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...“The quality of the audit is important,” Peters said....
...Regulators, who will have to rubber stamp the demerger, and companies should be asking how EY would replace the experts needed to carry out quality audits, said Peters, a former partner at KPMG....
...“We are in a new era of realising that these partnerships have attractive alternatives,” said Peter Munzig, a partner at TPG, one of the most active dealmakers in professional services....
...Sandy Peters, a PCAOB adviser and head of global advocacy at the CFA Institute, said that auditors “must acknowledge that they have to have an appropriate level of expertise”, and the higher standards being...
...Sonja Hutson Stephen Foley is the FT’s US accounting editor. Thanks, Stephen. Stephen Foley No problem. Thanks very much....
...Plus, the FT’s Stephen Foley talks about EY’s new leader Janet Truncale and how she might steer the accounting firm....
...At Tom Ford, under the new creative direction of Peter Hawkings, acres of creamy shag carpet introduced his debut in an SS24 show that paid tribute to revolutionary midcentury supermodel Donyale Luna....
...A January 2016 email celebrated $2.5mn in new business in North America, which one partner wrote had been “heavily helped by the accuracy of the intelligence that Peter Collins was able to supply”....
...The emails, published by a senate committee, showed how PwC had used confidential information provided by Peter-John Collins, its former head of international tax in Australia, to win new business by advising...
...Its deal is the biggest private equity investment in the sector so far, and the firm’s retired partners are not pleased, the FT’s Stephen Foley reports....
...Join award-winning FT columnist Stephen Bush, writer of our Inside Politics newsletter, public policy editor Peter Foster and other colleagues online today as they discuss Britain’s political future....
...In January, Peter-John Collins, the partner in Australia who shared the confidential information was banned from practising as a tax agent for two years....
...Edward White and Peter Campbell profile the man simply known as “The Chairman”....
...Peter Marshall, leader of EY’s financial services liquidity advisory group, said on a recent webinar that banks needed to be mindful of the risks....
...AIG, under chief executive Peter Zaffino, has been continuing with an on-off restructuring that recently included putting its financial products group into bankruptcy and conducting an initial public offering...
...Sandy Peters, head of global advocacy at the CFA Institute, a professional body for investors, said regulators could scrutinise the work KPMG did to back its audit opinion, including why it decided not to...
...“Half of those entering the accounting profession are women,” Peters wrote in the study. “The issue in Big Four firms is leakage from the pipeline....
...“It is a matter of robbing Peter to pay Peter,” he said....
...Additional help by Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley....
...Delightfully, the entire sound design by Ben and Max Ringham is created live by witty onstage Foley effects....
...I always have music, preferably old‑time tunes from the 1920s like “I Want to Be Bad”, sung by Bernadette Peters in Pennies From Heaven, or songs by Helen Kane – anything with a “boop-oop-a-doop” sound....
...“Investors put climate reporting on the table,” said Sandy Peters, senior head of global advocacy at the CFA Institute, the professional body for the investment industry....
...Additional reporting by Peter Wells in New York...
...PwC last week began offering such work experience to accounting students at New Jersey’s Saint Peter’s University....
...A power vacuum has been left in its wake as the firm’s global boss and chief spin-off proponent Carmine Di Sibio prepares to retire next year, the FT’s Stephen Foley and Michael O’Dwyer report....
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