The government has released a paper on the UK’s relationship with Ireland and Northern Ireland post-Brexit, stating that there will be no hard border and that the Common Travel Area will be maintained as well as the rights for UK and Irish citizens

Football’s financial scores are likely to head on upwards following Brazilian footballer Neymar’s record-breaking €222m (£202m) fee for switching from Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain, according to analysis by PwC, which suggests the biggest transfers could consistently exceed £100m by the 2024/2025 season

Standard Life Aberdeen has confirmed that KPMG will be its auditors, after it completed the £11bn merger of Standard Life and Aberdeen Asset Management on 14 August 2017

The government has published a paper setting out proposals for a future customs relationship with the EU post-Brexit, designed to allow UK businesses to continue to trade with their European partners in the future, while expanding their markets beyond the EU

Japanese electronics company Toshiba has avoided being delisted from the Tokyo Stock Exchange after auditors from PwC Arata signed off its accounts, allowing it to publish its 2016 annual report

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) is consulting on amendments to its guidance on the strategic report, designed to take into account the new regulations for non-financial reporting that are effective for financial periods beginning on or after 1 January 2017

An audit tender process will have to be undertaken after the £11bn merger between Standard Life and Aberdeen Asset Management

North west accountancy firm Moore and Smalley has reported a record year for turnover which hit £15.5m, driven in part by an increase in projects for companies operating internationally

North west-based accountants, Hurst has created a tax compliance division to help companies, headed by a former tax inspector, amid a crackdown by HMRC on tax matters and the move to Making Tax Digital

As the season kicks off tonight, BDO’s annual survey of football club financial directors shows 86% of clubs believe their current financial position to be ‘very healthy’ or at least ‘not bad’, with only a handful of financial directors suggesting their clubs’ finances are in need of attention

Pension trustees of a number of high profile employers have failed to comply with their basic duties, according to the latest quarterly update from The Pensions Regulator (TPR), which for the first time includes details of pensions schemes whose trustees have been fined for failing to complete scheme returns or the annual chair’s statements

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), the country’s largest listed company, is facing a legal challenge for failing to adequately disclose climate change risk and risks associated with fossil fuels in its 2016 annual report