Almost two-thirds of UK organisations have scrapped applications software estimated to be worth u290m as a result of mergers and acquisitions over the...
View articleACCA’s decision to launch its own technician-level qualification will confuse students and divide the profession, the Association of Accounting ...
View articleCoopers & Lybrand’s legal action to enjoin nine former executives of Barings as third parties has been widely applauded as a move to show th...
View articleOflot director general Peter Davis regulates the most successfullottery in the world, but as Leon Hopkins reports, his achievement has notshielded him...
View articleDun & Bradstreet Software has changed its name to Geac, following itsacquisition by the Canadian software group. Despite the deal, no clearlong-te...
View articleCorporate accountancy software group Coda has announced two strategic tie-ups that go some way to answering City critics of the company, which has iss...
View articleTory chartered accountant MP Michael Stern has called for an Inland Revenue style penalty system to be introduced to deal with Social Security fraudst...
View articleThe Welsh economy is transforming itself with indigenous manufacturingand inward investment. David Rowe-Beddoe of the Welsh Development Agencylooks at...
View articleSenior members of the European Commission and the accountancy profession meet in Brussels today and tomorrow to determine whether changes in regulatio...
View articleThree-quarters of bankers would support common documentation behind international loan agreements, according to a Price Waterhouse survey. More than h...
View articleThe Budget was a genuine attempt to aid the economy, according to a survey of finance directors. Almost half of the 200 FDs polled for The Big Questio...
View articleCompanies in the UK and on the Continent are ‘surprisingly unprepared’ for the introduction of the single European currency, according to ...
View articleBacon & Woodrow, the actuarial firm are to follow the example of leading accountancy firms by looking at whether to drop their unlimited partner ...
View articleThe Bank of England this week rejected proposals to restructure the system of financial regulation that would unite banking and securities supervision...
View articleAlmost one in five southern accountants regrets entering the profession, according to an Accountancy Age survey run in conjunction with recruitment sp...
View articleAccountants and lawyers compete in increasingly overlapping worlds. Ina new monthly opinion column, Patrick Wilkins, news editor of CommercialLawyer, ...
View articleA student management accountant, sacked after being diagnosed as having cervical cancer, has been awarded #39,400 for sex discrimination. Carole Coe, ...
View articleSmall firms beware EU audit thresholds Mark Spofforth’s Opinion piece last week about the challenge of the millennium was thoughtful and may be ...
View articleThe Pensions Management Institute has urged the Government to introduce pension splitting in two stages, dealing with less problematical pensions firs...
View articleScots ICA member Thomas Baxter, 45, was convicted of false accounting and making misleading statements at the Old Bailey this week. The former finance...
View articlePlans to speed up the progress of the government’s troubled Private Finance Initiative have been delayed following a row with the Audit Commissi...
View articleThe Scots ICA has criticised the DTI’s proposed legislation governing company directors’ emoluments, Company Accounts (Disclosure of Direc...
View articleThe British Venture Capital Association (BVCA) is preparing anofficial objection to the Big Six's u25m due diligence liability capagreement which was ...
View articleBoth bands of Air Passenger Duty were doubled. The duty on journeys within Europe was raised from #5 to #10 and journeys outside Europe were hiked fro...
View articleThe Accounting Standards Board is expected to release the Financial Reporting Standard for Small Entities (FRSSE) exposure draft next week. The accoun...
View articleA former Price Waterhouse audit client faces civil fraud charges brought by the USA’s Securities and Exchange Commission. Italian chemicals and ...
View articleA further rise in interest rates would damage business, according to a survey of finance directors. This warning to the Chancellor, Ken Clarke, follow...
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