Accountants

FinCEN: Accountant and Elder Abuse

by Jonathan Foxx on 5/17/2013

We have been keeping track of FinCEN's SAR Activity Review – Trends, Tips & Issues virtually from its inception. In its just issued May 2013 report, FinCEN provides new information regarding two areas of importance: 1)...more

Accounting Firm Sues Fifth Circuit for Takings of Fees

by Nancie G. Marzulla on 5/1/2013

On March 3, 2013, Marcum LLP, a professional services firm that specializes in forensic accounting and financial litigation support services, filed a Fifth Amendment takings claim in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims for the...more

CFTC Charges Accounting Firm Tunney & Associates

by Felix Shipkevich | Shipkevich PLLC on 4/19/2013

The CFTC has filed a complaint against Tunney & Associates, an accounting firm with offices in Indiana and Illinois, for failing to properly audit a registered Futures Commission Merchant. Michael Tunney, the firm’s sole...more

Accounting Firm Mergers

by Russell Shapiro | Levenfeld Pearlstein on 4/5/2013

Merger activity among accounting firms has grown significantly of late. Allan D. Koltin, CEO of Koltin Consulting Group, commented that “2012 was another record year for CPA firm M&A. It represents the fifth consecutive year...more

Financial Services Tax – UK Update from Dechert’s Tax Group - February 2013: Privilege and Prudence

by David Gubbay, Daniel Hawthorne, Mark Stapleton | Dechert LLP on 2/14/2013

Legal advice privilege has seized the focus of attention yet again, as a result of the UK Supreme Court’s decision in Prudential delivered on 23 January 2013. In overview, Prudential sought to withhold documents including...more

Socio-Economic and Cultural Risk Factors That Drive Corruption: A Focus on the ‘Supply Side’ of the Equation

by Thomas Fox on 2/6/2013

This is the last installment of my three party series regarding Occupational Fraud. One can never lose focus on what I consider the key question as they enter or play within the international arena: What are the...more

Supreme Court confirms that legal advice privilege does not apply to communications with non-lawyers

by Edward Attenborough, Zelda Hunter | White & Case LLP on 1/30/2013

The Supreme Court this week handed down judgment in the case of R (on the application of Prudential plc and another) v Special Commissioner of Income Tax and another, confirming that legal advice privilege does not extend to...more

Tax Advice Given by Accountants Not Protected by Privilege

by Joan Bilsland, Scott H.D. Bower, Martin Sorensen | Bennett Jones LLP on 1/28/2013

Legal advice privilege applies only to lawyers and does not extend to tax advice provided by accountants, the United Kingdom Supreme Court (formerly the House of Lords) confirmed in its first judgment of 2013: R (on the...more

UK Case Re-examines Legal Privilege

by Andrew Little | Bennett Jones LLP on 1/25/2013

Downton Abbey… or the U.K. Supreme Court’s latest case on privilege law? One of these will come up sometime soon at a social event. “The public has the right to every person’s evidence,” said Supreme Court of ...more

"UK Supreme Court: Legal Advice Privilege Relates to Lawyers’ Advice Only"

by James Anderson, David Edwards, Chris Hutley-Hurst, Julia Kazaks, Steven Matays | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 1/25/2013

Summary - In an eagerly awaited decision of the U.K. Supreme Court in the case of R (on the Application of Prudential plc and Another) v. Special Commissioner of Income Tax and Another, [2013] UKSC 1, legal advice...more

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