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HR | From classroom to career: next generation accountants

Sarah Beale, CEO of AAT explores how practical experience, widening access to encourage social mobility and virtual placements can help level the playing field and attract more people into the accountancy profession

25 Jul 2025

HR | People in the news: Blick Rothenberg, EY, Armstrong Watson

In this week’s career moves, partner promotions and hires at Armstrong Watson, Blick Rothenberg, EY, Xeinadin, Kreston Global, Azets, Latham & Watkins, BT Group, Companies House

25 Jul 2025

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Careers

Leadership & Management

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Business | Gerald Edelman acquires £1.7m Vista Partners

Privately owned Gerald Edelman has finalised acquisition of Surrey-based accountancy practice Vista Partners, expanding the firm’s regional footprint

25 Jul 2025

Business

Accountancy Firms

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Finance | Audit reforms and ARGA plan shelved again

The government has abandoned plans to overhaul the audit market, with proposals for tough, statutory regulator to replace FRC dropped

25 Jul 2025

Finance

Auditing

Corporate Governance

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Tax | HMRC backs down on £60k eBay trading enquiry

Casual online selling can lead to an unwanted HMRC intervention over taxable trade, warns Bash Khanzada, consultant at Croner-i VIP Tax Team

25 Jul 2025

Business | £6m investment scammers used Seychelles shell company

Fraudsters who ran two investment schemes using front companies in the Seychelles and Switzerland to steal over £6m have been jailed for fraud and money laundering

25 Jul 2025

Business

Called to Account

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HR | Employee disputes and early conciliation

Stacie Cheadle, Croner-i HR expert, explains the use of early conciliation to avert an employment tribunal and how the settlement process works

25 Jul 2025

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Finance | What’s going wrong with audit?

Revenue issues and lack of management challenge continue to trip up audit teams, raising fresh concerns about how deeply auditors are really digging, says Ollie Garrod ACA

24 Jul 2025

Finance

Auditing

Corporate Governance

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Business | Firms only fined £9.7m for audit failures

Audit firms, partners and in-house accountants fined £9.7m for audit misconduct, ethical breaches and reporting failures, down from £33m previous year

24 Jul 2025

Tax | Capital gains tax revenue slumps by 18%

Uncertainty about rates and slashing the annual exempt allowance have all contributed to a drop in capital gains tax revenues, showing revenue down by a fifth to £12bn in a single year

24 Jul 2025

Finance | IFRS releases draft examples on risk reporting climate issues

The IFRS Foundation has published a set of draft examples using climate-related scenarios to improve corporate reporting for early review

24 Jul 2025

Tax | Unused pension pots taxed at 40% from 2027

Inheritance tax will be charged on all unused pension pots from April 2027 with income tax liability for those aged over 75 and a six-month payment deadline

24 Jul 2025

Finance | Libor convictions for City traders overturned by Supreme Court

Two former City traders wrongly jailed for Libor rate rigging have convictions quashed by the Supreme Court after 10-year battle to clear names

24 Jul 2025

Finance

Corporate Governance

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Finance | Lynch estate must pay £700m to settle Autonomy case

The sale of software company Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard did not reflect the accurate financial position of the company, court rules

23 Jul 2025

Finance

Financial Reporting

Corporate Governance

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Finance | Deloitte faces investigation over Glencore audits

The audit regulator has opened a probe into Deloitte’s audits of FTSE 100 mining giant Glencore covering a seven-year period

23 Jul 2025

Finance

Auditing

Corporate Governance

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Business | Prax oil refinery to close after management ‘mess’

One of the country’s largest oil refineries to close after liquidators failed to find a buyer for Prax Lindsey site, following ‘shockingly bad management’

23 Jul 2025

Business

Companies

Restructuring & Insolvency

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Tax | Further delay to resolution of NIC error for self employed

HMRC has confirmed that it is taking longer than expected to fix the calculation problem affecting some self assessment Class 2 National Insurance contributions

23 Jul 2025

Tax | Finance director loses due to ‘blatant disregard for the time limits’

The director of a real estate financing company has lost his right to appeal over £1m of discovery assessments due to making his appeal out of time

23 Jul 2025

Tax | Q&A: ATED reliefs on £1.5m property

In this week’s Q&A, Abigail Bothe of Croner-i VIP Tax Team assesses the rules around the charges for annual tax on enveloped dwellings for sheltered properties

23 Jul 2025

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Latest news

HR | From classroom to career: next generation accountants

HR | People in the news: Blick Rothenberg, EY, Armstrong Watson

Business | Gerald Edelman acquires £1.7m Vista Partners

Finance | Audit reforms and ARGA plan shelved again

Tax | HMRC backs down on £60k eBay trading enquiry

Business | £6m investment scammers used Seychelles shell company

HR | Employee disputes and early conciliation

Finance | What’s going wrong with audit?

Business | Firms only fined £9.7m for audit failures

Tax | Capital gains tax revenue slumps by 18%

Finance | IFRS releases draft examples on risk reporting climate issues

Tax | Unused pension pots taxed at 40% from 2027

Finance | Libor convictions for City traders overturned by Supreme Court

Finance | Lynch estate must pay £700m to settle Autonomy case

Finance | Deloitte faces investigation over Glencore audits

Business | Prax oil refinery to close after management ‘mess’

Tax | Further delay to resolution of NIC error for self employed

Tax | Finance director loses due to ‘blatant disregard for the time limits’

Tax | Q&A: ATED reliefs on £1.5m property