With higher profits and increasingly prestigious clients drawn to itsproducts, PeopleSoft can afford to push an upbeat message. Dennis Howlettreports....
View articleKidsons Impey has strengthened its position in the West Country by merging with a local rival. The firm, which is the UK’s 11th biggest accounta...
View articleErnst & Young has hit out at the profession’s plan for a new regulatory watchdog, claiming it offers a short-term answer to securing public ...
View articleAdministrative receivership appointments and administrative orders reported in January 1997 were the lowest recorded for January over the last eight y...
View articleShadow Chancellor Gordon Brown has said he will not raise the ceiling for employees’ national insurance contributions. He said it will remain un...
View articleThe National Audit Office has qualified the accounts of four Government bodies. Comptroller and Auditor General Sir John Bourne censured the Lord Chan...
View articleIn the last in a series of articles on how newly qualifieds can standout from the crowd, Sarah Perrin looks at industry and commerce'sincreasing deman...
View articleSage has upgraded the Windows version of Sterling, the UK’s leading accounting package. Sterling Accounts Version 4 is modified to cope with the...
View articleIn the first of a series of three articles Jo Holden makes hispredictions of the changes which lie ahead for the auditing profession. Read More...
View articleAccountants must publish their annual results to reassure clients that their prices are right, say almost 80% of UK finance directors. Following KPMG&...
View articleCoopers & Lybrand has emerged as the leading financial adviser on PFI projects valued at u5m and above, according to a survey published in The PF...
View articleKPMG’s audit chief Gerry Acher has revealed the firm is taking an ‘evolutionary’ approach to developing the core discipline, writes ...
View articleA CA faces a retrial over allegations that he defrauded #400,000 from Customs & Excise. A Southwark Crown Court jury failed to reach a verdict on...
View articleAn Urgent Issues Task Force abstract issued today is aimed at the leasing industry’s practice of ‘grossing up’. It is used when tran...
View articleInternet-based interactive financial systems received a boost this month with the launch of Great Plains Software’s Dynamics NetSeries range. Th...
View articleAssessment is all the rage for partners in law and accountancy firms.But, Patrick Wilkins asks, has the culture of appraisal gone too far, andis it pr...
View articleThe English ICA Audit Faculty fraud survey findings reveal aprofession uncertain of its ability to deal with fraud. Read More...
View articleA verdict on 11 fraud charges against former senior Inland Revenue tax inspector Michael Allcock is due within the next few days. The Old Bailey jury ...
View articleTraders denied legitimate claims for VAT repayments after Customs & Excise introduced the three-year rule in July last year can now claw back the...
View articleGovernment plans to introduce ‘fill in the blank’ standard form accounts for smaller businesses have been sharply criticised by both the E...
View articleThe Barlow Clowes scandal this week returned to haunt the former partners of Spicer & Pegler, after the Joint Disciplinary Scheme upheld an earlie...
View articleConcern about the introduction of self-assessment has forced the General Practitioner Board to launch a political lobbying campaign. The board’s...
View articleKPMG earned u5m in fees last year from Lonrho. Audit fees of #2m for the #2bn-turnover group were boosted by #3m for demerger work. Metropole Hotels w...
View articleCIMA finds fault with Swinson proposals Austin Mitchell (Opinion, 6 February) suggests in his remarks on the Swinson proposals for regulating auditors...
View articlePlans for the Treasury to occupy modern, purpose-built offices in Whitehall are proceeding slowly, despite the signing of a commercial heads of terms ...
View articleRobert Maxwell may have been the beast that launched the corporate governance industry, but Ernst & Young technical partner Ron Paterson is in no...
View articleThe strength of the venture capitalists' rebuttal has taken theaccountants by surprise, reports Andrew Sawers. Read More...
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