There is sometimes a perception that large organisations don't listen to criticism from individual members or don't take practical action based on such criticism. I can now acquit the ICAEW of both of these charges after receiving the following from Andrea Cook, head of Continuing Professional Development and Events Programming: "Dear Mark, Thank you [...]
Given that most of my concerns were misinterpreted, partly addressed or just ignored, a lengthy response was required: "Dear Andrea Thank you for your prompt reply to my comments. I fear that, unlike Sarah Reay’s reply to my question about using a UAE delegation member to discuss COP27, you have not really addressed my arguments [...]
I am indebted to Andrea Cook of ICAEW for the following reply to the email contained in my previous post, which I quote verbatim: "Dear Mark, Thank you for joining our session earlier today and for sharing your feedback. ICAEW’s Sustainability Certificate does not, and was never intended to, create sustainability experts. As you [...]
As per my previous post about the invitation to a member of the UAE delegation to discuss COP27, the ICAEW Climate Change Summit continues to delight and infuriate, possibly in equal measure, The ICAEW has introduced a Sustainability Certificate, available to members who undertake a 15-hour (!) course at a cost of £225 + VAT. [...]
It is easy to criticise people and organisations in a blog. I know there are two sides to every story, and don't want to be one of those 'keyboard warriors' who anonymously abuses all and sundry. So, with many thanks to Sarah Reay of ICAEW, who took time out from her busy schedule running their [...]
We have pontificated before in this blog about the lamentable record of accountants in terms of sustainability. Praiseworthy as it is that the ICAEW is holding a Climate Change summit, online and staggered over the working week, and good as most of it has been, they started it off with a disastrous PR blunder by [...]
Part 2: corporation tax, income tax and stamp duty land tax Having dealt with arguably the most complicated area of recent tax developments, national insurance, in part 1, part 2 is by way of a summary of what has happened in other significant areas of tax featured in the mini-Budget and Jeremy Hunt's subsequent revision [...]
Mystic Mark and the future of Environmental Reporting Where are we now? 12,000 of the largest UK businesses, including all quoted companies and the largest unquoted entities, are required to disclose details of worldwide emissions (quoted companies) and UK emissions (unquoted entities). No-one else is required to disclose any such details, although a number of [...]
Forget the opinions. Time to focus on the facts - National insurance We are sure most people with a pulse have an opinion on recent political events, but fear not, we are not going to bore you with ours. Much more important, to our mind, is the potential confusion that has been sown by the [...]
Feedback on the Greater Manchester Green Summit 2022 Here is our feedback on the above event as submitted to the Combined Authority: “What haven’t we tried yet?” workshop This was a superb event brilliantly chaired and well planned. The 10-person panel were limited to one slide and about 3 – 4 minutes, which meant they [...]