The Edge

Richard Northedge takes on corporate finance

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The Big Four audit firms must get smaller

Top of the in-tray for Lady Hogg, the new chairman of the Financial Reporting Council (FRC), should be how to increase auditor choice. Four big accounting firms is not enough, even if another one does not disappear.
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Politicians’ plight is a good start to reform

Does it matter if the public holds politicians in low esteem? Business has been in the same doghouse and survived, emerging cleaner and fitter.
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Reports of corporate death are self-fulfilling

If you say loud enough that a company is going bust it very likely will. Should commentators thus show restraint?
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