PWC and EY heavily implicated in unlawful privatization | AccMan . PWC and E&Y have both been heavily criticised for unethical conduct in Sri Lanka
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Is this curtains for the Big 4?
From the Observer today, commenting on the failure of Dutch / Belgian bank Fortis: Fortis’s accounts were jointly audited by KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers – two
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The four biggest threats to democracy
I was interviewed for this story in Accountancy Age: Offshore tax probe hits the buffers I’m not mentioned in the resulting piece. And I really
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The people we have to hold to account for the Credit Crunch
It strikes me that there are four key firms behind the credit crunch who have suffered nothing like the exposure they deserve. They are: PricewaterhouseCoopers
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US bank accounts will not show a true and fair view
The FT has reported that: Banks have been given a one-year reprieve by US accounting standard-setters from having to take up to $5,000bn (£2,520bn) of
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Auditors: do they really make any difference any more?
Accountancy Age reported last week that: The push for auditor liability limitation in the US received a boost today when an influential audit group threw
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Why ask the accountants? They’re the problem, not the solution
On Thursday (when I was at a conference and out of blogging action) the FT reported that: The US Internal Revenue Service is to solicit
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Liechtenstein: The Big 4 are there and are ashamed to admit it
Liechtenstein is tiny: it is 15 miles long, has a population of under 35,000 and one main town. It’s existence is effectively the consequence of
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