Accountancy firms have confirmed contingency plans are in place to deal with the fallout of the economic downturn as confidence and output drops in th...
View articleEnron administrator PricewaterhouseCoopers has secured its first sale after utilities company Centrica paid £96.4m in cash for Enron Direct Ltd, the c...
View articleCompanies in the UK risk going out of business because they are not adapting their invoicing, tax and accounting functions fast enough to cope with th...
View articleUS financial regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission has warned that financial reporting from some hi-tech firms may be misleading. Read More...
View articleMany of the big firms are weaving their way towards public ownership, but while an IPO can produce significant benefits for the partners, what does it...
View articleTenon, the UK's largest accountancy consolidator, has this week launched its corporate finance arm specialising in deals worth between £3m and £100m. ...
View articleCharging the cost of share options to the profit and loss account should be avoided, says PricewaterhouseCoopers. Read More...
View articleEast Midlands football giants Nottingham Forest has today had its shares suspended from the AIM stock market for failing to report its accounts on tim...
View articleSmall business minister and Edinburgh South MP Nigel Griffiths has been cleared by the House of Commons standards commissioner of misusing taxpayers m...
View articleNew research has revealed that small companies across all sectors of the economy are taking on average a week less to pay their invoices - a sign of b...
View articleSelf-employed subcontractors are bracing themselves for a new tax crackdown when the Treasury completes a review of employment status to be released e...
View articleCRM strategiesare being given increasing prominence at board level, according to a recent survey by management consultants, Winchester White. 65% of r...
View articleAlthough salary negotiations are an area of much concern and confusion, a recent survey by Robert Half International Consulting (RHI Consulting) disco...
View articleThe Government's commitment to public services means the sector can be seen as a safe haven for consultants. But it is not immune to recessionary-or b...
View articleFootball giant Manchester United has retained the top spot of the Deloitte & Touche Rich List for a fourth successive year. Read More...
View articleLike public schools, colleges at Oxford and Cambridge have led charmed lives. Inquiries have come and gone but on they sail, bastions of privilege - a...
View articleThis summary is designed to highlight the key legal issues and to flag up a few warning signs that a well-advised employer or employee should watch ou...
View articlePublication of the latest salary survey from our sister title Financial Director will provoke the usual round of outrage about fat cat pay tempered by...
View articleAround 1,100 jobs are to go across the UK operation of Enron, the collapsed giant US energy company, just a day after the appointment of administrator...
View articleKPMG will become the liquidator of the New Millennium Experience Company, owner of the ill-fated Millennium Dome, once the company's final accounts ar...
View articleIt is high time the public sector comparator was banned for certain types of proven deals - it served its purpose but now only clouds the poor quality...
View articleEquitable Life is gearing up to launch legal action against Ernst & Young over its involvement in the collapse of the troubled life insurer. Read ...
View articleShould businessmen be recruited as civil servants within the Department of Trade and Industry? Sir Peter Kemp backs the plan but Gavin Hinks warns tha...
View articleCity forensic accountants Lee & Allen have been commissioned to investigate just how damaging a BBC report, incorrectly linking the mining company Ory...
View articleFinance directors have revealed that they are evenly split over whether the introduction of the euro in the New Year will damage UK business. Read Mor...
View articleConservative education spokesman Damian Green has repeated calls for the ongoing Individual Learning Account (ILA) crisis to be investigated by the Pu...
View articleBig bonuses have taken six FTSE-100 FDs into the million-pound-a-year bracket, according to the fifth annual pay survey by Financial Director magazine...
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