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‘Big Four’ audit firms never examined over illegal tax plans
January 18th, 2016
Regulators fail to act as they are dominated by the companies they are supposed to police, say critics Audit and accountancy firms who devise tax-avoidance schemes ruled unlawful have never faced official reprimand, The Independent can reveal. None of the so-called ...
PayPoint announced the sale of its Online Payment businesses
January 11th, 2016
PayPoint has issued a press release to announce the sale of its Online Payment businesses comprising PayPoint.net and Metacharge to Capita, for a consideration of £14 million satisfied in cash at completion today. Dominic Taylor, PayPoint’s Chief Executive, said: “In ...
The 25 financial events that shaped the year 2015
December 30th, 2015
As we are close to move from year 2015 to year 2016, OneStopBrokers has collected and presents the major Financial events happened in 2015. 2015 was a year that the Eurozone was almost collapsed. We all witnessed a possible ...
Accounting firms have pushed into legal but will law push back?
December 28th, 2015
While big-four accounting firms have bulked up their legal services this year, law firms have missed the opportunity to diversify, says an analyst at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA). Marc Totaro, the national manager of professional services at ...
British Accountancy Awards 2015: The winners
November 26th, 2015
A packed house at the Brewery celebrated the best of the profession at the British Accountancy Awards. Nearly 700 guests attended the awards, with regional and national firms recognised for the efforts during the past 12 months. The winners ...
Audit Regulator Finds 28 Deficient Audits By KPMG in Annual Report
November 11th, 2015
PCAOB says Big Four firm’s deficiency rate of 54% is up from 46% a year ago Audit regulators found 28 deficient audits at KPMG LLP in its latest annual inspection of the Big Four accounting firm, an increase from ...
KPMG leads AIM audit market while BDO dominate oil & gas
November 3rd, 2015
KPMG reigns supreme with 152 AIM clients, marginally above BDO which has amassed just two fewer clients, the October 2015 Adviser Rankings reveal. Mazars increased its client count, and posted a 50% uplift in client market cap to catapult them ...
FS firms told to prepare for avalanche of IoT data
October 20th, 2015
Financial services firms should begin planning for the avalanche of new data that will hit them through the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT), which, if used correctly, could bring huge benefits to the industry, according to a ...
KPMG hiring people with experience of implementing blockchains such as Ripple
October 13th, 2015
Big Four professional services firm KPMG is hiring people with experience of working with distributed ledger offerings such as Ripple, in order to help clients select and implement the right technology. David Montes, a managing director in the Financial ...
How the Big Four have returned to consulting with a bang
October 2nd, 2015
Whether by acquisition, organic growth or the recruitment of experienced hires, the Big Four have established consultancy groups that singly and collectively are a force to be reckoned with. According to analyst firm Gartner, spending on management consultancy services increased ...
