Accountancy 1991 - Abstracts

Accountancy 1991
TitleSubjectAuthors
1991 budget hopes (not predictions). (UK budget) (Commentary)BusinessPeter Wyman
1992: let your translator do the talking. (electronic translators) (Evaluation)BusinessLesley Meall
ABC: the right approach for you? (Activity-based Costing)BusinessRobin Cooper
ACCA v ICAEW: really no contest? (Chartered Association of Certified Accountants, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales) (Education and Training)BusinessPaul Robins
Accountants in a risky business. (professional indemnity insurance)BusinessPhilip Foley
Accounting for bonds under the bear: the economic downturn made new advice on accounting for convertible bonds vital.BusinessElizabeth Buckley
Accounting for the great divide. (Divorce)BusinessJack Bearman
Accounting in the Netherlands (European Briefing) (column)BusinessPeter Holgate, Bert Groot
A challenging task ahead for all. (Accounting Standards Board's financial reporting proposals)BusinessMichael Hughes
A consultative paper: continuing professional education. (Institute)Business 
Addressing pitfalls in the software industry. (Accounting Issues)BusinessRobin Hickson
A faltering step towards comparability. (Accounting Issues) (Column)BusinessJeremy Dickson
After Caparo: who takes the risk? (Caparo Industries PLC) (Commentary)BusinessCharles Mills
A look back with a view to the future. (Federation des Experts Comptables Europeens)BusinessHermann Nordemann
A miserly Christmas and a frugal new year. (significance of Christmas retail sales)BusinessKatherine Wynne
An empirical dimension to expectations. (measurement of audit expectation gap)BusinessChristopher Humphrey, Stuart Turley, Peter Moizer
A new business, income tax and the opening years.BusinessAnita Monteith
An opinion from the coal face. (Accounting Standards Board's proposals on improvements to cash flow statements)(Accounting Issues)BusinessRoy Thomas
Art for everbody's sake. (art in the office) (The Arts)BusinessDavid Cohen
A sharing, caring banking system. (German banking system) (Cover Story)BusinessRachel Fixsen
A shopfloor solution to MRPII blues. (material requirements planning)BusinessMatthew Barekat
A softly softly task force? No way! (Accounting Standards Board's Urgent Issues Task Force)(Accounting Issues) (Column)BusinessGuy Loveday
Assuring the quality of audit and related services: a proposed statement of policy of council. (International Federation of Accountants' guideline)Business 
A structured approach to implementing ABC. (activity-based costing)BusinessRobin Cooper
A two-tier profession and beyond? (accountancy)(Commentary)BusinessStella Fearnley
Auditing banks - is it worth the risk? (Commentary )BusinessBrendan Nelson
Auditing guideline: the auditors' statement on the summary financial statement (issued May 1991).Business 
Auditor's fate in the crucible? (Law)BusinessMichael Arnheim
Audit regulation: good news for whom?BusinessKeith Woodley
Audit regulation: the wider implications. (Institute)(includes related article)BusinessBruce Picking
Banking on an uncertain future. (British banking industry)(Commentary)BusinessDavid Axson
Beyond Big Blue's horizon. (International Business Machines) (includes related articles) (Business)Business 
Bonds - the rolled up interest question. (Accounting Issues)BusinessGuy Loveday
Brand names in a conceptual framework. (Accounting Issues)BusinessDavid Tonkin, Bill Robertson
Brands means business. (brand valuation)BusinessDamian O'Malley
Britain benefits from reunification. (German reunification) (Cover Story)BusinessMargie Lindsay
Broadcasting's biggest gamble. (ITV Channel 3 licenses)BusinessAnthony Davey
Building on IT. (information technology, UK construction industry) (includes related articles on FCG Computer Systems, accounting firms, and Construction Industry Computing Association)BusinessCarol (Wife of Chet Baker) Baker
Can British transport take the strain? (Transport)BusinessMichael Dynes
Cars and profits: is there a connection? (automobile industry in eastern Europe)BusinessStuart Birch
Cash: a question of balance. (Corporate Treasury)BusinessStuart Leadill
Company partitions in practice. (Taxation)BusinessRichard FitzGerald
Compliance with the letter but not the spirit: could Polly Peck's accounts under any definition be seen as presenting a true and fair view? (one of a series) (Accounting Issues)BusinessDavid Gwilliam, Tim Russell
Consolidated accounts: interpreting the Act. (Companies Act) (Accounting Issues)BusinessJanie Crichton
Consultative paper: expanded auditors' report. (Auditing Practices Board)(includes appendix)Business 
Continental mergers are different. (includes related article) (Strategy)BusinessMatthew Bishop, David Thompson, Evan Davis
Corporate governance - who needs it? (Commentary)BusinessJim Butler
Corporate reports: the potential for change. (Accounting Issues)BusinessSid Gray, Clare Roberts, Paul Gordon
