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Naked accountants…

Published on: 29 Apr 2013

Is this you? At a young age you decided that a career in finance was what you wanted. Whilst the other kids were running around dreaming of being football players or famous actresses you were busy dreaming about spreadsheets and calculators. You then went to University and worked hard. After that you studied for a [...]


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 [...]


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 [...]


Is this the best or worst resignation letter ever?

Published on: 26 Sep 2012

Here’s an interesting question. If you resign from your job, what should your resignation letter look like? Should it be simple, brief and straight to the point or should it be sent to the whole office and include various accusations about your boss including a certain, how shall we say it but, adult liaison in [...]


Who do the Big 4 want to win the US election?

Published on: 24 Sep 2012

It hardly seems like 4 years ago that President Barak Obama became America’s 44th president but here we are with just a few weeks to go before the next US election takes place. Whilst there will be plenty of arguments for and against each candidate over the next couple of months I came across an [...]


Should this former Deloitte accountant become a doctor?

Published on: 10 Sep 2012

One of the key attributes of finance and business people should be ethical behaviour. Note that I say “should be” as not everyone seems to agree with this approach. Former Deloitte UK employee Nahied Kabir seems to have a slightly different view of what is acceptable in terms of ethical behavior. Here’s a quick multiple [...]