Hughes Allen ex-chief sued over missing funds
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Hughes Allen ex-chief sued over missing funds

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Hughes Allen ex-chief sued over missing funds

Hughes Allen is suing former managing partner Peter Scolding for more than # 240,000, after the firm discovered an apparent hole in its finances. The ...

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City slates cheap audit trend
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City slates cheap audit trend

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City slates cheap audit trend

The breakdown of management controls in the asset management arm of merchant bank Morgan Grenfell led to calls this week for auditors to take a wider ...

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View from the House - Incorporation can't be an excuse for poor
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View from the House - Incorporation can't be an excuse for poor

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View from the House - Incorporation can't be an ex...

Sir Adrian Cadbury’s code on corporate governance clearly placed responsibility for ‘a balanced and understandable’ assessment of a ...

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Charities - Sweet clarity
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Charities - Sweet clarity

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Charities - Sweet clarity

The 1990s have seen charities subject to the sameself-regulatory disciplines as profit-making organisations Read More...

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DTI dismisses rumours on liability legislation
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DTI dismisses rumours on liability legislation

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DTI dismisses rumours on liability legislation

Officials at the DTI (right) have scotched rumours that an announcement on UK reform of limited liability partnership legislation is imminent. The DTI...

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Finance subsidiary/head office gap revealed
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Finance subsidiary/head office gap revealed

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Finance subsidiary/head office gap revealed

A communication gap between head office and subsidiary finance departments has resulted in companies having to issue profit warnings, according to KPM...

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Tories reject on-balance sheet approach for public sector PFI
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Tories reject on-balance sheet approach for public sector PFI

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Tories reject on-balance sheet approach for public...

Mixed messages from the Treasury itself have caused public sectorconfusion over best practice accounting methods under the Private FinanceInitiative R...

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Employees win back pay case after boss's death
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Employees win back pay case after boss's death

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Employees win back pay case after boss's death

An industrial tribunal has awarded employees of a West Country accountancy firm back pay and redundancy money after it heard they were left to manage ...

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PW report predicts rise in mergers and alliances
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PW report predicts rise in mergers and alliances

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PW report predicts rise in mergers and alliances

Corporate mergers and strategic alliances are set to more than double over the next 12 months, a Price Waterhouse survey has predicted. Nearly a third...

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Moores Rowland joins forces with Londoners Blakemores
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Moores Rowland joins forces with Londoners Blakemores

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Moores Rowland joins forces with Londoners Blakemo...

Top 20 firm Moores Rowland is merging with Blakemores, a London-based practice with fees of around # 1.5m. Tony Sanderson, Blakemores’ managing ...

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Coopers unveils 6% fee income growth
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Coopers unveils 6% fee income growth

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Coopers unveils 6% fee income growth

Coopers & Lybrand, current Big Six leader, grew gross fee income by 6% for the year 1995-96 to # 701m, according to figures released last week. Ev...

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Getting into bed with a different partner
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Getting into bed with a different partner

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Getting into bed with a different partner

The benefits of merging with another practice must be balancedagainst potential conflicts of interest. Philip Pawson weighs up the prosand cons, while...

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London ICA steps up consultation exercise
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London ICA steps up consultation exercise

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London ICA steps up consultation exercise

The biggest district society in the English ICA is organising another meeting in its attempt to get ordinary members more significantly involved in th...

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But education survey gets 25,000 responses
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But education survey gets 25,000 responses

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But education survey gets 25,000 responses

More than 25,000 English ICA members, 23%, have responded to the institute’s education and training survey, dispatched in June. MORI is analysin...

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Andersens launches human capital plan
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Andersens launches human capital plan

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Andersens launches human capital plan

Arthur Andersen is focusing its human resource, compensation and benefits practice in a single Human Capital Service practice designed to capitalise o...

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Six of the best
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Six of the best

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Six of the best

It's been a successful and innovative year for the Big Six with eachlaying good claim to being this year's Accountancy Age large firm of theyear. Hoom...

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Poaching for personalities
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Poaching for personalities

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Poaching for personalities

Finding new and talented staff is never easy, so why wait for them tocome to you? Sarah Perrin looks at the trend among firms for poaching eachother's...

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Charity Commission plans one rule for all
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Charity Commission plans one rule for all

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Charity Commission plans one rule for all

The Charity Commission and the DTI are planning a radical overhaul of the accounting rules governing charitable companies in order to bring them into ...

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Quality audits come first, claims KPMG
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Quality audits come first, claims KPMG

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Quality audits come first, claims KPMG

Audit firms moved quickly this week to refute claims by one of the country’s largest pension funds that moves to limit liability would reduce th...

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Split over directors' NI debt avoidance
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Split over directors' NI debt avoidance

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Split over directors' NI debt avoidance

The profession is divided over the Contributions Agency’s increased powers to collect unpaid National Insurance. In August, Peter Lilley, secret...

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Showing goodwill
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Showing goodwill

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Showing goodwill

This month's Company Reporting looks at the implications for thepresentation of accounts following the Accounting Standards Board'sproposals on goodwi...

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Practice pitches
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Practice pitches

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Practice pitches

Marketing techniques are essential to the success of a company, andaccountants should tate note. Gordon Gilchrist shows how to gain the leadsjust by u...

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Coopers sucked into Jersey row
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Coopers sucked into Jersey row

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Coopers sucked into Jersey row

Coopers & Lybrand appears to have become the second Big Six firm to become implicated in Jersey’s first major financial scandal. An Accounta...

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New UK prompt payment standard issued
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New UK prompt payment standard issued

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New UK prompt payment standard issued

The new UK standard for prompt payment launched last week, BS7890, gives advice to both suppliers and debtors to help prevent and resolve payment disp...

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Customs to step up efforts against smugglers
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Customs to step up efforts against smugglers

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Customs to step up efforts against smugglers

Smuggling of tobacco and alcohol from Europe costs the UK economy # 770m every year in lost VAT, a Customs & Excise survey has revealed. The amoun...

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Factoring industry bodies merge
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Factoring industry bodies merge

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Factoring industry bodies merge

The # 37bn-a-year invoice finance industry is to be represented by a single association after a merger of three separate trade organisations. The newl...

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Coopers hit with writ for # 1.5m
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Coopers hit with writ for # 1.5m

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Coopers hit with writ for # 1.5m

A Sussex businessman is suing Coopers & Lybrand for # 1.5m for allegedly issuing negligent advice when he sold his office partitioning business t...

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