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View articleVINCE CABLE’S PROPOSALS to raise audit thresholds and abolish statutory accounts filing for microbusinesses have certainly provoked plenty of re...
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View articleI READ with interest the news that the ICAEW has launched an investigation into Ernst and Young’s handling of the “jumbo sized”, and...
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View articleTHE RECENT NEWS that Companies House will move to electronic filing of statutory annual returns and accounts in 2013 could spell good news for its use...
View articleACCORDING TO to the Hindu Times, India’s GDP growth will be around 8% this year. Why, you may ask, am I hitting you with this fact? Well, since ...
View articleLIKE MOST FOLK, I was a little jolted by the recently published figures showing Britain’s GDP going into reverse. However, I’m not getting...
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View articleFOR THOSE OF US that can forgive and forget Germany’s 4-1 trouncing of England in last year’s World Cup, doing business with our German EU...
View articleIN JULY last year, the coalition government made it clear that to save frontline public services it would look to save billions through a more profess...
View articleHERE WE ALL ARE, ending an eventful year in which we’ve witnessed a change of government, the country coming out of recession, (albeit tentative...
View articleTHE OTHER DAY, the Bank of England published its report acknowledging that the weakness in bank lending since the start of the economic crisis “...
View articleClearly, Vince Cable has looked at the list of organisations backing the Doing Business Together initiative, as described in yesterday’s Account...
View articleYESTERDAY, a researcher from a university contacted me to ask my opinion on the value of abbreviated accounts. My stance on this topic is unequivocal:...
View articleThe Road Haulage Association has been driven into action on behalf of its members who are experiencing delayed trade payments by large aggregates cust...
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