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Hunter's Corner: The darkness visible in trust accounts

Reporting standards allow obscure accounting for important public assets.

Tim Hunter
 Fri, 21 Sep 2018

Accountancy is like poetry. To its adherents, the language conveys ideas with a precision no other communication can match. To those impatient with its oblique subtext it’s the torture of a long grey afternoon in the presence of a droning voice describing a dungeon horrible, on all sides round as

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