86. My parting gift

After too many years in the accounting profession, I’m hanging up my boots.  No more statements on Transfer Pricing, no more pleas to our Institute  to drown FRED 50, no more commentaries on the property market, the pensions industry, or  the ludicrous valuations of loss-making web-based business. It’s been fun, this blogging lark.  A platform […]

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74. Do you, like me, groan inwardly when we get into the joyous period that is Christmas?

Christmas is upon us and the stores are full of festive joy. Your staff have already started to plan their Christmas meals, search frantically for presents and those Christmas parties are appearing in their diaries. It wasn’t that long ago that businesses, especially corporate service companies, welcomed the slowdown so they could catch up with […]

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