The new Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Accounts Rules come into effect this November and the key changes are set to simplify the accounting treatment with less prescriptive requirements but there are significant changes to handling of client monies, explains Ross Prince, partner at Crowe

UK property will not be a safe haven for money laundering in the near future if the government presses ahead with plans to create a register of ownership by offshore investors, but perhaps a more robust government position on taxing empty property would encourage the buy-to-leave investors to rethink their plans, argues Sara White, editor of Accountancy Daily

Goldman Sachs has broken with tradition and appointed Mazars to audit its European arm, the first time the US bank has chosen an auditor outside the Big Four, in a major coup for the mid-tier firm