Tax experts have condemned a major change to the VAT system which stops NHS trusts reclaiming millions of pounds in overpaid tax. Customs & Excise...
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 English ICA has revamped its guidance to practitioners on how to run a ship-shape audit. Towards Better Auditing, a 64-page booklet released this ...
View articlePrice Waterhouse has managed to snatch the Smiths Industries audit from Clark Whitehill, removing Group A’s last true fingerhold on the FTSE 100...
View articleMixed messages from the Treasury itself have caused public sectorconfusion over best practice accounting methods under the Private FinanceInitiative R...
View articleResponsibility for spotting the company success stories of the future lies with all accountants, argued a leading venture capitalist. Mike Pacitti, a ...
View articleThe profession is divided over the Contributions Agency’s increased powers to collect unpaid National Insurance. In August, Peter Lilley, secret...
View articleThe new UK standard for prompt payment launched last week, BS7890, gives advice to both suppliers and debtors to help prevent and resolve payment disp...
View articleKPMG found itself on both sides of the fence in City scandals this week after investment banking group Morgan Grenfell, one of the audit firm’s ...
View articleNew technology means that the office is changing rapidly. AlisonClasse looks at the implications for professional accountants Read More...
View articleSome companies are considering whether to have their subsidiaries use intranet technology to send financial reporting information to head offices R...
View articleAn industrial tribunal has awarded employees of a West Country accountancy firm back pay and redundancy money after it heard they were left to manage ...
View articleArthur Andersen is focusing its human resource, compensation and benefits practice in a single Human Capital Service practice designed to capitalise o...
View articleAudit firms moved quickly this week to refute claims by one of the country’s largest pension funds that moves to limit liability would reduce th...
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 articlePrivate finance projects in the health sector have stalled despite Government efforts to kick-start the scheme in time for the Tory party conference n...
View articlePrice Waterhouse is considering closing its Nottingham and Leicester offices to create a new regional ‘super-office’ beside the M1, writes...
View articleBusiness and meditation appear to be worlds apart, the one demanding activity, the other, stillness. But as workplace stress becomes more of an issue,...
View articleA specialist knowledge of tax legislation can save charitiesthousands of pounds each year but a financial adviser does not come cheap Read More...
View articleJersey limited liability partnerships, being promoted by two of the Big Six as an answer to curbing the litigation risks faced by partnerships, will b...
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...
View articleTraditional nerves accompanied would-be accountants picking up exam results in traditional manner at Victoria Station on Friday night. Careers were on...
View articleDeloitte & Touche’s outsourcing arm has made its first major foray into the private sector with a four-year deal to run the back-office acc...
View articleThe English ICA’s regulatory procedures are facing renewed criticism in a letter to the Securities and Investments Board from a disgruntled memb...
View articleUK companies face a huge burden in complying with accounting and disclosure requirements and are at a competitive disadvantage as a result, according ...
View articleAre women accountants discriminated against in the profession? And ifthey are, what can be done about it? These were two of the questions askedin the ...
View articleA communication gap between head office and subsidiary finance departments has resulted in companies having to issue profit warnings, according to KPM...
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