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Finance | Coronavirus: what internal auditors need to know

At times of crisis internal auditors play a vital role advising on reputational risk and crisis management, explains Richard Chambers, president and CEO, Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors

10 Mar 2020

Finance | FCA focuses on climate change disclosures

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is consulting on climate-related disclosure requirements for premium listed issuers

10 Mar 2020

Business | EY completes British Steel sale to Jingye

The Official Receiver and special managers from EY have sold some of the business and assets of British Steel to Chinese steel giant Jingye Steel

10 Mar 2020

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Business | Contractors could go to tribunal over IR35

If employers deny contractors full employment rights, but still decide to tax them as employees, they could have a legal argument at an employment tribunal

9 Mar 2020

Leadership & Management

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Tax | Sunak Budget overshadowed by coronavirus

The Chancellor is set to deliver the UK’s first Budget since 2018 on Wednesday with entrepreneurs' relief likely to be slashed and talk of rises in second home stamp duty, all against a backdrop of cashflow worries for businesses over impact of covid-19

9 Mar 2020

Business | UK regulator fines Cathay Pacific £500k for data breaches

Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd has been fined £500,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for failing to protect the security of its customers’ personal data, including over 100,000 UK-based individuals

9 Mar 2020

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Business | Specialist property company collapses

Manchester fit-out contractor Styles & Wood, which was forced to resign last year from a contract to refurbish HMRC offices in Liverpool, has gone into administration

9 Mar 2020

Restructuring & Insolvency

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Tax | Tax bill sees classic Bristol Cars sputter to a halt

Iconic British motoring brand Bristol Cars has ceased trading after 70 years following a winding up order from HMRC over unpaid tax

6 Mar 2020

Restructuring & Insolvency

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Business | FTSE 350 slammed over lack of gender diversity at the top

Nearly one in five of the FTSE 350 companies have received letters from the Investment Association (IA) and the Hampton-Alexander Review about the lack of gender diversity on their board and executive committees, while the UK is only 16th in the global ranking of women in work

6 Mar 2020

Leadership & Management

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Business | Government risks another Carillion

Two years on from the collapse of Carillion, the government risks seeing another outsourcing supplier collapse if it does not get behind the reforms put forward after the company’s liquidation, a think tank is warning

5 Mar 2020

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Finance | Regulators review reporting deadlines to mitigate coronavirus

UK and US regulators have moved swiftly to indicate they are considering what actions to take against companies which fail to hit reporting deadlines because of difficulties related to the spread of coronavirus

5 Mar 2020

Business | Flybe crashes into administration

EY has been brought in as administrator to regional airline Flybe which has collapsed, just two months after a government rescue plan, with the loss of 2,400 jobs

5 Mar 2020