International accounting

The commodity-trading firm is being investigated by three Singaporean agencies more than three years after a whistle-blower questioned the company’s accounting.

The Nissan chairman was arrested in Japan for alleged financial violations and faces removal from his job.

The International Accounting Standards Board voted to propose a one-year delay, so the new rules would take effect in 2022, instead of 2021.

Samsung Group’s biotechnology unit is facing a potential criminal investigation and delisting after South Korea’s financial regulator said that the company “intentionally” violated accounting rules surrounding an initial public offering.

One of the Big Four accounting firms has taken a welcome step to improving the credibility of the financial statements published by London-listed companies.

The retailer provided South African officers with information about transactions involving more former executives who may have contributed to its accounting crisis.

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The International Integrated Reporting Council, the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, the Global Reporting Initiative and the Carbon Disclosure Project are working to harmonize standards.

Nearly two-thirds of governments are expected to report on an accrual basis within the next five years.

The International Federation of Accountants has elected Dr. In-Ki Joo of South Korea as president for a two-year term through November 2020.

A new survey by the International Federation of Accountants examines trends in 150 countries.

A Russian national was charged by the U.S. for allegedly being one of the masterminds behind a conspiracy to interfere in both the 2016 and 2018 elections, marking the first charges related to next month’s congressional midterm vote.

The firm relied on technical reports done by an affiliate during three consecutive audits of a Canadian gold-mining company.

Sacha Romanovitch will not stand for re-election for a second term and will step down after a successor is appointed before the end of this year.

Luke Johnson should have read his own aide-memoire. A month after the Patisserie Holdings Plc chairman published an advice column on spotting fraud, his finance chief has been arrested in an accounting scandal that threatened to shut the cake baker’s 200-plus stores.

The Prince of Wales’ Accounting for Sustainability project and the International Integrated Reporting Council intend to promote sustainability reporting and integrated reporting at the World Congress of Accountants that’s set to take place in Sydney, Australia in early November.

Patisserie Holdings Plc finance chief Chris Marsh was arrested as U.K. fraud prosecutors opened a probe into an accounting scandal that threatens to shutter the cake baker’s 200-plus stores.

Testifying at the accounting fraud trial of two former executives, the U.K. retailer's chief talked of his genuine shock when he was first shown a report that described howthe company had overstated income by 246 million pounds ($326 million).

Text message recipients were told there was impending, unspecified bad news coming before the accounting scandal unfolded.

U.K. cake baker Patisserie Holdings Plc suspended its chief financial officer after uncovering “significant, and potentially fraudulent, accounting irregularities” and a demand for more than a million pounds in back taxes.