Extensive field-testing must be carried out on proposals to make companies measure all financial instruments at fair value, says PricewaterhouseCooper...
View articleBig Five firm KPMG has launched an attack on the European Central Bank, accusing it of creating market confusion and shrouding its decisions in secrec...
View articleFour-fifths of 'affluentials', those individuals destined to command UK businesses in the future, would give it all up tomorrow if they could afford t...
View articleACCA is currently developing an MBA programme with Oxford Brookes University which will be open to qualified accountants from January. Read More...
View articleBioglan Pharma, the embattled pharmaceutical company currently operating without a finance director, has confirmed it is considering buyout offers as ...
View articleDeloitte & Touche Corporate Finance has notched up its fourth deal with MG Rover, the UK car company sold by BMW last year. Read More...
View articleThe number of companies going into receivership has more than doubled in the last month according to figures from Deloitte & Touche. Read More...
View articleRailtrack administrator Ernst & Young has admitted it might not be able to serve the best interests of creditors and shareholders as Stephen Byers wil...
View articleThe majority of expert witnesses still believe new rules governing fees earned in court claims have not seriously affected their income, proving that ...
View articleReal estate company British Land has announced that its finance director of 28 years, John Weston Smith, is stepping aside for a former Andersen partn...
View articleBritain's oft-cited 'red tape' burden is making it the worst country in the European Union to trade with, according to a survey carried out by the Eur...
View articleKPMG Forensic Accounting has warned of increased money laundering as terrorists try to fund their activities by increasing drug trafficking. Read More...
View articleWestLB, the bank preparing a bid for Railtrack, the collapsed rail infrastructure company, has asked administrators to consider a 'collaborative appro...
View articleThe Home Office is rushing through a change in the law to crack down on international corruption in its Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill. Read ...
View articlePharmaceutical company Bioglan Pharma has been asked by KPMG to adjust the accounts in its interim results. Read More...
View articlePublishing social and environmental reports as part of annual report and accounts creates burdens and costs that support a view that they should be op...
View articleSpeculative comments have been made in certain parts of the media about Accountancy National Training Organisation’s future, following recent ev...
View articleLast year I spent a lot of time reporting on issues such as eurocreep, the idea that the euro would begin to spread into the transactions of British c...
View articleThe government was wrong to force Railtrack into receivership as it will affect the future of all PFI deals, says John Redwood. John Spellar disagrees...
View articleJez Maiden FCMA has recently been appointed director of finance for Britannia Building Society. Maiden joined Britannia from Hickson International, wh...
View articleIan Little, a chartered accountant, is the financial director of Access Accounting. He moved from KPMG in 1997 where he was a manager in the corporate...
View articleThe collapse of Railtrack will almost certainly be investigated by independent financial watchdog National Audit Office next year, according to report...
View articleCompetition in the food market has led to a vicious price war but J Sainsbury, about to release its half-year results, claims to be unscathed in the b...
View articleJohn McDonnell, the Labour MP for Hayes and Harlington, says he will fight legislation giving City businesses more voting power in Corporation of Lond...
View articleThe government was wrong to force Railtrack into receivership as it will affect the future of all PFI deals, says John Redmond. John Spellar disagrees...
View articleJohn Redwood, the MP and former Tory department of trade minister, has lambasted the government's handling of the Railtrack administration, claimed it...
View articleFinance directors of technology companies face being abandoned by investors if they continue failing to communicate their risk management strategies f...
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