Pat Costello, CEO of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland had a letter in the Irish Times last week. To put his argument in
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These are my links for January 23rd through January 26th: FT.com / Companies / UK companies – Aim squeezed by grip of recession – More
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From the Economic Times of India: PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) auditors manipulated Satyam Computers accounts for money. According to Crime Investigation Department (CID) sources, Satyam founder B
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The Sunday Times has suggested at least four Labour peers indicated themselves willing to accept cash to seek to amend legislation. I hope they are
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Nick Cohen argued in the Observer this weekend that the Left did not see the crash coming. Worse, he sys its intelligentsia did not mount
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I can’t resist recording this from Adair Turner’s speech as chair of the Financial Services Authority this week: Not all innovation is equally useful. If
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The Guardian published a long article on the VAT abuse that Jersey and Guernsey continue to facilitate VAT abuse in the UK yesterday. It says:
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Tim Worstall is a man of the highest opinion, of himself. As far as I can tell he thinks almost everyone I know who has
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The Observer carries a story this morning that HSBC and HBOS have both failed to comply with a very basic requirement of company law. As
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