Private equity firms and other big privately-held companies may be forced to open their books.

Proposals to make private companies file financial statements as if they were publicly traded should be scrapped immediately, a lawyer says.

Embarrassing mistake in company's financial statement.

Embarrassing 'fudge this' line slips into the company's annual financial statement.

Should the way tax is gathered be changed? We set out the arguments for and against.

The way Securities Commission chief executive Jane Diplock sees it, New Zealand's investor protection was way behind the rest of the world when she arrived. Since then, she says, there has been significant progress, but we are not there yet