Deloitte & Touche plans to shake up lower league football
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Deloitte & Touche plans to shake up lower league football

29y John Stokdyk

Deloitte & Touche plans to shake up lower league f...

Deloitte & Touche is expected to publish a radical report next week which will shape the future of English football outside the Premiership for t...

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Accountant's assassins given life sentences
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Accountant's assassins given life sentences

29y John Stokdyk

Accountant's assassins given life sentences

Two contract killers were jailed for life on Monday for the murder of Lancashire accountant David Wilson. Wilson, 47, was murdered at his country home...

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Bell denied place in Blair Government
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Bell denied place in Blair Government

29y John Stokdyk

Bell denied place in Blair Government

Labour MP Stuart Bell has pledged to keep a keen eye on accountancy profession reforms despite being denied a position in the new Labour Government. I...

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Ousted Leeds United CEO blames local council
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Ousted Leeds United CEO blames local council

29y John Stokdyk

Ousted Leeds United CEO blames local council

Chartered accountant Robin Launders, forced out as chief executive of Leeds United, blamed Leeds City Council for his dismissal. Launders was negotiat...

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Working abroad: How to leave the country
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Working abroad: How to leave the country

29y John Stokdyk

Working abroad: How to leave the country

All the Big Six firms offer opportunities to work abroad. Harriot LaneFox chooses where and why. Read More...

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Full disclosure move from Group A firms
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Full disclosure move from Group A firms

29y John Stokdyk

Full disclosure move from Group A firms

Group A accountancy firms have decided to stop providing annual performance figures for inclusion in newspaper league tables. The decision is a precur...

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Nightmare on South Molton Street?
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Nightmare on South Molton Street?

29y John Stokdyk

Nightmare on South Molton Street?

Following John Malthouse's expose of the lesser evils of JMU visits inMarch, another would-be victim reluctantly admits that his biggest fearsturned o...

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Working abroad: Student views on possible international careers
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Working abroad: Student views on possible international careers

29y John Stokdyk

Working abroad: Student views on possible internat...

If we needed reminding, and who does, of the island mentality of the British then all we have to do is take a look at how the attitudes to internation...

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IMRO urges greater unit trust duties for auditors
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IMRO urges greater unit trust duties for auditors

29y John Stokdyk

IMRO urges greater unit trust duties for auditors

City regulator IMRO is set to expand the role played by auditors inCity regulator IMRO is set to expand the role played by auditors in the unit trust ...

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PeopleSoft courts European users
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PeopleSoft courts European users

29y John Stokdyk

PeopleSoft courts European users

PeopleSoft stage managed the announcement of its next softwarerelease to coincide with its European user conference in Edinburgh lastweek. John Stokdy...

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BA wins ACCA award for environment report
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BA wins ACCA award for environment report

29y John Stylianou

BA wins ACCA award for environment report

British Airways has won ACCA’s environmental reporting award for the second time. Its report on environmental issues affecting worldwide aviatio...

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News analysis - Tax 'supermarkets' hit the streets
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News analysis - Tax 'supermarkets' hit the streets

29y John Stylianou

News analysis - Tax 'supermarkets' hit the streets

Self-assessment has encouraged US-style tax return shops to set up inthe UK. Jon Bunn asks if British taxpayers will take to them. Read More...

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KPMG caught up in IMRO probe of DMG
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KPMG caught up in IMRO probe of DMG

29y John Stylianou

KPMG caught up in IMRO probe of DMG

City watchdog IMRO will scrutinise the role played by advisers to the asset management arm of Deutsche Morgan Grenfell (DMG), including auditor KPMG, ...

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Binders claims UK's top charity auditor spot
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Binders claims UK's top charity auditor spot

29y John Stylianou

Binders claims UK's top charity auditor spot

Binder Hamlyn is the leading charity auditor in terms of total income audited, the Baring Asset Management Top 3000 Charities 1997 reveals. Binders au...

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Issues: Finance faculty/Shares - Towards a finance faculty
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Issues: Finance faculty/Shares - Towards a finance faculty

29y John Stylianou

Issues: Finance faculty/Shares - Towards a finance...

The ICA has set up a new faculty to reassert the role of charteredaccountants in corporate finance. John Hustler looks at what the new bodyhopes to ac...

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Letters - No apology for ACCA leader's abusive speech
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Letters - No apology for ACCA leader's abusive speech

29y John Stylianou

Letters - No apology for ACCA leader's abusive spe...

In response to R K Godwin’s letter (17 April) on last year’s ACCA egm, I would like to put a number of matters on the public record. Since...

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Analysts condemn value of credit decisions
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Analysts condemn value of credit decisions

29y John Stylianou

Analysts condemn value of credit decisions

A Dun & Bradstreet study reveals up to 25% of companies’ credit decisions are based on meaningless data on non-limited companies, partnersh...

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Deloittes unveils personal investment company
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Deloittes unveils personal investment company

29y John Stylianou

Deloittes unveils personal investment company

Deloitte & Touche has merged its personal tax, trusts and personal financial planning operations to form a single company, Deloitte & Touche P...

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Practice development - More than an accountant
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Practice development - More than an accountant

29y John Stylianou

Practice development - More than an accountant

Accountants often don't realise how well placed they are to providefinancial planning advice to their clients. Eric Stables looks at what thewise prac...

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Labour policies fail to impress small business
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Labour policies fail to impress small business

29y John Stylianou

Labour policies fail to impress small business

One-third of small business owners say they don’t know what Labour’s policies are, compared with 12% who plead ignorance of Conservative p...

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Swindlers net as much as u42bn from EU
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Swindlers net as much as u42bn from EU

29y John Stylianou

Swindlers net as much as u42bn from EU

The fight against international fraud is being hampered by differences in national laws, the existence of financial safe-havens, and a failure on the ...

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Andersens to investigate engineering accounts
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Andersens to investigate engineering accounts

29y John Stylianou

Andersens to investigate engineering accounts

Hertfordshire electronic engineering group Symonds has called in Arthur Andersen to investigate ‘breaches of internal controls’, believed ...

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Cautious welcome for ASB derivatives plan
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Cautious welcome for ASB derivatives plan

29y John Stylianou

Cautious welcome for ASB derivatives plan

UK companies which use financial instruments will be forced to state their Treasury operations’ strategy in annual reports under proposals publi...

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Cigarettes ruling set to secure #2bn for Treasury
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Cigarettes ruling set to secure #2bn for Treasury

29y John Stylianou

Cigarettes ruling set to secure #2bn for Treasury

The Treasury has prevented a potential #2bn annual loss after the European Court of Justice’s advocate general ruled that tobacco agencies canno...

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Technology file -
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Technology file -

29y John Stylianou

Technology file -

NatWest has extended its BankLine electronic banking service with Payment Master, a payment module that can cope with both sterling and foreign curren...

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Taxation: Pensions - Pooling power
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Taxation: Pensions - Pooling power

29y John Stylianou

Taxation: Pensions - Pooling power

Regulations dealing with issues raised by the globalisation of pensionfunds have been in operation since last June. John Watson looks at thebenefits f...

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Opinion - Stewart's election manifesto for the insolvency profession
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Opinion - Stewart's election manifesto for the insolvency profession

29y John Stylianou

Opinion - Stewart's election manifesto for the ins...

In an ideal world there would still be insolvencies but they would behandled much better than they are now. Gordon Stewart has a dream. Read More...

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