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India has the highest number of litigations over transfer pricing, where MNCs have been charged of reducing their tax liability by transferring profits to group companies abroad, a survey has found. Full Article

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board disciplined Jacqueline Higgins, a manager in E&Y’s Boston office, alleging repeated violations of documentation standards and requirements to cooperate with the board’s inspection process. The disciplinar Full Article

Faced with stiff competition from the multinational accounting and auditing firms, mainly the Big Four, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) is planning to organise the Indian auditing and accounting sector. The apex accounting regu Full Article

Global firms KPMG and Ernst & Young could be headed for trouble in India as auditing regulator Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has found them doing business through surrogate means, without being registered in the country. Full Article

Accounting regulator ICAI has asked the Big Four auditing and consulting firms – KPMG, E&Y, Deloitte and PwC – to share any information sought by various committees of the institute and has asked them not to engage in “shopping for small firms”. Full Article

At Ahmedabad-Based Fountainhead, a little-known coaching academy for chartered accountants, February 20 was a day of celebration. The two-year-old chartered accountants’ training institute was playing host to a recruiting team from global consulting firm Ernst & Young (E&Y), rated among the world’s top four. Full Article

Two other big four accounting firms have received a letter from the accounting regulator, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI). According to sources, the ICAI has written to Deloitte and E&Y, asking for detailed information on their activities, international affiliations and operating structure in India. Just over a week ago, we had reported [...] Full Article