Accountancy 1992 - Abstracts

Accountancy 1992
TitleSubjectAuthors
Abolition of the small audit: in the public interest? (Commentary)BusinessDon Hughes
A case for rearranging the deck chairs? (Accounting Standards Board's Financial Reporting Exposure Draft 1) (Accounting Issues)BusinessRon Paterson
Accountants as educators. (includes related article) (Careers)BusinessChris McCooey
Accounting for capital instruments. (Accounting Issues)BusinessJohn McMillan
Accounting for capital instruments. (policies of Accounting Standards Board) (Accounting Issues)BusinessAndrew Lennard
Accounting for deferred tax. (Accounting and Taxation)BusinessRichard Derwent
'Accounting for Growth:' no accounting for the fuss. (evaluation of Terry Smith's book) (Accounting Issues)BusinessChris Swinson
Accounting for limited partnerships.BusinessBarry Johnson
Accounting stripped down to the core. (Accounting Standards Board's Statement of Principles deals with fundamental accounting issues) (Accounting Issues)BusinessAndrew Lennard, Sandra Webb
Agents' role in syndicates' battle for survival. (Lloyd's of London)BusinessTurner, Michael (American congressional representative)
A guide to good practice. (new Guide to Professional Ethics for British and Irish chartered accountants)BusinessF.E. Worsley
A haven for the corporate client. (Offshore Financial Centres: A Special Report) (Industry Overview)BusinessStephanie White, John Fairley
Aids to improving cash flow. (Factoring)BusinessCharles Batchelor
A manifest interest in the membership. (Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales)BusinessMartin Cook
Analysts and the cash flow statement. (Accounting )BusinessRoger Hussey, David Bence
Analysts in action. (Monopolies and Mergers Commission)BusinessLeslie Brown
Anatomy of a recession. (Economic Trends)BusinessPatrick Foley
A new culture for pearl. (Pearl Assurance PLC) (Software and Systems)BusinessMichael Pollitt
Another year, another step forward. (Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales Pres Ian R. McNeil looks back to his term in office) (President's Page)Business 
A question of balance. (balancing career and home) (Women in Accounting)Business 
Are traditional approaches to redundancy redundant? (Commentary)BusinessAlec Reed
A simpler system for taxing the self-employed. (choosing between the accounting period basis and current year taxation basis of tax payment in the UK) (Commentary)BusinessPaul Wigham
A voice from inside. (jailed financial adviser Nick Young)Business 
Back to language school. (includes related articles)BusinessJane Bartlett
Banks and building societies: coming into line. (gap between UK's banking industry and building society industry narrows)(includes related article) (Accounting)BusinessHarry Venet
Battle for the fleets. (company car fleet preferences) (Comapny Cars)BusinessIan Morton
Best practice: a technique for reducing costs. (Internal Audit)BusinessJim Helliwell
Blueprint for an effective audit committee. (Commentary)BusinessDavid Lindsell
Booze and the balance sheet. (alcoholism among employees and executives) (Health)BusinessTrisha Greenhalgh
Bridging the gap - American style. (the American experience in bridging the gap between public expectations of auditors and the services auditors could reasonably provide) (Commentary)BusinessKen Rayner
Britain's trade deficit: a symptom, not a disease. (Economic Trends)BusinessPeter Warburton
BS 5750 - a competitive straitjacket? (British Standards Institution quality standard) (Commentary) (Column)BusinessKim West
Budget proposals. (value-added tax legislation) (Tax Briefing)BusinessJohn Brown, Suzanne Chadwick
Building societies: no longer safe as houses? (UK's savings and loan associations) (Commentary)BusinessPaul Barnes
Business mail: the DX alternative. (document exchange system of collecting and delivering mail) (Mail and Couriers)BusinessVyvan Kinross
Can auditing work without a break with tradition? (Commentary)BusinessDavid Hatherley
Change and how to manage it. (includes related article) (Cover Story)BusinessPhilip Schofield, Sarah Livesey
Chipping away at burger dominance. (pizza fast-food chains in Great Britain)BusinessJim Levi
Clinton's eyes and Bush's tales. (economic policies of US Pres George Bush and President-elect Bill Clinton) (Economic Trends)BusinessTom Gallagher
Condemned to five years' hard labour. (re-elected Conservative Party faced with resolving UK's economic problems)BusinessDon Barry
