I was speaking to a wise friend and fellow accountant this morning. We were discussing a number of accounting standards issues, as is our regular
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I was speaking to a wise friend and fellow accountant this morning. We were discussing a number of accounting standards issues, as is our regular
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We all know we need more tax revenue from banks. Obama has suggested an insurance levy: I doubt it will work. I support an financial
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Crackdown on tax evasion in attempt to help poorer countries | Business | The Guardian . Large companies should reveal how much of their profits
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Banks pushed to reveal cost of bonus tax | Mail Online. Banks could be on a collision course with shareholders over how they report the
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Forbes has a column up on country-by-country reporting today. OK, I should declare an interest: I wrote it. The argument is a simple one: country-by-country
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IFRS 8, ‘Operating Segments’ has been applied to some 2008 financial statements of quoted companies and to all their 2009 interim statements. The standard has
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Earlier this year I reviewed Google’s accounts for the Sunday Times using 2007 data. They updated their story using 2008 data (and get it wrong
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World Vision have sent me a briefing on a new campaign they are launching. I guess a blog has reached critical mass when such things
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