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Report suggests law firms are failing on customer service
April 18th, 2016
A new report suggests that there is a ‘disturbing level of tunnel vision’ among law firms when it comes to adopting modern customer service standards, which could ultimately make the difference between success and failure. The report by Peppermint Technology shows that law ...
PricewaterhouseCoopers pays €37m to save Spanish employees from jail
April 14th, 2016
The accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers has handed over €37m (£29m) to the Spanish government to save four of its former employees from serving lengthy jail terms for fraud. The four former senior executives, who include the firm’s ex-president Miguel Fernández de Pinedo, ...
Deloitte forecasts double digit growth
March 22nd, 2016
Deloitte’s new chief executive Cindy Hook is forecasting double digit revenue growth for the 12 months to May 31, as she repositions the professional services giant to be more globally oriented to capture emerging markets, and meet the demands of domestic clients expanding offshore. Reflecting on her ...
Big four among others to join together to enable more apprenticeships
March 21st, 2016
Leading professional services and industry employers, Professional Bodies and training providers have come together to develop a new apprenticeship standard for the audit, accountancy and tax professions. The new standard has been developed to provide school leavers with a ...
PricewaterhouseCoopers accused of conflict of interest in development role
March 21st, 2016
Diane Abbott is furious that PwC is working on a DfID scheme called the Investment Facility for Utilising UK Specialist Expertise Big Four accountant PricewaterhouseCoopers has been accused of “a very serious conflict of interest” in its role as an ...
54% of IPs see HMRC as ‘unhelpful’
March 11th, 2016
OVER half (54%) of insolvency practitioners (IPs) think HMRC makes it harder to rescue businesses than wind them up, according to a survey of the profession by R3, the insolvency trade body. And nearly three-in-four (71%) IPs believe HMRC has ...
Big Four’s £2.55bn revenues dominate UK consultancy market
March 3rd, 2016
The consulting arms of the Big Four accountancy firms continue to dominate the UK consultancy market, accounting for over a third of revenues, and are growing faster than the rest of the sector, according to research by Source Global ...
HMRC: ‘Persuasive promoters’ lure taxpayers into avoidance schemes
March 2nd, 2016
AN INVESTIGATION into tax avoidance schemes has revealed that people are regularly introduced to avoidance arrangements via family, friends and accountancy firms, despite being aware that they are ‘unusual’ and ‘at the edge of tax law’. The HMRC report attempted to understand ...
KPMG axes dozens of partners
February 29th, 2016
KPMG is cutting around 50 partners in an effort to improve its performance and respond to changing demand from its clients, according to reports. Sky News reported that KPMG is cutting approximately 50 partners. The process of streamlining its partnership, which ...
Playtech: Results for the year ended 31 December 2015
February 25th, 2016
Playtech (LSE: PTEC) today announces its full year results for the year ended 31 December 2015, together with a trading update for the period to 22 February 2016. Financial highlights * Adjusted numbers relate to certain non-cash and one-off ...
