Euroscepticism is all very well in political debate, but when it comes to financial systems, UK companies are going to have to mix it with the Europea...
View articleKPMG found itself on both sides of the fence in City scandals this week after investment banking group Morgan Grenfell, one of the audit firm’s ...
View articleResearch suggests UK workers are suffering from job-related stress.Nowhere does this seem to be more the case than in accountancy. CaronLipman looks a...
View articleA new edition of the English ICA booklet Towards Better Auditing hasjust been published. Richard Bint explains why it was important to updateit Read M...
View articleBusiness and meditation appear to be worlds apart, the one demanding activity, the other, stillness. But as workplace stress becomes more of an issue,...
View articleFinance staff in the banking and insurance industries were warned last week to prepare for a fresh round of job cuts in the wake of the 150 branch clo...
View articleA specialist knowledge of tax legislation can save charitiesthousands of pounds each year but a financial adviser does not come cheap Read More...
View articleSimon Duffy, group finance director of EMI, has joined Imperial Tobacco as one of three new non-executive directors ahead of the group’s demerge...
View articleThe English ICA this week responded to the Inland Revenue'sconsultative document on employee travel and subsistence, accusing theproposed legislation ...
View articleThere is an intellectual debate brewing in the IT industry, the outcome of which could be critical to the future of the virus and anti-virus industry....
View articleRobert Smith, chairman and CEO of Morgan Grenfell development capitaland president of the Scots ICA, gives an insight into how venturecapitalists and ...
View articleTax software suppliers are meeting this week with the Inland Revenue to hammer out differences over self-assessment which could hit its proposed syste...
View articleDeloitte & Touche’s outsourcing arm has made its first major foray into the private sector with a four-year deal to run the back-office acc...
View articleNicholas Taylor of Grimsby, South Humberside has been severely reprimanded, fined z2,000 and charged costs of z1,600 by the English ICA’s discip...
View articleThe new regime of self-assessment will change the culture of taxpaying and collection in the UK. A more confrontational system has beenpredicted and, ...
View articleMore than 700 accountants in practice received a stiff warning about the profession’s future last week, during day-long seminars on how to re-en...
View articleThere are more ways to make money than plain old audit. Sarah Perrinexperiences the latest guru-led, fervour-inducing management training -this time d...
View articleThe English ICA’s regulatory procedures are facing renewed criticism in a letter to the Securities and Investments Board from a disgruntled memb...
View articleReceivership and administration order appointments in August dropped 34% on July’s total, according to the latest figures released by Deloitte &...
View articleIn the immediate aftermath of the recent scandals which have rocked blue-chip City banks Morgan Grenfell and Robert Fleming, anxious City investors ar...
View articleACCA officers were condemned by 41 MPs for pressurising the employersof one reformer Read More...
View articleSome companies are considering whether to have their subsidiaries use intranet technology to send financial reporting information to head offices R...
View articleACCA has given the green light to proposals for a series of changes designed to devolve power internationally. Delegates from 29 countries attended th...
View articleThe English ICA has come under an unprecedented attack by a senior institute official over its handling of the recruitment for the post of technical d...
View articleOnly one-third of accountancy firms have a written marketing plan despite the majority expecting to increase their marketing spend, a recent survey ha...
View articleThe founder of a UK company which won a major venture capital award last week has criticised the UK venture capital industry for being risk-averse. Th...
View articleThe accountancy profession is up in arms over the new powers the Inland Revenue will have to conduct random audits of taxpayers’ affairs under s...
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