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
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
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
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
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
Brazilian striker and ex-Chelsea star Diego Costa, who now plays for Atletico Madrid, is to pay €1.7m (£1.5m) to Spanish tax authorities to settle allegations of non-payment of taxes on image rights
With thousands of students around the country receiving their A levels results today and starting to make decisions about their future, the accountancy sector is keen to set out the attractions of building a career in the sector through trainee programmes
The government is under pressure to take action on business rates, with over 50 major retailers supporting recommendations designed to fix what they describe as ‘the broken business rates system’
HMRC has successfully overturned a ruling on the tax status of ‘loyalty bonus’ rebates made by fund management platform Hargreaves Lansdown, with the result that over 150,000 investors are no longer in line for a £15m repayment windfall
Big Four audit firm PwC has resigned as auditor of Staffline Group plc, an AIM listed recruitment and training group, and has already stepped down citing concerns over material uncertainty and contractual obligations
Grant Thornton has resigned as auditor of Sports Direct, the day after the high street retailer announced its annual results and said it expected the firm to remain in situ for a further year and potentially until 2027, and despite acknowledged issues over selecting a Big Four replacement
