Deloitte & Touche has forecast a Budget hike in the standard rate of VAT to 20% , raising an extra u5bn in revenue. The firm also predicts that in...
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View articleThe government provided a significant boost to international fraud investigations last month. It cleared the path for insolvency practitioners to seiz...
View articleThe English ICA's submission to the Hampel committee on corporategovernance broadly favours the status quo although, as Martyn Jones says,the institut...
View articleThe consumer-led boom in the UK caused a significant drop in the number of retailers put into receivership or administration last month, according to ...
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View articleVanco Euronet, which runs wide-area computer networks for corporate clients, has pushed its newly installed Platinum accounting software system to the...
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View articleCorporate Solutions Consulting has beaten off competition from Coopers & Lybrand and Deloitte & Touche to win a contract with the Russian Pr...
View articleThe Stakeholder Corporation By: David Wheeler and Maria Sillanpaa Price: #19.99 Publisher: Pitman Publishing I welcome the publication of this work. I...
View articleMaurice Parry-Wingfield asks if you are ready for new tax rules onbusiness travel. Read More...
View articleThe English ICA this week published ‘a vital guide for audit committees’. The report’s author, Deloitte & Touche technical partn...
View articleLeaving the flock to go it alone can be fraught with difficulties,says Cosima Duggal, but it can also bring huge benefits for those who takethe plunge...
View articleAll the Big Six firms offer opportunities to work abroad. Harriot LaneFox chooses where and why. Read More...
View articleThe fight against international fraud is being hampered by differences in national laws, the existence of financial safe-havens, and a failure on the ...
View articleHertfordshire electronic engineering group Symonds has called in Arthur Andersen to investigate ‘breaches of internal controls’, believed ...
View articleA bonanza of outsourcing and partnering deals saw Big Six firms more than double their income from internal audit work last year. Price Waterhouse sai...
View articleAlthough consultancy is attracting increasing numbers of women, thenumber of female partners remains fairly static. Cosima Duggalinvestigates Read Mor...
View articleACCA has accused the Accounting Standards Board of undermining its own Financial Reporting Standard for Small Entities (FRSSE) by requiring ‘exp...
View articleUS investment bank Merrill Lynch, which employs Deloitte & Touche as auditor for its worldwide operations, is investigating accounting irregulari...
View articleAuditing is changing. From Big Six to small practitioner, new ways ofsatisfying clients are emerging. We report on the problems andopportunities for m...
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