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Taking Stock

Haggis

ICAS' Savoy stand-ups impress TS

Anton Colella and Sir David Tweedie got their laughing gears working last night at the Scottish institute's annual dinner

02 Oct 2012

HMRC's got its head in the clouds

Colin: HMRC's got its head in the cloud

Colin gives a wry warning as HMRC takes a big step

28 Sep 2012

Crowdsourcing

KPMG's crowdsourcing tie-up twists TS into knots

What are 'customisable forums' and digital market insights'? TS attempts to find out

25 Sep 2012

Colin: We love a good legal (tax) drama

Recommended reading for lawyers...

21 Sep 2012

Colin: Audit reform changes tack

Colin sums up what many think about the new direction that the EC's audit reform plans are taking

19 Sep 2012

MPs grill Newman over Accountancy Age Awards

Jeremy Newman faces up to tough questioning over his Accountancy Age award-winning exploits prior to his appointment as Audit Commission chairman

13 Sep 2012

Soldiering on in new accounting career

Afghanistan veteran Stephen Gillespie is forging a new career in accounting. The profession should help Stephen and others like him

10 Sep 2012

Colin: Non-doms a joke for TUC

Taking non-dom issues to the stage

07 Sep 2012

If there were gold medals for taxes...

TS wonders whether tax really is an Olympic-sized task

31 Aug 2012

Colin: Clegg tax-idermy

Nick Clegg proves taxing, notes Colin

31 Aug 2012

Colin: For everything else, there's CIMA

A qualification worth having

29 Aug 2012

Colin: Accountants to stand up and be counted

Colin's take on plans by accounting regulator to better codify whistleblowing rules

28 Aug 2012

Colin: Tax fugitives find perfect hiding place

Colin wonders whether he may have worked out where the taxman's 20 most-wanted might be

22 Aug 2012

Colin: Major audit for PwC

G4S get more than it bargained for

15 Aug 2012

Colin: It's Times to apologise

Stars don't want to be tarred by the tax avoidance brush...

13 Aug 2012

Top 50 +50: Gotta be in it to win it

TS tells off firms that couldn't be asked to enter the Top 50 +50 this year

01 Aug 2012

Colin: HMRC moral dilemma?

Negotiations in the new world

25 Jul 2012

ICAEW maintains its integrity as ceiling collapses

It's business as usual at Moorgate Place today as ceiling collapses. One calculator is yet to be accounted for

24 Jul 2012

Can IFRS be understood by dummies?

Leavitt Walmsley Associates audit and technical director Steve Collings reckons he knows IFRS so well he could train a dummy – TS was the test case

23 Jul 2012

Colin: Last day for award submission sees some surprising entrants

New categories could prove quite popular

20 Jul 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

man walks alone in arctic landscape

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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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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