The UK's Accounting and Actuarial Discipline Board (AADB) has fined PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) a record fine of GBP1.4 million for failures in its audit of J P Morgan Securities Limited. PwC admitted the allegations.
Christos Charalambous (58) of Palmers Green, London, an accountant has been jailed for eight years for stealing GBP11 million in income tax and Value Added Tax (VAT) by manipulating both his clie...
Audit and accounting: lawyer, accountant and investment adviser charged in tax shelter caseIf you walk out of the front door of the nondescript office block that houses the USA's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, FinCEN, part of the US Treasury and sibling of the Internal Revenue S...
Audit and Accounting: audits "so deficient they amounted to no audits at all"The USA's Securities and Exchange Commission has commenced public administration proceedings against Nevada and Texas accountant Michael J Moore and Moore and Associates under the SEC's Rules of...
Audit and Accounting: Auditors struck off and finedAuditors for a UK company have been fined, reprimanded and struck off in a range of penalties applied for signing off when they did not have the information to do so. Is this another case of smal...