Confessions of a private investigator. (inspections by the UK Department of Trade and Industry) (DTI Investigations)BusinessDesmond High
Coping with people problems in practice. (Commentary)BusinessJane Lewis
Counting the cost of audit regulation. (Commentary) (Column)BusinessStella Fearnley, Michael Page
Crossing cheque fraud. (Corporate Treasury)BusinessDerek Ross
Cutting auditors' noses off to spite clients' faces. (Commentary)BusinessDavid Darbyshire
Decline of a heavyweight. (Midland Bank bought by Hongkong and Shanghai Bank) (Cover Story)BusinessNeil Bennett
Depreciation - a conceptual problem. (Accounting Issues)BusinessELizabeth Buckley
Directors in danger. (civil and criminal liabilities of corporate directors) (Law)BusinessSteven Turnbull, Simon Crofts
Direct to your desktop. (selling of PCs through direct channels) (Trends in Information Technology)BusinessNic Morris
District societies face financial crises. (funding problems of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales) (News )Business 
Do building societies have a future? (Commentary)BusinessDavid Barchard
Do not neglect the views of the industry: the Confederation of British Industry responds to the Accounting Standards Board's FRED 1. (Accounting Issues)BusinessClive Edrupt
Duty and definition. (Accountants' Third-Party Liabilities)BusinessChris Swinson
Embracing pay and file. (handling new corporation tax system)BusinessMike Jones
ERM - the great escape or a cold new world? (European exchange rate mechanism) (Economic Trends)BusinessEdward Menashy
Ethical inquiries: the top ten. (accounting ethics)BusinessJack Maurice
Examining the examination system.BusinessMartin Bousfield
Exposure Draft - proposed Statement of Auditing Standards: auditors' reports on financial statements, May 1992. (includes appendices) (The Auditing Practices Board)Business 
Exposure Draft - proposed Statement of Auditing Standards: going concern, May 1992. (The Auditing Practices Board)Business 
Exposure Draft Statement of Principles Chapter 6: Presentation of financial information. (Accounting Standards Board)Business 
Exposure Draft: the scope and authority of APB pronouncements, May 1992. (Auditing Practices Board) (The Auditing Practices Board)Business 
Facts with fax. (includes list of bureau services and equipment suppliers) (Interactive Fax Systems)BusinessNeville Ash
Fax forward. (facsimile machine product enhancements) (The Changing Office)BusinessNeville Ash
Financial Reporting Exposure Draft No 1: The Structure of Financial Statements - Reporting of Financial Performance (Accounting Standards Board)Business 
For clarity's sake. (public practice of accounting)BusinessPatrick Brenan
FRED 1 - reporting financial performance. (Financial Reporting Exposure Draft) (Accounting Issues)BusinessDavid Eilbeck
Freeholds: to buy or not to buy. (freehold of commercial property) (Property)BusinessHoward Woollaston, Alistair Elliott
From bananas to salads and a recipe for change. (Geest PLC) (Company Profile)BusinessMihir Bose
From cheap and cheerful to expensive and depressing. (devaluation of the pound sterling)BusinessRobert Barrie
FRS 2: Accounting for subsidiary undertakings, July 1992. (Financial Reporting Standard Number Two) (Accounting Standards Board)Business 
FRS 3: reporting financial performance. (Financial Reporting Standard No 3 issued in Oct 1992)Business 
Fund managers in the wings. (investment management for funds held by charities)BusinessMihir Bose
Germany and Japan focus on the product. (focus on long-term performance) (Commentary)BusinessDouglas A. Fraser
Giving and receiving. (accountancy firms' involvement in corporate fundraising)BusinessJames Mendelssohn
Goodbye to single performance indicators. (Accounting Issues) (Column)BusinessDavid Eilbeck, Clive Goodhead
Goodwill: a problem that will not go away. (accounting treatment of goodwill) (Accounting Issues)BusinessJohn Arnold
Group's rentals and leases confuse investors. (Automated Security Holdings) (Reports & Accounts)Business 
Hard times ahead for software pirates? (Software)BusinessSarah Davies
Helen Jameson: part-time and family-friendly. (Women in Accountancy)Business 
How big is a pay packet? (pay deductions) (Law)BusinessDenis Keenan
How ICI halved the value of its shareholders' funds. (inflation adjustments to company accounts) (Commentary)BusinessDavid Myddelton
Illegal acts - an international issue. (International Auditing Practices Committee exposure draft on illegal acts) (Accounting Issues)BusinessMartin Crane
