761Finance and Accountancy Briefings
Search results
8 attributes of successful FDs: It works for them. Could it work for you?
Having survived one of the most challenging periods of their careers, successful FDs are looking to maximise the value of the information they hold across their business and drive down costs by constantly hunting out inefficiencies and automating wherever possible. Find out how they do it.
Company: Exchequer | Published: 15 January 2013 | Business Area: Accounting Standards
Rating: 
28 people found this useful
Sustainability - money cannot be eaten
HW Fisher looks here at what sustainability is and why is it important to your Business.
Company: HW Fisher & Company | Published: 21 June 2011 | Business Area: Sustainability/Climate Change
Baby Boomers – The Double Hit - High achievers, low receivers?
High achievers, low receivers? Baby boomers, and for the uninitiated, those born around the end of the Second World War, have proved to be an energetic and capable generation. It must always be remembered that, in the mid to late nineteen forties and the early nineteen fifties, this country was... view abstract
Company: Goldsmiths Practice Services | Published: 23 May 2011 | Business Area: Practice Management
Rating: 1 person found this useful
If You’re Thinking Of Retiring, Are Your Clients?
As you are doubtless aware, the Goldsmiths Group has become very well known for the merger and acquisition of multi partner firms nationwide. The age group of the partners in practice has driven this issue. This paper discusses the implications of retirement, buying and selling of businesses and... view abstract
Company: Goldsmiths Practice Services | Published: 23 May 2011 | Business Area: Sustainability/Climate Change
The Financial Director Guide – Cost Control Checklist.
“Our cost control checklist isn’t just about identifying savings, it’s also about sustaining, measuring and shouting about them” says Melanie Stern. Mindful of the increasing influence finance directors have across their businesses while cash remains king, we’ve come up with a list of ten simple... view abstract
Company: Expense Reduction Analysts | Published: 06 May 2011 | Business Area: People Costs and Risks
Rating: 4 people found this useful
Getting fit for the future… why organisations need to act now
As Andrew Grove, former CEO of Intel, famously noted: “ Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.” In the wake of the credit crunch, the phrase has an unfortunate ring of truth for many business leaders. Business really is about ‘survival of the fittest’... view abstract
Company: PA Consulting Group | Published: 01 May 2011 | Business Area: Planning
Employee Engagement in Sustainability Why it Matters to the Bottom Line
Organizations often recognize the large potential cost-saving benefits that can be derived from properly managed sustainability and energy efficiency initiatives, but they fail to harness the power of their employees to deliver these savings and so fail to achieve aggressive corporate sustainability... view abstract
Company: CloudApps | Published: 01 May 2011 | Business Area: Sustainability/Climate Change
Rating: 2 people found this useful
Tackling totems and taboos in business
The recession, together with resulting market changes, means that businesses must reinvent themselves and rethink their strategies for products and services, pricing and virtually every other key aspect of their operations in order to be as responsive as possible to environmental shifts. However... view abstract
Company: PA Consulting Group | Published: 01 May 2011 | Business Area: Business Performance Management
Rating: 2 people found this useful
Staying ahead of the game: agile decision making
The rules of business are changing. Recent events have demonstrated that the world is a far riskier place than we thought. The only certainty about the economic future seems to be that it is uncertain. Organisations know that they need to be agile, but the concept of agility is vague. Clearly it... view abstract
Company: PA Consulting Group | Published: 01 May 2011 | Business Area: Business Performance Management
Rating: 2 people found this useful
Video - In conversation with...IBM
Sustainability – just another buzzword, or a concept that is here to stay with an impact on the finance team? IBM’s head of the insurance industry for UK and Ireland, Kathy Sullivan, joins Financial Director to debate the future of sustainability on the FD’s remit and the challenge of tying it to... view abstract
Company: IBM | Published: 27 April 2011 | Business Area: Sustainability/Climate Change
Find a finance and accountancy briefing
Related categories
Information currently unavailable
As a member you receive free access to our constantly updated library of white papers, analyst reports, case studies, web seminars and solution reports.
Featured companies
