The 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...
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...
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