{"id":306,"date":"2006-12-19T17:31:49","date_gmt":"2006-12-19T15:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2006\/12\/19\/accountants-cant-do-it-but-campaigners-can\/"},"modified":"2006-12-19T17:31:49","modified_gmt":"2006-12-19T15:31:49","slug":"accountants-cant-do-it-but-campaigners-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2006\/12\/19\/accountants-cant-do-it-but-campaigners-can\/","title":{"rendered":"Accountants can&#8217;t do it &#8211; but campaigners can"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2006\/12\/19\/where-are-the-accountants-on-bae\/\" target=\"_blank\">already noted<\/a> the complete absence of comment by the professional bodies representing accountants regarding the dropping of corruption allegations concerning BAE.<\/p>\n<p>Now we are put to shame by two NGOs, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caat.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Campaign Against the Arms Trade<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecornerhouse.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cornerhouse<\/a> who have together served notice of their intent to challenge the government's decision to drop this investigation. Their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caat.org.uk\/press\/recent.php?url=191206prs\" target=\"_blank\">press release<\/a> makes sober reading.<\/p>\n<p>Why is it that a small NGO like Cornerhouse has to take a public position on corruption when the public have always assumed that this is the role of the accounting profession through the audits it undertakes. Shouldn't we be ashamed?<\/p>\n<p>And what was the role of KPMG as auditors to BAE in all this anyway?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have already noted the complete absence of comment by the professional bodies representing accountants regarding the dropping of corruption allegations concerning BAE. Now we<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2006\/12\/19\/accountants-cant-do-it-but-campaigners-can\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,14,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accounting","category-corruption","category-tax-havens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}