The audit watchdog Financial Reporting Council has been informed of firm’s plans

Fines for auditor tops £20m in 12 months, more than penalties for whole industry last year

British cafe chain was plunged into crisis after discovery of accounting irregularities

Former employee wants investigation on how the Big Four firm responded to complaints about a top partner accused of bullying

Accountancy giant sanctioned over audit of Co-operative Bank in 2009

UK MPs say firms must be forced to separate consulting work from their auditing business

Audit, reporting and governance authority will be able to issue harsher penalties

Unions say average worker would need 230 years to earn total package of CRH boss in 2017

EY, Deloitte, KPMG and PwC check the accounts of 341 of the top 350 UK companies

Average pay per partner rose 15% to £601,000

UK accounting watchdog opens investigation into audits of cafe chain

UK chain of bakeries must ‘urgently raise capital’ and has had finance chief arrested

Code seeks to rein in executive pay and make boards more diverse

UK regulator also censures individual audit partner amid ‘misconduct’ finding

Penalty follows admission of misconduct in relation to audit of insurance firm in 2013

Move comes a month after software firm’s former CFO was convicted by US jury

Outsourcer’s fate exposed ‘systemic flaws’ in corporate Britain and its ‘toothless’ and ‘feeble’ regulators, say Commons committees

Irish arm will not follow UK firm’s move to stop bidding for audit work from big firms

UK financial regulator raises case for ‘audit only’ firms

As with Anglo, Carillion’s failure shows if auditors take their eye off the ball ordinary people suffer