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The size of financial institutions is again in the spotlight, following President Obama’s somewhat surprising proposals to restrict the size and activities of US banks last week and European Central Bank President Jean-Claud...
The ICAEW has submitted its comments to the European Commission’s consultation on the International Financial Reporting Standards for Small and Medium-sized Entities (IFRS for SMEs), which will feed into the Commission’s wider review of th...
The current debate about the future UK financial reporting regime is perhaps the single most important debate affecting UK private companies and not-for-profit entities for a generation.
Currently, the UK Accounting Standards Board...
How do we attract and retain the very best possible people into the profession, regardless of background or circumstance? From all I have seen to date, the issue is less about raw talent, of which there is plenty, than aspiration. How do you encoura...
On Monday, I attended a United Nations conference in New York to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment during what prooved to be a busy week of meetings there and in Washington DC.
The conference, Engaging philanthropy to p...
It is recognition of all the thought and effort that has gone into promoting and building the ICAEW brand that we have risen up the UK Superbrands rankings released today. The ICAEW was placed 165 in the top 500 UK Business-to-Business brands – a le...
This week an important vote is due to be cast by Members of the European Parliament in Brussels. On Thursday 25 February, MEPs are set to vote on whether EU Member States should be able to exempt micro businesses – those with less than 10 employees ...
Last year, Sir David Tweedie, chairman of the International Financial Accounting Board (IASB) announced that he will retire from his role in June 2011. Though this might seem a long way off, people are starting to turn their thoughts as to who shoul...
For all those involved in the process of putting a business into administration or liquidation –directors, shareholders, employees, customers and suppliers - it is a worrying and distressing time. It is against this backdrop that Insolvency Practiti...
Yesterday, we published our first Business Confidence Monitor of 2010. Whilst the headline figure suggested that business confidence had stabilised, the underlying data emphasised the fragility of the economy recovery and why there’s still a long wa...
In January, the Murray committee, to which we have provided technical assistance and support, published its governance code for professional services firms working in the listed company sector.
The code is important in that, while the pr...
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