Nick MacAndrew, one of the highest paid FDs in the UK, has lost out in a boardroom shakeout at Schroders, the listed fund manager, following the arriv...
View articleThe High Court today ruled that two former Barings companies were unable to make a claim against Deloitte & Touch Singapore. Read More...
View articleBy Philip SmithSir Michael Peat, the Queen's accountant, is to become the next private secretary to the Prince of Wales, Buckingham Palace has finally...
View articleThe Business Application Software Developers' Association is launching a free booklet aimed at helping UK businesses deal with the practical issues ar...
View articleA huge number of finance directors this week said they would work without pay, providing support to the finance director at Regus who last week suspen...
View articleThe Confederation of British Industry today urged the government to keep home addresses of all company directors secret to safeguard them against pers...
View articleMake no mistake: FRS 17 has never been popular with British business. Only a fortnight ago a study by banker HSBC warned the new standard requiring co...
View articleAccountancy firms could pick up lucrative work from a Treasury demand that government departments include a sustainability report in the next spending...
View articleUK financial reporting faces a dilemma over the reporting of intangibles. The more we move towards a service and technology-based economy, the higher ...
View articleThe Department of Trade and Industry will name three leading business people to its new strategy board designed to make the government ministry more f...
View articleExtensive 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...
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