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Accountants may not be leading on many IT consultancy projects these days, but accounting firms continue to advise and serve companies with outsourcing, management consultancy advice and other services

NEWS

Insight - Deep cuts bleed you dry

Some consultants argue that careless cost-cutting during the last recession did more damage than the downturn itself - and they warn against repeating these mistakes this time.

INSIGHT - Blame it on central services.

Creating shared service centres could end up reversing the trend towards empowering local managers and making them accountable.

FD editor on 'Oscar' list.

Maxwell's a runner-up.

EXTRAORDINARY ITEMS - Auditing those liquid assets.

EXTRAORDINARY ITEMS - Five-to-one on the bean-counters.

Making a mesh of a merger.

Putting together two engineering giants was never going to be easy, given their different histories and cultures. BTR's Kathleen O'Donovan has to convince Siebe shareholders that it can work.

FLEET DECISIONS - ASB looks again at fleet balance sheets.

INSIGHT - It's war, Jim, but not as we know it.

PricewaterhouseCoopers has developed a War Room in which financial directors and their teams can to go to battle against their own preconceptions. Call it a boardroom blitz for the mind.

EXTRAORDINARY ITEMS - Oil's well that ends well.

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COMMENT

Markets resilient in face of Middle East crisis

In spite of the hostilities in the Middle East, the market turmoil that started in May has subsided.

Pass the buck: Consultants are the major threat

Board directors are using management consultants as a means of offsetting their own responsibilities
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FEATURES

Companies quizzed on carbon policy

Investors want greater disclosure of green policies - so how much CO2 does it take to make a packet of crisps?

Company forecasts fall short

There is still a discrepancy between what companies think will happen and what actually does happen ­ so what should they do to avoid any nasty surprises?
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