MSN reports (from the FT) that: The US Securities and Exchange Commission has raised the unexpected possibility of US companies being allowed to file their
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The European Parliament has set the cat amongst the pigeons on IFRS 8. The motion calling for an impact assessment of this deeply flawed standard,
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Dennis Howlett covers the option backdating scandal at Apple today and provides links to useful stuff. Reuters summarise the story like this: Fred Anderson, Apple’s
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A question has been posted on this site. It asks: I am puzzled by this so called offshore tax amnesty. I have for many years
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It’s a bit like asking is the Pope a Catholic really, isn’t it? Some of the latest evidence is available here. And note who was
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I have had an ongoing battle with the IASB on IFRS 8. This standard moves accounting into uncharted waters that only the US have looked
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The UK has always been loath to define what an accountant is, which has considerably annoyed some in the ‘qualified’ profession. Now the issue has
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It’s been widely assumed that the data the Revenue is using as the basis of checking declarations under the UK ‘tax amnesty’ is that supplied
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It may have occurred to one or two readers of this blog that the accusation has occasionally been made that I am opinionated. Too true
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