Wiley published this yesterday: This paper has been in the making for about six years, and I offer my thanks to Len and, most especially,
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UK auditors are rubbish at their jobs
I posted this video to YouTube this morning. In it I argue that UK auditors are rubbish at their jobs. Major audit failures – on
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Tax havens exist to undermine democracy. They are a fundamental threat to our way of life.
Not long after I first began to work on tax haven reform more than twenty years ago I realised that the problem that these places
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Audit reform is being delayed, yet again. Might that be because politicians are much too depdendent on the Big 4 accooting firms?
As the FT reports this morning: The government is preparing to omit a much delayed overhaul of the UK’s audit and corporate governance regimes from
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What is going on at the Big 4?
There are some weird messages coming out of the Big 4 accountants on the state of the economy right now. The messages do not come
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PWC are in trouble in Australia. The suggestion that they shared government secrets does not look good
As the FT has reported this morning: PwC is racing to contain the global fallout of an Australian leak scandal on its business after it
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The FTSE 100’s audits and climate change: a sorry tale of the Big 4 ducking the issue
Growing concerns about the impact of climate-change on business performance have increased demand for greater climate-related disclosures at large companies. The quality of those disclosures,
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The government’s approach to audit reform is half-hearted at best
The government has, at long last, published its planned approach to audit reform. The proposals are watered down from the inadequate suggestions first made by
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Can EY really split off its audit division if no one else does? I doubt it
Those who follow accountancy will have noticed the news that emerged at the end of last week that EY (or Ernst & Young, as it
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