Accountants are still the most gernerous when it comes to opening their doors to graduates…
Rumour has it that the legendary investor (and the normally good humoured) Warren Buffet gave a particularly cranky interview yesterday…
The Office for National Statistics said average earnings in the private sector fell by 0.1 per cent in the three months to November compared to last year. Whilst the public sector parties on…
Standard Life has been hit with a £2.45m fine…
By agreeing to pay $14 million to the Internal Revenue Service…
Ok, our words not theirs, but they did say that 140,000 companies “experienced significant and critical financial problems” in the fourth quarter of 2009 according to their statistics…
Even if you exercise regularly, long periods chained to your desk without moving could cause untold problems…
The UK has just biggest jump in the annual rate of inflation from one month to the next since records began.
There is a saying in technology circles that goes along the lines of; ‘ if something is possible then it will be done’. But sometimes in life it is better that the possible remains undone…
And the boom is set to continue…
The Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) estimates that employers will spend about £600m on Christmas parties for their staff this year…
The US watchdog has charged Ernst & Young and six of its current and former partners for their roles at a fitness business, for failing to know about its fraudulent financial accounting and disclosures…
The National Police Improvement Agency (not out of ‘1984′ – such a thing actually exists) spent £71 million on consultants in 2007, its first year of operation…
A CO-OP worker was stunned to open his wage slip this month to find the company had paid him £1.4million…
Finance directors are proving very popular this year. The average salary for FTSE 100 FDs has risen for 2009 as companies make their way through turbulent waters…
It’s not just bankers having their profits scrutinised in the downturn…
Although a number of sponsors have come up with novel excuses like respecting his privacy and making merely coincidental changes to marketing, Accenture have pulled no punches…
Silly season is upon us. Columns dedicated to warning of the dangers posed by this time of year when alcohol and general giddiness take over are in abundance. But they weren’t warning enough for one City analyst:
To all those who have not yet been warned off inappropriate use of the company email, let this be a lesson to you. Just three days ago, young Holly Leam-Taylor, one of the first year analysts at accountancy giant Deloitte recently decided …
The merger of four firms in Germany will lead to the creation of a combined entity big enough to challenge the top ten.
The four firms, within the PKF International network, will create a top ten accounting firm with an estimated turnover of €58m (£52m).
The new firm will be called PKF Fasselt Schlage, and is headquartered in Berlin with 14 offices in Germany employing around 600 staff of whom over 180 are qualified professional experts including certified public accountants, tax …
