Hong Kong’s Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has signed an MoU with the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) to strengthen the regulation of capital markets through collaboration between the two regulators....
An inspiration to young accountants, Jill Santos, CEO and founder of DFK member firm JSC & Co, grew her small…
HMRC’s enquiries into big businesses’ tax affairs* have now been open for an average of 45 months, up from 43 months last year as…
Hong Kong’s Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has appointed Florence Wong as its deputy CEO. Wong currently serves at the FRC as an executive director and…
South Africa’s Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors (IRBA) CEO Jenitha John has resigned and a caretaker board has been appointed…
We are now one month on from the end of the Brexit transition period following which businesses in the UK…
SMEs in hard hit sectors are increasingly moving to close down their businesses, according to ACCA UK and The Corporate…
The UK’s Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has outlined its progress to transition to the Audit, Reporting and Governance Authority (ARGA)…
Since the Covid-19 pandemic began, the accountancy profession has faced its worst crisis in more than a decade. Major blows have been dealt across the industry, with training contracts deferred…
Since the Christmas Eve announcement of the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA), ACCA has been poring over the 1,247 pages of the deal. It remains a work in progress…
As the coronavirus vaccine begins to roll out across the country, NHS England has launched a new recruitment drive as part of its National Vaccination Programme. Tens of thousands of…
2020 was a turbulent year in many ways. In May, the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis shocked the world and sparked worldwide protests led…
As the UK marks the beginning of a new dawn post-Brexit, new sanctions have come into force that will require full compliance from all agents…
Unprecedented business disruption forced organisations to delay many 2020 plans and operate in a reactive mode. Respondents to the 2021…
Trying times have a way of bringing clarity and focus to priorities. Looking back at 2020, there was certainly no…
2020 has highlighted the invaluable role professional accountants play in steering organisations through intensely demanding conditions. ACCA chief executive Helen…
For many, 2020 will have been the toughest year they have ever faced. On top of an already stressful job,…
Business Owners should act now to benefit from vital tax relief
Whether you have been planning to close down your company or fear that as a result of the pandemic that your company may fail in the months to come, then…