There is nothing like fear to spook markets. And the closer fear is to home the bigger the spook potential. That’s why Coronavirus has now
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There is a damning indictment of the International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation this morning in the FT. Discussing the need to address climate change reporting, George
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I have already suggested that the new Chancellor should abandon any pretence that there should be a fiscal rule when presenting UK’s budget on March
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The financial media is moving into pre-budget comment mode this morning. According to the FT: Rishi Sunak will have to raise taxes, bend his fiscal
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Gaslighting is a term that has relatively been recently come into common usage to describe a particular form of behaviour. It can refer to a
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I had an article on the above theme on AccountingWEB yesterday. Sometimes it’s fun to do a bit of commercial accounting. There is added value
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As the FT reported yesterday afternoon: Companies and their auditors will be more closely scrutinised over how they report the impact of climate change, under
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I quoted Lord Sumption on the end of democracy yesterday. Ivan Horrocks pointed out a US version of the same theme. This is Bill Maher’s
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The Financial Secrecy Index: who are the world’s worst offenders? A Tax Justice Network podcast brings this  tour: