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Phill Robinson

IRIS acquires accountancy website designer

Accountancy software provider acquires Websmiths to build on its online offerings

13 Feb 2013

UHY Hacker Young partner leaves to join Smith & Williamson

Guy Swarbreck joins Smith & Williamson's financial services and markets group

12 Feb 2013

Neil Gray

Neil Gray takes partner role at Streets

Gray to focus on high-growth owner-managed businesses

12 Feb 2013

Advisers seek £30,000 tax fighting fund

Francis Clark seeks to raise funds to take Pawson case to the Court of Appeal

06 Feb 2013

Cattles launches legal battle against former auditor PwC

Troubled sub-prime lender Cattles is to take PwC to court over its audit prior to the revelation of a huge accounting black hole

05 Feb 2013

Taking Stock: Good job there's not a loud music tax

Musical tax skits on Youtube - they all sound the same to us old-timers

05 Feb 2013

BDO recruits CEO and chairman from PKF International

Stephen Darley takes the newly created Asia Pacific CEO and chairman role

05 Feb 2013

Leonard Curtis joins forces with Irish firm

Leonard Curtis joins forces with Hughes Blake to increase its cross-border insolvency capabilities

05 Feb 2013

BDO replaces PwC as RSM Tenon auditor

BDO comes in as auditor at RSM Tenon after PwC's acrimonious departure

01 Feb 2013

Sole Survivor: Firms failing to adapt to clients

Charting the rise of the online accountant and what it could mean for the traditional high-street practitioner

31 Jan 2013

Harrow accountancy practices merge

Independent London-based firms RDP Newmans and Stephen Daniel & Co have merged

31 Jan 2013

Accounting firms requiring funding jumps 40% in a year

HMRC's winding down of Time to Pay could be pushing firms to take out loans, says Syscap

30 Jan 2013

Tax partner joins BDO from Berwin Leighton Paisner

Kevin Cummings joins BDO as tax partner from law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner

29 Jan 2013

Praxity alliance posts modest growth

3% growth for Praxity firms, as the Americas outperform the rest of the world

29 Jan 2013

Leader: Accountants are victims of their own success

Advisers' ability to permeate and influence throughout the business world makes them a target for vilification, suggests Kevin Reed

28 Jan 2013

PwC sauces up children’s story

TS was left hot under the collar after its annual trip to the panto

25 Jan 2013

Are accountants just caught in the government avoidance crossfire?

The prime minister's speech hammering tax avoidance was aimed at multi-corporations and the profession is a victim of friendly fire, says Sage’s Jim Scott

25 Jan 2013

Beever and Struthers makes foray into Tech City

Manchester-based firm merges with Silicon Roundabout-based tech specialist to take advantage of burgeoning market

24 Jan 2013

Jeremy Newman to chair new international network

Ex-BDO International CEO and Audit Commission chair takes role at newly formed network TCS Global

22 Jan 2013

UK faces shortfall of 10,200 accountants by 2050

Ageing workforce could leave the UK with a huge accountancy black hole

22 Jan 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?

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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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Why budgeting fails: One management system is not enough

If budgeting is to have any value at all, it needs a radical overhaul. In today's dynamic marketplace, budgeting can no longer serve as a company's only management system; it must integrate with and support dedicated strategy management systems, process improvement systems, and the like. In this paper, Professor Peter Horvath and Dr Ralf Sauter present what's wrong with the current approach to budgeting and how to fix it.

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iXBRL: Taking stock. Looking forward

In this white paper CCH provide checklists to help accountants and finance professionals both in practice and in business examine these issues and make plans. Also includes a case study of a large commercial organisation working through the first year of mandatory iXBRL filing.