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Financial Management (UK)
Professional magazine covering finance, business, management and technology.
Articles from October
2005 Subscriptions Facts Now On-Line
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Subscription notices for 2005 will be sent to all members in October and all subscriptions are due on 1 January 2005. If you have registered your e-mail address with CIMA, you will receive your subscription notice by e-mail and this refill also contain...
Are You at Full Throttle?
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Accountants are caught in a vice, pinched by demands for better and faster information by managers inside the business on the one hand and external investors on the other. It's one of the main factors behind the "real-time enterprise", best described...
Call and Response
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At the turn of the millennium Vodafone UK's finance function was entrusted with an ambitious change project designed to benefit the entire group. Denys Webb describes, with contributions from Bo Andersen, how the team achieved its goals and how it...
Council Members Required: Casual Vacancies for Areas 3 and 5
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Area 3 Notice is given of a vacancy to represent Area 3 (east Midlands) on council. The casual vacancy will be until the close of the 2005 AGM, as prescribed by bye-law 39(b). At the close of the 2005 AGM the successful candidate may stand for re-election...
Editorial Comment
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What with approaching elections in the US, the ongoing war in Iraq and the recent scenes of chaos in Westminster as pro-hunting protestors invaded Parliament, issues surrounding democracy have dominated recent news. Western countries have a long-cherished...
For What It's Worth ... Who Is Better at Predicting the Future Value of Shares: Economists or Management Accountants? Malcolm Howard Puts Two Approaches to the Test and Invites You to Have a Punt
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Economists tell us that accounting is a mere subsection of economics and forms only one of the tools they need to make decisions about the market. So is there any reason to believe that accounting information is any more relevant than all other forms...
Global Harmony? Will They Save the Business World from Fraud and Scandal, or Will They Plunge National Economies into Chaos and Confusion? Professor Robert Kirk Tells Louisa Roberts about His Hopes and Fears for the Forthcoming International Financial Reporting Standards
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Robert Kirk likens the speculation concerning the introduction of international financial reporting standards (IFRS) to the rumours about what would happen as a result of the millennium bug. He argues that, as people have become involved with what...
Good Going: UK Firms Are Becoming Ever More Willing to Outsource More Than Just Their Transactional Operations, but Sending Your Strategic Functions Overseas Is Clearly Not without Its Risks. Peter Barnes Reviews the Trends and Outlines the Key Management Issues
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The outsourcing movement is going from strength to strength. The Management Consulting Association, for example, recently reported that income to its members relating to outsourcing had risen so much in the third quarter of last year that it accounted...
Government Rejects Auditor Liability Cap
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The secretary of state for trade and industry, Patricia Hewitt, has dashed the hopes of audit firms that have been seeking the introduction of a limit on their liabilities in the companies (audit, investigations and community enterprise) bill that's...
Handicap Chase: The US and UK Economies Are Heading for Slower Growth after Interest Rate Hikes on Both Sides of the Atlantic. David Ross Reports on Their Progress and Checks out the Challenge from China
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The UK economy has been like a racehorse recently. Growth has been galloping along: in the second quarter it reached 0.9 per cent and 3.7 per cent year on year. As the graph below shows, growth is running at its fastest pace in almost four years, well...
Met's Fraud Unit Seeks Volunteers: The Force Wants Unpaid Help from Financial Managers
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The Metropolitan Police is calling on chartered accountants to offer their services for free in the fight against financial crime. A lack of funds has forced the Met to rethink its strategy on the use of forensic accountants in its economic and...
Super Size Me: Sometimes It's Good for Financial Managers to Keep an Eye on the Really Big Picture. David Allen Explains Why the UK Pensions Crisis Is a Classic Example of the Interdependence of 'Megatrends'
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Short-term forecasting for tactical decisions focuses on the immediate threats and opportunities facing a business where quick responses are of the essence. From time to time, however, managers need to raise their sights to understand the "megatrends"...
Survey to Shape Future of Institute: CIMA's Member Research Results Have Been 'Very Useful'
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Ethical issues and the reputation of the accountancy profession are two of the key concerns of CIMA members, according to a survey of the institute's membership. In April, members were asked to help shape the future direction of the institute by...
The Asian Equation: Prudence Plus Determination Plus Family Cohesion Equals Financial Success, According to the Asian Entrepreneurs Who Have Made It Big in British Business. Camilla Berens Asks Some of the Leading Players How They Broke through into the Earnings Super-League
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The eye-popping wealth listed in the annual Sunday Times survey of the UK's richest citizens always makes good reading. It's entertaining enough to imagine what the 7.5 billion [pounds sterling] attributed to this year's top-ranker, Roman Abramovich,...
The Great Leap Upward: The Chinese Economy's Take-Off Has Been Little Short of Vertical, but Does It Represent an Industrial Revolution Based More on Low-Cost Labour Than on Technological Advancement? Ron Matthews and Zhang Yan Chart Beijing's Economic Liberalisation Agenda and Investigate the Effects of Foreign Direct Investment in the Country
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China's current economic transformation is without doubt the greatest industrial revolution the world has seen. From nowhere, the nation's economy has become enormous, now accounting for about 12 per cent of global gross domestic product. In dollar...
You Can Quote Us on That: A Stock Market Flotation Brings with It a Whole Raft of New Responsibilities for a Company's Management Team, but the Technical Regulations Could Turn out to Be the Least of Its Worries. Mike Brooks Describes the Oft-Conflicting Stakeholder Interests That Need to Be Considered before a Business Goes Public
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In my two previous FM features--"Critical maths" (June) and "Uneasy money" (July/ August)--I explained ways to solve the funding problems of a growing business and the implications of bringing new shareholders into a firm previously owned by its founders....
