A 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...
View articleBritish Airways has already won three contracts to provide finance and accounting services to companies outside the BA group from its new centre in Bo...
View articleThe Life Insurance Association has rejected proposals for a single professional body to oversee financial advisers put forward by the industry regulat...
View articleAnnual capital allowances of 25% are to be reduced to 6% for assets with estimated working lives of 25 years or more. This will bring tax practice ...
View articleKPMG Peat Marwick is being sued for $400m by California’s Orange County Transportation Authority for not warning it about the high risks of an i...
View articleDrama struck at chartered accountants Levy Gee shortly after the Chancellor finished his speech, when the entire office was forced to evacuate the bui...
View articleCoopers & Lybrand is advising US accountancy software group Open Systems Holdings for its AIM flotation next week. The company will be capitalise...
View articleBDO Stoy Hayward is co-ordinating a u13m takeover bid for Nottingham Forest Football Club by a consortium lead by Sandy Anderson, a director of Porter...
View articlePannell Kerr Forster is set to follow BDO Stoy Hayward by becoming the second Group A firm to publish its accounts. A spokeswoman said the firm was pu...
View articleJohn Roques (right), Deloitte & Touche senior partner, has been appointed to the Financial Reporting Council. Roques will be joined By Neil Chism...
View articleIn the light of the English ICA's recent report, Mark Spofforth looksat the what the new millennium holds in store for the smaller firm. Read More...
View articleThe public sector will need to shed 100,000 jobs to keep within the Chancellor’s spending plans, according to CIPFA chief economist Chris Trinde...
View articleMore than half of the entries for the English ICA’s annual charity accounts award ceremony fell at the first hurdle because of errors. Sir Brian...
View articleCrest, the troubled electronic share settlement system, should be audited by the City’s regulators to determine if it is capable of handling the...
View articleOrganisations that are based on old, historic buildings face unique problems when equipping themselves with state-of-the-art computer systems. The bui...
View articleACCA’s disgraced former vice-president, Jim Waits, has quit the association in the wake of the Council’s acceptance of his resignation. Wa...
View articleOne of the original members of the English ICA’s accreditation scheme for business and accounting software is set to pull out amid concern over ...
View articleRobert Smith's task is to rebuild confidence in Morgan Grenfell'sasset arm. Phillip Inman reports on his progress. Read More...
View articleStudies by KPMG and the Institute of Practitioners in Advertisingshow that marketers and finance directors rarely see eye-to-eye. AnthonyHarrington as...
View articleMulti-program, multi-manufacturer connectivity is a reality. It is to application software what plug and play is to hardware, and is one of the most u...
View articlePension scheme auditors face ‘unmeetable’ deadlines under the Pensions Act and many scheme trustees could be fined as a result, the Englis...
View articleWhat are the major issues and trends affecting finance professionalsacross the country? The 1996 Qualified Accountants Survey reveals thethoughts of t...
View articleCIPFA member Peter Ripley, principal accountant at Lancashire County Council, has been elected chairman of the CA-Masterpiece Users Group. The group r...
View articleShares in three companies are expected to start trading this week on Easdaq, the pan-European stock market that models itself on the US Nasdaq exchang...
View articleKeeping a lid on implementation costs and overseeing the consultants hired to do the work are two of the most challenging problems facing companies tr...
View articleA massive 60% increase in the forecast contract cost of running the nation’s tax systems has been brushed aside as a ‘fuss over nothing...
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