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ACCA exam tips released. Will you have a great escape or a rubbish escape?

Published on: 24 May 2013

Those of you that are attempting the June 2013 ACCA exams will no doubt be feeling a mixture of emotions. Some of you will be fully confident of passing although probably the majority of you are only hopeful of passing at this stage and are frantically trying to cram as much knowledge into your heads [...]


Would you be able to remember all these meals?

Published on: 03 May 2013

A lot of the readers of this blog are either studying finance or working in a finance job. A lot of you no doubt enjoy eating at a restaurant now and then and can remember some favourite places you’ve eaten in the past. I’m sure though that there aren’t many of you that have combined [...]


Surely you’re not watching that on your phone?

Published on: 04 Apr 2013

A few years ago Blackberry used to be the phone of choice amongst business people but the emergence of Apple’s iPhone and various Android smartphones has resulted in sales of Blackberry phones plummeting. Earlier this year Blackberry launched their new phone, the Z10 and this was seen to be a make or break situation for [...]


Does this help you concentrate?

Published on: 02 Apr 2013

The Journal of Consumer Research published the results of five experiments into how the level of background noise can impact on performance when someone is working on creative tasks. The  results are interesting and in simple terms found that a moderate level of ambient noise is better for enhancing performance on creative tasks than both [...]


Will auditors become more like Tom Cruise in the future? Well, if I was to make a prediction…

Published on: 28 Feb 2013

Gone are the days when auditors were manually checking and ticking lots of pieces of paper. Today’s auditing techniques involve significant use of computers. But how far can this computer use go? Will they be able to predict when accounting fraud is going to take place as opposed to tracking transactions that have already occurred? [...]


Should Ernst & Young have done this?

Published on: 21 Jan 2013

I think truth and honesty in business are vital. I can therefore say in all truthfulness and honesty that I think Ernst & Young is a great company. They have some tremendous people working for them and the students I’ve met over the years have all been fantastic. If I’m really honest and truthful though [...]


Would you really drink this coffee…

Published on: 21 Dec 2012

Anyone that has studied hard for their exams will almost certainly at one time or another utilised the services of a strong coffee. Whilst desperately trying to cram that last bit of knowledge into your brain before the exams there is often a temptation to grab a strong coffee late in the night to keep [...]


Your chance to win a free ACCA or CIMA course…

Published on: 22 Nov 2012

Wow – it only seems like yesterday that we started this blog and yet, here we are this week sending out our 100th blog newsletter. We’ve also just exceeded 33,000 fans on facebook so a big, big thank you to all of you that read the blog and thank you also for all your kind [...]


Surely everybody should get this benefit at work?

Published on: 19 Nov 2012

Having a motivated team in the office is key to any business. As well as a salary component, a person’s remuneration package could include other benefits such as flexible working days, health insurance and access to an executive jet. I mentioned access to an executive jet because surely all of you have got regular access [...]


Are you paid peanuts or do you get a fair salary?

Published on: 17 Oct 2012

How would you feel if you were doing exactly the same job as the person next to you but he or she was being paid more than you? My guess is that you wouldn’t be feeling too happy as the principles of fairness and equality would clearly be broken. It also raises the discussion of [...]