Financial Reporting Council
Standard setter’s ethical standards overhaul provides flexibility to companies in times of upheaval or change.
19 Oct 2009
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
Winning the game of risk management involves more than batting the issue towards systems and processes.
12 Sep 2009
International standards provide consistency, but the three-tier approach will create new problems.
12 Sep 2009
Shareholders will have to get involved in an overhaul of corporate governance – and that includes holding boards to account.
05 Jul 2009
When it comes to raising the alarm on seeding troubles, internal audit should follow its nose – and use its voice.
05 Jul 2009
Lack of litigation shows financial reporting standards work and have helped FDs tackle problems early.
24 May 2009
Auditor independence is back on the agenda – as is the question of the Big Four as an auditing oligopoly.
23 May 2009
Your guide to the most essential reading elsewhere on the web
12 May 2009
Standard setters will rightly resist anyone who wants accounting standards bent to their political will
27 Apr 2009
An open letter to Treasury Select Committee chairman John McFall says auditors aren’t to blame for the crisis
23 Mar 2009
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
With uncertainty circling weakened companies, FDs must fight hard to ensure they’re not the next carcass.
23 Feb 2009
Creative accounting won’t have anywhere to hide – nor will the companies it sustained in the good times.
26 Jan 2009
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
Everything that FDs thought they knew has gone out the window. In some cases, that’s good news
22 Dec 2008
Companies that don’t want the carpet pulled from under them must prove their worth in the year ahead
22 Dec 2008
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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