Accountancy 1986 - Abstracts

Accountancy 1986
TitleSubjectAuthors
A 10-point guide to buying success. (management buy-outs)BusinessTony Grundy
A 'born-again' docklands can help the city grow. (areas near London where financial institutions can build Commercial and Industrial Property)BusinessMary Bradenberg
A capitalist puts money where he feels it will grow. (venture capitalists) (Finance for the Growing Business)BusinessAndrew Davison
Accountant's role in management of service industries. (management accounting in service industries)BusinessDavid Jordan
Accounting for pension scheme surpluses.BusinessChristopher Napier
Accounting for the effects of changing prices.Business 
Accounting issues: complacency out, compliance in.BusinessChris Swinson
Accounting without inflation. (Accounting Standards Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales)Business 
Advocacy: some practical aspects of tax appeals.BusinessA.G. McBain, Michael Sherry
A fresh look at the principles of accounting.BusinessPhilip Whyman
A growth area for objective financial advice. (Britain's Financial Services Bill)BusinessTony Foreman
America: the year of living dangerously. (political activity and the U.S. budget)BusinessWilliam Perraudin
An ACA flies the flag in America. (chartered accountants' educational requirements and regulations governing testing)BusinessZena Carruthers
An analysis of the finance bill. (Great Britain's Finance Bill for 1986)BusinessRon McBurnie, Tony Forman
An asset manager can work wonders.BusinessNicholas Stacey
An interesting public spending problem. (Britain's 1986 Public Expenditure White Paper)BusinessChristopher Wickham
An overview of online databases.BusinessBrendan Walsh
Anyone can use a calculator. (capital assets pricing model)BusinessPeter Boys
A package with more than just word processing. (Samna tested )BusinessAdele Ward
A program to get the most from your data. (Software Review) (VIPLAN, financial modeling software, from Distributed Management Systems of Great Britain) (evaluation)BusinessDavid Woolls
A special class of investor. (charities in Great Britain)BusinessPaul Harris
A true and fair and different view. (accounting standards in Great Britain)BusinessKit Jackson
Audit committees - Are we any closer? (regulating the auditing practice in Great Britain)BusinessJeremy Hanley
Auditing guideline: reliance on other specialists. (auditing standards in Great Britain)Business 
Avoid becoming a takeover target.BusinessTim Seymour
Bankruptcy is a disaster of Titanic proportions. (provisions of the Britain's Insolvency Act of 1986)BusinessJohn McQueen
Basic principles governing limited assurance engagements. (Exposure draft 27) (proposed international auditing guideline)Business 
Be alert to the possibility of management fraud.BusinessDavid Gwilliam
Benson report on fraud published. (Lord Benson's report on auditor responsibilities relative to suspected fraud)Business 
Beware the 'neutron' loan; vast loans have been raised in the US using flexible property financing techniques, but those involved in the UK should tread with care.BusinessStephen Mundy
Bringing uncertainty into the CVP analysis. (cost-volume-profit models in British accounting)BusinessPeter Clarke
Business rates: the economic impact.BusinessAlfred Ilersic
Business strategy requires active implementation. (concentration of resources and communication in implementing a strategic plan )BusinessGordon Pearson
Business strategy should not be bureaucratic.BusinessGordon Pearson
Can we all agree? (financial statement accounting standards in Britain)BusinessEdmond Grace
Can you afford to wait for success? (profitability among British wine making companies)BusinessBoris Sedacca
Can your PC communicate with the data base?BusinessChris Quarmby
Cash flow and a company's health.BusinessKeron Bhattachacharya
Computers and the law: a legal route to customer satisfaction. (the law and computers in England)BusinessMartin Edwards
Consider CGT before going to the USM. (capital gains tax planning)BusinessNicholas Noble
Corporate social reporting: the way forward.BusinessDavid Owen, Rob Gray, Keith Maunders
Corporate venturing is good business.BusinessJohn Ormerod, Ian Burns
Counting the cost of qualification. (the costs of recruiting, training, and keeping accountants in private firms in Great Britain)BusinessMichael Bourn
CT is going up - not going down. (corporation taxes in Great Britain)BusinessRobert Pereira
Departing in the right spirit. (complying with British accounting standards)BusinessPaul Ebling
Design - pervades the whole of the manager's world.BusinessPeter Gorb
Desk top laser printers for the smaller firm.BusinessJulie Harnett
Differing values. (valuation of British property companies)Business 
Does your annual report deserve to win any prizes? (charities)BusinessKen Burnett
Dollar - sterling - the peak is in sight.BusinessMark Brett
Don't let the taxman grasp the winnings. (financial planning for the professional athlete in Britain)BusinessAndrew Burgess
