Software company Dubber has filed a negligence suit against its former auditors, BDO, over $26.6 million in alleged missing company funds and flagged further lawsuits as part of its recovery efforts.
Lendlease and tax advisory firm Greenwoods & Herbert Smith Freehills have reached a settlement in a case by solicitor and accountant Anthony Watson, which accused the builder of taking an “aggressive” position on its taxes.
An engineer who sued accounting software company Xero, alleging she was paid a lower salary than male colleagues, has resolved her case.
A shareholder class action has been lodged against iSignthis and auditor Grant Thornton over the delisted fintech’s 2018 financial statements.
On the first day of trial in the Tax Office’s case against a former EY partner accused of marketing a tax loss access scheme and pocketing $700,000 in the process, the court heard former clients were assured the scheme was “risky but not illegal”.
A former PricewaterhouseCoopers partner has settled his case against the consulting giant, which alleged he was denied promised retirement payments.
Melbourne accounting firm Blue Rock has taken its former associate director of accounting to court, claiming she breached her employment contract by making the jump to competitor Nexia.
A lawsuit alleging accounting firm Pitcher Partners was involved in race car driver Max Twigg’s misappropriation of $127 million from his family has settled for $25 million plus costs.
The plaintiff in a negligence case against Waller Legal has failed in his last-minute call to vacate the trial to obtain more documents, an exercise a judge said would “make a mockery of the Civil Procedure Act”.
Accounting disciplinary body Chartered Accountants ANZ has dropped its investigation into former PwC tax partner Wayne Plummer, who was linked to the firm’s tax leaks scandal in 2023.