Implications for auditors' reports of FRS1. (Financial Reporting Standard No.1) (Accounting Standards Board)Business 
In business members' best interests. (Board for Chartered Accountants in Business)BusinessPeter Davis
Incorporation and the damages ceiling. (incorporation of companies with more than 20 partners proposed) (Commentary)BusinessHugh Markus
Incorporation of auditing practices: some legal aspects.BusinessDavid Foster, Richard Fleck
In defence of the sole practitioner. (chartered accountants) (Commentary) (Column)BusinessSally Wood
Influence in the Community. (Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales' influence in the outcome of proposals for new legislation in the European Community) (Institute)BusinessRuth Cooke
Information: the strategic essential.BusinessBrian Taylor, Alistair Gray, Craig Graham
Intangible assets, real problems.BusinessJohn Hull
Into a new dimension. (Spreadsheets)BusinessAlisong Classe
Investment business - grasping the nettle. (Commentary)BusinessRoy Kemp
Investors: for or against translation hedging?BusinessDerek Ross
Is it a recession or a 1930s-style slump? (economy of the United Kingdom) (Economic Trends)BusinessDon Barry
It isn't fair, and it ought to go. (taxation of capital gains)BusinessBruce Sutherland
IT off the shelf. (buying computers from 'superstores')(includes related article) (Trends in Information Technology)BusinessLesley Bolton
Keeping the brakes on costs. (company car fleet management)(includes related article) (Company Cars)BusinessSarah Livesey, Nigel Oates
Keeping the state from the corporate door. (May 1992 draft report of the Committee on the Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance) (Commentary)Business 
Learning the hard way: a tale of two installations. (selecting accounting software)Business 
Lease or buy?BusinessChee-Seong Tan
Legal services now. (Courts and Legal Services Act 1990)BusinessDenis Keenan
Lenders of last resort? (Factoring)BusinessCharles Batchelor
Lessons from across the Atlantic. (UK Accounting Standards Board's Operating and Financial Review as compared to its counterpart from the US Securities and Exchange Commission's) (Accounting Issues)BusinessRichard (Welsh actor) Burton
Let your building do the earning. (sub-letting portions of office space) (Property)BusinessPeter Hill
Let your money do the walking. (Offshore Financial Centres: A Special Report)BusinessRuss Stanfield
Liability: case law accumulates. (Auditing)BusinessChristine Pearse
Liquidity and how to manage it. (Corporate Treasury)BusinessStuart Leadill
Looking and learning. (use of video tapes in accounting training)BusinessNeasa MacEarlean
Looking towards a healthy future. (SmithKline Beecham) (Brought to Account) (Company Profile)BusinessHugh Collum
Lunching out on success. (Boadicea Club) (Women in Accountancy)Business 
Malice and the micro. (safeguards against 'malicious' software)BusinessGary Van Meter, Ray Pinner, L.K. Williams
Mopping up Pareto's 20%. (application of Pareto's Law to computer consumables)BusinessDebbie Stringer
Never mind the colour; what does it mean? (use of graphs to present quantitative financial information) (Accounting Issues)BusinessVivien Beattie
Never too late to stop smoking.BusinessTrisha Greenhalgh
New approach to work experience. (guideline) (Training)BusinessMichael Entract
New Guide to Professional Ethics.Business 
New way to DIP into information. (document image processing) (Software and Systems)BusinessPiers Cooper
No crimes please, we're IOFC's. (international offshore financial centres) (Offshore Financial Centres: A Special Report) (Industry Overview)BusinessPeter Gartland
None of those post-recession blues. (UK economic forecasts) (Commentary)BusinessEdward Menashy
Non-resident trusts. (Inland Revenue's Statement of Practice on non-resident trusts) (Tax Briefing)BusinessChris Greene, Christina Maddalena, Clarke Whitehill
Now is the time to expose capital instruments. (accounting for capital instruments) (Accounting Issues)BusinessMichael Hughes
Out of the dream into the nightmare. (Great Britain's recession)BusinessChris Hills
Out of the manufacturing black hole. (finite capacity scheduling as an alternative to manufacture resource planning)BusinessGuy Archer, Mike Harrison
Overheads under analysis. (cost reduction through activity analysis)BusinessDavid Nelson
Pay & file: time for action. (corporation tax) (Taxation)BusinessMark Lee
Pension costs - practical help please. (reform of Statement of Standard Accounting Practices 24) (Accounting Issues)BusinessGraham Ward, Peter Randall
