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EY legal arm plans doubling of lawyer team in UK
September 25th, 2015
The Big Four accountancy firm, previously known as Ernst & Young, plans to increase its UK legal team from 30 to 60 lawyers within a year. Looking beyond the 12-month horizon, Philip Goodstone, head of EY’s legal services, said: ...
Accountants have an important role to play in promoting Natural Accounting Capital
September 25th, 2015
In their latest joint paper dealing with the issue of Natural Capital Accounting (NCA), three leading professional, campaigning and business organisations say that the accountancy profession has an important role to play in promoting the concept of NCA among ...
Deloitte is fined over audit failure
September 15th, 2015
First major finding against a ‘Big 4’ firm by watchdog, writes Gavin McLoughlin Accountancy giant Deloitte has been hit with a “severe reprimand” and a €41,000 penalty by the Chartered Accountants Regulatory Board (CARB). It is the first major ...
The British Accountancy Awards 2015 shortlist
September 10th, 2015
Accountancy Age is delighted to reveal the British Accountancy Awards 2015 shortlist. Now in fifth year of the awards, our shortlist contains the largest and most diverse set of entrants since we launched. Our Global Firm and National Firm of ...
Auditor body says 6 months not enough for 1MDB probe
September 7th, 2015
Institute of Internal Auditors Malaysia president Datuk Shabaruddin Ibrahim says client confidentiality is top-most concern with 1MDB. – The Malaysian Insider pic by Najjua Zulkefli, September 7, 2015. Institute of Internal Auditors Malaysia (IIAM) president Datuk Shabaruddin Ibrahim said ...
Deloitte, Libra, Accenture: The work of auditors in the age of Bitcoin 2.0 technology
August 20th, 2015
Back in the late 1990s the cryptographer Nick Szabo predicted the paper-era techniques of auditing and accounting would be dramatically augmented by, and eventually integrated into, smart contracts. The last year or two has seen lots of opinion about ...
Alpari (UK) in Special Administration: USD 99.2 million client money have been realised
August 17th, 2015
KPMG insolvency has published a progress report in relation with Alpari (UK) Limited – in Special Administration for the period January 19 to July 18 2015. The progress report provides an update on the special administration of the Company. ...
George Osborne pledges lowest corporation tax in G20 but new bank tax hits UK small lenders
July 9th, 2015
Chancellor pledges lowest corporation tax in the G20 – but casts punitive net over the UK’s small lenders Chancellor George Osborne ushered in a new tax regime for British banks yesterday, dialling down the controversial bank levy while introducing a new ...
BDO gets InTouch with cloud accounting
July 8th, 2015
BDO has opened a small business accounting service based partly on the Xero cloud accounting platform. Called InTouch, the BDO package is designed to support clients with “current business performance information which can be accessed anytime and anywhere”. The service ...
Latest update on Alpari (UK) in Special Administration regarding compensation payments
July 8th, 2015
KPMG Insolvency has issued a notice to inform about latest Update on FSCS compensation payments for Alpari (UK) This update is in addition to previous information. Latest update on Alpari UK: First Interim Client Money Distribution KPMG insolvency on ...
