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Analysis

Audit exemption 'unlikely' to save £600m

Parent companies will be reluctant to guarantee the debt of their subsidiaries

07 Oct 2011

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Feature

English enterprise zones leave FDs cold

Finance directors are not won over by the government’s plans to boost growth

15 Apr 2011

Feature

Project Merlin is no magic fix to lending

Finance directors must better argue their case if they want help with credit

15 Apr 2011

Opinion

Accounting: Seeking a unified standard to keep score of carbon emissions

The profession is pushing for a unified standard to make public how much carbon companies emit

26 Jan 2010

Analysis

Auditor terms extended

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

19 Oct 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

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

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

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

Analysis

Banks continue to scale back SME loans

Pre-Budget measures to support bank lending to the SME sector may not be enough to stave off criticism of the banks

24 Nov 2008

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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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