A looming visit from the JMU put the frighteners on audit-registeredsole practitioner John Malthouse. But the ordeal was not as distressing ashe feare...
View articlePrice Waterhouse earned #7.7m from Reuters in 1996, of which #2m was for audit work. Much of the balance was for overseas litigation support costs. Re...
View articleBinder Hamlyn has become a FTSE-100 auditor again after its client British Land replaced Argos, audited by Coopers & Lybrand, in the ranking last ...
View articleIt has taken some time but people in business are at last learning touse the F-word without embarrassment. The word is 'factoring' and, if itstill com...
View articleRobson Rhodes, the UK’s 13th largest firm, has ruled out adopting limited liability partnerships in favour of incorporation. Managing partner Hu...
View articleAccountancy students can now turn to multimedia technology to help them learn the basics of the profession. EasyTutor Learn Accountancy with BPP is a ...
View articleSixty-five per cent of UK finance chiefs believe an increase in business taxation would be justified if the money was used to increase spending on edu...
View articleThe Labour party should scrap its plans to create a super regulator in the City because it is in danger of being a cosmetic exercise, the new head of ...
View articleThe taxation software industry has gone into overdrive in preparationfor the introduction of self-assessment on 5 April. The new regime hasincreased s...
View articleThe Auditing Practices Board is confident that reporting guidelines for auditors produced by the Occupational Pensions Regulatory Authority will mirro...
View articleGovernment subsidies which could cut the cost of training chartered accountants by up to #2,500 per student have received a mixed welcome from the pro...
View articleAs a Fellow of ACCA and a member of the Institute of the Motor Industry, I have been employed in the motor industry for 22 years. During my career, I ...
View articleDavid Gordon (Letters, 13 March) highlights a major difficulty in pursuing delinquent directors under company law. The scenario he describes of a reta...
View articleBy Phillip Inman Scandal-hit investment bank NatWest Markets has more than doubled the size of its investigation team from Coopers & Lybrand in th...
View articleYou suggest (Leader, 6 March) asking auditors in their annual return if they wish to extend audit exemption. Would it not be better to ask the people ...
View articleBy Hooman Bassirian Arthur Andersen?s hopes of avoiding the financial scandal that almost destroyed its former client Wickes were crushed yesterday wh...
View articleBy Hooman Bassirian The profession?s plans to establish a new regulatory regime is set to miss its target date of 1 January 1998. CIMA, one of the six...
View articleThe latest investment scandal in banking poses the vital question more forcibly than ever: can auditors of the financial services sector any longer be...
View articleUnfortunately, in trying to show that the audit is more than just ?a statutory necessity? for owner-managed companies, Jo Holden (Features, 20 Februar...
View articleIn a #28m PFI project, the Post Office has joined the Contributions Agency and ICL-Fujitsu to install an IT network linking its 19,500 branches by 199...
View articleAccountancy firms could win large amounts of valuable audit work under a major shake-up of the accounting framework for local authority social service...
View articleWhat will be the big business issue of the next decade? Asked that question last week, KPMG’s senior partner Colin Sharman responded: ‘Res...
View articleEU member states are letting VAT fraud on cross-border trade flourish by failing to make full use of a computer network, claims a European Commission ...
View articleTotal money raised by companies on the Alternative Investment Market, AIM, has reached #1bn with the flotation of Birmingham City Football Club. AIM n...
View articleA conference organiser who ‘bought’ packages of facilities from hotel venues, including room hire, audio visual hire and newspapers, was n...
View articleThe International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC) is still three years away from completing its set of core international accounting standards, ...
View articleThe Bank of England has strengthened its investigations team in the wake of the Barings collapse with the appointment of Martin Foster, KPMG’s h...
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