It’s not been a good week for the UK profession:
- Former accountant to 1960/70s rock stars Lord Levy beamed at TV reporters after he was questioned by police over the ‘cash for peerages’ which some say threaten’s Blair’s continued presidency premiership. Some are concerned that Levy’s training means he not only knows where the bodies are buried, but has the records to prove it. He’s probably got the brown envelopes numbered and filed in a secret drawer but not recorded in Sage Line 50. ‘You can count on a Chartered Accountant‘ – you bet!
- A secretary working for Dixon Wilson in Paris was fired for her 3,000 reader a day Petite Anglaise blog. Allegations of bringing the firm into disrepute and all that. Dixon Wilson audited a company I worked for many years ago. They were sticklers then, locking up the green and purple ‘tick’ ink at lunchtime. No progress there then. Scoble gets a central fact wrong but has interesting opinions about corporate blogging.
- PwC joins the fashion for management reshuffling in an effort to make even more money at a time when Austin Mitchell is tabling an early day motion in Parliament with a view to breaking the Big Four anti-competitive grip on the FTSE100. Poetic juxtaposition.
