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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The next Covid wave is already appearing: now is the time to act
I am well aware that there are those who think I enjoy being a Cassandra for bad news. I don’t. No one wants bad news.
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The things to be learned from Cummings
News reports suggest that around 80% of people in the UK do not think that Dominic Cummings is a reliable witness. As a result they
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What’s wrong with accounting?
It’s pretty widely agreed that the accounts that companies publish are not now meeting users needs. But why is that? That’s what I explore in
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We need real change to the financial reporting of climate change if the real threats it creates are to be addressed
The Guardian has noted this morning that: Major businesses and investors in the world’s largest economies should brace themselves for a turbulent transition to a
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