CA daily briefing: Friday 30 October

Your essential briefing of the morning's top news stories.
Good morning, Hilde Oesterkloeft here to give you today's latest news and updates.
The latest from ICAS
As ICAS continues its celebration of Black History Month, we caught up with Nneamaka Ochuba CA, Audit Manager at Azets, about her inspirations, her career and the BLM movement.
This article highlights the ten areas in company reports identified by the FRC as needing improvement. Anne Adrain reports.
Today's top stories from around the web
- Japan's first passenger jet in decades put on hold (BBC News)
- UK house price growth rises to highest rate in five years (City AM)
- Apple's late iPhone launch temporarily wiped $100 billion off its stock value (Reuters)
- Coronavirus: Revealed - the impact Eat Out to Help Out had on infection rates (Sky News)
- Amazon third-quarter earnings soar as pandemic sales triple profits (The Guardian)
- COVID: What impact has the furlough scheme had? (BBC News)
- Review of Croydon Council’s ‘dysfunctional’ financial governance (Accountancy Daily)
- Natwest returns to profit as virus loan charges fall (City AM)
- BA-owner says driving down costs, calls for travel testing regime (Reuters)
- COVID-19 second wave pushing UK to brink of double-dip recessions (The Guardian)
That's all for today. Check back next week for your Monday briefing.