Jersey plans LLCs
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Jersey plans LLCs

27y michael laydon

Jersey plans LLCs

Jersey plans to allow limited life companies which can be wound up when a certain event occurs such as a death. Company administrators say LLCs will a...

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Price Waterhouse creates non-core centre
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Price Waterhouse creates non-core centre

27y michael laydon

Price Waterhouse creates non-core centre

Price Waterhouse has created a new business process outsourcing unit to concentrate on non-core business functions, cutting clients’ costs and i...

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Sage buys German software supplier
Management

Sage buys German software supplier

27y michael laydon

Sage buys German software supplier

Accounting software firm Sage Group has paid u40m for KHK Software, Germany’s largest supplier of branded PC software. Read More...

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Coopers joins KPMG in NatWest inquiry
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Coopers joins KPMG in NatWest inquiry

27y michael laydon

Coopers joins KPMG in NatWest inquiry

NatWest Bank called in forensic accountants from Coopers & Lybrand this week to join the company’s auditors KPMG in its attempt to determine...

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Sikka calls for inquiry into Waits 'whitewash'
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Sikka calls for inquiry into Waits 'whitewash'

27y michael laydon

Sikka calls for inquiry into Waits 'whitewash'

ACCA’s disgraced former vice-president Jim Waits (pictured) faces a #3,100 bill for his outburst against Prem Sikka at the association’s e...

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Kidsons takes over Halpern and Woolf
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Kidsons takes over Halpern and Woolf

27y michael laydon

Kidsons takes over Halpern and Woolf

Kidsons Impey continued its aggressive expansion policy this week by taking over Manchester rival Halpern and Woolf. The acquisition, which created a ...

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English ICA proposes fraud advisory panel
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English ICA proposes fraud advisory panel

27y michael laydon

English ICA proposes fraud advisory panel

The English ICA’s Audit Faculty launched proposals last week for a fraud advisory panel ‘for discussion and the generation of policy propo...

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Charities fear fraud loophole
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Charities fear fraud loophole

27y michael laydon

Charities fear fraud loophole

The DTI’s failure to level the audit playing field between charitable companies and unincorporated charities will create a loophole for fraud, w...

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Government to hold Year 2000 talks with English ICA
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Government to hold Year 2000 talks with English ICA

27y michael laydon

Government to hold Year 2000 talks with English IC...

The Government has initiated talks with the English ICA on rules auditors should apply to ensure companies relying on computers have ‘millennium...

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Neville Russell set to publish its accounts
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Neville Russell set to publish its accounts

27y michael laydon

Neville Russell set to publish its accounts

Neville Russell, the UK’s 15th largest firm, is releasing its first set of financial results next month following a partners agm on 5 April. The...

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Stopping the rot
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Stopping the rot

27y michael laydon

Stopping the rot

This month Company Reporting looks at property depreciation,Greenbury compliance and environmental issues. Read More...

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Law firm promotes FD
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Law firm promotes FD

27y michael laydon

Law firm promotes FD

Medium-sized West End law firm Forsyte Saunders Kerman has promoted its FD, Jonathan Freedman, to chief executive. Founding partner Isidore Kerman, th...

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APB takes on OPRA over approach to pension scheme audit procedures
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APB takes on OPRA over approach to pension scheme audit procedures

27y michael laydon

APB takes on OPRA over approach to pension scheme ...

The Auditing Practices Board will meet the Occupational Pensions Regulatory Authority next week to discuss what chairman Ian Plaistowe described as &#...

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ACCA V AAT Exams
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ACCA V AAT Exams

27y michael laydon

ACCA V AAT Exams

The Association of Accounting Technicians is winning the backing of colleges and assessment centres in its campaign to head off the threat posed by th...

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Fraud should be auditors' responsibility, say FDs
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Fraud should be auditors' responsibility, say FDs

27y michael laydon

Fraud should be auditors' responsibility, say FDs

Auditors must take more responsibility for fraud detection according to six out of ten FDs, writes Sinead Carew. FDs say external audits should guaran...

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Binders pays #53m to end ADT litigation
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Binders pays #53m to end ADT litigation

27y michael laydon

Binders pays #53m to end ADT litigation

BDO Binder Hamlyn’s 150 former partners last week unexpectedly ended their seven-year battle with US security company ADT in a u53m out-of-court...

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PW denies cashing in on #16m Forest takeover
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PW denies cashing in on #16m Forest takeover

27y michael laydon

PW denies cashing in on #16m Forest takeover

Price Waterhouse scotched rumours this week that it would be paid for advising the Nottingham Forest FC board with a percentage of the u16m takeover o...

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General practitioners' forum
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General practitioners' forum

27y michael laydon

General practitioners' forum

Fearful of JMU visits? Tied in knots when offering investment advice?The English ICA's General Practioners' Board is here to help yourpractice. Read M...

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Feeling the year-end pressure
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Feeling the year-end pressure

27y michael laydon

Feeling the year-end pressure

The burden of corporate governance is weighing heavy on finance directors as the year-end reporting season once again bears down on much of UK plc. Fi...

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ICA: self-assessment 'creates mistrust'
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ICA: self-assessment 'creates mistrust'

27y michael laydon

ICA: self-assessment 'creates mistrust'

The structure and poor implementation of self-assessment is creating taxpayer mistrust and confusion, claims the English ICA’s tax faculty. Loca...

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The full facts on who wants exemption, and why. Please
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The full facts on who wants exemption, and why. Please

27y michael laydon

The full facts on who wants exemption, and why. Pl...

The current debate over raising audit thresholds has become muddled. Two emotive but quite separate audit issues have become enmeshed in the discussio...

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News briefs
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News briefs

27y michael laydon

News briefs

KPMG Management Consulting has teamed up with Client/Server Labs of Atlanta, Georgia, to offer life-cycle value assessment (LVA) for corporate IT inst...

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Institute warns against CIMA defection threat
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Institute warns against CIMA defection threat

27y michael laydon

Institute warns against CIMA defection threat

The English ICA is urging maverick BCAB member Adrian Ould not to carry out his threat to arrange ‘a free passage’ for business members to...

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Solomon targets UK accountants
Management

Solomon targets UK accountants

27y michael laydon

Solomon targets UK accountants

After nearly three years in the UK market, American developer SolomonSoftware is preparing to launch a major expansion programme in thiscountry, write...

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GEAC unveils proposals for DBS revamp
Management

GEAC unveils proposals for DBS revamp

27y michael laydon

GEAC unveils proposals for DBS revamp

New products and marketing strategies are emerging from GEAC following the company’s $150m takeover of Dun & Bradstreet Software at the end...

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Pannells at odds with review body proposal
Management

Pannells at odds with review body proposal

27y michael laydon

Pannells at odds with review body proposal

Pannell Kerr Forster has come out against the profession’s plan for a new regulatory watchdog – the third top-ten firm to do so. In its re...

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Profession warns against UK LLP clawback measure
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Profession warns against UK LLP clawback measure

27y michael laydon

Profession warns against UK LLP clawback measure

The profession this week warned that clauses to safeguard the public interest in the DTI’s UK limited liability partnership proposals were onero...

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