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12 reasons blogging isn’t dead

January 2, 2012 General

Again over the holiday season, there was a minor kerfuffle about whether blogging is dead. Kicked off by social media wonk Jeremiah Owyang, pundits from all sides came weighing in on the topic. Does it matter? Should professionals care? It is always worth looking at the two or more sides of an impassioned argument so [...]

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Dell and Skype: vendors I will be hard pressed to recommend in 2012

January 2, 2012 General

As we closed out 2011, 28th December will live long in the memory of some. That was the day the New York Times, Twitter, Dell and Skype all had issues. Some were more serious than others but at least two gave me pause for thought about vendor recommendation going into 2012. Dell Stuart Lynn, who [...]

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Things to ponder over the holiday season

December 21, 2011 General

2011 has been a hectic year for me. I’ve learned a great deal, seen some fantastic technology but as always it is the personalities I get to meet that excite me the most. For those of you not yelling at clients in an effort to get them compliant by 31st December, here’s a few things [...]

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Why ClearBooks must be avoided

December 3, 2011 General

I have been a hard critic of ClearBooks but the latest couple of posts by CEO Tim Fouracre are breathtaking. First up, he provides a blow by blow commentary about how his company failed to obtain a bank loan. Next he attempts to give his readers (and the banks) a lesson in lending practices. On [...]

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Dismay at government broadband policy

December 1, 2011 General

If you live in one of the largest cities in the UK then no doubt you’ll be delighted to hear about the UK government plan to invest £100 million in super high speed broadband. If you live anywhere else, you’re probably pissed off. AccountingWeb does a solid job summarising the position: However critics have said [...]

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Parallel running

November 29, 2011 General

I’ve mostly been off the AccMan grid the last couple of weeks. That has been partly because my travel schedule has been (and continues to be) punishing, partly because I have a lot of video material to process and partly because I’ve not had much of anything to say. That changed today when I read [...]

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Vodafone, HSBC, British Airways, Virgin Trains and others. You all suck mightily

November 23, 2011 General

When I left the UK in 1997 it was largely because I saw a certain kind of ‘writing on the wall.’ Thatcher had done her best to kill society as I knew it and Blair was about to embark upon completing the job. At the time I fielded the same question every month for over [...]

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KPMG lawyers attack but miss the point

November 4, 2011 General

In AccMan’s early days I used to cover issues arising out of crap audits performed (mostly) by the Big Four. I’ve long since stopped doing that because Francine McKenna is far better qualified to pursue that task. Over the years she has established a bulldog reputation for factually pursuing the most egregious of audit failures [...]

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Jyoti Banerjee argues for a Theo

November 1, 2011 General

In comments to my piece where I slammed the SSA, Jyoti Banerjee posted a thoughtful comment. He makes a compelling case for a different style of award. I reproduce the comment in full: I know I’m not one for Comments – bit prehistoric of me, really – but the discussion around awards and BASDA’s contribution [...]

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