An emergency meeting of the Financial Action Task Force this week stated its mission was to ‘strangle and cut the supply of money and assets tha...
View articleSenior managers who admit they have things to learn will improve the learning culture in their companies, according to speakers at the Chartered Insti...
View articleGrant Thornton is facing claims for damages understood to total several millions of pounds over its role in the collapse of housewares company Heritag...
View articleFailure to disclose goodwill amortisation policies is rife among among FTSE-listed businesses Read More...
View articleAccountancy-related shares rebounded this week as two new companies made their debut on the Accountancy Age/ADVFN index, writes Adriana Zea. Shares fo...
View articleThursday November 1 Confederation of British Industry to publish distributive trades survey. Interim results from chemicals company Reflec. ICI, Power...
View articleI could not believe the words of recent correspondents who have begrudged teachers a loan for the paltry sum of #6,000. Do they have no concept of the...
View articleNot so long ago it was ‘not enough good calibre people for corporate finance’. Now, staff at all levels are being made redundant. This is ...
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View articleAngus Farr is the national training and HR manager at HLB Kidsons. He joined the firm as a trainee in 1994, qualifying as a chartered accountant in 19...
View articleIncreasingly senior financial professionals are choosing to 'go it alone' with wide and varied portfolios. At a time of changing trends in the financi...
View articleHome secretary David Blunkett’s autobiography On a clear day shows him to be strait-laced, in a pro-family, traditional morality way and adaptab...
View articleIn the wake of the 11 September attacks on New York and Washington bombs may have fallen on Afghanistan, but the world is also focused on the finances...
View articleThe testimony of Bin Laden's former 'CFO' has given US security officials a vital insight into how the terrorist group al-Qaida used legitimate busnes...
View articleRailtrack's last set of accounts, signed off in May, painted a picture of a company already in serious financial trouble. Read More...
View articlePlans to give shareholders more influence over directors'remuneration given thumbs up Read More...
View articleAs the airline industry almost grinds to a halt, budget carrier easyJet shows no sign of slowing Read More...
View articleThe Accountancy Age/ADVFN index’s recent recovery has suffered a small setback as two of its stocks fell back more than 10% in an uneasy economi...
View articleThursday 25 October Retailer Arcadia Group announces full year results. Pilkington the glass manufacturer, announces half year results. Software maker...
View articleFalse accounting by Italian private companies is no longer a crime. But the prime minister's opponents accuse him of putting his own interests first R...
View articleDome minister Lord Falconer has had to make a public apology for mistakenly claiming in the House of Lords that the Dome has always been solvent. Read...
View articleKPMG corporate recovery has announced it has sold restaurant and bar chain Big Beat to a Glasgow-based group after the sale to another set of buyers f...
View articleSoftware giant SAP is searching for a new chief financial officer following the resignation of Edward Lyons who has left after just 11 months. Read Mo...
View article'The next big killer application for the internet is going to be education. It's going to be so big it's going to make email look like a rounding erro...
View articleFRS 17 could be harmful to some of Britain's largest companies according to a recent study by banker HSBC. Read More...
View articleAccountancy graduates have the highest graduate employment rate, faring better than IT and business and management graduates, according to new researc...
View articleA majority of insolvency professionals believe the 'revised powers' given to the government Insolvency Service, could be a threat to smaller practices...
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