Nearly half of the country’s professional accountants are undecided over how they will vote in the upcoming referendum on the European Fiscal Treaty, while most feel Ireland will require a second bailout, according to a survey.

HARSH economic conditions are pressurising normally honest company directors and employees to resort to fraud to rob their companies, leading accountants claimed at the CPA Practitioners’ Conference 2011.

IRELAND fighting to hold onto its corporation tax rate sends a very strong signal to the international investment community, according to the chief executive of the US Chamber of Commerce.

THE emergence of the black economy is a very real threat to Ireland’s economic recovery, according to the president of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants (CPA).