Price Waterhouse’s tough stance demanding that audit client Burn Stewart should apply accounting standards, even though it could lead to the fir...
View articleErnst & Young has significantly boosted its tax practice by recruiting a senior Inland Revenue compliance officer as national director of tax inve...
View articleCompliance staff working in the City can look forward to raising their status after the launch last week of a Master of Science course in Financial Se...
View articleThe District Audit has appointed chartered accountant Andrew Emmett as finance director. Emmett, 39, joins from Thorn EMI, where he was responsible fo...
View articlePrice Waterhouse is to take over from Arthur Andersen as auditors to beleaguered DIY retailer Wickes. Andersens resigned the audit last week. A formal...
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View articleBaker Tilly has teamed up with a firm of Irish chartered accountants to set up a new practice in Dublin in an attempt to take advantage of Irish growt...
View articleToday's brilliant young accountants are missing something. RobbieCowan rediscovers the lost skills of old-style client management. Read More...
View articleTomorrow's partners will have to acquire and demostrate a variety ofskills if they are to prove invaluable to their firms Read More...
View articleMore and more FTSE-100 companies are putting detailed financial information out on the Internet, according to a report in the monthly accounts analysi...
View articleMaking the European single market work to the UK's advantage shouldbe a Government priority Read More...
View articleBritish Gas international FD Steve Lucas has been appointed chairman of the Oil Industry Accounting Committee (OIAC). OIAC is responsible for co-ordin...
View articleA European Court of Justice ruling has confirmed Customs & Excise’s position that share dealing by charities is outside the scope of VAT. Ta...
View articleWard Hadaway is to establish its new headquarters at the Newcastle Quayside development. The firm will start the new year at Sandgate House at the gat...
View articleChange is afoot in international accounting as attempts are made toregulate the world's stock markets. Harriot Lane Fox previews the Coopers &Lybr...
View articleThe International Accounting Standards Committee’s race to achieve a core set of global accounting standards by early 1998 could be undermined b...
View articleOver-zealous disciplinary measures and excessive punishment handed out by the Joint Monitoring Unit have angered chartered accountants in the South Ea...
View articleACCA members have won the right to call themselves ‘chartered’ after the Privy Council confirmed a decision made at the association’...
View articleProud prize winners at last week’s Accountancy Age annual awards for excellence staged at the London Hilton Hotel. From left: Denis Waxman, mana...
View articleSelf-assessment has spurred the tax software industry into action and, if the number of new products on show last week at the Accountants and Financia...
View articleEnterprise applications vendor SAP UK has launched SAP Focus, an implementation methodology that will make its R/3 software a more viable proposition ...
View articleA high-flying City executive recently made history after claiming compensation for a nervous breakdown brought on by information overload. There can b...
View articleThe Government attempted to head off private sector criticism of the private finance initiative this week with a set of measures designed to cut red t...
View articleThe English ICA is braced for trouble over proposals to halve the number of regulatory and oversight visits it makes to licensed insolvency practition...
View articleCorporate governance performance standards in local government must be improved, claims the Institute of Internal Auditors. The IIA’s response t...
View articleIf the accountancy profession’s proposed Review Board is to succeed in its aim of ensuring the public interest always prevails, it must possess ...
View articleExternal reporting procedures are a ‘necessary evil’ and have no direct influence on management decisions, a CIMA survey claims. Mancheste...
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