I’ve been a qualified accountant for over a quarter of a century. I have seen a lot of small business accounts. Most are horrible. Over
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Behind the scenes my colleagues and I have been working hard on the G8 summit which is held next week. This article in The Tablet
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Nick Shaxson and I had an article in the FT on Saturday (or here) on the future of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative. I’m aware
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This report in the Sunday Times seems a good summary of progress to date on the so-called ‘tax amnesty’. I agree with the sentiment in
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When Jersey is boasting (and it does, often) it says one of the things its financial services sector does that is of benefit is run
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Jim Quigley, the new global head of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, has said (according to the FT): Convergence of global accounting standards is likely to be
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I was at a meeting in the City recently. I explained the work I did and the people I worked with. I mentioned my friend
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This sort of thing, from the FT: Margaret Ewing, the former finance director of UK airports group BAA, has attacked institutional investors for voting down
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Tax can pay for universal healthcare. In the UK we have this. We don’t value it enough. In the USA, as Barack Obama has pointed
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