The keeper of the privy purse yesterday faced a grilling by the public accounts committee yesterday over why £14m had been deposited into the Queen's ...
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View articleHigh-profile KPMG partner and president of the English ICA, Dame Sheila Masters, was today honoured as one of 33 new working peers in the revamped Hou...
View articleRumours of the death of the controversy surrounding accounting for private finance initiative deals are greatly exaggerated. Read More...
View articleRumours of the death of the controversy surrounding accounting for private finance initiative deals are greatly exaggerated. The row over the balance ...
View articleThere is no case whatsoever for merging the Inland Revenue and Customs & Excise, save on relatively limited grounds of minimised ? if they are min...
View articleNo real threat to CIPFA In response to Ian Perkin’s article (1 July), I would like to make a few observations. First, CIPFA is no more at threat...
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View articleMultibillion pound offshore financial services business stands to be wiped out, reports Phillip Inman. Read More...
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View articleThe Accounting Standards Board wants to put PFI projects on the balance sheet, pitting its chairman Sir David Tweedie against 'iron' Chancellor Gordon...
View articleThe Inland Revenue's powers under the new tax regimes fill manyaccountants and tax payers with doubt, reports Jon Bunn. Read More...
View articleThe Insolvency Practitioners Association (IPA) is to investigate Buchler Phillips’ controversial receivership of Robert Maxwell’s personal...
View articleFurious Tory MPs have accused the government of planning to rush the Finance Bill implementing New Labour’s first Budget as law. Angry protests ...
View articleSupport for uniformity is gathering momentum, but indecision remainsover how to go about it, writes Tim Weekes. Read More...
View articleDirectors' pay is still a sore subject, despite the intervention ofthe Greenbury Report. Simon Garrett looks at the balancing act betweencorporate rew...
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