Do you know what Europe can offer? (new sources of finance in England via the European Community)BusinessRoger Parkin, Ian Thornley
Draft auditing guideline: applicability to the public sector of auditing standards and guidelines. (Audit Practice Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales)Business 
DTI consults on implementation of the Eighth Directive. (Britain's Department of Trade and Industry and the regulation of British accountants)Business 
Economic trends: Mrs. T's taxing logic. (Prime Minister Thatcher and the Public Sector Borrowing Requirement)BusinessDon Barry
ED 40: stocks and long-term contracts. (exposure draft) (British accounting practices)Business 
Education and training requirements for accounting technicians. (a proposed international education guideline from the International Federation of Accountants)Business 
EEC directive puts onus on producers. (the European Economic Community and laws governing product liability)BusinessJohn Vann
Effective education and training for the 21st century. (training of chartered accountants in England)Business 
Effective E & T: the ball's in your court. (education and training of accountants in Great Britain)BusinessJohn Mordy
End this 5 April nonsense. (changing income tax date from April 5 to March 31 in the UK)BusinessHugh Williams, Roger Bibby
Explore the world of patents and know-how.BusinessEric Parker
Exposure draft No. 25: materiality and audit risk. (International Federation of Accountants)Business 
Factoring: a catalyst for growth and profits. (improving corporations' cash flows)BusinessMichael Maberly
Favourable response to merger talks: Peats-KGM. (merger negotiations between Peat Marwick International and Klynveld Main Goerdeler)Business 
Fighting apartheid - the real costs. (British and South African trade relations)BusinessRichard Jeffrey
Finance for the growing business: the 'hands on' capital link. (business growth in England)BusinessTony Shoebridge
Financial control in British Telecom.Business 
Forward look at a possibly backward business method. (discounted cash flow)BusinessStephen Collis
Front-end loading to the rescue? (whether UK graduate CPA's should receive immediate, in-house training from their firms)BusinessGlen Suarez
Future research planning at the Institute. (Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales)BusinessStuart Turley
Getting a correct view on oil prices.BusinessRichard Stutely
Get your computer to integrate with your client. (using computers as intermediaries with auditing clients)BusinessEric Willis
Good design is at the heart of strong businesses. (includes side article on The Design Council)BusinessMervyn Unger
Go public: never mind the red tape. (government-assisted financing for businesses in Great Britain)BusinessLeslie Chadwick, Ajmal Perwaz
Growth prospects attract business to South Korea.BusinessHester Thomas
How Britoil evaluates its project work. (offshore oil development in Great Britain)BusinessTim Lawton
How should we measure TFP? (total factor productivity measurement)BusinessKeron Bhattacharya
How to succeed with a start-up. (financing the new business enterprise)BusinessTony Stacey
How we should cope with the winds of change. (management of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales)BusinessAnthony Carey
ICC slams transborder tax proposals. (International Chamber of Commerce and worldwide tax laws)BusinessTim Nater
Incorporate your firm's methodology in its own manual. (producing a firm's audit manual)BusinessJohn Clemmence
Increase profit through improved added value.BusinessKeron Bhattacharya
Indefensible? (should Great Britain implement a capital budgeting approach to defense spending?)BusinessBrian Hilton
Information technology Statement No. 2 - Good Accounting Software. (accounting standard promulgated by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales)Business 
Insolvency work: Is the stress and strain worth it? (managing and accounting for bankruptcies in Britain)BusinessSean Franklin, Tony Hill
Integrated software: is there a better way? (purchasing)BusinessAndrew Inkpen
Interest rates set to fall further. (analysis of British interest rates)BusinessAnthony Thomas
Internal audit - A career path or a dead end?BusinessChristopher Agg
International accounting standard No. 25: Accounting for Investments. (accounting standard promulgated by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales)Business 
International Auditing Guideline No. 21: date of the auditor's report; events after the balance sheet date; discovery of facts after the financial statements have been issued. (auditing standards established by the International Federation of Accountants)Business 
International Auditing Guideline No. 22: representations by management. (auditing standards issued by the International Federation of Accountants)Business 
International auditing guideline No. 23: going concern. (International Federation of Accountants)Business 
International exposure draft 28: accounting for investments in associates and joint ventures. (International Accounting Standards Committee )Business 
