I mentioned recently that the ICAEW had issued a report called ‘Reporting with Integrity’. In it they said: there’s no clear and accepted understanding of
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The IASB misses the point on small company accounting
I’ve been writing about the inappropriateness of accounting standards that have been established for smaller enterprises in the UK and elsewhere for more than a
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KPMG Switzerland – adding up the wrong numbers
I’ve just come across a report from KPMG Switzerland: Given the much-debated issue of taxation in Switzerland, KPMG conducted a survey of all cantonal tax
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Andrew Dilnot thinks small businesses are bad businesses
Andrew Dilnot was director of the Institute of Fiscal Studies for many years. Now he’s Principal of St Hugh’s College Oxford and the university’s pro-Vice
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ATTAC Jersey
Jersey – trying to have it both ways
This week Jersey has tried to be all thing to all people. First it tells the US Senate how compliant its finance industry. Then it
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JITSIC is growing
If you don’t know JITSIC is the Joint International Tax Shelter Information Centre. There has been one of these to date, in Washington. Now it
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Shareholder opposition to IFRS 8 is global
The International Corporate Governance Network has expressed its concern about IFRS 8. It has said in a letter that: IFRS 8 as currently drafted carries
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Falling off the hedge
You can tell there’s a financial crisis coming. The world is so awash with cash that the FT reports that: A hedge fund investing in
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