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Patisserie Valerie CFO arrested as chain suffers accounting turmoil
Patisserie Valerie CFO Chris Marsh has been arrested for fraud as the company faces collapse, following the discovery of significant accounting... read more
Former partner at Morison KSi member firm charged with fraud
Steven Henning, a former partner of Morison KSi member firm Marks Paneth has been charged with wire fraud in the US. read more
BLSA lifts suspension on KPMG South Africa
Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA), an association of leaders from some of the largest companies within the country, has lifted its suspension... read more
CMA launches audit market review
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched a study of the audit sector in the UK, to examine concerns that it is not working well for... read more
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Venezuela: the race for the dollar
With a new currency following hyperinflation, large sections of the population emigrating to neighbouring countries, an economy on the brink of... read more
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Pleasing everyone
“You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time.” Or so said the fifteenth-century monk and poet, John Lydgate. Abe Lincoln is reputed to have used a similar saying, “You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time…” read more
The question is, “What’s the question?”
It has struck me again over the last few weeks that the keys to success are seldom, if at all, how you look and present yourself, or the level or subject of your education. Although of course they can be factors. read more
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
I can remember my parents’ generation complaining about us Baby Boomers, “They’re just long-haired layabout hippies”, “who’ll never amount to anything, because they’re always listening to their transistor radios and going to discos”. read more