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View articleGraham Ward, the Price Waterhouse partner, is to stand for president of the English ICA. Ward, who heads the institute’s Technical Faculty, decl...
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View articleDeloitte & Touche’s UK practice raised fee income by 8.5% to u401m in the year to September 1996, the first time for a number of years that ...
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View articleFinance directors are split over whether the Government should reduce auditors’ liability by reforming the present laws of joint and several lia...
View articleThe Accounting Standards Board should take a stronger stance on UK accounting standards, where it believes these are better than their international c...
View articleThe Accounting Standards Board has granted a stay of execution to employee SAYE schemes following an outcry from FTSE-100 companies who want them to r...
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View articleMorgan Grenfell Asset Management has turned to Ernst & Young rather than its current auditors KPMG to advise on a series of anti-fraud measures an...
View articleBDO Stoy Hayward has snatched back the audit of engineering company Caparo Group from KPMG, four years after the Big Six firm won the contract in a co...
View articleThe business and accounting software industry has held its first formal meeting with Bank of England officials to discuss progress on how to tailor pr...
View articleA Serious Fraud Office investigation into a multi-million pound kit car manufacturing scam resulted in a London chartered accountant being fined #5,00...
View articleCustoms & Excise faces a last-minute flood of VAT repayment claims before Budget Day after a High Court judge ruled that its refusal to honour pay...
View articleMembership of the English ICA’s proposed corporate finance faculty, a spin-off from the current faculty of finance and management, may be opened...
View articleBilled as one of the Accounting Standards Board’s most radical and far-reaching set of proposals yet, the ASB’s Derivatives and Financial ...
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