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...
View articlePrice Waterhouse has created a new business process outsourcing unit to concentrate on non-core business functions, cutting clients’ costs and i...
View articleAccounting software firm Sage Group has paid u40m for KHK Software, Germany’s largest supplier of branded PC software. Read More...
View articleNatWest Bank called in forensic accountants from Coopers & Lybrand this week to join the company’s auditors KPMG in its attempt to determine...
View articleACCA’s disgraced former vice-president Jim Waits (pictured) faces a #3,100 bill for his outburst against Prem Sikka at the association’s e...
View articleKidsons Impey continued its aggressive expansion policy this week by taking over Manchester rival Halpern and Woolf. The acquisition, which created a ...
View articleThe English ICA’s Audit Faculty launched proposals last week for a fraud advisory panel ‘for discussion and the generation of policy propo...
View articleThe DTI’s failure to level the audit playing field between charitable companies and unincorporated charities will create a loophole for fraud, w...
View articleThe Government has initiated talks with the English ICA on rules auditors should apply to ensure companies relying on computers have ‘millennium...
View articleNeville 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...
View articleThis month Company Reporting looks at property depreciation,Greenbury compliance and environmental issues. Read More...
View articleMedium-sized West End law firm Forsyte Saunders Kerman has promoted its FD, Jonathan Freedman, to chief executive. Founding partner Isidore Kerman, th...
View articleThe Auditing Practices Board will meet the Occupational Pensions Regulatory Authority next week to discuss what chairman Ian Plaistowe described as ...
View articleThe Association of Accounting Technicians is winning the backing of colleges and assessment centres in its campaign to head off the threat posed by th...
View articleAuditors must take more responsibility for fraud detection according to six out of ten FDs, writes Sinead Carew. FDs say external audits should guaran...
View articleBDO 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...
View articlePrice 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...
View articleFearful of JMU visits? Tied in knots when offering investment advice?The English ICA's General Practioners' Board is here to help yourpractice. Read M...
View articleThe 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...
View articleThe structure and poor implementation of self-assessment is creating taxpayer mistrust and confusion, claims the English ICA’s tax faculty. Loca...
View articleThe current debate over raising audit thresholds has become muddled. Two emotive but quite separate audit issues have become enmeshed in the discussio...
View articleKPMG Management Consulting has teamed up with Client/Server Labs of Atlanta, Georgia, to offer life-cycle value assessment (LVA) for corporate IT inst...
View articleThe English ICA is urging maverick BCAB member Adrian Ould not to carry out his threat to arrange ‘a free passage’ for business members to...
View articleAfter nearly three years in the UK market, American developer SolomonSoftware is preparing to launch a major expansion programme in thiscountry, write...
View articleNew products and marketing strategies are emerging from GEAC following the company’s $150m takeover of Dun & Bradstreet Software at the end...
View articlePannell 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...
View articleThe 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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