Isosceles Finance Become Accountancy Age Award Finalist for Second Consecutive Year!

September 13th, 2009 NASHVILLE, Tennessee - - 'IFRS, Liability Threats to Firms and Practice Inspections on the Table' International regulators representing over 20 jurisdictions assembled in San Francisco on September 10-11, for the Second Annual Forum of International Accountancy Regulators. The Forum -- established by the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) in 2008 -- is a unique roundtable devoted to the exchange of issues and ideas related to the global impact of international accounting and auditing regulation.

July 20th, 2009 LONDON - IRIS Accountancy Practice Solutions, the market leading provider of fully integrated software and services to the accountancy sector, has been awarded a major contract to provide Titcheners, the multi-office Thames Valley accountancy practice, with an offshore outsourcing service that will open up capacity and help the firm towards its goal of becoming a top 50 firm within the next 5 years. Titcheners will outsource a major proportion of its bookkeeping, personal tax and statutory accounts work using IRIS Resourcing (www.iris.co.uk/resourcing); a comprehensive outsourcing offering operated from Chennai, India.

July 7th, 2009 BERKSHIRE, England - IRIS Accountancy Practice Solutions has announced the appointment of marketing veteran John Pattenden as Product Director. Pattenden will lead the enhancement of the current product set which includes IRIS, PTP and Drummohr solutions and develop a road map for the next generation needs of accountancy practices.

May 26th, 2009 LONDON - Newly issued statistics for April show that the success rate for personal tax returns filed online using IRIS tax products (www.iris.co.uk/practice) was well above the average of 94.5% for third party software. The sheer volume of returns filed online using IRIS tax software makes this achievement even more remarkable with a total number of 12,491 returns filed across IRIS, PTP and Drummohr products.

April 27th, 2009 LONDON - Strengthens Focus on Quality Product Delivery Whilst Expanding Team to Meet Demands of Increased Legislative Change IRIS Accountancy Practice Solutions today announced that in the course of the past twelve months it has doubled the size of its Development organisation, strengthening its focus on product quality, whilst significantly expanding resources to meet the demands of increasing legislative change. In line with a Group wide initiative to invest GBP20m in R&D during 2009, IRIS Accountancy Practice Solutions (www.iris.co.uk/practice) has now brought together its Engineering teams from IRIS, PTP and Drummohr and has concurrently delivered new releases of all three product lines for the new tax year.

April 5th, 2009 DATCHET, England - New Releases of all IRIS Accountancy Products Include: Drummohr, PTP & IRIS Practice Suite - 44% of all UK Accountancy Practices*, Receive Their new Release in Time for new Tax Year, and are Assured of Full Compliance IRIS Accountancy Practice Solutions announces the release of all IRIS Accountancy Practice software products to all IRIS customers, including major updates to Drummohr, PTP and the IRIS Practice Suite. Despite a significant number of changes to legislation, tax rates and allowances and changes to returns, the IRIS accountancy practice development teams completed rigorous testing of the April releases, on schedule, so that over 14,000 firms relying on the three IRIS families of software products to run their businesses are fully compliant from the beginning of the new tax year.

March 31st, 2009 STOCKHOLM - IKIVO Picked Among Most Promising Technology Ventures by Innovative Listing IKIVO, the No. 1 European supplier of rich media client solutions, has been selected as a finalist for the Red Herring 100 Europe 2009 award.

March 30th, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - Online Voting is Now Open to the Public at Webware.com blinkx, the world's largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced that it has been selected by editors at CNET Webware as a finalist for the 2009 Webware 100 Awards in the Photo & Video category. From more than 5,000 user-submitted nominations, blinkx was chosen as one of 300 finalists.

March 24th, 2009 LONDON - Unite has accused HSBC of "creative accountancy" with jobs as HSBC concedes that the true number of job cuts is in fact 2,900 as the union has rightly claimed, and not 1,200 as HSBC had originally claimed. Derek Simpson, Unite Joint General Secretary, said: "As if it was not bad enough for staff of HSBC to hear from the media that their jobs are at risk, we now have a situation where the company is failing to come clean with the true extent of these cuts.

