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The UK Government has recently decided to delay the introduction of the Bribery Act 2010. However, businesses should still prepare the ground now so that they don't fall foul of the new regime when it arrives in April 2011, writes David Hamilton, associate, Stephenson Harwood.
Sustainability accounting and reporting practices have developed considerably in recent years.
Most mergers and acquisitions fail. Fact. However, there is a solution.
In an extract from The Fearful Rise of Markets - A Short View of Global Bubbles and Market Meltdowns, author John...
You need more than just financial indicators to judge a company's worth, argues executive coach Neela Bettridge.
Funders are leaving themselves open to losing out when they unwittingly release guarantees made by commercial customers.
Merger and acquisition transactions can be a viable option for companies seeking to build and realise value.
As the euro zone wobbles, treasurers and fund managers should look to China's bonds, says Roger Lister.
Independent consultant Andrew Wileman tells FDE how to make sense of cost dynamics.
Making lean a way of life in your business can be a titanic struggle.
Finance productivity has declined in the past 10 years.
New leaders can expect to be judged a success or failure by the time they reach their first 100 days.
The police do not give advance warning of their intentions to raid a place of work and make arrests.
When we recently posed the question ‘can you describe the role of the CFO in just a single word or phrase?’ to our FDE LinkedIn members group we were pretty overwhelmed with the amount of responses that we received.
The story gives a light hearted run-through of the highlights from the answers. The demands that finance professionals now experience have progressed significantly, as the endgame now is about creating value by aligning finance, strategy and operations.
In this edition we also profile two CFOs: RWE’s CFO Rolf Pohlig, who has a keen eye on the figures but also happily embraces the company’s investor ethic, and Erich Hunziker, chief financial and IT Officer of the Roche Group. Hunziker was also very active in the resultant post-acquisition human capital issues, ensuring that Roche retained well over 90% of all the innovators it targeted at Genentech.
