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PCAOB Cracks Down on Fraud
June 12th, 2014
A new PCAOB standard will require auditors to probe more deeply into related-party deals, unusual transactions and executive pay. Citing “decades of financial reporting frauds,” the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board yesterday issued new rules aimed at tightening auditor ...
Europe Stocks Are Little Changed on World Bank Global Cut
June 11th, 2014
European stocks were little changed near a six-year high as the World Bank cut its global growth forecast, and investors awaited a report on U.K. unemployment. U.S. stock-index futures were also little changed, while Asian shares rose. Airbus NV ...
Shares Of Hertz Plunge On More Accounting Troubles
June 10th, 2014
Hertz Global Holdings, a favorite stock in recent months of some closely-watched hedge funds, disclosed on Friday morning that its audit committee had concluded that problems with the company’s financial statements for the last three years must be corrected ...
Currency Carry Trades Rise in ECB’s Negative-Rate World
June 10th, 2014
Mario Draghi is becoming one of currency traders’ only friends. With the $5.3 trillion-a-day foreign-exchange market poised to deliver its worst first-half returns on record, the carry trade is about the only way traders are making money by exploiting ...
Essex accountant admitted VAT fraud
June 10th, 2014
An Essex accountant who sent in fake VAT returns for five years to evade nearly £100,000 and to live a lifestyle beyond his means has been ordered to pay a £47,000 confiscation order. Martin Kennedy, of High Street, Walton-on-the-Naze, ...
Japanese Corporate Tax Cut Increasingly Likely
June 6th, 2014
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s plan to reduce Japan’s corporate tax rate in the 2015 fiscal year has been agreed by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s (LDP) tax panel, providing the Government can find funding to cover the consequent ...
Russia-China Gas Pact Stirs Dream of Bridge Across Amur
June 6th, 2014
In winter, Russian shoppers drive cars across the frozen Amur River to buy knock-off Nike sneakers from Wu Haiou’s stall in the Chinese city of Heihe. In warmer months, they come by hovercraft and ferry. Russia’s $400 billion deal ...
Irish Tax Reform needs further improvements
June 5th, 2014
The European Commission has described Ireland’s system of labor taxation as fragmented and complex, has criticized its range of value-added tax (VAT) rates, and called for improvements to environmental taxes. The comments are made in the Commission’s latest package ...
Lawmakers Oppose Proposed Changes to Accounting Method
June 3rd, 2014
A bipartisan group of 115 House legislators asked Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) last week to reconsider making changes in his tax reform plan to an inventory accounting method used by many US businesses. In a ...
RBI keeps repo rate unchanged at 8%; SLR cut by 50 bps
June 3rd, 2014
In line with market expectations, the Reserve Bank of India on Tuesday kept key rates unchanged. While the repo rate was maintained at 8% and reverse repo rate at 7%, the SLR was cut by 50 basis points. The ...
