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Banks Cash In on Mergers Intended to avoid Taxes
July 29th, 2014
Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, recently said, “I love America.” Lloyd Blankfein, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs, wrote an opinion article saying, “Investing in America still produces the best return.” Yet guess who’s behind the ...
ASIC acts on licensees failing to lodge annual statements
July 22nd, 2014
A proactive ASIC review of Australian financial services (AFS) licensees that failed to lodge audited annual statements has led to ASIC cancelling eight AFS licences. ASIC reviewed the conduct of 72 AFS licensees operating in the financial advice industry ...
Policymakers warned of persistent risks as accountancy bodies publish five-year “healthy check” of the global economic recovery
July 21st, 2014
Threats to long term economic stability remain as countries recover from the global economic crisis, according to a five year review of finance professionals’ economic insights. Any recovery may also be limited to just a few “islands of financial ...
Implementing the new European accounting directive
July 17th, 2014
In implementing the New European Accounting Directive, the Member States have choices which give them the chance to improve accounting in their country and those choices should be more evidence-based. This was the main conclusion of a roundtable facilitated ...
ICAEW edges closer to approved regulator status
July 16th, 2014
The representative body for chartered accountants has inched another step closer to gaining the authority to license alternative business structures (ABSs). Parliament agreed yesterday that the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) has an appropriate appeals ...
HMRC publishes list of suspect tax avoidance schemes
July 15th, 2014
HM Customs and Revenue (HMRC) has published a list of more than 800 schemes that it believes are deliberately designed to avoid tax. The list consists of a series of numbers, allowing them to be identified by the tax-payers ...
PwC must face $1 billion lawsuit over MF Global collapse
July 11th, 2014
A federal judge on Wednesday rejected PricewaterhouseCoopers’ request to dismiss a $1 billion lawsuit accusing the auditor of providing bad accounting advice that contributed to the October 2011 collapse of MF Global Holdings Ltd, a brokerage run by former ...
Can investors win in a new era of accounting?
July 4th, 2014
Big changes over global accounting standards go into effect in 2017, and they could greatly influence how profitable companies are perceived. Like an operating system runs a computer, revenue makes a company go; nothing happens until somebody sells something. ...
Green Action plan for SMEs
July 2nd, 2014
It is time for SMEs to turn sustainability challenges into opportunities. Accountants can make both the short and the long-term case for sustainability, says global accountancy body. Despite the importance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to the world ...
The Sterner, Stricter SEC
July 1st, 2014
As Mary Jo White sees it, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s job is to patrol Wall Street and Main Street and catch financial fraudsters. Since becoming the agency’s chair in April 2013, White, a former federal prosecutor and defense ...
