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Ethics – the foundation for a better world

October 21, 2021 | City Talk

This week has been a special one for us at ACCA. Wednesday was Global Ethics Day – an important occasion in the calendar that we celebrate annually as it aligns with our values. It’s a day where businesses and individuals can reflect and explore the meaning of ethics and their impact on life and society. [...]
Small businesses will drive recovery if they can access the right finance

July 22, 2021 | City Talk

Having reached ‘Freedom Day’ this week, it would be gratifying to think that the small businesses that power our economies in the UK are on the path to a sound trading recovery. Economic indicators, including our own Global Economic Conditions Survey for the last three months, are reporting a strong rebound in the UK economy [...]
Harnessing the power of Gen Z

May 20, 2021 | City Talk

The first digital native generation now entering the workforce is being shaped by the unique world events they’ve lived through in their young lives – economic crises, the current climate change emergency, and of course Covid-19. Generation Z’s coming of age is happening during one of the most turbulent times in modern history. This presents [...]
Students shouldn’t have to knock on doors to get the help they need

November 21, 2018 | City Talk

When I was approached to be the chair of the ACCA Emerging Talent Advisory group it was an opportunity I grabbed instantly. Championing social mobility is something that is very close to my heart, having grown up on a rough council estate in East London, I know exactly what it is like when you want [...]
What can we expect from a pre-Brexit Annual Budget?

October 24, 2018 | City Talk

The Budget is the biggest date in the UK’s financial calendar where the Chancellor, Philip Hammond, will deliver the government’s plans for tax and spending for the 2019/2020 financial year, starting in April next year. The Budget is a little unconventional this year as it usually falls on a Wednesday, but all you trick-or-treaters will [...]
Trust in the City

October 19, 2018 | City Talk

Global Ethics Day was on 17 October. Now in its fifth year, this regular calendar event was created by the Carnegie Council to mark its centenary in 2014. The broad theme this year was ‘ethics in action’, and we partnered with the Carnegie Council and CFA Institute to produce a series of films called Ethics [...]
Stop, go or caution – should the government be using the tax system to give the green light to certain business forms?

July 31, 2018 | City Talk

150 years ago, the first red/green traffic lights were installed, just outside what is now the London headquarters of the UK tax authority on Parliament Street. There are still traffic lights there (the original ones exploded), and still using the very familiar red/green pattern for stop and go. But one thing that’s never been entirely [...]
We owe it to the next generation to show leadership

June 22, 2018 | City Talk

The morning after I attended the Mansion House Banquet, my young daughter asked me what the meeting was about, and what did I think? I explained it was about the Lord Mayor of London hosting an annual dinner for bankers and merchants, and when lots of speeches are made, and where the Chancellor can make [...]
Tax and Business Law: Professional Insights on the release of the OECD’s interim report on tax challenges arising from digitisation

May 4, 2018 | City Talk

Industrialisation has been hugely beneficial to humans. It has enabled huge leaps in the improvement of physical health and wellbeing, creating the productive surpluses that fund research, hospitals, free healthcare – but not without cost, and in many cases perversely a specific cost in harm to the physical environment on which we rely for that [...]

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