Guy Bigland, Pannell Kerr Forster’s marketing director, last week defected to solicitors Lawrence Graham, taking the total of staff to leave the...
View articleFinance directors are sharply divided on the single European currency. More than half are in favour of the UK joining, but almost two fifths are oppos...
View articleThe recruitment consultancy arms of larger accountancy practices areunder pressure from independent companies. Graham Perkins looks at whatfirms have ...
View articleAndersen Consulting denied last week that its #345m outsourcing contract with Sears was in jeopardy after the retailer decided to sell its Freemans ca...
View articleAndersen Worldwide is set to end years of squabbling over surplus revenues generated by the firm at a meeting of its 2,800 partners in Paris this week...
View articleReforming Parliamentary procedures will boost public confidence in thewider political process. Read More...
View articleThe National Audit Office is set to take a central role in the drive for greater value for money in the public sector under the new Government. Gordon...
View articleAndrew Colquhoun, the English ICA’s chief executive, earned #124,134 in salary, benefits and pensions contributions, the institute’s 1996 ...
View articleBlue Circle’s finance director, James Loudon, made nearly #250,000 in share option sales last year, on top of performance-related bonuses totall...
View articlePrice Waterhouse could be in line to replace KPMG as auditors to scandal-hit engineering group Molins following the firm’s appointment to invest...
View articleBusiness might complain about the red tape associated with filingannual accounts but, Philip Mellor suggests, the process is more thanworthwhile. Read...
View articleSituations that may threaten the independence of a firm include: – undue financial dependence on an audit client or group; – significant o...
View articleA survey by economic consultancy Business Strategies says consumer confidence has reached heights not achieved since the 1980s boom. But a survey by I...
View articleFor a man staring into the electoral abyss, Michael Stern, MP for Bristol North West, looked remarkably cheerful as he pounded the streets of his cons...
View articleThe Joint Disciplinary Scheme is attending a tribunal in northern Cyprus next week to force the Turkish firm Erdal & Co to release the working pap...
View articleTrading in shares of the Swedish accountancy software developer Scala International AB was suspended last week, following the announcement of a propos...
View articleThe revamped annual return emphasises the importance of the AuditCompliance Review. Roy Kemp argues the case for outsourcing the review anddiscusses t...
View articleThe ‘fat cats’ row should not automatically be extended to charity finance directors, according to Andrew Hind, finance director of the BB...
View articleDemands by NatWest shareholders for a vote on whether to keep KPMG as auditor following the discovery of a #90m black hole in the accounts of the bank...
View articleDeloitte & Touche is expected to publish a radical report next week which will shape the future of English football outside the Premiership for t...
View articleTwo contract killers were jailed for life on Monday for the murder of Lancashire accountant David Wilson. Wilson, 47, was murdered at his country home...
View articleLabour 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...
View articleChartered accountant Robin Launders, forced out as chief executive of Leeds United, blamed Leeds City Council for his dismissal. Launders was negotiat...
View articleAll the Big Six firms offer opportunities to work abroad. Harriot LaneFox chooses where and why. Read More...
View articleGroup A accountancy firms have decided to stop providing annual performance figures for inclusion in newspaper league tables. The decision is a precur...
View articleFollowing John Malthouse's expose of the lesser evils of JMU visits inMarch, another would-be victim reluctantly admits that his biggest fearsturned o...
View articleIf 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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