Accountancy firm PwC has announced it is looking to offload its personal insolvency practice based in its Gloucester and Leeds offices. Partners at the Big Four firm are currently working with the management team of both offices to find suitable Read more…
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The Financial Services Authority (FSA) and the Bank of England have unveiled a new set of guidelines aimed at making accountancy firms more transparent. Under the new proposals, accountancy firms would be legally obliged to share more information about the Read more…
A new study has revealed that seven out of ten accountancy professionals in the UK will search for a new job this year. A recent survey carried out by Accountancy Age found that 70 per cent of accountantsintend to change Read more…
Accountancy firm Ernst and Young has appointed three non-executive directors, the first recruitment move of its kind in the company’s history, according to the Financial Times. The newspaper reports that the Big Four firm has taken on three senior industry Read more…
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has announced it will consider calls from leadingaccountancy bodies to extend the deadline for the introduction of online tax filing. However, it stated that companies should still presume that the switch to the compulsory use Read more…
The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants has revealed that it took on a record number of students in 2010. Figures from the institute show that some 23,000 new students joined the world’s largest professional body of management accountants last year, Read more…
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the world’s second largest accountancy firm, has revealed ambitious plans to have half of its partnership made up of women or people from an ethnic background. Ian Powell, the firm’s UK chairman and senior partner, said he wants Read more…
The accountancy software group Sage has announced that sales are continuing to improve as more of its small and medium-sized business customers show signs of recovery. The company returned to sales growth in the six months to September 2010 and Read more…
Accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is being sued by a former partner for discriminating against non-white employees. Sri Lankan-born Dunstan Pedropillai, 47, is suing the firm where he still works for £2.6 million, claiming it has an “Anglo-Saxon male culture” that Read more…
KPMG has announced that it will offer to pay the university tuition fees of teenagers who sign up to a new accountancy training scheme. The Big Four accountancy firm said it is launching a new school leavers’ programme from this Read more…
