Former Fisons chief executive Stuart Wallis FCA has been appointed non-executive chairman of aluminium products company Euramax International, which w...
View articleSubsidiaries of foreign-owned companies may suffer under the Inland Revenue’s ‘thin capitalisation rules’ if the UK adopts the Inter...
View articleACCA is to fight against Government proposals to increase the audit threshold for small companies. ACCA’s audit committee met last week to consi...
View articleHelp is at hand to automate one of accounting’s most exasperating functions. Psion has released Expense Tracker software to let users of its Ser...
View articleA lawyer representing 90 investors claiming losses of $26.7m in foreign exchange deals has condemned a $15m compensation offer by Cantrade Private Ban...
View articleA Special Commissioners verdict on the Cheltenham & Gloucester merger bonus test cases is expected in two weeks. The cases, heard last week and or...
View articleGovernment departments and businesses will not have to change accounting systems to the single European currency, the euro, until 2002 at the earliest...
View articleSecondary buyouts are emerging as a new type of exit route when a stock market flotation or trade sale proves impractical, according to research from ...
View articleThe DTI will come under increasing pressure to provide a legal framework for UK multinationals to file their accounts under international accounting r...
View articleJust exactly what the English ICA thought it was letting itself in for when it commissioned a review of its constitution last May is unclear. The coun...
View articleThe English ICA has pulled out of a long-awaited meeting with Ian Lang, president of the Board of Trade, to discuss reform of joint and several liabil...
View articleTime Open Systems, the Chatham-based developer of object-oriented corporate accounting solutions has been acquired by US developer Software 2000 for $...
View articleRobert Smith was given a vote of confidence and told to continue as Scots ICA president by colleagues, despite the deepening turmoil at Morgan Grenfel...
View articleChris Pearce FCA, finance director of Rentokil, is to be the next chairman of the Hundred Group of Finance Directors. Pearce, 56, will succeed Brian B...
View articleNew rules to be introduced in April will simplify the DTI’s funding arrangements for Business Links operations. Valerie Thompson, chief executiv...
View articleVenture capital deal-signings are being hampered by tough negotiations between finance providers and accountants as a result of the due diligence liab...
View articleThe Government has paved the way for hospital trusts and other public sector organisations to drive down the cost of private finance initiative projec...
View articlePeter Gerrard, the lawyer asked to carry out an independent review of the English ICA’s constitutional arrangements, has set a large cat among t...
View articleThe official launch date for the English ICA’s new corporate finance faculty has been put back two months to April. The delay has been caused by...
View articleReceivership and administrative order appointments in 1996 were 21% down on the previous year at 1,594, according to statistics compiled by Deloitte &...
View articleThousands of accountants have struggled to get copies of clients’ self-assessment statements of account after an Inland Revenue central database...
View articleAlmost two out of three finance directors believe the DTI is making a mistake with its proposed u350,000 audit threshold. 42% of FDs feel that it shou...
View articleNorwich Union finance director Richard Harvey is taking on the additional role of deputy chief executive, and will succeed retiring chief executive Al...
View articleRawlinson & Hunter, an international accountancy practice with a head office in London and a satellite in Ewell, Surrey, has standardised on Offic...
View articleDownsizing is immoral and has a human cost Patrick Wilkins considers that ‘downsizing’ is the way forward for large accountancy and legal ...
View articleA VAT tribunal ruling that will send care bills for the elderly and mentally ill soaring by 17.5% is set to be ignored by Customs & Excise because...
View articleThe European Court will deal with up to 41 disputed VAT cases this year, the results of which could cost the UK Government billions of pounds. One cas...
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