When the Queen addresses the nation about what a lovely year it hasbeen, which events will stick out in accountants' minds? We rewind to findout Read ...
View articleChancellor Kenneth Clarke’s Budget move to counter tax avoidance schemes in the insurance market will result in a ‘distortion of competiti...
View articleThe Auditing Practices Board is preparing guidance for reporting accountants facing a rising tide of companies presenting ten to 12 year profit projec...
View articleThe 100 Group of Finance Directors will be writing to the Office of Fair Trading within a week to express its concern about the Big Six liability cap ...
View articleDavid McDonnell, national managing partner at Grant Thornton, this week called on the English ICA to provide accounting guidelines for firms looking t...
View articleOnly 10% of finance directors say their company is currently involved in detailed preparation for the introduction of the euro on 1 January 1999. Almo...
View articleThe planned flotation last week of a US accounting software company on the Alternative Investment Market has been delayed until at least Christmas ami...
View articleBDO Stoy Hayward has been appointed as liquidator to Facia, the collapsed retail empire of entrepreneur Stephen Hinchliffe. At a creditors’ meet...
View articleArthur Andersen is considering moving its tax processing function out to India as part of radical set of proposals under study by a team of its tax pa...
View articleBrian Birkenhead, chairman of the 100 Group of Finance Directors, has come out in favour of positioning the Auditing Practices Board under the Financi...
View articleErnst & Young’s clients this week welcomed the firm’s decision to release ‘plc-style’ results, but demanded greater disclo...
View articleAccountants are this week divided over the future of the Inland Revenue’s proposed system for the electronic filing of tax returns under self-as...
View articleEmbarrassing attention is focussed this week on Price Waterhouse’s role as former auditor of the troubled Royal Academy, following revelations o...
View articleThe 1 in 8 Group, a charity which challenges the portrayal of disabled people in the media, is looking for an accountant to join as a trustee. The gro...
View articleUK businesses are sharply divided on the merits of a single European currency, with opinion surveys throwing up contradictory signals. Worse, few busi...
View articleAccountants are happier in the North. Their southern counterparts mayearn higher salaries, but northerners feel their jobs provide them withmore adequ...
View articleSome of the biggest City scandals could be avoided if senior management showed more support and commitment to internal auditors. David Brilliant, chai...
View articleDirectors of UK companies received on average pay rises in the range of 3.7%-5% last year, according to the latest Reward Group/Institute of Directors...
View articleCashflow difficulties will continue to hit small and medium-sized businesses, according to a survey by International Factors. Accountants are less con...
View articleSenior VAT specialists have vowed to wreck Customs’ clampdown on tax because the Government agency has wrongly identified ‘legitimate comm...
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View articleGuy Dresser looks at the AIM launch of Open Systems Holdings in the UKand its implications for the market. Read More...
View articleFootball’s top chartered accountant, Premier League chief executive Rick Parry, is to leave his post and join Liverpool Football Club. Parry, th...
View articleThe Serious Fraud Office probe into the activities of former senior management and directors at Wickes is the latest and most significant investigatio...
View articleThe English ICA is holding a wide-ranging review into a #560,000 research grant over seven years made by an institute-owned charity to the London Scho...
View articleThe English ICA’s tax faculty is set to boycott the Inland Revenue’s proposed system for electronic filing of tax returns. The move, which...
View articleMore than 900,000 small companies will have the burden of preparing their accounts eased by complying to a single accounting standard. The move follow...
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