Former 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 articleA bonanza of outsourcing and partnering deals saw Big Six firms more than double their income from internal audit work last year. Price Waterhouse sai...
View articleUK businesses can be forgiven for squirming at estimates of fixing the millennium computer problem. After all, the billions of pounds we are told they...
View articleThe English ICA has severely reprimanded Momcilo Novakovic, of Mill Street, Bedford, and fined him u3,000 with u4,665 costs for failing to carry out a...
View articleThe harmonisation of accounting standards globally will havefar-reaching implications, not least for the UK, says Robert Langford. Read More...
View articleSecondhand car values can be a real gamble, and no one has a harderjob than fleet managers who have to budget for resale prices. Steve Dunnreports. Re...
View articleAccess Accounting is offering accountants in practice a free six-month trial for a budgeting and forecasting application. Access Executive Planner is ...
View articleExpanding into Europe can throw up multiple problems for car leasing.Whose cars do you lease, how do you standardise and how much will it costyou? Pet...
View articleHM Land Registry has awarded a u650,000 contract to outsource its payroll functions to Axis Resources of Harlow. Erskine Management Consultancy helped...
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View articleIn response to last month's feature on the future of audit, DavidHatherly warns firms against the rise of the consultancy ethos. Read More...
View articleWith the latest release of the modular Sovereign range, Sage hasstrengthened its portfolio for medium-sized companies looking forWindows-based systems...
View articleThe Accounting Standards Board has admitted its latest working paper on discounting, published this week, will not automatically trigger an accounting...
View articleA client/server application family for Unix and Windows NT servers, OpenAccounts can be accessed from desktop PC client systems running either Windows...
View articleBehind Labour’s overt wooing of business lies a group of 250 top industrialists and business leaders. The Industry Forum is a central pillar of ...
View articleLabour’s business manifesto promises to introduce independent regulation of the accountancy profession and to review the law on joint and severa...
View articleThe demand for accountants shows no signs of abating with the bankingand finance sector leading the way once again. Read More...
View articleA Labour government will honour the backlog of Private Finance Initiative agreements signed by NHS trusts, but will subject new partnership projects t...
View articleGetting Granada chairman Gerry Robinson to take part in the launch of Labour’s business manifesto and its party election broadcast was a stroke ...
View articleThe next Government should raise taxes to pay for improvements to education, the health service, and law and order say 54% of finance directors. Only ...
View articleMPs on the Public Accounts Committee have added to criticism of leading public sector accountancy figures involved in irregular payments to senior man...
View articleThe triumvirate of banker, accountant and small business client is adynamic force that is all too rarely harnessed, argues John Spence. Read More...
View articleThe National Savings Agency is to double its staff of qualified accountants following damning criticism from MPs. The House of Commons Public Accounts...
View articleIn the search for reliable financing, the value of intellectualproperty is being neglected. Mark Bezant reports on the price ofintangibles. Read More...
View articleSmithkline Beecham’s finance chief, Hugh Collum FCA, saw his total pay rise 21% last year to #756,000, according to the company’s annual r...
View articleMore than a year after its acrimonious withdrawal from the Joint Disciplinary Scheme, ACCA is to ask its members’ permission at its agm on 8 May...
View articleACCA has accused the Accounting Standards Board of undermining its own Financial Reporting Standard for Small Entities (FRSSE) by requiring ‘exp...
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