Moore Stephens’ wealth management business has been acquired by Tilney, an investment and financial planning group, with 11 of Moore Stephens’ staff, including five advisers, transferring to the new business

RSM Global has added Chinese firm Huapu Tianjian Certified Public Accountants to its international network of firms after Beijing-based Ruihua left the network to join Crowe leaving RSM without a presence in China

Finance Mole is forced to head to Frankfurt to flush out the cash when a recalcitrant customer fails to pay up with a tough-handed approach, but gets trapped in an un-magical Christmas market

A survey of UK workers reveals that a majority have forwarded a customer email to their personal account, violating the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and potentially incurring large fines for their employer

Liquidators at PwC have announced a Christmas present for unsecured creditors of MG Rover Group Ltd, including former employees, who are in line for a share of a further £50.9m distribution, more than a decade after car production group collapsed into administration

The parent company of high street cake chain Patisserie Valerie, which has been plunged into financial difficulties following the discovery of accounting irregularities, has announced it intends to appoint RSM as its auditor, replacing Grant Thornton

Kingston Smith has posted a 13.4% hike in revenues coupled with a similar rise in profits for the year ended 30 April 2018, which the firm said represented largely organic growth driven by investment in people and technology

Poor financial decision-making processes mean bad decisions by mid-level managers are costing firms more than 3% of profits, and CFOs must do more to ensure they offer better support for specific types of business decisions, according to research from Gartner

With a spate of accounting scandals blighting listed companies, Clare Mackay, associate at SA Law LLP considers ways to take action against a fraudulent director and the legal options from personal claims to s463 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000

A Labour party report on the ‘dysfunctional’ audit market has recommended that audit firms should be banned from selling any non-audit services to clients, and recommends the creation of a state-backed audit body for the financial services sector and a new ‘companies commission’ to formulate accounting standards

An accountancy firm director has been given a 12-year disqualification from running companies after he helped one of his clients to defraud creditors of more than £1.65m

AIM-listed energy supplier Yü Group, which reported a £10m profits writedown in October after discovering accounting irregularities, says a forensic review by PwC has identified a further reduction, and has revealed that the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has launched an investigation