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View articleThe row over the future of the English ICA's 22 district societies intensified this week as it emerged two members were seeking to call a special meet...
View articleDot.com start-ups are no more than the sum of their business plans and the money they have convinced investors to hand over. Read More...
View articlePolicyholders of collapsed life assurance group Equitable Life want to see the role of its auditor, Ernst & Young, put under the microscope. Read ...
View articleMary Keegan, senior partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, has been named as the new chairman of the Accounting Standards Board, the Financial Reporting C...
View articleThe Financial Services Authority is to adopt a new framework for regulating the 11,000 organisations under its control to ensure it that it meets its ...
View articleCompany directors are to be sent a checklist to help them assess their company's attitude to sustainability. Read More...
View articleMid-tier firm BDO Stoy Hayward and computer giant Oracle are set to join forces to launch an advisory and risk management service for e-business inves...
View articleThe results of a quarterly survey published today by the Confederation of British Industry and Deloitte & Touche shows the largest fall in optimism am...
View articleThis is the time of the year when people look backwards and look forwards. How has their particular bit of the world done in the last twelve months? A...
View articleLondon-listed Takefuji, Japan's largest consumer finance company, is hoping a Big Five accounting firm to investigate its operations can halt a massiv...
View articleThe Charity Commission has launched 255 formal inquiries into charities on its register over the last year, according to the regulator's annual report...
View articleThe US Securities and Exchange Commission this week said it would push for better access to the audit papers of non-US companies, and those affiliated...
View articleThere's nothing more likely to land an employee in hot water with the boss than a smidgen of bare-faced cheek. Read More...
View articleBooze has no place in the modern workplace, a sober three out of five finance chiefs told this week's Accountancy Age / Reed Accountancy Personnel Big...
View articleThe Home Office has admitted accountants' client confidentiality will have to be compromised as a result of anti-fraud legislation due to be announced...
View articleWhat is the worst song ever written? Up until this week, staff at Accountancy Age thought it was PricewaterhouseCoopers' guitar rock drone 'Your World...
View articleBill Henbrey, a partner at mid-tier firm BDO Stoy Hayward, yesterday won the 'best business advisor' for 2000 at the CBI/Real Business Growing Busines...
View articleAccounting Standards Board chairman Sir David Tweedie has this week set the stage to go out with a bang with the publication of two updated accounting...
View articleChristmas postal delays and rail chaos are threatening to cause havoc to web retailer deliveries and return new online customers to the high street, A...
View articleThe Auditing Practices Board today announced the publication of Bulletin 2000/3 'Departure from Statements of Recommended Practice for the Preparation...
View articleColin Fisher and Alan Lovell's report has usefully contributed to the debate on ethics in CIMA. The institute is revising its code of ethics to take i...
View articleThe latest pronouncement from the European Commission on auditor independence was due to be published prior to Christmas. This revised recommendation ...
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View articleSebastian Bull has taken over from Steven Marshall as FD at Railtrack, who stepped up to chief executive following the resignation of Gerald Corbett l...
View articleIt's not often a financial controller can truly claim to have the job of their dreams - a job where their work is completely embroiled in their favour...
View articleHonestly, the lengths people will go to. Readers might remember that for a while TS published pictures of accountants reading the Age in daft places a...
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