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Finance | Covid-19: maintaining focus - CPD module - NEW

This month's exclusive Accountancy Daily CPD module focuses on maintaining focus during the Covid-19 crisis through executing vital communication/compliance with shareholders, employers, supply chain and Government in order to minimise risk and ensure clarity, comprehension and control in unprecedented times

4 May 2020

Financial Reporting

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Business | Covid-19: FCA wants clarity on business interruption insurance

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is to seek legal clarity on business interruption (BI) insurance in response to widespread concerns and uncertainty about the basis on which some firms are making decisions relating to the current pandemic

4 May 2020

Accountancy Firms

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Tax | Covid-19: £100m VAT cut on protection equipment

Personal protective equipment (PPE) purchased by care homes, businesses, charities and individuals to protect against Covid-19 is to be free from VAT for a three-month period.

4 May 2020

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Business | Covid-19: AAT grants student membership extensions

AAT (Association of Accounting Technicians) has granted membership renewals to students who are close to completing their AAT qualification and may therefore have not budgeted for an additional year of student membership

1 May 2020

Accountancy Firms

Leadership & Management

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Tax | Tax reform back on agenda in wake of Covid-19

Post-pandemic fallout could see government grasping for tax reforms, but questions remain over how to create a system that is fair, simple and certain, writes Philip Smith

1 May 2020

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Business | Grant Thornton launches digital accountant pathway

Grant Thornton introduces their digital accountant pathway for its trainee intake to develop technology, process and data audit skills alongside ACA qualification

1 May 2020

Leadership & Management

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Tax | Covid-19: scrapping VAT on e-publications fast-tracked

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has fast-tracked plans to scrap VAT on e-books and e-newspapers, bringing the measures in seven months earlier than announced at the Budget, in a boost to readers and publishers during the coronavirus outbreak

1 May 2020

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Business | Covid-19: partners’ future under spotlight during crisis

As the Big Four and other large practices cut pay and furlough staff, Kingsley Napley’s employment partner Richard Fox sets out what partners should do if they face a cull

1 May 2020

Accountancy Firms

Leadership & Management

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Business | Covid-19: pensions regulator calls for collaboration in recovery

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) is calling on trustees and employers to work together to manage the immediate effects of Covid-19, in order to ensure pension scheme members are not disadvantaged in comparison to shareholders

30 Apr 2020

Accountancy Firms

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Business | KPMG administrators to Scottish building company

KPMG partner Blair Nimmo and director Geoffrey Jacobs have been appointed as joint administrators of Central Building Contractors (Glasgow) Ltd, which has collapsed with the loss of more than 150 jobs

30 Apr 2020

Restructuring & Insolvency

Leadership & Management

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Business | Covid-19: British Airways seeks 12,000 redundancies

British Airways has announced a proposed restructuring and redundancy programme which may result in the loss of up to 12,000 jobs from its workforce of 42,000, as the coronavirus pandemic continues to have a severe impact on the aviation sector globally

29 Apr 2020

Accountancy Firms

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Finance | Covid-19: EU eases up on banking accounting rules

The European Commission has announced a relaxation of banking accounting rules to ensure that lenders can continue to extend loans to companies struggling during the Covid-19 crisis, in a bid to ensure a coordinated EU response and avoid national fragmentation

29 Apr 2020

Accounting Standards

Accountancy Firms

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| Scrutiny suffers as AGMs and directors move behind closed doors

Shareholders have been effectively locked out of their annual opportunity to hold directors accountable for the previous year’s financial performance, analysis by Philip Smith

29 Apr 2020

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Tax | Covid-19: tax consultation deadlines extended

HMRC and the Treasury have set out revised timelines for tax policy consultations and other work in the light of the current Covid-19 crisis, in order to allow more time for feedback, but say that all planned reforms will still go ahead

29 Apr 2020

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Tax | Covid-19: charities can claim gift aid on cancelled event tickets

HMRC has announced changes to help charities process refunds, collect donations and claim gift aid for events cancelled due to coronavirus

29 Apr 2020

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Business | Covid-19: £60k benefit for fallen NHS worker families

The families of health and care workers on the frontline will benefit from a new life assurance scheme during the coronavirus pandemic as ‘financial worries should be the last thing on the minds of their families’

28 Apr 2020

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