Euronext, the merged Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels securities markets, has beaten the London Stock Exchange in its bid for LIFFE, buying the futures a...
View articleXBRL, the revolutionary internet financial reporting language, has scored its first European success with the release of Reuters' third-quarter result...
View articleMore than three in ten listed companies are misleading analysts by keeping them in the dark over their goodwill amortisation policies, new research ha...
View articleUp to 150 FTSE-listed companies will downgrade their profit expectations in the last quarter, Ernst & Young has predicted. Read More...
View articleIn a last-minute rescue attempt, engineering giant Kvaerner has been thrown a one-week lifeline from its largest shareholder after the company said on...
View articleJohn Mayo, the former Marconi finance director and deputy chief executive, is about to receive £500,000 in pension benefits following his sudden depar...
View articleThe government may not get its not-for-profit rail company if a potential bid by the US finance group Babcock & Brown proves suitable. Read More...
View articleKPMG has crept ahead of Andersen in the latest Zephus deal league table, racking up £5.5bn of deals in the first nine months of the year. Read More...
View articleAnglo-Dutch engineering group Kvaerner today said it faces insolvency unless it finds a solution to critical financing problems by Monday next week. R...
View articlePricewaterhouseCoopers, the liquidators of collapsed Independent Insurance, has found itself in conflict with insurance brokers after demanding the re...
View articleThe Confederation of British Industry says it will stand by its call for the Bank of England to reduce interest rates by half a percentage point, desp...
View articleExecutives and senior managers have nothing to lose and everything to gainby admitting they don't know everything, delegates at the Chartered Institut...
View articleNew research from Gallup shows that over 80% of UK employees are not engaged by their work with the millions spent each year on management training be...
View articleWith companies facing tough economic conditions and staff being laid off, it is not a very good idea to host a Christmas Party for the 'survivors'. Re...
View articleThe Big Five firms are growing increasingly pessimistic about their ability to survive the current economic downturn unscathed. Read More...
View articleChristmas is not off the agenda for the majority of UK companies this year, despite terrorism fears, war in Afghanistan and the negative economic clim...
View articleTeam working is essential in creating an environment which fosters good morale. The work that you do and its quality is dependent not only on your per...
View articleThe glasses were being raised at KPMG Corporate Finance last week after pulling off the £208m Kyndal whisky brands deal - the largest-ever management ...
View articleAfter being made Young Entrepreneur of the Year two weeks ago Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the high profile chairman of easyJet, is already celebrating. Read...
View articleThe Big Five firms are growing increasingly pessimistic about their ability to survive the current economic downturn unscathed. Read More...
View articleNow here at TS we know all too well how accountancy can often be a rather dry topic. And the development of accounting rules is deemed to be one of th...
View articleLast week TS duly reported that Alan Bloom, Ernst & Young’s now famous corporate undertaker, had taken on the administration of Railtrack a...
View articleWe like big books landing on the TS desk, it makes us feel important. And so we did when the Corporate Research Foundation’s latest volume Brita...
View articleThe International Accounting Standards Board has been urged by a senior European Commission official not to ignore standards for non-listed companies,...
View articleBy early this week the FTSE-100 had recovered all losses suffered since the terrorist attacks of 11 September. That’s a big plus – especia...
View articleAt last, reporting suspicion of fraud is being discussed purposefully (Financial war: accountants face call-up, page 7, 11 October). Fraud is fraud, a...
View articleTo cut marketing budgets at the first sign of downturn leads to lost business in the long run, says Tim Prizeman. But Phil Shohet believes it's partne...
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