A lawyer for Arthur Andersen LLP, which faces trial March 28 for its role as WorldCom Inc.'s accountant, said an ``extraordinary amount'' of the pool from which 10 jurors will be selected is biased against the ...

H&R Block Inc. saw its number of customers dip slightly in the opening weeks of tax season, but its tax preparation revenues were up as per-client fees rose, the company said Thursday.

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, the giant accounting firm, bowed to pressure from Parmalat and appeared to muzzle an auditor who was raising tricky questions about the Italian dairy group's finances up to 33 months ...

Use the text input below to search Topix.netThe Supreme Court's resounding decision in favor of disgraced accounting firm Arthur Andersen LLP is a harsh rebuke for federal prosecutors but will not force a retreat in the Justice Department's ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. + This week Deloitte & Touche USA LLP, Howard University and a group of stakeholders from public accounting, government, and minority-owned accounting firms are launching the Howard University ...

RSM McGladrey Inc. has announced the promotion of three senior vice presidents and two executive vice presidents.

ACTIVITY in the domestic manufacturing sector has contracted for the second consecutive month, falling to its slowest growth rate in almost four and a half years.

A group of community leaders will offer its own option for bolstering Waco Veterans Affairs Hospital services at a public hearing on the hospital's future Tuesday.

A federal judge on Monday gave preliminary approval to a $225 million settlement that accounting giant KPMG LLP and a law firm have reached with about 275 former clients who used its tax shelters, lawyers in ...

A former president and vice president of Kanebo Ltd. both pleaded guilty Wednesday at the Tokyo District Court to falsifying financial statements.

The Straits Times Publication Date : 2006-01-02 The reputation of one of the largest and oldest audit firms in Singapore has taken quite a beating in recent months.

The Federal Trade Commission recorded more than 685,000 consumer fraud and identity theft complaints in its database in 2005.

Not many people like doing their taxes, but this year, some are doing them early.

By Max Showalter mshowalter@journalandcourier.com Daniel Hewitt represented a voice of experience when he gave advice to potential entrepreneurs Friday at Purdue University.

State and federal regulations monitoring business conduct have reached a new peak in the 21st century.

The Big Four operating in South Africa have objected to plans unveiled in a proposal put before parliament, which would prohibit them from providing tax advisory services to their audit clients.

Japan's leading accounting firm ChuoAoyama PricewaterhouseCoopers on Saturday suspended part of its operations through the end of August, following a penalty order by the Financial Services Agency over its ...

Deloitte and Touche auditors have assessed the value of the Mining and smeltering basin Bor at $ 300 million.

'If I'm interested in real solutions, they have to work both for the corporation and consumers.' Peter Skillern North Carolinian Peter Skillern plans to visit Kansas City's ...

Marlene Swanson, Director of the Cayman Islands Crisis Centre, received a donation from PricewaterhouseCoopers' Senior Partner Nick Freeland as part of the firm's volunteer recognition programme.Comment

'Besides saving our clients money, we're doing even more to make sure that H&R Block customers receive the best service and disclosures in the industry.' Mark Ernst, H&R Block chairman and CEO ...Comment

Financial software giant Intuit Inc. will buy online banking provider Digital Insight in a $1.35-billion deal designed to strengthen offerings to small businesses.Comment

Sunday, 31 December, 2006 Nomination ballots for the 79th Academy Awards were mailed on Tuesday, December 26 to the 5,830 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.Comment

Templates make life easier when you use them for letters, documents, brochures, etc.Comment

City officials met the extended deadline on Wednesday when they presented the completed annual audit to the City Council.Comment

The chances the Internal Revenue Service will audit your tax return are slim. That's why 85 percent of U.S. taxpayers don't sweat about an audit, according to a survey by H&R Block.Comment

Digital Tipping Point: Gerry Singleton, OpenOffice.org documentation lead 02 This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point archive. via Internet Archive

St. Louis Business Journal - 4:44 PM CDT Friday, May 25, 2007 Zoltek Cos. Inc. fired its accounting firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP , and hired Grant Thornton LLP as its new independent registered public ... via St. Louis Business Journal

'Even though it has these shareholders, there's no publicly traded price.' Rami Grunbaum, deputy business editor, and Seattle Times Business staff The news this past week that Quellos Group, Seattle's fund-of-hedge-funds giant, was selling the guts of its business - but not the firm ... via The Seattle Times

'I dare to disagree with him completely' Music and technology retailer JB Hi-Fi has dismissed a warning that sales of traditional music formats such as CDs will be halved within four years as digital downloads take over. via The Sydney Morning Herald

Business Four types of disputes rock gas pricing in India D. Murali & Goutam Ghosh What is the future of gas in India? 'Bright,' says Mr Deepak Mahurkar, associate Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers. via The Hindu

Concur Technologies Inc. said Tuesday it is offering 4.7 million shares of common stock to fund a proposed buyout. via Forbes

If you are running a blog that relies on a database back end, you will sooner or later face the problem of backing up the content stored in the database. via Living Without Microsoft

OpenOffice.org uses a number of third party shared libraries. Since in general it cannot be expected that adequate versions of those libraries are available on every machine onto which OpenOffice.org shall be ... via Sun Bloggers

H &R Block Inc . will pay former chief executive officer Mark Ernst $2.55 million in severance following his departure from the company Monday. via KansasCity.com

MANUFACTURING activity has slipped for the first time in more than 18 months with volatility in financial markets blamed for the decline. via AdelaideNow...

'Shareholders are actually recovering the vast majority of what they invested, even after the deductions for fees, the deductions for all the administrative costs related to the receiver' Settlements have been reached with all but one of the defendants in a lawsuit over the meltdown of Manitoba's Crocus Investment Fund. via CBC

'The lagged effect of higher official and commercial interest rates and the sustained high level of the exchange rate will continue to be felt over the next few quarters' High interest rates continued to keep Australian manufacturing activity subdued in March, a survey shows. via The Sydney Morning Herald

'Today's transaction reduces risks and distractions from doing what we do best, which is serving the tax preparation needs of tens of millions of clients.' The freakish experiment of tax-preparer-as-subprime-servicer is finally over. H&R Block Inc. via Housing Wire

PricewaterhouseCoopers has launched a unique educational community initiative to benefit academically talented African-American high school juniors.

A woman pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to her role in an identity-theft scheme that sought more than $15 million in illegal tax refunds.Loretta Wavinya, 31, a citizen of Kenya, said she stole the ...

Garmin Ltd. bought its Austrian distributor for an undisclosed price, the company said Thursday.

This is the first of a three-part question-and-answer series provided by PricewaterhouseCoopers for The Star readers on various aspects of Budget 2009.

ADMINISTRATORS at Lehman Brothers' British operations on Tuesday announced 750 job cuts at the bankrupt investment bank.

Editor's note: The reporter who wrote this story is named in the lawsuit as the reporter who talked with Nicholas Tides.

MANUFACTURING activity declined for a sixth straight month in November, as firms scaled back activity in response to weakening consumer and business confidence, a survey shows.