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...But rapid expansion has been tried before, most recently by Grant Thornton....
...It was exposed recently by problems with even the government’s relatively modest Green Homes Grant scheme....
...Take the recent High Court case against Grant Thornton over its audits of AssetCo, a venture that once leased London its fire engines and was looted by its managers....
...That puts KPMG in the B-stream alongside the smaller BDO and Grant Thornton. Next year, it really must do better — or the Big Four may become the Big Three....
...More than 90 per cent of the 3,100 chief executives, managing directors, chairmen or other senior executives of listed and private businesses interviewed by Grant Thornton, wanted to see the euro survive...
...One way to picture the economic impact of a Brexit may be the shape of a letter ‘V’ or a ‘tick’....
...Peter Grant, chief executive of Grant Property, estimates an annual return of 7.2 per cent for this investment, equating to £48,240 a year....
...Paul Kane, a partner at Grant Thornton, the accountancy firm, says the extra tourist dollars spent on accommodation, travel and hospitality, comes on top of NZ$1bn of infrastructure spending on stadiums,...
...“People will need to rewrite their wills,” said Richard Proctor, tax partner at Grant Thornton. “It’s good news for family solicitors and will writers.”...
...More than half of the decision-makers at mid-market UK companies surveyed said they considered their sector to be in recession, according to a report by Grant Thornton, which polled 150 chief executives...
...Colin Ellis, Daiwa Securities The recovery still looks set to be anaemic to me....
...Colin Ellis, Daiwa Securities Emerging markets – particularly Asia, but South America too – will outperform developed economies in 2010....
...Gary Ashford, tax investigations director at Grant Thornton, said the Revenue’s approach towards offshore account holders was indicative of the increased powers announced in last week’s Budget to carry...
...“A lot of people thought it was just too short a time for the message to get out,” Gary Ashford of Grant Thornton, the accountancy firm, said....
...“It was initially thought billions could be recovered; it’s now likely to be more like millions that will surface,” says Gary Ashford, tax investigations director at Grant Thornton....
...The strength of the Big Four has meant some of the so-called “national” firms – including Grant Thornton and BDO Stoy Hayward – have struggled to build a Scottish presence of scale....
...It was put up for sale in the autumn but its advisers, Grant Thornton, said the losses made it “prohibitive for anyone to pay a going-concern price”....
...Mr Bennett’s debt had been discovered by a Refco accountant and Grant Thornton in late September....
...“[Flip-flops] had been considered a relatively straightforward and well-established arrangement,” says Mike Warburton, senior tax planner at accountants Grant Thornton....
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