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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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 ...
View articleCity 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...
View articleBad management caused over 4,000 UK company insolvencies last year – as many as at the height of the recession – according to the latest a...
View articleThere is a Watford gap in Britain’s boardrooms, according to research carried out by Buck Consultants on behalf of Leeds-based stockbrokers BWD ...
View articleKPMG 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...
View articleAccountants in business are adaptable, love and loathe IT, and feelunder threat from the reputation of other qualifications. These are someof the find...
View articleWaterford 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 ...
View articleMichael Taylor, a former policy adviser at the Bank of England, talksto Phillip Inman about the recently published third installment in hisproposals f...
View articleA recent survey undertaken by CIPFA throws local authority ITstrategies into question. Douglas Hayward investigates. Read More...
View articleLife is getting back to normal at employment agency Robert Half International after glitches with a new accounting system left it unable to issue corr...
View articleComputer software suppliers who make promises they can’t keep will face an increasing threat of legal action, according to PA Consulting. IT exp...
View articleUnless IT is going to give your organisation a massive competitiveedge, it is often better to adopt 'best practice' rather than leading - or'bleeding'...
View articleAndersen Worldwide grabbed the top slot among UK accountancy firms last week when it revealed that net fee income had jumped 15% to u620.5m for the ye...
View articleThe Big Six accountancy firms last week filed a set of standard contract terms with the Office of Fair Trading and the European Commission that will c...
View articleThe Financial Reporting Review Panel is conducting its own investigation into the accounting practices at DIY-retailer Wickes. Accountancy Age has lea...
View articleLocal authorities need to enhance their fraud detection procedures, according to the Audit Commission, despite a successful year in which detection ra...
View articleCompany car fleets can be expensive to run, but is your FD aware ofall the options? Nigel Greenaway discusses the changing world of contracthire. Read...
View articleSeparating vendors’ hype from reality is one of the biggest challenges facing buyers of business or accounting software, and the lack of indepen...
View articleBDO Stoy Hayward has staged an audacious coup against rival Pannell Kerr Forster by poaching its head of corporate finance. Stephen Bourne, 39, is sti...
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