According to the Ethical Corporation the UK government’s commitment to corporate responsibility has been downgraded somewhat. The DTI has a minister whose portfolio includes corporate
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A corespondent sent me the following. I could have edited it, but I wont. It seems a fair summary: Now that the northern Irish have
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Consider this parliamentary question and answer: Alan Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what consideration was given to the potential
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Self regulation is regulation for self interest. I thought we’d have learned that by now. The accounting profession makes it clear enough. The IASB makes
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According to Transparency International’s Bribery Perceptions Index the Swiss are the least likely to bribe in the world. According to their Corruption Perception Index the
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The FT notes this morning that: Between January 1 and April 20 of this year, the New York Stock Exchange referred 45 potential instances of
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There was an article in the Telegraph recently that was covered by Accountancy Age, after which I considered blogging it. But I thought it too
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In the 1980s I was a volunteer for Oxfam. At the time I remember discussing the role an accountant could play in campaigning on development
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Barclays ‘Head of Wealth Operations’ has been writing to his customers…. To tell them that running an offshore bank account may not always have been
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