Companies House is calling on companies and accountants to get up to speed with changes to UK anti-money laundering rules, including new requirements affecting people with significant control (PSC) information, which come into effect from 26 June

The International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants (IESBA) has launched a survey seeking comments, views, and insights from stakeholders as the first step in identifying the key issues it should address in revising its code of ethics for professional accountants

MarketInvoice, which bills itself the largest peer-to-peer online invoice finance marketplace, is launching a new incentive plan for referrals from accountants, commercial finance brokers and financial advisers in a bid to double lending to £2bn in 2017

As the English football season draws to a close, Premier League clubs scored a new record of £3.6bn in revenues last year, but also fell into the red with an aggregate pre-tax loss of around £110m, according to research from Deloitte

Martin Beck, senior economist at Oxford Economics analyses how the pound has managed to remain resilient over the last year despite global political headwinds and Brexit fears

The Financial Reporting Council Lab is kicking off a project on risk and viability reporting and is looking for companies, investors and analysts to participate in the research by 21 April

In the latest twist in the Making Tax Digital saga, the influential Treasury Committee is reviewing calls for the move to quarterly reporting to be parked until HMRC can provide more clarity on software and IT availability issues folowing the latest hearing on the plans, reports Sara White

HMRC has collected £943m from large businesses via accelerated payment notices (APNs) over the last year, according to law firm Pinsent Masons, which says the collection is likely to relate to use of a range of suspected avoidance schemes and arrangements, including those making use of employee benefit trusts (EBTs) to reduce tax paid

Levels of ‘significant’ financial distress are up 26% across key sectors of the UK supply chain, following increased cost pressures from rising inflation in both fuel and food prices, according to research from Begbies Traynor which also highlights further pressure to come from the latest National Living Wage (NLW) increase

In part two of our EU Directives series, Stefan Petrovski, accountant at Paris-based accounting firm Primexis, considers changes to the rules on secondment and posting of workers to other EU member states for provision of services by companies under the Posting of Workers Directive

President Trump’s plans for a new one-off repatriation tax to encourage multinationals to bring offshore profits back to the US stands to give the 50 biggest US companies a windfall of between $312bn (£249bn) and $327bn (£260bn), according to research by Oxfam

Paul Boyle and David Clements of Harrisons Business Recovery and Insolvency Ltd have been appointed joint administrators of CFO Lending Ltd, a payday lender which has hit cashflow difficulties after it was required to provide over £34m of redress to more than 97,000 customers for unfair practices following an investigation by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)