Richard Brooks is a British investigative journalist for Private Eye, and author of several books. Brooks worked for the British government as an HMRC tax inspector until 2005, followed by a year at the Treasury giving ministers policy advice.
A timely exposé... A comprehensive yet wildly readable indictment
of the "Big Four" accountancy firms.
*Sunday Times*
An improbably rollicking history of the accountancy profession...
Such a good book... Any MP interested in making the City
trustworthy again should take this book on their holidays.
*Prospect*
With forensic detail, Richard Brooks has exposed the march of the
accountants from humble bean counters to a small cartel dominating
modern capitalism.
*John McDonnell MP – Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer*
Impeccably researched and written, this is a ground-breaking exposé
of a profession that has lost the plot. Everyone in business and
finance should read this.
*Ian Fraser – Bestselling author of Shredded: Inside RBS, the Bank
That Broke Britain*
Gripping. This is a must-read for anyone who seeks to expose
corruption and bad behaviour.
*Margaret Hodge MP – former Chair of the Public Accounts
Committee*
Truly devastating. How many more workers and pensioners will have
their lives and expectations smashed, before politicians pluck up
the courage to require those occupying the heights of British
capitalism to get their accounting and auditing houses in
order?
*Frank Field MP – Chairman of the Work and Pensions Select
Committee*
Richard Brooks is a digger and a troublemaker who niggles away at
difficult subjects in a meticulous, punchy and highly effective
way
*Alan Rusbridger – Former Editor, The Guardian*
Brooks says things that have needed saying for many years.
*John Kay – Financial Times columnist and Visiting Professor of
Economics, London School of Economics*
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