Ian Fleming of Carlisle-based Armstrong Watson & Co, not the James Bond the same name has a cracking story in the latest issue of Tax Adviser....
View articleTS can not-so-exclusively reveal that the good times are back. Yes, we too read the Accountancy Age Top 50 last month, which showed that firms’ revenu...
View articleTS should start with two apologies. Firstly for the bad language that follows but secondly for coming to this email exchange between two KPMG partners...
View articleTS is currently in training for the Olympics in 2012. The effort of picking up all those free drinks in the corporate troughing enclosures could, afte...
View articleColin has been in contrite mood since last week’s remarks about Liverpool. See what he has to say by clicking on the above image. Read More...
View articleWhen Accountancy Age revealed a couple of weeks ago that the CCAB, the profession’s umbrella body, was in danger of falling apart because of a spat be...
View articleTS is well aware that, if you’re the Chinese assistant finance minister in town to speak to UK’s accountants, you’re going to be in demand. Read More...
View articleSo farewell then, Jon Bunn, head of media relations at PwC, and one-time head choirboy of this parish (Bunn was news editor on Accountancy Age in a pa...
View articleDoes ACCA chief executive Allen Blewitt know what he’s done? Interviewed in The Times last week, he warmed to his theme that accountants could help to...
View articleSometimes, when TS is reading a particularly ridiculous tabloid tale, or watching another pathetic interview by Natasha Kaplinsky on BBC Breakfast, we...
View articleLetters have been flying in over Colin’s apparent faux pas of mentioning Liverpool in his strip. Gareth Edwards says ‘… Read More...
View articleTS knows that PricewaterhouseCoopers didn’t get to the top of the accounting tree by being a lily-livered bunch of namby pambies (apologies to a...
View articleDear me, what ever happened to the famous scouse sense of humour? Or perhaps that’s just another false stereotype that TS shouldn’t promot...
View articleColin knows all about Finnish methods to avoid late payments. Click on the image above to share his wisdom… Read More...
View articleWith pay day still seemingly an age away and our credit card balance hitting its limit, TS has been concerned that nasty debt-collecting types might&h...
View articleThe legal world was rocked by last week’s revelation that High Court judge Mr Justice Laddie would be standing down because he was, it seems, bored wi...
View articleWhen TS first came on to the Accountancy Age payroll, we were offered a relocation package. At the time, £100 seemed like a reasonable amount to move ...
View articleWe know that the drama down at the High Court – you know, that case involving Ernst &Young and £2bn, as far as TS can recall – is a serious matter...
View articleMore excitement from the Equitable case. TS understands that the recent heat has been too much for the lawyers involved in the case, baking in their s...
View articleYou might remember comments made by new ICAEW president Ian Morris recently about chief exec Eric Anstee. He admitted that his wife thought Anstee had...
View articleKPMG hearts are all a flutter. Any young lady from the Big Four firm reading The Times today will have noted that there are rumours Prince Wills could...
View articleAt this time of year, many, many people suddenly get the urge to stroll down to their local tennis courts for a set or two, having never picked up a t...
View articleTS has a new addition to its online portfolio. You can now read about the escapades of Colin and the others at Winkwater International right here. To ...
View article‘There’s only ooooooooone Mike Warburton,’ TS was heard singing while staggering home from Grant Thornton’s press bash last week. Alas, our son...
View articleWhen TS thinks of the huge volume of work constantly being thrown its way, we’re often reminded of the Red Weed from War of the Worlds, and that very ...
View articleApart from the smell of freshly-cut grass and a dozen gigantic fruit-filled glasses brimming with Pimms, TS loves nothing more in the summer than the ...
View articleAnne Redston, formerly of Ernst & Young and voted tax ‘personality of the year’ in the recent Taxation awards, will shortly catch the slow boat to...
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