Corporate rescue: a case study. (includes related article) (Insolvency)BusinessIan S. Grier
Cross border transactions post-1992. (single European market)BusinessKevin Casey
Crowd control for accountants. (Public Speaking)BusinessGreville Janner
Defences against VAT's blunt instrument. (value-added tax misdeclarations)BusinessStanley Dencher
De-pooling of short-life assets. (full relief of businesses during actual life of short-lived assets)BusinessPhil Leiwy
Disclosing the undisclosed risks: ED 49 uses the wrong piece of theory in the off balance sheet finance debate. (exposure draft) (Accounting Issues)BusinessDavid Pimm
Do accountants need a cultural revolution?BusinessMark Goodridge
Document image processing: who needs it? (includes related articles)BusinessNeville Ash
Don't wait until our backs are against the wall. (British government policy on industrial development)(Commentary)BusinessJohn Baron
EC law's impact on UK business. (European Community, United Kingdom) (European Briefing)BusinessA.H. Hermann
EC mergers directive. (European Community) (Tax Briefing)BusinessAllan Cinnamon, Zigurds Kronbergs
ED 49: the importance of being legal. (exposure draft)(Law Society's reservations about giving commercial substance effect over legal form) (Accounting Issues)BusinessJudith Freedman, Christopher Gibbons
EDI in business. (electronic data interchange) (includes related articles) (Business Strategy)BusinessCarol (Wife of Chet Baker) Baker
Employers' duties and employees' rights. (Redundancy)BusinessSimon Jeffreys
ERM: driving London into pole position? (European Monetary System's exchange rate mechanism) (Challenges to the City)BusinessDavid Lascelles
ESOPs come of age. (employee stock ownership plans) (includes related article)BusinessDamian Carnell
Ethics, excellence and accountants. (Commentary)BusinessMarie Jennings
European multimedia centre: ready when you are. (includes related articles)BusinessGeorge Cole
Exposure draft of an auditing guideline: auditors' reports on revised annual accounts and directors' reports. (Auditing Practices Committee)Business 
Exposure draft of an auditing guideline: the audit of small businesses (issued March 1991). (Auditing Practices Committee)Business 
Fast orders help traders net profits. (efficient food distribution)BusinessDerek Harris
Financial instruments: an international issue. (International Accounting Standards Committee's E40 draft)BusinessPeter Holgate, Barry Johnson
Financial planning as a strategic tool.BusinessDavid Asch
Financial reporting problems: solutions via reform. (Accounting)BusinessDavid Tweedie, Geoff Whittington
Financial Reporting Standard No 1: Cash Flow Statements. (Accounting Standards Board)Business 
Foreign exchange transactions: maintaining internal control.BusinessDerek A. Ross
Foreward to accounting standards. (Accounting Standards Board)Business 
From competitor to European insider. (Japanese computer maker Fujitsu's acquisition of UK computer maker ICL)BusinessChristopher McCoory
Give the emperor a real set of clothes. (UK economy) (Commentary)BusinessHugh Robertson
Going it alone. (sole practitioners in accounting)(includes related articles)BusinessPete Carty
Good stewardship and the ASB's objectives. (Accounting Standards Board)(Accounting Issues)BusinessGeoffrey Whittington
Group HQ: nerve centre or ivory tower. (corporate headquarters)BusinessStephen Rawlinson
Heroes, captains, lookouts and managing growth. (Small Business)BusinessJohn Harvey-Jones
Home sweet office. (home-working)(Telecommuting)BusinessFrancis Kinsman
How to stop your clients going out of business.BusinessPeter Finn
Impact, image making and imprinting the message. (advertising by accountants)BusinessAlexander Garrett
Implementation hints on a maiden standard. (Accounting Standards Boards' first Financial Reporting Standard)(Accounting Issues)BusinessJyoti Ghosh
Inflation may be down, but it's not out. (Economic Trends)BusinessDon Barry
Interim statement - consolidated accounts. (Accounting Standards Board)Business 
Introducing audit regulation. (Audit regulation Policy Coordinating Committee Chairman Keith Woodley) (Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales) (interview)Business 
Introduction to the first consensus pronouncement of the Urgent Issues Task Force. (UITF) (Column)Business 
Investments: conceptual clarity v legal muddle. (Accounting Standards Committee's Exposure Draft 55, Accounting for Investments) (Accounting)BusinessRichard Macve
Is it your news they're reading? (accounting firm newsletters for customers)BusinessGeorge Stainton
Is there a cure for post-reunification blues? (economic difficulties arising from German reunification)(Economic Trends)BusinessNigel Rendell
It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings. (Japanese economic conditions) (Economic Trends)BusinessMike Naldrett
