BDO Stoy Hayward’s recent research suggests the credit crunch is pushing up the levels of corporate fraud. Of course, as always, internal fraud ...
View articleFor some suppliers, the biggest frustration is when large “creditworthy” clients insist on holding onto their cash beyond the supplierR...
View articleThe long awaited EU Small Business Act was unveiled this week, which hopefully will persuade member state governments to make more efforts in putting ...
View articleI’ve recently received an invitation to a symposium in July to discuss the Competition Commission’s recent proposal to set up a Grocery Om...
View articleCredit people have been talking about the credit crunch and it’s potential fallout since last autumn, but despite all the gloom and doom merchan...
View articleSince the last two big economic downturns in the Uk (the industry led "Thatcher" recession of 1979/81 and the consumer led "ERM" r...
View articleAt least us Brits are not alone in facing an identity theft epidemic. In the USA, it’s the country’s fastest growing crime. The Federal Tr...
View articleUnhappy with some of the user complaints about activity at Companies House and delays in implementing aspects of the new Companies Act , a BERR commit...
View articleInternet fraudsters (phishers) who try to trick online users into passing over bank/creditcard/other private details over the web are moving up the fo...
View articleBuying credit reports on small businesses often leads to buyer frustration, as the level of available data on small private firms is “limited...
View articleResearch in the credit arena continues to point to the fact that SMEs should be doing more to protect themselves from bad debt, and protracted payment...
View articleJust hours after the publication of the Competition Commission’s final report into the Grocery trade, some supermarkets were beginning to bleat ...
View articleThe OFT doesn’t seem to be able to leave the Supermarket giants alone lately! This week, we should see the publication of the final recommendati...
View articleCompanies House continues to warn companies about the need to be vigilant concerning identity theft. However, company hijackings of bona fide companie...
View articleSmall businesses suffering from the double whammy of tougher borrowing opportunities from banks because of the credit squueeze, and delayed late payme...
View articleI read another critical article in the FT at the weekend about Alliance Boots extending its payment terms to suppliers to 75 days from the end of mont...
View articleBack on January 16th in my blog, I questioned whether BDO Stoy Hayward were right when they said the credit crunch was likely to cause an increase in ...
View articleWell, I suppose it shouldn’t come as a surprise, but the latest Graydon research, involving around 450 companies, suggests that nearly 7 out of ...
View articleGordon Ramsay has his critics, but at least no one can accuse the famous TV chef of "cooking the books" as far as his company’s ...
View articleAs a result of the 2006 merger between Boots and Alliance Unichem, the Integration finance board of the new group announced a few weeks ago that it wi...
View articleMore disappointing news from the high street over the last couple of days, what with US based MEXX announcing the closure of its 61 retail outlets in ...
View articlePoliticians across Europe are ever eager to criticise the culture of late trade payment by corporations and the devastating impact it can have on smal...
View articleLast Friday, the Competition Commission published its long awaited provisional decisions on how to remedy its competition findings in the grocery sect...
View articleOn 4th January in this blog, I said that we were likely to see high street retailers getting into financial difficulty in the first quarter of 2008. 1...
View articleCompanies House has seen a significant increase in new business incorporations in the last two years. Around 800, 000 to be exact. But as an any credi...
View articleWhile the US sub prime mortgage fiasco unravels still further, the rest of us can begin to reflect on who the biggest losers will be in the final reck...
View articleThe BDO Stoy Hayward Annual report on Fraud released recently predicts that the credit crunch will force many business people, out of sheer desperatio...
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