UK Government should be more active in stimulating growth: CCAB
The Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies (CCAB) has said in an assessment, based on interviews with senior accountants in business,…
Month: December 2012
FRC has issued a revised pension standard
The UK Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has issued a revised version of actuarial standard TM1 (AS TM1). The AS TM1…
Boardroom quotas not the answer to underrepresentation: Randstad
Specialist recruiter Randstad Financial & Professional’s has found 94% of women attending its roundtable event, High Achieving, Inspiring Women, do…
The issue of gender diversity
The issue of gender diversity in companies’ boards and senior management teams has been one of 2012’s hot topics. And…
Birth of a business
The business term ‘a startup company’, which we became very familiar with during the dot-com boom, has now become a…
Benefits of mandatory audit firm rotation questionable: ICAS
Research by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS) has found ‘no conclusive’ evidence that mandatory audit firm rotation…
IASB sets out future priorities
The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) has set out its future priorities on the back of a public consultation it…
Improved consistency of performance by auditors needed: IFIAR
More needs to be done to improve the consistency of performance by auditors, an inaugural audit inspection findings survey has…