A scheme designed to facilitate the donation of small shareholdings tocharity has taken off. Claire Mackintosh explains the attractions. Read More...
View articleACCA has rejected an appeal by Jaffer Manek, of Totteridge, London, against a disciplinary committee ruling that he wrote unprofessional correspondenc...
View articleGrant Thornton partners voted at their annual general meeting last week to extend the mandate of the firm’s national managing partner, David McD...
View articleCoopers & Lybrand, together with the English ICA and the DTI, are sponsoring a round-UK seminar roadshow aimed at showing UK-based companies ways...
View articleManagement buyouts and buy-ins accounted for a third of all UK venture capital deals last year, taking 74% of the #2.8bn invested by British Venture C...
View articleGuinness blocked chairman Anthony Greener’s performance-related pay last year, but compensated him by upping his basic salary by #100,000 to #70...
View articleThe failure of the private finance initiative in the health service has resulted in a steep fall in capital spending by hospitals, a study by the Inst...
View articleAccountants ‘are the most influential source of business advice on funding for small and medium-sized UK companies’, according to a survey...
View articleHas partial provision had its day? Peter Holgate and Orla Horganconsider the ways in which different sectors are affected. Read More...
View articlePaul Dexter’s simplistic view (Letters, 17 April) of how to resolve the millennium dating problem by changing 99 to 00 within all affected compu...
View articleThe Friendly Societies Committee of the English ICA has published a technical bulletin highlighting certain areas of the friendly societies’ reg...
View articleChemicals group Courtaulds, audited by Price Waterhouse, has announced the departure of FD Howard Evans after three years. Evans, for 22 years an audi...
View articleIn the light of your leader (17 April), perhaps it is worth reiterating that New Labour has made action on a review of joint and several liability and...
View articleWith the quality of debate often descending to the level of Roland Rat vs News Bunny, having to write about the election has been only slightly less t...
View articleThe English ICA is nervously awaiting the outcome of a Court of Appeal hearing which will decide whether it can claim back millions of pounds in VAT r...
View articleLondon’s Lambeth Council has appointed Coopers & Lybrand to run its internal audit service in a deal worth #1.5m from next week. Coopers bea...
View articleAndersen Worldwide, the world’s largest partnership, will pull back from the brink of a full-scale break-up at a partners meeting in Paris this ...
View articleCity of London police believe accountants should be forced to report suspicions of fraud that might have been carried out by their clients. The police...
View articleA survey by venture capitalists 3i reveals the UK is the ‘strong man of Europe’. Managers of small businesses expressed confidence in the ...
View articleA Deloitte & Touche investigation has resulted in fraud charges against a Bristol man who set himself up as a trust and company administrator in ...
View articleFormer Price Waterhouse man Alistair Lyons is to succeed Kevin McBrien as chief executive of life assurance group NPI in June. Lyons is a former finan...
View articleAccountants are refusing to offer self-assessment insurance to clients because they fear it could undermine their credibility, an NOP survey reveals. ...
View articleThe English ICA’s Corporate Finance Faculty was launched last week with a keynote address by Sir Brian Jenkins of the Woolwich. Faculty chairman...
View articleGreater diligence will be required from Jersey’s financial institutions when the island introduces an all-crimes law to combat every area of mon...
View articleMore than one third of finance directors have made little or no effort to make arrangements for Year 2000 computer compliance. Only 18% of FDs have do...
View articleThe Financial Reporting Review Panel is reporting Price Waterhouse to the English ICA over the auditor’s failure to ensure that its client Recki...
View articleThe Government wants to use auditors as the main weapon in its campaign to highlight the potential costs of the millennium computer date change. The D...
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