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View articlePricewaterhouseCoopers partner Graham Ward has been elected to the newly formed board of the International Federation of Accountants. Read More...
View articlePricewaterhouseCoopers has boosted its stakeholders' ability to enter a dialogue with the firm by launching a dedicated website. Read More...
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View articlePannell Kerr Forster has been added to a list of approved education providers used to intervene in running the growing number of failing local educati...
View articleThe Financial Services Authority has been warned by a panel of independent advisers it will be scrutinised to ensure its future regulatory regime does...
View articleAccountants spend up to 30 minutes a day at work indulging in a harmless spot of daydreaming, according to a survey commissioned by National Lottery o...
View articleThe European Commission has approved the acquisition of Ernst & Young's global consulting and IT activities by French-based Cap Gemini. Read More...
View articleThe Financial Services Authority has welcomed moves by the London Stock Exchange to address the issues which emerged from its technical breakdown in A...
View articlePricewaterhouseCoopers' UK managing partner appeared unfazed this week as he responded to the US regulator's statement on tackling conflicts of intere...
View articleThe Inland Revenue is using 'devious' tactics to target companies by hijacking client records held by corporate hospitality providers to expose tax lo...
View articleThe accountancy profession has been dealt another body blow by the chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Accountancy Age reports. Rea...
View articleThe English ICA will launch four 'focuses' today as part of a drive to help communicate better with its members throughout the profession. Read More...
View articleAuditing standards and guidance have not kept pace with the implications of e-commerce and must be reviewed if they are to remain relevant, the Englis...
View articleAs a finance director, Paul Rivers will soon be bringing all his experience of mergers and expansion to bear on a deal which is causing great exciteme...
View articleUS Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Arthur Levitt today proposed a rule-making power and other measures for the watchdog to ensure accounta...
View articleTwenty-one accountancy firms have been fined under an initial review into the pensions mis-selling scandal, but the English ICA has warned that it may...
View articleA #70m tax saving has unfairly cast BMW in the role of villain. Read More...
View articleSenior officials from the London Stock Exchange have been ordered to appear before MPs on the powerful Commons Treasury committee following the collap...
View articleThe cost to the Inland Revenue of administering the self-assessment regime is rising not falling, according to an Inland Revenue report on its spendin...
View articleThe government has refused to accept that Customs and Excise should merge with the Inland Revenue as recommended by MPs on the Treasury Committee. Rea...
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