Accounting & Consulting services

Thursday, 13 February, 2020

Wednesday, 5 February, 2020

Financial Reporting Council

Accounting scandals prompt shake-up at UK watchdog

FRC will expand its enforcement powers and speed up investigations

Tuesday, 4 February, 2020

Ernst & Young

EY hit with €95m claim over links to German bank in tax scandal

Liquidators for Maple Bank seek damages from lender’s accountant in Stuttgart court

Monday, 3 February, 2020

Natasha Landell-Mills

How to measure the climate impact of business

The effects must be written into rules that govern how companies calculate profit

Thursday, 30 January, 2020

Deloitte LLP

Deloitte handed record insolvency fine over Comet failures

Collapse in 2012 of lossmaking electricals retailer left taxpayers with £44m bill

Wednesday, 29 January, 2020

Frasers Group

Sports Direct fights order to hand documents to watchdog

Retailer hopes to overturn 2018 ruling on information it provided to Grant Thornton and Deloitte

Wednesday, 29 January, 2020

Special Report

UK’s Leading Management Consultants 2020

The consultancies most recommended by clients and peers, rated by sector and specialism. Plus: millennial professionals’ search for meaning; weighing consultants’ worth; the conflict of interest debate; a call for courage on diversity; HS2 blurs consultancy lines; Brexit and fees

Wednesday, 29 January, 2020

Special ReportUK’s Leading Management Consultants 2020

Brexit drives 20% rise in government consultancy spending

Public and private clients ‘pushing back’ and demanding top advisers to justify high fees

Wednesday, 29 January, 2020

Special ReportUK’s Leading Management Consultants 2020

Decision looms over consultancy and audit ‘conflict’

Does professional services firms’ consultancy work jeopardise accounting independence?

Promoted Content

Wednesday, 29 January, 2020

Special ReportUK’s Leading Management Consultants 2020

How consultancies weigh individuals’ worth

Assessing effectiveness is more complex than who wins repeat business

Sunday, 26 January, 2020

Inside BusinessJonathan Ford

US should embrace reform of goodwill accounting

Existing system lacks prudence and encourages wasteful M&A

Friday, 24 January, 2020

Financial Reporting Council

UK’s big private companies brace for audit scrutiny

Move to hold unlisted businesses to the same standard as public companies

Thursday, 23 January, 2020

Due Diligence

M&A: ’Tis the season of goodwill Premium

Welcome to Due Diligence, the FT’s daily deals briefing

Wednesday, 22 January, 2020

LexMergers & Acquisitions

M&A accounting: plug and chug Premium

Goodwill is just a plug to make a balance sheet actually balance post-acquisition

Tuesday, 21 January, 2020

LombardKate Burgess

New BP boss gathers his most trusted turtles

Oil major completes top-level shake-up; Dixons needs distinctive appeal; EY looks to belong

Tuesday, 21 January, 2020

Ernst & Young

EY holds ‘belonging’ workshops after behaviour claims

Firm wants culture ‘where everyone feels respected and cared for’

Thursday, 16 January, 2020

Gillian Tett

The alphabet soup of green standards needs a new recipe

A common framework for climate accounting would put pressure on top executives to act

Thursday, 16 January, 2020

Mazars SA

Insurer AIG picks Mazars for UK audit

Move marks the first time it has looked beyond the Big Four

Monday, 13 January, 2020

Ernst & Young

Varley to step aside as UK managing partner at EY

Successor will have to face regulatory scrutiny, particularly over Thomas Cook collapse

Monday, 13 January, 2020

KPMG LLP

KPMG UK’s most senior woman quits

Deputy chair Melanie Richards keen to explore non-executive director roles

Monday, 13 January, 2020

Accountancy

Tyrie meets Big Four bosses as audit reform slows

Head of competition regulator discusses splitting accounting firms at private dinners

Friday, 10 January, 2020

KPMG LLP

Decision on KPMG’s audit of Carillion delayed

UK watchdog misses self-imposed deadline to complete its probe due to ‘complexity’ of case

Tuesday, 7 January, 2020

Jane Fuller

Time for the Big Four to rethink auditing’s purpose

Professional reset is on the cards after a year of scandal

Monday, 6 January, 2020

RSM International Ltd

Auditor RSM reveals error that led to bosses’ departures

Blunder puts scrutiny on mid-tier firm appointed to audit Sports Direct

Monday, 6 January, 2020

Deloitte LLP

Sacked Deloitte partner ordered to pay £125,000

Swiss consultant fired for alleged bullying loses court challenge over dismissal

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