Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Fifteen funny books for accountants

  1. Internal Control Weaknesses by Kermit Fraud
  2. Authorisation Limits by Mustapha Siggnatjeur
  3. How Not To Panic At Year End by Wendy Orditors-Cumming
  4. Cash Control for Dummies by Hans Intils
  5. Rough Guide to Accounting by Major Control-Weakness
  6. Double Entry Delights by General Ledgers
  7. Financial Planning for Beginners by Bud Jett
  8. Monthly Reporting by Anna Litticle
  9. Excel Analysis by Rosa Dayter
  10. The Notes to the Accounts by Hugh Kairs
  11. Capital Tax Planning by Muvinov Sure
  12. Insolvency by Justin Casey-Folds
  13. The Missing VAT Trader by Cara Zell
  14. Big Bonus by Laura Cash
  15. Unexplained Difference by Frank D Scussions
With due credit to Graham Thomas-Widger and Karen Watson who posted these (and a few others I didn't get) on AccountingWeb

Monday, July 25, 2011

An accountant with CSE Grade one Woodwork

At Art in Action I started chatting with Bruce Aitken who makes amazing and stylish wooden clocks.

It transpired he used to be a design and technology (DT) teacher. I admitted that I had failed DT at school but explained I did get a CSE grade 1 in Woodwork. "I went on to qualify as an accountant" I added "but no one seemed very interested in my CSE grade 1 in Woodwork."

Bruce's instinctive response made me smile: "Though you could have made a beautiful abacus" he said.

I think the time may have passed.

Thursday, July 21, 2011

I'm an audit. I'm a tax return. Apple ad parody

Not just a parody though. This is also a neat way that one firm highlighted the cross-selling opportunities available to staff. I just wish they hadn't made the tax guy out to be the boring one!

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Wednesday, July 06, 2011

Friday, July 01, 2011

HMRC could pilot RTI on its own payroll

Had a wicked thought last night. Think it belongs on this blog as it made me smile!

HMRC have said that they intend to run a pilot exercise to collate Real Time Information from volunteer employers in April 2012. Mandatory use of RTI for large employers will start from April 2013.

How about HMRC itself volunteers for the pilot re its own payroll? And taking that a stage further, how about if MPs were also included in this experiment?!

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Years ago a senior official was talking about HMRC prosecution policy. He mentioned an occasion when he had lost a case and went back to his...