The Briefcase #63: I Thought I’d Made That Clear?
By: AccountingCPD | Posted on: 23rd Oct 2026
On Monday morning, you send a perfectly clear email. You know it’s perfectly clear because you wrote it, and you understood every word. It’s possibly…
The Briefcase #62: Accounting Ethics – Five Ways to Get It Wrong
By: AccountingCPD | Posted on: 9th Oct 2026
Ethics is easy if you’re posed with “do the right thing” or “commit enormous accounting fraud” – you can probably navigate that one without consulting…
The Briefcase #61: Taxing Temptation
By: AccountingCPD | Posted on: 2nd Oct 2026
A fancy chocolate bar hiding in your cupboard might seem like a private indulgence, but these extravagances are more often than not a matter of…
The Briefcase #60: 6 Very Difficult Questions Tax Tribunals Have Been Faced With
By: AccountingCPD | Posted on: 17th Sep 2026
Tax law covers employment, property, investment, business expenses, marriage, divorce, and basically everything you could ever hope to do, or hope not to do. It’s…
The Briefcase #59: Are You Solving the Wrong Problem?
By: AccountingCPD | Posted on: 10th Sep 2026
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…
The Briefcase #58 : Excel Features Everyone Forgets Exist
By: AccountingCPD | Posted on: 4th Sep 2026
Excel has been around since 1985, which means it has had more than 40 years to accumulate buttons. Some of those buttons have become part…
The Briefcase #57: Is John Healey an Economist? And Why Does Nobody Seem to Care?
By: AccountingCPD | Posted on: 27th Aug 2026
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…
The Briefcase #56: CPA vs Chartered Accountant: What’s the Difference?
By: AccountingCPD | Posted on: 20th Aug 2026
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…
The Briefcase #55: The World’s Weirdest Tax Deductions
By: AccountingCPD | Posted on: 13th Aug 2026
Spend enough time as an accountant and you’ll hear all sorts of theories about what people think they can claim as a tax deduction. Barristers…