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Financial Reporting Council

Analysis

Auditor terms extended

Standard setter’s ethical standards overhaul provides flexibility to companies in times of upheaval or change.

19 Oct 2009

Feature

FD rewind – a retrospective look at 25 years of Financial Director

In this retrospective look at 25 years of Financial Director, editors past and present recount their experiences of the big issues and players of the day ­ and reveal what, if anything, has changed.

13 Sep 2009

Opinion

Corporate governance: Sticky wicket – risk management in financial services

Winning the game of risk management involves more than batting the issue towards systems and processes.

12 Sep 2009

Opinion

Accounting: Moved to tiers by the changing face of UK reporting

International standards provide consistency, but the three-tier approach will create new problems.

12 Sep 2009

Analysis

Corporate governance shake-up: Investors called to action

Shareholders will have to get involved in an overhaul of corporate governance – and that includes holding boards to account.

05 Jul 2009

Opinion

Corporate governance: Show and tell – why the internal audit function should be enhanced

When it comes to raising the alarm on seeding troubles, internal audit should follow its nose – and use its voice.

05 Jul 2009

Analysis

June Update: Essential News

... plus Technical Update

25 May 2009

Opinion

Corporate governance: Law and order – lack of litigation bodes well for FRC

Lack of litigation shows financial reporting standards work and have helped FDs tackle problems early.

24 May 2009

Opinion

Accounting: Four play – is non-audit work in jeopardy?

Auditor independence is back on the agenda – ­ as is the question of the Big Four as an auditing oligopoly.

23 May 2009

Analysis

Elsewhere on the web: Parliamentary 'privilege'

Your guide to the most essential reading elsewhere on the web

12 May 2009

Opinion

Accounting – Hands off: political pressure will not deter standard setters

Standard setters will rightly resist anyone who wants accounting standards bent to their political will

27 Apr 2009

Opinion

Accounting – Letter of intent: Don't blame the auditors

An open letter to Treasury Select Committee chairman John McFall says auditors aren’t to blame for the crisis

23 Mar 2009

Analysis

Hound of the bank villains: the Treasury Select Committee on audit industry's trail

The auditing industry must defend its role in the banking crisis, but is the financial watchdog’s lack of independence and scrutiny equally to blame?

23 Feb 2009

Opinion

Accounting: Vulture culture - today's FDs in a climate of uncertainty

With uncertainty circling weakened companies, FDs must fight hard to ensure they’re not the next carcass.

23 Feb 2009

Opinion

Accounting: Feeling exposed

Creative accounting won’t have anywhere to hide – nor will the companies it sustained in the good times.

26 Jan 2009

Feature

End of the year show: FDs prepare year-end accounts

There’s little festive cheer as FDs and auditors prepare their year-end accounts for what has been a year to forget

23 Dec 2008

Opinion

Accounting: Rip it up

Everything that FDs thought they knew has gone out the window. In some cases, that’s good news

22 Dec 2008

Opinion

Corporate governance: Safety first

Companies that don’t want the carpet pulled from under them must prove their worth in the year ahead

22 Dec 2008

Feature

Hiscox's group FD, Stuart Bridges

Stuart Bridges’s unfashionable commitment to prudence has put insurance underwriter Hiscox in a strong position to go shopping for talent in 2009

24 Nov 2008

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Financial Director Summit 2012

The Financial Director Summit 2012 will provide a unique platform in which to share, compare and contrast experiences whilst learning and networking with peers

Latest Opinion

Business' best friend

Finance people must be the critical friend of business, writes CIMA's John Windle

Cutting electronic systems down to size

To be more competitive, we need far less management in companies, government and our electronic systems

Markets are too addicted to repeated doses of cheap cash

Large injections of liquidity by the major central banks have played a key role in underpinning recent bouts of optimism, but danger is still lurking in the shadows

Latest Analysis

Practical implications of a GAAR

The lack of certainty may inhibit many arrangements which are currently felt to be part of everyday planning, writes Owen Clutton

IAS 39 problems flare up again

Pirc is advising shareholders to vote against Barclays’ annual report. Richard Crump finds out why

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