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View articleTroubled investment bank Deutsche Morgan Grenfell has denied reports it is set to sue KPMG over its role as auditor of the three scandal-hit European ...
View articleThe Government has caved in to demands for simpler procedures to ease negotiations which are holding up projects funded through the Private Finance In...
View articleThe English ICA (right) is suing former chartered accountant David Campbell Mitchell for the u87,000 costs of disciplinary hearings against him. Mitch...
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View articleKPMG International chairman Jon Madonna has handed over the reins as chairman and chief executive of the firm’s US practice, KPMG Peat Marwick, ...
View articleFacia’s auditors Deloitte & Touche warned the company that the manner in which it had obtained finance ‘may have resulted in the comm...
View articleThere aren’t many organisations that are truly happy with the structure and performance of their information technology department. But new rese...
View articleFinance directors are finding it increasingly difficult to cope with major business change, according to speakers at the 1996 conference of the Englis...
View articleCreditors of St Helen’s Insurance Co Ltd will receive a further 10p in the pound, liquidators Coopers & Lybrand announced this week. Total ...
View articleAccounting software developers Sage and Pegasus have called off merger talks after legal advisers warned that the deal faced referral to the Monopolie...
View articleThe Joint Monitoring Unit’s modus operandi have been the subject of bitter debate since its inception following the Financial Services Act in 19...
View articleEmployee benefits adviser Sedgwick Noble Lowndes has launched an investment service for employer-sponsored pension schemes. The Flexifund enables mone...
View articleThe Stock Exchange has published draft rules governing the proposed order-driven share trading system which will replace the ten-year-old market-makin...
View articleEducation reforms put forward by the English ICA executive passed their first hurdle last week despite concern that small firms will continue to rejec...
View articlePublic hostility towards self-assessment could overwhelm the Inland Revenue’s new tax regime unless it introduces some relief to taxpayers meeti...
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View articleDepartment of Trade & Industry proposals that public companies should disclose the average time they take to pay creditors have come under wither...
View articleScotch whisky producers have won a victory over Japan after the World Trade Organisation ruled that the country discriminated against imported spirits...
View articleA 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...
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