Search Results for: Accountancy
KPMG retains £12m Old Mutual audit contract
August 7th, 2014
KPMG has retained its audit work with Old Mutual, after the insurance and asset management business took its £12m contract to market. The FTSE 100 life insurer confirmed it had accepted the audit committee’s recommendation that KPMG continue in ...
CashFlows and Clear Books launch integrated cloud accounting and bank payments system
August 5th, 2014
CashFlows, the alternative business account and payment provider, and Clear Books, the cloud accounting company, have today launched the first fully integrated cloud based accountancy and online business banking service for small and medium sized businesses. The two innovative ...
DOTAS ‘kiss of death’ for tax avoidance schemes
August 5th, 2014
The Dotas regime has become the “kiss of death” for tax avoidance schemes and has pushed some promoters into providing non-DOTAS structures instead. The Disclosure of Tax Avoidance Schemes (DOTAS) sees anyone entering into a scheme generating tax savings ...
HMRC: Tax avoiders have opportunity to settle their issues
August 1st, 2014
Around 16,000 tax avoiders are to be given the chance to settle their outstanding liabilities with HM Revenue & Customs, the department has confirmed. On average, each of the users of the contractor loan schemes covered by this settlement ...
NHS accountant jailed over £2m fraud
July 30th, 2014
The former head of financial accounting at two NHS trusts has been jailed for stealing £2.2m of NHS funds, which he used to buy a portfolio 11 properties in Sussex and London. Trevor Barry Cosson (38) defrauded the cash ...
Why use a specialised small business accountant
July 29th, 2014
Starting your own business can be a difficult task. You know you have a great idea, you sound it out to some friends and work colleagues who tell you you’ll make millions. You finally get the confidence to take ...
EY wins £2m Sage audit contract
July 28th, 2014
EY has won the audit contract for Sage, following a tender of the £2m deal. PwC will step down after completing accounts work to 30 September 2014, bringing its 26-year audit relationship with the FTSE 100 software business to ...
World Congress of Accountants 2014
July 23rd, 2014
A unique opportunity for the Accountancy Profession. An event that will bring together influential CFOs and CEOs to discuss the accounting professional’s role, leverage on past experiences and develop a new vision for the future. The World Congress ...
HMRC publishes list of suspect tax avoidance schemes
July 15th, 2014
HM Customs and Revenue (HMRC) has published a list of more than 800 schemes that it believes are deliberately designed to avoid tax. The list consists of a series of numbers, allowing them to be identified by the tax-payers ...
Just 6% of companies switched auditors ahead of incoming rules
July 14th, 2014
Just one in twenty (6%) of companies has changed its auditor ahead of compulsory audit tender rules coming into effect in October. Research from Bloomsbury Professional found just under 3,000 businesses with a turnover of more than £6.25m switched ...
