Management & Execution
Management & execution are about highly effective delivery. The focus for good managers today is what makes a difference to the business in the immediate and medium term future. The focus is on surviving the recession and credit crunch, with operational issues front of mind.
We look at forecasting; pipelines; project management; working capital; cashflow; management and trading accounts; raising finance; capex v opex; asset management; dealing with banks; bank lending; stable finance; supplier relationships; tax relief; auditing and pensions.
Setting remuneration policy
Based on UK companies joining the London Stock Exchange or AIM between July 2003 and January 2005, the report uncovered a high level of compliance wit...
Diageo moves finance divisions to Hungary
Diageo opened a business services centre in Budapest in April 2002 and has since moved a large portion of its back-office finance work from the UK to ...
PwC cashes in as Rank's multi-adviser
Rank paid PwC £5m in 2004, up from £2.3m in 2003.The due diligence work accounts for the majority of the increase, with work on Deluxe, its DVD and ...
Technical Update: Accounting for real estate
Conversion to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) continues to pose many challenges for those involved in real estate. For property in...
Shareholders take Premier Oil to task over remuneration policy
Pension and Investment Research Consultants (PIRC) has recommended in a circular that shareholders oppose the company's remuneration report due to the...
Deloitte cited in misleading market claim
The complaint, which has been made against Deloitte & Touche, the firm's former name, relates to its involvement with casino company Capital Corpo...
Technical Update: IAS 27
A number of real estate companies have reported on the high-level impact that adopting International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) will have on...
Finance chiefs warned off IAS 19/FRS 17 confusion
From this year, UK companies with stock market listings must report pension fund liabilities on their balance sheets under IAS 19.However, according t...
Health Check: John Laing
As a company involved in PPI/PPP projects, it continues to grapple with opaque guidance and unsettled accounting methods for service concessions as th...
Debt restructuring helps get jarvis back on track
Within the past fortnight, Jarvis, the embattled support services group, has entered what it hopes will be the final leg of its year-long financial tu...


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