Public services minister Roger Freeman last week pledged the Government to finding a solution to the liability burden faced by auditors. Speaking at t...
View articleA string of harsh restrictions are hampering the use of reinvestment relief on capital gains tax, experts claim. The relief allows individuals to defe...
View articleThe English Institute has criticised a Top 20 firm’s behaviour as ‘legal but not reasonable’ after it refused to hand over a small f...
View articleStanley Leisure, the z300m-turnover racing and casino business, has introduced a performance-related bonus scheme for directors that won’t scare...
View articleTax experts have condemned a major change to the VAT system which stops NHS trusts reclaiming millions of pounds in overpaid tax. Customs & Excise...
View articleDirectors' pay is still a sore subject, despite the intervention ofthe Greenbury Report. Simon Garrett looks at the balancing act betweencorporate rew...
View articleThe English ICA is set to launch its own investigation into the role played by auditors Bird Luckin in the z1bn losses suffered in 1992 by hotels grou...
View articlePensions Review project managers are growing ‘increasingly pessimistic’ about delays to their expected completion dates, research by Deloi...
View articleUK pension funds have been net sellers of UK equities over the last four quarters to the tune of almost # 7bn, while long-term life assurance companie...
View articleThe Charity Commission will shortly embark on a large-scale exerciseintending to sharpen the fiscal awareness of some of the UK's majorcharities Read ...
View articleThe English ICA has revamped its guidance to practitioners on how to run a ship-shape audit. Towards Better Auditing, a 64-page booklet released this ...
View articleHughes Allen is suing former managing partner Peter Scolding for more than # 240,000, after the firm discovered an apparent hole in its finances. The ...
View articlePeter Smith has just celebrated two increasingly successful years asCoopers chairman. He talks to Andrew Pring about his tenure at EmbankmentPlace Rea...
View articleThe breakdown of management controls in the asset management arm of merchant bank Morgan Grenfell led to calls this week for auditors to take a wider ...
View articleSir Adrian Cadbury’s code on corporate governance clearly placed responsibility for ‘a balanced and understandable’ assessment of a ...
View articleThe 1990s have seen charities subject to the sameself-regulatory disciplines as profit-making organisations Read More...
View articleTax cuts of up to # 1bn are called for by the Confederation of BritishIndustry in its annual Budget submission, writes Jon Bunn Read More...
View articleOfficials at the DTI (right) have scotched rumours that an announcement on UK reform of limited liability partnership legislation is imminent. The DTI...
View articleA communication gap between head office and subsidiary finance departments has resulted in companies having to issue profit warnings, according to KPM...
View articleLosing your job may be a traumatic experience but, as Ian Hunterexplains, don't be so stunned as to forget your legal entitlements or yourability to n...
View articleCoopers & Lybrand appears to have become the second Big Six firm to become implicated in Jersey’s first major financial scandal. An Accounta...
View articleThe new UK standard for prompt payment launched last week, BS7890, gives advice to both suppliers and debtors to help prevent and resolve payment disp...
View articleFinancial controls are essential to a company's integrity but Shell'sgroup controller, Jan de Kreij explains that there must be room formanoeuvre Read...
View articleThe Inland Revenue plans to scrap its current system of assessing the effectiveness of its investigators, in favour of a new system based on a more &#...
View articleCitizens’ Charter standards at Customs & Excise and the Inland Revenue have risen over the past five years. The only Charter mark to show a ...
View articleSmuggling of tobacco and alcohol from Europe costs the UK economy # 770m every year in lost VAT, a Customs & Excise survey has revealed. The amoun...
View articleThe # 37bn-a-year invoice finance industry is to be represented by a single association after a merger of three separate trade organisations. The newl...
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