The Briefcase

Accountants solve problems all day long. It’s pretty much all you do. Cashflow is always tight, costs are always rising, and customers are always paying…

A little while ago, AccountingCPD, amongst many others, asked a simple question: is Rachel Reeves an economist? It became one of the most-read articles we’ve ever…

Americans do a lot of things differently. They say strange things like “asphalt” and “eggplant”, play something called football largely with their hands, and put…

Accountants have a lot of jargon in their lexicon. Terms like “month-end” might seem obvious to you, but to most of the population, it’s the…

The term “forensic accounting” can evoke some weird imagery. It’s easy enough to imagine white coats and test tubes, safety specs and bunsen burners. Unfortunately,…

They don’t wear uniforms. They don’t introduce themselves by reciting tax legislation. Most don’t even carry calculators in belt holsters anymore. To the untrained eye,…

Accountants aren’t superheroes. They don’t don skintight uniforms and head out into the night solving crimes – although it would explain why they always look…