30 March 2016 By Atul K. Shah The failure of the UK’s fifth largest bank, HBOS, led to over £52 billion of losses, and had a significant impact on jobs, pensions and savings for thousands of people. In spite of a large number of enquiries and reports, no-one has gone to prison, nor has there so […]
25 March 2016 By Atul Shah The growing size and influence of “big four” accountancy firms as they further transform themselves into global business services supermarkets is generating alarm among many who are concerned about ethics, independence and truth. Our research at Suffolk Business School has raised a number of questions about the firms’ ethics, conflicts […]
18 March 2016 By Tony Shearer In the current issue of economia, house magazine of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, the institute’s chief executive Michael Izza (pictured right) let it be known that the UK had, once again, become one of the world’s ten least corrupt countries, citing Transparency International’s 2015 “global […]
4th March 2016 [UPDATED 10TH MARCH 2016 TO INCLUDE A STATEMENT FROM POLICE SCOTLAND] It is increasingly apparent that our supposedly “independent” prosecutorial agencies — which include the Crown Prosecution Service in England and Wales, and the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service in Scotland — are useless when it comes to high-level fraud committed […]
By Ian Fraser Published: The Treasurer Date: 1 March 2016 Policymakers in Brussels and within European parliaments still face turbulence as they endeavour to encourage growth and restore unity. Treasurers are more sanguine, but likewise treading carefully. Ian Fraser reports Back in July 2012, after a turbulent period when the euro’s very survival seemed to […]