If TS was asked to come up with a list of its top 10 heroes (watch Channel 4 pinch the idea over the next few weeks along with the ‘world’...
View articleWhen TS isn’t off gallivanting in the far corners of the earth looking for the accountancy stories that concern the dear bean counters of Britai...
View articleAll change at ACCA. Chief executive Allan Blewitt is a man who likes to do things his way and some of those who fell victim to his predecessor’s...
View articleThe two traditional signs of a healthy economy, are how difficult it is to hail a London taxi and how long you have to wait to get a table at a decent...
View articleAlthough TS admits to partaking in the odd bit of ‘creative’ accounting – such as booking a… Read More...
View articleYet more examples have reached TS of the lengths the Big Four – and even some companies – will go to in order to attract new accoun...
View articleIn its youth, TS used to hang around with other comedy back-page types and pretend to be a band of heroes, usually the A-Team (TS played ‘mad’ Murdoch...
View articleSince becoming internal market commissioner at the EC, Charlie McCreevy has been working darned hard. And finally his efforts are paying off, as TS is...
View articleOn bad days, TS tends to wonder what on earth it is doing in a job that involves writing about IAS39 and the thrilling issue of tax on white vans, whi...
View articleIt was supposed to be a gala evening - a night when we would celebrate another hard-working year in the accounting world. Instead the Accountancy Age...
View articleLast week’s annual ICAEW Brussels conference offered up the perfect stage for IASB supreme Sir David Tweedie to show off his talents at what he ...
View articleWe’re sure that, by now, you’re all fed up to the back teeth of hearing that Tesco’s continuing bash at global domination has been c...
View articleThe heralding of a general election, strangely enough, coincides with TS’s requisite one-month-every-five-years hibernation period. But this tim...
View articleTS has never been the biggest fan of an aquatic lifestyle. Ever since seeing Jaws at the cinema, we’ve been afraid even to put our hands in a bo...
View articleAs far as taxes go, and as far as TS really wants to think about them, VAT has always been one of the most perplexing. I mean we already get taxed on ...
View articleThe demise of a long-standing institution is always a sad occasion, especially when no-one seems to notice. TS… Read More...
View articleNationalism raised its ugly head in the world of accountancy again this week, with ICAS going all ‘Braveheart’ over the proposed merger be...
View articleIf TS hadn’t spent the weekend chasing poultry round a field in Berkshire (don’t ask) we would have been tempted to pop into London to see...
View articleBeing a huge fan of the finest sport in the world, darts, TS was a little perturbed to hear that there is a new contender for Phil ‘The Power...
View articleCharged with handling one of the biggest single cost-cutting drives the BBC has ever seen, TS was surprised to hear of group finance director Zarin Pa...
View articleA few too many reports of administrations have hit the old TS in-tray in recent times, but we suppose it keeps those darned turnaround experts in work...
View articleTS isn’t averse to the odd bit of shameless self promotion, our endless plugs for this blog site in Accountancy Age prove that, but even we would balk...
View articleFar be it for TS to take the moral high ground, given its past misdemeanours, but we were genuinely shocked at the actions of former PwC audit manager...
View articleTS is renowned for using any excuse to hold a celebratory party. In fact we’ve been known to stay up partying all night on Mother’s Day, even t...
View articleAs you well know, dear readers, TS is quite partial to cracking open a bottle of bubbly and/or sinking a pint or five down the local alehouse. But, ap...
View articleIt has taken some time for TS to get used to this new post-Enron world of accountancy, all the little backhanders we used to get have dried up complet...
View articleTS’s dreams of creating an all star band that can storm to the top of the accountancy music charts are halfway there! Courtesy of Dennis Flynn, we now...
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