Dennis Howlett, a long term blogging friend of mine has a great blog on his site about another blogging friend and commentator here -  Stuart Jones, senior partner 3CA, chartered accountants based in Kendal. As Dennis says: He’s a really nice person who works hard to do the best he can for his clients. He
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Is ICAEW failing?. For the chartered accountants reading this blog follow the link, Dennis Howlett has interesting things to say. He concludes: The broader question remains: if ICAEW is doing its job well then why does What Is An Accountant exist? And you can (rightly) guess that he’s darned sure it’s not doing its job
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Google: Buzz off!. If you use Gmail read this. You need to. Thanks to Dennis Howlett for identifying serious problems in Google’s latest offering.

On being No.2. Dennis Howlett got me into blogging. Now he’s ranked #2 blogger analyst in the world. Congratulations Dennis. And he also remains spot on with regard to accounting ethics.

Dennis Howlett picked up on my theme of incredulity about the professions PR, noted here yesterday. He has said: I am still firmly of the opinion that at least one of the Big Four will fail even though I know ICAEW members and colleagues who think I’m utterly wrong. I agree with Francine the weight
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I refer to you Dennis Howlett’s piece under the above title. I have nothing to add. But let’s be clear – when I accuse my own profession of having blood and death on its hands in the developing countries of this world – I mean it.

Dennis Howlett has a blog on the above topic under the title McCarthyism revista | AccMan. I agree with him: a kangaroo court for Sir Fred is madness. The idea we might use parliamentary time to limit his pension is crazy. For heaven’s sake – let’s get on and use the effort and anger to
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Dennis Howlett, who was the man who got me into blogging, has a thoughtful posting on his AccMan blog this morning. Reflecting on Alan Rusbridger’s essay on the problems of getting tax stories reported in the media he says: Goodness knows it does its best in a world dumbed down by sound bites. Alan’s essay
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Dennis Howlett has done a great job writing on the above issue. So good, I just recommend you go over to his place and read it. If ever there was a measure of the crisis in accounting, this is it.