– The Inland Revenue faces widespread criticism from the IT industry over its bid to outsource its IT functions for #4bn. Peter Sommer, a comput...
View articleRailtrack administrator Ernst & Young believes a way remains open to challenge any final decision on the future of the failed infrastructure compa...
View articleProviding relevant and timely information for shareholders only becomes more important in a downturn. It’s in no-one’s interest to sit on ...
View articleDue to an error in the editing process, a key phrase was omitted from Jeffrey Lampert’s letter published last week. We publish it in full below:...
View articleRe: Between the Covers, Taking Stock, 1 November.[QQ] I bought the book on the Boo.com collapse. Interesting stuff. I note the contract supply of a KP...
View articleRe: A benchmark of excellence (page 10, 8 November), I agree with most of your sentiments but one thing caught my eye. You wrote ‘It is a concep...
View articleWere the FD and CEO at Regus right to waive their wages during troubled times? Neil Chisman says they have sent out the right message, but Peter Willi...
View articleThe Queen could poach a Big Five partner after announcing she is searching for a new keeper of the Privy Purse to replace Sir Michael Peat. Read More...
View articleThe firm has found no evidence of fraud or misappropriation in the Simple Truth appeal, a British Red Cross campaign, publicly led by disgraced peer L...
View articleRailtrack administrator Ernst & Young believes a way remains open to challenge any final decision on the future of the failed infrastructure compa...
View articleProviding relevant and timely information for shareholders only becomes more important in a downturn. It's in no-one's interest to sit on bad news: th...
View articleErnst & Young released its first results as a limited liability partnership today and recorded a 15% growth in fee income for the year to June 2001. R...
View articlePricewaterhouseCoopers is facing a growing internal struggle over whether to publish detailed financial reports even as it attempts to demonstrate to ...
View articleTough new powers requiring accountants to co-operate in company investigations are being considered as part of a further shake up of company law being...
View articleGlobal investment banking firm Lehman Brothers has appointed former Ernst & Young audit partner Kevin Hayes as its chief financial officer for Europe ...
View articleMedia group SMG is in discussions with Deloitte & Touche which could result in the Big Five firm advising the company on finances and cost-cutting mea...
View articleOnly 23% of millionaires turn to their accountants for investment tips preferring the services of newspapers to those of financial advisers. Read More...
View articleA shaky foundation We learn this week the new accountancy watchdog, the Foundation, will be fully operational by January. Wasn’t that January 20...
View articleHolborn firm Collyer-Bristow has boosted its insolvency practice with the appointment of partner Gilly Locke. She joins from the Rosling Partnership, ...
View article'The market cannot value what it cannot see' is the message Big Five firm PricewaterhouseCoopers has put out to directors in a bid to encourage more t...
View articleBig Five firm Ernst & Young says it sponsorship of next year's MatissePicasso exhibition at the Modern Tate will be used a 'business tool' to host cli...
View articleEver since the bulk of the Big Five began moves to divest themselves of their consulting arms, accounting firms have run the risk of seeing themselves...
View articleDeloitte Touche Tohmatsu joined the growing chorus of firms to announce a substantial slowdown in revenue growth, reporting an almost 4% drop for the ...
View articleKPMG is to spend £16m a year in a bid to reinvent itself once it has hived off its management consultancy practice. Read More...
View articleAccountants are dealing with an increasing number of requests to provide information about their clients. Read More...
View articleA row over whether the new accountancy watchdog should be allowed to undertake tasks such as 'ethnic monitoring' is helping delay its launch until ear...
View articleGordon Brown has launched a search for a Big Five partner to take on the job of leading the war against terrorist finance in the UK. Read More...
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