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Taking Stock

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Colin: Post Office pushes the envelope

Colin takes a sideways glance at the Post Office finally looking at its own software over accounting errors

07 Jan 2013

Merry Christmas

Colin: Have a value-added Christmas

Colin wishes you all a merry Christmas - and don't forget to leave a 64-8 out for when Santa comes down the chimney

20 Dec 2012

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Taking Stock: Greentree gets charitable in biz software giveaway

TS loves to see good deeds...

18 Dec 2012

Colin: X marks the spot

How offshore tax settlements agreements used to be conducted

12 Dec 2012

Taking Stock: Licence to ... audit your tax returns

Sex, drugs and violence. All in the day and life of an undercover accountant...

03 Dec 2012

Colin: Cutting red tape not always subtle

Setting new UK accounting standards is a delicate issue, notes Colin

27 Nov 2012

Colin: What's accounting got to do with the price of fish?

The glitz and glamour wasn't the only reason guests attended the British Accountancy Awards, notes Colin

23 Nov 2012

Taking Stock: Hibs take tax song to Heart(s)

TS loves a witty ditty

15 Nov 2012

Colin: It doesn't smell like coffee...

Colin muses on other borderline areas of the law

13 Nov 2012

Colin: Tax - there's no app for that

An iProfit to make your eyes water

08 Nov 2012

Don’t panic about KPMG’s false alarm

KPMG staff get unexpected break when UK chairman accidentally sets off fire alarm

05 Nov 2012

Colin: McDonald's golden promotion

A promotion at McDonald's caught Colin's eye this week

05 Nov 2012

Ever heard of the complexity gnome?

TS couldn't help but chuckle when MPs asked the chief executive of HMRC about the possibility of a gnome complicating the tax system

01 Nov 2012

Colin: Halloween parties need meticulous planning

Some things are a little obvious, notes Colin

31 Oct 2012

Colin: Judge gently?

Judges are seldom charitable, notes Colin

26 Oct 2012

PwC gets vocal over lost BG audit

The Big Four firm is unusually chatty about losing a major audit, notes TS...

25 Oct 2012

Colin: Frappes and figures

A frappe isn't just a frappe these days, notes Colin

18 Oct 2012

Colin: Formula One just not cricket

"If a fine for espionage is tax-deductible, what else is?", asks Colin

15 Oct 2012

Spies are tax-deductible

TS was astonished to find out spies can be tax-deductible

12 Oct 2012

Colin: Charity case is no defence

Stealing from charity just isn't very christian, notes Colin

11 Oct 2012

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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

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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.