SELF-ASSESSED taxpayers have four days left to file their tax returns or risk being hit with severe penalties by Revenue. Filing online is the only option because the deadline for paper returns – October 31 – has passed. It buys you two extra weeks, with November 12 being the final “pay and file” deadline.

EVERY child in Europe should be taught enterpreneurship and business studies at school, a leading accountancy body will say today.

THE centenary year of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) began this week with a grand launch event in Hong Kong, my home territory. Events will take place in more than 30 countries over the next 12 months, concluding in London in November 2004, the 100th birthday of ACCA. But it will not all Read More…

I live in a block of four flats with a share of the freehold. We manage the service charges ourselves. One leaseholder has refused to pay his service charges because the annual accounts have not been audited. Can he withhold payment?

IT IS the £200,000-a-year job nobody wants. For the second time in less than two years, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) has hired a chief executive only to see him resign before even starting the job.

It is budget day and the nation’s cash flow consultants or accountants as they are called, will be out in their droves, bless ’em. Whether it’s holding the hands of anxious clients or heading for a TV studio to explain George Osborne’s latest inheritance tax reforms, Britain’s beancounters will be energetically earning their corn.

The chief executive of ACCA muses on why women are taking over and other matters