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• Lawyer takes IPA presidency
  • Date: 14 May 2012
  • Rachael Singh Hedge Funds Review THE INSOLVENCY PRACTITIONERS ASSOCIATION has announced that Edward Bible is its new president. Bible (pictured) heads up the insolvency team at law firm Brethertons and is both a qualified solicitor and insolvency practitioner. He succeeds Ernst & Young director Patrick Brazzill who stays on with the licensing and regulating body in a council position sitting on two committees; advisory and future plans and corporate consultation. Bible said: "I am...
  
• Mazars brings in senior banking head
  • Date: 14 May 2012
  • Kevin Reed Hedge Funds Review A FORMER senior head at the Central Bank of Ireland has joined Mazars. Jonathan McMahon, former head of financial institutions for the Central Bank of Ireland, has joined Mazars as global head of bank regulation and restructuring. He will be responsible for providing global financial services clients with advice on how to deal with the regulatory and business model changes following the financial crisis. McMahon was involved in the...
  
• Taxman takes wrong tax from sixth of taxpayers
  • Date: 14 May 2012
  • Calum Fuller Hedge Funds Review APPROXIMATELY 3.5m people are due to be notified they have paid too much tax due further calculations by the taxman, which will see them receive an average of £379. A further 1.6m people will receive letters saying they have underpaid their taxes next week, with £537 due to be picked up by HM Revenue & Customs. This will be collected primarily by adjusting employees' tax codes to compensate, seeing them take...
  
• Best Practice Conference: Just a month away
  • Date: 14 May 2012
  • Kevin Reed Hedge Funds Review IT'S JUST A MONTH until the follow-up to last year's enormously successful Accountancy Age Best Practice Conference. Former BDO International chairman Jeremy Newman, who led the UK and international businesses through a fruitful period of expansion, gives our keynote address: Creating an Award-Winning Firm. This year's event also includes more of those valuable break-out sessions. Pitching to Win and Promoting from Within are just two of the sessions available. ACCA UK...
  
• BPP picks up KPMG training contract
  • Date: 15 May 2012
  • Kevin Reed Hedge Funds Review BPP HAS WRESTED KPMG's training contract for ACAs from Kaplan. BPP will deliver the Big Four firm's ACA training programme, for 1,400 students, from autumn 2013. Kaplan has served as KPMG's provider for the past ten years. It will support the latest round of the firm's trainees through to next year. The firm said the multi-million pound contract award followed a "robust and challenging process". "The launch...
  
• HMRC claims service delivery improvements
  • Date: 15 May 2012
  • Calum Fuller Hedge Funds Review THE TAXMAN CLAIMS it is up to speed in meeting objectives to provide a better service. HM Revenue & Customs has made a Joint Understanding Agents Project statement, outlining its progress in improving its service delivery. The Revenue visited practitioners to understand service delivery from their viewpoint, while practitioners and charities reviewed HMRC's post-handling processes, the way in which bereavement cases were handled and repayment and PAYE coding issues. ...
  
• Worthington Nicholls FD stripped of license in tribunal
  • Date: 15 May 2012
  • Rachael Singh Hedge Funds Review THE PROFESSION'S watchdog has sanctioned the finance director of listed air conditioning installer Worthington Nicholls, by taking away his license to practice as a chartered accountant. The former FD Timothy Hunt has been excluded by the ICAEW for six years after he was found to have produced "materially false and misleading" financial statements, The Financial Times reports. The ban is the second longest handed down by the disciplinary and investigations arm...
  
• Consulting industry fees back at pre-crisis level
  • Date: 15 May 2012
  • Kevin Reed Hedge Funds Review THE UK CONSULTING INDUSTRY grew by 5% in 2011, brining fees back up to pre-crisis level, according to Management Consultancies Association statistics. The growth, driven by a slow-but-sure economic recovery, shows a "resilient bu agile industry", said MCA chief executive Alan Leaman (pictured). "It looks likely that the increased spending on consultancy services in 2011 by the private sector was an early sign of some improvement in wider economic prospects," said...
  
• Green cars will impact Treasury’s coffers
  • Date: 15 May 2012
  • Calum Fuller Hedge Funds Review THE RISING NUMBER of green cars and other vehicles will leave a £13bn shortfall in motoring taxes by the end of the next decade, despite an expected 44% rise in traffic. The predictions were made by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, an independent think tank, and based its analysis on the government's own forecasts, showing that by 2029, fuel duty will contribute 1.1% GDP, compared with 1.7% today. Fuel excise duty will fall...
  
• 21 IPs reported for pre-pack non-compliance in 2011
  • Date: 15 May 2012
  • Rachael Singh Hedge Funds Review MORE THAN 20 insolvency practitioners (IPs) were reported to their professional body because of non-compliance in pre-packs, a government shows. Following a review of compliance reports in pre-packs (SIP 16) the Insolvency Service reported 21 insolvency practitioners, which related to 29 companies, to their regulators. There are seven regulators known as recognised professional bodies (RPBs) in the UK: ICAEW, IPA, ACCA, the Insolvency Service, ICAS, the Law Society and the Law...