2012 Back Office Benchmarking Survey Report

The Baker Tilly Social Housing team has now published its 2012 Back Office Benchmarking report entitled ‘Signs of Progress’ which exams the effectiveness of back office functions within UK housing associations.

Today

Tags:Social housing

The new face of Financial Reporting in the UK and Ireland

On 30 January 2012, the Accounting Standards Board (ASB) published its revised proposals on the future of Financial Reporting in the UK and the Republic of Ireland for public comment.

3 days ago

Tags:Audit and Assurance

New Year brings a new start for UK GAAP .... and no backward step!

The ASB has started the year by living up to their 2011 resolution to release their new proposals for Financial Reporting in the UK and Republic of Ireland.

3 days ago

Tags:Audit and Assurance

SRA–licensed ABSs on the way at last

After more than four years’ preparation, the first ABSs were licensed by the Council for Licensed Conveyancers and commenced business on 6 October 2011.

4 days ago

Outlook 2012 - Situation Stalemate

In early October 2011, Baker Tilly commissioned YouGov to conduct its Outlook 2012 survey to gather the opinions of business decision makers.

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Charities survey ‘Managing charities – risks and opportunities’, Winter 2011

The key risks and opportunities faced by charities for 2012, according to our survey of senior executives in the sector.

7 days ago

Tags:Restructuring and recovery

Weekly Tax Brief - 4 January 2012

In this edition of Baker Tilly’s weekly round-up of the most important tax news, we cover the latest developments.

29 days ago

Tags:Tax

10 Lost Years

10 lost years? Isn’t that what the politicians say lies ahead of us in the UK? Maybe so – and we all hope they’re wrong, even if expectation says otherwise – but that’s not the decade I had in mind.

51 days ago

Draft Finance Bill 2012 - SA Donate and in year repayments

As previously announced draft clauses to abolish SA Donate and to put on a statutory basis HMRC’s practice of allowing charities and CASCs to claim tax repayments during the tax year have been published.

57 days ago

Draft Finance Bill 2012 - Worldwide Debt Cap – More Flexibility?!

Since being introduced, criticism has been levelled at the Worldwide Debt Cap rules because of their complexity and the ambiguity that has been encountered in practice.

57 days ago