I have just been advised of this, having not previously caught up with this news: Last Wednesday the European Parliament voted in Committee the Draft
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KPMG: ‘too big to fail’
Reuters has reported: South Africa’s central bank has told top lenders they cannot fire auditor KPMG [KPMG.UL], entangled in a scandal involving friends of President
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How could the FRC have decided KPMG were in the clear when the issues were known at the time?
The Times has reported a major development in the fiasco of the Financial Reporitng Council clearing KPMG of any audit failure in giving a clean
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KPMG decision is making a laughing stock of the Financial Reporting Council
The best comment I have seen on the Financial Reporting Council’s whitewash of KPMG’s failure to spot that HBOS was bust in 2008 when Northern
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Auditing in crisis: the fallout from the sorry tale of the FRC and KPMG
The Financial Reporting Council has decided that KPMG have no case to answer with regard to the quality of their audit of HBOS signed off
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The Big Four: the questions our new report poses
The GUE / NGL group in the EU parliament have published this video discussion of the report on the Big Four accountants that Saila Stausholm
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Why are the Big Four so heavily over-represented in tax havens?
The work that Saila Stausholm and I have undertaken on the Big Four firms of accountants and auditors has sought to establish a number of
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Should the Big Four firms of accountants be as opaque as they are, and what should we do about it?
The GUE/NGL group in the EU parliament published a report by Saila Stausholm of Copenhagen Business School and myself this morning. The report, which is
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The challenge facing KPMG and other global tax practices
I have a new blog post out on KPMG’s web site: The challenge I note was made in response to KPMG publishing its new tax strategy.
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