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Articles in November, 2008 issue of Financial Management (Chartered Institude of Management Accountants)
- FDs plan job cuts in bid to beat recession.(first in ... All the latest news affecting accountants in business, including regulations updates)
- Revamp for charity list.(first in ... All the latest news affecting accountants in business, including regulations updates)
- Credit reference agency criticises safety laws.(first in ... All the latest news affecting accountants in business, including regulations updates)
- Tilley urges US to embrace IFRS.(first in ... All the latest news affecting accountants in business, including regulations updates)
- IFRS conference.(first in ... All the latest news affecting accountants in business, including regulations updates)(Conference news)
- China considers CSR legislation.(first in ... All the latest news affecting accountants in business, including regulations updates)
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Insecurities market: risk management is rightly high on the corporate agenda, but many organisations are still failing to approach the task in a sufficiently systematic and rigorous way.(opinion)
by Brooks, Mike -
Where there's blame, there's a claim: as more and more firms get crunched, the legal system will have its work cut out when creditors start fighting for their share of the scraps and pursuing negligence cases.(legal briefing)
by Evans, Nichola -
Adjust 17: two different actuaries could legitimately derive wildly varying figures for your company's pension scheme deficit under FRS17. David Davison urges FDs to question actuarial assumptions.(opinion)
by Davison, David - What next? It's easy to blame the bankers for the economic crisis and to ask why taxpayers should support the people who reaped huge rewards for taking risks, but what's the alternative? As governments around the world stump up cash and demand curbs on bo
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Green growth: the future of environmental policies, products and CSR reporting were the focus of a round-table debate hosted by FM.(THE GREEN GAMEPLAN in association with the Carbon Trust)
by Prickett, Ruth -
Should I stay or should I go? Ambitious managers need to be objective when reviewing their prospects, warns Anthony McAlister, who extols the virtues of benchmarking.(career development)
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Accounting in the hospitality sector: Ruth Mattimoe and Will Seal tell Louise Ross that their study of UK restaurants and hotels won't produce a dry academic treatise.(technical matters)(Interview)
by Ross, Louise -
Performance measurement and manipulation: Colin Fisher and Bernadette Downes discuss their research into the ways in which metrics are massaged in the public sector.(technical matters)
by Fisher, Colin -
Integrated management: an effective organisation will clearly link its mission, objectives, CSFs and KPIs. But Daniel Clark finds that the connections aren't always obvious.(study notes)(Company overview)
by Clark, Daniel -
Management accounting--performance evaluation: Grahame Steven explains why it's tempting to manipulate transfer prices when moving products between a group's subsidiaries in different nations.(study notes: PAPER P1)
by Steven, Grahame - Money-laundering help.(institute update)
- Take-off for CIMA's business flight simulator.(institute update)
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Part-time finance director: Colin Mills explains the demands and benefits of stepping away from a full-time role and pursuing a "portfolio career".(so you want to be ...)
by Mills, Colin - CapGemini.(On the move)
- Jefferson Wells.(On the move)
- National Express.(On the move)
- McKinney Rogers.(On the move)
- No, really?(... last out)
- Animal husbandry?(... last out)
- Why didn't we think of that?(... last out)
- Laissez-faire value.(... last out)
- Chills multiplying.(... last out)
- Unfortunate headline of the year.(... last out)
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Twisted blister.(... last out)
by Wolf, Martin -
Overstretched simile of the month.(... last out)
by Windsor, Paul - Nigel Turner FCMA Chief executive, BMI.(ONE2ONE)(Interview)(Cover story)
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