Simon Laffin is a finance man, not a retailer. But he learned a lot when his boss told him to spend four months managing his local Safeway. Even now h...
View articleAn overwhelming eight out of ten finance directors this week said the role of FD becomes more vital at times of economic slowdown, reaffirming the imp...
View articleBoots, the UK's largest high street chemist, has denied industry claims that it switched its pension funds into bonds to avoid a hit to profits caused...
View articleReceivers from Andersen have been called in at Photobition, the troubled display graphics group, after banks refused to agree a restructuring of the g...
View articleThe finance chief of Lloyd's of London has hit out at those who have expressed doubts about the ability of Lloyd's of London to trade forward in the w...
View articleGrant Thornton is facing claims for damages understood to total several millions of pounds over its role in the collapse of housewares company Heritag...
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View articleOn 11 September so much was destroyed that business is still trying to pick up the pieces. It is clear now that the way companies used to work has gon...
View articleOne in three directors have sleepless nights worrying about their company's finances, but many more are fundamentally ignorant of their responsibiliti...
View articleHundreds of government business support schemes could be merged into five or six strategic pots as part of the DTI's ongoing review of business suppor...
View articleThere will be no successor to Railtrack in place within the next six months nor will any private money be raised to fund its new structure, the beleag...
View articleBT chief executive Sir Peter Bonfield will be stepping down from the position in January, a year early, with a golden handshake of £1.5m, the telco sa...
View articleThe worldwide economic slowdown has wiped out signs of recovery in Europe's beleaguered internet sector, with up to 30% of dot.coms at risk of running...
View articleThe Treasury has today welcomed tough new measures to tackle terrorist financing. Read More...
View articleA proposal by the European Commission is likely to cost quoted companies across the EU about £1.3bn per year according to the Quoted Companies? Allian...
View articleMid-tier firm Baker Tilly has reached an agreement with Jonathan Aitken?s creditors which would formally release the disgraced former cabinet minister...
View articleThe KPMG partner who served as interim chief financial officer at notorious dotcom failure boo.com charged the doomed startup £1,750 a day for her ser...
View articleXBRL, the revolutionary internet financial reporting language, has scored its first European success with the release of Reuters' third-quarter result...
View articleMore than three in ten listed companies are misleading analysts by keeping them in the dark over their goodwill amortisation policies, new research ha...
View articleThe US Securities and Exchange Commission has offically appointed Stephen M. Cutler as enforcement director. Read More...
View articleEuronext, the merged Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels securities markets, has beaten the London Stock Exchange in its bid for LIFFE, buying the futures a...
View articleJohn Mayo, the former Marconi finance director and deputy chief executive, is about to receive £500,000 in pension benefits following his sudden depar...
View articleThe government may not get its not-for-profit rail company if a potential bid by the US finance group Babcock & Brown proves suitable. Read More...
View articleIn a last-minute rescue attempt, engineering giant Kvaerner has been thrown a one-week lifeline from its largest shareholder after the company said on...
View articleUp to 150 FTSE-listed companies will downgrade their profit expectations in the last quarter, Ernst & Young has predicted. Read More...
View articleThe Confederation of British Industry says it will stand by its call for the Bank of England to reduce interest rates by half a percentage point, desp...
View articleExecutives and senior managers have nothing to lose and everything to gainby admitting they don't know everything, delegates at the Chartered Institut...
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