A London business link agency is offering a unique money-back guarantee to local companies which have the potential to develop a ‘sustainable co...
View articleThe Securities and Investments Board has appointed EMI’s group treasurer Phillippa Foster Back to sit on the board of the Investors Compensation...
View articleEmployee share ownership schemes may cost companies much more if proposals from the Accounting Standards Board are accepted. The reason is because the...
View articleA loophole in the Pensions Act could save a typical FT-SE 100 company around #6m a year, a leading actuary has claimed. Under the terms of the Act, wh...
View article‘Europe: yes. Euro: no’ is the message from an exclusive HaysAccountancyPersonnel/Accountancy Age survey of more than 200 accountants acro...
View articlePost-qualification professional development for Scottish chartered accountants will become mandatory early next year if Scots ICA members vote in favo...
View articleBDO Stoy Hayward’s fine by the Institute of Chartered Accountants for its Prudential-funded ‘freebie’ to Paris (Accountancy Age, 3 O...
View articleProposals for the profession’s new regulatory regime are to be unveiled next week after months of debate by the Consultative Committee of Accoun...
View articleThe Department of Trade and Industry has cut the number of outside investigators used to carry out enquires under section 447 of the Companies Act, de...
View articleInland Revenue internal guidance manuals on inheritance tax are now available on disk. General examination and advanced investigation manuals have bee...
View articleInternational accounting standards may become mandatory in Europe within a few years, according to Accounting Standards Board chairman Sir David Tweed...
View articleMounting concern over European Monetary Union has prompted the software industry’s trade association, BASDA, to begin lobbying the Government ov...
View articleRichard Watson is VAT practice head at Price Waterhouse. His open letter sent this week to Customs & Excise VAT policy chief Martin. Brown has foc...
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View articleChartered accountants struck off by the Irish ICA will in future be publicly named under a major revamp of the institute’s disciplinary procedur...
View articleThe Accounting Standards Board should publish non-mandatory ‘best practice’ guidelines on the quality and type of information produced in ...
View articleA former assistant accountant at the Church of England’s finance and administrative headquarters in Westminster is to stand trial accused of emb...
View articleAlan Naylor continues his weekly career advice aimed at ambitiousaccountants Read More...
View articleDavid Chitty has been appointed international technical co-ordinator by DFK International, which is a network consisting of 11 UK accounting practices...
View articleMajor problems could arise from the recent Pensions Act forcing trustees to increase independence from associated businesses over governance, claims a...
View articleCoopers & Lybrand has filed a High Court writ on behalf of troubled Ostrich Farming Corporation, which ceased trading in April. Coopers, acting a...
View articleDissident ACCA members have forced reform back on to the association’s agenda by securing enough support to hold an Extraordinary General Meetin...
View articleThe English ICA could appoint a director-general whose main purpose would be to lobby on technical and professional matters, overturning ten years of ...
View articleIn the last two articles, I addressed five questions which should help you in defining the main areas you should focus on in order to take your career...
View articleConfusion gripped Customs & Excise offices this week after a directive placing a blanket ban on all VAT payouts under the new three-year rule was ...
View articleNine out of ten local authorities have yet to set up audit committees, despite their proliferation elsewhere in the public sector, according to a repo...
View articleAccountants must be extra careful to meet Inland Revenue standardswhen preparing reports under the Hansard Policy. According to BarryDraper, the new o...
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