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Charities

Called to Account

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Finance | Charity audit fees up £10m in four years

Audit fees paid by the UK’s largest charities have increased by £10.2m in four years, reaching £72.3m in 2017/18, with audit firm Crowe ranked number one auditor in terms of fee income

17 Jun 2019

Auditing

Corporate Governance

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Finance | Deloitte, ICAEW launch climate change reporting programme

Big Four firm Deloitte and ICAEW have teamed up to launch a learning programme which aims to build climate change awareness and the role of business, with an emphasis on financial statement reporting

17 Jun 2019

16 Jun 2019

14 Jun 2019

Business | Deloitte restructures in Europe

Deloitte has restructured its European firms, with Greece, Italy and Malta joining the existing Deloitte North West Europe (NWE) partnership to form Deloitte North and South Europe (NSE)

14 Jun 2019

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Business | Majority of SMEs unhappy with their accountant

Most of the small businesses who are working with an external accountant or bookkeeper would not recommend their adviser to others and a quarter are looking to switch accountants, according to research by software provider Xero

14 Jun 2019

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Business | Mazars acquires medical accounting specialist Hall Liddy

Mazars has acquired Hall Liddy Chartered Accountants, a specialist medical accounting firm based in the North West, to create a combined healthcare accounting team advising GPs and medical consultants

14 Jun 2019

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Business | Harding: the technology threat to finance jobs

Technology from artificial intelligence to computer algorithms is disrupting the world of finance and will change the very fundamentals of the finance function, says Andrew Harding, chief executive of management accounting at CIMA

14 Jun 2019

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Business | Retail chain Select fashions CVA deal

High street fashion chain Genus UK Ltd, trading as Select, has agreed a company voluntary arrangement (CVA) after it went into administration in early May putting hundreds of jobs at risk

14 Jun 2019

Companies

Restructuring & Insolvency

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Business | Price Bailey joins dispute resolution initiative

Top 30 accountancy practice Price Bailey has announced it is partnering with law firm Ashtons Legal to deliver a new service which will give businesses an alternative, cost-effective way of resolving business disputes, in a bid to improve the ability of SMEs to recover bad debt

14 Jun 2019

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Business | EY board improves gender split with Belton appointment

Changes to EY’s senior leadership team mean that the firm’s board is now majority female, with six of the 10 positions held by women

14 Jun 2019

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Business | American Institute of CPAs to launch own internet domain

The American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) is in final negotiations to secure an internet domain specifically for CPAs, with the aim of enhancing trust and branding of the accountancy profession

14 Jun 2019

AI & Technology

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HR | People in the news: RSM, Cooper Parry, Wylie & Bisset, ICAEW, CIMA

In this week’s accountancy career moves, hires and promotions at RSM, Cooper Parry and Wylie Bisset, London partner for Carey Olsen, non-execs for ICAEW board and CIMA president

14 Jun 2019