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Business | Buying a business - due diligence and potential risks

When eyeing up a potential merger or acquisition it is essential to ensure that due diligence is top of the agenda when buying a business to avoid any unexpected contingent or liabilities. Mercer & Hole's Caroline Stark and Phil Fenn consider the key issues when planning a merger and acquisition

2 Dec 2016

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Restructuring & Insolvency

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Business | 75% of accounting graduates fear jobs will be taken by robots

Three-quarters of graduates looking to pursue a career in accounting are concerned that automation could make their role redundant within two decades, according to research from online forum WikiJob

2 Dec 2016

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Business | Finance mole: Monkey bar’s so last year

During an offsite meeting with head office, Finance Mole is caught off guard in the once uber-cool Monkey Bar

2 Dec 2016

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Business | Minimum £1m penalty introduced for breaching financial sanctions

The Treasury’s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) will be able to impose penalties of up to £1m or 50% of the financial sanctions breach, depending on which is higher, from April 2017

2 Dec 2016

Accountancy Firms

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Tax | OECD countries report revenues at all time high

Tax revenues collected in advanced economies have continued to increase above last year’s all-time high, with taxes on labour and consumption, particularly VAT, representing a rising share of the total, according to OECD research

1 Dec 2016

International Tax

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Business | Government to review gig economy

The government has begun a review of modern labour market practices with a regional tour visiting different sectors, as part of a bid to examine whether there need to be changes to the tax and legal systems to match new ways of working and ‘disruptive’ business models

1 Dec 2016

Accountancy Firms

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Business | Development updates: December 2016

Professional development news roundup includes PKF Cooper Parry fees hit £22m, Big Four and ICAEW meet Brexit minister, Shaw Gibbs and Grant Thornton expand, FCA caps pension early exit charges

1 Dec 2016

Accountancy Firms

Leadership & Management

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Business | Practice development: the future of the accounting profession

Amid regulatory, technological and political volatility, Calum Fuller, assistant editor at Accountancy, looks at the future shape of the UK’s accounting profession in the face of a spate of mergers and consolidations

1 Dec 2016

Accountancy Firms

Leadership & Management

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Business | Slipshod accounts see care home director banned

The director of a Dorset care home has been handed a seven year disqualification for failing to ensure the company kept adequate accounts, following an Insolvency Service investigation into £1.9m of unexplained spending

30 Nov 2016

Restructuring & Insolvency

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Business | European Payments Council launches EU-wide instant payment transfers

The European Payments Council (EPC), the coordination and decision making body of the European banking industry in relation to payments, has announced the official launch of a scheme enabling instant pan-European euro credit transfers in a bid to simplify and speed up payments

30 Nov 2016

Accountancy Firms

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Business | Warning on ‘box ticking’ corporate governance plans

There have been mixed reactions to the government’s green paper on changes to the corporate governance framework, which sets out proposals to increase shareholder influence on executive pay, improve links between the board and workers, and bring large privately-held companies within scope

30 Nov 2016

Accountancy Firms

Leadership & Management

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Tax | Nunn: HMRC Making Tax Digital plans fail to meet needs of business

Yvette Nunn, director at Berkeley Associates, calls for significant changes to HMRC’s Making Tax Digital plans if businesses are going to be able to conform with quarterly reporting requirements with major cost and disruption

29 Nov 2016

Making Tax Digital

Accountancy Firms

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Business | Call for tougher governance rules for large private businesses

Government, in its latest green paper, has targeted privately owned businesses with its plans to extend corporate governance as well as review executive pay in an aim to strengthen the UK’s governing framework

29 Nov 2016

Accountancy Firms

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Tax | Potential £3.8bn of underpaid tax through transfer pricing

The amount of tax potentially underpaid by big businesses by shifting profits to other jurisdictions has increased by 60% in the last year, to £3.8bn according to HMRC data obtained by law firm Pinsent Masons under a freedom of information request

29 Nov 2016

Accountancy Firms

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Business | Charity Commission investigates Cowesby Trust

The Charity Commission has opened a statutory inquiry into the Cowesby Trust over concerns about the financial management of the charity, which was set up to help people in hardship in a north Yorkshire parish

29 Nov 2016

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Business | Call for action on charity board diversity

MPs are calling for urgent action from charities to tackle boardroom diversity, after a report found over half (57.4%) of the UK’s top 500 charities have no Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) board members

29 Nov 2016

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