I mentioned my concern about the CEO’s of the world’s largest companies thinking that they can decide what reporting the stakeholders of their companies need
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Why is KPMG so obsessed by the Fair Tax Mark?
This video is interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmHPHV0Lh58&feature=youtu.be I know Jane McCormick. And I know what she thinks about the Fair Tax Mark, which I co-founded. For reasons
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KPMG, shooting itself in the foot
Times are getting tough at KPMG. As the FT has reported: KPMG has told hundreds of its UK employees to hand in their work mobiles
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Yesterday’s fine for bad accounting goes to KPMG
As the FT has reported: British regulators have called for KPMG to be fined at least a record £12.5m for misconduct in its work for
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KPMG are fooling no-one with their new audit structure
The FT published this yesterday (and it looks as if it came straight from a KPMG press release): KPMG has announced an overhaul of its
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The BEIS committee, audit fees and a question of competence v systemic under-charging
The Guardian reports this morning that: The big four accounting firms are failing to charge some of the UK’s largest companies the full cost of inspecting
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Why are the Big 4 in tax havens?
I have a new research publication out: The abstract says: The role of multi-disciplinary Global Professional Service Firms (GPSFs) in the architecture of international tax
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Audit and accountancy are in need of real reform, not an odd change in semantics
The FT has noted this morning that: After a string of embarrassing failures, the Big Four accounting firms are turning to the thesaurus for help.
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Why do the Big 4 accountants survive?
I was asked very recently why it was that the big 4 firms of accountants survive. This is an issue I have been considering with
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