March 18th, 2009 DATCHET, England - 1.745m Returns Filed With HMRC Through IRIS Software by January Deadline - IRIS Customers Filed Almost as Many Returns As All Other Software Vendors Customers Put Together IRIS Today announced that figures released by HMRC show that returns filed online using IRIS tax software amounted to an incredible 1.745m in the run up to the January 31st 2009 deadline. Rising to the challenge of Lord Carter, for a connected online Government, by 2012, UK Accountants and Citizens filed a total of 5,759,006 returns online according to HMRC, with just over 5.4m Self Assessment returns completed for individuals.

May 9th, 2009 Ovechkin, Malkin, Datsyuk finalists for PearsonNEW YORK — Washington's Alex Ovechkin, Pittsburgh's Evgeni Malkin and Detroit's Pavel Datsyuk — the finalists for the Hart Trophy — are also up for the Lester B. Pearson Award.

June 24th, 2009 UNITED NATIONS - Gujarat's Water and Sanitation Management Organisation (WASMO) has been given the United Nations Public Service Award 2009 for their work in the field of "institutionalisation of community management and user's level participation in the drinking water supply". The prestigious international recognition of excellence for an Indian public organisation in the field of public service was received at a ceremony here Tuesday by V.S.

March 26th, 2009 COLOMBO - A Sri Lankan Tamil magistrate has won 'Women of Courage' award from the US State Department for demonstrating 'exceptional courage and leadership' in the region, the US embassy said Thursday. US ambassador Robert Blake recognised Magistrate Srinithy Nandasekaran 'as a South Asian regional finalist for the secretary of state's Women of Courage award', it said.

April 29th, 2009 Ovechkin, Malkin, Datsyuk finalists for HartNEW YORK — Alexander Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals is a finalist for a second straight Hart Trophy as the NHL's most valuable player. Fellow Russians Evgeni Malkin of the Pittsburgh Penguins and Pavel Datsyuk of the Detroit Red Wings were also among the finalists announced by the league Wednesday.

April 30th, 2009 Ovechkin, Malkin, Datsyuk finalists for NHL's HartNEW YORK — Alexander Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals is a finalist for a second straight Hart Trophy as the NHL's most valuable player. Fellow Russians Evgeni Malkin of the Pittsburgh Penguins and Pavel Datsyuk of the Detroit Red Wings were also among the finalists announced by the league Wednesday.

April 30th, 2009 Malkin, Ovechkin, Datsyuk finalists for NHL MVPNEW YORK — Alexander Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals is a finalist for a second straight Hart Trophy as the NHL's most valuable player. Fellow Russians Evgeni Malkin of the Pittsburgh Penguins and Pavel Datsyuk of the Detroit Red Wings were also among the finalists announced by the league Wednesday.

May 11th, 2009 MUMBAI - PlaySpanT, the leader in monetization solutions for online games, virtual worlds, and social networks, today announced that Founder and CEO Karl Mehta is a finalist for the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2009 Award in the Northern California. According to Ernst and Young LLP, the awards program recognizes entrepreneurs who demonstrate extraordinary success in the areas of innovation, financial performance, and personal commitment to their businesses and communities.

September 3rd, 2009 LONDON - Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson is said to have been taken to court by three firms over 21,539 pounds in unpaid bills. According to reports, firm bosses were so fed up chasing after 49-year-old Ferguson over debts that they each were forced to start proceedings.

April 23rd, 2009 BARCELONA - Seventh seed David Nalbandian completed a hat-trick of quarter-final placings at the Barcelona Open Thursday as he beat Spain's Nicolas Almagro 6-3, 6-4. The Argentine also reached the last eight at the Real club in 2004 and in 2007 but stalled in the third round a year ago.

October 6th, 2009 Ky. honors native son Clooney with arts awardFRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky is honoring native son George Clooney with an award from the governor.