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Practice management

Scotland lags behind in restructuring says Haines Watts hire

Annette Menzies calls for earlier planning to aid recovery of Scottish businesses

08 Mar 2012

Seymour Pierce corporate finance director joins Reeves

John Cowie appointed corporate finance partner at Reeves

08 Mar 2012

Nick Michaels

Best Practice: AIM higher and higher

Jeffreys Henry compete against the industry's largest players for their AIM clients, but do they have something the others don't?

07 Mar 2012

Grant Thornton has (Morning)Stars in their Eyes

GT on E&Y's tail for stock market clients

07 Mar 2012

Professions could do more for social mobility

Toolkit launched to help the professions measure and improve their social mobility performance

05 Mar 2012

Suffolk firms merge to create 20-strong team

Jacobs Allen and Paul Donno & Co bring together their practices

02 Mar 2012

Elaine Clark wants accountancy voucher power

An e-petition calling for start-ups to receive a government voucher for accountants' advice could put profession into the spotlight

28 Feb 2012

The Practitioner: How long till the Olympics?

The Practitioner points to the summer as the time when he might get some long-standing things sorted out...

28 Feb 2012

Best Practice: Beever & Struthers' Paul Wilson

Tax partner Paul Wilson explains how he managed to pick up a record-breaking 30 new clients in less than 12 months

27 Feb 2012

Jailed chartered accountant must cough up £2.5m

Christos Charalambous will face longer jail term for tax fraud if he fails to pay back ill-gotten gains

24 Feb 2012

Businesses need your entrepreneurialism

Guy Rigby of Smith & Williamson argues that accountants need commercial charisma as well as technical expertise to succeed as ‘trusted advisers'

20 Feb 2012

Make a success of your fee structure

Make sure your success fees have been properly drafted and structured - or risk going through the courts to chase payment

20 Feb 2012

Coutts managing partner joins Grant Thornton

Martin Young leaves Coutts to head up Grant Thornton's financial planning team

16 Feb 2012

The benefits and pitfalls of partnership status

Solicitor Tim Marshall explains the issues to bear in mind when thinking about your firm's structure

06 Feb 2012

When is a partner an employee?

The latest decision in Tiffin provides some security against fixed share partner's employment rights

03 Feb 2012

The Practitioner: Don't rate some clients...

Free from self assessment deadline hell, the Practitioner puts thought to rating clients

03 Feb 2012

Streets ties up with Poppleton & Appleby

Streets beefs up its corporate insolvency expertise

03 Feb 2012

Smaller practices weighed down by burden of regulation

Around 30% of respondents to an IFAC survey chose burden of regulation and economic uncertainty as the biggest challenges

03 Feb 2012

RSM Tenon's plight puts listed firm model under scrutiny

RSM Tenon's profit warning and boardroom has reignited debate over the merits of accounting firms going public

31 Jan 2012

Izza and the ICAEW: Five years on

After five years as CEO of the ICAEW, how does Michael Izza think he's fared, and what does the future hold?

26 Jan 2012

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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

Profession reaches end of its tether with PAC

After the Public Accounts Committee's latest hearing - in which it heavily criticised Google's tax affairs - many advisers have had enough

#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

infrastructure-growth

Should practice ownership structures break with tradition?

Incentivising accountancy practice staff will mean a new way of thinking. Robert Postlethwaite considers the options

Success of FRS 102 needs to be replicated on going concern

The consultation process for FRS 102 was arguably the most wide-ranging the FRC has ever conducted. It should apply the same rigour to going concern

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

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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.