More than 25,000 English ICA members, 23%, have responded to the institute’s education and training survey, dispatched in June. MORI is analysin...
View articleKPMG found itself on both sides of the fence in City scandals this week after investment banking group Morgan Grenfell, one of the audit firm’s ...
View articleThe English ICA’s regulatory procedures are facing renewed criticism in a letter to the Securities and Investments Board from a disgruntled memb...
View articleProportionate liability should be a statutory contractual alternative to the current joint and several arrangement, according to a Law Society report....
View articleThe threat by larger accountancy firms to relocate to Jersey andoperate as LLPs is an attempt to avoid public accountability, argues PremSikka Read Mo...
View articleAccountants must be extra careful to meet Inland Revenue standardswhen preparing reports under the Hansard Policy. According to BarryDraper, the new o...
View articleInsolvency practitioners are joining the throngs of professionals angrily protesting against the three-year limit on claims for VAT-refunds about to b...
View articleThe English ICA has revamped its guidance to practitioners on how to run a ship-shape audit. Towards Better Auditing, a 64-page booklet released this ...
View articleArthur Andersen is focusing its human resource, compensation and benefits practice in a single Human Capital Service practice designed to capitalise o...
View articleResearch suggests UK workers are suffering from job-related stress.Nowhere does this seem to be more the case than in accountancy. CaronLipman looks a...
View articleReceivership and administration order appointments in August dropped 34% on July’s total, according to the latest figures released by Deloitte &...
View articleMost failed growth strategies fall into one of four categories, claimed a senior Royal Bank of Scotland director. Commercial and corporate director Do...
View articleThe number of finance jobs in the NHS has declined sharply over the last year following deep cuts in management costs, according to a survey of pay an...
View articleCity watchdog IMRO is set to investigate the role of external auditors and the advice they give fund management companies following the debacle at inv...
View articleShareholders welcome greater corporate transparency, but find thevolume of information now required in company accounts confusing ratherthan clarifyin...
View articleHughes Allen is suing former managing partner Peter Scolding for more than # 240,000, after the firm discovered an apparent hole in its finances. The ...
View articleIt's been a successful and innovative year for the Big Six with eachlaying good claim to being this year's Accountancy Age large firm of theyear. Hoom...
View articleA new edition of the English ICA booklet Towards Better Auditing hasjust been published. Richard Bint explains why it was important to updateit Read M...
View articleIn the immediate aftermath of the recent scandals which have rocked blue-chip City banks Morgan Grenfell and Robert Fleming, anxious City investors ar...
View articleOpponents of Jersey’s limited liability legislation aim to cripple it during a final debate later this month. Details of the controversial legis...
View articleThe Deregulation Unit should advise the Government to deregulate the wholesale finance community and retain a single regulator to oversee both the who...
View articleThe BBC’s controversial plan to contract out its 700-strong finance department to Coopers & Lybrand and US computer services giant EDS has ...
View articleDecember is proving to be an increasingly popular month for quoted company financial year ends. A survey by Merchant Corporate Design, which specialis...
View articlePeter Smith has just celebrated two increasingly successful years asCoopers chairman. He talks to Andrew Pring about his tenure at EmbankmentPlace Rea...
View articleFinding new and talented staff is never easy, so why wait for them tocome to you? Sarah Perrin looks at the trend among firms for poaching eachother's...
View articleBusiness and meditation appear to be worlds apart, the one demanding activity, the other, stillness. But as workplace stress becomes more of an issue,...
View articleACCA officers were condemned by 41 MPs for pressurising the employersof one reformer Read More...
View article