Small practitioners are displeased with the pressures brought to bearon their businesses by both the English ICA and new regulations. Here wepublish t...
View articleArthur Andersen has poached four more staff from Pannell Kerr Forster’s embattled hotel consultancy business to add to the three it snatched ear...
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View articleAnyone interested in the selection or implementation of new financial and accounting systems would do well to beat a path to two forthcoming events. S...
View articleKidsons Impey has signalled a clear intention to boost its corporate finance strength by making a string of senior appointments. Graham Spooner has jo...
View articleProportionate liability should be a statutory contractual alternative to the current joint and several arrangement, according to a Law Society report....
View articleMost failed growth strategies fall into one of four categories, claimed a senior Royal Bank of Scotland director. Commercial and corporate director Do...
View articleOpponents of Jersey’s limited liability legislation aim to cripple it during a final debate later this month. Details of the controversial legis...
View articleAuditors risk placing too little emphasis on the potentially dramatic financial effects of their clients’ environmental exposure, claims researc...
View articleThe massive re-organisation of financial accounting procedures at troubled car parking giant, National Car Parks, has resulted in the resignation of f...
View articleLabour’s proposal to axe tax-relief on private health insurance for the over-60s will hit both the elderly and the NHS. It would lead to premium...
View articleA former assistant accountant at the Church of England’s finance and administrative headquarters in Westminster is to stand trial accused of emb...
View articleShadow Chancellor Gordon Brown is keeping his top rate tax options open despite Labour party leader Tony Blair’s claim to have no plans to ̵...
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View articleDavid Chitty has been appointed international technical co-ordinator by DFK International, which is a network consisting of 11 UK accounting practices...
View articlePoor definition of a ‘debt on security’ lost Tarmac Roadstone Holdings its Special Commissioners appeal against tax on a capital gain of o...
View articleMajor problems could arise from the recent Pensions Act forcing trustees to increase independence from associated businesses over governance, claims a...
View articleCoopers & Lybrand has filed a High Court writ on behalf of troubled Ostrich Farming Corporation, which ceased trading in April. Coopers, acting a...
View articleDissident ACCA members have forced reform back on to the association’s agenda by securing enough support to hold an Extraordinary General Meetin...
View articleCustoms & Excise’s embattled VAT policy head, Martin Brown, has launched a vigorous defence of his decision to suspend and then continue ove...
View articlePotential abuse of the Rent A Room tax break scheme has been stamped out by the Inland Revenue. The Revenue added a clarifying sentence to this year&#...
View articleThe English ICA could appoint a director-general whose main purpose would be to lobby on technical and professional matters, overturning ten years of ...
View articleIn the last two articles, I addressed five questions which should help you in defining the main areas you should focus on in order to take your career...
View articleConfusion gripped Customs & Excise offices this week after a directive placing a blanket ban on all VAT payouts under the new three-year rule was ...
View articleNine out of ten local authorities have yet to set up audit committees, despite their proliferation elsewhere in the public sector, according to a repo...
View articleKPMG remains king of the Big Six auditors, increasing its lead over rivals as the firm with the most stock market clients. According to statistics rev...
View articleAccountancy firms are missing opportunities to service small and medium-sized businesses because they do not understand what these businesses want. Th...
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