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Accountancy firms are using technology to muscle in on traditional law firm territory
Quality of work and viability of their business would be hit, accountants warn regulator
Big Four accountancy firm will stop providing extra services for audit clients
Big firms respond to new products but there is a lack of consensus on rules
Watchdog fights off information requests over its handling of bank’s near-collapse
Uproar follows release of central bank-sponsored report on a scandal at lender VBS
The Competition and Markets Authority has understood the need for speed
Senior minister says US-based consultancy must come clean over its alleged role
CMA to probe whether Big Four firms have become too dominant and ‘too big to fail’
UK regulator responds to widespread concerns over conflicts of interest
Financial Reporting Council will ‘test the effectiveness’ of independence rules
UK accounting firm challenges Big Four peers as profits increase by a fifth
Alternatives to a straight break-up could deliver better outcomes for all stakeholders
Business secretary Greg Clark asks CMA to consider probe into industry
Campaigners and academics hit out at ‘advisers on avoidance’
Standard of 2011 work on asset safeguarding reports ‘fell significantly short’
Proposals for independent appointment process bear closer examination
Highest rates of misconduct found in information, media and telecoms industries
Consultant’s advice on a restructuring was used to pursue a political vendetta
To improve choice and quality, the Big Four’s share must be capped
Grant Thornton’s fine highlights how conflicts of interest are endemic
Auditing needs to recover the idea of providing a ‘true and fair’ picture of companies
Firms can be too focused on pleasing customers who are also a source of consulting income
Concession by industry aimed at staving off UK competition investigation
