With businesses embracing big data, new tech and digital media, the role of traditional CFO is evolving from financial expert to strategic partner, data analyst, talent curator and more. James Booth, chief financial officer at Instant Offices explains what this new era of the multidiscipline strategist means

In a bid to combat fraud and the risk of payments being sent to the wrong account, the UK payment authority, Pay.UK, has revealed details of a new service which will check names registered to accounts before payment is processed

With 22% of accountants believing that a quarter of the profession have helped clients create misleading accounts, an enforceable code of ethics must be introduced to stop further corporate scandals, says Simon Wright, managing director of CareersinAudit.com

Julie Norris, partner at Kingsley Napley LLP, discusses sexual harassment in the workplace and firms’ regulatory obligations and calls for better #metoo related guidance from accounting regulators

Andrew Oury, partner at Oury Clark, takes a wry look at the potential impact of a no deal Brexit on imports and stock availability in a just-in-time supply chain

A year ago, Croner-i was acquired by Peninsula Group – and in just 12 months, the company has gone from strength to strength. CEO Bertrand Stern-Gillet talks about what Croner-i has been up to, the new Navigate Tax service, and how the company has adjusted to major changes while making significant investments in technology, infrastructure and resources

Lee Lockwood, director, and Bob Maxwell, partner, of Begbies Traynor have been appointed as joint administrators of H. Waterhouse & Sons (Wakefield) Ltd, which has been trading for over 150 years but has collapsed with a loss of all jobs

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and The Pensions Regulator (TPR) have launched a joint regulatory strategy aimed at strengthening their relationship, and taking joint action to deliver better outcomes for pension savers and those entering retirement

As much as £20bn of savings could be sitting in over a million so-called ‘lost pension pots’ where savers have lost touch with their providers according to analysis from the Association of British Insurers (ABI), which says this underlines the need for the government’s proposed pensions dashboard

The Charity Commission says it continues to have significant concerns about the systemic underreporting of serious incidents by trustees of domestic and international charities, following a report of the findings of its taskforce on safeguarding

The government has officially opened its new office hub in London’s Canary Wharf Hub, which will house 6,000 civil servants, a third of them working for HMRC, in a bid to cut its property costs by consolidating and modernising its location

BDO is to take over from PwC as external auditor at JKX Oil & Gas, an exploration and production company which specialises in developing assets in the Ukraine and Russia and is listed on the London Stock Exchange