It's a TOGs Life, written by Norman Macintosh, with Sir Terry Wogan and the TOGs.13 years of TOG activities, from Conventions to Voyages, Children in Need to Barnardo's, Deadly's Quizzes, Fire Engines, Buses, Bandaged and Longleat! A pictorial meander, with words to match, through the goings on of TOGs from togs.org to St Andrews to Milan! Special chapter of the life of Paul Walters (Pauly) with contributions from his family, friends and colleagues including Mike Batt, Katie Melua, Sir Ter...

In the business world, recent years have seen a growing acknowledgement of the value of intangible assets rather than physical assets. This has precipitated a crisis in the accounting industry: the accounting representations relied upon for years can no longer be taken for granted.Here, Norman Macintosh argues that we now need to understand accounting in a different manner. Offering several different ways of looking at accounting and accountants, he draws upon the work of eminent t...

Much of the accounting literature up to the 1960s assumed that accounting captured an objective economic reality and that accounting information served primarily to assist rational decision makers’ search for profit. Macintosh observed this seemed to belie the obvious variations in accounting systems across organizations, and the ways that users accessed and processed accounting information. As the accounting discipline moved from a focus on the technique of accounting to consider accounti...