Unlisted companies will be able to adopt the International Financial Reporting Standards that will be introduced in 2005, the government has announced...
View articleMarta Andreasen, the former chief accountant of the European Commission who was suspended last year after blowing the whistle on EU accounts, has writ...
View articleThe drive by the accountancy profession to get a limit on the liability of auditors put into law has hit a setback after trade and industry secretary ...
View articleThe ambitious budget for the new, more powerful, Financial Reporting Council should be confirmed by September after its chairman Sir Bryan Nicholson a...
View articleEven heavy metal bands need accountants. This time it's The Darkness who have turned to Clement Keys for business advice. Read More...
View articleThe Department for Trade and Industry today released the annual report on audit regulation from the ICAEW, ICAS and ICAI with standards seemingly impr...
View articleThe US Securities and Exchange Commission was left red-faced last week after the financial watchdog was found to have several flaws in its accounts. R...
View articleThe new EU Common Agricultural Policy reform will shake up revenue recognition issues surrounding agricultural subsidies and could bring a windfall to...
View articleCranfield University has launched a new series of training seminars for audit committee members, following a recent report, which highlighted the inad...
View articleIs the guidance on accounting for emissions rights a murky issue? John Kellas says it is too complex, while Chris Dobson says it is heading in the rig...
View articleSam Wong, the newly appointed president of ACCA, has slammed the International Accounting Standards Board for overlooking the needs of smaller compani...
View articleThe implementation of a mandatory operating and financial review for large UK companies may benefit shareholders and stakeholders, but has done little...
View articleUnder-fire Dutch supermarket chain Ahold has revealed yet another large hole in its accounts, this time worth €73m (£50m) as the company looks to put ...
View articleThe long-running dispute over National Audit Office access to the BBC's accounts seems to be at end after a compromise deal was spelled out in the Hou...
View articleThe Conservative party has urged the government to do more to tackle corruption in Europe after the European Commission's chief internal auditor annou...
View articleEuropean banks and the international accounting regulator have set aside their major differences on financial reporting rules on derivatives. Read Mor...
View articleIraqi oil exports resumed on Sunday amid uncertainty about whether there was an independent auditor in place to ensure revenues are used to get the wa...
View articlePublic spending watchdog, the National Audit Office, will investigate the accounts of Network Rail, the railway infrastructure company that replaced R...
View articleSCO, the SME software provider, has warned that it may exercise its rights to audit IBM customers that use its unix operating system, as part of a $3b...
View articleThe release of the first full international financial reporting standard has been welcomed by accountants, but there are warnings that company account...
View articleA former audit partner at Deloitte & Touche will face complaints from the profession's disciplinary body in relation to him acquiring a luxury veh...
View articleThe spate of accounting scandals over the last 18 months has helped spark interest in one of the more interesting sides of the profession - forensic a...
View articleContemplating a move out of accounting and finance? Think again. Last year managers and directors in this sector saw the biggest pay rises across the ...
View articleACCA is on the brink of ending its two-year search for a chief executive officer, a move that would allow current CEO Anthea Rose to start her postpon...
View articleThe first full standard that companies listed in the EU will be required to adopt by 2005 has been published today by the International Accounting Sta...
View articleThe wider public may be sceptical, but as we reveal this week, even the accountancy business isn't united in the view that audit firms should be allow...
View articleThe accounts of Britain's spies are in serious danger of being qualified for the fourth consecutive year - according to a heavily censored report from...
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