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  • Isabelle Jenkins named PWC’s new leader of financial services

    January 18, 2021

    Isabelle Jenkins has been named the new leader of financial services for PwC UK after spending 17 years as a partner at the firm. Jenkins replaces Andrew Kail, who held the role over the last four and a half years. He will take up a new role as the CEO of Legal and General retail [...]

  • EY gender pay gap shrinks as ethnicity pay gap widens

    January 14, 2021

    Ernst & Young has reported a 32.4 per cent gender pay gap among its staff, as at April 2020, and a nearly 37 per cent ethnicity pay gap.  EY UK chairman Hywel Ball said the gender pay gap at the Big Four firm had improved by 4.7 per cent in the last year, which was [...]

  • Singapore audit reform stresses need for UK action, IIA warns

    January 13, 2021

    Recent changes to rules surrounding audit in Singapore have highlighted why action on audit reform in the UK is crucial, the CEO of the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors has warned.  CEO John Wood said reform of the UK’s audit sector was necessary to protect the UK’s leading reputation in corporate governance. The Singapore stock [...]

  • Private equity bidders eye KPMG’s restructuring arm

    January 6, 2021

    Private equity firms are eyeing up KPMG’s restructuring arm, as the Big Four firm prepares to offload its restructuring operations in the UK.  Intermediate Capital Group and Towerbrook Capital Partners are preparing to submit initial bids for the business ahead of a deadline later this month, Sky News reported. The division is rumoured to be [...]

  • Sacked PwC accountant avoids strike-off after drunkenly groping sleeping woman on plane

    December 17, 2020

    Ex-PwC accountant James Phipps has avoided being struck off by a disciplinary body, despite serving time in jail in the US for assaulting a sleeping woman on a plane. Phipps was on a transatlantic British Airways flight in 2018 when he groped a sleeping woman’s breasts and then threw a book at her when she [...]

  • PwC partners take 10 per cent cut as profits suffer

    December 17, 2020

    Partners at PwC have suffered a 10 per cent cut to their earnings as the impact of the coronavirus hit the Big Four firm’s profits.  Profits at the audit giant fell by 8 per cent to £938m in the firm’s latest financial year, as Covid-19 impacted on the business from March, with distributable profit per [...]

  • Lookers switches auditor from Deloitte to BDO after £19m vanishes from its books

    December 10, 2020

    BDO will be appointed the next auditor of vehicle retailer Lookers after a difficult final year with Deloitte that saw £19m vanish from its books. Lookers had been audited by Deloitte for the previous 14 years. The Big Four firm first began auditing the business on 31 December 2006.  Lookers’ ran into trouble with Deloitte [...]

  • High profile retailer failures will ‘once again shine spotlight on auditors’

    December 3, 2020

    A possible avalanche of corporate failures could once again shine the spotlight on auditors, according to Menzies partner James Hadfield. The partner said he could foresee more failures coming, and believed it likely auditors would become a talking point in the process. The high street is having a particularly tough time at the moment, with [...]

  • German regulator suspects EY knowingly issued ‘factually inaccurate’ Wirecard audit

    December 1, 2020

    Germany’s audit watchdog Apas suspects EY partners knew they were issuing a “factually inaccurate” audit for Wirecard in 2017. Apas has reported EY to prosecutors after believing the big four firm may have acted criminally during its work for payments company Wirecard, which collapsed into insolvency earlier this year. According to the FT, EY audited [...]

  • Bah humbug! PwC staff to work an extra day this Christmas

    November 30, 2020

    Staff at big four auditor PwC will have to work an extra day this Christmas in light of challenges brought about by the coronavirus pandemic.  PwC staff are usually offered an extra day off at Christmas time, but this year the giant told staff it would not be able to offer such a perk.  The [...]

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