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View articleNeil Walker, Principle Consultant at AJ Chambers and Lee Holloway, Partner and head of the Tax Risk Management team at Grant Thornton, discuss the dif...
View articleIn the second part of Accountancy Age’s exclusive interview with Sir Donald Brydon, we hear how the same concerns with audit expressed in 1992 have no...
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View articleSpeaking exclusively to Accountancy Age in the first of a two-part series, Sir Donald Brydon - author of the report into the effectiveness and quality...
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View articleAAT has released advice on how its members can guide their clients on reducing their carbon emissions and become greener. Read More...
View articleSir Donald Brydon’s report into the quality and effectiveness of audit was published at the end of 2019, and in it, Brydon tackles the issues of the a...
View articleA review into IR35, promised by Sajid Javid in the run up to the election, has been launched by the UK government. While this will come as welcome new...
View articleProfessional services firms need to take immediate action in order to meet requirements of amended AML regulation, that will come into force on the 10...
View articleOne day after the release of the Brydon report on 18 December, The Queen’s Speech referenced the government’s proposal to create a stronger regulator ...
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View articleConservative MPs John Redwood and Andrew Bowie have both written to Sajid Javid, urging him to suspend or extend the IR36 6 April 2020 deadline until ...
View articleThe UK’s audit and accountancy watchdog has announced it will expand its investigation into EY’s auditing of Thomas Cook’s financial statements to inc...
View articleThe IASB has put forward a set of “game changing” proposals that it hopes will improve financial reporting for both investors and for companies commun...
View articleThe long wait for the Brydon report is over, and in it Sir Donald Brydon makes a series of recommendations including the break-up of the auditing indu...
View articleThe FRC has issued revised ethical and auditing standards in an effort to strengthen auditor independence and ban conflicts of interest. Read More...
View articleKamlesh Rajput, founder of Sterling Finance, winners of the graduate and non-graduate programme of the year award at the 2019 British Accountancy Awar...
View articleThe Big Four firm has announced a drop in profits amid rumours that as many as 65 partners could quite the firm. Read More...
View articleTrustees of defined benefit pension schemes are coming under increasing pressure to fully fund them, therefore putting employers under pressure to pay...
View articleA decision on audit reform is currently being held up by the UK’s general election. Could the future of audit reform be very different depending on th...
View articleWhile some fear the adoption of new technology, accountants should embrace it as an enabler to free their time to focus on more profitable and meaning...
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