These are my links for January 24th: FT.com / Companies / Financial services – Banks pressed to bail-out bond insurers – I don’t believe they
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Sorry, I’ve just lost £3.7 billion
The BBC reports that: French bank Societe Generale says it has uncovered “massive” fraud by a Paris-based trader which resulted in a loss of 4.9bn
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US banks restructure at the taxpayer’s expense
US banks have, appropriately, taken the brunt of the sub-prime crisis. They did, after all, pretty much create it. To survive they’ve been issuing massive
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Paying for discipline
Accountancy Age reports: The Financial Reporting Council’s plans to ensure it will never pay costs on disciplinary cases offend ‘natural justice’, senior sources in the
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Capital Gains Tax: The Chancellor introduces Entrepreneur’s Relief
This is the text of the Chancellor’s statement on capital gains tax, to be made today: CAPITAL GAINS TAX CHANCELLOR ALISTAIR DARLING’S STATEMENT 24 JANUARY
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Accountants, pressing on regardless
I was fascinated to read the following (which I have cut considerably): The papers have been full of reports of how auditors are going to
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My del.icio.us bookmarks for January 23rd
These are my links for January 23rd: Sow the seeds of healthy eating for your family and reap the benefits | The Observer – Just
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Why spend so much on benefit fraud when tax is the issue?
Accountancy Age reports: The National Audit Office (NAO) has found the Department for Work and Pension (DWP) spent £154m in 2006-07 to identify an estimated
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Jersey: Heads in the sand
The Jersey Evening Post published this yesterday (no sustainable link): FINANCE experts were this morning telling Islanders not to panic amid reports of plummeting share
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