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Accountants discuss audit issues with PHA
February 28, 2011
Accountants discuss audit issues with PHA
Grant Thornton (Bahamas) partners have paid a courtesy call on Public Hospital Authority (PHA) chairman, Veta Brown, and managing director, Herbert Brown, at the latter's corporate offices in Centreville.
Grant Thornton serves as the independent auditors of PHA, and managing partner, Paul Andy Gomez, and partner-in-charge of assurance and fraud investigations, Kendrick K. Christie, took the oppo...
Accountants honor society kicks off 2011 program
March 04, 2011
Accountants honor society kicks off 2011 program
The YACHT Club, an acronym for Young Accountants Committed, Hardworking, Trustworthy, is introducing its first program in a six-week series at the College of The Bahamas tomorrow.
The honor society program, to run every Saturday from March 5 to April 9, is aimed at giving top accounting students insight in how to become professionals in the accounting field, according to Anthony Smith, chairperson...
October 30, 2019
Accountant says businesses need to properly plan for natural disasters
A gas station in East End Grand Bahama that was destroyed during Hurricane Dorian. fileWith more frequent storms threatening The Bahamas at more severe and damaging strengths, a business strategist is highlighting the need for local business owners to have a strategic business continuity plan. Bahamas Institute for Chartered Accountants (BICA) Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Co-Chair Ant...
Accountants schooled on technical updates
November 19, 2010
Accountants schooled on technical updates
As Accountant's Week draws to a close the seminar, presented by the Bahamas Institute of Chartered Accountants (BICA), saw its busiest day Thursday, with an estimated 330 accountants attending the seminar's technical update sessions, according to a BICA official. Thursday's sessions focused on the technical aspects of the profession and served to refresh and advise professionals of the current st...
May 04, 2016
Business optimism down in first quarter of 2016, accountants body says
The Global Economic Conditions Survey (GECS) for the first quarter of 2016 presents grim news: Despite indications that optimism may creep back up in the second quarter, in the first quarter businesses were less optimistic about their prospects than at any other time in the past four years.
September 09, 2019
Forensic Accountant-John Bain: Elderly Top Targets for . Financial Abuse
Addressing the Elder Abuse Awareness Symposium hosted by the Ministry of Social Services and Urban Development, John Bain, Managing Partner of UHY Bain & Associates, a boutique firm of Chartered and Forensic Accountants in Nassau, laments that the elderly sector of our community is the largest targeted for financial abuse...
Patrice Roberts: A Bahamian forensic accountant
January 31, 2011
Patrice Roberts: A Bahamian forensic accountant
By JEFFARAH GIBSON
Tribune Features Writer
HER children always think twice before lying to her, fearing the way she pulls apart every single detail of any explanation or excuse they offer; and they swear that she often seems to anticipate their responses before they even start to speak.
The woman who inspires such feelings is Patrice Roberts, who says of herself that she has always had an extre...
April 14, 2014
Accountant: End defined benefit pension, cut civil service head count
A top accountant has argued that the enormous size of the government's unfunded pension liability is yet further evidence of why the government must not only act immediately to reform its current pension system, but also begin to reduce the size of the civil service as a critical component of addressing this "unsustainable" financial situation.
Raymond Winder, partner with local accountancy firm D...
PwC returns to provide latest in technical updates, new standards at BICA's Accountants' Week
November 14, 2017
PwC returns to provide latest in technical updates, new standards at BICA's Accountants' Week
PwC in The Bahamas will once again be providing the professional services with invaluable information, technical updates and highlighting the new standards that when applied, will enhance professional efficiency and technical competency. Myra R. Lundy-Mortimer, partner, PwC Bahamas, noted that "For the past few years, [...]
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November 15, 2016
Christie: Accountants on the front line of business entities
Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Perry Christie said that accountants are on the "front line" of The Bahamas' business and commercial entities, as they are an integral part of the inner workings of the country's firms and government enterprises.
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