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PwC: Utilities struggling to cope with 80% rise in energy demand

Survey of energy industry executives reveals growing concerns over blackout risks

24 Apr 2012

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Businesses hit by environmental budget

Chancellor George Osborne announces changes to levies and incentives to encourage greener behaviour from businesses

21 Mar 2012

Budget2012: Carbon tax could be introduced

Carbon Reduction Committment is "burecratic" and could be replaced with an alternatibe tax

21 Mar 2012

Big Four rank high up on corporate responsibility index

Big Four firms pick up gongs in the Business in the Community Corporate Responsibility Index awards

20 Mar 2012

Technology promises to make green reports easier to navigate

New XBRL tagging system to help investors and stakeholders better track firms' environmental performance

15 Mar 2012

KPMG sponsored Energy report branded 'shoddy nonsense'

AF Consult launches heavily criticised report on the costs of UK green energy targets, after sponsor KPMG walked away from findings

05 Mar 2012

Calculating the true price of carbon reporting

Exxon Mobil’s £2.7m fine for misreporting carbon is just the tip of the iceberg if companies don’t take carbon reporting seriously warns Peter Grant

01 Mar 2012

China climate change expert joins PwC sustainability team

Allan Zhang joins the Big Four firm's climate change and sustainability team in the UK

23 Feb 2012

KPMG: Hidden environmental costs equal 41% of earnings

New report urges businesses to protect themselves from 10 environmental and economic 'megaforces' that could prevent growth

17 Feb 2012

Exclusive: KPMG refuses to release controversial green energy report

Consultancy will not publish full findings of report, after leaked press release criticising green energy costs sparked media storm

07 Feb 2012

Green tax strategy slated by MPs

MP condemn government refusal to define what green taxes are

07 Feb 2012

Understand sustainability to make money

Doing your homework on sustainability could bolster service lines says Jae Mather

26 Jan 2012

Companies unsure of legal obligations to report emissions

A third of companies are unsure of their legal obligations to report carbon emissions and 58% have never heard the term “carbon accounting”

26 Jan 2012

AS2011: Reducing green levy will cost £75m

Reducing the Climate Change Levy will cost the government £75m over four years

29 Nov 2011

AS2011: Fuel duty rise cancelled

Fuel duty rise of 1p in January cancelled

29 Nov 2011

AS2011: Increase relief on climate change levy

Energy intensive industries Climate Change Levy relief will be increased

29 Nov 2011

Osborne lines up tax relief for energy-intensive industries

Chancellor to outline tax relief for businesses hit by emmissions trading scheme

28 Nov 2011

HW Fisher wades into sustainability market

Firm offers environmental services to SMEs to calculate impact on their businesses

22 Nov 2011

No fashion please I’m an accountant

Accountants don’t have favourites according to PwC at Puma conference

17 Nov 2011

PwC: Airline corporate sustainability transparency needed

Airline corporate sustainability reporting is improving, but there is still some way to go, says PwC

14 Nov 2011

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Penny Avis' book Nevermind the Botox Rachel

Video: From corporate finance to author

Rachael Singh interviews self-published author and former Deloitte partner Penny Avis on her novel "Nevermind the Botox Rachel"

Managers must spot signs of staff stress

Learn to identify the symptoms of stress in your team, urges CABA

The Practitioner: Staff sit-down shocker

The Practitioner has plenty to think about after a senior staff member reveals the pair haven't 'chatted' for quite a while...

Time for consulting to re-balance?

Despite robust performance in 2011, the consulting industry must reduce its reliance on financial services clients, says Alan Leaman

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Tax: Don't go back in the future

Forget retrospection and instead put the GAAR together properly to create certainty for business, says Gary Richards

CIMA and ICAEW accounts: all in the presentation

Fully transparent, or just one for the accountants? asks Kevin Reed

TS recalls Pet's star Healy's close links to HMRC

Tim Healy's recent run-in with the taxman isn't his only dealing with HMRC, TS recalls...

Colin: Cost-cutting a step too far

Finance function takes its toll at BBC offices

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