I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: The new independent adviser on ministers’ interests, Christopher (Lord) Geidt gave two rulings yesterday. Both suggest that
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The Real American Dream is not to be found in the USA
I repost this from the Tax Justice Network blog: Welcome to the latest episode of the Tax Justice Network’s monthly podcast, the Taxcast. You can subscribe
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Inflation? Forget it
There was a time when Andy Haldane was the supposed wise head at the Bank of England. But that was long ago before he got
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Governments and multinational corporations have a duty of care to deliver on climate change but we need the accounting to ensure that they do
I have been intrigued by three reports in the Guardian. The first is this: A court in the Hague has ordered Royal Dutch Shell to cut its
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What if large businesses are really macroeconomic entities?
I recently suggested to colleagues that I thought that we were looking at accounting in the wrong way. We were still seeing large companies (now
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Like it or not, the business world is going to have to count its emissions, whatever the critics say
As some will have noted I have been subject to some criticism in the comments section of this blog with regard to my proposed sustainable
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What’s wrong with audit?
Lots of people think auditing is failing, but my suggestion is that such a simplistic comment does not really do justice to a complex issue. In
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As temperature change is set to reach 1.5C business cannot wait to change. It’s now net-zero or we’re in deep trouble.
Some people will have noticed the furious opposition that sustainable cost accounting gets on this site any time that I mention it. As a recent
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EU civil society organisations and trade unions call for urgent corporate tax transparency plan rethink
Transparency International published this post today, and I cross-post from there as a signatory referred to in it: Sixty-two civil society organisations and trade unions
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