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PwC partners charged over Satyam

Indian investigators reveal charges against PwC partners and Satyam executives

08 Apr 2009

Sage branches into online filing

Sage's latest tax software launch includes online tax filing and verification

31 Mar 2009

Hillier Hopkins swaps CCH for Digita

Accountancy firm swaps CCH tax software for more functionality in another supplier

30 Mar 2009

NetSuite posts record profits in Q4 2008

NetSuite grows 30% in comparison to Q4 2007

11 Feb 2009

Rival backs Sage after software security scare

Coda marketing director defends rival, Sage, as the latter has to withdraw a new web software product due to a security scare

05 Feb 2009

India expecting boom for forensic accounting

Thousands of forensic accountants needed to manage strengthened due diligence

04 Feb 2009

Sage roll-out turns into 'nightmare'

Sage software installation is a 'complete nightmare' according to London accountancy firm who spent 32 hours on the accounting software supplier’s helpline

29 Jan 2009

Fraud: the occupational hazards

Dishonesty appears to be a growing trend in business, with high profile cases rarely out of the headlines. Joseph T Wells looks at the myriad of methods used to defraud companies that accountants should be on the lookout for

29 Jan 2009

Wolf appointed CFO and vice president at IT security giant

Dennis Wolf, former CFO at MySQL, lands dual role at Finjan

21 Jan 2009

Corporate fraud tops £1.2bn

UK companies' fraud costs jump 14 per cent

19 Jan 2009

Softwares: technology in a tangle

Systems integration is never easy, but requires even greater due diligence during a merger

15 Jan 2009

Online software 'more expensive and riskier'

Implementation of software as a service is ‘harder, more expensive and riskier’ than initially anticipated, says SAP boss

15 Jan 2009

Taxman seeking head of IT

HMRC IT job could pay £200,000

14 Jan 2009

Online self-assessment tax returns surge

Online filing has hit a record number this year, HMRC reveals

08 Jan 2009

UK taxpayers targeted by fake emails

Scam emails attempt to harvest credit card details

07 Jan 2009

Coda expands into Europe

Financial software company reaches out to Spanish customers

22 Dec 2008

Forestry body uses finance IT to measure carbon footprints

Forestry Commission tweaks its finance software to calculate individual employees' carbon emissions

19 Dec 2008

MacIntyre Hudson drops Access for SAP

Mid-tier firm switches accounting software supplier

16 Dec 2008

Sage US director resigns

Sage loses another senior figure as the president of its business management division resigns

12 Dec 2008

Software sector under pressure as downturn hits sales

Gartner revises business software sales forecast for 2009 downwards

12 Dec 2008

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How software as a service can meet the strategic needs of a growing business

Organisations are now looking for a software service that is cost effective, flexible, streamlined and able to meet the needs of the business both today and in the future

Organisations are now looking for a software service that is cost effective, flexible, streamlined and able to meet the needs of the business both today and in the future

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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Briefings

budget-management

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.