It's been a successful and innovative year for the Big Six with eachlaying good claim to being this year's Accountancy Age large firm of theyear. Hoom...
View articleFinding new and talented staff is never easy, so why wait for them tocome to you? Sarah Perrin looks at the trend among firms for poaching eachother's...
View articleThe Charity Commission and the DTI are planning a radical overhaul of the accounting rules governing charitable companies in order to bring them into ...
View articleAudit firms moved quickly this week to refute claims by one of the country’s largest pension funds that moves to limit liability would reduce th...
View articleThe profession is divided over the Contributions Agency’s increased powers to collect unpaid National Insurance. In August, Peter Lilley, secret...
View articleThis month's Company Reporting looks at the implications for thepresentation of accounts following the Accounting Standards Board'sproposals on goodwi...
View articleMarketing techniques are essential to the success of a company, andaccountants should tate note. Gordon Gilchrist shows how to gain the leadsjust by u...
View articleCoopers & Lybrand appears to have become the second Big Six firm to become implicated in Jersey’s first major financial scandal. An Accounta...
View articleThe new UK standard for prompt payment launched last week, BS7890, gives advice to both suppliers and debtors to help prevent and resolve payment disp...
View articleFinancial controls are essential to a company's integrity but Shell'sgroup controller, Jan de Kreij explains that there must be room formanoeuvre Read...
View articleSmuggling of tobacco and alcohol from Europe costs the UK economy # 770m every year in lost VAT, a Customs & Excise survey has revealed. The amoun...
View articleThe # 37bn-a-year invoice finance industry is to be represented by a single association after a merger of three separate trade organisations. The newl...
View articleA Sussex businessman is suing Coopers & Lybrand for # 1.5m for allegedly issuing negligent advice when he sold his office partitioning business t...
View articleEuroscepticism is all very well in political debate, but when it comes to financial systems, UK companies are going to have to mix it with the Europea...
View articleKPMG found itself on both sides of the fence in City scandals this week after investment banking group Morgan Grenfell, one of the audit firm’s ...
View articleResearch suggests UK workers are suffering from job-related stress.Nowhere does this seem to be more the case than in accountancy. CaronLipman looks a...
View articleA new edition of the English ICA booklet Towards Better Auditing hasjust been published. Richard Bint explains why it was important to updateit Read M...
View articleBusiness and meditation appear to be worlds apart, the one demanding activity, the other, stillness. But as workplace stress becomes more of an issue,...
View articleFinance staff in the banking and insurance industries were warned last week to prepare for a fresh round of job cuts in the wake of the 150 branch clo...
View articleA specialist knowledge of tax legislation can save charitiesthousands of pounds each year but a financial adviser does not come cheap Read More...
View articleSimon Duffy, group finance director of EMI, has joined Imperial Tobacco as one of three new non-executive directors ahead of the group’s demerge...
View articleThe English ICA this week responded to the Inland Revenue'sconsultative document on employee travel and subsistence, accusing theproposed legislation ...
View articleThere is an intellectual debate brewing in the IT industry, the outcome of which could be critical to the future of the virus and anti-virus industry....
View articleRobert Smith, chairman and CEO of Morgan Grenfell development capitaland president of the Scots ICA, gives an insight into how venturecapitalists and ...
View articleTax software suppliers are meeting this week with the Inland Revenue to hammer out differences over self-assessment which could hit its proposed syste...
View articleDeloitte & Touche’s outsourcing arm has made its first major foray into the private sector with a four-year deal to run the back-office acc...
View articleNicholas Taylor of Grimsby, South Humberside has been severely reprimanded, fined z2,000 and charged costs of z1,600 by the English ICA’s discip...
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