Japan: business, golf and gardens. (Japanese investment in the UK)(Foreign Investment in the UK)BusinessChristopher McCooey
Just another tool of your trade. (Technology)BusinessJames Essinger
Kalamazoo and the comfort factor. (Kalamazoo PLC; Accounting Software)(includes related article) (Company Profile)BusinessNeville Ian Ash
Let's make a management charge. (Taxation)BusinessPeter Landon
Life in a low cost location. (Malta)(includes related article)BusinessSarah Grey, Ana Wisdell, Clark Whitehill
Life profit accounting: an actuary's view. (life assurance accounting) (Accounting Issues)BusinessMarshall Field
Limitation: a strategy for the long term.BusinessRobin Buchanan, Nick Prettejohn
Liquidators and pension schemes. (Insolvency)BusinessRobin Ellison
Making the most of unit trusts. (Commentary) (Column)BusinessAlan McInroy
Matters raised by the DTI arising from accounts and reports filed with the registrar of companies. (British Department of Trade and Industry)(Institute)Business 
Monitoring by inspection. (Audit Regulation)BusinessEmile Woolf
MRP: the problems and some solutions. (material requirements planning information systems)BusinessRon Fisher, Guy Archer
Need R&D mean risk and doubt? (research and development)BusinessWilliam Bains
New objectives in the frame. (corporate governance)(Internal Control)BusinessGeoff Swales
NFIs: treatment and disclosure. (new financial instruments) (Accounting)BusinessBill McInnes, Andrew (American government official) Marshall, Tony Puxty
Not honoured in their own country. (British Members of the European Parliament)BusinessNeasa MacErlean
Now is the time to be more critical. (Accounting Standards Board's objective for financial reports)(Accounting Issues)BusinessMichael Page
Of juggernaut drivers and hapless rabbits. (the role of non-executive directors)(Commentary)BusinessMichael Silverman
One red rose and a lot of thorns. (possibility of Labour Party victory in UK elections) (Commentary)BusinessEsther Gardyn
Optimistic outlook for a troubled sector. (Leisure Industry)BusinessRoy Owens
Out of work and into good hands. (includes two case studies)BusinessStuart Birch
Overcrowding on the property bandwagon. (overdevelopment of UK commercial real estate market)BusinessMichael Brett
Perestroika - seen through a glass darkly. (Soviet economic conditions)BusinessJohn Warne
Piano, piano: Italy implements the directives. (European Commission's Fourth and Seventh Directives and Italian accounting) (Accounting)BusinessChristopher Nobes, Stefano Zambon
Planes, trains and automobiles. (career opportunities in transport for accountants) (includes two case studies)BusinessFeisal Ali
Polly Peck: where the analysts? (Polly Peck's accounts) (Accounting Issues)BusinessDavid Gwilliam, Tim Russell
Practice note 2: accounting for pension costs under SSAP 24 - liaison between the actuary and the auditor. (Statement of Standard Accounting Practice) (Auditing Practices Committee)Business 
Practice note 4: reliance by banks on audited financial statements (issued March 1991). (Auditing Practices Committee)Business 
Predators back on the prowl. (mergers and acquisitions activity)BusinessJim Levi
Prevention is the priority. (computer fraud)(Fraud )BusinessJames Essinger
Procedures for handling individual cases. (The Financial Reporting Review Panel)Business 
Professional conduct in relation to defaults or unlawful acts by or on behalf of a member's employer: a statement by the Council for the Guidance of Members in Business. (Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales)Business 
Profit: a means or an end?BusinessJohn Thompson
PW calls for change in banking secrecy laws. (Price Waterhouse)Business 
Quality: the ultimate competitive advantage. (quality service in smaller accounting firms)BusinessKim West
Quoted agencies fall from grace. (valuation of advertising agencies by the stock market)BusinessNeil Blackley
R&D disclosure: SSAP 13 and after. (research and development, Statement of Standard Accounting Practice)BusinessBill Nixon
R&D expenditures and the analysts' view. (Accounting)BusinessAlan Goodacre
Receivers keep houses on the move. (residential building industry)BusinessJanet Kelly
Recession puts pressure on wage deals.BusinessJoe Roseman
Reciprocity - light at the end of the tunnel? (mutual recognition of accountancy qualifications) (Column)BusinessJohn (American clergyman) Williams
Report design: handle with care. (Annual Reports)BusinessJo Longhurst
Report of the Constitutional Review Working Party. (Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales)Business 
Reports by auditors under company legislation in the United Kingdom. (Auditing Practices Committee's guideline)Business 
S 226, PPP or both? (retirement annuity contracts; personal pension plans)(Personal Finance: Pensions)BusinessJohn Archer
Selling holidays in an inflationary climate. (Leisure Industry)BusinessPaul Scudamore
