Just before Christmas I asked where all the accountants were in declaiming the government’s decision not to pursue corruption investigations at BAE. I still haven’t
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Vantis – another name for the hall of shame?
The Sunday Times broke the news on Sunday that: [HM Revenue & Customs] investigators have raided the homes of executives at a top City accountancy
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Tackling abusive lending
One part of my work which I mention very little here is a continuing, if small, role in the campaign against exploitative secondary lending by
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Where are the accountants on BAE?
The collapse of the investigation into BAE last week was a national disaster. I know Blair thinks he’s preserved jobs and the UK’s ties with
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You’ve got to be kidding KPMG
It pushes the limits of credibility to the extreme that KPMG has launched an anti-fraud hotline for UK companies. According to reports they have set
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Gordon Brown should be ashamed of himself
Reports suggest (and I’ve no reason to doubt them) that the Labour Party has sold a property using a stamp duty avoidance scheme. Gordon Brown
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The deception services industry
There’s a good article on ‘Is this Jersey’ in which someone called Niccolo M (who as far as I know I am unacquainted with personally)
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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
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Cheating
Alex Hawkes at Accountancy Age has suggested that the government’s approach in new offshore abuse rules, previously discussed here, is Marxist. Dennis Howlett has suggested
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