CA daily briefing: Wednesday 12 February 2020
Your essential briefing of the morning's top news stories.
Good morning, Hilde Oesterkloeft here providing you with your mid-week news from ICAS and around the world.
The latest from ICAS
Justine Riccomini takes us through the key IR35 tax cases since new rules in the public sector were introduced in April 2017.
In January 2020 the CIIA launched a new Code of Practice aimed at strengthening the internal audit function in both the private and third sectors. Alan Simpson CA takes us through the changes.
Today's top stories from around the web
- Energy firms to pay compensation for switching blunders (BBC News)
- 'Turf war' threatens Treasury as No 10 prepares for reshuffle (City AM)
- Heineken sees 2020 profit growth as some commodity costs ease (Reuters)
- Tesla driver 'complained about autopilot defect' before fatal car crash (Sky News)
- Nissan seeks $90m damages from former boss Carlos Ghosn (BBC News)
- Babcock lowers profit guidance amid oil and gas woes (City AM)
- Economic impact of coronavirus bigger than SARS, says Bank of England governor Mark Carney (Sky News)
- Regulator Ofcom to have more powers over UK social media (BBC News)
- London stocks gain amid pullback in new virus cases (Reuters)
That's all for today, check back tomorrow for your Thursday briefing.