Change is afoot in international accounting as attempts are made toregulate the world's stock markets. Harriot Lane Fox previews the Coopers &Lybr...
View articleIt is unlikely that CIMA can ever rejoin its fellow institutes afterlast week's public savaging of the consultation paper's key proposals. Read More...
View articleThe International Accounting Standards Committee’s race to achieve a core set of global accounting standards by early 1998 could be undermined b...
View articleOver-zealous disciplinary measures and excessive punishment handed out by the Joint Monitoring Unit have angered chartered accountants in the South Ea...
View articleACCA members have won the right to call themselves ‘chartered’ after the Privy Council confirmed a decision made at the association’...
View articleNo business or accounting software package is ever totally bug free. Software suppliers have long since acknowledged this and happily continue to sell...
View articleWhether to regulate the accountancy profession is not at issue – the question is how? External regulation or self-regulation? Each has its advan...
View articleProud prize winners at last week’s Accountancy Age annual awards for excellence staged at the London Hilton Hotel. From left: Denis Waxman, mana...
View articleSelf-assessment has spurred the tax software industry into action and, if the number of new products on show last week at the Accountants and Financia...
View articleEnterprise applications vendor SAP UK has launched SAP Focus, an implementation methodology that will make its R/3 software a more viable proposition ...
View articleA high-flying City executive recently made history after claiming compensation for a nervous breakdown brought on by information overload. There can b...
View articleThe row between CIMA and the rest of the working party rocked theprofession last week. Rod Hill and Chris Swinson make their points. Read More...
View articleThe Government attempted to head off private sector criticism of the private finance initiative this week with a set of measures designed to cut red t...
View articleThe English ICA is braced for trouble over proposals to halve the number of regulatory and oversight visits it makes to licensed insolvency practition...
View articleThe impact of Government measures to combat late payment of company bills could take two more years to assess, the Scots ICA has claimed. The DTI intr...
View articleEver wondered what users really think of their accounts system? Every so often a new report comes out and blows a few vendors out of the water. Ovum&#...
View articleA head of steam was gathering this week behind the candidacy of Robert Smith (right), Scots ICA president, to takeover as head of Deutsche Morgan Gren...
View articleA small practitioner aims to scupper Customs & Excise’s three-year rule on VAT repayment claims through a judicial review. Pankaj Bakshi, s...
View articleUK companies do not spend enough time selecting non-executive directors and, as a result, their boards do not work properly, a new book on corporate g...
View articleA district auditor is investigating a ‘serious misjudgment’ by Welwyn Hatfield Council which resulted in a #50m damages award to a propert...
View articleA chartered accountant jailed for stealing #60,000 from his employer has been thrown out of the English ICA. Cyril Clifford, from Tonbridge, Kent, was...
View articleThe Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists launched a challenge to Customs & Excise’s three-year rule on VAT repayment claims las...
View articleAccountancy firms are lagging behind rival professional advisers in the race for work on the Government’s private finance initiative with lawyer...
View articlePlanned simplifications of the Companies Act designed to help small businesses could result in highly misleading company accounts, the Scots ICA has w...
View articleOnce the political decision to proceed with privatising the nuclearindustry had been taken, it fell on accountants to prepare a business planand ensur...
View articleAccounting Standards Board proposals published this week would close the loophole that allows companies to avoid depreciating properties. But it has m...
View articleAndrew Sawers examines the threat of a further attack on dividendtaxation. Read More...
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