Accountants can play a pivotal role when business owners decide to sell from ensuring the finances are in shape to essential advisory and strategic support. Glen Foster, director, partner sales at Xero, provides tips and advice

FTSE 100 home improvement group, Kingfisher, has warned that the new lease accounting standard, IFRS 16, which it has adopted retrospectively, has affected certain half year 2018/19 and full year 2018/19 income statement line items, including retail profit by geography

A team of academics at Lancaster University has developed an app to help investors and regulators make sense of hard-to-understand financial reports, after finding that while annual reports have doubled in length in the last decade, there has been no improvement in their readability score

The US Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has issued a proposed Accounting Standards Update (ASU) that would grant private companies, not-for-profit organisations, and certain small public companies additional time to implement the new standard on leases, current expected credit losses (CECL) and hedging

A Bournemouth builder who evaded almost £110,000 in tax has been jailed over unpaid income tax and NICs 

Accountants from all backgrounds will be starring in television and radio adverts, to be played during the daytime across a range of channels over the next six weeks, as part of a campaign by the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) to attract applicants to the accounting sector

In this week’s accountancy career moves, CABA names new president, CEO and chairman changes at Iris Software, TaxAssist franchisees anmed, Carey Olsen expands HK legal team, and cloud accountant for Watson Buckle

KPMG plans to expand its software engineering degree apprenticeship, quadrupling the number of applicants, as the firm embarks on a drive to train more engineers to support its technology team