So the Financial Reporting Council appears to have conceded that measures introduced three years ago to improve the audit market have had little or no...
View articleIt should come as no surprise that tax – in this case capital gains tax – should prove the first major test of the Lib-Con government. Reb...
View articleThe evaluation of Gordon Brown and his time in office will be long, full of rancour and riven with controversy. Already, very learned people are paint...
View articleAs you by now know George Osborne is the new chancellor of exhcequer succeeding Alistair Darling. He takes on the role at an historically bad time. Th...
View articleThis morning we wait for the main parties to sort out who will form the next government. The papers are full of discussion about talks between the Lib...
View articleWell we vote tomorrow and I can’t help feeling a sense of disappointment in the election campaigns. The campaigns have been marked by a number o...
View articleGiven the fuss over last night’s Prime Ministerial debate I hesitate to turn to a subject that isn’t about passion, flair and PR but I did...
View articleEveryone is trying to answer who won last night leaders’ debate. For what it’s worth I believe it’s now an odd exercise to engage in...
View articleWith the election result looking ever more likely to produce a hung parliament the papers have been speculating as to how it could change the face of ...
View articleIn considering Budget plans alone, it’s interesting to ask which of the three main parties are the most radical when it comes to sorting the eco...
View articleAs you may have spotted we’ve been running a project where we ask the profession what demands or pledges they would like to see in a manifesto f...
View articleWho is the most popular candidate for the chancellor’s chair among City people? Yesterday a poll in newspaper City AM said Kenneth Clarke was mo...
View articleCast your mind back to the Budget earlier this year and you will remember a proposal from HMRC to force organisations to offer security (read our stor...
View articleNational Insurance, and the impending rise of a single percentage point, emerged as again one of the core arguments in last night’s first Prime ...
View articleWell, if you were expecting blows traded toe to toe and the contenders battling for supremacy, think again. When the three candidates for the chancell...
View articleI hate to do the publicity for them but Channel 4 will be hosting a three-way debate between chancellor Alistair Darling and his opposite numbers Geor...
View articleThis morning, in a webcast, Accountancy Age readers were asked if they felt more confident about the economy after the Budget. 60% said no, quite blun...
View articleSo the Football Association has lost another CEO and appointed Alex Horne as acting chief exec. In short Horne was the man who should have got the job...
View articleWas glued to Alistair Darling‘s interview on the Andrew Marr show Sunday morning. Marr pushed Darling on whether Wednesday’s Budget would ...
View articleOne thing that the Lehman/Ernst & Young debacle has done is kick off the debate over audit once again, whether audit should be doing something dif...
View articleThe report on the events and accounting contributing to the collapse of Lehman Brothers has at its centre a single key figure – global financial...
View articleYou all by now know that the US bankruptcy examiner’s report on Lehman has alleged that Ernst & Young was negligent in it’s audit of t...
View articleWhat’s happening with the Budget? Over lunch yesterday with some tax experts it dawned on us that the usual speculative background chatter over ...
View articleYou’re hammering up the motorway with a truck load of vital raw materials for your business. Without them your workers are unemployed, your clie...
View articleThe Ministry of Defence has had its accounts qualified again. Technically this is correct because the department cannot account for some of its equipm...
View articleImpressive. the government’s consultation on a tax framework for business came out this morning and it runs to …all of two pages. Yes, tha...
View articleIt’s worth bringing your attention to our piece this week on the profession in Haiti and how it’s dealing with the aftermath of the earthq...
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