Halfway through his secondment from SBC Warburg to the prestigiouspost of director general of the Takeover Panel, Alistair Defriez talks toAndrew Sawe...
View articleIt has taken some time but people in business are at last learning touse the F-word without embarrassment. The word is 'factoring' and, if itstill com...
View articleThe taxation software industry has gone into overdrive in preparationfor the introduction of self-assessment on 5 April. The new regime hasincreased s...
View articleMarch is turning into a busy month for Sage, the Newcastle-based developer of PC-based accounting packages. At the beginning of the month, Sage announ...
View articleCreditForce+, an on-line credit control and collections management system, is now available in the UK from Rochester-based Innovation Software. Credit...
View articleNatWest Markets announced last week a u50m provision for lossesstemming from interest rate pricing errors. The deals might have beenspotted earlier if...
View articleBy Sinead Carew City traders should not receive such huge bonus payments, say 62% of FDs. And 21% want stronger controls to prevent traders taking exc...
View articleA u135m Ministry of Defence project run by Coopers & Lybrand hasstalled because the Government has failed to allocate sufficient resourcesto cope ...
View articleAccounting software firm Sage Group has paid u40m for KHK Software, Germany’s largest supplier of branded PC software. Read More...
View articleAfter nearly three years in the UK market, American developer SolomonSoftware is preparing to launch a major expansion programme in thiscountry, write...
View articleNew products and marketing strategies are emerging from GEAC following the company’s $150m takeover of Dun & Bradstreet Software at the end...
View articlePannell Kerr Forster has come out against the profession’s plan for a new regulatory watchdog – the third top-ten firm to do so. In its re...
View articleSetting the wheels for debate in motion Having read with interest the correspondence in your recent Letters page, I should like to propose a debate. T...
View articleInformation technology is a fashion-driven industry. Events like theSoftworld Accounting & Finance show are the IT equivalent of a catwalkparade. John...
View articleThrow away your mobile phone, palmtop, laptop, pager, bleeper andorganiser, and instead opt for the latest in one-stop compact technology.Alison Class...
View articlePegasus Software pulled off a coup on the first morning of the Softworld last week when it assembled representatives from Lloyds, Barclays, Midland an...
View articleThe year 2000 will not be the disaster for the IT industry that many commentators suggest, according to the latest Ovum evaluation of corporate financ...
View articleLast week's white paper failed to pull the plug on lucrative localgovernment and NHS audit contracts. Tim Weeks investigates the prospectsfor profit i...
View articleChannel 5's finance director Damien Harte reveals how an accountantcan find his niche among television's creative types. Ruth Nicholasreports. Read Mo...
View article'Web-enabled' is the buzz-phrase of the week at the SoftworldAccounting & Finance event at Earls Court in London. Software developersare falling over ...
View articleAccounting and financial management systems are failing to deliver the right information at the right time to support marketing functions, according t...
View articleNorwegian software house Agresso has launched an upgrade to its financial and logistics software packages. Agresso 5 includes the facility to store sc...
View articleIf accountants expect to enhance their existing client relationships,then they must consider offering management services, argues CalvertMarkham. Read...
View articleSoftware giant Microsoft has put its marketing muscle behind a new campaign to recruit software developers and ‘solutions providers’ to pr...
View articleAlison Classe reports on how Internet access has changed the futureof electronic data interchange. Read More...
View articleWith higher profits and increasingly prestigious clients drawn to itsproducts, PeopleSoft can afford to push an upbeat message. Dennis Howlettreports....
View articleIn the last in a series of articles on how newly qualifieds can standout from the crowd, Sarah Perrin looks at industry and commerce'sincreasing deman...
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