TS has never been a one for April fools jokes. Usually we’re never up before midday to appreciate them, but also on those rare occasions that w...
View articleFrankly, TS has had it up to here with all this IFRS malarkey. We really can’t be bothered with it any more, and we hold pretty esteemed company with ...
View articleRegular readers will be aware of TS’s aversion to so-called ‘heavyweight’ reading. After all, we’re still struggling with the Harry Potter books. So t...
View articleThere is nothing quite as satisfying as a good night’s sleep, which is why TS can sympathise with Morrison’s departing FD Martin Ackroyd. Strolling l...
View articleRegular readers may recall a story that graced these pages a few weeks back about accountant Wing Kit Chu, who pumped millions of pounds of his employ...
View articleWe know that the relationship between the prime minister and chancellor Gordon Brown is a bit frosty, but TS would have thought that Tony would...
View articleFinger printing, iris scanning and body-odour testing are all things TS has experienced at some point over the years usually at the cop shop or up i...
View articleDuring TS’ customary half-three teabreak, we came across a story of one footballing giant under the pecuniary cosh. Rome-based club Lazio...
View articleUnfortunately, TS isn’t well connected enough to have planted any activists at last week’s ICAEW breakfast briefing with Howard Flight. Bu...
View articleThose of you with your finger on the pulse will have noticed that online travel agent, ticket seller and all-round touter of urgent things, lastminute...
View articleGood luck to any accountants who, like TS, have been trying to contact government departments this afternoon. Maundy Thursday is a half-day for...
View articleEvery accountant knows that TS treads where others daren’t follow like cracks in pavements, or dodgy bars at kicking-out time. But some brave people...
View articleHaving recently joined Ernst & Young from his previous positions as finance director of Manchester Airport and the Commonwealth Games, Davi...
View articleHaving received our final warning at work for wasting company money ringing chatlines, TS decided to do something constructive with the phone last wee...
View articleThere’s nothing quite like listening to Britain’s finance director, Gordon Brown, talk at length about how well we’re doing economically, and how plea...
View articleTS is no stranger to being on the wrong side of the law, and we still insist, along with our associate Father Ted Crilly (pictured), that the money wa...
View articleTS has long been advised by friends to get into reading ‘the classics’, rather than the latest pulp fiction by Marian Keyes or Dan Brown. So off we we...
View articleSome of you, dear readers, may well think that Gordon Brown is simply going too far with his anti-tax-avoidance measures. But frankly the iron...
View articleTS has watched with great interest as cash-shell Boustead attempts (so far in vain) to oust Kingston Smith as its auditor. We just hope the firm knows...
View articleVincent Cable is spoiling for a fight. We know, it’s a bit of a surprise, as the Liberal Democrat shadow chancellor is not the most pugilistic of poli...
View articleSlowly, but surely, TS is spreading its tendrils of influence outside of the profession. We’ve already seen fans emerge in the European Commission and...
View articleWe’re sure you’ll agree that the pop charts haven’t been the same since Busted! split up. McFly just don’t cut it. But we don’t care about the crummy ...
View articleWith TS refusing to watch TV until the disgraceful decision to scrap Ground Force is reversed, the latest ad campaign from Brit sports-car makers MG h...
View articleTS has long had delusions of grandeur over its standing in the global political community but they are delusions no longer. European administrative af...
View articleJoan Collins is a lady not to be crossed, as her tax advisers Citroen Wells recently learned. The firm is in a bit of a legal battle with the T...
View articleTS loves Softworld, that glamorous accounting software expo at least, the bit that involves boozy lunches and chatting to the pretty marketin...
View articleSo, it turns out that Welsh members of the ICAEW, not only want to stop the merger with CIPFA (and possibly CIMA), but they’ve had enough of being lin...
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