Deloitte & Touche has staged a fierce attack on the profession’s plans for a new regulatory regime, branding it ‘totally illogicalR...
View articleSage plc, the PC accounting software vendor, reported a 34% increase in pre-tax profits on a turnover of #136.2m to the year ended 30 September 1996. ...
View articleDespite political uncertainty created by the looming General Election, 76% of finance directors are confident that 1997 will be good for the UK econom...
View articleUp to 200,000 small firms could benefit from a DTI consultation paper proposal to raise the audit threshold from #90,000 turnover a year to #350,000. ...
View articleThe Federation des Experts Comptables Europeens has elected its first British president, Arthur Andersen partner David Darbyshire. Darbyshire comes on...
View articleBusinesses should publish annual statements showing the link between their people management and development strategies and business objectives, claim...
View articleAccountants had a braces-snapping good year in 1996 on the pay and job front. Good people were in short supply right from middle managers down to thos...
View articleThe English ICA wants the owners of Crest, the troubled electronic share settlement system, to re-write core software to make the system produce paper...
View articleSmall and medium-sized accountancy firms can count a boom in corporate finance work, at least until the election, as entrepreneurs sell out to larger ...
View articleBritish IT directors and managers are less well prepared to cope with the advent of the year 2000 than their European counterparts, even though they c...
View articleTwo things are going to happen with the euro during 1997. First, the accounting software industry will get a better handle on all the IT implications ...
View articlePublishing detailed financial results may have been unheard of among the top 20 firms two years ago, but by the end of this year it will have become t...
View articleSecond quarter Exposure draft on disclosure of derivatives and other financial instruments FRS on accounting for goodwill and intangibles, based on FR...
View articleAndersens Indian plan lets down UK regions I was dismayed to read the story on the front page (12 December) reporting that Arthur Andersen is proposin...
View articleOptimism is riding high that 1997 will see a lightening of the corporate governance load imposed by the Cadbury and Greenbury reports. The Hampel comm...
View articleA new approach to statutory auditing, based on co-operation and co-ordination, rather than legislation, is being developed by the European Commission....
View articleErnst & Young has set a deadline of April next year for its final decision on adopting limited liability partnership status in Jersey. Price Water...
View articleA high degree of compatibility between European Union and international accounting standards has reduced the need for listed companies to produce more...
View articlePannell Kerr Forster last week joined the exclusive financial disclosure club by becoming the fourth firm to publish its accounts. KPMG, Ernst & ...
View articleJohn Major may not be a fan of the 48-hour working week, but Stephen Coleclough can’t wait for it. As a VAT partner with City law firm Simmons &...
View articleMore than 1,500 CIMA accountants will be eligible to act as reporting accountants following regulations laid before Parliament this week and coming in...
View articleAuditors will begin qualifying companies’ accounts if any of their mission-critical computer systems prove unable to cope with the four-digit ye...
View articleSmall businesses have been prevented from taking their claims for compensation against UK banks to the Banking Ombudsman because the claims threshold ...
View articleMPs have criticised a report by the National Audit Office which clears the Atomic Energy Authority of allowing a conflict of interest to benefit Coope...
View articleSimon Rees and Andy Pollock's decision to quit Ernst & Young and setup shop for themselves has been amply vindicated. Their ability to spotgaps in...
View articleAccountants must take advantage of expert witness programmes if theyare to do justice to themselves in court, writes John Ellison. Read More...
View articleKidsons Impey has beaten off stiff competition to win its first National Audit Office contract, worth almost #100,000 a year. The firm’s Manches...
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