Finance | CPD module: introduction to non-audit assurance services

This month’s exclusive CPD module provides an introduction to non-audit assurance services by Steve Collings FCCA, and is free for our registered readers

2 Jun 2026

Finance

Financial Reporting

Auditing

ESG & Sustainability

Finance | BDO fined £1.4m for ‘numerous and pervasive’ audit failings

BDO and long-time partner fined £1,379,875 for ‘significant and serious’ breaches in audit work for now liquidated NMCN, with problems on going concern, revenue recognition and control sampling 

29 May 2026

Finance

Auditing

Corporate Governance

Finance | Legal & General hires Deloitte for £21m audit

FTSE 100 insurance giant Legal & General swaps Big Four auditor appointing Deloitte as incumbent approaches 10-year tenure

28 May 2026

Finance

Auditing

Corporate Governance

Finance | FRC audit investigations set to be ‘much more robust’

An overhaul of the regulator’s supervisory model marks a shift to risk-based audit inspections and more focus on systems of quality management (SoQM). Stuart Brown, head of technical and compliance, Duncan & Toplis examines the implications for auditors

20 May 2026

Finance

Financial Reporting

Auditing

Audit Regulations

Corporate Governance

Finance | How should audit committees factor in AI?

Nadia Mayer LLB, legal technical writer at Croner, explains the AI issues for audit committees after FRC issues first guidance on the use of generative and agentic AI

14 May 2026

Finance

Auditing

Corporate Governance

Finance | Legal updates: treating accounting liabilities as assets in business sale

Sophie Brookes and Debbie Shaw assess rulings on treating accounting liabilities as assets in Nawaz-Khan, whether auditors have duty to report fraud to individual shareholders in Crowe, and director misconduct and insolvency in Greensill case

12 May 2026

Finance

Financial Reporting

Auditing

Corporate Governance

Law and Regulation

Finance | Audit technology group Inflo given King’s Awards for Enterprise

Tyneside audit software company set up by former Big Four auditors join Walker’s Shortbread as winners in the 60th anniversary of Royal awards

6 May 2026

Finance

Auditing

Finance | Crowe auditors had no duty to report fraud to individual shareholders

High Court rules in favour of audit firm Crowe after liquidated wine scheme directors claimed they did not flag fraud to individual shareholders

6 May 2026

Finance

Auditing

Corporate Governance

Finance | Crowe quits QDE audit day before results due

Quantum Data Energy hit by ‘entirely unexpected’ resignation of auditor Crowe just before the listed company’s reporting deadline

29 Apr 2026

Finance

Auditing

Corporate Governance

Finance | Satsuma hires third auditor in a year with PKF Littlejohn

Review of professional services providers sees Satsuma Technology plc ditch mid-tier BDO in favour of PKF Littlejohn as auditor

27 Apr 2026

Finance

Auditing

Corporate Governance

Finance | PwC HK fined £28m for ‘egregious’ Evergrande audit failings

Hong Kong regulator slaps £28m fine on Big Four giant PwC and two partners for ‘egregious and wholly unacceptable’ misconduct related to audits for collapsed Chinese property developer Evergrande 

24 Apr 2026

Finance

Auditing

Corporate Governance

Finance | Saffery pays £71m to settle Greensill audit claim out of court

Top 20 audit firm Saffery LLP pays multimillion settlement agreement to administrators of collapsed Greensill Capital over audit failures

20 Apr 2026

Finance

Auditing

Corporate Governance

Finance | Updated Academies Accounts Direction 2025-26 released

Revised accounting rules for academy schools for 2025-26 accounts now available with clarifications on related party transactions and employment benefits disclosures

20 Apr 2026

Finance

Financial Reporting

Auditing

Law and Regulation

Public Sector

Business | Bishop steps back amid ‘potential financial irregularities’

Church of England confirms Bishop of Salisbury ‘stepped back’ after investigation launched into two financial funds related to his office at Salisbury Cathedral 

13 Apr 2026

Business

Companies

Finance

Auditing

Finance | PwC faces FRC investigation into £500k Digital 9 audit

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has opened an investigation into PwC’s audit of listed Digital 9 Infrastructure plc, investor in sub sea cables

9 Apr 2026

Finance

Auditing

Corporate Governance