The BBC has shelved plans to contract out its 700-strong finance department to a joint venture owned by Coopers & Lybrand and US computer service...
View articleHanson is promoting assistant finance director Alan Murray to group finance director after next month’s demerger of its Energy Group. Current FD...
View articleChartered accountant, Nigel Gilroy, will appear at Bow Street Magistrates Court on 10 February charged with conspiracy to defraud #250,000 from the Ce...
View articleSmall accountancy practices lack specialist skills needed to compete in the small business market, according to a new national association of general ...
View articleThe introduction of an order-driven stock market dealing system later this year will remove one of the London Stock Exchange’s defences against ...
View articleThe Small Practitioners Association urged the English ICA’s 11,000 sole practitioners this week to join a united front against proposals by the ...
View articleHow does new technology affect the profitability of medium-sizedcompanies? A recent forum backed by Accountancy Age publishers tried toanswer the ques...
View articleGraham Ward is wrestling with a huge dilemma in the final straight of his race for the vice-presidency of the English ICA with KPMG partner Dame Sheil...
View articleWhen leaving practice, success awaits those willing to take anindividual route, writes Sarah Perrin in the first of three weeklyfeatures which conside...
View articleMore than a quarter of companies that have floated on the Alternative Investment Market say their reporting accountant was ‘very expensive for w...
View articleThe Government’s troubled private finance initiative received a fresh blow this week when Parliament’s top financial watchdog rebuffed sug...
View articleRenaissance CS, the accounting suite from US developer Ross Systems, is looking to live up to its name after undergoing a major overhaul to run under ...
View articleA fundamental tenet of the Department of Trade & Industry’s plans for electronic account filing, proposing a standard format for small compa...
View articleThis year’s job market will be as buoyant as in 1989, according to Jeff Grout, managing director of Robert Half International. The comment comes...
View articleNeil Cooper, the man who tracked down u450m of missing assets for the Maxwell pensioners, has quit unexpectedly as the head of corporate recovery at R...
View articleCustoms & Excise has carried out its threat to ‘disregard’ a VAT tribunal ruling that would add millions of pounds to the care bills o...
View articleSonia Land, the literary agent wife of Nick Land, Ernst & Young’s senior partner, is at the High Court again this week, to appeal against t...
View articleDo the benefits of in-house training courses outweigh thedisadvantages? Or is external training more flexible? Denis Phelanreports. Read More...
View articleThe wider whistle-blowing duties proposed by the new pensions regulator have come under fire from auditors, who warn they could severely strain client...
View articleAn insolvency practitioner’s fight to win an apology from Channel 4’s Dispatches programme reaches a climax next week when his case comes ...
View articleColin Sharman is the new international chairman of KPMG, succeeding Jon Madonna who is joining the US insurer Travelers Group as a vice-chairman. Shar...
View articleThe Department of Trade and Industry will restrict UK limited liability partnerships to the largest firms only, Accountancy Age has learnt this week. ...
View articleDouglas Llambias’ remarks on the English ICA’s constitutional review (News, 23 January) – ‘I support 80% of the recommendation...
View articleKPMG is today expected to offer compensation for failing to detect fraud when it was auditor of London United Investments. The negligence claim estima...
View articleThe English ICA is facing an embarrassing internal backlash from bodies representing small practitioners and members in business, following the public...
View articleA lack of knowledge among UK finance directors about the looming self-assessment regime could cost taxpayers millions of pounds, a survey by KPMG has ...
View articleKPMG has attacked the International Accounting Standards Committee’s pension accounting proposals, claiming they will expose UK companies to dra...
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