For and Against - Lifelong learning is essential.
Management

For and Against - Lifelong learning is essential.

23y rumo , Writer

For and Against - Lifelong learning is essential.

Do advances in artificial intelligence threaten mass unemployment? Read More...

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Headstart: LLPs - Not so great expectations.
Consulting

Headstart: LLPs - Not so great expectations.

23y rumo , Writer

Headstart: LLPs - Not so great expectations.

Companies House is 'tentatively' estimating around 8,000 businesses will take up limited liability status over the next three years. Read More...

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Letters.
Consulting

Letters.

23y rumo , Writer

Letters.

Why I made my decision[QQ] – I am writing in response to Danielle Stewart’s letter (Surprising decision, 15 February, page 17). I am one o...

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Letters
Consulting

Letters

23y rumo , Writer

Letters

Campaign gets sympathy[QQ] Your story on the proposed pensioner tax credit (Pensioners face tax blow, 23 November, page 1) made me sympathise with the...

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Shock survey: Red tape doubles
Consulting

Shock survey: Red tape doubles

24y Accountancy Age

Shock survey: Red tape doubles

The cost to small businesses of complying with new legislation has more than doubled since last year, according to an English ICA survey. Read More...

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Tax shock for partnerships and PLCs in Finance Bill loophole
Personal Tax

Tax shock for partnerships and PLCs in Finance Bill loophole

24y Damian Wild

Tax shock for partnerships and PLCs in Finance Bil...

Private sector landlords may think twice before letting properties to partnerships and quoted companies because changes in the Finance Bill will mean ...

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Taxation Analysis - Who cares about a small business.
Personal Tax

Taxation Analysis - Who cares about a small business.

24y Accountancy Age

Taxation Analysis - Who cares about a small busine...

Gorge Fabrications Limited is a structural steel sub-contracting company employing 15 people – although sadly how much longer it will do so is a...

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Appointment at Bentley Jennison.
Consulting

Appointment at Bentley Jennison.

24y rumo , Writer

Appointment at Bentley Jennison.

Paul Castledine has been appointed by Bentley Jennison to head up the firm’s business services department. He will be responsible for advising f...

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Leader - There must be stars in their eyes.
Consulting

Leader - There must be stars in their eyes.

25y Accountancy Age

Leader - There must be stars in their eyes.

The consultancy profession isn't usually accused of being exhibitionist when dealing with the media. However, the big players recently dry-cleaned the...

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Letters - 17 June
Management

Letters - 17 June

25y John Stokdyk

Letters - 17 June

All the same under the skin Your report ‘CIMA urges talk not fight’ (25 March) was timely. Approximately 80% of the syllabuses of all the ...

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Letters - 22 April
Personal Tax

Letters - 22 April

25y John Stokdyk

Letters - 22 April

Turning black into white I was not favourably impressed to read in Accountancy Age (‘Chronicle of a death foretold’, 1 April) the self-ser...

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Taxation - Entertaining the specialist method
Consulting

Taxation - Entertaining the specialist method

26y John Stokdyk

Taxation - Entertaining the specialist method

The Inland Revenue has, for many years, had a specialist Lloyd’s underwriters unit and a foreign entertainers’ unit dealing with non-resid...

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Budget 98 - Cash basis climbdown
Personal Tax

Budget 98 - Cash basis climbdown

26y John Stokdyk

Budget 98 - Cash basis climbdown

Chancellor Gordon Brown rethinks partnership taxation in Budget for small business. Accountancy Age staff report Read More...

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Taxation - Fairness and tax make an odd couple
Consulting

Taxation - Fairness and tax make an odd couple

26y John Stokdyk

Taxation - Fairness and tax make an odd couple

We need to resolve the so-called anomaly of cash basis, says Robert Maas. Read More...

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D&B extends report service
Consulting

D&B extends report service

27y John Stokdyk

D&B extends report service

Dun & Bradstreet has extended its company credit reporting service to cover 700,000 non-limited firms, sole traders and partnerships in the UK. T...

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IMC wins grant to set standards
Accounting Software

IMC wins grant to set standards

27y Accountancy Age

IMC wins grant to set standards

The Institute of Management Consultants has won a #72,000 grant from the Department of Trade & Industry towards setting up a common standard with...

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SMALL BUSINESSES - A small concern
Consulting

SMALL BUSINESSES - A small concern

27y John Stylianou

SMALL BUSINESSES - A small concern

SMEs and chartered accountants could do each other a big favour. Read More...

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SMALL BUSINESSES - SMEs show reduced turnover
Consulting

SMALL BUSINESSES - SMEs show reduced turnover

27y michael laydon

SMALL BUSINESSES - SMEs show reduced turnover

The small and medium-size enterprises (SME) sector’s contribution to the UK economy slipped in 1995, according to a study by the government̵...

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LETTERS - Fighting unqualified threat
Consulting

LETTERS - Fighting unqualified threat

27y michael laydon

LETTERS - Fighting unqualified threat

J Poole rightly states (Letters, 19 June) that qualified practitioners should be able to rise above the quality of service offered by unqualified R...

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VIEW FROM THE HOUSE
Consulting

VIEW FROM THE HOUSE

27y John Stylianou

VIEW FROM THE HOUSE

Price Waterhouse and Ernst & Young spent big bucks to write the 1996 Jersey Limited Liability Partnership Act. It contained no provisions for publ...

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Careers - Spreading your wings
Accounting Software

Careers - Spreading your wings

27y Accountancy Age

Careers - Spreading your wings

Leaving 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...

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Analysts condemn value of credit decisions
Consulting

Analysts condemn value of credit decisions

27y John Stylianou

Analysts condemn value of credit decisions

A Dun & Bradstreet study reveals up to 25% of companies’ credit decisions are based on meaningless data on non-limited companies, partnersh...

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A question of value
Consulting

A question of value

27y michael laydon

A question of value

What's an audit worth these days? To a big corporation, it could bethe key to gaining the shareholders' confidence. Jo Holden explains how tooffer a s...

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Customs confirms rejection of tribunal care home ruling
Consulting

Customs confirms rejection of tribunal care home ruling

27y michael laydon

Customs confirms rejection of tribunal care home r...

Customs & Excise has carried out its threat to ‘disregard’ a VAT tribunal ruling that would add millions of pounds to the care bills o...

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LETTERS - Taking ICA review to its logical next stage
Consulting

LETTERS - Taking ICA review to its logical next stage

27y michael laydon

LETTERS - Taking ICA review to its logical next st...

Douglas Llambias’ remarks on the English ICA’s constitutional review (News, 23 January) – ‘I support 80% of the recommendation...

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VAT ruling hits elderly care homes
Management

VAT ruling hits elderly care homes

27y michael laydon

VAT ruling hits elderly care homes

A VAT tribunal ruling that will send care bills for the elderly and mentally ill soaring by 17.5% is set to be ignored by Customs & Excise because...

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Telephone service to hit small practices
Personal Tax

Telephone service to hit small practices

27y michael laydon

Telephone service to hit small practices

Small practitioners will face stiff competition in the first year of self-assessment from a flat-rate #99 accounts service for self-employed workers b...

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Careers - Pick of the pack
Accounting Software

Careers - Pick of the pack

27y Accountancy Age

Careers - Pick of the pack

The advantages of freelance working are becoming ever more attractiveto both consultants and their employees, says Mick James. He looks at theattracti...

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