The 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 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 articlePeter Smith has just celebrated two increasingly successful years asCoopers chairman. He talks to Andrew Pring about his tenure at EmbankmentPlace Rea...
View articleThe breakdown of management controls in the asset management arm of merchant bank Morgan Grenfell led to calls this week for auditors to take a wider ...
View articleSir Adrian Cadbury’s code on corporate governance clearly placed responsibility for ‘a balanced and understandable’ assessment of a ...
View articleThe 1990s have seen charities subject to the sameself-regulatory disciplines as profit-making organisations Read More...
View articleOfficials at the DTI (right) have scotched rumours that an announcement on UK reform of limited liability partnership legislation is imminent. The DTI...
View articleA communication gap between head office and subsidiary finance departments has resulted in companies having to issue profit warnings, according to KPM...
View articleMixed messages from the Treasury itself have caused public sectorconfusion over best practice accounting methods under the Private FinanceInitiative R...
View articleAn industrial tribunal has awarded employees of a West Country accountancy firm back pay and redundancy money after it heard they were left to manage ...
View articleCorporate mergers and strategic alliances are set to more than double over the next 12 months, a Price Waterhouse survey has predicted. Nearly a third...
View articleTop 20 firm Moores Rowland is merging with Blakemores, a London-based practice with fees of around # 1.5m. Tony Sanderson, Blakemores’ managing ...
View articleCoopers & Lybrand, current Big Six leader, grew gross fee income by 6% for the year 1995-96 to # 701m, according to figures released last week. Ev...
View articleThe benefits of merging with another practice must be balancedagainst potential conflicts of interest. Philip Pawson weighs up the prosand cons, while...
View articleThe biggest district society in the English ICA is organising another meeting in its attempt to get ordinary members more significantly involved in th...
View articleMore than 25,000 English ICA members, 23%, have responded to the institute’s education and training survey, dispatched in June. MORI is analysin...
View articleArthur Andersen is focusing its human resource, compensation and benefits practice in a single Human Capital Service practice designed to capitalise o...
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 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 articleThe Charity Commission and the DTI are planning a radical overhaul of the accounting rules governing charitable companies in order to bring them into ...
View articleAudit firms moved quickly this week to refute claims by one of the country’s largest pension funds that moves to limit liability would reduce th...
View articleThe profession is divided over the Contributions Agency’s increased powers to collect unpaid National Insurance. In August, Peter Lilley, secret...
View articleThis month's Company Reporting looks at the implications for thepresentation of accounts following the Accounting Standards Board'sproposals on goodwi...
View articleMarketing techniques are essential to the success of a company, andaccountants should tate note. Gordon Gilchrist shows how to gain the leadsjust by u...
View articleCoopers & Lybrand appears to have become the second Big Six firm to become implicated in Jersey’s first major financial scandal. An Accounta...
View articleThe new UK standard for prompt payment launched last week, BS7890, gives advice to both suppliers and debtors to help prevent and resolve payment disp...
View articleFinancial controls are essential to a company's integrity but Shell'sgroup controller, Jan de Kreij explains that there must be room formanoeuvre Read...
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