Search Results for: accountancy
10 results out of 326 results found for 'accountancy'.
MOAZAM A. SHAH - AWARD WINNING CFO WITH GLOBAL EXPERIENCE ALWAYS SEEKS NEW CHALLENGES
It gets exceedingly hot in Riyadh in the summer, with the mercury rarely below 40 degrees Celsius, but that does not deter Moazam Shah from going for his evening run around the residential compound he lives in with his family.
After six years in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Pakistani national Shah has acclimatised to exercising in extreme heat: “It’s a time for myself, to catch up on my thoughts,” he told Accounting & Business at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Manama, Bahrain.…
DIVERSITY OF ROLES GROWS WITHIN ANTI-FRAUD PROFESSION AND HEALTHY SALARIES ARE INCREASINGLY AVAILABLE
Fraud investigation has come a long way since the days when police launched dawn raids on suspect premises, driving criminals to flush away paper evidence down the toilet. We have technology to thank for that.
Advances in information handling have radically changed the ways in which big companies guard their financial records and the methods used by fraudsters to overcome them. …
DIVERSITY OF ROLES GROWS WITHIN ANTI-FRAUD PROFESSION AND HEALTHY SALARIES ARE INCREASINGLY AVAILABLE
Fraud investigation has come a long way since the days when police launched dawn raids on suspect premises, driving criminals to flush away paper evidence down the toilet. We have technology to thank for that.
Advances in information handling have radically changed the ways in which big companies guard their financial records and the methods used by fraudsters to overcome them. …
ACCOUNTANTS PEER INTO THE UNKNOWN ON FUTURE TAX POLICY, AS BREXIT VOTE LOOMS
ACCOUNTANTS are starting to tangle with the knotty question of whether to support Britain remaining in or quitting the European Union (EU) after the scheduled in-out referendum on June 23. While many UK captains of industry and business have publicly called for Britain to stay in, citing the advantages of freely accessing the EU’s 503 million person market and its trained labour pool, the question for accountants is not that simple.…
ACCOUNTING & BUSINESS – ASIA – MALAYSIA CAPITAL MARKETS TO BOOST CYBER-SECURITY
CAPITAL markets and their traders within Malaysia may be forced to forge defences against cyber-crime amidst growing concern that hackers could damage the country’s financial services. The Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) is seeking comments from accountants and other financial specialists about planned regulations saying capital market participants should have cyber-security programmes and policies, including contingency plans for dealing with associated risks.…
ACCOUNTING & BUSINESS – ASIA – MALAYSIA CAPITAL MARKETS TO BOOST CYBER-SECURITY
CAPITAL markets and their traders within Malaysia may be forced to forge defences against cyber-crime amidst growing concern that hackers could damage the country’s financial services. The Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) is seeking comments from accountants and other financial specialists about planned regulations saying capital market participants should have cyber-security programmes and policies, including contingency plans for dealing with associated risks.…
AFTER BANK OF BANGLADESH HACKER HEIST, THE PHILIPPINES FEARS MOVE FROM GREY TO BLACK ON FATF LIST
Politicians in the Philippines fear that the country will be censured by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) after USD81 million stolen from the Bangladesh Bank central bank in February entered the international financial system through Manila casinos. In its most recent evaluation on the Philippines made in 2013, the FATF determined that the country had made significant progress in improving its AML/CFT (anti-money laundering/combating the financing of terrorism) but raised concerns regarding the absence of AML/CFT controls for the casino sector.…
ACCOUNTANTS EVER MORE TIGHTLY INVOLVED WITH ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING SYSTEMS, CONFERENCE HEARS
Financial experts struck off for misconduct from professional bodies, such as the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), should be actively barred from working as accountants, a Brussels conference on ‘Fighting Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing: The Role of Accountants and Finance Professionals’ has heard.…
AFRICA IS FOCUS OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE REFORMS
THE NEED for sub-Saharan Africa to improve its corporate governance, promoting sustainable development in a region that still trails the rest of the world in many poverty metrics, has been a key theme of accounting conferences. And new initiatives reflecting this understanding have been making progress in east and west Africa, for instance.…
ACCA CONFERENCE: cORPORATE CULTURE NOT rEGULATION WILL RESTORE TRUST IN BUSINESS
Further regulation is not always the way to restore trust in business – rather it can be achieved by greater emphasis on improving corporate culture, a May 5 conference at the European Parliament, in Brussels, heard. This did not mean that regulation should be scrapped or ignored, but speakers at the joint ACCA – European Confederation of Directors’ Associations (ecoDa) conference ‘Creating value through governance: channelling corporate culture and ethics in boards’ wanted to see legislation set incentives – carrots rather than sticks.…