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Graduate job applications up 140% at E&Y

Firm receives 3,200 graduate applications for 800 roles and undergraduate submissions rockets 215% to 1,700

02 Nov 2011

Houses of Parliament

Mid-tier 'worried' after BIS audit reform leak

Mid-tier firms worried about BIS's leaked criticism of EC audit reform ahead of official impact assessment

28 Oct 2011

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Big Four audit split: Numbers don’t stack up

Closer examination of Barnier’s audit paper shows proposals might not meet expectations

10 Oct 2011

Audit split could be stalemate for Big Four

Splitting audit and non-audit service provision could hog-tie both sides

07 Oct 2011

Video: Could the Big Four be broken up?

Accountancy Age discusses the implications of European proposals to fundamentally restructure the audit market

04 Oct 2011

KPMG to leave St Albans for Watford

KPMG lines up new office space in Watford

04 Oct 2011

PwC puts Deloitte in place over global figures

PwC can't resist dig at Deloitte as it retakes number one slot

03 Oct 2011

Haymarket Hotel or Deloitte towers?

Deloitte hires Haymarket hotel during the Olympics

28 Sep 2011

'Untold consequences' loom in audit-only landscape

Audit-only firms mooted in Barnier's draft green paper have a thousand potential consequences, critics warn

28 Sep 2011

OFT retires to consider audit competition referral

The OFT's audit competition consultation closed today and the watchdog will now deliberate on referral to the Competition Commission

09 Sep 2011

Video special: Libyan accountant on life in the war zone

Accountancy Age talks to a PwC accountant in Tripoli about the huge impact of the Libyan civil war on the business community

26 Aug 2011

Business and investors to thrash out accounting issues

FRC launches Financial Reporting Lab to enable discussions between corporate and investment communities

23 Aug 2011

Who's riding the IFRS gravy train?

IFRS consultancy work can be lucrative, but who's cashing in the cheques?

22 Aug 2011

Can the Big Four's consulting grip be broken?

The Big Four have swanned in and retaken control of the financial services consulting market. Where does that leave the other players? asks Edward Haigh

10 Aug 2011

Firm favourites: Cosying up to regulators

Firms, institutes and regulators are one big happy family, but what does this mean for professional oversight?

02 Aug 2011

Audit inspectors optimistic despite firm shortcomings

Audit inspectors claim standards are improving at the top-six firms, but the results tell a different story

01 Aug 2011

Audit referred 'provisionally' to Competition Commission

The Competition Commission will examine the audit market subject to a further six-week consultation by the OFT

29 Jul 2011

OFT audit inquiry decision due

OFT to decide on referring audit market to Competition Commission, potentially resulting in two-year inquiry

29 Jul 2011

PwC must improve goodwill impairment auditing

Audit Inspection Unit finds issue with PwC's goodwill impairment and revenues audit work

26 Jul 2011

Helphire ditches Deloitte for KPMG

Deloitte out of audit role three months after £27m accounting error discovered at client

18 Jul 2011

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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.