More than a third of FTSE-100 companies plan to offer shareholders a vote on directors' pay this year, according to new research. Read More...
View articleProblems ranging from funding the development of an innovative website to the storage and cataloguing 100,000 new books yearly are part of the fun for...
View articleThe British public consider fraud to be on the rise in the UK with a decline in public morality the single biggest contributing factor. Read More...
View articleBusiness is facing its biggest challenge since the 1990s recession, says the Institute of Directors. Read More...
View articleIBM's chief financial officer says prospects for growth in 2002 remain 'good', but his counterpart at software giant Microsoft expects global PC sales...
View articleThe former finance director of embattled telecoms group Marconi today launched a stinging attack on his critics, accusing the company of missing a gol...
View articleBritain's sixth-largest bank is entering 2002 fighting. Abbey National, whose annual results are due on Monday, has challenged the Big Four banks by o...
View articleThe Ernst and Young value for money report into the government's proposedPublic Private Partnership for the London Underground is examining theoption ...
View articleHell hath no fury like a woman scorned, or so they say. That certainly seems to be the case with Julie Bower, a former drinks analyst with Schroders. ...
View articleAre you confident the UK economy will avoid a recession this year?Finance directors believe the UK will avoid a recession this year, despite fears tha...
View articleThe Government has ruled out further legislation on insider dealing - unless required by Brussels. Read More...
View articleAccountants are urging the government not to let the modernisation of company law slip down its legislative agenda. Read More...
View articleListed fund manager Schroders says there were errors in the preparation of the accounts of it asset management business in 2000. Read More...
View articleThe National Audit Office is holding an investigation into the government's £260m Individual Learning Accounts programme, following a breach in the co...
View articleFood retailer Somerfield has changed its definition of turnover prompting an increase of £15.4m in its interim figures released on yesterday. Read Mor...
View articleThe increase in the cost of listing on the Alternative Investment Market will not significantly affect the market and companies wishing to join it, sa...
View articleThe change from 12 currencies to just one across much of Europe has gone remarkably smoothly since the euro was introduced on 1 January. Read More...
View articleUBS Warburg, investment bank, has acquired the main business of collapsed US energy giant Enron without even having to pay a nominal cent. Read More...
View articleA quarter of the UK workforce intend to look for a new job in January and six out of 10 respondents to the Fish4Jobs survey said they had taken a 'sic...
View articleKenneth Lay, chairman and chief executive of bankrupt energy trader Enron until its collapse, has left the board of Compaq after 14 years. Read More...
View articleRetail outlets that take euro notes and coins will be subject to the crackdown on terrorist and drug trade financing, economic secretary Ruth Kelly ha...
View articleFollowing threats of legal action from US car giant Ford, KPMG said today it still wanted to negotiate with Land Rover to secure an engineering compan...
View articleThe government is claiming to have made 'significant progress' with the 'Think Small First' strategy being pushed by the Small Business Service, trade...
View articleUK entrepreneurs are increasingly frustrated by the government's lack of initiative to foster an entrepreneurial culture, according to new research. R...
View articleKPMG is facing the might of US car giant Ford in a legal fight that could see 1,400 job losses at Land Rover's production plant in the Midlands. Read ...
View articleLord Wakeham, the former Energy secretary and chartered accountant, has been ordered to appear before a US Senate committee to explain his role in the...
View articleShares in Enron, the embattled US energy company, have been suspended from trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Read More...
View article