The Court of Appeal has thrown out a case over a dispute between two firms of chartered accountants over breach of contract when hiring a former employee

PwC has failed in a High Court bid to ward off a pending multimillion euro negligence claim against the Big Four firm

An accountant who cheated his internet girlfriend out of £4,300 by claiming he was dying from stomach cancer has received a suspended prison sentence

In this month’s round up of the latest scandals, convictions and penalties, an accountant avoids jail over £90k expenses fiddle, a Porsche-loving fraudster gets four-year sentence, a charity finance manager is jailed for £170,000 invoice fraud while the Charity Commission finds serious mismanagement and misconduct by the trustees and CEO of a poverty aid charity

A chartered accountant with Big Four accounting firm Deloitte, who billed bosses for over £90,000 in phantom Uber taxi journeys during a three-year expenses scam, has been spared jail

A former PwC accountant and executive with the television company behind The X Factor and American Idol pleaded guilty today (Monday) to defrauding his former bosses out of more than £224,000 to pay off two holiday homes in Portugal

The Court of Appeal has upheld conviction of barrister Rohan Pershad, and sentence of three and a half years imprisonment for £628,000 VAT fraud carried out over 12 years