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Tom is AccountingWEB's technology editor, providing unbiased news and analysis from the accounting tech universe. Got a tech tale to tell? Message me on the site or email [email protected]

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29th May 2019

GDPR mania: Will accountants dance for the ICO?

Between the 14th and 17th centuries, mainland Europe was sporadically gripped by what became known as ‘ dancing mania’ . Groups of men,...
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1st Feb 2019

EcoTomics: Redefining the accountant

Tom Herbert digs out his accounting archaeologist kit and goes in search of the true meaning of the word ‘accountant’. Here at...
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11th Dec 2018

AccountingWEB’s 2019 Editorial Calendar

Welcome to 2019 on AccountingWEB! For the UK’s accountants, it feels like 2019 will be the year when things move from theory to reality...
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19th Oct 2018

Romanovitch and the battle for accounting’s soul

The news that Grant Thornton's CEO Sacha Romanovitch is stepping down has generated headlines both inside and outside the accounting world...
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5th Apr 2018

EcoTomics: The entrepreneurial accountant myth

How many presentations have you heard on accountants adopting an ‘entrepreneurial mindset’? Looking over my trusty reporters’ notebook, I’...
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2nd Mar 2018

Is online filing finally working?

In 2011 a job that famously never finished came to an end, as contractors finally put the last coat of paint on the Forth Bridge. After 100...
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25th Jan 2018

EcoTomics: Blood, sweat and... taxes?

The year is 2028. After a hard day’s work monitoring your firm’s AI robots, you decide to hop in a driverless hover-taxi to the local Wayne...
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11th Dec 2017

AccountingWEB’s 2018 Editorial Calendar

While the festive cheer (and self assessment season) continues to ramp up in December, AccountingWEB’s editors have been busy preparing the...
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23rd Nov 2017

Hammond lives to joke another day

While the jokes continued to flow, there were few other similarities between Philip Hammond’s first and second Budget speeches. Whether it...
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13th Oct 2017

Benchmarking in Beijing

Some 12 years ago, around about this time of year, I found myself sat in a large, dusty hall on the outskirts of Beijing listening to a...
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