Gavin Hinks

You’ve got to take your hat off to Alex Horne

Following on from the title of this column, the money’s only worth making if you’re safety is not compromised

Superman, therapist and financial genius. Those are just a few of the roles the average accountant can be expected to occupy over the next couple of years as the downturn does its worst to your clients.

So you’re a finance director and perhaps thinking of expanding your interests with an evening class, maybe a little something to widen your skills base

Open any page in a national newspaper at the moment and the stories on fraud are unmissable

There’s part of me thinks that we should chuck it all in and let the US regulate UK capital markets

There can be few former heads of international accounting firms who get the kind of send off that Kieran Poynter did last week

What are recruitment prospects like for FDs and CFOs during the credit crunch?

When it comes to disclosure of key information, the Top 50 firms are not always the most assiduous of corporate bodies

When Arthur Levitt, the former head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, was commissioned by the US Treasury to have a look at audit choice in the US, it was clear there was always the potential for a much more strident approach than the one taken here in the UK

In this week’s issue of Accountancy Age we raise the prospect that the tax profession has lost its attraction for graduates because of its association, mostly unfairly, with dodgy tax practices

New leaders for the accountancy institutes and associations often get a rough time at first

The chairman’s not for turning. That’s the only conclusion that can be drawn after some of the world’s biggest banks called for a softening of fair value requirements

I winced when I read last week that David Ross, chartered accountant and co-founder of Carphone Warehouse, has been chosen to be the eyes and ears of London mayor Boris Johnson on Locog, the Olympics organising committee

Little by little the US is slowly learning to embrace international accounting standards

It’s particular dismal to watch an accountancy firm go out of business

Has accountancy’s consolidation game played itself out?

This week’s column really is about the money

When the Association of British Insurers berated Stuart Rose at Marks & Spencer for taking on the CEO and chairman’s role, it was made possible because of one man ­- Sir Derek Higgs