Accountants are happier in the North. Their southern counterparts mayearn higher salaries, but northerners feel their jobs provide them withmore adequ...
View articleSome of the biggest City scandals could be avoided if senior management showed more support and commitment to internal auditors. David Brilliant, chai...
View articleDirectors of UK companies received on average pay rises in the range of 3.7%-5% last year, according to the latest Reward Group/Institute of Directors...
View articleCashflow difficulties will continue to hit small and medium-sized businesses, according to a survey by International Factors. Accountants are less con...
View articleSenior VAT specialists have vowed to wreck Customs’ clampdown on tax because the Government agency has wrongly identified ‘legitimate comm...
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View articleGuy Dresser looks at the AIM launch of Open Systems Holdings in the UKand its implications for the market. Read More...
View articleFootball’s top chartered accountant, Premier League chief executive Rick Parry, is to leave his post and join Liverpool Football Club. Parry, th...
View articleThe Serious Fraud Office probe into the activities of former senior management and directors at Wickes is the latest and most significant investigatio...
View articleThe English ICA is holding a wide-ranging review into a #560,000 research grant over seven years made by an institute-owned charity to the London Scho...
View articleThe English ICA’s tax faculty is set to boycott the Inland Revenue’s proposed system for electronic filing of tax returns. The move, which...
View articleMore than 900,000 small companies will have the burden of preparing their accounts eased by complying to a single accounting standard. The move follow...
View articleThe Chancellor has provoked a furious response from so-called'ingenious' accountants. Read More...
View articleAndrew Fisher, a manager at Somerset chartered accountants Butterworth Jones & Co, was crowned UK Scrabble champion on Sunday.Fisher, 31, secured...
View articleAlmost two-thirds of UK organisations have scrapped applications software estimated to be worth u290m as a result of mergers and acquisitions over the...
View articleACCA’s decision to launch its own technician-level qualification will confuse students and divide the profession, the Association of Accounting ...
View articleCoopers & Lybrand’s legal action to enjoin nine former executives of Barings as third parties has been widely applauded as a move to show th...
View articleOflot director general Peter Davis regulates the most successfullottery in the world, but as Leon Hopkins reports, his achievement has notshielded him...
View articleDun & Bradstreet Software has changed its name to Geac, following itsacquisition by the Canadian software group. Despite the deal, no clearlong-te...
View articleCorporate accountancy software group Coda has announced two strategic tie-ups that go some way to answering City critics of the company, which has iss...
View articleTory chartered accountant MP Michael Stern has called for an Inland Revenue style penalty system to be introduced to deal with Social Security fraudst...
View articleThe Welsh economy is transforming itself with indigenous manufacturingand inward investment. David Rowe-Beddoe of the Welsh Development Agencylooks at...
View articleSenior members of the European Commission and the accountancy profession meet in Brussels today and tomorrow to determine whether changes in regulatio...
View articleThree-quarters of bankers would support common documentation behind international loan agreements, according to a Price Waterhouse survey. More than h...
View articleThe Budget was a genuine attempt to aid the economy, according to a survey of finance directors. Almost half of the 200 FDs polled for The Big Questio...
View articleCompanies in the UK and on the Continent are ‘surprisingly unprepared’ for the introduction of the single European currency, according to ...
View articleBacon & Woodrow, the actuarial firm are to follow the example of leading accountancy firms by looking at whether to drop their unlimited partner ...
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