MANAGEMENT - Carnivores must start biting back
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MANAGEMENT - Carnivores must start biting back

29y John Stylianou

MANAGEMENT - Carnivores must start biting back

Initiatives like IIP are well intentioned but dangerous, warns SirPeter Kemp. Read More...

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THE BIG QUESTION - FDs give inflation accounting short shrift
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THE BIG QUESTION - FDs give inflation accounting short shrift

29y John Stylianou

THE BIG QUESTION - FDs give inflation accounting s...

FDs have resoundingly rejected the Treasury’s plans to introduce accounting for inflation for government departments. Almost two-thirds of FDs r...

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FD revamp
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FD revamp

29y John Stylianou

FD revamp

Financial departments will play a greater role in firms in future. Read More...

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OPINION - When the boom is over ...
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OPINION - When the boom is over ...

29y John Stylianou

OPINION - When the boom is over ...

Any newly qualified accountant deserves double congratulations. First, few who struggled through to pass the exams can ever forget the feeling of shee...

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Green light on liquidation
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Green light on liquidation

29y John Stylianou

Green light on liquidation

Coopers & Lybrand has taken a step forward in its liquidation of US insurer Emlico despite accusations of fraud by the company’s re-insurer...

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KPMG rejig in Dundee
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KPMG rejig in Dundee

29y John Stylianou

KPMG rejig in Dundee

KPMG is all but quitting its operations in Dundee following a merger with long-established local firm Henderson Loggie. From 1 December KPMG will vaca...

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Money back at Sagesoft
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Money back at Sagesoft

29y John Stylianou

Money back at Sagesoft

Sagesoft was ordered to refund the purchase price of its Sage Sterling software package in a small claims judgment at Portsmouth on 11 August. Managem...

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Mayor faces fraud probe
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Mayor faces fraud probe

29y John Stylianou

Mayor faces fraud probe

Fraud squad police have launched an investigation into a mayor’s hospitality bill at Kingston upon Hull City Council. The inquiry into the #42,0...

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Net backup service
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Net backup service

29y John Stylianou

Net backup service

Datanet International has introduced a remote data backup service called Netstore. Daily backups are run via the Internet to two storage sites. A smal...

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LETTERS
Management

LETTERS

29y John Stylianou

LETTERS

The future of CIPFA The fate of CIPFA mirrors that of public-sector organisations generally: they wither and die when they lose their legitimacy in th...

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ACCA takes global view
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ACCA takes global view

29y John Stylianou

ACCA takes global view

ACCA has elected 46 delegates for its international assembly which will be held in London at the end of September. The delegates will come from 32 cou...

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OPINION - Auditors can never provide enough detail
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OPINION - Auditors can never provide enough detail

29y John Stylianou

OPINION - Auditors can never provide enough detail

By failing to provide clients with sufficient information on theirinternal control systems, auditors and professional standards-setters arenot rising ...

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KPMG in leak enquiry
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KPMG in leak enquiry

29y John Stylianou

KPMG in leak enquiry

An attempt to poach newly qualifieds has backfired badly. Read More...

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OPINION - VIEW FROM THE HOUSE
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OPINION - VIEW FROM THE HOUSE

29y John Stylianou

OPINION - VIEW FROM THE HOUSE

During the long summer recess, MPs not only sit on the beach, they also reflect on the type of country they would like to live in over the next ten ye...

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Randall on top at Andersens
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Randall on top at Andersens

29y John Stylianou

Randall on top at Andersens

Arthur Andersen has chosen Philip Randall to take over from Jim Wadia as managing partner of the UK firm after Wadia’s move to head Andersens...

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Smoke clears at Hamlet
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Smoke clears at Hamlet

29y John Stylianou

Smoke clears at Hamlet

Coopers & Lybrand and Leonard Curtis partners were appointed as joint administrators of the collapsed clothes importer Hamlet Group . CoopersR...

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Sage for multiusers
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Sage for multiusers

29y John Stylianou

Sage for multiusers

The multiuser edition of Sage’s Sovereign for Windows v2 supports 200 users over Novell and Windows NT networks. It has ODBC links to Microsoft ...

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ACCOUNTING STANDARDS - IASC battles to hit deadline
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ACCOUNTING STANDARDS - IASC battles to hit deadline

29y John Stylianou

ACCOUNTING STANDARDS - IASC battles to hit deadlin...

The plans by international accounting standards setters to approve a set of draft accounting rules by April next year are set to fail. The Internation...

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PRACTICE - ROBSONS BREAKS UP REBEL OFFICE
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PRACTICE - ROBSONS BREAKS UP REBEL OFFICE

29y John Stylianou

PRACTICE - ROBSONS BREAKS UP REBEL OFFICE

Robson Rhodes is disbanding the team at its Cambridge office after disgruntled partners failed in a bid to defect to rival Grant Thornton. The parent ...

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Swinson to testify again
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Swinson to testify again

29y John Stylianou

Swinson to testify again

Chris Swinson, the English ICA deputy president, will once again appear as an expert witness for Dame Shirley Porter as she fights to clear her name o...

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Mid-range upgrade
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Mid-range upgrade

29y John Stylianou

Mid-range upgrade

The AS/400e is a network and Web server and runs older applications,says John Stokdyk. Read More...

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Appeal sparks VAT moves
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Appeal sparks VAT moves

29y John Stylianou

Appeal sparks VAT moves

City financial institutions are being advised to submit appeals to Customs & Excise over VAT on assignee leases following a successful tribunal a...

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GOVERNMENT - Opposition berates annual report plan
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GOVERNMENT - Opposition berates annual report plan

29y John Stylianou

GOVERNMENT - Opposition berates annual report plan

The government’s proposed ‘company-style’ annual report has been dismissed as being little more than an expensive and unaudited PR g...

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Healthy options
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Healthy options

29y John Stylianou

Healthy options

Employers can't rely on the NHS to look after their workers, writesJohn Holme. Read More...

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MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS - Levy Gee and Leonard Curtis scrap merger
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MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS - Levy Gee and Leonard Curtis scrap merger

29y John Stylianou

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS - Levy Gee and Leonard Cu...

Merger talks between Levy Gee and insolvency practitioner Leonard Curtis have collapsed after months of negotiation failed to achieve a ‘meeting...

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PERIPHERALS - No keyboard for this mouse
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PERIPHERALS - No keyboard for this mouse

29y John Stylianou

PERIPHERALS - No keyboard for this mouse

A ‘Super Mouse’ with built-in numeric keypad has reached these shores, courtesy of London-based importer Interworld Computing. Developed b...

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PUBLIC FINANCE - Audit Commission probe into 'erosion' of council FDs' powers.
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PUBLIC FINANCE - Audit Commission probe into 'erosion' of council FDs' powe...

29y John Stylianou

PUBLIC FINANCE - Audit Commission probe into 'eros...

The Audit Commission is half way through a study into the status of local authority finance directors following claims that their role and power are b...

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