Friday, September 23, 2011

And you thought ICAEW was focused on accountancy....


This sign in the Gents at One Moorgate Place (Chartered Accountants Hall) always amuses me.  It seems to suggest that the ICAEW is 'bringing you energy efficient hand drying'.

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Who is to blame for problems with the tax authorities?

Four tax advisers were bewailing the deterioration in the relationship between the tax authorities and taxpayers.

They thought that they would list the four main causes of the current problems. Their conclusions:


H, M, R and C.

Monday, September 12, 2011

Before PwC, before Coopers & Lybrand, there was Cooper Brothers.....

PwC was initially called PriceWaterhouseCoopers having been formed by the merger of Coopers and Lybrand and Price Waterhouse. Long before th...