Companies House has issued a reminder that from now on, companies will have to declare who owns or controls them as part of the information they file, as the regime for the People with Significant Control (PSC) register came into force on 30 June 2016

Two retired accountants are behind a major remembrance project at Thiepval, the Somme memorial site which is the focus of commemorative events on 1 July, marking 100 years since the start of the deadliest battle of World War One

Accountant steals from his place of work to fund gambling addiction, ACCA member jailed for failing to declare income and accountant skips bail after failing to turn up for sentencing on fraud

Professional development news roundup includes long hours' culture in Carreras case, PwC restructures executive board, Moore & Smalley reports record profits

Eight years after the crash when the likes of Lehman Brothers and Northern Rock collapsed and a raft of UK banks including HBOS were forced into state ownership, the new EU Audit Regulation and Directive (ARD) is now in force across the EU.

Finance Mole draws on reserves to survive a week of basic rations in an unusual office challenge

Mark Orton and Blair Nimmo, partners with KPMG restructuring, have been appointed joint administrators to MLCG Ltd, the convenience store chain trading as My Local which has 125 trading stores across the UK and has collapsed putting some 1700 jobs at risk

The Charity Commission has launched a statutory class inquiry into over 60 Royal Air Force (RAF) mess charities after receiving notification of a £72,000 fraud at two of them, which has prompted questions about governance and financial controls

Ahead of the final committee stage of Finance Bill 2016, accountancy bodies are flagging up concerns about a proposed new Targeted Anti-Avoidance Rule (TAAR) relating to share capital distributions when a company is wound up, saying it needs further clarification or risks negatively impacting some genuine commercial transactions

The OECD has published new guidance on the implementation of country-by-country reporting (CBCR) in order to clarify some questions of interpretation, as part of its ongoing efforts to boost transparency in international tax matters and ensure consistent and swift adoption of the new rules

A national data-sharing exercise involving over 100 public bodies has uncovered nearly £17m of fraud and error across services in Scotland, Audit Scotland reports

Two former PwC employees, both French nationals, have been given suspended sentences for their role in revealing confidential data about the Luxembourg authorities’ tax deals with large companies, which formed form part of the so-called ‘LuxLeaks’ investigation