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XBRL : a matching challenge towards simplification

March 8, 2010

eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) is a tool designed for the digital communication and presentation of financial and business data. It has been developed to allow users throughout the world to easily access timely accurate and relevant financial information from both world-wide and local organisations. However, although internal use and basic forms of digital reporting… » read more

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, ACCA, competitiveness, enterprises, FEE, financial reporting, Royal NIVRA, simplification, SMEs, XBRL

Exempting micro-entities from accounting requirements: Yes to better regulation but no to lack of transparency

February 18, 2010

The European parliament will vote on the 25 March on the report to amend EU Commission’s proposal to amend Directive 78/660/EC on the annual accounts of certain types of company. However , if efforts to reduce or eliminate burdens – where their identifiable net benefits are exceeded by the costs of compliance – are supported,… » read more

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, ACCA, accounting, annual accounts, better regulation, EFAA, EP, European Commission, European Parliament, regulation, simplification, small businesses, SMEs, stakeholders, transparency

How to reconcile financial products and consumer’s protection in the aftermath of the financial crisis?

February 5, 2010

The current crisis in the financial market has highlighted the need to ensure greater transparency in the market as well as greater protection (equally across Europe) and involvement of consumers, who are usually the end users, especially since consumer expenditure generates a significant part of the EU’s wealth. Due to the sophisticated and complex nature… » read more

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, ACCA, access to finance, banking, consumers, credit, financial products, loans

Flexible working :Governments Must ‘Think Small First’ On Employment Legislation

January 20, 2010

What Is Flexible Working? A simple question, but one that many small businesses (SMEs) aren’t sure how to answer. Whether or not they can answer it, evidence collected in a new report by ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants), written in conjunction with the UK All-Party Parliamentary Small Business Group, shows that SMEs are… » read more

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Future financial regulation: Improving corporate governance to help pre-empting the unknown problems of tomorrow?

December 17, 2009

The credit crunch was more a failing of governance and ethics than of regulation per se. Whatever the exact future shape of financial sector regulation, the structure needs to be designed not solely with a view to rectifying the problems of the past but with a view to pre-empting the so far unknown problems of… » read more

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, ACCA, corporate governance, financial regulation, Non-executive Directors

Spanish Presidency: daunting challenges ahead

December 16, 2009

From 1 January 2010, Spain will take over the rotating presidency of the European Council for six months and be the first of a new ‘trio’ – comprising also Belgium and Hungary- to fully operate under the auspices of the Lisbon Treaty. It will face three main challenges: improving the single market with a special… » read more

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Business & Climate Change, Climate Change, Competition, English, Environment, EU Priorities and Opinion, EU Treaty & Institutions, Financial Services, Public Affairs, Social Europe, Sustainable Dev., Taxation, Uncategorized

, ACCA, Climate Change, competitiveness, Copenhagen, entrepreneurship, EU2020, lisbon treaty, low carbon economy, SMEs, Spanish Presidency

After Copenhagen: Stop Saying No and Start Saying Yes

December 8, 2009

It is crucial that a disappointing outcome from Copenhagen should not detract us from the following facts of life. On the contrary, the combination of energy dependency, climate change, and the real possibility that oil production is nearing its peak drives us towards a new and pluralistic future where energy needs will be met by… » read more

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Business & Climate Change, Climate Change, Energy Efficiency, English, Environment, Innovation and Growth, Sustainable Dev., Taxation, Uncategorized

, ACCA, carbon accounting, Climate Change, Copenhagen, energy mix, low carbon economy, renewable energy

Climate Change – the state we’re in

November 17, 2009

Climate change is top of the news agenda as we head towards the UN Climate Change conference in Copenhagen in December. Preparatory meetings are being held – the most recent in Singapore, where it was reported on the BBC News website that world leaders said it will not be possible to reach a climate change… » read more

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, ACCA, carbon accounting, carbon reporting, Climate Change, COP 15, Copenhagen, sustainability

How will SMEs raise finance during the economic recovery?

October 8, 2009

Access to finance for SMEs during the economic recovery is a very relevant issue as we start to move tentatively out of the recession. The prediction of reduced credit will affect the availability of finance for SMEs. This is a critical issue for the recovery of European economies. The issue about access to finance was… » read more

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Competition, English, Financial Services, Innovation and Growth, Social Europe, Taxation, Uncategorized

, ACCA, access to finance, credits, IFRS for SMEs, late payments, loans, SMEs, Taxation

Exempting micro-entities from accounting requirements is not progress but risks fragmentation of the single market

September 24, 2009

While welcoming the Commission’s “European Economic Recovery Plan” to restore consumer and business confidence – in which the Commission pledges to reduce the burden on small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) – and supporting initiatives to simplify company law, it appears that the current Commission Proposal to exempt micro-entities from annual accounts requirements precisely fails… » read more

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Competition, Economy & Euro, English, Financial Services, Taxation, Uncategorized

, ACCA, accounting Directives, accounting requiremenst, administrative burden, impact assessment, micro-entities, simplification, SMEs

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