The foreign and finance ministries of Norway have combined to tackle corruption. It’s worth looking at their web site to understand the significance of this.
Read the full article…
Total corruption?
The FT reports this morning that: A Paris judge has launched an investigation into allegations that Total, the French oil and gas group, paid bribes
Read the full article…
Accountants can’t do it – but campaigners can
I have already noted the complete absence of comment by the professional bodies representing accountants regarding the dropping of corruption allegations concerning BAE. Now we
Read the full article…
Will Citibank settle?
Citibank is being sued for $36 million in Switzerland by an irate customer whose bank account was defrauded by an employee, in which fraud he’s
Read the full article…
How the poorest keep the US and UK going
A comment was posted on one of my stories from August in the last couple of days. It reveals so much I thought I’d reproduce
Read the full article…
Do small businesses evade tax?
Dennis Howlett has written some very confused articles on tax evasion over the last few days: so confused that I am not sure where Dennis
Read the full article…
Films are not enough – it’s time for the Foreign Office to act
John Christensen reports on the TJN blog on yesterday’s launch of the new Foreign Office film on corruption. As he says: The film is a
Read the full article…
Company accounts
I promised to say what I thought should be in small company accounts. I will, over time. One thing was suggested by an article in
Read the full article…
Stock option backdating – a fraud not far removed from tax avoidance
The Guardian has reported the latest person to reason in the corporate scandal sweeping across America where it has been discovered that maybe hundreds of
Read the full article…

Buy me a coffee!
