Category Archives: Accountancy

posts related to accountancy, taxation and Revenue rules. Advisors.ie is an accountancy practice in Dublin 2 we deal primarily with SME’s and sole traders, we also have a financial advice service and a brokerage attached.

Intelligence… why isn’t there more of it?

This is a fascinating look at intelligence, because nature doesn’t require it.

The indirect road to success

We thought it would be nice to share this infographic which shows that success isn’t a straight line!

Tracker options are window dressing in a broken market

This originally appeared in the Sunday Business Post on the 6th of July 2014 Most of the “move your tracker” options are window dressing when you look at the potential impact on the credit market. Banks are allowing a person to ‘move their tracker’, which shows that you can shift it around, but they wouldn’t […]

Minimum wage revisited

(original article appeared in the Sun on Sunday) Last year I got the shrieking hoards going when I mentioned how minimum wage is fairly pointless and calls to raise it are a moronic idea. This week the Congressional Budget Office in the US did some number crunching. The nice thing about them is they don’t […]

BankruptcyAdvice.ie a new service to help people with debt problems

        We are pleased to bring a new service to the Irish market in the form of BankruptcyAdvice.ie While we have worked in the debt mediation space for several years, we have not been able to offer bankruptcy as a solution because it falls between several professions (although it is primarily a […]

RTE Morning Edition

We were asked to do the newspaper review on RTE’s Morning Edition

RTE Morning Edition

I won’t apologise for strategically defaulting

This article appeared in the Sunday Business Post on the 18th of August 2013 Strategic default is a contentious issue. Some say it doesn’t even exist, although as a day-to-day financial adviser I know that it does – but I cannot say with absolute precision to what extent. The lack of definition is one problem. […]

Talking Point with Sarah Carey on the relevance of Unions

We were on Talking Point with Sarah Carey on Newstalk 106 on Saturday talking about the relevance of Trade Unions in modern Ireland.

Eastern Promise

This article first appeared in the Sun on Sunday on the 28th of July 2013 As it is the month of Ramadan I thought it would be worth talking about Islam, and to make it relevant the way that Islamic Finance or ‘Sharia compliant finance’ works. It may seem strange at first (and this may […]