Los Bank Auditors- I'm on an Audit

Fifteen funny books for accountants

1. Internal Control Weaknesses by Kermit Fraud
2. Authorisation Limits by Mustapha Siggnatjeur
3. How Not To Panic At Year End by Wendy Orditors-Cumming
4. Cash Control for Dummies by Hans Intils
5. Rough Guide to Accounting by Major Control-Weakness
6. Double Entry Delights by General Ledgers
7. Financial Planning for Beginners by Bud Jett
8. Monthly Reporting by Anna Litticle
9. Excel Analysis by Rosa Dayter
10. The Notes to the Accounts by Hugh Kairs
11. Capital Tax Planning by Muvinov Sure
12. Insolvency by Justin Casey-Folds
    
13. The Missing VAT Trader by Cara Zell
14. Big Bonus by Laura Cash
15. Unexplained Difference by Frank D Scussions

With due credit to Graham Thomas-Widger and Karen Watson who posted these (and a few others I didn't get) on AccountingWeb

An accountant with CSE Grade one Woodwork

At Art in Action I started chatting with Bruce Aitken who makes amazing and stylish wooden clocks.

It transpired he used to be a design and technology (DT) teacher. I admitted that I had failed DT at school but explained I did get a CSE grade 1 in Woodwork. "I went on to qualify as an accountant" I added "but no one seemed very interested in my CSE grade 1 in Woodwork."

Bruce's instinctive response made me smile: "Though you could have made a beautiful abacus" he said.

I think the time may have passed.

I'm an audit. I'm a tax return. Apple ad parody

Not just a parody though. This is also a neat way that one firm highlighted the cross-selling opportunities available to staff. I just wish they hadn't made the tax guy out to be the boring one!

The Tax Cheat song

Harold Rosenbaum Chartered Accountant Extreme

This is the first of a five part series. You can find the rest on YouTube if you care..

The Income Tax demand - Beryl Reid and Hugh Paddick

This wonderful sketch dates back to 1968. Have attitudes changed much in the meantime?

HMRC could pilot RTI on its own payroll

Had a wicked thought last night. Think it belongs on this blog as it made me smile!

HMRC have said that they intend to run a pilot exercise to collate Real Time Information from volunteer employers in April 2012. Mandatory use of RTI for large employers will start from April 2013.

How about HMRC itself volunteers for the pilot re its own payroll? And taking that a stage further, how about if MPs were also included in this experiment?!