A corespondent sent me the following. I could have edited it, but I wont. It seems a fair summary: Now that the northern Irish have
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Pensions minister not quite on the ball
Consider this parliamentary question and answer: Alan Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what consideration was given to the potential
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Self regulation cannot work
Self regulation is regulation for self interest. I thought we’d have learned that by now. The accounting profession makes it clear enough. The IASB makes
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The Swiss aren’t all they seem
According to Transparency International’s Bribery Perceptions Index the Swiss are the least likely to bribe in the world. According to their Corruption Perception Index the
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Greed persists
The FT notes this morning that: Between January 1 and April 20 of this year, the New York Stock Exchange referred 45 potential instances of
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Will professionals be outsourced?
There was an article in the Telegraph recently that was covered by Accountancy Age, after which I considered blogging it. But I thought it too
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10 reasons why Country-by-Country accounting is vital
In the 1980s I was a volunteer for Oxfam. At the time I remember discussing the role an accountant could play in campaigning on development
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Barclays regrets to advise
Barclays ‘Head of Wealth Operations’ has been writing to his customers…. To tell them that running an offshore bank account may not always have been
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‘Tax amnesty’ – what ‘tax amnesty’? say the UK’s accountants
The UK’s ‘tax amnesty’ is a big issue for a lot of people. I know because the blogs I’ve written on the issue continue to
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