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Pistorius Defense to Call Pathologist as Murder Trial Resumes
April 7th, 2014
Oscar Pistorius’s lawyers plan to call a forensics expert as their opening defense witness before the Paralympic gold medalist testifies in his murder trial. Jan Botha, a pathologist, may be the first to testify as the defense starts its ...
New Zealand’s Fonterra fined over botulism food scare
April 4th, 2014
Dairy giant Fonterra has been fined $NZ300,000 ($256,675; £154,748) after it admitted four food-safety violations during a 2013 botulism scare. The scare led to a worldwide milk product recall and to several countries blocking imports of New Zealand dairy ...
Audits of Special Purpose Frameworks: Obtaining Substantive Evidence from Engagement Letters
April 3rd, 2014
For some auditors, obtaining engagement letters has become a routine procedure. Copying the letter format from purchased practice aids, making slight modifications to the content and mailing the letter for signature by an entity’s president or board chairman has ...
Pension Accounting Standard Stays on Course: GASB
April 2nd, 2014
The implementation of a pension accounting standard for state and local governments is still on schedule, after the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) last week decided not to delay the timetable of when the new pension guidelines take effect. ...
Insolvency profession says fee changes will see fewer rescues
March 31st, 2014
THE INSOLVENCY PROFESSION believes that government proposals to change fee structures in corporate collapses will lead to fewer business rescues. More than three quarters (77%) of practitioners said that enforcing the use of fixed-fees would lead to practitioners taking ...
Google keeps throwing googlies over its market dominance
March 28th, 2014
If Google is found to be again gaming the system with its latest package of reforms, EU sanctions must be brought In June last year, in an article for Comment is free, I drew attention to Google’s efforts to ...
How Suntech, Chinese Solar Giant, Was Snared In An Italian Fraud Scandal
March 21st, 2014
As 2008 began, the future looked brilliant for green energy giant Suntech Power and its high-flying founder, Shi Zhengrong. Suntech was one of the world’s largest makers of solar panels, the first non-state-owned Chinese company traded on the New ...
ECB on SRM agreement
March 21st, 2014
The European Central Bank has issued a press release welcoming the political agreement reached on the single resolution mechanism (SRM) on Thursday morning. The negotiations between the European Parliament and the European Council produced an SRM that is more ...
ESMA publishes list of authorised CCPs and OTC derivatives
March 20th, 2014
Following the authorisation of NASDAQ OMX as the first EU-based CCP on 18 March 2014, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has today published information about Nasdaq OMX and the contracts it is authorised to clear. In accordance ...
European leaders weigh additional sanctions against Russia
March 20th, 2014
European leaders on Thursday weighed additional sanctions against Russia, a day after Ukrainian troops were forced to abandon their bases in Crimea and prepared to evacuate the peninsula. German Chancellor Angela Merkel told her parliament that Europe would expand ...
