The profession is divided over the Contributions Agency’s increased powers to collect unpaid National Insurance. In August, Peter Lilley, secret...
View articleThis month's Company Reporting looks at the implications for thepresentation of accounts following the Accounting Standards Board'sproposals on goodwi...
View articleMarketing techniques are essential to the success of a company, andaccountants should tate note. Gordon Gilchrist shows how to gain the leadsjust by u...
View articleCoopers & Lybrand appears to have become the second Big Six firm to become implicated in Jersey’s first major financial scandal. An Accounta...
View articleThe new UK standard for prompt payment launched last week, BS7890, gives advice to both suppliers and debtors to help prevent and resolve payment disp...
View articleSmuggling of tobacco and alcohol from Europe costs the UK economy # 770m every year in lost VAT, a Customs & Excise survey has revealed. The amoun...
View articleThe # 37bn-a-year invoice finance industry is to be represented by a single association after a merger of three separate trade organisations. The newl...
View articleA Sussex businessman is suing Coopers & Lybrand for # 1.5m for allegedly issuing negligent advice when he sold his office partitioning business t...
View articleKPMG found itself on both sides of the fence in City scandals this week after investment banking group Morgan Grenfell, one of the audit firm’s ...
View articleResearch suggests UK workers are suffering from job-related stress.Nowhere does this seem to be more the case than in accountancy. CaronLipman looks a...
View articleA new edition of the English ICA booklet Towards Better Auditing hasjust been published. Richard Bint explains why it was important to updateit Read M...
View articleBusiness and meditation appear to be worlds apart, the one demanding activity, the other, stillness. But as workplace stress becomes more of an issue,...
View articleFinance staff in the banking and insurance industries were warned last week to prepare for a fresh round of job cuts in the wake of the 150 branch clo...
View articleA specialist knowledge of tax legislation can save charitiesthousands of pounds each year but a financial adviser does not come cheap Read More...
View articleSimon Duffy, group finance director of EMI, has joined Imperial Tobacco as one of three new non-executive directors ahead of the group’s demerge...
View articleThe English ICA this week responded to the Inland Revenue'sconsultative document on employee travel and subsistence, accusing theproposed legislation ...
View articleRobert Smith, chairman and CEO of Morgan Grenfell development capitaland president of the Scots ICA, gives an insight into how venturecapitalists and ...
View articleDeloitte & Touche’s outsourcing arm has made its first major foray into the private sector with a four-year deal to run the back-office acc...
View articleNicholas Taylor of Grimsby, South Humberside has been severely reprimanded, fined z2,000 and charged costs of z1,600 by the English ICA’s discip...
View articleThe new regime of self-assessment will change the culture of taxpaying and collection in the UK. A more confrontational system has beenpredicted and, ...
View articleMore than 700 accountants in practice received a stiff warning about the profession’s future last week, during day-long seminars on how to re-en...
View articleThere are more ways to make money than plain old audit. Sarah Perrinexperiences the latest guru-led, fervour-inducing management training -this time d...
View articleThe English ICA’s regulatory procedures are facing renewed criticism in a letter to the Securities and Investments Board from a disgruntled memb...
View articleReceivership and administration order appointments in August dropped 34% on July’s total, according to the latest figures released by Deloitte &...
View articleIn the immediate aftermath of the recent scandals which have rocked blue-chip City banks Morgan Grenfell and Robert Fleming, anxious City investors ar...
View articleACCA officers were condemned by 41 MPs for pressurising the employersof one reformer Read More...
View articleSome companies are considering whether to have their subsidiaries use intranet technology to send financial reporting information to head offices R...
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