The official start to the Olympic Games in Rio begins tonight with the opening ceremony poised to start at midnight however, the games may cause disruptions in the workplace due to the antisocial hours of the main events
The Luxembourg authorities are to appeal against the verdict in the recent ‘LuxLeaks’ trial involving two former PwC employees, arguing the sentences handed down by the court were not tough enough
KPMG is to overhaul its approach to graduate recruitment and streamline the process into a single day, after research showed lengthy assessments were a potential deterrent for millennials thinking of applying
Conservative MP Margot James has been named as the new small business minister in the revamped Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), with responsibility for accounting and audit related issues
The recent quarterly results update from Marks and Spencer contained a so-called 'clerical error' which meant the figures showed growth rather than continuing declining falls as the data had been incorrectly consolidated. Sara White considers whether there are enough checks and balances in place to prevent this in future across listed entities
In the latest career development updates, apprenticeship levy damaging for Scotland, EY names 62 equity partners, half of millenials expected to quit within a year
Warner Brothers Films has released a new, more revealing trailer for its film, The Accountant, which stars Ben Affleck as a freelance bookkeeper for some dangerous clients
The Treasury has announced the launch of the Business Banking Insight (BBI) website, which it says is designed to enhance competition and transparency in the banking sector
The pay gap between chartered accountants and lawyers has reduced to 13.7% as a result of the average pay for accountants rising by 2.8% in 2015 to £35,900, according to research by Nixon Williams
Two high street banks, NatWest and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), have warned businesses they may consider introducing negative interest rates, which would effectively mean they would start charging to accept deposits
Pay packages for senior executives in the FTSE 100 remained largely unchanged last year, but shareholder dissatisfaction with companies’ top level pay rates is increasing, according to research by PwC
HMRC has made changes on the deduction of student loan repayments from employees’ pay with the introduction of two types of student loan, plan one and plan two, coming into effect from the 2016/17 tax year, however issues have arisen with downloading employer notices for student loans
Following BT’s broadband problems this week, Mackrell Turner Garrett solicitor Thomas Spencer considers whether firms can be held liable for fines as a result of an outage
Lee De’ath and Richard Toone, partners at CVR Global, have been appointed joint administrators of Lexden Centre (Oxford) Ltd, trading as Colchester English Study Centre (CESC), after declining student numbers at the foreign language school resulted in significant losses
A broadband service outage suffered by BT and its customers affected firms and agents across the country after the Government Gateway was knocked out, preventing submissions and affecting tax compliance
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