The 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...
View articleThe EU's Social Chapter may impose costs on UK business which willbadly damage its ability to compete on the international stage, accordingto James Wh...
View articleAccountancy firms are missing opportunities to service small and medium-sized businesses because they do not understand what these businesses want. Th...
View articleThe English Institute has criticised a Top 20 firm’s behaviour as ‘legal but not reasonable’ after it refused to hand over a small f...
View articleStanley Leisure, the z300m-turnover racing and casino business, has introduced a performance-related bonus scheme for directors that won’t scare...
View articleTax experts have condemned a major change to the VAT system which stops NHS trusts reclaiming millions of pounds in overpaid tax. Customs & Excise...
View articleThe English ICA is set to launch its own investigation into the role played by auditors Bird Luckin in the z1bn losses suffered in 1992 by hotels grou...
View articlePensions Review project managers are growing ‘increasingly pessimistic’ about delays to their expected completion dates, research by Deloi...
View articleUK pension funds have been net sellers of UK equities over the last four quarters to the tune of almost # 7bn, while long-term life assurance companie...
View articleThe Charity Commission will shortly embark on a large-scale exerciseintending to sharpen the fiscal awareness of some of the UK's majorcharities Read ...
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 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...
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