Financial and Accounting News

• May 18, 2019 Xero Reports Revenue Growth of 36% in the FY 2019 Cloud based accounting software company Xero reported an increase of 36% in its operating revenue to NZ$552.8m for the financial year ended March 31, 2019. Xero’s customer base in the UK increased by 48% to 463,000 ...
• May 16, 2019 AIM-listed Mining Company GoldStone Switches Auditor GoldStone Resources, a mining company with projects across western Africa, has switched its auditors. The mining company announced that Liverpool based DSG Accountancy and Business Services will be replaced by its existing ...
• May 15, 2019 FASB Provides Financial Institutions with Fair Value Option to Ease through the CECL Transition The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) is providing some respite to banks as well as other institutions which deal in financial instruments with regards to implementing the standard related with credit ...
• May 13, 2019 New Study Reveals 55% of Public Believe Auditors’ could Prevent Company failures’ As per a recent survey conducted by the ACCA, 55% of the respondents expressed that auditors are the ones who are responsible for helping companies avoid failures. 70% of the participants of the survey said that the ...
• May 10, 2019 FRC Hands KPMG a £5m Fine over Co-Operative Bank’s Audit Failings The UK watchdog Financial Reporting Council (FRC) initially required KPMG to pay £5m as fine as well as to comply with additional requirements on its audits of credit institutions for at least next 3 years, for a ...
• May 8, 2019 Kraft Heinz Reveals $181m in Accounting ‘Misstatements’ Food giant Kraft Heinz has revealed that it discovered certain misstatements in its financial statements after an internal review was conducted by the company. As a result of these findings the company will now have to ...
• May 7, 2019 IASB consults Regarding Accounting Changes Concerning Interest Rate Benchmarks The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) is consulting with regards to making changes to the accounting standards that deals with financial instruments, IFRS 9 and IAS 39, in wake of the reform to major ...
• May 6, 2019 IAASB Consults on Simplifying Auditing Standards for Small Entities with Less Complexities The International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB) is expected to be planning towards simplifying the use of auditing standards for the audit of less complex business entities. The board has launched a ...
• May 6, 2019 Anglo American Replaces Deloitte with PwC as its External Auditor Multinational mining company Anglo American has replaced Deloitte with PwC as its new auditor. As a result of the decision made by Angelo American, PwC will take over the position of external auditor to the mining company ...
• May 3, 2019 KPMG Hit with a £6m over Audit of Lloyds Syndicate Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has fined KPMG £6m following the conclusion of an investigation which was carried by the UK regulator into the big four firm’s audit of Lloyds syndicate (Equity Red ...