Is cutting business travel the most sustainable option for companies?
12-Feb - Should the travel budget be cut? How dependent are companies on face-to-face business?
Sehaam Caselberg
| 355 |
BusinessZone/UK Business Forums New Year Honours
10-Dec - Who in the small business world do you think should get a gong?
Dan Martin
| 528 |
Sealing the deal: How do you do business?
29-Nov - Are formal or informal surroundings your preferred choice of location for closing a deal?
Dan Martin
| 375 |
Is the Capital Gains Tax reform bad for business?
15-Oct - Has the Chancellor cleverly closed a loophole while being fair to honest entreprenurship and realistic about revenue implications – or has tampering with the taper opened a can of worms?
| 1505 |
Is the UK economy on the slide?
07-Oct - Is your business already encountering slower markets that will force you to cut investment and purchasing? Is the government closing its mind to a necessary period of below-trend growth?
| 1017 |
Does the weak dollar threaten UK business?
01-Oct - Should the Bank of England and government be trying to bring down the pound, and joining efforts to strenghthen the dollar? Is your business suffering because of cheap American exports? Or gaining from cheaper dollar-priced imports?
| 1155 |
Are property prices going to crash?
23-Sep - Have you detected a softening in the property market? Is it affecting your business? Do you expect there is worse to come? Or is the overblown fear of a property crash giving you new confidence that this is the time to buy and build commercial property?
| 1644 |
Is there now a global ‘credit crunch’?
18-Sep - Are your credit lines tightening? Are your customers feeling the squeeze? Or has the risk of a seized-up credit market been exaggerated?
| 960 |
Should you prepare for a cashless economy?
10-Sep - From this week, Londoners can pay for even the smallest cash purchases using a pre-paid plastic card, developed from the Oyster card they already use on the capital’s Underground when it’s not on strike. If the ‘OnePulse’, issued by Barclaycard, is a success, it will be rolled out to the rest of the UK, and beyond. Is this the end of the big accounting frustrations that arise from petty cash?
| 609 |
Should FaceBook be banned from the workplace?
03-Sep - A growing number of employers are barring staff from using Facebook, the online social networking site, while at work. The Trades Union Congress condemns this as an “overreaction”. But is a ban the only way to stop this latest work-avoidance addiction?
| 915 |
Should you take your phones online?
28-Aug - Internet phone calls, using Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), are becoming increasingly popular. But this month’s unexpected new meaning for ‘Skype Out’, when the service temporarily vanished due to software problems, has left businesses wondering if it's safe to switch. Have you begun a migration to VoIP? Do you have clients who’ve done so – and are they still answering? If not now, when will the time be right?
| 723 |
Question of the week: Is it time to tear up the Balanced Scorecard?
21-Aug - The once compulsory widening of financial measurements into a four-sided ‘balanced’ performance measure is falling into disuse, according to recent surveys. Has the Scorecard outlived its usefulness, or have we just lost touch with its advantages?
| 1298 |
Recruiting on personality vs skill
15-Aug - Should we be hiring the 'right people' even if they don't have all the right qualifications?
Alan Shipman
3 |
1581 |
Financial Services - valuation of goodwill
08-Aug - Seeking simple rule for valuing financial service activities
| 1266 |
Year Ends for International Reporting
08-Aug - Can related organisations in 15 countries establish a common year-end?
| 739 |
Sale of subsidiary
07-Aug - How do I account for sale of share capital
Gianpiero Bentivoglio
| 921 |
The costs of carbon neutrality
08-May - Can businesses really absorb the costs of going green without being forced to hike up prices?
Dan Martin
| 1114 |
implied forward rate from yield curve
15-Apr - what's the correct way to calculate implied forward rate?
parnthakarn vitesworakarn
| 3855 |
Cash or Profits YOU DECIDE ?
11-Apr - Is Cash still King or are we just striving for "Profits" ?
The Controller
1 |
1864 |
FTSE game
04-Apr - Finance Week FTSE
2 |
2085 |
Outsourcing
04-Apr - Outsourcing F&A
3 |
1810 |
