jan 2010)
• Deloitte's Ethical Problem - Will Be Revisited Again? (20 Jan 2010)
  
• GenRe pays to settle on AIG fraud role: report (20 Jan 2010)
• Globespan collapse triggers E-Clear administration (20 Jan 2010)
  
• Credit card company blamed for failure of Globespan collapses with £100m debts (20 Jan 2010)
  
• Fat Cats: Morgan Stanley reveals $1.15bn profit – and $14.4bn bonus pool (20 Jan 2010)
  
• Cadbury's boss set to collect £12million pay-off while unions fear jobs losses (20 Jan 2010)
• Global accounting respite for SMEs (20 Jan 2010)
  
• Precious Little Prudence (19 Jan 2010)
• Big audit firms back new toothless governance code (19 Jan 2010)
  
• Auditors on governance: 'We've been doing this for years' (19 Jan 2010)
• New Governance Code for Audit Firms Finalised  (19 Jan 2010)
  
• THE Toothless AUDIT FIRM GOVERNANCE CODE  (19 Jan 2010)
• Accountants cite lessons learned in Koss scandal (19 Jan 2010)
• FRC consults on Stewardship Code for Institutional Investors (19 Jan 2010)
• Punishing Lawyers in Corporate Frauds (19 Jan 2010)
• Union wants commission of enquiry into Vodacom (19 Jan 2010)
• U.S. Attorney General's 5,000 Pending Indictments Targeting Financial Fraud, And National Security (19 Jan 2010)
• Defending Koss And Their Auditors: Just Loopy Distorted Feedback  (18 Jan 2010)
  
• Governance code for audit firms released by ICAEW (18 Jan 2010)
• Auditors required to adopt UK code (18 Jan 2010)
• Top audit firms face new governance code  (18 Jan 2010)
• Shareholders give audit code a cool welcome (18 Jan 2010)
  
• Insolvency: Ernst & Young's London Scottish fees approach £5m (18 Jan 2010)
  
• Institutional shareholders not consulted over RBS bonus payments (18 Jan 2010)
• CBI today opposed the bail plea of PriceWaterhouseCoopers auditor Srinivas Talluri who was arrested in Satyam fraud case for allegedly conniving with its founder B Ramalinga Raju and other aides (18 Jan 2010)
  
• Oil Equipment Maker Hit by $14M Embezzlement (18 Jan 2010)
• IFRS 9 — A Perspective on Financial Instrument Accounting (18 Jan 2010)
  
• Banks pushed to reveal cost of bonus tax (17 Jan 2010)
• Is Little GAAP Dead? Maybe Not! (17 Jan 2010)
• KPMG case will turn on Lehman JV agreement (17 Jan 2010)
• Are You Gonna Make My Day? The Auditors And SEC Enforcement (16 Jan 2010)
• SocGen warns of €1.4bn hit on toxic debt (16 Jan 2010)
• Global audit industry is unsustainable: GT (16 Jan 2010)
• Time Out owner to prop-up company with £3m (16 Jan 2010)
  
• The SEC Whacks Ernst & Young Over Bally Total Fitness -- Now for the Spoils of Victory (15 Jan 2010)
• Microsoft's Billion Dollar Nevada Tax Dodge  (15 Jan 2010)
• FRC chief predicts return to years of "disbelief" (15 Jan 2010)
  
• Accounting, Finance Workers Most Likely to Embezzle (15 Jan 2010)
• Insolvency: IPs urged to clarify payment protocols for customers (15 Jan 2010)
• RBS fights allegations of role in £140m Enron fraud in High Court (14 Jan 2010)
• Failed Omni National Bank executive guilty (14 Jan 2010)
• Accounts confusion over UK bonus tax (14 Jan 2010)
• FINANCIAL REFORM AND THE BIG 4 AUDIT FIRMS (14 Jan 2010)
  
• Post-Madoff, SEC Rethinks Enforcement (14 Jan 2010)
• Break Up the Big Four Audit Firms? (14 Jan 2010)
  
• Koss a case for regulation (14 Jan 2010)
  
• Governments need more revenue, but there are better ways to get companies to pay up (13 Jan 2010)
• Central Bankers Want Less Fair Value (13 Jan 2010)
• Insolvency: PwC files High Court petition for E-clear cash (13 Jan 2010)
  
• Investors Misled, Collars Felt (13 Jan 2010)
• Spinvox investors get £600 from £64m sale (13 Jan 2010)
• PwC and Deloitte are top graduate recruiters (13 Jan 2010)
• Nortel, a year later: How the liquidation was done (13 Jan 2010)
  
• US bank faces lawsuit for pension losses (13 Jan 2010)
• Greece threatened by lawsuit over public accounting irregularities (13 Jan 2010)
  
