It’s high time the burden of the ‘going concern statement’ was reformed. The FRC has a plan to compel company directors to issue sta...
View articleI love the drivel that comes from some people when arguing about regulation. Take the introduction of international accounting standards to the US. Th...
View articleLast year’s Accountancy Age Personality of the Year award winner Alex Horne is moving back to the Football Association, where he was once financ...
View articleSo the Deloittee annual report is out and we learn that chairman John Connolly earned a whopping £5.7m. Despite running the second largest firm in th...
View articleI am intrigued to read of research that concludes that US CFOs are not exactly smitten with Barack Obama as a presidential prospect. Produced by the U...
View articleI’ve been talking to a lot of people this week about executive remuneration and about how its calculated. A contact suggested I go back to the r...
View articleRarely has there been such a scathing attack. Tim Bush, director at Hermes Asset Management, and scurge of regulators, chose today to air forthright v...
View articleIf there’s one topic of conversation among mid-tier firms this week its the future prospects of troubled Birmingham firm Wenham Major. Read More...
View articleYou’ll have spotted at the weekend that Alison Reed, former FD at Standard Life, has won her legal battle with the erstwhile employer – wa...
View articleThe political pressure to do something about fair value/mark to market accounting is mounting. Read More...
View articlePhilip Neal is worth talking about. He’s the NHS FD recently jailed for fraud at Chelmsford Crown Court after he confessed to false accounting to infl...
View articleMake no mistake, fair value, or marking to market is under a full blooded frontal assault by those who have had their fingers singed by the credit cru...
View articleYou’ve got to feel for Jeremy Newman. No sooner has he got the top job running BDO International than someone throws a spanner in the works and ...
View articleThere is a furore currently underway over Societe General’s accounting treatment of the six billions euros by rogue trader Jerome Kerviel. Read More...
View articleWe’re all waiting to hear whether Alistair Darling will make any changes to his non-dom policy in tomorrow’s Budget, his first. Read More...
View articleEn France ce weekend and the press is full of the euro4.9bn fraud at Societe General. Astonishing that another rogue trader should appear in the form ...
View articleForging relationships is important in business. You need to do your networking, commit yourself to the glad handing and meet the suits who might just ...
View articleSir John Harvey-Jones, that trouble shooter and icon of British Business, has passed away aged 88. He was remembered in thousands of words of copy for...
View articleFascinating to see Barack Obama claim victory in the first battle for the US presidential race, coming out tops in the Democrat causcases in Iowa. Rea...
View articleHere’s someone whose New Year has got off to a flying start – Kim Woo-choong, founder of the Korean conglomerate Daewoo. Read More...
View articleYesterday I took a phone call which at first appeared like it had the potential to ruin my Christmas and New Year. Read More...
View articleCan’t help thinking there are some nervous FDs out there thinking about their annual audit and wondering how they stop their credit crunch poppi...
View articleSo I’ve learned new things about being an accountant in nthe field for an NGO. Read More...
View articleOK this is going to be something of a confession. I’d always thought that, while NGOs did a lot of worthy work, they were probably guilty of thr...
View articleDouglas Flint, FD at HSBC, finds himself in a spot of bother this week – one particular investor doesn’t like way executive pay was disclo...
View articleSo we learn this morning it was not a lone gunman. Read More...
View articleCan I afford to be sympathetic toward Paul Gray this early on in the scandal over HMRC managing to lose the records of 25 million people?… Rea...
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