One of the country's top financial planning firms went to the High Court last month in a bid to get client records from a former franchisee.

A Wellsford man who lied about having five children to receive $120,000 in tax credits has been jailed.

The wife of a former accountant, convicted of stealing millions from a family to fund a lavish lifestyle, played a role in her husband’s crimes, the Herald can reveal.

The Financial Markets Authority is refusing to disclose who paid what in its $22 million Strategic Finance settlement and says this confidentiality is appropriate.

The NZ Institute of Chartered Accountants brought disciplinary proceedings against a jailed and bankrupt finance company director - who is no longer a member.

Businesses are paying their bills in record time, with the forestry and agriculture sectors wining the prompt payment stakes while the transport industry is a distant last place, says credit checking agency Dun & Bradstreet.

Name suppression has been lifted on a Wellington accountant found guilty of providing false tax returns and misleading information to the Inland Revenue.

An accountant has been struck off for scamming Inland Revenue out of $280,000 by doctoring his employer's tax returns to gain false donation rebates.

Accountants are being asked to vote on a plan to join up with Australian accountants in a new professional body. Craig Norgate, chief executive of the NZ Institute of Chartered Accountants, argues the case.

A Wellington businessman has been sentenced to three years and six months in prison for his part in an aggressive tax evasion scheme.

September 7, 2018: The sharemarket soared to another record high this week as investors continued to react positively to the phenomenal June 2018 year profit announcements.

New Zealand's listed companies are commonly adjusting their accounting profits to communicate their financial performance to the markets, referring to them as underlying earnings or normalised profit.

For a man who claims to have become an accountant out of sheer laziness, Paul Chambers has a lot on his plate.

An accountant told to pay nearly $35,000 earlier this year for professional misconduct has now been suspended after his initial punishment was deemed too light.

Inland Revenue says the conviction of three businessmen for tax evasion today shows there are consequences when the rules are broken deliberately.

An accountant has been rapped over the knuckles and fined for helping family members with their tax returns without holding the necessary qualifications.