The government has made shareholders the focus of its audit reforms when stakeholders should have been at the top of its list of priorities
Thursday, March 18th, 2021The government has published its long-awaited proposals for accounting and auditing reform this morning. They are underwhelming, despite running to 232 pages. At the core
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Should accounting face facts or stick its head in the sand?
Wednesday, March 17th, 2021I wrote yesterday about my proposal for sustainable cost accounting. One commentator, in particular, engaged with me on this issue. In several lengthy exchanges it
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Sustainable cost accounting: a worked example
Tuesday, March 16th, 2021As many readers will know, apart from my work for Tax Research UK I also direct the Corporate Accountability Network. In that capacity, I work
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Unless a business embraces climate change it is no longer a going concern
Monday, March 15th, 2021Two articles in the FT this morning make clear that the issue of climate change and accounting is not going away. This is the headline
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Why inflation is not a threat
Sunday, March 14th, 2021I have just posted this thread on inflation on Twitter. It will feature in ‘Money for nothing and my Tweets for free’ in due course:
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Strengthening audit for the benefit of stakeholders, the environment, and society
Friday, March 12th, 2021I am sharing the following blog from Luminate, which refers to a project from which the Corporate Accountability Network, which I direct, benefits. The total
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Will Biden blow it?
Thursday, March 11th, 2021Ambrose Evans Pritchard is the International Business Editor of The Daily Telegraph. In an article on 9 March he claimed that Joe Biden’s $1.9trn stimulus
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How hollowed-out firms can manufacture their distributable profits using transfer pricing
Wednesday, March 10th, 2021I have had a new paper, co-authored with Prof Adam Leaver, published by the University of Sheffield Centre for Research into Accounting and Finance in
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The crime of indifference to the death of others arising as a consequence of your actions is one by which politicians should be judged
Monday, March 8th, 2021I suggested last week that all Conservative budgets have a habit of unravelling. Sunak’s has followed that seemingly inevitable path. Domestically, the nurses’ pay offer
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