The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) is under pressure from influential US senators to review KPMG’s auditing of Wells Fargo in the wake of discoveries that the bank’s employees were setting up millions of extra customer accounts without authorisation in order to claim sales incentives

Top 40 accounting firm, Barber, Harrison and Platt (BHP) has merged with York-based Atkinsons Consulting Limited, adding eight staff to the practice and boosting its cloud accounting support company

The work and pensions committee wants the next government to introduce an employment status of ‘worker’ and a roadmap for equalising the National Insurance contributions (NICs) made by employees and the self-employed in a bid to address ‘bogus’ self employment practices which it says are reducing the tax take and inflating the benefits bill

The Big Four accounting firms have carved out a 21% share of the total global revenue from digital transformation consulting, which was estimated to be worth $23bn (£18bn) in 2016, with Deloitte dominating the market, according to Source Global Research

This month's CCH Daily CPD module focuses on charity reporting under the charities SORP, the only SORP available to charities from 1 January 2016, outlining how to plan for the transition from using FRRSE to FRS 102 reporting

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has issued a discussion paper looking at the role of auditors and their involvement in the preliminary announcements of annual results, with a view to updating the current auditor guidance

Download the HMRC CGT indexation allowance for January 2017, RPI Index for March 2017 and HMRC rates of interest, changes to stamp duty land tax (SDLT) and land and buildings transaction tax (LBTT) rates, and more

A roundup of current consultations from HMRC, including corporate interest deductibility, Making Tax digital penalties, VAT fraud, CGT change for non-resident companies

Professional development news roundup includes ICAEW rebrand and new logo revealed, pension pots available in one online portal from 2019, start date dispute on dismissal notice

In our monthly roundup of developments in audit and governance, corporate governance code needs overhaul, FRC sanctions review plan, Deloitte in fashion at SuperGroup, PwC slips up with PZ Cussons loss  

In the roundup of the latest accounting developments, FRC increases membership levy by 5%, SFO fines Tesco £129m, Charity Commission issues accounts templates for GAAP users

The key HMRC filing deadlines from May to August 2017 including PAYE cheque payments, online CIS returns, PAYE settlement agreement

In our monthly review of tax cases and compliance issues, Sharon Khin reviews tribunal rulings in Higgins over private residence relief, Gulliver over domicile and closure notice in Schechter, while HMRC faces upheaval as business compliance and customer service chiefs quit and partnerships are drawn into country-by-country reporting rules

Jackie Hall ACA CTA, partner at RSM, on PAYE reporting requirements and expenses exemption rule changes and the apprenticeship levy and the risks for connected employers

Graham Elliott, VAT expert at City & Cambridge Consultancy considers the Adecco (UKUT0133) ruling on temp workers which leaves the company with a VAT charge, input tax issues in U-Drive over repair bills and the low cost traders' flat rate scheme

In this month's legal updates, experts at law firm Gateley plc consider when changes to articles of association take effect, High court defeats tactical voting on scheme of arrangement, start dates of dismissal notices