Hurricane Irma has hit the British Virgin Islands. We know because Sir Richard Branson has been very keen to tell the world all about it.
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PWC think they’re jolly good fellows. It’s just a shame they don’t understand tax
Sometimes a lobbyist’s message is so wrong you almost want to scream. Take this, reported in the FT this morning: Legal and accountancy businesses and
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The average member of staff at PWC is paid twice what the average HMRC employee earns
I was reading HMRC’s accounts for 2016 – 17 yesterday (as one does on a Saturday afternoon) when a data curiosity hit me with regard
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The Big Four: the questions our new report poses
The GUE / NGL group in the EU parliament have published this video discussion of the report on the Big Four accountants that Saila Stausholm
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Why are the Big Four so heavily over-represented in tax havens?
The work that Saila Stausholm and I have undertaken on the Big Four firms of accountants and auditors has sought to establish a number of
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Should the Big Four firms of accountants be as opaque as they are, and what should we do about it?
The GUE/NGL group in the EU parliament published a report by Saila Stausholm of Copenhagen Business School and myself this morning. The report, which is
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PWC has some apologising to do, and not just for the Oscars
Sometime during the 1990s, when my main activity was to be senior partner of a firm of chartered accountants, I realised that what my firm
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Who messed up at the Oscars? PWC did
Auditors are failing on a massive scale
The FT has a report this morning following on from Deloitte being fined $8 million for deficiencies in audit work it undertook in Brazil. As
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