International accounting

The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants is offering a special tribute to its first female member while celebrating the role of women in accounting.

The collaboration with the U.K.-based Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy provides a pathway to global accounting practice.

The laboratory-testing company facing criticism for its corporate governance, will no longer use an auditor for its Luxembourg subsidiaries who was contemporaneously signing off on the accounts of businesses controlled by the company’s largest shareholder.

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited has designated Sharon Thorne to be the next chair of the firm’s global board of directors, starting in June. She will be the first woman to chair Deloitte’s global board.

The country hopes to reverse swelling outflows to international tax havens.

A report that the lender was involved in money laundering is being probed in Denmark over the Estonian dirty-money scandal surrounding Danske Bank.

The bakery chain was rescued by an Irish private-equity firm after an accounting scandal pushed the U.K. cake baker into insolvency.

Deloitte’s member firm in Japan, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC, is paying a $2 million settlement to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to resolve charges that it issued audit reports for a client at the same time dozens of its employees had bank accounts at a subsidiary of the client.

Milan prosecutors say former executives at BT Group were aware its Italian unit hid losses and inflated revenue by producing fictitious invoices.

The German online payments firm Wirecard AG has seen its stock plunge by more than a third in recent days on reports of accounting misdeeds.

In his 17 years as chief executive officer of Germany’s Wirecard AG, Markus Braun has gained plenty of experience fighting off skeptics and critics.

The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants is partnering with the International Federation of Accountants on videos and case studies

The grocer's former chief financial officer was acquitted of fraud charges, drawing into question the prosecutor’s methods.

The global managing partner of client service at Ernst & Young will be succeeding Mark Weinberger, effective July 1, 2019.

A quarterly survey by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and the Institute of Management Accountants shows signs of trouble ahead.

The association of accounting and consulting firms hopes to attract more early-stage entrepreneurial firms.

Exciting new markets await, but so do stumbling blocks.

The International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board has called for qualified, senior applicants from around the world to apply by Jan. 31, 2019.

The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority's proposals should succeed in improving the quality of scrutiny while acknowledging a major conflict of interest in auditing.

Regulators’ proposals fall short of requiring full breakup, but would separate audit operationally.