U.K.

Mike Lynch, who is missing after his yacht sank off Sicily, had only recently fended off a U.S. criminal fraud case over the sale of his company to Hewlett Packard.

An influx of investors is accelerating growth in the professional services sector.

More than half of phone calls to HMRC are now going unanswered.

Crowe plans to add Belt Harris Pechacek; and PKF Smith Cooper acquired BLB Advisory.

A former employee of U.K. tech mogul Mike Lynch's Autonomy Corp. told jurors at his U.S. criminal trial that she and one of her higher-ups were both fired after flagging concerns about accounting irregularities.

It would cap a remarkable downfall for Mike Lynch if he's convicted of accounting fraud after he sold his startup Autonomy to Hewlett Packard for $11 billion.

The Financial Reporting Council is considering either Canary Wharf or Stratford for its new main office.

KPMG and its partner Adrian Wilcox failed to audit the advertising agency with sufficient professional skepticism, according to the Financial Reporting Council.

The technology company is the subject of an inquiry into a glitch in its Horizon accounting software that led to the wrongful accusations of theft, fraud or false accounting against more than 900 sub-postmasters in the U.K.

The firm delivered a 4% rise to its 833 U.K. partners, similar to last year's levels, but they remain at the bottom of the pay table.