Flying the flag for chartered accountants in the top ten is Richard Murphy, founder of the Tax Justice Network and an advisor to the TUC on taxation and economic issues. A sometime columnist for The Guardian and Forbes.com, he offers his followers forthright views on the profession.
Although it would be interesting to hear about why Forbes relationship is a former one.
No love for Frances at #23?
#14, sorry… memory lapse there.
Murphy “flying the flag for Chartered Accountants”?
What, in the way that Harold Shipman ‘flew the flag’ for GPs?
Would be interesting to see a breakdown of which camp each accountant/economist is in.
Could it be that someone at Forbes finally figured out Murphy knows fuck-all about accounting and economics?
He’s also not a founder of the TJN, according to the TJN:
http://taxjustice.blogspot.ch/2012/11/happy-birthday-tax-justice-network.html
“forthright views on the profession” – most of them judged insane by other members of that profession and the financially-literate public.