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The many hats of the FD

Today Chartered Accountants’ Hall is hosting the ICAEW Finance Directors’ Conference.

 

It’s themed around the many hats an FD has to wear, because of more open business cultures, a faster pace of change and new technologies. In other wor...

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Setting the Prime Minister right

David Cameron’s remarks in Monday’s Daily Telegraph that he doesn’t want the coalition to be seen as just another “bunch of accountants” are uninformed and ill judged.

In my view, he fails to appreciate the significant contribution that our pr...

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Upturn in Business Confidence

Business confidence is up and GDP growth could be back to 0.6%, but 2012 continues to look like a year of uncertainty for the UK economy.

 

The latest ICAEW/Grant Thornton Business Confidence Monitor (BCM) shows an upturn in confidence bu...

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UK recession figures predicted by BCM research

The depressing weather today was further compounded by the fact that GDP had fallen in Q1 and that we are technically in recession.  

 

Some economists have doubted the severity of the decline (-0.2%) but the ICAEW/Grant Thornton Business ...

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Breaking up the FSA – what the Financial Services Bill means for financial regulation

The Financial Services Bill, which breaks-up the Financial Services Authority, has been keeping us busy at ICAEW.

 

With around 25,000 of our members working in Financial Services, and with wider implications for the public, we see this B...

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The Finance Bill: a fail for SMEs?

A bill that will help large companies and international competitiveness, but will do little for SMEs, is ICAEW’s verdict on the Finance Bill in parliament last week.

Of course, in the long term, international competitiveness is critical. W...

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Reserving Estate Administration

Today’s announcement by the Legal Services Board (LSB) of a call for evidence on making will writing and estate administration reserved legal services alongside probate will, I’m sure cause some concern for ICAEW Chartered Accountants who currently ...

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Restoring trust in public finances

As the crisis in confidence in markets diminishes, there is another fast replacing it – a crisis in confidence in governments.

Trust in governments has taken a beating since the bank bailouts and events in Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain al...

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Caps on tax reliefs: a sledgehammer to crack a nut?

The proposed caps on tax reliefs set out in the Budget show that this Government is determined to tackle tax avoidance. The proposed cap, at 25% of income or £50,000, whichever is greater, suggests the Government is aware of some tax avoidance schem...

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From RDAs to LEPs

Last weekend (Saturday) saw the official operational closure of the Regional Development Agencies (RDAs).

 

The RDAs have been in existence for a long time and some valued experience and expertise will of course be lost.

 

The ...