The role of auditors will come under the microscope following a request by the Hampel Committee on corporate governance for City institutions to comme...
View articleGreat Ormond Street FD John Hennessey never planned a career in thepublic sector. But, as he tells Patrick Hook, the challenge was too greatto resist....
View articleThe strong performance of stock markets worldwide has created newopportunities for portfolio managers, but as John Wright explains, therisks remain hi...
View articleInternational factors are essential to any debate concerningaccountancy's future. With this in mind, Peter Holgate stresses theimportance of global st...
View articleLaw firm Nabarro Nathanson is the leading AIM legal adviser, according to recent research by trade magazine Legal Business. Nabarro came top after adv...
View articlePrice Waterhouse’s tough stance demanding that audit client Burn Stewart should apply accounting standards, even though it could lead to the fir...
View articleErnst & Young has significantly boosted its tax practice by recruiting a senior Inland Revenue compliance officer as national director of tax inve...
View articleCompliance staff working in the City can look forward to raising their status after the launch last week of a Master of Science course in Financial Se...
View articleThe District Audit has appointed chartered accountant Andrew Emmett as finance director. Emmett, 39, joins from Thorn EMI, where he was responsible fo...
View articlePrice Waterhouse is to take over from Arthur Andersen as auditors to beleaguered DIY retailer Wickes. Andersens resigned the audit last week. A formal...
View articleIn his career advice column this week, Alan Naylor stresses theimportance of acquiring skills Read More...
View articleBaker Tilly has teamed up with a firm of Irish chartered accountants to set up a new practice in Dublin in an attempt to take advantage of Irish growt...
View articleToday's brilliant young accountants are missing something. RobbieCowan rediscovers the lost skills of old-style client management. Read More...
View articleClubs and associations place special demands on auditors. ValerieSteward offers advice on the best way to approach the auditing ofunincorporated assoc...
View articleTomorrow's partners will have to acquire and demostrate a variety ofskills if they are to prove invaluable to their firms Read More...
View articleMore and more FTSE-100 companies are putting detailed financial information out on the Internet, according to a report in the monthly accounts analysi...
View articleMaking the European single market work to the UK's advantage shouldbe a Government priority Read More...
View articleBritish Gas international FD Steve Lucas has been appointed chairman of the Oil Industry Accounting Committee (OIAC). OIAC is responsible for co-ordin...
View articleA European Court of Justice ruling has confirmed Customs & Excise’s position that share dealing by charities is outside the scope of VAT. Ta...
View articleWard Hadaway is to establish its new headquarters at the Newcastle Quayside development. The firm will start the new year at Sandgate House at the gat...
View articleChange is afoot in international accounting as attempts are made toregulate the world's stock markets. Harriot Lane Fox previews the Coopers &Lybr...
View articleIt is unlikely that CIMA can ever rejoin its fellow institutes afterlast week's public savaging of the consultation paper's key proposals. Read More...
View articleThe International Accounting Standards Committee’s race to achieve a core set of global accounting standards by early 1998 could be undermined b...
View articleOver-zealous disciplinary measures and excessive punishment handed out by the Joint Monitoring Unit have angered chartered accountants in the South Ea...
View articleACCA members have won the right to call themselves ‘chartered’ after the Privy Council confirmed a decision made at the association’...
View articleNo business or accounting software package is ever totally bug free. Software suppliers have long since acknowledged this and happily continue to sell...
View articleWhether to regulate the accountancy profession is not at issue – the question is how? External regulation or self-regulation? Each has its advan...
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