A Labour Government would concede the long-standing campaign to give the National Audit Office power to follow state funds to their final destination....
View articleInland Revenue tax offices, overburdened by the demands of the new self-assessment regime, are struggling to maintain key commitments to the Taxpayer&...
View articlePrice Waterhouse has appointed a career civil servant from the DTI as director of the firm’s World Energy Group. Christopher Wilcock led the Bri...
View articleA temporary resolution has been found to the liability cap impasse between the Big Six and the venture capital industry, allowing deals to proceed by ...
View articleThe English ICA is planning to discuss the full ramifications of Peter Gerrard’s controversial constitutional review in a specially convened con...
View articleOne in six finance directors want the Government to end uncertainty and call the General Election now. Another one in ten want the election to be held...
View articleJohn Baker has been excluded from ACCA membership and ordered to pay #1,770 costs. He was found guilty of practising without a valid certificate and d...
View articleClark Whitehill’s campaign against Inland Revenue demands for capital gains payments on Cheltenham & Gloucester merger bonuses has paid off ...
View articleA college in Wales that allowed senior staff to recruit overseas students from the Far East and Kenya without keeping adequate records of their busine...
View articleGovernment pension incentive plans announced this week allow personal pension scheme members who enter pensionable employment to transfer existing fun...
View articleAccountants will be faced with a new form of asset on the balance sheet of small and medium-sized businesses if an electronic system for bartering goo...
View articleA Scottish chartered accountant was jailed for six months for helping disguise trading problems of chemicals company MTM. Thomas Baxter, 44, MTM’...
View articleThe English ICA has delivered a ‘manifesto for business’ to politicians and think-tanks, outlining measures required to deliver growth. Am...
View articlePeter Spencer, a partner in the London firm Gorrie Whitson, is being sued for damages over an alleged five-year fraud of client’s assets. The th...
View articleTax experts hit back this week at National Audit Office claims that they were responsible for a #2bn shortfall in Government revenue last year. A join...
View articleSonia Land, the literary agent wife of Ernst & Young senior partner Nick Land, has lost her u1m claim for negligence against the firm of Slater &...
View articleBrian Currie, president of the English ICA, this week led a group of leading auditors to meet Ian Lang, President of the Board of Trade, to plead the ...
View articleLabour announced plans this week to cut back on the use of consultants in Whitehall as part of a wide-ranging efficiency drive, writes Phillip Inman. ...
View articlePrice Waterhouse audit head Rodger Hughes has attacked the concept of ‘added-value’ audit as ‘commercial suicide’. Speaking to...
View articleErnst & Young is to begin proceedings against Deloitte & Touche, liquidators of BCCI, to recover legal fees estimated at over #5m. A case agai...
View articleKPMG admitted this week that a collapse in new business at its management consulting division in the first half of last year had pinned back growth to...
View articleSome degree of privatisation within the Inland Revenue would bewelcomed by the profession. Jon Bunn reports. Read More...
View articleEnglish ICA members in certain parts of the country have failed to receive their 1997 subscription notices, which were sent out in the first week of J...
View articleThe UK has the second-worst record for corporate insolvencies in the EU, shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown told a Clark Whitehill small business conferen...
View articleAuditors of financial services companies claimed this week that Crest, the new paperless share settlement system created by the Bank of England, could...
View articleRaising of audit limit will free up profession Peter Hollis writes (Letters, 16 January) that if the audit exemption limit is raised he will lose his ...
View articleThis disclosure business is not all upside. The kudos that attaches from moving a partnership into line with the modern corporate ethos can easily be ...
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