Pensions costs - some practical advice: a response to the request for comments on the reform of SSAP 24. (Statement of Standard Accounting Practices) (Accounting Issues)BusinessDavid McLeish
Personnel power: the fight against fraud. (computer crime)BusinessPaul Collier, Barry Spaul, Emma Grundy
Postal harmony: can the community deliver? (changes in the UK mail and courier services industry)BusinessPhillip Hastings
Post qualification review - a consultative report.Business 
Problems with property company accounts. (includes related article)BusinessDerek Purdy, Richard Barkham
Profit by comparison. (survey of the performance of accounting firms)BusinessAlan Taylor
Protect and survive. (insuring computer systems)(includes related articles) (Business Insurance)BusinessLesley Bolton, lesley Meall
Protecting our qualification and leading edge. (chartered accountancy qualification) (Commentary)BusinessRoger Lawson
Protection for the three Ps. (insuring premises, people and products) (Business Insurance)BusinessNaomi Caine
Pushed, pulled, but definitely moving. (London-based companies planning to relocate) (Relocation)BusinessMartin Regan
Quality drive or flight of fancy? (business air travel; includes related article) (Cover Story)BusinessStuart Birch, Stephen Bidmead
Realisation rule: an optional aid to sound finance. (comment on 'Reporting of Profits and the Concept of Realisation by Bryan Carsberg and Christopher Nokes) (Accounting Issues)BusinessWilliam F. Baxter
Reed open to rightsizing. (Reed Personnel)BusinessEmma Mansell-Lewis
Reluctant partners in the Westminster stand-off. (improved relationship between UK's government and the business sector) (Commentary)BusinessHoward Davies
Renegotiating your lease.BusinessIan Feltham
Report of the Disciplinary Committee. (Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales' Disciplinary Committee's reports for March 17 and 30, 1992) (Institute)Business 
Report of the professional conduct committees.Business 
Saviours in the shadows. (company doctors)BusinessNigel Cape
Scotland's new entrepreneurs. (Scotland as a Financial Centre)BusinessAlf Young
Selling substitutes to as suspicious nation. (selling Quorn, a type of mushroom, in the UK)BusinessDaniel Butler
Serious money. (British funerals market) (Industry Overview)BusinessNigel Cape
Single market, multiple problems. (the information technology industry and the single European market)BusinessCandice Goodwin
Small company audits have got to go. (Commentary)BusinessKevin Cox
Smoke rings around the globe. (tobacco companies BAT Industries PLC and Rothmans International PLC) (Industry Overview)BusinessRodney Hobson
Stock records during the financial year. (Stock Records)BusinessHarold Edey
Survival in Europe means intelligent anticipation. (auditing in the single European market) (Commentary)BusinessPeter Walton, Michael Hodges, Stephen Woolcock
Tactical aspects of rebasing: share valuations.BusinessDavid Parker
Tax Faculty breaks new ground. (includes related article)BusinessTony Foreman, Angela Lazda
Television: a problem of definition. (high-definition television) (Emerging Technologies)BusinessNic Morris
Television's hidden resource. (teletext) (Information services)BusinessLesley Meall, Terry Corbitt
The APB and going concern - the way ahead. (Auditing Practices Board) (Accounting Issues)BusinessJohn Constantine
The battle for market share. (Offshore Financial Centres: A Special Report)BusinessPeter Cussons
The battle over Britain. (Great Britain's domestic air carriers) (Industry Overview)BusinessDavid Churchill
The CAASE for problem solving. (Chartered Accountants' Advisory Service on Ethics) (Ethics)BusinessJulian Osborne
The case they should never have tried. (Blue Arrow case charging County Natwest of fraud)Business 
The crunch comes for international harmonisation. (International Accounting Standards Committee works for the revision of international accounting standards) (Accounting Issues)BusinessGeorgette Thompson
The economy: in better shape than you think. (state of the British economy) (Economic Trends)BusinessPatrick Minford
The expanded auditors' report: could do better. (Accounting Issues)BusinessMartin Jones, Choon-Hock Lim
The expectations gap - the consumer angle. (Consumers' Association's response to misapprehensions of the status of the auditors' report) (Accounting Issues)BusinessJo Hanks
The express route to contract logistics. (mail and courier services in the UK) (Mail and Couriers)BusinessPhilip Hastings
