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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

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Founder and blogger Tax Research UK
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26th May 2020

What happens when the phony war is over?

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

Building the post-coronavirus business

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

A mini-boom for accountants might be coming soon – and it’s not the insolvency practitioners

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

Facing uncertainty by predicting risk reactions

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

Coronavirus: How accountants can prepare for a crisis

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

The role accountants play in troubleshooting

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

Accounting for productivity

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

Do you recognise your own accounts?

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

Making the case for SSAP 10: Did we make any money?

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

Why is it so hard to get reliable data from accounts?

I was in discussion with a reasonably heavyweight fund manager recently. He was bemoaning the state of accounting. His complaint came in...
Financial reporting
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