The courts have ruled that accountants cannot have legal privilege like lawyers. The conclusion is ostensibly that the issue is a matter for law maker...
View articleHans Hoogervorst, former dutch finance minister and currently the Netherlands’ chief financial policeman, has been made chairman of the IASB. Th...
View articleI wonder how long it will take following the publication yesterday of Sir Philip Green’s conclusions into Government spending practice before th...
View articleWell done to a whole range of MEPS led by German Socialist Barbara Weiler in sticking up for SMEs across Europe who suffer greatly from cash flow prob...
View articleICAEW council meetings can be dull. They can also crackle with tension. Often they’re a mixture of both. Yesterday’s meeting was more of t...
View articleJudging by the mood amongst credit and finance professionals at an industry Think Tank I attended this week, it’s no surprise the Bank of Englan...
View articleThe row over child benefit rumbles on. And it’s beginning to look embarrassing for the Tory party, so much so that many observers are now compar...
View articleGrant Thornton has not held back. In response to a House of Lord inquiry it has let the regulator and Big Four have it with both barrels. When it come...
View articleTheirs is a tale of broken hearts, bruised egos and simmering tension. So much so in fact you would think their name was Miliband. Auditors and regula...
View articleThe long-term impact of HMRC’s PAYE errors explored Read More...
View articleAll credit to Ernst & Young partner Patricia Jackson today for taking the message to the Lib Dem and Labour conferences that banks should not be ...
View articleThe Financial Services Authority has given auditors another pasting. Back in July the regulator complained quite publicly that it was worried auditors...
View articleResearch from the ACCA and Deloitte out today suggests that CFOs are unhappy with narrative reporting wanting more discretion in what it means and les...
View articleIf there was an accountant who claim to be the most popular accountant in the City right now it is Douglas Flint, group FD at HSBC and possible conten...
View articleFascinating times for RSM Tenon. From struggling to make a profit through absorbing a host of different firms in the early days, it now has its house ...
View articleBusiness secretary Vince Cable appears to be doing everything in his power to alienate himself from everyone in well,.. business. Not the best positio...
View articleHM Revenue & Customs’ staff survey has kept the headline writers busy in recent years, so when news reached us via accounting uber-blogger K...
View articleAvid readers of the Age will have noticed that its hacks couldn’t bother writing out PricewaterhouseCoopers any more, and for the sake of their ...
View articleFor anyone still holding a sliver of doubt that the big firms are eyeing up consulting to boost revenues, then look at the latest markets stats. The p...
View articleEconomic trouble takes its toll on the market for practices Read More...
View articleEconomic trouble takes its toll on the market for practices Read More...
View articleNews this morning that Britain’s six biggest banks have asked a credit reference agency to report on the creditworthiness of their customers in ...
View articleThe World Wide Web is a wonderful source of knowledge, but excessive use of the internet during working hours can land you in big trouble……...
View articleTaxman’s stance risks the disappearance of top sports stars from UK events Read More...
View articleTaxman’s stance risks the disappearance of top sports stars from UK events Read More...
View articleRecent research from the Forum of Private Business has revealed that despite pressure from Government on all public bodies to pay trade invoices to SM...
View articleAnyone who sees the problem of banks not lending enough to SMEs as a peculiarly British affair is very much mistaken. A few weeks ago over in the US, ...
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