Finance Director April 2009

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The Importance of Definition By Gail Le Coz The lack of a harmonised definition of money market funds in Europe has resulted in a variety of products sharing a similar name but using different parameters, which, as Gail Le Coz of... > read more

Financial Strategy? Just Do It. By Simon Kemmett Simon Kemmett, CFO, Nike EMEA, tells Nigel Ash how the challenges of performance management and forecasting in unpredictable times should be met by strong strategic...

Inner Strength By Kate Sharp With commercial borrowers finding it tough to secure financing that meets their needs, firms are looking to use their own assets as collateral to raise funding. Kate Sharp, chief executive of...

Build Family Values By Enrico Camerinelli The calculation and payment of bonuses is front page news but the public interest in executive remuneration belies the real concern among businesses – how to implement the right metrics to...

The Accounting Standards Debate: The Regulator By Richard Thorpe The Turner review was hailed in some quarters as a roadmap for sensible, proportionate and reasoned financial regulation. Others, however, felt it was too little, too late. Richard Thorpe of...

Tackling Working Capital
via E-Invoicing By Gianfranco Tabasso Gianfranco Tabasso, a member of the EC’s experts group on e-invoicing and co-ordinator of CAST, stresses the importance of working capital management improvement programmes and its...

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Are Package Deals Better Value?
By John Van Decker IT organisations must balance the tactical pressure to buy specialist solutions against more strategic, but still not fully realised, integrated solutions from the larger vendors, explain...

In Safe Hands
By Anton Van Nunen Anton van Nunen looks at the ability of fiduciary management to employ specialist managers but keep responsibility of the overall portfolio safe in one set of...

Oiling the Gears of Finance
By Steve Richardson “What happens in the treasury always affects a business unit somewhere,” says Steve Richardson. He explains to Jim Banks how his role as CFO for the treasury function has proven to be a vital...

Security for All Seasons
By Kathleen Hughes AAA-rated money market funds offer valuable liquidity and security throughout different stages of the economic cycle and even during extraordinary events such as the current financial...

The Accounting Standards Debate: The Academics
By Tony Hines, Vivien Beattie and Stella Fearnley The current economic crisis has exposed weaknesses arising from the IFRS fair value model and the dropping of the concept of prudence. Stella Fearnley and Vivien Beattie, professors at Glasgow...

The Accounting Standards Debate: The CFO
By Feike Brouwers The European Union and the International Accounting Standards Board are still trying to find a better way to execute fair value accounting; marking to market in financial statements too...

The Accounting Standards Debate: The Reporting Council
By Paul Boyle As head of the Financial Reporting Council and former COO of the FSA, Paul Boyle is in a good position to offer informed views on the financial regulation debate. He explains to Jim Banks how...

The Paper Trail
By Cindy Jutras Cindy Jutras, vice-president and research fellow at Aberdeen Group, examines e-invoicing and what to do when customers still demand...