AccountingWEB has run a piece on what is called Web 2.0 for accountants. This is not a techy site so I’m not going into the
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No low tax for Northern Ireland
Some welcome news from the FT: Plans by Northern Ireland’s new power-sharing executive to stimulate foreign investment by cutting corporation tax have been dashed. In
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Pay Pal goes to Luxembourg for all the wrong reasons
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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Dirty money flows distort our economy and corrupt democracy
E & Y partners in the dock
Some may have noticed the blog has been a little quiet this week. Well, even we bloggers have to take holiday’s sometimes. The world has
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Cayman has seen the truth – but will it act on it?
I strongly recommend that you read a recent editorial in Cayman Net News, which appears to be edited by extraordinary people. This editorial is remarkably
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Does the ICAEW understand reporting?
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 IASB misses the point on small company accounting
I’ve been writing about the inappropriateness of accounting standards that have been established for smaller enterprises in the UK and elsewhere for more than a
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KPMG Switzerland – adding up the wrong numbers
I’ve just come across a report from KPMG Switzerland: Given the much-debated issue of taxation in Switzerland, KPMG conducted a survey of all cantonal tax
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