So Microsoft has well and truly outlined its intent to dominate the accountancy software market across the globe, following its record near £1bn acqui...
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View articleUK companies are missing out on hundreds of thousands of pounds of assets because they do not know how to exploit the value of their intellectual prop...
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View articleAndersen UK last week notified 1,500 employees by email they were losing their jobs - and then offered redundancy payments of just a week's pay for ev...
View articleThe big accountancy firms are bankrolling the ICAEW as it defends the reputation of the profession in the wake of the Enron scandal, it has emerged. R...
View articleOne of the accountancy world's most senior figures has called for a radical shakeup of the auditing profession, including a totally independent regula...
View articleThe ICAEW has come under fire from the Liberal Democrat's shadow trade secretary for not moving more quickly to decide if there is a case against Ande...
View articleInsolvency practitioners across the country have come out in overwhelming support of the Football League removing 'super creditor' status for players ...
View articleFinance directors have revealed they are evenly split on the question of whether the backers of ITV Digital should pay the failed broadcaster's debts ...
View articleScandals in the US have caused investors to lose confidence in financial reporting by telecom companies across the globe. Desperate to regain the trus...
View articleBig Five firm Pricewaterhouse-Coopers this week stood accused by some of its own partners of rushing the sale of its consulting arm in a bid to stave ...
View articleHere follows the letter written by Douglas Llambias, chairman of the Business Exchange to Peter Wyman, deputy president of the ICAEW, about the instit...
View articleBusiness software provider, Intuit, has today pulled off a £1.1m deal to buy the UK self-assessment tax software produced by Consumers Association sub...
View articleWhen on 3 September 2001, Hewlett-Packard announced an agreement to acquire Compaq, it said the deal was expected to be completed in the first half of...
View articleA group of leading chief executives in the US has called for a cautionary approach to adopting new corporate governance regulations in the wake of Enr...
View articleThe International Accounting Standards Board today (Wednesday) published for comment, proposals to revise 12 of its 34 standards, just three years ahe...
View articleMike Rake has been appointed to head up KPMG International, taking over from Steve Butler, the former chairman who stood down at the beginning of the ...
View articleLord Wakeham, former non-executive director at Enron, is stepping down as chairman of warship builder Vosper Thornycroft and will retire from the comp...
View articleProduction companies have blamed the BBC and ITV for the government's decision to remove film tax breaks, which has endangered the UK film industry an...
View articleStar witness in the Andersen trial, David Duncan, has told a Houston court the firm did nothing to stop clients inflating profits - despite telling wa...
View articleInternal audit chiefs want either a ban on external auditors providing consulting work or more rigorous controls on the provision of consulting work. ...
View articleOne in ten forensic accountants at Big Five firm KPMG faces the axe in the latest round of redundancies sweeping through the profession. Read More...
View articleCorporate web sites that use Flash animation could allow hackers to control user's computers, according to a security expert. Read More...
View articlePricewaterhouseCoopers, the provisional liquidator of collapsed Independent Insurance, has put a deal on the table aimed at ending the dispute between...
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