The international accountancy firm Mazars announced UK Executive team
January 26th, 2017
Mazars, the international accountancy firm, today announced the appointment of their new Executive team in the UK, effective 15 February 2017. The announcement follows the recent re-election of Phil Verity as the firm’s Senior Partner in the UK. Phil ...
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December 28th, 2016
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Two new audit partners at BDO
October 25th, 2016
Accountancy and business advisory firm BDO LLP has appointed two new partners following continued growth and investment in its audit practice. Diane Campbell and John Perry join the firm with significant experience in dealing with international audit clients. Both have worked overseas ...
Ernst & Young to Pay $11.8 Million for Audit Failures
October 19th, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced that Ernst & Young LLP has agreed to pay more than $11.8m to settle charges related to failed audits of an oil services company that used deceptive income tax accounting to inflate ...
PwC moves into FIFA audit hot-seat
September 19th, 2016
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) have stepped into the hot-seat vacated by KPMG as statutory auditors of FIFA. The world football body announced that the Bureau of the FIFA Council had appointed PwC Switzerland to the role. The move comes three months ...
UHY Hacker Young appoints new partner to London office
September 14th, 2016
UHY Hacker Young announced the appointment of Martin Jones as a new partner in our London audit and assurance team. Martin Jones joins from Ecovis Wingrave Yeats, where he was a partner in the audit team. He brings over 30 ...
International Telecom Group offices raided over money laundering and tax fraud suspicion
June 22nd, 2016
Nineteen people have been arrested and nine of them charged with money laundering after BuzzFeed News revealed Lycamobile’s “deeply suspicious” cash movements. The Conservative party’s biggest donor, the telecoms giant Lycamobile, has been raided by French police on suspicion ...
Global audit group Mazars appoints new tax partner
June 8th, 2016
MAZARS has appointed tax specialist Gary Collins as tax partner. He will be responsible for the tax offering across the East Midlands at Mazars, and will be based out of both the firm’s Leicester and Nottingham offices. Collins, who retired ...
EY to be replaced as BBC auditor
May 16th, 2016
National Audit Office set to replace EY as BBC auditor The current auditor is Big Four firm, EY, who took over the audit from KPMG in 2015. At the time, the BBC signed a three-year contract with EY, with ...
Malaysian state fund sacked Ernst & Young and KPMG when auditors asked for documents
April 11th, 2016
The scandal surrounding Malaysian state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad has thrown up some very interesting facts about how the state fund was managed. According to a probe by a parliamentary committee, the fund had sacked two audit firms over ...
