Old hardware goes into a museum, but old software goes into production every day. This is the stark observation of CMI’s Year 2000 Solutions rep...
View articleThe English ICA could appoint a director-general whose main purpose would be to lobby on technical and professional matters, overturning ten years of ...
View articleThe final pieces of the regulation jigsaw fell into place this week when the six leading accountancy institutes united behind a single set of proposal...
View articleThe English ICA is set to launch its own investigation into the role played by auditors Bird Luckin in the z1bn losses suffered in 1992 by hotels grou...
View articleCoopers & Lybrand, current Big Six leader, grew gross fee income by 6% for the year 1995-96 to # 701m, according to figures released last week. Ev...
View articleThe # 37bn-a-year invoice finance industry is to be represented by a single association after a merger of three separate trade organisations. The newl...
View articleThe new regime of self-assessment will change the culture of taxpaying and collection in the UK. A more confrontational system has beenpredicted and, ...
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View articleNew technology means that the office is changing rapidly. AlisonClasse looks at the implications for professional accountants Read More...
View articleIn the last two articles, I addressed five questions which should help you in defining the main areas you should focus on in order to take your career...
View articleThe Government failed to monitor adequately the activities of lottery company Camelot in the first year of its operation, according to the National Au...
View articlePensions Review project managers are growing ‘increasingly pessimistic’ about delays to their expected completion dates, research by Deloi...
View articleThe benefits of merging with another practice must be balancedagainst potential conflicts of interest. Philip Pawson weighs up the prosand cons, while...
View articleA Sussex businessman is suing Coopers & Lybrand for # 1.5m for allegedly issuing negligent advice when he sold his office partitioning business t...
View articleMore than 700 accountants in practice received a stiff warning about the profession’s future last week, during day-long seminars on how to re-en...
View articleAnyone interested in the selection or implementation of new financial and accounting systems would do well to beat a path to two forthcoming events. S...
View articleJersey’s limited liability partnership legislation passed its third and final reading on the island on Tuesday, but not without criticism and co...
View articleConfusion gripped Customs & Excise offices this week after a directive placing a blanket ban on all VAT payouts under the new three-year rule was ...
View articleA new report by three Dundee University lecturers indicates howauditors must consider environmental issues when compiling their reports Read More...
View articleUK pension funds have been net sellers of UK equities over the last four quarters to the tune of almost # 7bn, while long-term life assurance companie...
View articleThe biggest district society in the English ICA is organising another meeting in its attempt to get ordinary members more significantly involved in th...
View articleEuroscepticism is all very well in political debate, but when it comes to financial systems, UK companies are going to have to mix it with the Europea...
View articleThere are more ways to make money than plain old audit. Sarah Perrinexperiences the latest guru-led, fervour-inducing management training -this time d...
View articleKidsons Impey has signalled a clear intention to boost its corporate finance strength by making a string of senior appointments. Graham Spooner has jo...
View articleAndersen Worldwide pulled the plug this week on its much-heralded partners’ meeting to discuss the organisation’s future. After six months...
View articleNine out of ten local authorities have yet to set up audit committees, despite their proliferation elsewhere in the public sector, according to a repo...
View articleThe audit chiefs of the Big Six have stepped up their efforts to change the joint and several liability laws by bringing in a firm of lobbyists to run...
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