ACCA’s legal secretary Gary Crockford has left the certifieds’ association after seven years. Anthony Booth, an ACCA director, said Crockf...
View articleCorporate recovery specialists Buchler Phillips has set up a joint venture with Canada’s leading forensic accountants Lindquist Avey Macdonald. ...
View articleMegatech has rewritten its TAS Books accounting package for 32-bit Windows environments and millennium compliance. Starting from #99 for a single-user...
View articleThe apparently insatiable demand for newly qualified accountants is very good news for those who have passed their finals this summer. Recruitment exp...
View articleDeloitte & Touche, the liquidator of the collapsed Bank of Credit and Commerce International, has won a court case to claw back #2.1bn from one o...
View articleAuditing firms enjoy a statutory monopoly of external audit, and reap huge revenues from it. But they’re not happy with their lot – they w...
View articleErnst & Young will finally forge an alliance with a major law firm next year. After several years of planning, E&Y has taken a major step to e...
View articleThe Inland Revenue's powers under the new tax regimes fill manyaccountants and tax payers with doubt, reports Jon Bunn. Read More...
View articleAuditors should not be scapegoats for year 2000 mismanagement, saysJohn Hinton. Read More...
View articleThe Accounting Standards Board has set up a watchdog committee to oversee plans for a separate reporting standard for small businesses, after criticis...
View articleOpen Seas of Oxford is importing the Reveal family of business report software from Minneapolis-based O’PIN. The reports include a SmartAlert no...
View articleThe Lloyd’s recovery reinsurance firm Equitas has confirmed its first annual accounts will be qualified by its auditors Coopers & Lybrand f...
View articleInitiatives like IIP are well intentioned but dangerous, warns SirPeter Kemp. Read More...
View articleFollowing the merger of Scala’s dealer network and development wing, the company has joined forces with Florida-based Citrix Systems to offer wi...
View articleThe sixth and final BCCI prosecution brought by the Serious Fraud Office began at the Old Bailey this week. Chartered accountant Abdul Hameed Chiragh,...
View articleArthur Andersen last week skipped a generation of senior partners when it appointed Richard Boulton, 38, as managing partner of strategy and planning ...
View articleSmall and medium-sized quoted companies are still using share-option schemes in spite of the move towards alternative long-term incentive plans (LTIPs...
View articleIt has been called the millennium timebomb. It seems no one knows how many computer systems across the world will be unable to cope with the arrival o...
View articleThe Treasury is getting its wish and is phasing out profit-relatedpay but, Rob Outram asks, are the alternatives likely to satisfydisappointed employe...
View articleKPMG's backfired recruitment tactics reflect a cut-throat market fornewly qualifieds, report Phillip Inman and Jon Bunn. Read More...
View articleACCA’s new accounting technician qualification continues to gain support at the expense of the Association of Accounting Technicians. The Instit...
View articleACCA has teamed up with the English ICA in a bid to persuade football’s worldwide governing body to exempt accountants from strict rules on beco...
View articleThe US Financial Accounting Standards Board has published a draft statement for comment that will require derivatives to be recognised in the financia...
View articleNeville Russell has been cleared over its role as auditor to Landhurst Leasing, the finance company which collapsed in 1992. Arthur Andersen, Landhurs...
View articleVAT registrations by businesses have outnumbered deregistrations for the first time since 1990. There were 168,000 registrations last year – a n...
View articleErnst & Young has beaten off a Customs & Excise challenge to stop the firm claiming input tax on VAT for entertainment at staff parties. But C...
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