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Compliance Cost Concerns Force U.K. Accounts Rethink

Global Glimpses February 19, 2010

The U.K.’s Accounting Standards Board is rethinking controversial plans to scrap the body of reporting rules that unlisted companies use, known as U.K. GAAP, amid concerns about compliance costs.Last year the board released proposals that would see all U.K. businesses produce their accounts under International Financial Reporting Standards. But having...

Companies Struggle With Narrative Reporting

Global Glimpses November 02, 2009

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U.K. Narrative Reporting Regime Called Disfunctional

Global Glimpses October 23, 2009

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