Judging by the first two weeks of the new millennium, three issues will dominate the profession this year: transparency, transparency and transparency...
View articleBooklet shows changes in UK tax liability legislation; Tax credit scheme amended. Read More...
View articleAccounting Online has launched an online credit card processing facility for its range of e-business and e-commerce services. Developments are also un...
View articleWho says dealing with all those high-net-worth individuals is enough to lift a tax accountant’s financial feet off the ground? Take KPMG persona...
View articleKPMG has become the first Big Five firm to open a new tax practice unit in the UK, writes Alex Miller. Read More...
View articleWe did not hear from Nostradamus at the year's end, telling us what the future might hold, not only for a year but a century or a millennium. Read Mor...
View articleCatherine Chetwynd explores the latest innovations in business class air travel. Read More...
View articleLast month I wanted to keep Revenue powers in relation to employment within limits. This month it's the heavy stuff - serious fraud. Read More...
View articleComfy feet may be the order of the day for the suits at KPMG. While hosting the company’s annual results press conference recently, senior partn...
View articleCambridge Consultants has appointed Jim Schoenenberger as head of its wireless telecommunications practice. He becomes business developer within the f...
View articleCIMA has become the first professional body to set up a service allowing users to retrieve voice and electronic communication through their computer f...
View article13 Thursday[QQ] Retail giant Kingfisher is due to issue trading statements to the Stock Exchange. Royal Bank of Scotland is to hold an egm. Property d...
View articleA recent eight-team pub quiz involving two Manchester student societies sponsored by Harrison Willis ended in controversy. In a finish of quite unbeli...
View articleAccountants may inspire less sympathy from their human resources departments following publication of an article in ‘Personnel Today’ whic...
View articleWhen Channel 5 decided to interview somebody at department store Selfridges about last-minute Christmas shopping, who do you think they turned to? A l...
View articleSome people really go beyond the call of duty. Nick Whitaker, head of corporate finance at Parnell Kerr Forster, has managed to demonstrate that when ...
View articleThe Professional Accountants Division of Sage has officially launched in Wimbledon. The administration and management of the Sage Accountants Club wil...
View articleValue for everybody?[QQ] Mike Higgins (‘Good value for everybody’, 2 December, page 18) makes a very rational and convincing case for the ...
View articlePerhaps the millennium bug really did bite after all. One Taking Stock reader was a little surprised to receive a £500 demand from PPP Healthcare̵...
View articleDespite the vast majority of the media reporting that the effects of the Y2K bug have been fairly minimal – organisers of the Millennium Bug Bal...
View articleInsurance broker PWS Holdings has been forced by the financial reporting watchdog to amend its 1998 accounts to show an amortisation charge as a norma...
View articlePricewaterhouseCoopers has been called in by the banks behind troubled trading financier Versailles in an attempt to safeguard loans believed to total...
View articleThe charity and voluntary sector is set to get a £500m tax relief boost in chancellor Gordon Brown’s March Budget. Brown and prime minister Tony...
View articleA UK enquiry into audit independence may be launched later in the year in the wake of the US Securities and Exchange probe into firms whose partners a...
View articleMore than 1,200 staff at KPMG’s London offices will be moved to Canary Wharf this year as the firm’s financial services business unit relo...
View articleTreasury minister Andrew Smith was expected to get a rough ride Read More...
View articleThe Inland Revenue has extended a service that allows taxpayers to get free valuation figures to help them calculate their capital gains tax to compan...
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