Service sector hit by changed recession cycle. (Economic Trends) (column)BusinessCharles Burton
Shareholder value: managing for the long term. (Shareholder Value Analysis)BusinessRichard Barfield
Should equivalence be postponed? (mutual recognition of financial reporting standards in European Community countries)BusinessSaskia Slomp
Small company audits: satisfying the regulators.BusinessEmile Woolf
Smaller company equities looking good. (Economic Trends)BusinessJohn Moxon
Small firms and the marketing mission. (Practice)BusinessJames Mendelssohn
Software: a hard asset? (legal rights of ownership)BusinessJames O'Connell
Still the best kind of benefit. (Company Cars)BusinessClive Frusher
Systems assessment in acquired subsidiaries. (includes related articles) (Systems)BusinessBob Cossey
The Caparo case: a Victorian view. (Commentary) (Column)BusinessCharles Mills
The EC and the East: consultants converge. (European Community; accounting consultancy work in Eastern Europe)BusinessNeasa MacErlean
The EC social charter takes shape. (European Community) (European Briefing)BusinessSimon Jeffreys
The ERM and the real shape of the UK recession. (European Monetary System's exchange rate mechanism)BusinessPeter Spencer
The financial screen test. (British film industry)(includes related article)BusinessRoger Bolton
The Force and financial reporting. (UK Urgent Issues Task Force) (Accounting Issues)BusinessSydney Treadgold
The future shape of financial reports.BusinessJohn Arnold
The German profession interpreted. (accountancy in Germany) (Cover Story)BusinessRoy Nicholson
The Institute as a recognised qualifying body. (Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales)(Education and Training)BusinessColin Walters
The lessons of thrift: learning the hard way.BusinessPaul Barnes
The long and short of interest rates movement. (Economic Trends)BusinessEdward Menashy
The new Vikings are here. (Swedish investment in the UK)(Foreign Investment in the UK)BusinessHelena Gross
The Next step. (George Davies Partnership's new direction) (Company Profile)BusinessNigel Cape
The objective of financial statements and the qualitative characteristics of financial information. (Accounting Standards Board)Business 
The practical problems of consolidation. (Accounting Issues)BusinessElizabeth Buckley
The role of the forensic accountant. (Litigation Support)BusinessPauline Wallace
The seductive charms of valuation: ED 51 lacks the intellectual consistency to be seriously considered as an option. (Exposure Draft)BusinessDavid Harvey
The success factor. (factoring, new business financing)BusinessJohn Butterworth
The US debt hangover and its consequences.BusinessDonald Franklin
The value of housing associations. (Accounting Issues) (Column)BusinessChristopher Napier
The way to manage strategic change. (Strategy)BusinessKevan Scholes
Throw away the bath water but keep the baby. (auditor regulation)(Commentary) (Column)BusinessBrian Currie
Time to rebuild the audit foundations?BusinessRichard Murphy
Time to reconsider? (Profit-related Pay)BusinessAlan Goodacre
Time to take the bull by the horns. (auditing) (Commentary)BusinessChris Swinson
To audit or not - dabblers need not apply. (auditing services of small accounting firms and sole practitioners)(Commentary )BusinessEric Kench
Total quality management: ICI in the lead. (ICI Chemicals and Polymers Ltd.)(Total Quality Management)BusinessJanet Kelly
Treasury: profit or cost centre? (Corporate Treasury)BusinessDerek A. Ross
True, fair or false? (false accounting)BusinessJohn (Scottish religious reformer) Knox, Jacqueline Duff
Uruguay - breakdown or breakthrough? (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) (Commentary)BusinessJohn Hegarty
US and EC: harmonization through equivalence. (European Community) (Accounting)BusinessAllister Wilson
Was Nigel Lawson right? (effect of tax reduction in 1988 UK Budget) (Tax Incentives)BusinessCedric Sandford, Chuck Brown
Welcome to the pleasure dome. (Scottish and Newcastle's takeover of Centre Parcs) (Leisure Industry)BusinessFeisal Ali
What the regulators saw. (audit regulation process of the Institute of Chartered Accountants for England and Wales)BusinessColin Brown
When a problem turns into a claim. (Professional Indemnity Insurance)BusinessNancy Layton-Cook
When does a squeeze mean growth? (UK labor market) (Economic Trends) (column)BusinessRichard Holt
When it comes to the credit crunch. (Economic Trends)BusinessChristopher Davis
When right ends and duty begins. (proposed changes to disciplinary code of Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales) (Commentary)BusinessPat Brenan
Women in management: surmountable hurdles? (Column)BusinessWendy Hirsh
Work experience guidelines requirements of the Companies Act 1989. (Institute)Business 
Z-scores: an approach to the recession. (financial analysis technique)BusinessRichard Taffler
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