Articles from Financial Management (UK) (November 1, 2006)

Title	Author	Type	Words
A series of conferences and quarterly reports aimed at business leaders and senior management accountants will be launched by CIMA in the new year.			72
Boost for lifelong learning.		Brief article	149
Breakthrough in New Zealand.		Brief article	131
Budgeting: are budgets still needed? David Dugdale and Stephen Lyne investigate whether companies have heeded the call to scrap them and find that, in most organisations, they are still alive and kicking.	Dugdale, David; Lyne, Stephen		2909
Career opportunities for new CIMA.		Brief article	85
Cash-strapped health trusts face pressure to limit hospital referrals.			348
Casual council vacancy: area 3.			65
Charities press IASB to issue transparency standard.		Brief article	214
CIMA offers express route to treasury qualification.		Brief article	103
CIMA presents interactive CPD webcast.		Brief article	179
Diary.			1662
Elections to council 2007.			603
Exam notice.			705
Female financial managers are falling further behind their male counterparts in the salary stakes, a new survey has found.		Brief article	137
FRC invites Walsh to scrutinise audit competition.			174
Helen Weir FCMA group finance director, Lloyds TSB.		Cover story	1490
IFAC boost for African accounting.			280
IFAC spreads its online KnowledgeNet.		Brief article	249
Interventionist research: Kari Lukka explains why a CIMA research initiative is seeking academics and practitioners who are prepared to collaborate closely on real, practical issues.	Lukka, Kari		673
It's official: accounting is not dull.		Survey	120
Know your enemy: all employers must protect themselves against the real risk of being defrauded by their own staff. Mike Brooks explains how to set up an effective profiling system.	Brooks, Mike		1467
Management accounting--decision management: in the first of two articles, Tim Thompson introduces the case of a company that's facing a tricky short-term quality problem--and invites you to solve it.	Thompson, Tim		1672
Management accounting--risk and control strategy: does your FD use the green-cross code? The examiner for paper P3 considers how people manage risk and compares their strategies to those of organisations.			1386
Organisational management and information systems: business process re-engineering is so last decade. Bob Scarlett charts the rise and fall of the movement, and the emergence of a complementary approach.	Scarlett, Bob		1403
Presidential engagements.		Calendar	66
Quality questions.	Foster, Dennis	Letter to the editor	646
Safety spec: VSP, the largest provider of eyecare benefits in the US, was one of the first companies to try out a newly developed approach to enterprise risk management. Its CFO, Patricia Cochran, explains how the new framework has suited her firm.	Cochran, Patricia		1104
Science in Court: The UK criminal justice system IT programme is a 2bn [pounds sterling] investment in case management systems and the infrastructure that connects them. Its leader, Stephen Jenner, explains his two-pronged approach to project management, which the Cabinet Office recently cited as best practice.	Jenner, Stephen		1720
Setting an example.	Grixti, Ivan	Letter to the editor	188
Small to medium-sized enterprises are being urged to take advantage of the Payroll Giving Grants programme.		Brief article	71
The balanced scorecard: lots of firms have got one, but has it done them any good? Sir Andrew Likierman discusses how to tell whether introducing a balanced scorecard has worked or not.	Likierman, Andrew		1982
This institute keeps pulling out all the stops to ensure its members' continued employability.	Coghlan, John		538
Tickets are still available for two of the year's highest-profile CIMA events.			80
Windows of opportunity: the eBay phenomenon has fuelled a new wave of e-business start-ups, but this time the lessons of the dot-com bubble have been learned. Camilla Berens finds out how smaller traders are getting a piece of the online action--and how the high-street giants are responding.	Berens, Camilla		2861