If something goes wrong on an audit, whose fault is it? Is it the partner’s fault or the junior member of staff’s fault? Over in Australia, the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper has provided some interesting commentary on a legal case that is currently taking place concerning an audit undertaken by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). The background to [...]

Now I’m not talking about the nutritional benefits of food. No, I’m talking about the cost to you of purchasing food. The recent tax budget in the UK has caused a bit of a debate. The background to matters is that, as is the case in a lot of countries, when food is sold in [...]

It’s been a mixed year for Piet Hein Meeter the (former) chief executive of Deloitte in the Netherlands. It started well for him as he was appointed as the new CEO of the Dutch operations of Deloitte on the 1st of January this year. However within a few months his fortunes have changed dramatically. Deloitte [...]

The IT guys I’ve met in my career have all been very nice people. Admittedly they all seem to be slightly mad and do tend to talk in a strange language with lots of mentions of “coding this and coding that”. To be fair though they all probably think I’m slightly mad when I talk [...]

Winning the lottery is a life changing experience. The recent Euromillions lottery had a first prize of £38 million. In a lot of companies, groups of individuals get together to form a syndicate and they combine their money and enter into a lottery. The idea is that by combining your money you have more entries [...]

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 [...]

Life can be difficult if you’re a man. You fall in love and decide to get married. The challenge is that you have to ask the love of your life to get married and what happens if she says no? It’s a leap year this year and today is the 29th February. This means that [...]

The 84th Academy Awards ceremony (the Oscars) took place last night in Los Angeles. Pwc have looked after the balloting process of the Oscars for 78 years and since they have been involved they have counted in excess of 450,000 ballots and filled over 2,600 envelopes with the winning names. According to pwc there has [...]

Passing professional exams is a tough exercise. You’ll only pass them if you work hard and put in the hours of studying that are required. Occasionally people will no doubt try to cheat and maybe try to grab a quick glance over at the person next to them to see what they are writing. The [...]

So there I was sat down yesterday having a nice cup of coffee and reading the Sunday Times when I saw a full page advert on page 8 which was rather intriguing. It was interesting as it wasn’t clear what it was advertising. There was no reference to a product or company. It started with [...]