{"id":64936,"date":"2022-09-30T09:05:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T08:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=64936"},"modified":"2022-09-30T09:05:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T08:05:44","slug":"top-accountants-keep-on-screwing-the-world-for-all-they-can-get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2022\/09\/30\/top-accountants-keep-on-screwing-the-world-for-all-they-can-get\/","title":{"rendered":"Top accountants keep on screwing the world for all they can get"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I posted this Tweet this morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Audit, accounting and economic crises? What crises? Life carries on as normal for the accounting elite as they extract excess profits from their clients, their staff and society at large <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0kw0Jc6a9C\">https:\/\/t.co\/0kw0Jc6a9C<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Richard Murphy (@RichardJMurphy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichardJMurphy\/status\/1575743793676140544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 30, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>To pretend that anything like this level of reward can be justified by the people who run these firms is impossible. This is what oligopoly power looks like, and it is screwing us all.<\/p>\n<p>I apologise that the language has to be so forthright, but for a failing profession, as audit and accountancy is, this is unacceptable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted this Tweet this morning: Audit, accounting and economic crises? What crises? Life carries on as normal for the accounting elite as they extract<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2022\/09\/30\/top-accountants-keep-on-screwing-the-world-for-all-they-can-get\/\"><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":[67,26,81,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountancy","category-accounting","category-auditing","category-ethics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64936","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=64936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}