• Announcing the Ignoble and Noble Prizes for Economics (12 Jan 2010)
• Central bankers demand new accounting rules on bad debt (12 Jan 2010)
  
• British carbon traders charged with money laundering relating to alleged carousel fraud (12 Jan 2010)
• Euro bankers want no expansion of fair value in new bank rules  (12 Jan 2010)
• Profit warning from Game Group after disappointing Christmas (12 Jan 2010)
• Gordon Ramsay’s accounts show £4.3m loss (12 Jan 2010)
  
• Ex-Homestore CEO Set to Plead Guilty in Fraud Case (12 Jan 2010)
  
• Could New Regs Bring More Lawsuits? (12 Jan 2010)
  
• Barclays loses millions on bad loan as Latitude goes into administration (12 Jan 2010)
• Globespan administrator and E-Clear set for court (12 Jan 2010)
• Half of accountants want to leave profession (12 Jan 2010)
  
• Accountants want out of the profession (12 Jan 2010)
• ICAEW ditches KPMG employee for £43000 false expense claims (12 Jan 2010)
  
• Crisis pushes accounting standards (11 Jan 2010)
• Column : Capitalism in its noughties avatar (11 Jan 2010)
• Keydata investors hit by negative equity in US (11 Jan 2010)
  
• One in four company accounts flagged by Australia auditors (11 2010)
• UK Taxman quickest to wind up firms (11 Jan 2010)
• Three Britons charged over €3m carbon-trading 'carousel fraud' (11 Jan 2010)
• White-collar fraud up by 76% (11 Jan 2010)
• The meaning of Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (11 Jan 2010)
• International Financial Reporting Standards - not going well  (10 Jan 2010)
• India asks US authorities not to take action against Satyam (10 Jan 2010) 
• Only 7% of the UK population attend independent schools, well over half the members of many professions have done so - 75% of judges, 70% of finance directors, 45% of top civil servants, and 32% of MPs were independently schooled (10 Jan 2010) 
• Unleashing Aspiration: The Final Report of the Panel on Fair Access to the Professions (10 Jan 2010)
• Michel Foucault. What is Enlightenment ? (10 Jan 2010)
• Immanuel Kant, What Is Enlightenment? (10 Jan 2010)
• An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment? (10 Jan 2010)
• John Wood Group investigates accounting claim (9 Jan 2010)
• Insolvency: Deloitte adds £5.5m to Woolworths administration bill (9 Jan 2010)
  
• 'Amnesiac' accountant jailed for £300000 fraud (9 Jan 2010)
• Headphone Maker Hears the Sound of Accounting Fraud (9 Jan 2010)
  
• Ex-Homestore Chief Wolff Agrees to Plead Guilty in Fraud Case (9 Jan 2010)
  
• MCA to take action on PwC after ICAI submits report  (9 Jan 2010)
  
• Kevin Maxwell, the son of Robert Maxwell, the late media tycoon, escaped bankruptcy yesterday after reaching a settlement over money owed to a London pawnbroker (9 Jan 2010)
• Accountant jailed for £26000 theft (9 Jan 2010)
  
• The accountant: Figures of fun (9 Jan 2010)
  
• IFRS 8 in trouble - country-by-country reporting is the answer (8 Jan 2010)
• Aim-listed HandMade films asks for share suspension (8 Jan 2010)
• Timms lambasts 'morally unacceptable' accounts: Treasury secretary calls for an end to tax evasion (8 Jan 2010)
• Lloyds faces £200m loss over Kilmartin collapse (8 Jan 2010)
• Lloyds faces £200m loss as property company withers into receivership (8 Jan 2010)
• Walgreen Outsources Accounting Services To Genpact  (8 Jan 2010)
  
• New US Tax Preparer Requirements Have Drawbacks (8 Jan 2010)
• SEC Adopts Expanded Governance and Executive Compensation Disclosure  (8 Jan 2010)
  
• McKinsey consultant pleads guilty to fraud (8 Jan 2010)
• Giant fraud insider trading case director pleads guilty (8 Jan 2010)
• ACCA investigates former president (8 Jan 2010)
  
• Satyam's Raju Falsified Tax Liability, India Agency Charges (8 Jan 2010)
• The APB issues draft revised guidance on the Audit of Financial Statements of Public Sector Bodies in the United Kingdom (8 Jan 2010)
  
• Data on UK Advance Pricing Agreements from 2006 to 2008 (7 Jan 2010)
• Former Deloitte vice chairman violated firm's trading rules, judge says (7 Jan 2010)
  
• FSA to charge iSoft founder and three former directors (7 Jan 2010)
• FSA gets tough with criminal charges against 'iSoft four' (7 Jan 2010)
  
• BNP faces prosecution for submitting 'misleading' accounts (7 Jan 2010)
• XL Leisure Group Plc - Outcome of investigation (7 Jan 2010)
  
