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People say what goes around comes around. And it would seem that saying is particularly applicable to leaders in UK politics. In 2005, David Cameron, in his own scramble to secure his position as the Leader of the Conservative party, found himself buying off the right-leaning euro-sceptic section of his…

Lifelong business education can keep you up to date, raise your awareness, help you broaden your network and re-skill when needed. Business education can help you hone your skills and sharpen your attunement to the environment.

Unlike other disciplines, the concepts and tools discussed as part of business education acquire…

Professor M. Azizul Islam, recently gave a seminar on limitations to traditional (financial) accounting in a socio-ecological context, to a group of social scientists and ecologists at James Hutton Institute. In his latest blog he discusses the limitations to traditional accounting in a socio-ecological context.

Traditional accounting disregards ecological…

Facebook and other large media focused service providers have for too long been overly cavalier with customers' data, in particular with their personally identifiable information (PII). The attention being focused on this event shows they are no longer too large to be unaccountable. Indeed, with the advent of the new…

Last week employers were reporting on gender wage differences. Unsurprisingly, the data show most employers pay more to men on average. The question is what is generating the difference? It is easy to interpret the difference as a measure of discrimination. This is certainly the tone of the current debate.

'It was a failure of my leadership' stated Australian captain Steve Smith  last week. Leadership issues feature daily in our news but last week opened up a host of leadership stories.

As the cricket scandal broke it appeared that the Australian Cricket Captain And Vice Captain were being suspended alongside…

All student essays seem to start with the sentence “In the changing times we live..” but I cringe when I read it because it sounds so naïve. Though I ignore it to stay a fair marker, if a clever student has decided on this start I can safely assume it’s…

That is the day that the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into force. It is a great idea for private individuals. At long last, they will start to have serious protection for their own private data. Any personally identifiable information (PII) of any EU resident, held by…

The toy shop Toys 'R' Us is going under. The news reported that they could not keep up, they were based out of town and they were not good online. All of that is true but they are missing the key point; children play on tablets today and not with…

International Federation of Accountants (IFAC), the World’s premier Accounting body has just published Professor M. Azizul Islam’s work on Accountants’ role to tackle Modern Slavery. 

Human rights issues are gaining greater prominence alongside economic concerns for contemporary organizations, due largely to increasing public pressure and stakeholder expectations. A range of…