The Securities and Investments Board has appointed EMI’s group treasurer Phillippa Foster Back to sit on the board of the Investors Compensation...
View articleEmployee share ownership schemes may cost companies much more if proposals from the Accounting Standards Board are accepted. The reason is because the...
View articleA loophole in the Pensions Act could save a typical FT-SE 100 company around #6m a year, a leading actuary has claimed. Under the terms of the Act, wh...
View article‘Europe: yes. Euro: no’ is the message from an exclusive HaysAccountancyPersonnel/Accountancy Age survey of more than 200 accountants acro...
View articlePost-qualification professional development for Scottish chartered accountants will become mandatory early next year if Scots ICA members vote in favo...
View articleBDO Stoy Hayward’s fine by the Institute of Chartered Accountants for its Prudential-funded ‘freebie’ to Paris (Accountancy Age, 3 O...
View articleProposals for the profession’s new regulatory regime are to be unveiled next week after months of debate by the Consultative Committee of Accoun...
View articleThe Department of Trade and Industry has cut the number of outside investigators used to carry out enquires under section 447 of the Companies Act, de...
View articleInland Revenue internal guidance manuals on inheritance tax are now available on disk. General examination and advanced investigation manuals have bee...
View articleInternational accounting standards may become mandatory in Europe within a few years, according to Accounting Standards Board chairman Sir David Tweed...
View articleRichard Watson is VAT practice head at Price Waterhouse. His open letter sent this week to Customs & Excise VAT policy chief Martin. Brown has foc...
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View articleChartered accountants struck off by the Irish ICA will in future be publicly named under a major revamp of the institute’s disciplinary procedur...
View articleThe Accounting Standards Board should publish non-mandatory ‘best practice’ guidelines on the quality and type of information produced in ...
View articleThe threat by larger accountancy firms to relocate to Jersey andoperate as LLPs is an attempt to avoid public accountability, argues PremSikka Read Mo...
View articleThe Deregulation Unit should advise the Government to deregulate the wholesale finance community and retain a single regulator to oversee both the who...
View articlePrice Waterhouse has managed to snatch the Smiths Industries audit from Clark Whitehill, removing Group A’s last true fingerhold on the FTSE 100...
View articleAre women accountants discriminated against in the profession? And ifthey are, what can be done about it? These were two of the questions askedin the ...
View articleIMRO’s investigation of Morgan Grenfell’s three troubled European unit trusts suffered its first setback last week when it was forced to r...
View articleResponsibility for spotting the company success stories of the future lies with all accountants, argued a leading venture capitalist. Mike Pacitti, a ...
View articleA former assistant accountant at the Church of England’s finance and administrative headquarters in Westminster is to stand trial accused of emb...
View articleAlan Naylor continues his weekly career advice aimed at ambitiousaccountants Read More...
View articleDavid Chitty has been appointed international technical co-ordinator by DFK International, which is a network consisting of 11 UK accounting practices...
View articleMajor problems could arise from the recent Pensions Act forcing trustees to increase independence from associated businesses over governance, claims a...
View articleCoopers & Lybrand has filed a High Court writ on behalf of troubled Ostrich Farming Corporation, which ceased trading in April. Coopers, acting a...
View articleDissident ACCA members have forced reform back on to the association’s agenda by securing enough support to hold an Extraordinary General Meetin...
View articleThe English ICA could appoint a director-general whose main purpose would be to lobby on technical and professional matters, overturning ten years of ...
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