To help businesses cope with the demands of climate change, ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants), in association with Forum for the Future, Baker and McKenzie, KPMG, and Deloitte, has produced the Carbon Jigsaw Briefings. These seven documents provide businesses with a thorough and expert overview of the business challenges posed by climate change, [...]

Acknowledging the enormous contribution of the SME sector to the economic growth, the SME agenda is at the heart of ACCA’s activities
ACCA Pakistan, in partnership with stakeholders like Small and Medium Enterprise Development Authority (SMEDA) and local chambers, has been focusing on enhancing accounting, bookkeeping and taxation skills and knowledge of SME owner managers.
The [...]

A new partnership to help small and medium sized businesses in Singapore has been launched today with the signing of a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) between ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) and ASME (Association of Small and Medium Enterprises). The two bodies will work together to develop a framework of cooperation on training [...]

Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) will need to be increasingly mindful of equality and diversity issues long after the controversy over the Equality Bill has died down, according to a panel of experts from academia, business and politics.
The experts gathered at a debate called Equality and Diversity in the SME sector: after the [...]

The taxman is currently running an awareness campaign, headed by Moira Stuart, reminding self-assessment tax payers to submit their tax returns on-line by 31 January 2010.
ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) says this date is also important as it is a payment deadline, when tax owed for the tax year 2008-09 (ending on 5 [...]

New Year is a time for making resolutions, and many of those returning to work this week will no doubt be thinking about how they can improve their work-life balance, finds ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) as it publishes a report into flexible working.
The report, entitled Flexible Working: Challenges for Business, reveals [...]

Hopes that 2010 will see a rapid recovery in the world economy have been dashed by the findings of one of the largest-ever global surveys of professional accountants. The Q4 Global Economic Conditions Survey by ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) has provided the global accountancy body with its first firm evidence that economic [...]

London’s Excel Centre was packed to the rafters today with almost 4,000 would-be accountants sitting their ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) exams in Corporate Reporting, Financial Reporting and Preparing Taxation Computations. The exams are part of ACCA’s global exam series, with an estimated 73,806 students taking these exams around the world today.
Aude [...]

- Business is the ‘elephant in the room’, say global sustainability experts
- Crucially, companies in developing countries are among leaders in climate change reporting
- It is vital to monitor what enterprises are doing to measure and reduce their carbon usage
The business world’s response to climate change is examined in detail in a four-part joint report, published today by [...]

ACCA and the Chinese Institute of Certified Public Accountants (CICPA) have jointly organised a successful visit by leading Chinese accountants to France.
The objective of the Firm Management Study Trip, which took place from 19 October to 4 November, was to provide partners of CPA firms in China with the opportunity of studying firm management and [...]

Luton sixth formers were introduced to the world of business this week, as ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) played the educational game ‘BigHand.biz’ with students from Luton Sixth Form College. The event was part of a combined initiative from ACCA and Inspiring Futures that aims to introduce students to the world of business.
Justine [...]

On Friday 27 November, the West Midlands Members’ Network of ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) will be holding its 3rd annual business lunch and presentation at Opus Restaurant in Birmingham.
“Good food and a knowledgeable speaker made last year’s event extremely successful, and I hope that can be repeated this year” says ACCA’s West [...]

•VAT up from 15 to 17.5 per cent on 1 January 2010
•Loss of personal allowance (tax free allowance) for 40% tax payers earning over £100,000
•Higher rate tax of 50 per cent for those paid £150,000 or more
•A general election which means probably a spring budget followed by another after the election
•ACCA wants a tax New [...]

Social and economic trends have influenced dramatically the training requirements of the global finance profession, according to a new report by ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants).
The accountancy body’s new Insight Report, The 2009 Employer Guide to Training Trends in Finance says that social networking habits are driving demand for e-learning.
Compared with last [...]

ACCA (The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) asserts in a new report called “Changing the I in IGAAP – Perspectives in India’s transition to IFRS”, that Indian businesses need to be better prepared to meet the introduction of IFRS (International Financial reporting Standards) in 2011.
Sir David Tweedie, Chairman of the International Accounting Standards Board [...]

An environmentally friendly office is not hard to achieve says ACCA (the Association for Chartered Certified Accountants) today as it offers ten practical tips for a sustainable workplace as part of its drive towards carbon accounting.
Wyn Mears, Director of ACCA UK says: “With politicians struggling to come to an agreement on climate change, and with [...]

High earning UK residents will be hit hard when the new income tax rate of 50 per cent becomes law in 2010, according to ACCA’s head of taxation Chas Roy-Chowdhury.
The new rate will affect up to 350,000 UK residents and a majority of those can be found within the UK’s wealthiest towns, from Dulwich [...]