First ever issue of Financial Director

Read extracts from our first-ever issue of Financial Director, published 25 years ago, by clicking here.

You will be amazed at how much some things have changed in 25 years - and at a few things that haven't changed at all!

Here’s the highlights of what you’ll find when you download this extract from our launch issue:

• Our first-ever FD interview - with the finance director of the not-yet-privatised British Telecom
• A look at a survey in which FDs were opposed to international accounting standards
• Proposals to merge Price Waterhouse and Deloitte Haskins & Sells – a merger that didn’t actually take place. (Or did it? Many years later, Deloitte’s UK arm merged with Coopers & Lybrand – and we know what happened to it!)
• Why mergers and acquisitions can be dangerous – for FDs.
• And Woolworths chief executive Geoffrey Mulcahy talks about why FDs are so important
• One more thing: you'll love the ads

Financial Director launched in 1984 under the title Financial Decisions, and was renamed in 1990 to more accurately reflect our readership.