Friday, April 29, 2016

Does an FD need to keep a close touch on everything?


A UK based Finance Director once reported that he had realised all was not well when he discovered that the company's BMW was actually in Madrid and being used by a prostitute.

Apparently this led to the FD's realisation that the company was not totally committed to traditional corporate governance.

Friday, April 15, 2016

Monty Python - The audit

Strangely current despite dating back to pre decimilisation!
NB: Only worth watching through to 1.46. The rest is quite separate.


Friday, April 08, 2016

Fighting off the ladies is half the job

While this t-shirt is self mocking it did make me smile, hence the reason it's on the blog this week.

It's available from TeeSpring.

HOW strong is HMRC's case?

Years ago a senior official was talking about HMRC prosecution policy. He mentioned an occasion when he had lost a case and went back to his...