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View articleDuring 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...
View articleArthur 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...
View articleCoopers & Lybrand and Leonard Curtis partners were appointed as joint administrators of the collapsed clothes importer Hamlet Group . CoopersR...
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View articleThe plans by international accounting standards setters to approve a set of draft accounting rules by April next year are set to fail. The Internation...
View articleRobson Rhodes is disbanding the team at its Cambridge office after disgruntled partners failed in a bid to defect to rival Grant Thornton. The parent ...
View articleChris 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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