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Auditors face the biggest crackdown since Enron

05.11.09
The Big Four accountancy firms have been told to back off from serious conflicts of interest in pursuing lucrative advisory work at their audit clients ... more

Job threat as Blacks’ surf arm goes under

23.09.09
Almost 100 retail jobs were under threat today after Blacks Leisure put its surfing and boardwear arm Sandcity, which trades out of 11 stores branded O’Neill and Freespirit, into administration ... more

Doubt plagues Battersea after owner suffers crippling debts

28.08.09
The future of Battersea Power Station is in doubt as crippling debts and the slump in the property market left its owner fighting for survival... more

Factory confidence grows

19.08.09
Manufacturers are more positive about their prospects over the next three months than they have been at any stage since June 2008, the CBI said ... more

Footsie firms ‘cannot pay off £80bn pension fund deficits’

13.08.09
One in five FTSE 100 companies will be unable to pay off their pension fund deficits, a leading accountancy firm warned ... more

Rats! KPMG grabs account from PwC

11.08.09
It's war. KPMG has just nabbed Rentokil’s lucrative contract for internal auditing from arch rival PricewaterhouseCoopers — by offering a 30% discount to the PwC price... more

Rentokil saves £1m in a swap of its auditors

31.07.09
Rentokil Initial sent tremors through the accounting world today as it changed auditors in a move which will save it more than £1 million a year ... more

Serious fraud is at its worst level in 21 years, says KPMG

20.07.09
Fraud has shot up to its highest in 21 years, with more than half of the UK’s cases taking place in the South-East of England, according to research published ... more

Central African frozen after accounts delay

25.06.09
Central African Gold, once one of the stable of miners and drillers led by ex-England cricketer Phil Edmonds, has had its shares suspended... more

Yard lost £30m after warning to pull out of Icelandic bank

06.04.09
Scotland Yard lost £30million by investing in a flawed Icelandic bank weeks after its financial adviser urged it to pull out... more

2012 inspectors visit Bisley shooting centre

27.11.08
A campaign to have the Olympic shooting venue moved from Woolwich Barracks gained momentum today ... more

Woolwich shooting range costs must be cut by £10m

27.11.08
At least £10million must be cut from the spiralling cost of converting Woolwich barracks into a shooting range or the Olympic event could be staged elsewhere... more

Mayor's hopes of cutting 2012 costs dashed by report

20.11.08
Boris Johnson says he is "disappointed" after review concluded that no further significant savings could be made on Olympic venues... more

Secret report on Olympic venues 'is a whitewash'

19.11.08
Olympics chiefs are under pressure to publish a confidential report on Games venues amid claims it has been a "whitewash"... more

Don't be fooled by this 2012 whitewash, Boris

17.11.08
Leaked emails have revealed that the Mayor’s backing for the use of Greenwich Park for the 2012 Olympic equestrian events is based on a secret report that is seriously flawed... more

There’s still such a thing as a free lunch

03.11.08
After being told last week that they will not receive their regular share of the firm's profits for the next six months, partners at City law firm Eversheds seem desperate to hold on to their perks... more

2012 board holds its horses on Greenwich

31.10.08
The London Olympic Board has failed to endorse a plan to hold the Games's equestrian events in Greenwich Park, despite widespread expectations that they would do so... more

Olympic horse events will be in Greenwich

22.10.08
Olympic chiefs were confirming that the 2012 equestrian event will take place in Greenwich Park despite fierce local opposition... more

Greenwich 'must host' 2012 equestrian events

09.10.08
The future of Greenwich Park as the Olympic equestrian venue appears to have been secured after a government commissioned study backed the plan... more

Rosebys heads trio in administration

26.09.08
The High Street was in crisis as the collapse in consumer confidence, the drying-up of bank lending and the looming end-of-the-month quarterly rent payments sent three groups crashing into administration... more

Politicians are powerless to fix problems on the finance market

17.09.08
The financial system is clearly taking a battering, but one wonders if the real casualties, when the dust settles, might not be the politicians as much as the bankers.... more

Olympics minister orders rethink over 2012 plans for Greenwich park

28.08.08
As concern grows over the plan to stage equestrian events in London’s world heritage park, Tessa Jowell calls in accountants in a move that could lead to Greenwich being scrapped as a venue.... more

KPMG fined £1.6m over fraud failure

25.06.08
A £1.5 million-a-year high-flying auditor and his firm KPMG have been fingered for failing to spot the massive Independent Insurance fraud... more

City job seekers hit 3½-year high

16.05.08
The number of people looking for City jobs has soared to its highest in three-and-a-half years... more

KPMG accused over US fraud

27.03.08
Auditor KPMG is accused of allowing fraud at a failed US subprime mortgage lender... more

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