It's a thin line between valuable and invaluable

Accounting Firms It's a thin line between valuable and invaluable

12y Gavin Hinks, Writer

It's a thin line between valuable and invaluable

Leveson enquiry unearths more than just phone hacking Read More...

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CIMA and its painful disciplinary

Accounting Standards CIMA and its painful disciplinary

12y Gavin Hinks, Writer

CIMA and its painful disciplinary

Was the disciplinary worth it? Read More

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The Goldman Sachs tax bill

Corporate Tax The Goldman Sachs tax bill

12y Gavin Hinks, Writer

The Goldman Sachs tax bill

Much to learn from the debacle over investment bank's tax Read More...

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Sharman's concerned about going concern

Audit Sharman's concerned about going concern

12y Gavin Hinks, Writer

Sharman's concerned about going concern

International standard setter should Sharman's call on going concern Read More...

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The rush to sign Andrew Higginson

People Business The rush to sign Andrew Higginson

13y Gavin Hinks, Writer

The rush to sign Andrew Higginson

Tesco former FD has moved on. Read More

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You don't have to be legal to be privileged

Legal You don't have to be legal to be privileged

13y Gavin Hinks, Writer

You don't have to be legal to be privileged

Supreme Court will hear the case for accountants having legal privilege Read More...

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The Baker Tilly 14

Accounting Firms The Baker Tilly 14

13y Gavin Hinks, Writer

The Baker Tilly 14

Baker Tilly has seen a surprising proportion of equity partners switch to salaried status Read More...

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Twitter, or die?

Accounting Firms Twitter, or die?

13y Gavin Hinks, Writer

Twitter, or die?

SOCIAL MEDIA – love it or loathe it, our readers are talking and debating it. More importantly, they are wondering just how it fits into their b...

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Audit Commission minister leaves observers in awe

Audit Audit Commission minister leaves observers in awe

13y Gavin Hinks, Writer

Audit Commission minister leaves observers in awe

GRANT SHAPPS‘ performance in Parliament yesterday is one which will leave observers in awe for some time to come. In awe at the sheer scope of h...

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Blog: Auditors face big change

Audit Blog: Auditors face big change

13y Gavin Hinks, Writer

Blog: Auditors face big change

Lords demand OFT examine whether auditors should be doing much more Read More...

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The 22 tax exiles

Corporate Tax The 22 tax exiles

13y Gavin Hinks, Writer

The 22 tax exiles

LAST WEEK’S Last week’s news about advertising giant WPP ending its self-imposed tax exile to return to Britain got me thinking about the ...

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OFT is on the audit case - hopefully.

Audit OFT is on the audit case - hopefully.

13y Gavin Hinks, Writer

OFT is on the audit case - hopefully.

The OFT is on the case. That’s the upshot this week from the Budget which saw news that the government has called on the Office of Fair Trading ...

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A growth Budget overshadowed by disappointing growth

Administration A growth Budget overshadowed by disappointing growth

13y Gavin Hinks, Writer

A growth Budget overshadowed by disappointing grow...

SO WHERE DOES the Budget leave us? Take chancellor George Osborne’s own words: “From rescue to reform, from reform to recovery” as a...

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The EU and consolidated taxes

Administration The EU and consolidated taxes

13y Gavin Hinks, Writer

The EU and consolidated taxes

IT’S easy to see where the debate over the EU’s corporate tax reform will focus. In fact, Taxand have already put out their view that the ...

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Why concern about 'going concern?'

Audit Why concern about 'going concern?'

13y Gavin Hinks, Writer

Why concern about 'going concern?'

WHY all the fuss about going concern? The Financial Reporting Council, led by Baroness Hogg (pictured) has begun a review of reporting on going concer...

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Cable and the audit challenge

Audit Cable and the audit challenge

13y Gavin Hinks, Writer

Cable and the audit challenge

Vince wants to cut the cost of auditing and reporting for small and medium sized business, but are his savings estimates too optimistic Read More...

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Shining a light on companies and their taxes

Corporate Tax Shining a light on companies and their taxes

13y Gavin Hinks, Writer

Shining a light on companies and their taxes

MORE transparency on tax, that’s what exchequer secretary David Gauke called for yesterday in a speech. What Gauke said was that it would be easier to...

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ProgTax blog illuminates Vodafone deal

Corporate Tax ProgTax blog illuminates Vodafone deal

13y Gavin Hinks, Writer

ProgTax blog illuminates Vodafone deal

BIG TAX AVOIDANCE schemes have a new foe – the Progressive Tax Blog. Just launched, the blog took as it’s first subject HMRC’s settl...

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Brussels talks audit reform

Audit Brussels talks audit reform

13y Gavin Hinks, Writer

Brussels talks audit reform

THIS morning’s session at the Brussels conference on audit reform was interesting but went as expected. The investor contingent on the panel pro...

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Doing business with China - the SME way

Accounting Firms Doing business with China - the SME way

13y Gavin Hinks, Writer

Doing business with China - the SME way

SO FAR doing business with China must have seemed like a story applicable to big brands and multi nationals only. For some time however we’ve been awa...

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Restrictive clauses and the Loch Ness Monster

Audit Restrictive clauses and the Loch Ness Monster

13y Gavin Hinks, Writer

Restrictive clauses and the Loch Ness Monster

OFTEN, it’s all in the timing. Yesterday, Accountancy Age reported quite an outburst on the subject of banks forcing their clients to use Big Fo...

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Complexity or simplification? That is the question.

Corporate Tax Complexity or simplification? That is the question.

13y Gavin Hinks, Writer

Complexity or simplification? That is the question...

HAS the government forgotten its agenda to simplify taxes? A read through the Institute for Fiscal Studies’ (IFS) Green Budget report this morni...

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Go for it Dave, move the deadline

Administration Go for it Dave, move the deadline

13y Gavin Hinks, Writer

Go for it Dave, move the deadline

  THE DEADLINE for companies to switch their tax returns online was always controversial coming as it does in the same year as a change to intern...

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Holding the IT crises at bay

Administration Holding the IT crises at bay

13y Gavin Hinks, Writer

Holding the IT crises at bay

The taxman seems prone to crisis in its IT systems - bad news as digital corporate tax returns are about to start Read More...

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Tax simplification and government coffers

Corporate Tax Tax simplification and government coffers

13y Gavin Hinks, Writer

Tax simplification and government coffers

Minister's speech reveals a concern for simplification but a bigger one for revenues Read More...

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The loneliness of long distance audit reform

Audit The loneliness of long distance audit reform

13y Gavin Hinks, Writer

The loneliness of long distance audit reform

  Fascinating comments yesterday from employment minister Ed Davey (pictured) while appearing before the Lords committee looking at audit reform....

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A proper economics debate: Ed Balls back on the economy beat

Administration A proper economics debate: Ed Balls back on the economy beat

13y Gavin Hinks, Writer

A proper economics debate: Ed Balls back on the ec...

ED BALLS has finally got his feet under the chancellor’s table. Well, at least under the shadow chancellor’s desk. After being initially o...

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