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View articleShares in ARM Holdings have dropped for a third successive day after the chip designer announced the departure of its respected finance director. Read...
View articleErnst & Young, Railtrack's administrator, will receive welcome news this week when a report reveals safety has improved on the network since it took c...
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View articleEnron administrator PricewaterhouseCoopers has secured a further sale of the energy giant's London-based subsidiary to American AEP Energy Services. R...
View articleFinancial reporting is on the precipice of evolving, but there remain two vastly differing fields of thought on whether non-financial data should feat...
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View articleTrade and industry secretary Patricia Hewitt is to be quizzed today by MPs about restructuring plans for her department. Read More...
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View articleThe European Union may transform existing competition laws concerning mergers and acquisitions to bring them in line with legislation in the United St...
View articleIt can't be a pleasant experience. You join a new company as finance director and one of your first big tasks is to help the business out of the mire....
View articlePressure on small business minister Nigel Griffiths was mounting today after he became the latest senior Scottish politician to be caught up in a rent...
View articleDavid James, the company doctor brought in to sort out the Millenium Dome fiasco, has been drafted in to head up a 'dream team' to take over Railtrack...
View articleBank fees for moving money from one eurozone country to another will match those for making payments within a single EU member state in the future, if...
View articleUnforgiving creditors would prefer to get 'revenge' on debtors than push for potentially greater returns, a sentiment which flies in the face of the g...
View articleThe government is fighting amendments put forward by Tory, Liberal and rebel Labour peers aimed at limiting the ability of the Inland Revenue, Customs...
View articleGovernment accounting officers have been urged to be 'more vigilant' in ensuring proposed building projects are not deliberately under-estimated in or...
View articlePricewaterhouseCoopers and KPMG are aiding leading banks in a bid to become the first financial adviser of the new railways structure. Read More...
View articleSteve Marshall, the embattled chief executive of Railtrack, has launched a blistering attack on the company's administrators, Ernst & Young. Read More...
View articleUK companies risk falling behind their international competitors as they reduce their capital expenditure on equipment, and research and development. ...
View articleThe Post Office and the former Department of Social Security have been condemned for one of the biggest ever government IT failures - the doomed Benef...
View articleHalf of companies quizzed in recent research by CIMA, have revealed 'major' deficiencies in the finance function, particularly with integrating inform...
View articleUK business leaders remain more upbeat than their European counterparts in the wake of the economic impact of the 11 September, new research has shown...
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