International tax. (international changes in tax laws, by country)BusinessAlan Reid, John Goldsworth
Is personal debt really a problem? (consumer debt in Great Britain)BusinessPeter Warburton
It's not enough just to provide the figures. (the role of accountants in strategic planning)BusinessAlan Lovell
It's not really 'over-the-counter'. (over-the-counter financing of small business enterprises)BusinessTim Brookes, Michael Wareing
It's what's beyond the figures that really counts. (evaluating acquisition targets from an accounting viewpoint)BusinessMike Allen, Robert Hodgkinson
IT systems development: don't despair - progress is on the way. (information technology)BusinessChris Fawcett, Brendan Dunphy
Learning from other people's mistakes. (Chris Barton, finance director of Newspaper Publishing PLC in Great Britain)Business 
LMBOs with tax inducement - French style. (leveraged management buy-outs in France)BusinessMark Ellison
Making use of your video. (Britain's video market and uses for video taping)BusinessElizabeth Parr
Making waves for mega mergers. (British rules and regulations governing corporate mergers)BusinessPaul Barnes
Merchant banks have the muscle to back advice. (the British banking industry and corporate mergers)BusinessMalcolm Davidson
Merger accounting - the red herring. (accounting issues in Great Britain)BusinessGuy Loveday, Chart Foulks Lynch
Middle East banks - crisis compounded.BusinessRichard Stutely
Minimal disclosure hampers assessment. (share option schemes in Great Britain)Business 
Multicurrency accounting revisited.BusinessNicholas Ralph
New laws for old: Germany leads. (West Germany implements new accounting laws)BusinessChris Nobes
Objective testing offers a choice of answers. (certification of accountants)BusinessDenis Keenan, John B. Anderson
Objective testing - we should look before we leap. (assessing the abilities of new student members to the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales)BusinessJames Rutter
Olivetti offers a system for the busy practice. (COMPASS, a multi-user package)BusinessMalcom Cole
Omnis - a DIY solution to complex data problems. (do-it-yourself) (Software Review) (applications generator)BusinessAnthony Meier
Once you leave England ... the UK financial manager will find that language is just one of the difficulties. The law, customs and practices will also pose problems.BusinessRobert Twist
Paying for Barnardo's ever open door. (financial management of charitable organization for children)Business 
Pension costs - basic funding methods. (British accounting standards)Business 
Pity the fleet manager with so much on offer. (options in the automobile fleet market)BusinessIan Morton
Plain English is best. (making insurance policies easier to understand)BusinessJohn Vann
Practice makes perfect. (training accountants in tax law)BusinessRobert Ellerby
Predicting corporate failure.BusinessJohn Argenti
Preliminary ED from IASC: how the big four complied. (the effect of the preliminary accounting exposure draft issued by the International Accounting Standards Committee related to banks' financial reporting)Business 
Private health plans suffer as costs soar.BusinessLawrence Purchase
Problems in merger and acquisition accounting. (British accounting standards related to corporate reorganizations)BusinessChris Westwick
Profession to draw up guidelines. (Financial Services Bill - reporting to supervisors)Business 
Profits: A fair wind for 1986?BusinessKenneth Inglis
Proposed framework of international auditing guidelines.Business 
Public speaking is not as easy as you think.BusinessAlexander Mcain
Raiders invaders or simply good traders? (Japan's intrusion into British industry)BusinessIan Gow
Religious audit: Could it happen here? (auditing procedures peculiar to Islamic business enterprises)BusinessRichard Briston, Ahmed El-Ashker
Rent reviews: the tenant's case.BusinessRichard Haynes
Report of the Disciplinary Committee. (Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales)Business 
Resolving conflicts in intracompany transfer pricing. (dual transfer pricing within a corporation)BusinessArthur Adelberg
Sales and finance staff should harmonize.BusinessMartin Posner
Satellites per ardura, ad astra? (non-military use of satellites)BusinessBrendon Gore
Self-regulation and the quality of professional service: a proposed framework. (Auditing Practices Committee of the Institute of Chartered )Business 
Sell the business format and grow bigger. (beginning operations as a franchisor)BusinessAndy Pollock
Share incentives - what if the employee leaves?BusinessDavid (Dutch activist) Cohen
Should the role of the auditor be extended? (public auditing and fraud in Great Britain)BusinessRichard Allan, William fforde
Small charities have large problems.BusinessVictoria Tomlinson
Social pressures and the spirit of individualism. (Japanese group norms vs. entrepreneurship)BusinessJody Chatterjee
Special purpose auditor's reports. (international auditing guideline 24) (UK accounting practices)Business 
