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On the money with Gavin Hinks

Gavin Hinks — 2008-08-28T22:04:00.000Z

Gavin Hinks, Accountancy Age, Thursday 28 August 2008 at 22:04:00

You’ve got to take your hat off to Alex Horne

Last year’s Accountancy Age Personality of the Year, Horne was until recently the managing director of Wembley Stadium and a key figure in rescuing the project....

Who's the top dog: the great debate

Kevin Wheeler, Wheeler Associates — 2008-08-28T21:49:00.000Z

Kevin Wheeler, Wheeler Associates, Accountancy Age, Thursday 28 August 2008 at 21:49:00

Which of the Big Four is top dog?

When Deloitte’s John Connolly announced the firm’s latest UK results in July, which put it within touching distance of PricewaterhouseCoopers, his comment that ‘maybe we have already overhauled them [PwC]...

On the money with Gavin Hinks

Gavin Hinks — 2008-07-31T16:47:00.000Z

Gavin Hinks, Accountancy Age, Thursday 31 July 2008 at 16:47:00

Following on from the title of this column, the money’s only worth making if you’re safety is not compromised

But even accountants sometimes find themselves in less than secure circumstances. Speculation over the past few weeks would suggest that James Owen, FD of BP’s Russian joint oil venture TNK-BP,...

US chapter 11: businesses must change

James Money — 2008-07-31T16:38:00.000Z

James Money, Accountancy Age, Thursday 31 July 2008 at 16:38:00

As the credit crunch continues to bite, it pays to be prepared

David Cameron has highlighted the risk that the credit crunch will lead to a huge increase in business failures. He believes that aspects of the US Chapter 11 process may...

Adjustment not meltdown

Dennis Turner, HSBC — 2008-07-24T19:16:00.000Z

Dennis Turner, HSBC, Accountancy Age, Thursday 24 July 2008 at 19:16:00

Nobody can doubt that the long-awaited slowdown has finally arrived.

After several months of a sliding housing market, retailers are now claiming that high street sales are wilting, the 'credit crunch' seems to be affecting more and more households and...

AIM companies: why two stockbrokers can be better than one

Peter Shea — 2008-07-17T17:09:00.000Z

Peter Shea, Accountancy Age, Thursday 17 July 2008 at 17:09:00

Using two stockbrokers can boost potential for AIM companies

It’s not unusual, in fact it’s commonplace, for larger quoted companies especially FTSE-100 stocks to have more than one stockbroker....

Scary truth about the increase in fraud

Gavin Hinks — 2008-07-10T17:08:00.000Z

Gavin Hinks, Accountancy Age, Thursday 10 July 2008 at 17:08:00

Open any page in a national newspaper at the moment and the stories on fraud are unmissable

The credit crunch means we can look forward to an avalanche of fraud as employees and company directors seek ways to boost pay and income, or make the company result...

On the money with Gavin Hinks

Gavin Hinks — 2008-07-10T17:00:00.000Z

Gavin Hinks, Accountancy Age, Thursday 10 July 2008 at 17:00:00

There’s part of me thinks that we should chuck it all in and let the US regulate UK capital markets

The watchdogs over there can hardly rustle their papers without accountants over here having to rethink the way they do business....

Now the real hard work begins, PwC

AccountancyAge — 2008-07-02T18:18:00.000Z

AccountancyAge, Accountancy Age, Wednesday 2 July 2008 at 18:18:00

The merger of Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand created the blueprint for the Big Four: global assurance and advisory businesses built on solid audit foundations with plenty to offer the world’s biggest and most ambitious companies

This week marks PricewaterhouseCoopers’ tenth birthday, and while it is - and should be - a time for celebration, it also begs the question: Is PwC equipped to cope with...

View from the board: a safe place to be, rain or shine

Mark Freebairn — 2008-06-26T00:30:00.000Z

Mark Freebairn, Accountancy Age, Thursday 26 June 2008 at 00:30:00

The credit crunch is not the time to save money through cheap accountants

First and foremost, I’m not saying that we are heading into a recession. However, there is no doubt that the market is being squeezed, and certain anomalies are coming to...

On the money with Gavin Hinks

Gavin Hinks — 2008-06-26T00:27:00.000Z

Gavin Hinks, Accountancy Age, Thursday 26 June 2008 at 00:27:00

What are recruitment prospects like for FDs and CFOs during the credit crunch?

So the fall out from the credit crunch is starting to crystallise into robust action against those who may or may not have presided over jaw-dropping corporate errors....

Fraud to rise as crunch bites

Julian Jones — 2008-06-12T18:02:00.000Z

Julian Jones, Accountancy Age, Thursday 12 June 2008 at 18:02:00

The rise of crime as a result of the credit crunch

The credit crunch has had an adverse effect on many people’s lives; for some, however, it has been the impetus for criminal activity....

Will mergers define the future of accountancy?

Phil Shohet and Andrew Jenner — 2008-06-12T17:59:00.000Z

Phil Shohet and Andrew Jenner, Accountancy Age, Thursday 12 June 2008 at 17:59:00

If the past is anything to go by, mergers will define the future of accountancy

Looking at this year’s Top 50, it might be tempting to think: ‘Well… not much change there then, it’s all very much the same as last year.’ But trends cannot...

Absolute transparency is the only way forward

Gavin Hinks — 2008-06-12T17:57:00.000Z

Gavin Hinks, Accountancy Age, Thursday 12 June 2008 at 17:57:00

When it comes to disclosure of key information, the Top 50 firms are not always the most assiduous of corporate bodies

Take, for instance, the fact that only a quarter of the firms in this year’s list of the 50 largest will disclose their profits....

On the money with Gavin Hinks

Gavin Hinks — 2008-06-12T17:54:00.000Z

Gavin Hinks, Accountancy Age, Thursday 12 June 2008 at 17:54:00

When Arthur Levitt, the former head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, was commissioned by the US Treasury to have a look at audit choice in the US, it was clear there was always the potential for a much more strident approach than the one taken here in the UK

Levitt is tough, bluntly spoken, and was never going to pull his punches. Now it seems we have a clear sign that his approach to regulating the firms may be...