Extensive field-testing must be carried out on proposals to make companies measure all financial instruments at fair value, says PricewaterhouseCooper...
View articleBig Five firm KPMG has launched an attack on the European Central Bank, accusing it of creating market confusion and shrouding its decisions in secrec...
View articleThe majority of expert witnesses still believe new rules governing fees earned in court claims have not seriously affected their income, proving that ...
View articleReal estate company British Land has announced that its finance director of 28 years, John Weston Smith, is stepping aside for a former Andersen partn...
View articleBritain's oft-cited 'red tape' burden is making it the worst country in the European Union to trade with, according to a survey carried out by the Eur...
View articleThe Home Office is rushing through a change in the law to crack down on international corruption in its Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill. Read ...
View articlePharmaceutical company Bioglan Pharma has been asked by KPMG to adjust the accounts in its interim results. Read More...
View articlePublishing social and environmental reports as part of annual report and accounts creates burdens and costs that support a view that they should be op...
View articleKPMG Forensic Accounting has warned of increased money laundering as terrorists try to fund their activities by increasing drug trafficking. Read More...
View articleLast year I spent a lot of time reporting on issues such as eurocreep, the idea that the euro would begin to spread into the transactions of British c...
View articleJez Maiden FCMA has recently been appointed director of finance for Britannia Building Society. Maiden joined Britannia from Hickson International, wh...
View articleIan Little, a chartered accountant, is the financial director of Access Accounting. He moved from KPMG in 1997 where he was a manager in the corporate...
View articleCompetition in the food market has led to a vicious price war but J Sainsbury, about to release its half-year results, claims to be unscathed in the b...
View articleJohn McDonnell, the Labour MP for Hayes and Harlington, says he will fight legislation giving City businesses more voting power in Corporation of Lond...
View articleFinance directors of technology companies face being abandoned by investors if they continue failing to communicate their risk management strategies f...
View articleBAA, the international airport group, has reported an operating profit of £355m under the new controversial accounting standard, FRS 17. Read More...
View articleBusiness leaders have hit out at a long-awaited report on the burdens of regulation by parliament's financial watchdog, the National Audit Office. Rea...
View articleLast year I spent a lot of time reporting on issues such as eurocreep, the idea that the euro would begin to spread into the transactions of British c...
View articleAll government departments will have to include sustainability reports in their bids for the next spending review, the head of the Treasury has said. ...
View articleFARM-Africa is a British development agency that has been working with poverty and famine-stricken communities in Africa since 1985. A charity dedicat...
View articleGovernment spending and business cutbacks following the 11 September tragedy in New York and Washington could stave off the threat of a drawn out glob...
View articleA long awaited progress report on the work to curb harmful tax practices has today been published by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Dev...
View articleFinance teams are frequently the unsung heroes of companies. Usually tucked away in some darkened corner of the office where people only tend to ventu...
View articleThe high calibre of entrants made this a tough decision, but the coveted Accountancy Age Financial Director of the Year Award has been given to John S...
View articleThe former finance director of failed trade finance group Versailles has been ordered to pay #11.3m to the company’s receiver PricewaterhouseCoo...
View articlePKF bullish about prospects despite low growth figures. Read More...
View articleNegative news has hit accountancy-related stocks, causing the majority of shares to slide below last week’s levels, writes Adriana Zea. After a ...
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