A Titular Coincidence
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A Titular Coincidence

19y rumo , Writer

A Titular Coincidence

Titles are important, as any self-respecting civil servant will tell you. So important, in fact, you might want to spend, oh, minutes discussing it be...

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Reasons to be Cheerful
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Reasons to be Cheerful

19y rumo , Writer

Reasons to be Cheerful

TS got to thinking the other day about how miserable it can be being the back page of a respected journal, while downing our third expensed cognac in ...

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Blog Off!
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Blog Off!

19y rumo , Writer

Blog Off!

  It is with some trepidation that TS usually embarks upon an interweb surfing trip, given our fear of electrickery, but sometimes these blog thi...

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Kicking a Man When he’s Down
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Kicking a Man When he’s Down

19y rumo , Writer

Kicking a Man When he’s Down

  TS – along with the rest of the accounting profession – was distressed to hear of the beating suffered by accountant John Stewart f...

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Payback time for office slaves
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Payback time for office slaves

19y rumo , Writer

Payback time for office slaves

As a hard-working back page, TS is no stranger to working the odd late night, for no reward, to ensure our dear readers get their dose of gags and gos...

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Better late than never
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Better late than never

19y rumo , Writer

Better late than never

With the New Year now only a fuzzy memory it was a little surprising to see another 2005 calendar land on the TS news desk. This late arrival came fro...

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A blind bull on the rampage
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A blind bull on the rampage

19y rumo , Writer

A blind bull on the rampage

  The only reading material TS usually receives from accountants are piles of files on IFRS and tax. So we were excited to discover that Andrew S...

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In a Leather over the Olympics
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In a Leather over the Olympics

19y rumo , Writer

In a Leather over the Olympics

All this Olympic bid schmoozing has got TS dreaming of the possibility that London might actually come up trumps, upset all the odds and beat Paris to...

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What’s an Enron?
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What’s an Enron?

19y rumo , Writer

What’s an Enron?

‘Do the younger generation know nothing, ’TS grumbled into our Horlicks the other night (we forget which night, but at our age we forget so much). Whi...

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Sorry, u r fired. Cul8r :-(
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Sorry, u r fired. Cul8r :-(

19y rumo , Writer

Sorry, u r fired. Cul8r :-(

Accountants aren’t best best known for their technological prowess. So expectations that the Revenue is to roll out compulsory online filing in ...

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Romance is dead at E&Y
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Romance is dead at E&Y

19y rumo , Writer

Romance is dead at E&Y

Love was in the air this week as TS enjoyed the flowers and devotion that comes with Valentines Day. Thanks, boss. But down at Ernst & Young, affe...

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Accountants take it on the chin
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Accountants take it on the chin

19y rumo , Writer

Accountants take it on the chin

TS was glad to see recent government guidance on dealing with intruders meant it was OK to kill burglars – in the right circumstances. After all...

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