Labour to give NAO 'sleazebuster' role
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Labour to give NAO 'sleazebuster' role

27y michael laydon

Labour to give NAO 'sleazebuster' role

A Labour Government would concede the long-standing campaign to give the National Audit Office power to follow state funds to their final destination....

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Revenue office suspends its Taxpayers Charter
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Revenue office suspends its Taxpayers Charter

27y michael laydon

Revenue office suspends its Taxpayers Charter

Inland Revenue tax offices, overburdened by the demands of the new self-assessment regime, are struggling to maintain key commitments to the Taxpayer&...

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PW's energy director
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PW's energy director

27y michael laydon

PW's energy director

Price Waterhouse has appointed a career civil servant from the DTI as director of the firm’s World Energy Group. Christopher Wilcock led the Bri...

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BVCA and Big Six agree on liability cap compromise
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BVCA and Big Six agree on liability cap compromise

27y michael laydon

BVCA and Big Six agree on liability cap compromise

A temporary resolution has been found to the liability cap impasse between the Big Six and the venture capital industry, allowing deals to proceed by ...

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ICA plans rolling talks to tackle controversial Gerrard proposals
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ICA plans rolling talks to tackle controversial Gerrard proposals

27y michael laydon

ICA plans rolling talks to tackle controversial Ge...

The English ICA is planning to discuss the full ramifications of Peter Gerrard’s controversial constitutional review in a specially convened con...

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FDs concerned at election delay
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FDs concerned at election delay

27y michael laydon

FDs concerned at election delay

One 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...

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ACCA cracks down
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ACCA cracks down

27y michael laydon

ACCA cracks down

John 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...

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Capital gains campaign reaps dividends for investors
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Capital gains campaign reaps dividends for investors

27y michael laydon

Capital gains campaign reaps dividends for investo...

Clark Whitehill’s campaign against Inland Revenue demands for capital gains payments on Cheltenham & Gloucester merger bonuses has paid off ...

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NAO condemns accountants at Welsh education institute
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NAO condemns accountants at Welsh education institute

27y michael laydon

NAO condemns accountants at Welsh education instit...

A college in Wales that allowed senior staff to recruit overseas students from the Far East and Kenya without keeping adequate records of their busine...

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Pension review aims for greater flexibility
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Pension review aims for greater flexibility

27y michael laydon

Pension review aims for greater flexibility

Government pension incentive plans announced this week allow personal pension scheme members who enter pensionable employment to transfer existing fun...

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Barter method offers balance sheet poser
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Barter method offers balance sheet poser

27y michael laydon

Barter method offers balance sheet poser

Accountants 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...

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Scottish chartered jailed for hoodwinking shareholders
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Scottish chartered jailed for hoodwinking shareholders

27y michael laydon

Scottish chartered jailed for hoodwinking sharehol...

A Scottish chartered accountant was jailed for six months for helping disguise trading problems of chemicals company MTM. Thomas Baxter, 44, MTM’...

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ICA spells out plans for corporate growth
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ICA spells out plans for corporate growth

27y michael laydon

ICA spells out plans for corporate growth

The English ICA has delivered a ‘manifesto for business’ to politicians and think-tanks, outlining measures required to deliver growth. Am...

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Former partner sued over misappropriation of assets
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Former partner sued over misappropriation of assets

27y michael laydon

Former partner sued over misappropriation of asset...

Peter 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...

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Tax planners deny blame for #2bn loss
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Tax planners deny blame for #2bn loss

27y michael laydon

Tax planners deny blame for #2bn loss

Tax 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...

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Mrs Land loses negligence claim against Slaters
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Mrs Land loses negligence claim against Slaters

27y michael laydon

Mrs Land loses negligence claim against Slaters

Sonia Land, the literary agent wife of Ernst & Young senior partner Nick Land, has lost her u1m claim for negligence against the firm of Slater &...

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Auditors petition for reform of liability laws
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Auditors petition for reform of liability laws

27y michael laydon

Auditors petition for reform of liability laws

Brian 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 ...

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Whitehall consultants in Labour firing line
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Whitehall consultants in Labour firing line

27y michael laydon

Whitehall consultants in Labour firing line

Labour 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. ...

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PW slams E&Y over added-value audits
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PW slams E&Y over added-value audits

27y michael laydon

PW slams E&Y over added-value audits

Price Waterhouse audit head Rodger Hughes has attacked the concept of ‘added-value’ audit as ‘commercial suicide’. Speaking to...

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E&Y attempts to recover BCCI legal fees
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E&Y attempts to recover BCCI legal fees

27y michael laydon

E&Y attempts to recover BCCI legal fees

Ernst & Young is to begin proceedings against Deloitte & Touche, liquidators of BCCI, to recover legal fees estimated at over #5m. A case agai...

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Consulting takes rap for poor KPMG growth
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Consulting takes rap for poor KPMG growth

27y michael laydon

Consulting takes rap for poor KPMG growth

KPMG 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...

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Profession's thoughts on the unthinkable privatisation
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Profession's thoughts on the unthinkable privatisation

27y michael laydon

Profession's thoughts on the unthinkable privatisa...

Some degree of privatisation within the Inland Revenue would bewelcomed by the profession. Jon Bunn reports. Read More...

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Subscription notices
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Subscription notices

27y michael laydon

Subscription notices

English 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...

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UK comes second in EU insolvencies
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UK comes second in EU insolvencies

27y michael laydon

UK comes second in EU insolvencies

The UK has the second-worst record for corporate insolvencies in the EU, shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown told a Clark Whitehill small business conferen...

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Auditors warn of Crest fraud risk
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Auditors warn of Crest fraud risk

27y michael laydon

Auditors warn of Crest fraud risk

Auditors of financial services companies claimed this week that Crest, the new paperless share settlement system created by the Bank of England, could...

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LETTERS
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LETTERS

27y michael laydon

LETTERS

Raising 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 ...

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When disclosing gets tough, the tough keep disclosing
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When disclosing gets tough, the tough keep disclosing

27y michael laydon

When disclosing gets tough, the tough keep disclos...

This 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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