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KPMG receives complaints over Isle of Man controversy
May 18th, 2016
KPMG’S Canadian arm is the subject of two complaints from one of the country’s largest financial worker’s unions, with the group claiming that the Big Four firm set up offshore tax structures in the Isle of Man to help wealthy Canadians ...
Five more women added in gender discrimination lawsuit against KPMG US
May 17th, 2016
Five more women have been added as named plaintiffs to the ongoing $350m (£243m) class action gender discrimination lawsuit against KPMG’s US arm. On 13 May, Sanford Heisler, the law firm representing the five plaintiffs, filed an amended complaint ...
EY to be replaced as BBC auditor
May 16th, 2016
National Audit Office set to replace EY as BBC auditor The current auditor is Big Four firm, EY, who took over the audit from KPMG in 2015. At the time, the BBC signed a three-year contract with EY, with ...
AAYP 2016: Five key skills auditors will need in the future
May 10th, 2016
AUDIT teams have the skill sets to meet today’s requirements but changes will be needed to meet the demands of audit in the future. That is the finding of two international research studies published by ICAS and the FRC which examines the skills, ...
Statistics: Growth potential for in-house lawyers
May 9th, 2016
Law Society figures show growth potential for in-house careers According to the Society’s number crunchers, as of 31 July 2015, there are now over 5,000 commercial businesses out there taking on practising solicitors, an increase of 4.4% in only twelve ...
Top ten accountancy firm has recruited a former EY partner
April 27th, 2016
Top Ten accountancy firm Smith & Williamson has recruited a former EY partner to join its tax ranks. John Cooney re-joins the firm as partner after ten years in a similar post at EY ,where he specialised in advising ...
Former PwC employees to stand trial over Luxleaks scandal
April 26th, 2016
THE LUXLEAKS scandal starts a new chapter today as two former PwC employees go on trial accused of leaking thousands of corporate documents that expose Luxembourg’s shadowy tax deals. Antoine Deltour, a former auditor for the Big Four firm and ...
Deloitte scales back real estate business to avoid audit conflicts of interest
April 21st, 2016
CONFLICTS between Deloitte’s real estate arm and its auditing division has seen the Big Four firm divest the transactional side of its property offering after a review lasting more than four months. It’s understood the US Securities and Exchange Commission ...
PwC, Deloitte, EY top Vault’s 50 best firms to work for
April 21st, 2016
Career information site Vault recently released their annual Vault Accounting 50, a ranking of the current best accounting firms to work for. Vault compiled their ranking by weighing a firm’s prestige, culture, work/life balance, compensation, overall job satisfaction, business outlook, and formal ...
Auditors face FTSE 350 concerns over cost of transition to new EU audit rules
April 19th, 2016
AUDITORS are facing deepening concerns from FTSE 350 businesses over the cost of transition to the new EU audit regulatory regime, research from EY has found. The rule, which imposes mandatory audit firm rotation and significant restrictions on non-audit services for EU ...