• BDO cleared of misconduct in XL collapse (7 Jan 2010)
  
• FRC says improvements are needed in  Merger and Acquisition (M&A)  accounting (7 Jan 2010)
• FRC calls for overhaul of IFRS 3 (7 Jan 2010)
  
• New Clarity on Contingent Liabilities (7 Jan 2010)
  
• Accountant stole £470000 for wedding and luxury life (7 Jan 2010)
• Koss Corp. Fires Auditor as Alleged Fraud Loss Widens to $31 Million (7 Jan 2010)
• E-Clear challenges PwC to prove its liability for £35m debt (7 Jan 2010)
• Advisers pressing PwC for update on Keydata payments (7 Jan 2010)
• IASB chief to take ICAS presidency (7 Jan 2010)
  
• Deloitte Wins Major Round Re: Alleged Inside Trader Flanagan (6 Jan 2010)
  
• Former Deloitte vice chairman violated firm's trading rules, judge rules (6 Jan 2010)
  
• BDO accounting firms rebrand under one name (6 Jan 2010)
• Dennis Yeates, one-time president of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), pleaded guilty at Warwick Crown Court to theft (6 Jan 2010)
  
• IASB release new proposal for liability standard (6 Jan 2010)
• Abuse of revised IFRS standards "inevitable" (6 Jan 2010)
• Perot Systems Insider Trader Agrees to Return $8.6 Million in Illicit Profits (6 Jan 2010)
  
• Lease Accounting and the FASB-IASB Convergence Project (6 Jan 2010)
• Insolvency 'set to rocket' for solicitors (6 Jan 2010)
• Former ACCA president pleads guilty to theft (5 Jan 2010)
  
• Koss Dismisses Grant Thornton As Auditors, Expands Probe  (5 Jan 2010)
• Insolvency: KPMG bill £2m for Aero Inventory administration (5 Jan 2010)
• Deloitte wins insider trading suit vs. ex-executive (5 Jan 2010)
  
• US IRS Steps Up Its Oversight Of Tax Firms  (5 Jan 2010)
• IRS tightens rules on tax preparers (5 Jan 2010)
• Watchdog dissatisfied with IFRS 8 application: FRRP asks companies to provide further explanation when using standard (5 Jan 2010)
• Poachers and Gamekeepers: US SEC names PwC executive to lead exams unit (5 Jan 2010)
  
• Downturn sees more small firms quit AIM (4 Jan 2010)
• Don't blame the standards, says BDO chief (4 Jan 2010)
• Threshers owner owes Diageo £2m (4 Jan 2010)
• Insolvency: Investor owed £141m after collapse of firms behind Wigan shopping centre but KPMG racked up more than £500,000 in fees (4 Jan 2010)
• IFRS 8: FRRP highlights the challenge of implementing new segmental reporting requirements (4 Jan 2010)
• Goldman's Offshore Deals Deepened Global Financial Crisis  (4 Jan 2010)
  
• Holding Governments to Ransom: Goldman Sachs teams may quit the City  (4 Jan 2010)
• Diageo takes biggest hit in First Quench collapse (4 Jan 2010)
• Smith & Williamson wins Dunfermline Building Society valuation (4 Jan 2010)
  
• KPMG liquidators called in at Bermudan reinsurer (4 Jan 2010)
• Ireland 'Sweetener' for foreign firms (3 Jan 2010)
• EMI waits for result on £2.5bn loan test (3 Jan 2010)
  
• Bernard Madoff's UK arm is wound up (3 Jan 2010)
• E-Clear sued by Go Travel Direct as PwC seeks £35m over Globecsan failure  (3 Jan 2010)
• Taxpayers make £26bn loss on stakes in Lloyds Banking Group and RBS  (2 Jan 2010)
• London Stock Exchange now accounts for only three fifths of City share dealing (2 Jan 2010)
• China Life To Prepare 2009 Financial Reports Under New Accounting Rules (2 Jan 2010)
  
• Kohlberg Capital (audited by Deloitte) sued over alleged fraud  (1 Jan 2010)
  
• Chinese accounting standards should apply across Hong Kong (1 Jan 2010)
• Hong Kong Prepares to Accept Chinese Accounting Standards (1 Jan 2010)
• Broadcom agrees $160.5m settlement (1 Jan 2010)
• US court tosses BAE bribery suit to Britain (1 Jan 2010)
• CAG India seeks power to audit SPVs  (1 Jan 2010)
  
• BDO Ziv Haft admits its appraisal of Maariv media group was 'fundamentally flawed' (1 Jan 2010)
  
• Solicitors Regulation Authority closes down law firm Wolstenholmes (1 Jan 2010)
• Foreign audit firms dominate Qatar market (1 Jan 2010)
  

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