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View articleA small practitioner aims to scupper Customs & Excise’s three-year rule on VAT repayment claims through a judicial review. Pankaj Bakshi, s...
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View articleA district auditor is investigating a ‘serious misjudgment’ by Welwyn Hatfield Council which resulted in a #50m damages award to a propert...
View articleA chartered accountant jailed for stealing #60,000 from his employer has been thrown out of the English ICA. Cyril Clifford, from Tonbridge, Kent, was...
View articleThe Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists launched a challenge to Customs & Excise’s three-year rule on VAT repayment claims las...
View articleAccountancy firms are lagging behind rival professional advisers in the race for work on the Government’s private finance initiative with lawyer...
View articlePlanned simplifications of the Companies Act designed to help small businesses could result in highly misleading company accounts, the Scots ICA has w...
View articleOnce the political decision to proceed with privatising the nuclearindustry had been taken, it fell on accountants to prepare a business planand ensur...
View articleAccounting Standards Board proposals published this week would close the loophole that allows companies to avoid depreciating properties. But it has m...
View articleThe Accounting Standards Board has been largely successful in reducing the number of companies excluding subsidiaries from the consolidated accounts. ...
View articleDissident ACCA member Prem Sikka has been subjected to a vicious hate campaign in the run-up to an extraordinary general meeting in two weeks’ t...
View articleThe Law Commission has proposed the creation of a new criminal offence to fight mortgage and other fraud after a House of Lords decision last July thr...
View articleA central plank of Labour’s economic policy is doomed to failure if the party wins the next election, accountants have warned. Labour’s pl...
View articleFamily-run businesses that don’t admit outside shareholders underperform those that do, according to a survey by Coopers & Lybrand. The fir...
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View articleThe audit industry is becoming an obstacle to the creation of a moredemocratic business culture. Read More...
View articleKPMG has shaken up its top management posts in a prelude to a major re-organisation of its UK operation. The firm has promoted Roger Dickens, senior p...
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View articlePrice Waterhouse’s annual global income smashed through the $5bn (#3.2bn) mark in the year to June, continuing a trend of double-digit growth. T...
View articleTighter controls have been introduced at the Diocese of London after a church accountant stole #240,000 to fund his lavish lifestyle. Unqualified Dean...
View articleKPMG claimed this week to have overwhelming backing from the UK’s top companies for its decision to disclose plc-style financial information aft...
View articleBeleaguered DIY retailer Wickes was still wrestling with the exact wording of its circular to shareholders this week. Negotiations were still taking p...
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