It's one of the oldest accounting scams around: Desperate executives book corporate revenue in a reporting period knowing that it doesn't meet the rules for revenue recognition.

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Despite the concerns over language, MEPs were broadly supportive of the rules on mutual recognition and called for the time taken to recognise the qualifications of EU professionals such as doctors and engineers applying to work in another member state to be sped up.

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