Network computers, object-based development, connectivity via the Internet, outsourcing, Year 2000, and the EMU. These are areas earmarked for the mos...
View articleSage plc, the PC accounting software vendor, reported a 34% increase in pre-tax profits on a turnover of #136.2m to the year ended 30 September 1996. ...
View articleBritish IT directors and managers are less well prepared to cope with the advent of the year 2000 than their European counterparts, even though they c...
View articleTwo things are going to happen with the euro during 1997. First, the accounting software industry will get a better handle on all the IT implications ...
View articleWhen the Queen addresses the nation about what a lovely year it hasbeen, which events will stick out in accountants' minds? We rewind to findout Read ...
View articleThe planned flotation last week of a US accounting software company on the Alternative Investment Market has been delayed until at least Christmas ami...
View articleArthur Andersen is considering moving its tax processing function out to India as part of radical set of proposals under study by a team of its tax pa...
View articleAccountants are this week divided over the future of the Inland Revenue’s proposed system for the electronic filing of tax returns under self-as...
View articleGuy Dresser looks at the AIM launch of Open Systems Holdings in the UKand its implications for the market. Read More...
View articleThe English ICA’s tax faculty is set to boycott the Inland Revenue’s proposed system for electronic filing of tax returns. The move, which...
View articleThe Chancellor has provoked a furious response from so-called'ingenious' accountants. Read More...
View articleAlmost two-thirds of UK organisations have scrapped applications software estimated to be worth u290m as a result of mergers and acquisitions over the...
View articleOflot director general Peter Davis regulates the most successfullottery in the world, but as Leon Hopkins reports, his achievement has notshielded him...
View articleDun & Bradstreet Software has changed its name to Geac, following itsacquisition by the Canadian software group. Despite the deal, no clearlong-te...
View articleCorporate accountancy software group Coda has announced two strategic tie-ups that go some way to answering City critics of the company, which has iss...
View articleThe Budget was a genuine attempt to aid the economy, according to a survey of finance directors. Almost half of the 200 FDs polled for The Big Questio...
View articleSmall firms beware EU audit thresholds Mark Spofforth’s Opinion piece last week about the challenge of the millennium was thoughtful and may be ...
View articleCoopers & Lybrand is advising US accountancy software group Open Systems Holdings for its AIM flotation next week. The company will be capitalise...
View articleThe public sector will need to shed 100,000 jobs to keep within the Chancellor’s spending plans, according to CIPFA chief economist Chris Trinde...
View articleOne of the original members of the English ICA’s accreditation scheme for business and accounting software is set to pull out amid concern over ...
View articleShares in three companies are expected to start trading this week on Easdaq, the pan-European stock market that models itself on the US Nasdaq exchang...
View articleA massive 60% increase in the forecast contract cost of running the nation’s tax systems has been brushed aside as a ‘fuss over nothing...
View articleIn theory, it would be a far more sensible solution to see theEuropean industry rationalised with a bout of takeovers, mergers andprivatisations. Read...
View articleThe need for accountants to produce accurate and transparent reportsfor charities is greater now than ever before. John Hancock takes a look atthree o...
View articleTen years after three friends began RMD in an Edinburgh basement, thefirm has taken on the Big Six and become one of the country's topcorporate financ...
View articleActivity-based costing has traditionally been used to give a snapshotview of business performance. New systems mean that an ongoing review ispossible,...
View articleThe business and accounting software industry has held its first formal meeting with Bank of England officials to discuss progress on how to tailor pr...
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