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Practical advice and information for today's finance director

Financial Director is pleased to bring you Financial Director Briefings, a series of documents containing essential facts, practical advice and links to extra source material.
Published both in Financial Director magazine and online, briefing subjects will include legal issues, technology, property, tax, corporate governance, accounting standards, complex financing structures and other hands-on areas of business that constitute the backbone of a finance director's information needs.
April 2005

IFRS

Download PDFResearch on how City analysts are unprepared for International Financial Reporting Standards.

Company law

Download PDFWhy written contracts are not always legally binding in company disputes.

March 2005

Partnerships

Download PDFMore professional services firms are taking limited liability partnership status. We look at the benefits of becoming an LLP.

IFRS

Download PDFSummary of a new KPMG briefing sheet on the IASB's standards schedule for 2005.

Tax

Download PDFHow Marks & Spencer and the European Court of Justice has an impact on other companies' tax claims.

February 2005

IFRS

Download PDFAdvice from Deloitte on how to manage the transition from UK GAAP to international accounting standards

Remuneration

Download PDFThe top ten pitfalls for remuneration and nomination committees

Internal controls

Download PDFThe FRC's latest guidance on using Turnbull to comply with US corporate governance requirements.

December 2004

Pensions

Download PDFA review of the Pensions Bill making its way through the House of Lords

Money laundering

Download PDFThe dilemmas faced by professionals handling client money

Credit ratings

Download PDFDraft rules governing the conduct of credit rating agencies issued by the IOSCO

November 2004

Listing rules

Download PDF The FSA's consultation of simplification of the Listing Rules and implementation of the EU Prospectus Directive

VAT

Download PDF The result of a recent High Court judgment on retailers' VAT avoidance schemes
October 2004

Company law

Download PDF The UK government has been reviewing what changes should be made to UK company law

AIM

Download PDF The Alternative investment Market will give up its EU-regulated market status in October 2004 and will operate as an exchange-regulated market
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Management buyouts

Download PDF Key points to consider when undertaking and exiting MBOs
September 2004

M&A

Download PDF The Competition Commission is proposing new guidelines for divestiture remedies in merger inquiries referred to by the Office of Fair Trading

Contracts

Download PDF Advice from law firm Mishcon de Reya for corporates negotiation IT outsourcing contracts
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Business model

Download PDF The Virgin Mobile listing particulars
July/August 2004

Corporate governance

Download PDF A KPMG report reveals that 70% of self-reporting relationships between companies and partners are misreported.

Data protection

Download PDF The latest legal advice on complying with the Data Protection Act

IAS: property

Download PDF A finance director and finance manager of a leading retail property organisation argue that the treatment of property under International Accounting Standards will impact company profit as well as balance sheets.
June 2004

Property law

Download PDF Case law on the impact of FRS 12 on business which wish to sublet.

IAS: property

Download PDF How accounting standard impact the way property is treated in company balance sheets.

Company law

Download PDF The draft regulations for the Operating and Financial Law explained.

Information security

Download PDF How BS 7799 is changing the way UK businesses manage their data.

May 2004

Outsourcing

Download PDF A new study by Capgemini on the costs and benefits of outsourcing oil

Corporate governance

Download PDF The results of an General Audit Committee review following Shell's disclosure in January 2004 that it had misstated 3.9 billion barrels of oil.

Climate change

Download PDF How business and shareholder value is affected by 'green' company policies.

Information security

Download PDF A Close Brothers Corporate Finance briefing on the key stages of mergers and acquisitions.
April 2004

IAS: share & options

Download PDF The implications of IFRS 2 on Share-based Payments for UK companies.

Corporate governance

Download PDF Lessons from the Penrose Report on Equitable Life.

IAS: acquisitions

Download PDF The IASB is putting the finishing touches to IFRS 3 on Business Combinations.

March 2004

Company law

Download PDF The DTI has published a consultation document on director and auditor liability.

Tax

Download PDF The extension of transfer pricing and thin capitalisation rules rules to UK companies will increase red tape.

Financial software

Download PDF ERP implementations at two global businesses.