The best form of De fence
Management

The best form of De fence

29y Accountancy Age

The best form of De fence

In theory, it would be a far more sensible solution to see theEuropean industry rationalised with a bout of takeovers, mergers andprivatisations. Read...

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A job change for the better
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A job change for the better

29y Accountancy Age

A job change for the better

This week in his weekly career advice column aimed at ambitiousaccountants, Alan Naylor looks at the options available to job seekers. Read More...

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Scottish independents.
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Scottish independents.

29y Accountancy Age

Scottish independents.

McCabes is a rapidly growing small firm which, despite increasingcompetition from the Big Six, has its eyes set on expansion. Phillip Inmanlooks at th...

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Foreign Office fails to halt fraud
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Foreign Office fails to halt fraud

30y michael laydon

Foreign Office fails to halt fraud

The Foreign Office has been heavily criticised after the apparent failure of measures it introduced in August last year to stamp out fraud at its over...

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Medium-sized firms silent over 2005 report
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Medium-sized firms silent over 2005 report

30y michael laydon

Medium-sized firms silent over 2005 report

Most medium-sized firms have reacted to last week’s English ICA 2005 report on the future of the profession with a stony silence. Few firms admi...

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Company managers dissatisfied with investors
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Company managers dissatisfied with investors

30y michael laydon

Company managers dissatisfied with investors

Most companies do not feel their institutional investors are well prepared for one-to-one meetings with management, according to a corporate governanc...

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Never too old to be an accountant
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Never too old to be an accountant

30y michael laydon

Never too old to be an accountant

Approaching middle age? Fearing the scrapheap? All is not lost if, asGraham Palfery-Smith explains, you have planned your career. Read More...

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Charity begins with sound accounts
Management

Charity begins with sound accounts

30y michael laydon

Charity begins with sound accounts

The need for accountants to produce accurate and transparent reportsfor charities is greater now than ever before. John Hancock takes a look atthree o...

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Team spirit
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Team spirit

30y michael laydon

Team spirit

A simple change in attitude can improve your firm's performance, saysRoy Kemp Read More...

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The Scots are coming
Management

The Scots are coming

30y michael laydon

The Scots are coming

Ten years after three friends began RMD in an Edinburgh basement, thefirm has taken on the Big Six and become one of the country's topcorporate financ...

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Misreporting takes hold in the body corporate
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Misreporting takes hold in the body corporate

30y michael laydon

Misreporting takes hold in the body corporate

The lean, mean business machines produced by the managementphilosophies of the 1990s have lower overheads and higher profits. Butscratching the surfac...

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Ward throws hat in ring for ICA president contest
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Ward throws hat in ring for ICA president contest

30y michael laydon

Ward throws hat in ring for ICA president contest

Graham 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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Insurance onslaught
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Insurance onslaught

30y michael laydon

Insurance onslaught

As new technology impacts on the insurance industry, Guy Dresser looksat how the interests of companies and customers are being re-defined in aflurry ...

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Study warns of IT skills deficit
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Study warns of IT skills deficit

30y michael laydon

Study warns of IT skills deficit

Growing recognition that accountants' IT skills may proveincreasingly inadequate for the complexities of late 20th century businesshave prompted an in...

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Deloittes' UK practice fee income jumps to u401m
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Deloittes' UK practice fee income jumps to u401m

30y michael laydon

Deloittes' UK practice fee income jumps to u401m

Deloitte & 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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ABC made simple
Management

ABC made simple

30y michael laydon

ABC made simple

Activity-based costing has traditionally been used to give a snapshotview of business performance. New systems mean that an ongoing review ispossible,...

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FDs divided over limited liability for auditors
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FDs divided over limited liability for auditors

30y michael laydon

FDs divided over limited liability for auditors

Finance directors are split over whether the Government should reduce auditors’ liability by reforming the present laws of joint and several lia...

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Scots ICA holds to UK standards
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Scots ICA holds to UK standards

30y michael laydon

Scots ICA holds to UK standards

The Accounting Standards Board should take a stronger stance on UK accounting standards, where it believes these are better than their international c...

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Decision on SAYE scheme fate put off until New Year
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Decision on SAYE scheme fate put off until New Year

30y michael laydon

Decision on SAYE scheme fate put off until New Yea...

The 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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OPINION - 'Megatrends' into the next millennium
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OPINION - 'Megatrends' into the next millennium

30y michael laydon

OPINION - 'Megatrends' into the next millennium

David Stewart and Andrew Colquhoun explain the 2005 working party'sview of new developments. Read More...

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E&Y gain is KPMG's loss at Grenfell
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E&Y gain is KPMG's loss at Grenfell

30y michael laydon

E&Y gain is KPMG's loss at Grenfell

Morgan Grenfell Asset Management has turned to Ernst & Young rather than its current auditors KPMG to advise on a series of anti-fraud measures an...

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Stoys wins tender for Caparo Group audit
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Stoys wins tender for Caparo Group audit

30y michael laydon

Stoys wins tender for Caparo Group audit

BDO 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...

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Software industry gears up for EMU
Management

Software industry gears up for EMU

30y michael laydon

Software industry gears up for EMU

The business and accounting software industry has held its first formal meeting with Bank of England officials to discuss progress on how to tailor pr...

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ACA fined over false documents
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ACA fined over false documents

30y michael laydon

ACA fined over false documents

A Serious Fraud Office investigation into a multi-million pound kit car manufacturing scam resulted in a London chartered accountant being fined #5,00...

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VAT ruling blow for Customs
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VAT ruling blow for Customs

30y michael laydon

VAT ruling blow for Customs

Customs & 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...

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ICA's finance faculty may welcome non chartereds
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ICA's finance faculty may welcome non chartereds

30y michael laydon

ICA's finance faculty may welcome non chartereds

Membership of the English ICA’s proposed corporate finance faculty, a spin-off from the current faculty of finance and management, may be opened...

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Doubts expressed over revaluation proposals
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Doubts expressed over revaluation proposals

30y michael laydon

Doubts expressed over revaluation proposals

Billed 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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