Richard Murphy

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Richard Murphy is a practising chartered accountant and director of the Corporate Accountability Network. After twenty years in industry and commerce, he co-founded the Tax Justice Network and Fair Tax Mark before moving into academia as a professor of political economy. He co-authored the original Green New Deal in 2008 and is still engaged on that issue. He blogs at www.taxresearch.org.uk/blog
Founder and blogger Tax Research UK
26th May 2020
With luck, the death toll may now decline. That should be a cause for celebration when we can be sure it has happened. But I fear that the...
Practice strategy
4th May 2020
It’s very hard to imagine what the post-coronavirus world is going to be like. It’s fairly hard to recall the pre-coronavirus world right...
Finance & strategy
23rd Apr 2020
Like many, I am still reeling in shock from the coronavirus crisis. Partly that’s because I am quite sure I have had it, although I have...
General practice
24th Mar 2020
Those of a certain age will recall Donald Rumsfeld, when he was US Secretary of State for Defence for the second time, saying that there...
General practice
6th Mar 2020
One of the advantages of reaching a certain age is that you have lived through a crisis or two. I have. I recall the 1987 crash, the...
Finance & strategy
21st Feb 2020
One aspect I enjoy is being asked to look in on businesses every now and again to offer an opinion on what might be going right or wrong...
Finance & strategy
7th Feb 2020
Productivity stagnation is one of the key challenges facing the UK economy. During much of the post-war era labour productivity increased...
General practice
24th Jan 2020
One of my big interests in life is making accounting data comprehensible to those who need to use it, other than those of us who prepare...
Financial reporting
9th Jan 2020
I don’t wish to knock profit. It’s important. But I also suspect that most users of accounts really do not know what it is. Some might...
Financial reporting
13th Dec 2019
I was in discussion with a reasonably heavyweight fund manager recently. He was bemoaning the state of accounting. His complaint came in...
Financial reporting