As a business journalist you mostly get to see the measured, diplomatic side of people. The side which says: ‘I’m going to demonstrate I&#...
View articleIt’s been a great week for sending finance directors to prison. First of all Dennis Lomas, FD at Independent Insurance, got four years after being fou...
View articleListen, if you’re brave enough, the Oxera report on audit firm ownership, out today, is worth a read. Read More...
View articleRarely have I seen a CV as, well, arresting, as the one I read when the Prudential announced that Philip Broadley will step down as FD in April next y...
View articleNever could an exit from a FTSE100 company have been so calm. I’m talking about the announcement today that Philip Broadley will quit as finance...
View articleBaroness Noakes, (Sheila Masters as she was know when a partner at KPMG) is not a woman easily deflected from her intentions. Read More...
View articleI note that reports in the press say Bob Mellors, finance director at Sports Direct, has been handed an exceptional bonus of £5m. Read More...
View articleSerge Corel, FD at Mondial, the support services group, makes an interesting point in a recent interview for Accountancy Age. It’s about that th...
View articleDavid Nish has attracted much attention from analysts since taking over the financial helm at Standard Life. So much so in fact that we interviewed hi...
View articleThe executives of Metronet should be worried. If they thought that things had been hard so far, they’ve now got Alan Bloom to deal with, the har...
View articleWell they’re not actually. Finance directors, all crooks, I mean. The reason I raise the issue in such a dramatic way is because of the convict...
View articleA departure from my usual topic to answer a critic. Last week Accountancy Age ran a special on the place of accountants in the battle to save the envi...
View articleYou won’t have missed the furore over the travel expenses of Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office. Read More...
View articleDo I detect a sudden rush of common sense around the subject of executive pay? Here’s the evidence. BBC execs, including FD Zarin Patel, refuse ...
View articleLet me wander off the usual topic for this blog of high flying finance people for just a moment. Read More...
View articleI was giving the issue of FD pay a little more thought. Over the past few weeks Barclays reported a bonus for its FD Naguib Kheraj of £1.75m, Ian Dyso...
View articleHope you spotted that Ian Dyson, finance chief at Marks & Spencer, virtually doubled his pay over the course of the year. He’s now on about ...
View articleGovernment chief accountant Mary Keegan makes an interesting admission in her interview for Accountancy Age this week. Speaking on the question of whe...
View articleHanif Lalani has joined the FD’s £1m club. BT Group’s annual report, out today (Wednesday), reveals that the finance chief at the telephon...
View articleSeamus Keating, finance director at Logica, the IT consultants, must be pondering his future this morning. While for most rain was the only spoiler fo...
View articleThere must be some relief this morning that common sense has prevailed and the four Network Rail directors set to share £300,000 in bonuses have at la...
View articlePublic enemy number one for the Big Four, at least here in the UK, was Paul Boyle, chief executive of the Financial Reporting Council and the driving ...
View articleYou’ve got to hand it to David Thomlinson, UK managing director of Accenture. Interviewed in Accountancy Age last week, not only did he talk up the fi...
View articleWhat will happen to Martin Stewart, chief financial officer, at music group EMI. The group, which represents acts like the Rolling Stones, Joss Stone ...
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