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
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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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Leading law firm takes its first step into consultancy
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Leading law firm takes its first step into consultancy

30y michael laydon

Leading law firm takes its first step into consult...

City solicitors Eversheds has become the first top law firm to link up with a major management consultancy group, following its decision to start a wo...

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Managers to blame for 4,000 insolvencies
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Managers to blame for 4,000 insolvencies

30y michael laydon

Managers to blame for 4,000 insolvencies

Bad management caused over 4,000 UK company insolvencies last year – as many as at the height of the recession – according to the latest a...

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CEO pay shows north-south split
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CEO pay shows north-south split

30y michael laydon

CEO pay shows north-south split

There is a Watford gap in Britain’s boardrooms, according to research carried out by Buck Consultants on behalf of Leeds-based stockbrokers BWD ...

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KPMG reports a lack of LLP support in UK
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KPMG reports a lack of LLP support in UK

30y michael laydon

KPMG reports a lack of LLP support in UK

KPMG warned rival Big Six firms this week that UK companies did not want them to register off-shore to limit their liability. A MORI telephone poll co...

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BCAB Survey - Minding business
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BCAB Survey - Minding business

30y michael laydon

BCAB Survey - Minding business

Accountants in business are adaptable, love and loathe IT, and feelunder threat from the reputation of other qualifications. These are someof the find...

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PROFILE - A clear account
Management

PROFILE - A clear account

30y michael laydon

PROFILE - A clear account

Waterford Wedgwood's group FD Richard Barnes always wanted to be afireman, sadly vertigo put pay to his plans. But, as he tells Harriot LaneFox, he's ...

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Regulation Taylor
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Regulation Taylor

30y michael laydon

Regulation Taylor

Michael Taylor, a former policy adviser at the Bank of England, talksto Phillip Inman about the recently published third installment in hisproposals f...

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Survey reveals holes in IT strategies
Management

Survey reveals holes in IT strategies

30y michael laydon

Survey reveals holes in IT strategies

A recent survey undertaken by CIPFA throws local authority ITstrategies into question. Douglas Hayward investigates. Read More...

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It's business as usual at Robert Half
Management

It's business as usual at Robert Half

30y michael laydon

It's business as usual at Robert Half

Life is getting back to normal at employment agency Robert Half International after glitches with a new accounting system left it unable to issue corr...

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Software houses face legal threat
Management

Software houses face legal threat

30y michael laydon

Software houses face legal threat

Computer software suppliers who make promises they can’t keep will face an increasing threat of legal action, according to PA Consulting. IT exp...

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'Dull but worthy' hits the spot in UK
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'Dull but worthy' hits the spot in UK

30y michael laydon

'Dull but worthy' hits the spot in UK

Unless IT is going to give your organisation a massive competitiveedge, it is often better to adopt 'best practice' rather than leading - or'bleeding'...

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