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Andrew Miskin named first Chair of Association of International Certified Professional Accountants
November 1st, 2016
Tim Christen will serve as initial Vice Chair of Association that will advance public and management accounting globally Andrew Miskin, FCMA, CGMA, has been named the first chair of the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (the Association), the ...
Two new audit partners at BDO
October 25th, 2016
Accountancy and business advisory firm BDO LLP has appointed two new partners following continued growth and investment in its audit practice. Diane Campbell and John Perry join the firm with significant experience in dealing with international audit clients. Both have worked overseas ...
Is this new firm the Big four challenger?
October 24th, 2016
In August there was plenty of noise around the announcement that the former boss of accounting giant Deloitte, John Connolly, was starting a new bean-counting business, Cogital. The question was whether the project, which was innovatively backed by private equity house ...
Warning that firms may quit Scotland over tax hikes
October 17th, 2016
Growing “uncertainty” over political demands for tax hikes could see firms quit the country with the loss of skilled jobs in key technology sectors, Scotland’s leading tax, finance and accountancy giants have warned. Scots are already facing higher income ...
Saudi Arabia, SoftBank aim to be world’s No. 1 tech investor with $100 billion fund
October 14th, 2016
Saudi Arabia and Japan’s SoftBank Group (9984.T) will create a technology investment fund that could grow as large as $100 billion, making it one of the world’s largest private equity investors and a potential kingpin in the industry. The ...
BDO has a new Managing Director
October 3rd, 2016
BDO has issued an announcement to inform that Paul Eagland takes over as new Managing Partner of BDO. New Managing Partner outlines top team to take the firm forward. Paul Eagland begins his four-year term as BDO’s Managing Partner ...
PwC moves into FIFA audit hot-seat
September 19th, 2016
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) have stepped into the hot-seat vacated by KPMG as statutory auditors of FIFA. The world football body announced that the Bureau of the FIFA Council had appointed PwC Switzerland to the role. The move comes three months ...
UHY Hacker Young appoints new partner to London office
September 14th, 2016
UHY Hacker Young announced the appointment of Martin Jones as a new partner in our London audit and assurance team. Martin Jones joins from Ecovis Wingrave Yeats, where he was a partner in the audit team. He brings over 30 ...
Inexperienced Chinese investors are getting stung by fintech scams
September 8th, 2016
China is witnessing a fintech boom. Companies providing electronic payments, cryptocurrency trading and other online financial services there are not only mushrooming, they are among the biggest and most highly rated in the world. The Fintech 100, a ranking ...
Geneva’s Corporate-Tax Fight Becomes ‘Mother of All Battles’
August 29th, 2016
When the European Union pressured Switzerland to scrap tax breaks for foreign companies, Geneva had the most to lose. Now, the canton that’s home to almost 1,000 multinationals is set to use tax to burnish its appeal. Geneva will ...
