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Former E&Y accountant joins Liverpool FC as CFO

Andy Hughes, who trained with Ernst & Young, joins Liverpool FC as CFO

18 Jun 2013

Coventry's Ricoh Arena

David Rubin administrators line up buyer for Coventry City FC

Administrators line up Otium Entertainment to buy the collapsed club, but fans are disgruntled that it is registered to directors that own the parent company of Coventry City FC

17 Jun 2013

legal and general

L&G head of savings promoted to CFO

Mark Gregory, head of L&G's savings business, becomes group CFO next month as part of a management reshuffle

17 Jun 2013

Zolfo's Freakley called in to help Stemcor

Zolfo Cooper European chief called in to advise Margaret Hodge's family business on its debt position

17 Jun 2013

Audit committees need to get cracking on Companies Act reform

Companies Act reform welcomed but audit committees must start working on this quickly

14 Jun 2013

British CFOs looking abroad for growth

FDs expect to increase sales and distribution activity in emerging markets, American Express survey finds

14 Jun 2013

UK200Group practitioners worried by ‘marketplace fairness tax’

Plans for 'marketplace fairness tax' designed to level the playing field between online and high street retailers have caused concern among advisers

14 Jun 2013

EU scraps quarterly reporting for listed companies

Quarterly reporting scrapped among changes to EU the EU's accounting framework

13 Jun 2013

"Stark" challenge ahead for government finance staff

Government finance managers, and departmental FDs, need to step up another gear to drive departmental reform and savings

13 Jun 2013

RSM Tenon bolsters London restructuring team

Grant Thornton partner Andrew Hosking and Baker Tilly partner Sarah Batchelor join RSM Tenon’s London restructuring team

12 Jun 2013

FRC hands ex-Farepak director £65,000 sanction

European Home Retail CEO and Farepak director William Rollason fined and severely reprimanded by the FRC

12 Jun 2013

230 jobs saved as training business goes through pre-pack

KRE Corporate Recovery leads pre-pack of Harrow-based TLE

11 Jun 2013

Taking Stock: Don't be concerned

Colin considers the meaning of the FRC's developments on going concern

10 Jun 2013

Deloitte’s Hartnett appointment “inappropriate”, say readers

It was not appropriate for Dave Hartnett to join Deloitte given his background with HMRC, say Accountancy Age readers in a poll

10 Jun 2013

US finance and insurance expert joins Prudential board

Alice Schroeder takes non-executive and audit committee role at Prudential

10 Jun 2013

FRC rethinks controversial going concern proposals

Accounting regulator to change going concern proposals in response to criticism from the profession

07 Jun 2013

Jo Swinson: More needed but insolvency reform step in the right direction

Consumer affairs minister Jo Swinson writes for Accountancy Age on the incoming reforms to insolvency practitioners’ regulation.

05 Jun 2013

Insolvency complaints body launched

Government cuts red tape and launches a single complaints gateway across the insolvency profession

05 Jun 2013

Ex-Morrisons' Pennycook joins Co-op as FD

Richard Pennycook joins crisis-hit retail and banking giant Co-operative Group as finance director

05 Jun 2013

FRC makes changes significant changes to audit reports

The finance watchdog has made changes to ISA 700 - in the hope of increasing communication with investors

04 Jun 2013

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Leader: Will younger generation push for a UK institute?

Will British institutes learn from a New Zealand/Australia merger - or have the Trans/Tasmans already learned from them?

Jo Swinson: More needed but insolvency reform step in the right direction

Consumer affairs minister Jo Swinson writes for Accountancy Age on the incoming reforms to insolvency practitioners’ regulation.

FRC is sounding like a modern day Cassandra

Concerns raised in the FRC's latest round of audit inspections sound strikingly familar. Why has the profession failed to address them?

curtain

Don't COP out of guiding clients through tax mire

Anita Brook of Accounts Assist gives a hands-on guide to Code of Practice 9

Taking Stock: Accountancy and the sheriff of Cumbria

TS loves it when two worlds collide

Colin: Hey diddle (tax) diddle

Colin offers his assessment of the pressure on 'tax havens'

Colin: Don't panic! (about avoidance)

Colin succinctly rounds up the latest court ruling on tax avoidance and advisers' responsiblities

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