Spot danger signs before it's too late. (recognizing the potentially failing corporation)BusinessJohn Argenti
SSAP 23 - An emerging issue? (British accounting standards relative to accounting for acquisitions and mergers)BusinessPeter Holgate
Stanley Grinstead: a man who prefers to make things happen. ( )BusinessAlan Sugden, Geofffrey Holmes
Sterling: a new Treasury 'ism'? (Economic Trends)BusinessWilliam Perraudin
Successful mergers are not made in heaven. (corporate mergers and acquisitions)BusinessStewart Millman
Summit accounts make full use of the supermicro. (selecting a computer system, microcomputers versus minicomputers)BusinessNigel Temple
Taking the harder way out. (insolvency law in Great Britain)BusinessRichard Turton
Tax-efficient investment for the modest saver. (investment opportunities for the British citizen)BusinessRita Burrows, Arnold Homer
Tax planning for non-UK property companies.BusinessNicholas Noble
The basic theory behind consolidated accounts. (financial reporting for a parent company and its subsidiaries)BusinessJohn B. Anderson
The big decision: whether or not to float your company.BusinessMike Allen
The business plan: you'll be lost without it. (use of planning to attract investors and venture capitalists)BusinessJohn Ormerod, Ian Burns
The business property: who should own it?BusinessRobert Pereira
The costs of paying tax.BusinessCedric Sandford
The electronic way of keeping in touch. (electronic mail)BusinessBrendan Walsh
The Euronote revolution. (corporate finance instruments)BusinessPhilip Gillett, Chris Taylor
The filling in the training sandwich. (analysis of the consultative paper on training chartered accountants in Britain)BusinessGraham Ward
The Iomega solution. (Hardware Review) (Iomega International's Bernoulli Box, a cartridge system for microcomputers) (evaluation)BusinessNeville Ian Ash
The making of an MBO. (management buyouts)BusinessGraeme White
The mythology of constant marginal costs. (marginal cost accounting techniques used in Great Britain)BusinessNeil Dorward
The poor have taxation problems too. (tax advisory services for British citizens)BusinessAlan Lewis, Cedric Sandford
There's lots of expert guidance around. (financial advisors who specialize in investing funds for charities)BusinessNicola McLaughlin
The Revenue's special offices can strike hard. (the Inland Revenue of Great Britain)BusinessAndrew Burgess
The role of the auditor: back to the future? (the future of auditing in the UK)BusinessMatthew Patient
The state of the art in the U.K. (internal auditing in Great Britain)BusinessGeorges Selim
The taxation of LIFFE contracts. (London International Financial Futures Exchange)BusinessJames Henry
The tax effect of capital contributions. (British case law and capital contributions)BusinessDavid Harris
Thieves steal when they get an opportunity. (white collar crimes in Great Britain)BusinessMike Comer
Timesharing can be hazardous. (vacation timesharing)BusinessAlan Sacks
Time to throw out the old-fashioned weekly pay packet. (automating compensation management)BusinessRobert Rollason
Transatlantic challenger. (Nikola Brookes: finance director of Amari PLC)Business 
Treasuring the Institute. (Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales Profile of James Forbes, Institute Treasurer)Business 
Turning the tide for the industry. (Brought to Account: Sir Geoffrey Chandler - Industry Year Director)Business 
U.K. NRCs: Why so popular overseas? (non-resident U.K. companies operating in foreign markets)BusinessDavid Rothenberg
UK trade - the increasingly great divide.BusinessStephen Lewis
VAT: top ten trouble spots. (complying with value added tax rules)BusinessVictor Durkacz
Video: a powerful training tool. (videos for accountant training in England)BusinessDavid Atkinson
Waste not, want not. (Audit Commission Controller - John Banham Brought to Account)Business 
We are the greatest. (British wine making)BusinessRobert Joseph
What happened to those SIs after CA 1985? (statutory instruments after Britain's Companies Act of 1985)BusinessBarry Johnson
What is quality and how much does it cost?BusinessEdwin Whiting, Malcolm Walsh
What makes an expert? (the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales is financing research into expert systems)BusinessAlex Edwards
When is a fixed asset overvalued? (audit practice in England )BusinessDon Egginton
When the stakes are high.... (financial management of capital projects)BusinessAlan Singer
Who do you turn to for advice? (retirement planning in Great Britain)BusinessPenny Belk
Why ignore the value of the people? (Management Accounting)BusinessAlan Benjamin, Neil Benson
Widening non-executives' perspectives. (analysis of the inclusion of non-executive directors on corporate boards)BusinessRobin Dunham
Worthiness is the key to bank finance. (obtaining financing for franchise operations in Britain)BusinessAlan Auld
Your interest at heart? (Richard Wheway: finance director of The Halifax Building Society)Business 
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