The Briefcase #41: Surviving Accountex London
By: AccountingCPD | Posted on: 7th May 2026
Accountex is a bit like Disneyland for finance professionals. For one, it’s insanely overstimulating, and it sounds pathetic when you tell your pals that you’re absolutely wrecked after the big accountant meet-up. Like Disneyland, it’s also full of people…
The Briefcase #40: Blockchain and Accounting
By: AccountingCPD | Posted on: 24th Apr 2026
This week, we’re looking at blockchain. But, before we talk about it, we need to deal with the elephant in the room – cryptocurrency. Depending…
The Briefcase #38: Creativity for Accountants
By: AccountingCPD | Posted on: 10th Apr 2026
Generally, accountants are seen as a stable pair of hands. They might even be thought of as a little bit predictable. A truly reductive individual…
The Briefcase #37: The Accountant from the Future
By: AccountingCPD | Posted on: 2nd Apr 2026
It was a beautiful summer evening. You and a few accountant buddies were hanging out, playing with a telescope, sipping beers, wondering whether you could…
The Briefcase #36: Hollywood Accounting
By: AccountingCPD | Posted on: 26th Mar 2026
As we at the Briefcase love saying, there are only two types of people in the world. The first type of person watches a blockbuster…
The Briefcase #35: Just One More Thing… Accountants and Professional Scepticism
By: AccountingCPD | Posted on: 20th Mar 2026
As Lieutenant Columbo reached for the doorknob, he suddenly halted. He turned his head and, bringing his cigar away from his lips, said: “Just one…
The Briefcase #34: Accounting in Music
By: AccountingCPD | Posted on: 12th Mar 2026
There are many types of people in the world, but for the purposes of this introduction, let’s imagine that there are actually only two types…
The Briefcase #33: 5 Greenwashing Hall of Fame Inductees
By: AccountingCPD | Posted on: 5th Mar 2026
Greenwashing isn’t just what leprechauns call one of their laundry cycles – even though they do call it that. No, it’s not only that, greenwashing…
The Briefcase #32: What It’s Like to Work for the Big Four
By: AccountingCPD | Posted on: 27th Feb 2026
Ask any accounting graduate what they want to do post-uni, and there’s a decent chance they’ll say “Big Four.” And why not? Think of the…