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All in this together

By Steve Freer | 1 December 2011

As the eurozone crisis continues and sovereign debt soars, governments need to urgently reform their accounting practices. CIPFA’s chief executive calls for a collective effort across the profession to transform public financial management globally
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The sovereign debt crisis has grown steadily over the past two or three years to its current climax in Greece and Italy. Its origins lie in that other financial disaster – the global collapse of 2007/08. Indeed, sovereign debt is just the latest chapter in that crisis, which rolls on like a great financial hurricane or tsunami, ­threatening all in its path.

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