An Action Christmas is just not Christmas without Barneys, Not so Secret Santa, Sticky Toffee Pudding and Lawrence making the waitresses wear phallic shaped balloons on their heads.
I am wondering if perhaps now I dont live 500 yards from Barneys any more whether its time for this tradition to move on and evolve after 8 [...]
It’s party time again at Accountancy Action. The Christmas party comes around but once a year (although unlike some other companies we take our guys out every month) and this year we are off Go-Karting followed by an evening of food and drink at Barneys in St Albans. Once again our pathetic attempts at organising [...]
Accountants and lawyers are supposed to be the studious and professional people we can trust – but as they say it’s always the quiet ones… It seems that there is always some scandal surrounding them – well, just behind bankers.
So here is the bad accountant of the week. Paul Hopes, AKA “quiet Paul from accounts”, [...]
You don’t have to move to the Cayman Islands if you want to enjoy all your earnings without paying tax – how about moving to Oxfordshire? However it will cost you the small sum of around £1.25m.
A small toll bridge is for sale in the county, which charges cars 5p and lorries 50p to cross [...]
No, we’re not suggesting the next generation of accountants become superheroes – although it’s an interesting image. City AM’s recent headline “accountants can save the world” actually referred to carbon reduction – but what do accountants have to do with helping the environment?
The example given is the CRC – Carbon Reduction Commitment. Organisations in the [...]
Interestingly the flow of accountancy jobs seems to be on the increase over the past couple of weeks.
I remember 9 years ago, in my first year of trading, i was the butt of a lot of my friends jokes. I often used to call them at around 3 o’clock in the afternoon asking them to check that my phones lines were working.
Due to popular demand we are re-starting our blog. Who knew, when we wrote our original blog 6 years ago that they would become so popular.