Banks put accountants BDO Stoy Hayward into Regent Inns pubs chain - Times Online

Banks put accountants BDO Stoy Hayward into Regent Inns pubs chain - Times Online
BANKERS for Regent Inns, owner of the Australian-themed sports-bar chain Walkabout, are looking to appoint a corporate-restructuring specialist to evaluate the future of the struggling pub business. The banks, including RBS, Barclays, NatWest and

Election candidates in TV debate - BBC News
Mr Robertson said: "There are always cross-border tensions but we would make those things work by discussing it with Westminster." Mr Mason said he was a member of that body, as a chartered accountant. "There are clearly other accountants, including

Financial experts tell SNP: Local income tax won't work - Scotsman
ALEX Salmond's plans to introduce a local income tax in Scotland suffered a fresh setback last night when accountants who deal with council finances said the scheme would not work. The Institute of Revenues, Rating and Valuation, which represents tax

9. Patrick McKenna - Guardian Unlimited
You might not have heard of Patrick McKenna, but he is the financial svengali to much of the UK media and entertainment industry, the deal-maker with the Midas touch. Andrew Lloyd Webber's former right hand man, he has been responsible for deals

A taxing time for 30,000 building contractors - Daily Telegraph
Building contractors have been hit by 806,000 HM Revenue & Customs fines since November for failing to file tax returns on time. The scale of the penalties, which start at £100 for smaller contractors, have shocked the industry as it shows both

Beechwood creditors offered $4m deal - News.com.au
FORMER management staff of Beechwood Homes have offered a $4 million sweetener to unsecured creditors of the ailing building firm as part of a buyout proposal that has the approval of the Beechwood's creditors' committee. Minutes of the most recent

Wolseley to cut jobs as housing sector slumps - Times Online
One of the biggest suppliers to the building trade is expected to add to the economic gloom this week by announcing hundreds of job cuts. Wolseley, home to Plumb Center and Build Center, is understood to have drafted plans to step up a £70 million

Accountants' group elects president - Sun and Press
Region Janeen Sutryk, a certified public accountant, was elected president of the Southern Tier Chapter of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants. Sutryk is a principal with Piaker and Lyons PC in Binghamton. Other newly installed

Advertising budgets slashed at fastest rate since 9/11 - Daily Telegraph
Poor sales on the high street and mounting gloom about prospects for the rest of the year prompted companies to cut advertising budgets in the second quarter of 2008 at the fastest rate since the September 11 terrorist attacks seven years ago