FRS 17 could be harmful to some of Britain's largest companies according to a recent study by banker HSBC. Read More...
View articleThe airline industry is like the weather - everybody talks about it and has a view, although at the moment, those views are varied and muddled. Read M...
View articleMany of the UK's top stores, businesses and tourist attractions are in danger of being left behind when the euro comes into circulation at the beginni...
View articleInvestors in Boots Company will see this week whether lower consumer confidence has affected their results, as the retail giant publishes figures for ...
View articleA recruitment drive is to be launched by the Treasury to find the accountant who will head up the new anti money laundering and terrorist finance unit...
View articleIn a dazzling ceremony held at the Natural History Museum, the chairman of the Revenue was presented with his award by writer and actress Meera Syal, ...
View articleRestrictions on the disposal of IT equipment could cost British businesses up to £2bn per year, the Institute of Directors has warned. Read More...
View articleThe head of the International Accounting Standards Board yesterday announced the onset of a raft of new global accounting rules as UK plc was urged to...
View articleThe former finance director of failed trade finance group Versailles has been ordered to pay £11.3m to the company's receiver PricewaterhouseCoopers. ...
View articleWhen the honeymoon ends for Compaq and Hewlett Packard, will the larget merger in IT history continue in webbed bliss or hit the corporate rocks? Read...
View articleChris Moncrieff attempts to perpetuate the myth that the Conservative Party has been ‘split down the middle’ over Europe and the euro sinc...
View articleThe former managing director of Allied Carpets has been disqualified as a director for seven years over accounting irregularities which over-inflated ...
View articleBT is to lose a third top executive at the end of the year, with its highly rated finance director Philip Hampton set to quit. Read More...
View articleJournalists have always been at the forefront of the attack on excessive boardroom pay. The power to single out those who appear to be profiting from ...
View articleThe fat cats are under attack again. John Davies thinks government thinks government plans to give shareholders more power will be a shot in the arm f...
View articleThe Confederation of British Industry says the slowdown in retail sales volumes in 2001 justifies its call for a 'meaningful' reduction in interest ra...
View articleSimon 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 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 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 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 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 articleOne in three directors have sleepless nights worrying about their company's finances, but many more are fundamentally ignorant of their responsibiliti...
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 articleThe London Stock Exchange has today launched the techMARK mediscience index for emerging international healthcare companies. Read More...
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 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 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 article