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...
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...
View articleSmall practitioners in the English ICA this week revealed deep splits in the profession when they called on the Government to scrap statutory audits f...
View articleSecret documents seen by Accountancy Age reveal the ACCA hierarchy’s deep-seated fears about the very real threat of Prem Sikka’s election...
View articleThe newly formed Occupational Pension Regulatory Authority has enraged auditors with its proposals for pension scheme audits. One has described OPRA p...
View articleThe finance director of Associated Nursing Services (ANS) said this week that his company will ‘seriously have to consider’ its approach t...
View articleCustoms & Excise announced a concession on the VAT treatment of supplies of staff due to be withdrawn from 1 April, will be replaced by a more re...
View articleWhy so reluctant to carry out audits? I attended the original debate held at the English ICA in connection with audit regulation. At the meeting, one ...
View articleToo many annual reports fail to describe what the company concerned actually does, Ernst & Young partner Nigel Macdonald said at the Stock Exchan...
View articleCustoms & Excise has angered accountants by requesting information on VAT-unregistered traders who have VAT-able turnover in excess of the #48,00...
View articleThe UK’s leading position in European financial software is under threat from Germany, according to a new report by market researcher Frost &...
View articleCustoms & Excise has admitted it will miss today’s parliamentary deadline for amendments to the Finance Bill to correct its bungled anti-VAT...
View articleThe English ICA is setting up a new support group to cope with members’ fear of the Joint Monitoring Unit. Formed from within the General Practi...
View articleA war of words has broken out between the Northern Ireland Accountancy Office and the Department of Finance and Personnel over the need for a speciali...
View articleCorporate politics has traditionally excluded accountants from theprocess of pricing consumer goods, but they are now finding theirfinancial expertise...
View articleRenegade taxman Michael Allcock’s part in the Inland Revenue’s most embarrassing corruption scandal ended last week as he began a five-yea...
View articleBefore financial services are liberalised across Europe, a fairsystem for takeovers is required. Read More...
View articleSetting the wheels for debate in motion Having read with interest the correspondence in your recent Letters page, I should like to propose a debate. T...
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