Mark Lee

XBRL – asking the wrong question

August 18, 2010 Innovation
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Mark Lee has a post about XBRL where he says: Clients will only agree to paying additional fees if they perceive that additional work is being done and that this benefits them in some way. Tagging company accounts for the taxman, using iXBRL tags, is going to be obligatory from 2011. It seems that plenty [...]

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Evil Plans – be an artist

September 23, 2009 Featured

Justin Souter was gracious about my Please – don’t do this post. There’s a lesson for us all in there. If you work your ass off trying to do something, polish it like crazy and it gets put down – stand back, listen and perhaps learn. Sometimes I think we’re crap at that, me included. [...]

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ICAEW is modernizing and it looks good

April 14, 2009 General

Last week’s blogging was very light but then I traipsed all over central London, shot hours of video, some of which I published here, others I published elsewhere and some of which I am still editing. The highlight of the normal working week – other than seeing family that is – was my trip to [...]

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Flirt

February 11, 2009 General

Mark Lee has written some cracking posts in recent weeks – all designed to help professionals be more effective. As a marketer, his style is easy to follow and always entertaining. This one offers networking tips. It caught my eye for use of a smart acronym: 6 – Flirt as you network: F is for [...]

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BlevinFranks: nicely blended

February 2, 2009 General

I came across BlevinFranks blog purely by chance (always the best way.) A comment on Mark Lee’s blog got me to click through and voila! So…what are they doing? Plenty it seems. They’ve got eight of their people contributing to the site, providing a solid mix of information, advisory and newsy stuff that’s pertinent to [...]

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Would you take advice from this person?

January 30, 2009 General

I would. I’ve gotta ask the question: how bad has the profession become that a woman who has been self employed for 364 days is dishing out solid advice about filing your self-assessment tax return? Apart possibly from Emily Coltman, I can’t think of any practitioner who would come up with such a great list [...]

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