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Briefs: China connection
The Independent - London
; The Chartered Association of Certified Accountants became the first British accountancy body to link with a counterpart in China by signing a co-operation agreement with the Chinese Institute of CertifiedPublic Accountants.
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BRIEFS
The Independent - London
; IT expert on inquiry: Lord Woolf has appointed an information technology consultant to his inquiry into the civil justice system. Explaining that he sees IT as providing key benefits to "lay litigants and lawyers alike", Lord Woolf says that Dr Richard Susskind's appointment will give the review
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Lessons in freedom for colleges grappling with finances
The Independent - London
; For the past year Britain's institutes of further and higher education have been freed from local authority control and in effect have effectively become separate companies. But the difference with the rest of the commercial sector is that their managers generally have little or no business
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BRIEFS: Register demand
The Independent - London
; Register demand The Chartered Association of Certified Accountants wants a register to allow clients to identify qualified accountants. "At the moment there is nothing in law to protect the public from unscrupulous use of the title of accountant," says John Moore, the association's president.
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Keeping an eye on the professionals
The Independent - London
; David Bishop's plan for reorganising the accountancy profession may have been stillborn, but it has certainly galvanised the various bodies into action. While the idea of a number of regional-based organisations reporting into one overarching body has been killed off by factional interests, that
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Public name change
The Independent - London
; The Chartered Association of Certified Accountants is to hold two extraordinary general meetings on Saturday 9 September at Robinson College, Cambridge. The first meeting will consider the association's proposal to change its name to the Association of Chartered Public Accountants, and the second
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Environmental awards
The Independent - London
; he Chartered Association of Certified Accountants has introduced a special category in its annual environmental reporting awards for small and medium-sized enterprises to encourage environmental reporting in the sector. The closing date for entries is 31 August.
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Call for guidance
The Independent - London
; Call for guidance The Chartered Association of Certified Accountants' health service society is calling for guidance on the application of the private Finance Initiative, which would be tailored to the needs and experience of health authorities and GP fundholders.
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Finance: Opening up the books
The Independent - London
; Jeff Wooller may have received a terrible drubbing at last week'sannual general meeting of the Institute of Chartered Accountants. But about one thing he is likely to be proved right: democracy, the issue that brought him to the event, is not going to go away. Mr Wooller, one of the so-called
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bottom line
The Independent - London
; Perhaps mindful of the recent spate of lively company annual general meetings, the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants is recommending that the rights of shareholders to table resolutions should be enhanced. In a response to a Department of Trade and Industry consultative document, the
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