The future for financial reporting in New Zealand. (Accounting Issues)BusinessBob Beale
The gathering momentum for change. (financial reports) (Accounting Issues)BusinessAngela Filmer
The high cost of structured CPE: myth and reality. (continuing professional education)BusinessSteve Pipe
The implications of currency union. (Economic Trends)BusinessDavid Kern
The importance of being reasonable. (protection against unfair competition from former employees)(includes related article) (Restrains on Competition)BusinessGreville Janner
The key to high standards. (new proposals on continuing professional education)BusinessDavid Hunt
The Main man finds his Forte. (Forte Finance Director Donald Main) (Brought to Account) (Column)BusinessSarah Grey
The merits of a conceptual framework: does the Accounting Standards Board really need its Statement of Principles? (Accounting Issues)BusinessPeter Holgate
The other city. (Scotland's financial community) (Scotland as a Financial Centre)BusinessGordon Milne
The practical problems of illegal acts. (International Auditing Practices Committee's proposals on Illegal Acts) (Accounting Issues)BusinessMartin Crane
The recession ain't over 'til it's over. (recession in Japan) (Commentary)BusinessMike Naldrett
The single market - changes in VAT procedures. (value-added tax)BusinessJohn Brown, Suzanne Chadwick
The unaccountable Robert Maxwell. (owner of Maxwell Communication Corp) (Commentary)BusinessChristopher Napier
The verdict on FRED 1: room for improvement. (Accounting Standards Board's first financial reporting exposure draft) (Accounting Issues)BusinessJohn Flower
Time for change. (reform of the Joint Disciplinary Scheme)BusinessBrian Harris
Time to talk business. (voice processing systems; includes related article)BusinessJim Costello
Too taxing, needs to be simpler. (Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales' Tax Faculty to conduct survey on members views on UK tax system) (Commentary)BusinessSue Green
Trading losses and how to convert them. (taxation)BusinessStanley Dencher
True and fair - or only fairly true? (accountants' definition of a true and fair view)BusinessMichael Fowle
Turn again, professor Whittington. (Geoff Whittington; looking to the past in accounting) (Accounting Issues)BusinessMichael Page
Underwriters under pressure. (Business Insurance)BusinessNaomi Caine
Unquoted share valuation - a misguided move? (practice of the Shares Valuation Division) (Commentary)BusinessKelvin King, Matthew Wickers
Urgent Issues Task Force abstract 3 treatment of goodwill on disposal of a business. (Financial Reporting Exposure Draft 1) (Accounting Standards Board)Business 
Uruguay Round: last lap - last chance. (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade talks) (Commentary)BusinessJohn Hegarty
US litigation crisis: big Six join forces to fight 'epidemic.' (major US companies propose reforms to the tort liability system) (News)Business 
VAT... and a happy new year. (value-added tax)BusinessKeith Warner
VDU health and safety: the rules. (video display units) (VDU Health and Safety)BusinessGreville Janner
Vitamins, fish oils and a tonic for profits. (Industry Overview)BusinessJim Levi
Ways to reduce your rates. (occupancy of commercial properties) (Commercial Property)BusinessMartin Steiner
What the practitioners thought. (two accounting practitioners visited by the Joint Monitoring Unit share their experiences) (Audit Regulation)BusinessStephanie Bidmead
What the rules say now. (reproting accountants standards) (Solicitors' Accounts)BusinessGervase MacGregor
When PW's concerns failed to move the Bank. (Price Waterhouse; Bank of England)Business 
Where are they going, and why? (relocation of London-based businesses) (Relocation)BusinessMartin Regan
Where have all the accountants gone? (the impact of environmental issues on the accountancy profession) (Commentary)BusinessRob Gray, Jan Bebbington
Where the accountant comes in. (role of forensic accountants in personal injury claims) (Personal Injury Claims)BusinessMichael Taub
Will property values plummet as leases are signed? Inducements offered to prospective tenants can undermine all the assumptions behind property values. (Accounting Issues)BusinessGervase MacGregor
Winners' ever rising standards. (Annual Report and Accounts Award for Charities)BusinessStephanie Bidmead
Yet more practical thoughts on pension costs. (Accounting Issues)BusinessGraham Ward
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