I gave this talk this morning at the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales: Can transparency prevent financial scandals? Richard Murphy FCA Professor
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The Kingman Review has failed in its public duty to all users of accounts
John Kingman utterly failed to deal with the fundamental failure in accounting and auditing standards in his review of the Financial Reporting Council, published this
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The Kingman Review largely fails on reform to the structure of audit regulation
The second report on the future of auditing published this morning is the Kingman Review. Undertaken by former Treasury civil servant and chair of Legal
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Competition and Markets Authority calls for massive audit shake-up
There are two reports out this morning on the future of auditing and by pure chance I will be giving a presentation at the Institute
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Dictatorship is never a matter for irony
I confess to not being Tim Harford’s greatest fan. But he reached new lows in the FT this weekend when saying: The central banks got
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The US plans for a Green New Deal – funded by Green Quantitative Easing
This comes from Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s plan for a Green New Deal, which will be tabled next year: The Plan for a Green New Deal
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Like the vicars of old, Theresa May deserves to be ignored
Democracy is, with the exception of divorce, the clearest embodiment there is of the fundamental human right to change your mind. Those saying that democracy
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Being anti-business makes little sense when the mixed economy is here to stay
There appears to be a worrying trend appearing amongst some on the left. That is to assume that business is necessarily a bad thing. I
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The dissembling on the way to the demand for a hard Brexit
Shall we note what the Brexiteers were saying back in 2016 about leaving the EU? Try watching the video at the top here. What they were saying
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