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Apology accepted, David Cameron

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:18:56 +0000

Tory leader David Cameron knows what side his financial bread's buttered. TS picked up on the fact he's called the noble members of the profession 'flint-faced' a couple of weeks ago...... Apology accepted Dave, apology accepted....

Enron: Truth is stranger than fiction

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:56:14 +0000

If the snappy dialogue is anything to go by, then the idea of interpreting the collapse of Enron through the combined mediums of theatre, music, movement and video may not be as ludicrous as it sounds........

It's all in a name

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:20:49 +0000

Mike Broadway has put himself into pole position for a nice bottle of bubbly after answering TS' call for the funniest accountant monikers with this letter.......

Toe lipo

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:20:31 +0000

Accountants are known for trimming the fat off businesses, but TS thinks that doing the same with your toes might be an, ahem step too far....

Animal-unfriendly annual reports

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:54:20 +0000

It's no secret that annual reports are getting bigger and a leading analyst came up with a nice new buzzword for the formidable filings.......

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...

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...

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....