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KPMG administrators rack up £51.6m fees at MF Global

Administrators charge £51.6m for 13 months' work on world’s first special administration

04 Dec 2012

Treasure Chest

Funding for litigation needn’t be so tough for IPs

Although government gives the insolvency profession until April 2015 before changing litigation funding rules, practitioners need to get their house in order now, writes Kristy Zander

04 Dec 2012

SFP administrator brothers called to Active Technologies

SFP insolvency brothers continue to trade manufacturer, which entered administration following £400,000 of debts it was unable to service

03 Dec 2012

Court of Appeal to scrutinise Lehman FSD

Lehman Brothers companies fighting to be excluded from Pension Regulator’s financial support direction

03 Dec 2012

KPMG administrators say JJB creditors will receive next to nothing

Collapsed retailer owes £212m to unsecured creditors, with just £600,000 to share out. Shareholders also to receive no repayment

30 Nov 2012

Geoff Carton-Kelly to leave Baker Tilly for FRP Advisory

Baker Tilly partner and head of special investigations team to leave the firm after more than 14 years

29 Nov 2012

Administrators to close a further 125 Comet stores

Up to 2,500 jobs to go as Deloitte administrators look to close 125 stores

29 Nov 2012

Investor files lawsuit against Deloitte & KPMG for work on Autonomy

Allegations the two firms missed numerous red flags in their work with HP and Autonomy have been filed in a lawsuit in the US

29 Nov 2012

Financial reporting think tank suspends manager over missing cash

Think tank to improve financial practice in the City suspends manager over suspected fraud

26 Nov 2012

Leonard Curtis administrators sort Harley Medical pre-pack

Leonard Curtis administrators organise pre-pack for Harley Medical Group following legal claims from women affected by faulty breast implants

26 Nov 2012

Portsmouth FC administrators receive early court date

Portsmouth administrators given date to seal the deal on a sale but club will be liquidated if court disagrees

21 Nov 2012

PwC administrators called to charity as its pension deficit rises

People Can calls in PwC administrators as as increases in its pension deficit contributions become unsustainable

21 Nov 2012

Deloitte administrators make 735 redundancies at Comet HQ

Administrators announce 735 redundancies in the head office, call centre and delivery network at Comet

19 Nov 2012

Colin: Taxis rank highly with PwC

Colin's usual sidewards, squinty, glance at the news: PwC's administration of Manganese Bronze proves eye-catching

19 Nov 2012

Deloitte administrators to close 41 Comet stores

Administrators say redundancies “inevitable”, and set up employee assistance programme and hotline

19 Nov 2012

PwC administrators steer Manganese Bronze in right direction

Administrators to oversee steering fault resolution, and hope to have black cabs back on the road by mid-December

16 Nov 2012

Administrators sell leisure equipment maker to US business

Duff & Phelps administrators manage to sell London-based Power Plate to PPI Aquisitions

16 Nov 2012

Administrators appointed to Corrie musical producers

Chantrey Vellacott appointed to Street of Dreams

15 Nov 2012

Menzies picks Pick as business recovery director

Care home specialist Robert Pick joins Menzies' recovery division

13 Nov 2012

No insolvency boom? Thank the ten-year-old Enterprise Act

It's the Enterprise Act's 10th birthday and what a decade it has had, writes insolvency practitioner and R3 president Lee Manning

09 Nov 2012

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#AAYP 2013: Talent is ageless, but youth unemployment is a problem

The principles of developing future leaders apply whether you've just left school or got years of experience under your belt

To quota or not to quota: that is the problem

Women on board quotas may have a bad rep, but it’s the only way to address inherent bias argues Fiona Hotston Moore

#AAYP 2013: Soft skills will be a necessity to being competitive

Accountants must continue to add value by advising our clients more predominantly on their structure and their long-term objective

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Walk before you can run, lessons on choosing the right IT system

Stepping back and choosing a simpler IT system might be the best way forward for the business explains Christophe Letellier

Colin: Colin was here

Colin loves to be the centre of attention, as the Sky News Twitter account can testify

Taking Stock: Life in the slow lane

It was less Wacky Races and more Sunday driving as a team from Reeves helped raise £15,000 for charity as part of a race to Monaco

Colin: Democracy bureaucracy

Colin wonders what the ICAEW's discussions over the botched ballot were like

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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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