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JG-J jousts with the Boyle-meister

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:23:02 +0000

Tis the season again, No, not that season!

TS is talking about that time of year when the profession is dishing out its pearls of wisdom at high-profile round tables and panellist meetings, and even the head of the Financial Reporting Council isn't safe from a spot of gentle mickey-taking it appears....

Does the ICAEW float your boat?

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:59:59 +0000

It is almost certainly the most exciting accountancy-related development to hit the Lord Mayor's show in years....

Earth to PricewaterhouseClusters

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:13:30 +0000

Great excitement at PricewaterhouseCoopers this morning, which has decided to organise its firms into three different groups. A merger, TS thinks it's called, though as is usual with these things, what exactly is merging is beyond even the most sophisticated Kremlinologists on TS' books.

CODA man tops CIA's most wanted list... sort of

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:21:20 +0000

TS found itself lunch at the Criterion in Piccadilly with a wanted man recently. And the afternoon with biz-software giants Coda had started so well.

When I grow up, I want to be an auditor

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:14:36 +0000

TS ran into an old friend that hadn't been seen since university and found out about some truly worrying career aspirations...

Going for Gold

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:51:21 +0000

If it isn't hockey players or massive firms signing up to be official partners, TS has found yet another accountancy link to the Olympics...

Testing Times for IPs

Thu, 22 May 2008 10:21:04 +0000

So, if your business was in crisis at the start of England's summer Test series against New Zealand why do you think you would have been hard pushed to find a turnaround specialist to come in and perform the necessary rescue?

Happy e-scribblings at BDO?

Tue, 20 May 2008 15:36:45 +0000

The big question for all watchers of BDO Stoy Hayward is - with the new management regime about to take over, will TS continue to receive the boss's thoughts in blog form?

Tut-tut, HMRC staff

Mon, 12 May 2008 15:30:58 +0000

Caught in the act! More than 600 staff at the taxman have been disciplined for accessing personal or sensitive data, Jane Kennedy, the minister in charge of the department, has said....

Thompson's giant bag

Fri, 09 May 2008 14:17:07 +0000

TS was down at Westminster on a typically changeable British summer's day, but the temperature was turned up more than a few notches as Jon Thompson faced Public Accounts Committee rottweilers.

E&Y 'merger'- it's a TS mystery

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:40:49 +0000

TS is a bit hazy as to whether or not Ernst & Young is actually merging its European firms.

CODA Gives You Wings

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:06:10 +0000

The lovely people at software company CODA have organised a group of number crunchers to leap off the end of a 6m high runway at the Red Bull Flugtag.....

'Pole' tax stripped away

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:12:09 +0000

It brought a tear to TS' eye after a Texas judge struck a blow for good old fashioned common sense by declaring a $5-per-customer top-up fee on strip club patrons was unconstitutional.

Mistress shifting

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:53:27 +0000

Mistress shifting

There are many reasons to dislike the government's attitude to husband and wife businesses, or so-called income shifting. Liberal Democrat MP John Thurso has come up with another one....

Warburton beats Whiting et al

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:14:46 +0000

As if our recent table of the most quoted accountancy firms was not enough for you, TS has more. Oh yes....