Mark Taylor
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Mark Taylor is a financial services journalist specialising in legal and regulatory compliance, white collar crime and technology.
Journalist
16th Mar 2020
Remove bias, embrace diversity, and build a better workplace
While it is clear the accountancy world is taking diversity and inclusion more seriously today than a decade ago, significant doubts remain...
Finance & strategy
20th Feb 2020
FRC tells companies to divulge coronavirus risks
Such is the speed and ferocity of which the disease has continued to spread rapidly around the globe, major companies such as Apple, Puma...
Financial reporting
19th Feb 2020
Intelligent controls bidding to end the days of budget blowouts
When the inaccurate numbers concern the work of the accountants themselves it can be a doubly difficult challenge, but new technology...
Finance & strategy
5th Feb 2020
Norton Motorcycles caught in regulator headlights following controversial collapse
Reports of bikes not delivered despite significant sums being taken, multiple winding-up orders, pension deficiencies and irregular...
Finance & strategy
29th Jan 2020
Ted Baker admits to £58m hole as stock count error doubles
The designer clothing retailer appointed Deloitte to carry out an independent review after uncovering an accounting error of £25m in...
Finance & strategy
15th Jan 2020
'Nothing has changed’: Two years on from Carillion collapse
Despite promising to have the first stage of its investigation into KPMG’s auditing of the outsourcing giant finished, the Financial...
Financial reporting
9th Jan 2020
Brydon audit review: Sector demands ‘less talk, more action’
To the surprise of no-one, the report proclaimed “urgent reform” necessary and suggested separating Britain’s audit sector entirely from...
Financial reporting
11th Dec 2019
Grant Thornton fined for inadequate audit of unnamed firm
The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) initially penalised Grant Thornton £650,000 after uncovering a series of mistakes in a 2016 audit of...
Financial reporting
11th Dec 2019
Eddie Stobart dodges nightmare before Christmas with rescue deal
The haulage firm has been sold to its largest shareholder, the private equity firm Douglas Bay Capital (DBay), together with the lorry...
Finance & strategy
4th Dec 2019
Ted Baker hires specialists to probe balance sheet bungle
After discovering it had overvalued its inventory by eight figures, top fashion brand Ted Baker has enlisted magic circle law firm...
Finance & strategy