Michael Meacher – Labour’s Future: The Blairite-Brownite vendetta is destroying Labour. The tragedy for the country is that half or more of the electorate is
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S.E.C. Accuses Countrywide’s Ex-Chief of Fraud – NYTimes.com. Angelo R. Mozilo, the self-made man from the Bronx who built Countrywide Financial into the nation’s largest
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I reproduce the following from the Amazon UK web site, which you can access if you try to by a CD: Buying from Amazon’s Preferred
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The UK’s Financial Reporting Council issued a report today called Louder than Words. I suggest that the title that the title I have given to
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As the Guardian notes this morning: The government’s much-vaunted crackdown on corporate tax avoidance risks being seriously undermined by the repeal of a measure that
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Former FD attacks ‘silly’ audit reform – Accountancy Age. Eric Tracey, a former partner at Deloitte & Touche and now senior non-executive director at Chloride
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AccountingWEB has published an article on auditing which is extraordinary for its naivet?©. Written, unsurprisingly by a partner in a firm of chartered accountants who
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HMRC caps offshore penalty at 10% – Accountancy Age. The new tax amnesty has a 10% tax rate – but not for the customers of
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Banks should pay for their own bailouts – Telegraph. The need for governments to rush to the help of banks every few decades seems to
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