Guinness 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...
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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 articleThe recent BASDA initiative on fast-track software procurement criticised by Simon Thorpe (Letters, 17 April) is relevant to all organisations with a ...
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 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...
View articleKPMG audit chief Gerry Acher this week launched a blistering attack on investors’ lobbying group PIRC over its claims that auditors who perform ...
View articleUK ethics experts have warned that professional bodies cannot save the jobs of confidentiality-breaching whistle-blowers, despite proposals by an inte...
View articleThe golf-loving, bird-watching finance director of banking group Standard Chartered, Peter Wood, made over #2m profit last year after he sold nearly h...
View articleThe Salvation Army’s finance chief gave a financier free reign to invest in international deals leading to a multimillion-dollar loss of charity...
View articleChartered accountant Edward Freeborn is to join Premier Oil on 30 April as finance director with a remit to beef up the company’s relations with...
View articleMore than a quarter of the UK’s senior business figures are not clear about the likely return available on their IT investments, according to a ...
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