Jim Quigley, the new global head of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, has said (according to the FT): Convergence of global accounting standards is likely to be
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This sort of thing, from the FT: Margaret Ewing, the former finance director of UK airports group BAA, has attacked institutional investors for voting down
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Pay Pal has been mailing all its customers to tell them: PayPal was granted a bank license with the Luxembourg bank authority. Under this license,
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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 ICAEW has produced a report called ‘Reporting with Integrity’. In the press note the ICAEW says: Building consensus amongst market participants on the meaning
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As Simon Sweetman notes at AccountingWEB, the Revenue have published a report on charitable giving. As he concludes: it seems that tax reliefs make little
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The Church of Scientology has, according to the Express, filed accounts claiming it does not owe tax as it has charitable status. It has not
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IFRS 8 is the IASB standard on segment reporting on which I have been campaigning for longer than I now care to remember. IFRS 8
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I’ve said before. I won’t gloat. Wolfowitz has gone from the World Bank. That had to be. Now it’s time for a proper process of
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