Australia has become the first country in the world to require full public country-by-country reporting. Country-by-country reporting for multinational companies shows how those companies might
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The government’s latest accounts show its debt’s fallen massively
The government’s own accounts, just released, show that its total liabilities owing fell between 2022 and 2023 by £1.5 trillion. They’re now much smaller than
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All change, please
Three articles jumped out at me for various, but it seemed related, reasons when reviewing this morning’s papers. The first was an article in the
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What is Labour doing?
There is an article in the Financial Times this morning with the following headline: The government has no time to lose if it wants to
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Trump has declared trade war
Trump’s trade wars are going to hike inflation and interest rates in the US and around the world and won’t boost jobs in the US
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The national debt has just fallen by £1.5 trillion
There is a very strange feature that, as far as I can see, has not had much attention paid to it so far within the
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Why should everyone either ‘earn or learn’?
Labour has come up with a new soundbite slogan. It’s that everyone should have the chance to ‘earn or learn’. What about pensioners, carers, those
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The government’s accounting systems are collapsing – all due to privatisation
The National Audit Office released this worrying press release this morning: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General Spending watchdog disclaims government’s
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Retirement from Sheffield University Management School
As if to highlight the slightly perverse twists that life can throw up, on the same day that I am involved in launching the Accounting
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