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<description><![CDATA[ The bottom line in finance ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ PwC urges companies to implement  employee share option schemes ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ Employee share option schemes face partial axe, but it is not too late to take one out and realise benefits.   ]]></description>
<link>http://www.financeweek.co.uk/item/6131/11/24/254</link>
<pubDate>Thur, 15 May 2008 18:01:39 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Businesses must face up to liability challenge ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ Lloyd's new report discovers that rising litigation and new laws are increasing corporate risk rapidly and few are doing much about it.          ]]></description>
<link>http://www.financeweek.co.uk/item/6127/11/24/254</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 13:26:49 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Alternative asset classes become more popular ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ Institutional players may be seeking alternative investment opportunities but global equity and real estate funds were the most searched product categories globally in 2007. <P>      ]]></description>
<link>http://www.financeweek.co.uk/item/6122/11/24/254</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 10:34:21 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ The compliance officer with the fat bank account ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ Company security is moving up the things-to-do-list at board level but when your compliance officer is found taking back-handers how do you protect yourself from industrial espionage? Calum Macleod, West European director at digital security company, Cyber-Ark, offers insight on this issue.             ]]></description>
<link>http://www.financeweek.co.uk/item/6121/11/24/254</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 9 May 2008 16:29:04 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Data of 40 top global businesses compromised ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ Discovery indicates businesses under a higher threat of hacking than commonly thought. Personal and business data found hosted unprotected on a crimeserver running a command and control application.     ]]></description>
<link>http://www.financeweek.co.uk/item/6120/11/24/254</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 9 May 2008 12:30:15 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Resolution's financial controller on nightmare reporting ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ Resolution's financial controller, Martin Potkins, talks frankly about how he had orders to knock some of the UK's biggest life assurance firms into shape and teach them how to use a consolidated financial system. It had to be one that was suited to the rigours of 21st Century reporting and forecasting; so choose a system, install, train and run - all in six months. Then Pearl comes along and buys you out.            ]]></description>
<link>http://www.financeweek.co.uk/item/6118/11/24/254</link>
<pubDate>Thur, 8 May 2008 17:40:10 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Costs of listing on AIM continues to rise defying fall in IPOs ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ New research shows that professional costs for listing continue to rise, while AIM still attracts business.      ]]></description>
<link>http://www.financeweek.co.uk/item/6114/11/24/254</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 6 May 2008 15:28:36 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Recession may pressure firms to cut G&A but there are ways to do it better, Part 2 ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ In the second part of its report, the Hackett Group, looks at ways to assess cost cutting in recessionary times pointing out that slash and burn is not as effective as best practice. 2008 data reveals potential G&A cost savings of &#128;136-&#128;292m for a typical Global 1000 company, offsetting 21%-45% of the anticipated decline in pre-tax profit during recession.           ]]></description>
<link>http://www.financeweek.co.uk/item/6113/11/24/254</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 6 May 2008 14:21:11 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Travel carbon emissions disclosure &#150; you can't control what you don't know ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ When the new Climate Change Bill comes into effect, UK companies will have to disclose in their annual reports information about their level of carbon emissions and how they were generated. The problem is that most companies have no idea about the emmissions created by travel expenses. David Vine highlights some scary new figures.      ]]></description>
<link>http://www.financeweek.co.uk/item/6112/11/24/254</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 6 May 2008 13:12:50 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ UK chief executives serve longer than global counterparts ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ Finance background best route to the top for both study finds    ]]></description>
<link>http://www.financeweek.co.uk/item/6111/11/24/254</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 2 May 2008 13:33:34 GMT</pubDate>
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