The former finance director of failed trade finance group Versailles has been ordered to pay £11.3m to the company's receiver PricewaterhouseCoopers. ...
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View articleChris Moncrieff attempts to perpetuate the myth that the Conservative Party has been ‘split down the middle’ over Europe and the euro sinc...
View articleThe former managing director of Allied Carpets has been disqualified as a director for seven years over accounting irregularities which over-inflated ...
View articleBT is to lose a third top executive at the end of the year, with its highly rated finance director Philip Hampton set to quit. Read More...
View articleJournalists have always been at the forefront of the attack on excessive boardroom pay. The power to single out those who appear to be profiting from ...
View articleThe fat cats are under attack again. John Davies thinks government thinks government plans to give shareholders more power will be a shot in the arm f...
View articleThe Confederation of British Industry says the slowdown in retail sales volumes in 2001 justifies its call for a 'meaningful' reduction in interest ra...
View articleSimon Laffin is a finance man, not a retailer. But he learned a lot when his boss told him to spend four months managing his local Safeway. Even now h...
View articleBoots, the UK's largest high street chemist, has denied industry claims that it switched its pension funds into bonds to avoid a hit to profits caused...
View articleHundreds of government business support schemes could be merged into five or six strategic pots as part of the DTI's ongoing review of business suppor...
View articleOn 11 September so much was destroyed that business is still trying to pick up the pieces. It is clear now that the way companies used to work has gon...
View articleAn overwhelming eight out of ten finance directors this week said the role of FD becomes more vital at times of economic slowdown, reaffirming the imp...
View articleOne in three directors have sleepless nights worrying about their company's finances, but many more are fundamentally ignorant of their responsibiliti...
View articleThe finance chief of Lloyd's of London has hit out at those who have expressed doubts about the ability of Lloyd's of London to trade forward in the w...
View articleThe London Stock Exchange has today launched the techMARK mediscience index for emerging international healthcare companies. Read More...
View articleThe worldwide economic slowdown has wiped out signs of recovery in Europe's beleaguered internet sector, with up to 30% of dot.coms at risk of running...
View articleBT chief executive Sir Peter Bonfield will be stepping down from the position in January, a year early, with a golden handshake of £1.5m, the telco sa...
View articleThere will be no successor to Railtrack in place within the next six months nor will any private money be raised to fund its new structure, the beleag...
View articleThe Treasury has today welcomed tough new measures to tackle terrorist financing. Read More...
View articleThe US Securities and Exchange Commission has offically appointed Stephen M. Cutler as enforcement director. Read More...
View articleA proposal by the European Commission is likely to cost quoted companies across the EU about £1.3bn per year according to the Quoted Companies? Allian...
View articleThe KPMG partner who served as interim chief financial officer at notorious dotcom failure boo.com charged the doomed startup £1,750 a day for her ser...
View articleEuronext, the merged Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels securities markets, has beaten the London Stock Exchange in its bid for LIFFE, buying the futures a...
View articleXBRL, the revolutionary internet financial reporting language, has scored its first European success with the release of Reuters' third-quarter result...
View articleMore than three in ten listed companies are misleading analysts by keeping them in the dark over their goodwill amortisation policies, new research ha...
View articleJohn Mayo, the former Marconi finance director and deputy chief executive, is about to receive £500,000 in pension benefits following his sudden depar...
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