Financial regulation: with Griffith-Jones’ appointment, Britain keeps it in the family
I was surprised and exasperated to learn last week that chancellor George Osborne has rubber-stamped the appointment of John Griffith-Jones, […]
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Clydesdale takeover could see ‘lots of Scots thrown out of their homes’, says expert
NBNK REFUTES CLAIM AS SPECULATION OVER BANKING DEAL GROWS. BY IAN FRASER The possible sale of Clydesdale Bank to an
Accountancy lost sight of its primary role to the detriment of us all
Accountancy has changed beyond recognition since the 1970s. At that time the accountancy professor Roy Sidebotham wrote: “There seems to be
Steve Baker’s bill would expose banks’ false profits, overstated capital and disguised losses
My work on the flawed nature of “mark-to-market” accounting and IFRS accounting standards has been included as supporting evidence in
Charlie Munger: “The accounting profession is a sewer”
In this remarkable interview, Stanford University’s professor Joseph A. Grundfest talks Charlie T. Munger, vice-chairman of Berkshire Hathaway. It might
The FSA/PwC investigation into Royal Bank of Scotland’s ‘bad decisions’ is a joke, right? — the FSA’s RBS report, Part 1
Royal Bank of Scotland probe THE Financial Services Authority’s obsession with “light touch”, laissez-faire regulation in 1997-2008 did more than
The FSA wanted someone to whitewash RBS and, sure enough, PWC obliged — the FSA’s RBS report, Part 2
The Financial Services Authority this morning declared that, after a 17-month “investigation”, it has concluded that none of the RBS
Zermatt Summit: great and the good gather to ‘humanise globalisation’
The ghost of a dead economist was haunting the Zermatt Summit, a new annual event on the subject of ‘humanizing
The unanswered questions around the emergency HBOS cash call
Just four months before its humiliating collapse into the arms of Lloyds, HBOS’s chairman assured shareholders it had sufficient funds
Are “Big Four” accountants a waste of space?
From the evidence submitted to the Treasury Select Committee’s inquiry into the banking crisis, one might conclude that the profession
The curious incident of the regulator in the night–time
The media is barking up the wrong tree. Instead of obsessing about bonuses, they should be focusing on the HBOS
Royal gets its audit duke in Hazard
THE current round of banking shake-ups and merger speculation in the UK market has close parallels with the US of