The Financial Reporting Council misses the point about auditing, again
Friday, April 15th, 2022I have a column on the failure of the Financial Reporting Council’s new moves on corporate governance and audit registration, announced this week, on AccountingWEB,
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Sunak: they non-dom hedge fund managers friend
Wednesday, April 13th, 2022Rowena Mason noted in the Guardian yesterday that Sunak has not made many big statements on tax. Nor has he had a lot to say
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How do we stop the coup? That is the question now
Wednesday, April 13th, 2022The last pretence that we live in a democracy in the UK collapsed yesterday. Johnson and Sunak received fines for attending a party that they
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What is it that can rid this country of toxic Tory indifference?
Sunday, April 10th, 2022Over the last few days I have listened to more radio phone-ins than is normal, largely because I have been waiting to take part as
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The very wealthy in the UK really do pay much less tax than they should
Thursday, April 7th, 2022The Institute for Fiscal Studies has issued a new report this morning which is firmly in their own tax territory and appears to make recommendations
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Central bankers need to be put back in charge of the paper clips where they can do relatively little harm
Wednesday, April 6th, 2022The Guardian has reported that: The world economy may be on the brink of a new inflationary era with persistently higher growth in consumer prices
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The government is claiming that all the money it issues is asset backed, and that is complete nonsense
Monday, April 4th, 2022Peter May, who pretty much runs the Progressive Pulse website these days, even though I am its director, wrote a really important blog on Friday.
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The International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation is failing society with its proposals on accounting for climate change
Monday, April 4th, 2022I noted that the International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation had issued, through its International Sustainability Standards Board, two new standards on accounting for environmental change
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Government does not come worse than this
Sunday, April 3rd, 2022This column by me was in The Sheffield Star yesterday: There are some dates that go down in economic history. April 1 this year might
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