The English ICA could appoint a director-general whose main purpose would be to lobby on technical and professional matters, overturning ten years of ...
View articleIn the last two articles, I addressed five questions which should help you in defining the main areas you should focus on in order to take your career...
View articleConfusion gripped Customs & Excise offices this week after a directive placing a blanket ban on all VAT payouts under the new three-year rule was ...
View articleNine out of ten local authorities have yet to set up audit committees, despite their proliferation elsewhere in the public sector, according to a repo...
View articleAccountants must be extra careful to meet Inland Revenue standardswhen preparing reports under the Hansard Policy. According to BarryDraper, the new o...
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 articleThe BBC’s controversial plan to contract out its 700-strong finance department to Coopers & Lybrand and US computer services giant EDS has ...
View articleThe Government has effectively banned public sector managers for the first time from pursuing finance lease deals under the flagship private finance i...
View articleThe National Audit Office is to investigate alleged overspends on computer systems overseen by the National Health Executive, the top policy making bo...
View articleThe Bristol headquarters of chartered accountants Solomon Hare acted as lead advisers to Prism Rail plc in its acquisition of two more franchises. Tue...
View articleThe Scots ICA summer conference hears an optimistic message from itspresident but is told to upgrade its business acumen Read More...
View articlePrivate finance projects in the health sector have stalled despite Government efforts to kick-start the scheme in time for the Tory party conference n...
View articlePannell Kerr Forster’s embattled hotels consultancy last week did away with the posts of chairman and managing director and appointed its first ...
View articleThe Liberal Democrats have opted out of the tax-cutting war between the Labour and Conservative parties. Treasury spokeswoman Malcolm Bruce will make ...
View articlePrice Waterhouse is considering closing its Nottingham and Leicester offices to create a new regional ‘super-office’ beside the M1, writes...
View articleThere are several new developments at this year's Softworld, but whathasn't changed is the scientific jargon and hype that only serves tobewilder the ...
View articleThe final pieces of the regulation jigsaw fell into place this week when the six leading accountancy institutes united behind a single set of proposal...
View articleThe Government failed to monitor adequately the activities of lottery company Camelot in the first year of its operation, according to the National Au...
View articleA new report by three Dundee University lecturers indicates howauditors must consider environmental issues when compiling their reports Read More...
View articleThe audit chiefs of the Big Six have stepped up their efforts to change the joint and several liability laws by bringing in a firm of lobbyists to run...
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 articleShareholders welcome greater corporate transparency, but find thevolume of information now required in company accounts confusing ratherthan clarifyin...
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 articleTraditional nerves accompanied would-be accountants picking up exam results in traditional manner at Victoria Station on Friday night. Careers were on...
View articleBDO Stoy Hayward will this week find out the results of a Joint Monitoring Unit enquiry into alleged breaches of the English ICA’s investment bu...
View articleThe VATman has stuck his fingers into charities’ collecting boxes in Customs & Excise’s latest attempt to recoup the missing VAT mill...
View articleAccountants in the Irish Republic are lobbying the Dublin Government for a change in the laws of joint and several liability which, they say, makes th...
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