IT'S A RELIEF, in a sense, when something that you have been concerned might happen finally does. Ever since the issue of Application Note G to FRS 5 at the end of 2003, the line I have taken in lectures has been that service providers did have to recognise most of the unbilled fees 'on the clock' at the end of the year as income for that year.
JOHN-JEFFREY COOK, a long-time friend of (and contributor to) Taxation over the years, pointed out to me recently that Gordon Brown is now the longest serving Chancellor of the Exchequer in almost two centuries — beaten only by Nicholas Vansittart, who was Chancellor from 1812-1823.