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Malcolm Bacchus is the principal of Baccma Consulting, an accountancy, management advisory and interim management firm based in London. Contact Malcolm by email at mgbacchus[AT]baccma.co.uk, telephone 07970 017168, tweet @BaccmaConsult or find him on Linked-In. The views here are his own.

Monday, 29 March 2021

The future of audit and corporate reporting (Part 1)

Governments love to get more power. Better still, they love to get more power but still be able to avoid the consequences if something goe...

Tuesday, 23 March 2021

So what do you think about tax administration?

Consultations seem to come like buses. I've been a bit quiet here as I have been digesting 800 odd pages of planning consultations for...

Wednesday, 10 March 2021

Are you ready for the next stage of Brexit?

I have been asked by HMRC's EU Transition Unit for views on how ready importers and exporters are for the next staging post on the tran...

Tuesday, 23 February 2021

MTD For Corporation Tax: Compulsion Disguised As Benefits

Should you be forced to go digital or not? That is one of the many over-arching issues with the government’s continuing expansion of i...

Thursday, 18 February 2021

Public Interest and the audit

The International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants (IESBA) has recently issued a consultation on the definition of a Public Interest...

Tuesday, 16 February 2021

UK Border Strategy: moving goods and people

The Government’s 2025 UK Border Strategy sets out how it plans to improve the way people and goods can move across international borders ...

Wednesday, 10 February 2021

How you can lose money to scammers even if you are not trying

It is a few years ago now and some of the people concerned caught and prosecuted, so here is a story about identity theft and fraud which ...

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Malcolm at Baccma Consulting

BaccmaConsult: Consultant to various industries and recently head of finance/company secretary for an AIM listed company with lots of past experience in both roles. Major sectors including mining, property, construction, telecommunications, manufacturing and childcare. Member of Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, chair of ICAEW's Ethics Standards Committee and member of its Technical Strategy Board. Twice past-President of the London Society of Chartered Accountants (LSCA). . Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Freeman of the City of London, Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Chartered Accountants, Chevalier of the Ordre des Chevaliers Bretvins, Hon. President of the Chartered Accountants Students Society of London, Hon. Treasurer of the Oxford Literary and Debating Union Charitable Trust, Hon. Secretary of the Mitsubishi UFJ Trust Oxford Foundation, Chairman of the Telegraph Hill Society. Lives in South London.

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